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4 Games to Help Kids Think Critically about Vocabulary - FREEBIES Included with some awesome tips for expanding your students' knowledge of the words around them!
Looking for an easy and fun teaching idea for your students to practice their vocabulary words? My students loved it and never realized they were learning! This strategy can work for any grade, from kindergarten to high school!

Vocabulary

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Do you have a lot of early finishers in your elementary classroom? Are you looking for new early finisher activities. In this post, I share ideas for early finishers that are fun and engaging for all students. I share brain boomers which are my signature early finisher activities for kids. Your fast finishers will be able to do a variety of early finisher activities like puzzles, mazes, comic making, math activities, drawing, pencil tracing, challenges, mindful coloring.

Early Finishers

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Setting Up Literacy Centers in the Upper Elementary Classroom | Upper Elementary Snapshots
How I Organize My Literacy Block - Teaching with a Mountain View

Reading Centers

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iReady Lessons Passed Tracker and Classroom Visual by Every Lesson Matters | Teachers Pay Teachers

iReady

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A fun and engaging way to practice fluency with phonics, spelling patterns, dice, and quick sentences that use sight words!
Phonics Fluency Roll & Reads are a fun and engaging way to get your students reading fluently!

UFLI/Science of Reading

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Math

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Partner pairing

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10 Steps for Digging into a Reading Passage by Thinking in Third
Prove It To Me FREEBIE! Teaching students to use evidence from the text to prove their thinking

Text Evidence

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12+ I Spy Game Printables. Fun I Spy activity free printables for a rainy day, road trip, classroom party activity for kids. #papertraildesign #roadtrip #boredombuster #roadtripactivities #kids #bewitchinghour #kidsactivity #party
Test Motivation Coloring Sheets FREEBIE! Great for test taking time.

Test Prep

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Mother's Day

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Spelling/Word Work

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Area/Perimeter with Legos

Area/Perimeter

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Parts of Speech Valentine's Day Coloring {FREEBIE}!!

Valentine's Day

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This graphic organizer can be used to teach and reinforce the RACES strategy. It gives an explanation of each step as well as sentence starter to support students in their extended response. This really helps my students organize their thoughts before writing their final response. I give this to all my struggling students during assessments to help them construct a strong response.

Writing

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FREE Interactive World Map With Activities
FREE!! It's a Small World - Continent Study!....Follow for Free "too-neat-not-to-keep" teaching tools & other fun stuff :)

Social Studies

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Teaching With a Mountain View: Tell Me a Story Tuesday Using pictures to practice reading skills
FREE Drawing Conclusions Activities - Mystery Bags, Descriptive Writing, and Independent Practice

Inferencing/Drawing Conclusions

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author's purpose | Author's Purpose Chart | anchor charts

Author's Purpose

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Compare and contrast anchor chart

Compare and Contrast

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Sequencing Anchor Chart, including two types of graphic organizers used and clue words...the Third Grade Way

Sequencing

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Ginger Snaps: Text Feature Mini Cards: Labeled {Freebie}
Such a fun activity for the beginning of the school year and a great way to review nonfiction text features!

Text Features

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Free Printables to Use with Animated Shorts (Main Idea and Details)
Main Idea foldable—fun way to practice citing textual evidence!
FREE MAIN IDEA CARDS!!!

Main Idea

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A free Point of View activity inspired by A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech.

Point of View

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literal vs nonliteral language 3rd grade - Google Search

Figurative Language

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Unlock the Box! is an engaging escape-room-like math challenge for Christmas, focusing on addition and subtraction with regrouping. Ingrid the Elf has locked a prize inside a box, and students must solve her clues and find the key to unlock the box and earn the prize! Grades 3-5 ($)
Love this project and it makes such a CUTE bulletin board display! The project can be used with any book! Check out the blog post- includes a link to get all the templates for free! Enjoy!
OMG, I love these! ~ Swimming Pool Noodle "Candy"-great for Christmas candy yard decorations! (get noodles now, in summer!)

Christmas

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Introducing students to the concept of subtraction can be fun and interesting! We have compiled a list of videos that... Read Post
Triple Digit Subtraction Regrouping Worksheet

Addition/Subtraction

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