Upper elementary fraction unit activities for hands-on learning. Includes practice activities, exit tickets, math projects, and more!

We LOVE brain breaks in fifth grade. Maybe it's because we work so hard, or more likely, because my class is full of social butterflies (including me!) Regardless, we love them. I searched the internet for some great ideas that work in an upper elementary classroom. In the end, these three games became the class…

This post shares how I teach word study and spelling words in my 5th grade classroom. This word study "program" works well in upper elementary grades.

Do you want to keep your students engaged and reading during reading time? Read this post to learn about 10 reading centers for upper elementary.

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Amazing Materials for You offers engaging upper elementary resources for all subject areas. Our mission is to provide high quality research based lessons.

Classroom tips,teaching ideas, and resources for the upper elementary classroom. Teacher Giveaways

Upper Elementary Novel Study Ideas - favorite book suggestions and novel study ideas for upper elementary ELA classrooms.

Engaging literacy activities for upper elementary is easy and fun with The Lit Kit and Reading Response Graphic Organizers.

Check out this free list of brain breaks for kids that you can do in your upper elementary classroom. Refresh their brains with easy and fun brain breaks!

Whether your students are reading informational or narrative texts, there are several different ways to use reading logs with questions

Learn which math manipulatives are essential, how to organize your manipulatives, and how to use math manipulatives digitally.

Teaching Earth Day in the upper elementary classroom should be rigorous and engaging. Teach these four lessons to celebrate Earth Day. These lessons are rigorous, prepare students for state testing, and are extremely engaging to your students.

5+ new ideas for teaching theme in upper elementary. Use these suggestions for activities, scaffolding, projects, and review to give your students a firm foundation of theme in literature.

Why should we include homophones activities and other vocabulary learning opportunities in our upper elementary classroom? Isn’t teaching context clues enough? These might be some of the questions that run through our heads when we think of explicitly teaching vocabulary. As teachers, we know that there is a direct correlation between strong vocabulary and reading ... Read More about Homophones Activities for Upper Elementary

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

Give your students an exciting mathematical challenge with these Valentine's Day math riddles focusing on measurement standards.