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Are you looking for a fun vocabulary activity for your classroom? Have you tried the Wordle game? How would you like some ideas to use Wordle in your ELA classroom? In this blog post, you will find Wordle ideas for your classroom that will engage your middle school and upper elementary students in vocabulary activities and word acquisition. Get all these great ideas for your middle school ELA classroom.

Cause and Effect text evidence activity. Cause and effect reading passages and classroom activity. 2nd grade reading passages for elementary classroom. Nonfiction reading passages that show cause and effect relationships. Reading game for elementary classroom.

Looking to improve fluency in upper elementary? 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. This ELA activity is great in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades.

We teach figurative language in upper elementary. This can be a bit of a tricky skill for students in fourth, fifth or sixth grades, but I’ve developed some engaging and rigorous activities that help students to comprehend and use figurative language in their own writing and language assignments.

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

Teaching upper elementary students how to make an inference is an important language arts lesson. During back to school, I teach my third, fourth, and fifth grade ELA students the difference between literal and inferential observations using picture clues to help make inferencing lessons easy. These literacy anchor charts are some of my favorites!

Here are the only three anchor charts you need to teach point of view in your elementary classroom! Simple and effective for best practices.

Creative and engaging ways to bring art into your middle school ELA classroom.

Incorporating Art in ELA Class: Lesson Plan Ideas | Reading and Writing Haven

Whether your students are lethargic or super-charged, adding movement to your lesson plans will help to solve both issues. Not only is it healthy to move throughout the day, but it can also help students focus and become more engaged with the content they are trying to master. Due to the nature of English classes, ELA ... Read More about 10 Ways to Add Movement in the ELA Classroom

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

This blog post, Using Graphic Organizers for Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies, details the importance of using graphic organizer templates for reading strategy instruction in the upper elementary classroom (3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade). These include reading strategies like visualizing, making predictions, making inferences, and drawing conclusions.

Vocabulary instruction is so critical in today’s classroom! A vast vocabulary will help students to become better readers and writers. Vocabulary is also essential to their performance on standardized tests. Helping kids to develop their vocabulary is time that is well spent in a busy classroom. I have developed a routine to teach new vocabulary