I've taught upper elementary for 22 years and love developing curriculum and activities that bridge the gap between research and theory with practical classroom implementation.
Build Math Confidence with this 3rd Grade Spiral Math Review! Struggling to keep your students on track with all the essential third-grade math skills? This 3rd Grade Math Review provides 33 no-prep worksheets designed to reinforce key concepts all year long! With a consistent spiral format, students will repeatedly practice core math skills, boosting retention and mastery. Why You'll Love This Resource ✅ Covers the Full Year – Worksheets gradually increase in difficulty, starting with a
Turn your students into super sleuths by making inferences and drawing conclusions with these reading comprehension passages! These ten captivating mysteries are the perfect way to make learning fun and challenging! With print and digital versions included, this resource allows students to become detectives, analyzing clues within the reading passages to solve each case. It's the perfect activity for literacy stations, reading centers, or even a fun early finisher challenge! Why Choose These I
Make Area & Perimeter Practice Fun with 50 No-Prep Worksheets! Are you looking for engaging and easy-to-use area and perimeter activities? This 50-page printable set is perfect for reinforcing key geometry concepts in third, fourth, and fifth grade classrooms! Whether your students need extra practice or enrichment, these worksheets provide a variety of hands-on and skill-building activities to strengthen their understanding of area and perimeter—no prep required! Students love the area a
Make Multiplication Fact Mastery Fun and Easy with These Interactive Multiplication Fact Booklets!Are your students struggling to grasp the concept of multiplication? Are you looking for a versatile resource that provides both practice and conceptual understanding? Look no further! These Multiplication Facts Booklets are designed to help students understand multiplication while building their math fluency and automaticity. With both digital and printable versions included, you’ll have the flexib
This comprehensive set of 3rd grade math anchor charts is designed to support all third-grade math standards, giving your students a reliable visual reference throughout the year. Say goodbye to the time-consuming task of recreating anchor charts by hand and hello to a polished, cohesive look for your classroom! Why Choose These 3rd Grade math Anchor Charts?Comprehensive Coverage: Covers every third-grade Common Core math standard (and more), ensuring your students have the resources they need t
Keep Your Students on Track with This 4th Grade Spiral Math Review! Looking for a structured, year-long math review that reinforces key fourth-grade skills? This Spiral Math Review includes 33 worksheets designed to provide consistent practice in a progressive format. Whether you use it for bell work, homework, or math centers, this resource ensures your students retain essential math concepts all year long! Why Teachers Love This Resource ✅ Covers the Entire Year – Starts with a 3rd-g
53 Weeks of Third Grade Language & Grammar Spiral Review — One Printable Worksheet for Every Week!Are your third graders forgetting key grammar and language skills as the months go by? Grab this 36‑week spiral review pack to keep their knowledge sharp all year long. This resource offers steady, scaffolded practice so students stay confident in language conventions without gaps or backslides. What This Resource Does for You & Your Students This bundle delivers one no‑prep worksheet per week. U
Strengthen Writing Skills with Engaging Proofreading Activities for Editing and Revising! Help your students build essential editing and proofreading activities with this comprehensive editing and revising practice resource! Designed to target common writing errors, this resource provides 15 practice paragraphs where students identify and correct spelling mistakes, homophones, subject-verb agreement issues, run-on sentences, sentence fragments, and capitalization errors. This activity encou
Help Your Fourth Graders Master Place Value and Rounding with Confidence!Are your students struggling to grasp the concepts of place value and rounding? This comprehensive 4th Grade Place Value & Rounding Unit offers everything you need to build a strong mathematical foundation with four full weeks of structured instruction. Designed for busy teachers, this resource comes with detailed lesson plans, engaging activities, and performance tasks that help students deeply understand place value a
Grab this opportunity to supercharge daily math practice for Grades 3, 4, and 5 with this versatile Spiral Review — print and digital ready!This resource is designed to make daily math review simple, systematic, and meaningful for upper‑elementary students. Whether you’re using it as morning work, homework, centers, or daily practice time, this bundle integrates key skills many 3rd‑ and 4th‑grade students need to master — and it’s flexible enough to stretch into 5th grade. With six differentiate
This comprehensive set of math anchor charts is designed to support all fourth-grade math standards, giving your students a reliable visual reference throughout the year. Say goodbye to the time-consuming task of recreating anchor charts by hand and hello to a polished, cohesive look for your classroom! Why Choose These Anchor Charts?Created by an experienced educator who understands the challenges of teaching third-grade math, these posters are designed to make your life easier while boosting s
