Upper Grade Glow

Help your students build confidence and stay engaged when they feel stuck! This “What to Say Instead of ‘I Don’t Know’” poster provides simple, student-friendly sentence stems that encourage productive thinking, participation, and communication in the classroom. Instead of shutting down, students can use these prompts to ask for clarification, request thinking time, or share partial understanding. Phrases like “Can I have a minute to think?” and “Can I tell you what I do know?” support a growth

Celebrate Earth Day while helping students build confidence with poetry writing! This engaging “Ode to Earth” poetry template guides students through creating descriptive, meaningful poems about our planet using sentence starters, similes, sensory language, and strong adjectives. Perfect for upper elementary classrooms, this low-prep activity supports reluctant writers while still allowing creativity and voice to shine. Students can choose from the provided line starters or create their own, ma

Looking for simple, effective writing test prep that actually engages your students? This resource includes 4 5th grade writing performance task prompts designed to mirror the structure and expectations of state writing assessments like CAASPP (CAASP), while still giving students choice and creativity. Students can choose one prompt or complete all four for repeated practice throughout your writing unit or test prep season. Each prompt is clearly structured and includes writing requirements a

Social Emotional Learning Craft for anytime during the year! I typically use this in October. Students reflect on and celebrate positive character traits within themselves in a fun, artistic way.