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Pins for Grades 4-6
Welcome! This group of upper elementary bloggers will stay small, so you won't be overwhelmed by pins. We look forward to sharing with you!
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Mentor Texts
Reading Workshop
Reading Anchor Charts
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Guided Reading Resources
Reading Activities
Reading Centers
Reading Workshop
Elementary Literacy Activities
Constructed Response
Text Set
Celebration Around The World
Reading Anchor Charts
These paired passages are perfect for your students if you’re looking for more complex texts that students can use to compare and build knowledge! The high-interest, rigorous passages in this set are great to stretch your 4th and 5th graders, and still appropriate for many students in middle school as well. Click the pin to check out all the paired texts included in the bundle!
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Reading Assessment
Standards Based Grading
Common Core Standards
These reading assessments are EXACTLY what you need! This bundle includes 48 differentiated texts that assess standards like key ideas and details, craft and structure, and integration of knowledge and ideas. There are 12 assessments for each making these perfect for standards-based grading! They’re aligned to Common Core standards, but can easily be used for other standards as well. Click the link to see everything included!
Ideas By Jivey
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Reading Strategies
Teaching Reading
Writing Mentor Texts
Mentor Sentences
Student Writing
Elementary Grades
If you’re looking for ways to improve students’ writing using mentor sentences from novels, check out ALL the options here! There are a variety of titles to use to write mentor sentences for upper elementary grades. These mini units for practicing writing skills are simple for teachers to implement and great for student writing skills. Click the pin to see which novel you want to start with!
Ideas By Jivey
Pins for Grades 4-6
Social Studies Resources
Writing Resources
Writing Activities
Teaching Resources
Teaching Grammar
Science Resources
Online Teaching
Informational Writing Prompts
This information writing, reading, and mentor sentence integration unit is packed with a variety of activities for kids in 4th and 5th grades. Click the pin to read about all the ideas and engaging activities included!
Ideas By Jivey
Pins for Grades 4-6
Science Lessons
Reading Lessons
Literacy Activities
Paired texts and passages are great for providing students with more rigorous, complex texts for them to compare and build knowledge and draw conclusions. These differentiated passages are perfect for 4th grade and middle school! Click the pin to see some of the texts included!
Word Choice
Literacy Resource
Strong Words
Upper Elementary
Punctuation
See It
Classroom Management
Fun Learning
Book Recommendations
See that little tower? That motivated 3 of my most reluctant writers to write more with me this week than they have all year! ✍️ ◾️ They sat and worked on their writing piece with me 1 on 1 at first and then 3 on 1 the second day ◾️Each time they used a capital letter to start a sentence or punctuation in or at the end correctly they got another single LEGO ◾️When they had strong word choice they got the doubl
Amelia Capotosta
Pins for Grades 4-6
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These paired passages are perfect for your students if you’re looking for more complex texts that students can use to compare and build knowledge! The high-interest, rigorous passages in this set are great to stretch your 4th and 5th graders, and still appropriate for many students in middle school as well. Click the pin to check out all the paired texts included in the bundle!
Ideas By Jivey
Pins for Grades 4-6
Social Studies Activities
Teaching Social Studies
Budget Sheets
Paired Texts
4th Grade Classroom
Mentor Texts
Close Reading
[DIGITAL CLASSROOM] Paired Texts Passages: Economics Grades 3-5
Reading Comprehension
Reading Writing
Learning
Reading Ideas
Reading Teacher
School Reading
Learn how to help students think meaningfully and deeply about complex texts with these annotation tips from Ideas by Jivey. Explanations, modeling, and a free bonus is included in the post to help you engage students as thinking readers.
Ideas By Jivey
Pins for Grades 4-6
Fourth Grade Writing
Ela Writing
Middle School Writing
Sentence Writing
Writing Lessons
Writing Workshop
Teaching Writing
Teaching Ideas
Writing Ideas
Directions for Mentor Sentence Notebooks
Ideas By Jivey
Pins for Grades 4-6
Kindergarten Reading
Literature Activities
Word Work Activities
Teaching Vocabulary
Vocabulary must be taught in context, and should be an ongoing process, in order for students to truly comprehend the words. Learn about five easy ways you can make vocabulary stick with your students.