This set of 3rd & 4th grade Fluency Passages & Comprehension Questions reinforce key science and social studies concepts! With 70 full-page fluency passages and matching comprehension pages, this resource is an easy-to-implement solution for daily fluency practice and content integration. Whether you're teaching in person, online, or in a hybrid setting, this resource is available in both PDF and Google Slides formats, making it easy to assign and differentiate across all learning environments
3rd - 4th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Reading
Teach students HOW to write a paragraph with these simple steps in these paragraph writing lessons!Use back to school picture books to give students step-by-step lessons in how to write a structured paragraph! Use Picture Books That Focus on ProceduresAt the beginning of the school year I love reading picture books that focus on classroom procedures. I feel that these books help teach students my behavior expectations in a student friendly way. However, I've always felt a bit concerned about usi
Grab this Social Studies Interactive Notebook to make key concepts stick with hands-on flipbooks, mini‑books, and digital slides! This resource delivers comprehensive social studies instruction—covering economics, government, geography, history, and culture—through both printable and digital versions. Featuring 60+ ready‑to‑use activities, it saves you prep time and supports student learning throughout the year: Dual-format convenience: Works well for both paper and digital versions. Standards
Boost your students' vocabulary skills with structured, meaningful practice that applies science of reading principles! If you've been searching for an effective way to teach prefixes & suffixes, multiple meaning words, and shades of meaning across an entire school year, this comprehensive vocabulary resource has everything you need. Purpose and Benefits:This vocabulary resource was created to save you time while providing powerful, short lessons that introduce and review essential language, pre
Strengthen your students’ reading comprehension and opinion writing skills with these engaging paired opinion passages—designed specifically for upper elementary learners. This versatile resource includes both printable PDFs and digital files for easy use in the classroom or with Google Classroom. Perfect for reading and writing workshop, test prep, or independent practice, these paired texts help students tackle the increasingly common format seen in state assessments. Each set offers structu
3rd - 4th
Close Reading, ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts
Make Economics Meaningful with 20 Fun and Interactive Activities! Are you looking for an engaging way to teach economics that goes beyond boring worksheets? This resource is packed with 20 meaningful activities that bring economic concepts to life through hands-on projects, simulations, and skill-building exercises. Your students will love creating collages, sorting activities, brainstorming sessions, and interactive simulations—all designed to help them truly understand the foundations of econo
Grab this opportunity to teach personal narrative writing with confidence using this all-in-one, 6-week unit—perfect for digital or print classrooms!Whether you're new to teaching writing or just need a better way to plan your narrative unit, this resource lays out every lesson with crystal-clear steps, engaging activities, and student-ready materials. Designed for grades 3–5, this comprehensive personal narrative unit is fully aligned with Common Core Standards and fits many state standards as
Build a Deep Conceptual Understanding of Multi-Digit Division with This Proven 5-Week UnitAre your students struggling to make sense of division? Stop the frustration and guide your learners to real understanding with this research-based multi-digit division unit. This 5-week resource gives your fourth graders the tools, strategies, and conceptual foundations they need to divide confidently using area models, place value, and partial quotients. This isn't just a set of division worksheets and
These 3rd grade area and perimeter lessons, activities, games, and practice worksheets are designed to help students build a strong conceptual understanding of area and perimeter through a variety of engaging activities and problem-solving tasks. With a mix of concrete, pictorial, and abstract representations, this resource makes perimeter and area meaningful and accessible for all learners. What’s Inside?This area and perimeter unit is packed with detailed, easy-to-follow lessons that save y
I've taught upper elementary for 22 years and love developing curriculum and activities that bridge the gap between research and theory with practical classroom implementation.
Teaching style
I create engaging yet rigorous lessons that inspire students to think critically and outside the box. I incorporate a variety of teaching strategies to meet the diverse needs of my students, as well as find that balance between conceptual understanding and basic skills.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Teacher of the Year-2007, 2020
Unum Hall of Fame-2007
Grant Recipient for math manipulatives-2006
My own education history
BS in Elementary Education from Florida State
MA in Curriculum and Instruction
Ed.S. in Brain Research
Gifted Endorsement
Additional biographical information
Outside of teaching, developing curriculum, and blogging, I love spending time with my husband and two children. My daughter is six and my baby boy is growing up too fast.
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