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Check out these free Valentine’s Day activities – a fun way for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students to celebrate the holidays while still learning! These free resources have been created by a variety of upper elementary teachers, not just Teaching Made Practical. Find math activities, ELA activities, and some some just for fun Valentine’s Day Activities.Free Valentine’s Day Math …
Check out these free Christmas activities – a fun way for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students to celebrate the holidays while still learning! This list includes free activities to help students practice a variety of math and reading skills, as well as some other activities that are just for fun. While some of these freebies are from Teaching Made …
What teacher doesn’t love the lack of self control we see every October around Halloween? Between the inevitable sugar high, the excitement of costumes and trick-or-treating, trying to teach upper elementary students around the end of October can seem like a hopeless cause. However, it is possible to take advantage of the excitement our students have towards Halloween. By planning …
3rd, 4th, and 5th grade teachers love creating engaging, hands on lessons. But often those Instagram- worthy lessons require a lot of prep work, and sometimes they cost a lot of out of pocket money. The 8 reusable, no prep activities below are engaging for upper elementary students, but they are much more practical for daily use. Use them to …
Use this free point of view slideshow to help you teach point of view to your 3rd grade or 4th grade students. Begin by having students practice point of view within fiction text. Students read 3 different paragraphs telling the same story from different points of view. They have to determine who is telling each story. Next, have students think …
Main idea slideshow from kbaker4 Using This Slideshow for Main Idea ReviewThe slideshow above is a great way to review different main idea and details skills with your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students. You might like these tips and activities for teaching students how to find the main idea and details. This slideshow covers main idea in a variety …
Teaching main idea and supporting details to 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students can be a very frustrating experience; it is such a difficult skill to understand. Very few of my lessons seemed to have an effect on my 3rd grade students – either they understood how to find the main idea without my help, or they didn’t understand no …
When introducing character traits, making it relevant to students is the best way to get them interested and engaged. Instead of introducing character traits with a lesson that has students read other texts and identify traits of different characters, have students think about their own character traits. There are several fun and easy ways to do this with your 2nd …
When we question our students about text features, we often focus too much on having students identify different nonfiction text features. While this is essential, it is equally important to get our 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students thinking more deeply about text features – moving past knowledge and recall questions and into more higher order thinking questions. Below, find …
There are so many different types of nonfiction text features – titles, headings, labels, diagrams, captions, photographs, sidebars, bullet points, bold text…the list could go on forever! It’s no wonder that 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students get confused. To help students keep track of the different types of text features, download the free printable below, or check out this …