Persuasive Texts and Media: Guest Post with Looking From Third to Fourth

I am so excited to be a guest blogger here today!! I'm Anne (or AMC) from Looking From Third to Fourth. I wanted to share with you some of the activities we did in our classroom this month while learning about persuasive texts and media. I love to combine our units persuasive texts and media literacy and to do this I use commercials. There are so many to choose from and they can be used in so many ways. One reason I love using commercials is that...

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Address Label Timesavers for Teachers: Guest Post from Kate's Classroom Cafe

Greetings upper elementary friends!  I'm Kate from Kate's Classroom Cafe and I'm thrilled to be visiting All Things Upper Elementary as a guest blogger today. I can usually think of at least ten more things I wish I had time to share with my students before they walk out the door each day.  The pressure to keep pace with curricular goals, common core standards and looming test dates can make the day-to-day teaching routines seemingly jam-packed...

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Guest Poster Shearer-ly Sadler: RACE Reading Responses

Hello ATUE Readers!  This is Tobi from Shearer-ly Sadler 4th Grade guest blogging today!  This is so exciting to be over here to share! I am fairly new to the blogging and TPT world but not to the teaching profession.  I have been teaching elementary school for 14 years and a National Board Certified Teacher for 5 years.  So... I'm going to jump right in today.  Do your students have difficulty expressing their...

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Integrating Writing Into the Content Areas: RAFT Tasks

Who are the writing teachers out there? I know some upper grades teachers departmentalize, so you may be the writing teacher on your team, or you may not teach writing at all. I think (and this is my total personal opinion) that even if you aren’t the designated writing teacher, you can still find creative ways to have your students practice those important writing skills. I want to use my post today to give you some tips on how to incorporate writing into other subject areas. I have found through my years teaching, that some kiddos seem to have...

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Spread a Little Love DOUBLE Linky!

I can't believe we are already three weeks into the year! On top of that there are so many teachers who haven't been having full weeks due to weather conditions around the world and I know that totally throws plans off like crazy!That being said, we still need to think ahead as we are restructuring things to fit the days we are missing out on and Valentines Day is coming soon! I know in my class we never could really do a party persay but we could...

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Fraction Freebies for Interactive Notebooks

Hi, friends! It's Blair, from One Lesson at a Time, here to bring you a fun fraction freebie for your interactive notebooks! If you read my blog, you know that I am now teaching math in grades 1-4 and loving every minute of it! #mathnerdWe are eyeballs deep in our fraction units in 3rd and 4th grade, so I have numerators and denominators on the brain these days. I created this little set of foldable notes to help kiddos remember some key vocabulary...

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Concept Sorts in Math

A while ago I posted about one way that I use "concept sorts" to help deepen students' understanding on a topic.  If you missed it, here it is!  It goes into quite a bit of detail about how I structured my lesson to use this GREAT learning tool!I wanted to show you another way I use these sorts.  The first time I posted, I talked about having the students in trios which is really one of my favorite ways to use them.  The blog...

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