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Celebrate Valentine’s Day with your 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade students while sneaking in some fun writing practice with one of the 11 ideas below. It’s a win-win for students and teachers!1. Write ComplimentsWhat better way to encourage kindness around Valentine’s Day than by having students write kind words and compliments to each other? And as an added bonus, this …
Winter provides a unique opportunity in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classrooms – a chance to celebrate all things cold. The winter activity ideas below cover a range of topics and can be used to help you easily spice up your winter lesson plans. Snowmen, polar bears, penguins, sled dogs, read alouds, snowball fights, and more. There are winter reading, …
Christmas in the upper elementary classroom often means making Christmas ornaments, watching Polar Express, or throwing a holiday party. However, there are many ways to celebrate Christmas that also allow for student learning. The low prep Christmas ELA activities listed below are ways ways to integrate literacy while at the same time celebrating Christmas.1. Sing Christmas Songs Together (The Entire …
Written by guest blogger Daniela Garay Are you looking for a fun and meaningful narrative writing unit for your 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade students? Here it is! Language arts teachers strive for a stronger cross-curricular relationship between reading and writing that interconnects both subjects more purposefully and meaningfully. This point of view writing unit does just that! It takes the …
Point of view is one of my favorite skills to teach. When students begin to think more about points of view that differ from their own, they become more understanding towards other kids. I don’t know any 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade classroom that wouldn’t benefit from a kinder classroom! And the point of view writing prompts and activities below …
When teaching upper elementary students about character traits, we often focus on the reading aspect – how to identify character traits, how to find evidence from the text, filling out character trait graphic organizers, how to build character trait vocabulary, how characters are described within a text, etc. However, integrating writing into your lessons on character traits can be a …
When reviewing nonfiction text features, we often overemphasize being able to name and identify different text features within text. While this is a great place to start (consider using this free slideshow or these free text feature charts to introduce your students), we don’t want to stop there! Having 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students create their own text features …