Reading comprehension strategies for upper elementary and middle school - tips and tricks for teaching reading strategies.

These pre-reading activities are a great way to get your 3rd and 4th-grade students interested and excited about reading.

Learn how to use reader’s theater scripts in your upper elementary classroom and tips for getting started if you’re brand new to it.

Our job as teachers is to turn our students into avid readers. On this post, I will share the tips and strategies I use to get my students excited to read.

Shake up your reading instruction with these videos aligned to upper elementary reading skills and standards. The perfect way to reinforce (or introduce) some of these trickier reading skills!

Tips for organizing your upper elementary literacy block. Includes daily routines, whole group lessons, and literacy rotations.

Today, I want to share my lessons and goals for the first few days in reading workshop with you. It is going to be the first day of school real soon {maybe some of you are already back in the swing of things!} and you are going to be busy! You will surely have a list a mile long of the thi

Looking for fun and skills-based reading and language arts activities for your third, fourth and fifth grade students? Upper elementary reading centers can help you fill your centers without spending lots of extra time. These engaging activities are perfect for literacy centers, writing centers, reading centers and more. Easily differentiate learning in your classroom with these language arts and reading activities. #upperelementary #reading #writing #3rdgrade #4thgrade #5thgrade

Learn for easy lesson ideas you can use for teaching theme to your students in upper elementary.

An Upper Elementary Collaborative blog written by 13 teachers. Includes teaching ideas and resources for grades 3, 4, and 5.