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Teaching our students how to recognize and interpret literary devices (similes, metaphors, hyperbole, personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and imagery) not only helps them comprehend texts, but it also improves their writing. The aforementioned literary devices are some fundamental literary devices and are a great place to start teaching. Here…
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Call me a grammar nerd, but one of my favorite topics to teach is coordinating conjunctions. When students master the use of coordinating conjunctions, I see such a shift in their writing. They can connect ideas more coherently and vary their sentences, which helps their overall writing flow.…
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Here they are–the fifth grade reading standards! I created this handy guide to all of the standards for both fiction and nonfiction text. Each page of this guide includes the following components to help you understand and navigate the standards like a pro. The Fifth Grade Reading Standard: The…
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Nonfiction text structure is the way an author organizes information. Five common structures are description, order and sequence, cause and effect, compare and contrast, and problem and solution. This guide explains each structure, lists signal words, and includes free sketch notes and a mini-poster you can request by…
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There’s nothing I love more than classroom decor that serves a purpose. That’s why I created these free grammar posters for your classroom! There are 18 different posters that cover topics from parts of speech, to comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs. The posters come in 4 different formats:…
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If you’re a bit overwhelmed by the fourth grade reading standards, not to worry! I created this handy guide to all of the standards for both fiction and nonfiction text. Each page of this guide includes the following components to help you understand the standards better. The Fourth Grade Reading…
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