Let me start off this page by saying, if you aren't following @hello_fifth on social media, start! Jill is an amazing educator with fantastic ideas! Two of my favorite ideas from Jill are her soft starts and her interactive language wall. I will link both so you can check them out yourself! She also has numerous interactive notebooks and resources. I promise you won't be disappointed!

Soft Starts in the Upper Grade Classroom

Interactive Language Wall Pieces

Until we meet again,

Sentence Scavenger Hunt

This was a special request from one of my Uppers. They were having some trouble with sentence dictation in class and wanted to practice. So I thought of a way to make it more enjoyable and to maybe help sentences make more sense. I hid different words around my classroom and my Upper had to figure out which word went where in the sentence. If you look closely, you can see where I drew lines on the board as a guide for each sentence. In the beginning of working with this skill, I also capitalized the first letter in the sentence and added ending punctuation to the last word. The circled words are from their weekly Spelling list.