Teaching setting 4th grade

Free Resources to Teach Point of View and Perspective by Kristine Nannini - If you are an upper elementary teacher, you're going to LOVE the free ideas, tips, anchor charts, resources, & downloads included here. Click through to see how I teach students to identify, analyze, and compare point of view and perspective. {POV, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th grade, first-person, third-person)

Use this no prep making inferences freebie as a center activity or extra inferencing practice for your 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade class. Students read short paragraphs and must use the clues in the paragraphs to determine whether the setting is occurring during the day or at night. This is a cut and paste activity. Have students highlight the clues that helped them for additional inferencing practice. #inferencing #makinginferences #noprep

what are effective reading comprehension strategies to help readers and struggling readers in your upper elementary classroom? this reading strategies list will help guide your reading instruction

If you are looking to add some high interest activities for teaching characters and settings, try using the animated short Geri’s Game.

Cultivate lifelong reading skills.

If you know me, you know I am in loooove with Daily 5! Ever since incorporating it into my classroom last year, I have loved seeing the variety of skills and strategies my students are working on each and every day. I also love that the segments are short, so we all stay motivated and the energy for learning stays high. I have been wanting to redo how I teach math for a while. As a student, I truly adore mathematics, but as a teacher, I was getting bored. Our district was looking into…

There are so many narrative writing lessons and narrative reading lessons available. Check out this post for some real-world examples!

Your students will absolutely love using this free resource to practice identifying text structures in high-interest paragraphs. This free resource comes in both a printable and digital format.

Getting started with math workshop in the elementary classroom