Red Bandanna
Children's Literature
Read Aloud
Heroic
Great Books
A few read aloud suggestions for this week! 🇺🇸❤️ I did Literacy Lives on each of these this past week 📱 (I will try and get them posted to my IGTV tonight!🤗) #Regram via @wildthingslearn
Amelia Capotosta
Pins for Grades 4-6
List Of Vocabulary Words
Vocabulary Activities
Teaching vocabulary in elementary school can be highly engaging! Click the pin the check out this amazing bundle of vocabulary activities that teach vocabulary using mentor texts and learning vocabulary through text incorporation. Perfect for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade!
Ideas By Jivey
Pins for Grades 4-6
Teaching Advice
Teaching Career
Teaching Life
Teacher Organisation
Teacher Hacks
Teacher Help
Jivey shares ten tips of advice she learned from her own teaching career to help make your teaching life easier and less stressful!
Ideas By Jivey
Pins for Grades 4-6
Ask Me
Solving
Excited
Classroom
Student
Amelia Capotosta (@wildthingslearn) • Instagram photos and videos
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Pins for Grades 4-6
Teaching Ela
Ideas by Jivey tackles the tricky topic of refugees with students by using Gleam and Glow by Eve Bunting.
Ideas By Jivey
Pins for Grades 4-6
Reading Stations
Use these differentiated paired passages with your students to integrate high-interest, engaging informational passages about snow: one about how it forms and one about the first photographer to capture snowflakes on film; passages about winter sports- one about how to ski and one about sled safety; and the Russian Fairy Tale, "King Frost" along with an informational passage about frost. #pairedtexts #readingactivities #fourthgrade #fifthgrade #sixthgrade
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4thgrade
Book Club Books
Book Clubs
Uw Madison
School Of Education
4th Grade Reading
Stack Of Books
Start The Day
Wanna see 4th graders get really excited?!? 😮 Put out a stack of books like this to start the day! 📚 They were browsing them all, anxiously awaiting their time to choose book clubs!❤ Should I bring back Literacy Lives and do one all about how book clubs run in my room⁉ #literacy #4thgrade
Amelia Capotosta
Pins for Grades 4-6
Opinion Writing Checklist
Opinion Writing Rubric
Teaching Time
Writing Prompts
This resource includes a week of detailed plans that teach opinion writing, comparing information, key details, and colon usage using the book, The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard for upper elementary.
Writing Mini Lessons
This information writing, reading, and mentor sentence integration unit is packed with a variety of activities for kids in 4th and 5th grades. Click the pin to read about all the ideas and engaging activities included!
Ideas By Jivey
Pins for Grades 4-6
Classroom Organization
Bins
Redo
So, I did a thing! 😆 I redid my entire classroom library with only 3 months of school left. 📚And it was ▪THE▪BEST▪DECISION!These bins from @reallygoodstuff are absolutely amazing! I absolutely love that these new bins have sturdy dividers, and are built to hold a lot of books, because we all know I have A LOT!
Amelia Capotosta
Pins for Grades 4-6
The mentor sentences routine should still include assessment. Jivey shares how to use formative assessments and grade writing application. Get a free week of plans to try out in your own classroom.
Spring Lesson Plans
Winter Lesson Plan
Spring Lessons
Stop trying to force content down students' throats. Instead, learn how to use mentor texts and other high-interest articles to help students dive deeper into content and standards all year long.
Ideas By Jivey
Pins for Grades 4-6
Sweet Notes
Good Books
Packaging
Amelia Capotosta (@wildthingslearn) • Instagram photos and videos
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Pins for Grades 4-6
In Writing
Vocabulary must be taught in context for students to truly understand the words and build relationships with them, and then in turn use them in writing and speaking. Move away from lists of vocabulary words and looking up definitions, and teach students how to comprehend with this best practice bundle! I have provided activities designed on researched best practices for use with popular mentor texts to help you maximize your teaching time. #mentortexts #3rdgrade #4thgrade #5thgrade
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Pins for Grades 4-6
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