Elementary Testing Strategies: Multiple-Choice Questions

Help your elementary students prepare for those upcoming tests (especially multiple-choice questions) with these 6 testing strategies. It is an unfortunate world we live in…

The Value of Reading Aloud in Upper Elementary: 7 Benefits You …

The value of reading aloud with upper elementary students is often overshadowed by curriculum work and standards, but these 7 benefits may have you rethinking…

10 Christmas Resources for Upper Elementary Students

The holidays are here, and we are spreading classroom cheer with these 10 Christmas resources for upper elementary students. The winter holiday season is so…

Teaching the Solar System in your Upper Elementary Class

Use this Solar System Lapbook while you’re teaching the Solar System in your upper elementary class. What is too big to teach, too interesting not…

Reading Activities that Get Students Moving in Upper Elementary

If you are looking for some new reading activities that get students moving in upper elementary, then you have got to check out these Choose…

7 Fall and Thanksgiving-Themed Resources for Upper Elementary

Get excited for the season with these fall and Thanksgiving-themed resources for upper elementary. With the fall weather comes fall holidays and celebrations, and those…

Teaching Geography in Upper Elementary

Use this Geography Lapbook while teaching geography in upper elementary to help your students build a solid foundation of geographical concepts.  Where in the World…

Halloween Ideas for the Classroom: Resources for Upper Elementary

Here’s a list of 8 Halloween ideas for the classroom that will get upper elementary students excited for this spooky season while also keeping them…

How to Use Lapbooks for Whole-Class Instruction

Use lapbooks for whole-class instruction with these helpful tips! Sometimes teachers get overwhelmed with lapbooks and their many pieces, but a lapbook should help create…

Strategies for Teaching Main Idea and Supporting Details

Let’s dig into 3 fun strategies for teaching main idea and supporting details that ask students to consider the details of a single passage in…