It's hard to believe it's already time to break out my favorite end of year activities, but here it is! This is always a bittersweet time of year for me. I'm beyond excited for summer vacation. But, we form a little family during the year, and it can be hard to let them go. In

Teaching fractions greater than one shouldn't be an isolated part of your fraction unit. Instead, fractions greater than one should be embedded in most of your fraction instruction. I do wait to teach fractional parts and fraction symbols and then introduce these fractions along

When teaching upper elementary math, it's important that geometry worksheets and activities are more than memorizing geometric terms. Of course, these geometry terms are important, but our instruction shouldn't stop there. Students need time to explore and engage with multiple

Rather than titling this post "Teaching Fraction Sense", I might should have titled it "Teaching FOR Fraction Sense" as it's not something that is taught in a few fraction lessons. Instead, it has to be developed over time. Number sense has become a critical topic among

When I think back to how I taught fractions my first few years of teaching, I wish I could go back and apologize to my former students. Yes, I taught the necessary lessons and my students appeared to understand fractions, but I didn't appreciate the importance of giving students

This article was originally designed to include poetry, prose, and drama. However, I quickly saw the need to give poetry its own blog post, because there is a lot involved in teaching poetry. You can find that post here. In this article, I've shared some of my favorite ways to

Many teachers wait until late winter or spring to begin their poetry lessons. I like to begin poetry after I teach figurative language, because students have a reference point to relate to during instruction. In this post, I've shared my favorite poetry lessons and activities.

Figurative language worksheets, activities, and lessons can be so much fun! I begin the unit with a brief overview of figurative language. Students should be familiar with the terminology and its use before analyzing poems. Students then dive in to more in-depth figurative

Word problems have always been a challenge to students. I frequently see students immediately try to find a solution, rather than thinking about the meaning of the problem. They see a word problem and want to instantly grab the numbers and do something with them. Spoiler alert: