5th grade writing bulletin board

Writing Bulletin Board Ideas that Save Time and Still Impress

Do you feel like you spend too much time on your bulletin boards, and they still don’t look as good as the ones you see other teachers posting?

Are you always looking for new ideas to make your board more engaging for your students? Check out these three writing bulletin board ideas that are both easy and impressive! Most of them can be created in under five minutes, so you’ll have more time to focus on what’s important – teaching writing.

The Binder Clip Writing Board

This writing bulletin board sets you up for the entire year with ease. With each new writing project, you’ll be able to rotate the student’s completed writing within one minute.

Now that’s fast!

Here’s how to create the bulletin board:

• Staple your choice of cardstock or construction paper on the board space, evenly spaced
• Clip a binder clip at the top of the cardstock
• Clip new writing projects to the cardstock

Benefits of this Writing Bulletin Board Idea:

• Accessible to read for all
• An eye-catching display
• Motivating students: Students put more effort into the work that is displayed.

I use the Binder Clip Writing Display for:

• I use the hall space outside my classroom door to display a new Monthly Writing Craft Activity (writing craftivity) each month. 
• Proudly showing off student work- the students love that visitors stop to read their work before entering the classroom. 
• The work displayed teaches the writing genres during core writing instruction.
• Welcoming Space- I love that the craftivity creates a fun and engaging piece of artwork to welcome all to our learning space.

The Fold & Hang Writing Bulletin Board

The Fold & Hang Writing is a no-prep writing activity that is always a class favorite in my room. It’s created from one single paper with a writing prompt, a small inspiration picture, and the lines for writing. When the paper is folded, it slides over a ribbon to display the student’s work.

• Staple a 1-inch ribbon horizontally across your bulletin board several times, using as few staples as possible. (My bulletin board space is around four ft. across by six ft. tall, and I only staple the ribbon three times. Usually, you can staple at each end and once in the center.)
• Apply bulletin border if desired.
• After students complete the writing, slide the folded paper over the ribbon.
• Students can easily interact with this writing bulletin board, taking the writing on and off the board with ease because there is no attaching of the writing papers. The paper slides on and off.
• The rotation of old to new writing samples takes less than 30 seconds! (Yes, I’ve actually timed it!)
• Because the display is so easy, my students freely write more often with the Fold & Hang Writing Prompts. 

I use the writing prompts as follows:

• Early finishers work
• Writing Center Activity
• At-home writing assignments (sometimes)

Just to demonstrate how fast this writing bulletin board idea can go, I timed myself by putting up new student writing. The video is sped up, but the actual time was still under one minute.

The Writing Center Tri-Fold

This writing bulletin board is fantastic because it’s movable! Let’s face it: a girl likes her flexibility.

I put all the essential writing reference material found in the Writing Resources BUNDLE on a tri-fold. The tri-fold then sits on a counter and a small table or can even be moved to the floor for small group collaboration!

Here’s how to make the bulletin board:

• Print your essential writing resources on fun colored paper.
• Arrange and tape the papers to a tri-fold poster display.
• It moves easily from space to space
• Students interact and reference the materials when needed
• Saves paper (I don’t have to print the essential writing materials for each student, but students still have access to the materials.)

I use the Office Display:

• For small group instruction
• Collaborative Writing 
• Student reference during core writing instruction
• As needed for student reference

Each of these writing bulletin board ideas is used daily in my classroom. They all serve a different yet important role. The beauty is that once you set the boards up, the rest of the year functions in a way that serves you with very little effort moving forward.

And that, my friend, is what creates a stress-free, easy year.

The three bulletin board ideas I’ve shared with you today are easy to make and a great way to show your students that you care about their writing development. And the best part is that all these bulletin boards can be put together with or without my writing activities. But if you’d like to get the resources already completed for you, click the link below to purchase and get started on making your classroom look amazing!

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5th Grade Writing Choice Board Tutorial for Teachers

• Common Core Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3 , CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.4 , CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.5

Ideas & Examples of Great 5th Grade Writing Choices

Create your own comic strip, write a diary entry as a pioneer, craft a mythical creature tale, compose a poem about your hero, design a travel brochure for a fantasy land, invent a secret code & write a message, pen a letter to a future self, script a short play for puppets, illustrate a scene from your favorite book, using a choice board to differentiate writing in a 5th grade classroom.

Keep It Simple

Everyone “teacher & student” should know exactly what they are doing. If you don’t make it even easier! 

Differential Instruction vs Saving time?

There is nothing more irritating than “Saving Time” with a Choice Board & ending up with “More work!”.  Are you using this to hit standards or save time or both? 

"Self Guided" or "instruction-based"?

If you giving out work, should they do it on their own or are these more instructions for each choice?

General rule, if the grade is > 3 there is more work per choice.

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How To Manage Your 5th Grade Classroom During Writing (With a Choice Board)

I find its easiest to use a big board at the front of the classroom where all students can see the choices  then  decide what they want to do . 

This often will be coming in from a break or transition between subjects. 

If you can get all students to know whats expected during a choice activity it becomes one-hundred times easier to manage the class & have everyone know what choices they have!  

There are three core steps you have to hit when using a Choice Board; 

1) The Set Up 2)  The Instruction  3)  The Q+A 

1) The Set Up

Select your choices, decide on how you are going to use this time in your classroom. Build the choice board

1) The Instruction

Tell the students what they are going to be doing (this becomes easier over time) Simply start with 3 options & move from there. 

1) The Q & A

Does anyone have questions? This will help you or the next time.  Remember the goal is to make this easier each time! 

Why Use A Choice Board?

So, let’s chat about choiceboards and why they’re like the coolest thing ever in your classroom. 

Picture this: kiddos bouncing into the room, eyes lighting up because they get to pick their own adventure in learning new words.

 It’s like a mini vocab party, and everyone’s invited!

We all have our own jam, right? Some of us are little artists, others are born performers, and some love to get lost in stories. Choice boards are like a buffet of fun learning snacks, so every munchkin finds something tasty that helps the vocab stick!

And here’s the kicker – when the little ones get to steer the ship, they turn into these mini captains of learning. They’re making the calls, and with every choice, they puff up a bit more with confidence. It’s a win-win – they’re learning and feeling like the boss at the same time.

Plus, for us teachers, it’s like having a secret helper in the room. We get to sprinkle in all sorts of activities that match our students’ levels and what makes their hearts tick. It’s like custom-making a learning playlist that gets every kid grooving to the vocab beat. How cool is that?

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5th grade writing doesn’t have to be a struggle! This blog post will provide all of my best tips and ideas for teaching your fifth graders to succeed as writers.

I’ve had classes where writing was a struggle allll yearrrr longggg. I’ve also had classes where I’d swear my students were one step away from writing professionally.

Your groups will never be the same and that’s ok. Just roll with it!

Take heart in the fact that when students leave your class at the end of the year, they will be MUCH better writers than when they entered in the fall.

No matter how good (or bad) my students are at writing when 5th grade begins, we always start at the very beginning and work on writing strong sentences.

This post will give you a step-by-step breakdown of how I help my students move from dull to dazzling sentences: How to Help Your Students Write Better Sentences

Once they’ve got the hang of writing an excellent sentence, then we move on. Your class may move slowly or quickly but be sure to watch their writing closely for clues that you may need to slow down.

You need to know where you’re going to know how you should plan the journey. So, the next section lays out my end-of-the-year goals for my 5th grade writers. Everything I do all year leads to the completion of these goals.

My end-of-the-year goals for my 5th grade writers….

By the time my students walk out of my classroom for the last time…

1. I want them to be able to efficiently organize their ideas and plan/write a five paragraph essay.

2. I want my students to be able to construct narrative, informative, and opinion essays.

3. I want my students to be able to choose appropriate sources and write a simple research report. 

4. I want my students to be able to closely read two paired passages and write an essay in response to a prompt. 

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Obtain a Writing Sample!  

Give students a simple prompt and ask for a response in a paragraph or two. Emphasize to students that you are not grading writing samples for grammar, spelling, or structure. You are interested in the quality of their ideas. 

This writing sample will be valuable as the year goes on. Your students will improve so much that their first samples will (hopefully) be pathetic compared to their new, improved writing pieces.

I usually whip out their first samples after we’ve written a few five paragraph essays. Students feel inspired to keep growing their writing skills when they see how far they’ve come in just a few months. 

Example Writing Sample Prompts: 

• Describe a talent or characteristic that makes you unique and different.
• Tell about a time when you set a goal for yourself and reached that goal.
• Pretend you live in a society where children are required to choose their future career paths in the 5th grade. What path would you choose? Explain.

Create Writing Reference Notebooks with students! 

I’ll admit it – I’m a little obsessed with writing reference notebooks. We use composition notebooks to create these amazing sources of knowledge and we use them all year long. 

So, where do we start with creating writing reference notebooks?

The beginning section of students’ notebooks hold reference materials. I want students to have plenty of resources at their fingertips to improve their sentence writing, including alternatives for overused words and my specialty, sparkle words. Sparkle words are words that are just a little bit special and make my students’ writing shine, like scandalous, embrace, and intriguing.

Other ways that my students use their writing reference notebooks:

• Writing journal entries
• Creating a personal thesaurus
• Writing topics & ideas list
• Taking notes on writing skills lessons
• Writing first drafts of longer assignments

This resource will give you an idea of the printable pages that I use for students’ notebooks: Writing Interactive Notebook – Reference Pages

Do I take grades on students’ writing reference notebooks? Not really. I want these notebooks to be a safe space for students to jot ideas and take risks with their first drafts. I do sometimes take a participation grade on their notebooks. This encourages students to keep their notebooks organized and up to date.

Start with sentences!  

When teaching 5th grade, you can expect students to start the year writing complete sentences, right?! No, sorry. Whether it’s the long break or maybe your students’ 4th grade teachers never required a lick of writing, your 5th graders will often begin the year with less-than-stellar sentences. 

So, I just plan to start with sentences first every year. We work on building and expanding sentences for about two weeks. Yes, two weeks probably seems like a really long time, but spectacular sentences are the foundation for creating great writers.

To improve my students’ sentences, I take the basic, simple sentences that students write and we work on adding more specific details and interest. First, I give students a list of five nouns and ask them to write one sentence using each noun.

I usually get sentences similar to these:

• Pie is my favorite dessert.
• My dad’s car is red.
• I wear my jacket when it is cold.
• This school is a nice place to learn.
• The tree is tall.

This is where I want students to get in their sentence-writing before moving on:

• Pecan, cherry, apple, or pumpkin… any type of pie is delicious!
• My dad spends his Saturdays washing and shining up his candy apple red Jeep.
• A puffy, hooded jacket is the first thing I reach for on chilly mornings.
• My school, North Hills Elementary, has the best teachers and students.
• The tall Redwood tree in my front yard is a welcome sight to visitors and makes my house look spectacular.

My students write every single day!  

I vividly remember being in 5th grade myself and writing long papers on the most boring topics ever, like “The Science of Light” and “The History of Mapmaking.” Snooze fest! I vowed to never do that to my students. Instead, I took a different route.

Students absolutely need to learn to write full reports and five paragraph essays, but they don’t need to do this every week. They do, however, need to continually practice writing. I find that if I make writing assignments engaging, my students don’t complain and actually seem to enjoy writing.

I assign Weekly Writing Choice Boards . This writing has made all the difference in my classroom! Students are now excited about writing class. They see writing as a treat and a fun way to express their thoughts and opinions.

I hand out a new choice board every week and students must complete three assignments from the board. I don’t grade these on perfect grammar, spelling, or punctuation, instead I look for ideas and effort. Even imperfect writing practice will improve your students’ writing skills tremendously!

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If you teach social studies in addition to writing, this blog post will give you a bunch of engaging social studies journal entries that will help you tie social studies into your writing instruction.

Train students in proofreading and editing!  

Student need to practice proofreading and editing their writing (and the writing of other students) near the beginning of the school year.

Repeatedly practicing the steps of the proofreading/editing process will help your students to internalize this procedure. You’ll find that they will start to catch their mistakes earlier and more independently.

I find it valuable to establish and consistently use a common “proofreading language” in my classroom. It takes a little time up front to teach students the markings and their meanings but having a common system for proofreading will save loads of time throughout the school year.

This resource will give you an idea of the proofreading marks and practice that I use in my classroom: Proofreading and Editing Activity Pack

Asking your students to proofread and edit their own writing is a must but it’s also a good thing to have students pair up and look over a partner’s writing also. Your students will receive valuable feedback on their writing, editing ideas, and they’ll get to see some writing styles that are a little different from their own.

Teach five paragraph essays one piece at a time! 

Simple Paragraphs

Once my students are stellar sentence writers, we move to simple paragraphs. The simple paragraphs that I use with students consist of a topic sentence, three detail sentences, and a closing sentence.

Starting with simple paragraphs is much less threatening than jumping straight into five paragraph essays, so I find that spending some time helping students write excellent simple paragraphs is the perfect bridge into essays.

Additionally, we color-code our simple paragraphs. This allows students to think critically about what sentence types they have written and provides a visual for students (and for me) to see that all required parts of the paragraph are included.

The color-code I use with students:

• Topic sentence – green
• 3 detail sentences – yellow
• Closing sentence – red

Planning and Writing Body Paragraphs

Once students are able to write great simple paragraphs, we dive into the planning and writing of body paragraphs.

This isn’t too much of a jump for students because the body paragraphs are structured similarly to the simple paragraphs that we have practiced over and over. The only difference is that they are using one prompt to write three body paragraphs.

Many teachers think they have to start with the first paragraph of the essay, the introduction paragraph. This isn’t what I recommend. Starting by teaching students to write the three body paragraphs helps to steer the rest of the essay.

Adding an Introduction Paragraph

Now that students are able to write their three body paragraphs, it’s time to add the introduction paragraph.

The introduction paragraph contains a hook, commentary, and a thesis sentence.

The hook is a sentence (or two) that “hooks” readers and builds interest in the upcoming essay. I teach my students several types of hooks, including quotes, questions, bold statements, or sharing a memory.

After the hook, I ask students to write a sentence or two of commentary on the hook or on the prompt in general. This helps to “bulk up” their introduction paragraph a bit and make it more interesting.

The final part of the introduction paragraph is the thesis sentence. Because students already learned to write the body paragraphs, crafting a thesis sentence is so much easier.

The formula for writing a thesis sentence: Restate the prompt briefly + detail 1 + detail 2 + detail 3.

Additionally, I teach transition teams at this point. Students need to use a transition word or phrase at the beginning of each body paragraph, so that’s where transition teams come in. Transition teams are sets of three transition words or phrases that work well together.

Examples of transition teams:

• First, Second, Finally
• To begin, To continue, To end
• One reason, Another reason, A final reason

Adding a Conclusion Paragraph

When conclusion paragraph day finally arrives, my students are so excited because they can finally write an entire five paragraph essay.

In my opinion, conclusion paragraphs are super easy to teach because they only have two parts. Here’s the conclusion paragraph formula: Write the thesis sentence in a different way + add a closing thought.

I allow students to be creative with their closing thoughts. I tell them that this is the final thought that your readers will take with them, so it needs to relate well to your entire essay while being engaging and thought-provoking for readers. Some examples of closing thoughts are calls to action, quotes, personal opinions, and brief personal experiences.

Teach, Discuss, & Practice with Rubrics

I inform my students that from this point on in their school journey, they will be graded with rubrics fairly often, so this is a good time to learn about rubrics and become familiar with them.

I create or find five paragraph essay samples that are good, bad, and in-between. We read and examine the samples as a class and circle the applicable parts of the rubric. If students are able to grade a few assignments using a rubric, it’s not this unknown, scary thing anymore. 

Are you grading every single word and making a million corrections on students’ essays? I give you permission to stop doing that! 🙂

You are going to burn yourself out and get to where you hate grading and teaching writing. To be honest, your students will not become better writers when their papers are marked all over with suggestions in the margins.

Help! I need more support…

Please visit the following blog post for in-depth explanations and examples of my five paragraph essay teaching and grading process: 

Tips for Teaching and Grading Five Paragraph Essays

This resource will provide you with a full, scaffolded unit that will help you to teach the five paragraph essay process to students! Five Paragraph Essay Instructional Unit

Narrative, Informative, and Opinion Essays

As much as we’d like to just have our students write simple, straightforward five paragraph essays all year, that’s just not feasible.

But I promise, once your students can crank out those five paragraph essays on simple topics, moving to other modes of writing is no sweat! 

In my classroom, we spend time learning to write opinion essays, narrative essays, and informative essays. 

I start with opinion writing because my students have a lot of opinions, haha! We channel those opinions into five paragraph essay format. 🙂

Research Reports

The skills involved in writing a research report are valuable for 5th graders. They need to be able to judge the reliability of a source and cite their sources properly. 

Research reports also teach students to organize their ideas, take notes, make an outline, write a draft, and create a final report. 

I’d like to point you to the following blog post where I detailed my entire process for teaching research reports.

The Step-By-Step Guide to Teaching Research Reports

Paired Passages

5th graders are too young to compare two passages and write a response. Right?! 

No, this is not true at all. I think that reading paired passages and using them to craft a written response is a valuable skill for 5th graders. 

Steps to analyzing paired passages and writing an essay to answer a prompt:

First, dissect the prompt.

Second, closely read the paired texts.

Third, organize thoughts using the prompt.

The following blog post explains my paired passage writing steps in detail. Take a moment to check it out. You’ll be glad you did! 

How to Teach Writing Using Paired Passages

My Sequence & Pacing for Teaching 5th Grade Writing

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1st Month of School

We start school in the middle of the month, so I only have two weeks to teach during the first month of school.

This is the rundown for the remainder of the month:

Month 1, Week 3

The first week of the school year is all about teaching and practicing procedures. Teach it right or teach it all year! 🙂

Classroom Procedures – I recommend you check out this blog post:  5 Tips for Establishing Procedures in the Upper Elementary Classroom

Welcome Activities –  Welcome to 5th Grade: First Week of School Activities

Blog Post – Back to School Writing Prompts for 5th Graders

Month 1, Week 4

During this week, I review and continue practicing procedures with students but we do go ahead and start working on writing.

I establish my expectations and procedures for my students’ Weekly Writing Choice Boards.

We set up writing notebooks together, including the table of contents, cover page, and an  About the Author  page. 

Obtain a writing sample

We start working on improving sentences.

2nd Month of School

Month 2, Week 1

We continue working on improving sentences.

Start proofreading/editing instruction and practice.

Month 2 , Week 2

Review the process for writing excellent sentences.

Finish proofreading/editing instruction and practice.

Month 2, Weeks 3-4

Writing simple paragraphs (include color-code)

3rd Month of School

Month 3, Weeks 1-2

Planning & writing body paragraphs (include color-code)

Month 3, Weeks 3-4

Teach introduction paragraphs

Writing introduction plus body paragraphs (include color code)

Transition teams

4th Month of School

Month 4, Weeks 1-2

Teach students how to write conclusion paragraphs.

Students will write their first full five paragraph essays this week.

Month 4, Weeks 3-4

Write 5 paragraph essays with a variety of basic prompts.

Have students proofread/edit other students’ essays.

Provide mini-lessons on grammar structure or other issues you are noticing in students’ writing.

5th Month of School

This is where our winter break falls, so I only have two weeks to teach this month.

This is a great time to review what we’ve been working on all year and assign some fun journal prompts.

Also, writing mini-lessons are good fillers for this time.

This Winter Writing Project is a student favorite right before winter break!

6th Month of School

Month 6, Week 1

When we come back from winter break, I like to teach the research report process. I spend a week teaching the process and giving students time to research while I’m there to help.

Month 6, Week 2

Student complete their research reports, including outlines, citing sources, and etc.

I ask my students to do super quick presentations on their research topics. It’s 1-2 minutes max. I don’t want them to read their reports aloud because that’s boring. Instead, I want them to quickly highlight what they learned about their topics and what was fascinating to them.

Month 6, Week 3

We review the five paragraph essay process and write/proofread/edit an essay with a simple prompt.

Month 6, Week 4

I start opinion writing this week. You’ll find that students will slide into opinion writing easily because they already know five paragraph essay structure.

7th Month of School

Month 7, Week 1

Continue working on opinion writing. By the end of this week, students should be able to write an opinion essay using a prompt.

Month 7, Weeks 2-3

We spend two weeks on narrative writing. By the end of the second week, students should be able to write a narrative essay using a prompt.

Month 7, Week 4

This week, I teach the process of writing an informative essay.

8th Month of School

Month 8, Week 1

Continue working on informative essays. Students should be able to write an informative essay using a prompt by the end of this week.

Month 8, Weeks 2-3

Teach students how to write an essay using paired passages.

For more information on how I teach the steps above, visit this blog post: How to Teach Writing Using Paired Passages

Month 8, Week 4

Now that students know the process of using paired passages, I provide a set of paired passages and ask students to answer prompts in a variety of genres, like opinion, narrative, informative, poetry, and etc.

This resource makes it easy:

Paired Passages with Writing Prompts and Activities Bundle

9th Month of School

Month 9, Week 1

Continue working on using paired passages to write in a variety of genres.

Talk about last minute standardized testing tips to help students with their writing tests.

The rest of the month is taken up with standardized testing, so I do a lot of review activities, free writing, and etc.

I do have a set of suspense stories that my students love to write during this month. Check them out here: Suspense Stories Bundle

10th Month of School

During this month, we are wrapping up the year. Students participate in multiple activities and field trips, so there’s not much teaching time.

If you are still feeling overwhelmed, don’t dismay. Instructing young, inexperienced writers is a challenge. Just work on one step at a time to avoid overwhelming yourself and your students. Once you’ve taught writing for a year or two, you’ll feel like an old pro. Promise! 

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Hello When you do the back to school journal prompts, where do you have students complete these? On single paper, google classroom?

Hi Sarah! Usually, I have students complete the prompts in their social studies interactive notebooks. This year, however, we were virtual at the beginning of the year, so I had students type their entries onto Google Docs.

Hi! I am a new 5th grade teacher, and I’m wondering if your school uses a particular writing curriculum? Your website has been so helpful – thank you!!

Hi Jenny! We don’t use a particular writing curriculum at my school. I use my own resources to teach writing. Please reach out to me at [email protected] if I can help or answer any questions for you 🙂

Do you have any resources in Spanish?

Hi Danielle! The only resources I have in Spanish are my Parent’s Guide to Reading resources, grades K-5.

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Writing Choice Boards

My students absolutely love choice boards. They love choosing their own tasks and having that sense of ownership. So, I created a set of Writing Choice boards that aligned to Common Core requirements and coordinate perfectly with my Reading and Math CCSS choice boards .

This resource contains 7 different choice boards with 15 prompts on each choice board, for a total of 105 prompts! Take a look!

The choice boards are available in color or black and white.

The color version would be perfect to place in a literacy center or station. The black and white version could be copied and given to each student. They could color in the choices as they complete them.

Click here to grab your set.

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Love this! It's so hard to squeeze in writing on Fridays, so these will be perfect for allowing students to practice their skills. Thanks so much for sharing! 🙂

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Jennifer, these writing choice boards are awesome!! Thank you for sharing; I can't wait to use them with my class!!

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Because learning is best when it’s hands-on.

Love them or hate them, bulletin boards are standard classroom decor. Make yours more interesting and engaging by trying some of these interactive bulletin boards. Students can contribute, learn, de-stress, and more. Plus, lots of these boards are easier to create than you might expect. Take a look and find something new to add to your walls!

1. Wordle it up

The hit game makes an awesome bulletin board! Use it as a bell ringer or to fill in a few minutes at the end of class.

Learn more: Teacher’s Pet Arcade

2. Punch out your goals

Use rubber bands to cover the tops of cups with tissue paper and attach them to your board. When students achieve a goal, they get to punch through the paper to find a treat or reward inside!

Learn more: @schoolandthecity

3. Scan QR codes to learn more

Teach your students about insects with an interactive bulletin board where students can build insects on magnetic boards and then scan QR codes to learn more. Follow the link below for step-by-step instructions and printable QR codes.

Learn more: QR Code Bulletin Board Paper

4. Code and learn

Give kids practice learning the basics of coding with this idea. It’s easy to create and you can set new challenges whenever you like.

Learn more: @teach_in_the_peach

5. Ask “Would You Rather …” questions

Oh, your students will love this one! Post new questions regularly to spark hilarious classroom conversation.

Learn more: @rainbowsandconfetto

6. Crack the code

Send a hidden message and make students solve equations to crack the code. This is another one that’s easy to change out regularly.

Learn more: @ms.carpentersmathclass

7. Discover inspiring figures in history

Use this idea to learn about scientists, authors, world leaders, and more. Kids research the person and write a fascinating fact on a sticky note to add details to the board. Everybody learns something new!

Learn more: @mrsjones_science

8. A-maze your students

Students will get a kick out of racing each other to the finish line with this easy idea. Laminate the mazes and provide dry-erase markers for kids to use.

Learn more: @msdavid_myteacherlife

9. Tell your story

Use this board at the beginning of the year for students to introduce themselves, or try it as the year draws to a close for students to reflect on what they’ve learned and experienced.

Learn more: @letsgetdowntoenglish

10. Keep track of reading progress

Encourage independent reading and strengthen reading fluency skills with this bulletin board that students can color after they’ve finished reading books.

Learn more: The Secondary English Coffee Shop

11. Host a morning brain boost

With this bulletin board, students get to create questions to an answer you provide. It’s like Jeopardy in bulletin board form!

Learn more: Teach Starter

12. Encourage students to brag a little

Create a simple, colorful grid that students can use to display their best work for all to see. Add their names if you like, or leave it blank, but encourage every student to display something regularly.

Learn more: @missdecarbo

13. Match up science terms

Use rubber bands to match the terms (also marked with pushpins) with the parts. This board has tactile elements incorporated, making the terms more memorable and accessible to all students.

Learn: Paths to Literacy

14. Get to know each other

This interactive board gives students the opportunity to think about their fellow classmates and to see how much they actually know about one another.

Learn more: Inside Bodine

15. Pit music against poetry

Poetry can be a hard sell for some kids. Help them relate to it by challenging them to determine if quotes are by a famous poet or a famous pop group. They’ll be surprised by the answers!

Learn more: Mrs. Orman’s Classroom

16. Create a coloring corner

Interactive bulletin boards don’t have to take a lot of time or effort. Just pin up a giant coloring poster and have students use their crayons or markers to color. Coloring is a well-known anti-stress activity, plus it can actually help focus the mind on the subject at hand.

Learn more: @PlatouWorld

17. Provide a place for burning questions

Also known as a “parking lot,” interactive bulletin boards like these give kids a low-key way to ask questions they have about material you’re covering. Look it over daily to see what you might need to review, or save questions to be answered in a future lesson. Remove the sticky notes as you respond to them.

Learn more: Kate’s Science Classroom Cafe

18. Challenge them with Sudoku

Need something for kids to do when they finish a little early? Sudoku interactive bulletin boards might be the answer! Learn how to set one up at the link below.

Learn more: Activity After Math

19. Practice compare-and-contrast concepts

Did someone say giant Venn diagram? I’m in! Post any two items you want students to compare and contrast, and have them write their answers on sticky notes to fill in the diagram.

Learn more: @artwithmrskim

20. Try a thinking tug-of-war

Prepare for opinion writing by having students show their thinking on a tug-of-war bulletin board. These are easy to prep and can be used over and over again with different questions.

Learn more: The Good Life

21. Use QR codes to spark curiosity

Bring interactive bulletin boards into the digital age with QR codes. In this example, quotes from famous women are displayed on the wall. Students can scan the free-to-generate QR code with their phones or tablets to learn more about each one. This idea can be adapted for so many different subjects!

Learn more: Study All Knight

22. Bring on the Boggle math

Game-based learning has so many benefits. This Boggle math board is based on the classic letter game, with a numbers twist. Learn how to play at the link below.

Learn more: The Routty Math Teacher

23. Craft a color-sorting bulletin board

Little ones love interactive bulletin boards. Paint empty paper towel tubes with bright colors and set them up with coordinating buckets and pom-poms. Kids get hand-eye-coordination practice by dropping the right pom-poms through the tubes.

Learn more: Play to Learn Preschool

24. Get to know literary genres

Lift-the-flap cards can be used for so many different interactive bulletin boards. This board helps kids identify literary genres with examples and descriptions.

Learn more: Buck & Chuck’s

25. Build a giant word search

Word searches are an engaging way to practice spelling and vocabulary. You can change up this board to match new subjects throughout the year.

Learn more: The Corner on Character

26. Draw their eyes to an “I Spy” board

Grab your hot-glue gun and get to work! This board provides the perfect opportunity to play a quick game of I Spy when you have a few spare minutes at the end of class.

Source: @2art.chambers

27. Find out what they’re thankful for

This is an easy idea for a fall bulletin board. On the back of each card, have each student write what they’re thankful for. Each day, turn one over and share. ( Find more fall bulletin board ideas here. )

Learn more: Teacher Blog Spot

28. Take what you need, give what you can

You’ll find examples of interactive bulletin boards like this one all over Pinterest. The concept is basic: Post notes with encouraging and kind words on a board for students to grab when they need to be lifted up. Provide paper for them to add their own kind words for others too.

Learn more: Deanna Devine on Pinterest

29. Turn a paper roll into an interactive Q&A station

The terrific thing about interactive bulletin boards made with rolls of paper is that they’re easy to switch up. Learn how to make this board (this teacher used a door, but it would work for a bulletin board too) at the link below.

Learn more: Oh Boy, It’s Farley

30. Post a read-aloud board

Experience a read-aloud book together by posting the characters, problem, setting, and solution as you read. When you’re done with the book, have the kids write their favorite part on sticky notes to share. ( See more creative ways to use sticky notes in the classroom here. )

Learn more: Kidd + Kids

31. Make a mitten-match board

Help little ones learn letters, numbers, sight words, and more with a cute and fun interactive matching board.

Learn more:  @playtolearnps/Mitten Match

32. Put a pin in the map while you read

Show students how books open up the world. Post a country or world map and have them put a pin in any location mentioned in the books they read.

Learn more: Scholastic on Pinterest

33. Win the day with word games

Words With Friends has made Scrabble games popular again. Set up a board with letter cards and let students battle it out for the highest score. Bonus points for using a vocabulary word!

Source: Pinterest/Words With Friends

34. Get reading recommendations from fellow students

The teacher who created this board says, “Students use sticky notes to write the title, author, and genre of the book they’re reading. They use dry-erase markers each day to update the page they’re on and their rating (out of 5 stars). This will let me see how much kids are reading and give students a place to refer to when looking for new book recommendations.”

Learn more: @_thirdgradeswag

35. Set up a bucket filler board

When you “catch” students being kind, give them a “warm fuzzy” pom-pom to put in their bucket. Periodically empty the individual buckets into a class bucket to work toward a reward. ( Learn more about the bucket filler concept here. )

Learn more: Little Mrs. Preschool

36. Spark joy in your students

Such a simple concept: Spell out a word in large letters and have students fill it with their thoughts on that word. You can easily change this out to fit various seasons or subjects.

Learn more: Macy Dawn on Pinterest

37. Measure angles on a paper pool table

Have students place paper pool balls on the table, then calculate the angles they’d need to shoot in order to pocket the ball using a protractor and string.

Learn more: Ryan O’Donnell at Kutztown University

38. Put together a pushpin poetry board

It’s like magnetic poetry, just using a bulletin board instead! Cut out words and provide a container of pins. Students do the rest.

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39. Encourage random acts of kindness

Post a series of envelopes with “random acts of kindness” ideas inside. Students draw a card and complete the act, then post a pic if they like.

Source: The Green Pride

40. Recognize new classmates by playing peekaboo

Post a pic of the student under a flap with their name on it to help students learn their classmates’ names and faces. This is geared toward younger kids but could be tweaked for older students too.

Source: @playtolearnps/Peekaboo

41. Plot points on a big Cartesian plane

Give students practice plotting points and finding the area of shapes on a Cartesian plane. Use fun pushpins to jazz it up!

Learn more: Melody Bienfang at Kutztown University

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By practicing and writing a lot, of course! The writing doesn’t always have to be perfect or in essay format… It’s best practice to encourage kids to do a wide variety of writing, including letters, paragraphs, Top 10 Lists, and so on.

Are the writing assignments applicable to all students and regions?

I purposely created these choice boards to be fun and welcoming to both genders, all religions, races, ethnicities, locations, and etc. Your students are certain to find interesting writing topics on each weekly board.

How should I use these boards in my classroom?

I have used these boards successfully as homework, morning work, and class work. My favorite way to use these boards is in a homework capacity. I hand out the weekly board on Monday and it is due on Friday with three assignments completed.

Why should I give students choices in their writing assignments?

Giving students choices helps them to feel empowered and excited about writing. When students write about what interests them, their writing improves immensely.

How many assignments should students complete weekly?

I require my students to complete three assignments weekly. Use your professional judgment to decide how many assignments your students should complete. These writing choices will perfectly complement your in-class writing work.

How are the choice boards arranged in this resource?

I included four choice boards for each of the 12 months. I put the month names in small letters at the bottom. You can absolutely hand these out in any order you choose. However, the clip art and some of the prompts are focused on certain times of the year.

Do you repeat the same prompts over and over?

No! There are a couple of repeating prompts that will appear once per month but that's it. I spent a lot of time and effort to create original, unique prompts on each choice board.

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Whew, I survived the whirlwind of the first day of school! Does anyone else feel like it is one of the toughest days of school?? I love love LOVE meeting my new kiddos (though I knew most of them – one of the benefits of teaching in a small school!) but getting back into the swing of things with no real schedule is always a big difficult. So much of the day was filled with discussing policies and procedures for 5th grade, but I tried to break up the “boring”-ness with some fun too!

Anyways, now that school has actually started, I figured it was about time to give you the grand tour of my 5th grade classroom – welcome!!

Here is my classroom! This is the view from the door – notice the lovely Big Lots rug that is all over the teacher bloggy world…I love the pop of color in the middle of my room:

This is my computer area to the right of the door, as well as my WOW Work display board:

WOW Work board up close – I actually hot-glued the clothespins to the board because it is actually a chalkboard and there is no way to get them to stay up there any other way!!:

My desk area, to the right of the computer area:

Calendar area behind my desk. I used to have my fridge back here too (notice the plastic cabinets in the bottom left of the picture…), but I had to move it due to safety violations with the plugs…haha. So the pictures that used to be on the fridge of my previous classes are now posted above my calendar:

My Writing Process pencil – this used to be on a bulletin board near my bookshelves, but after some rearranging, this is where it ended up! The door on the right leads to the 4th grade room:

Here’s the back corner of my classroom with the doorway to the 4th grade room, my unit bulletin board, class supplies, books relating to our unit, and games:

Here’s a close-up of the bookshelf and surrounding area, including my newly-moved fridge. This month we are obviously studying the universe (if you didn’t figure that out from the previous picture’s bulletin board!) so all of the books on the top shelf here relate to this topic:

This is my early finishers spot, on the wall caddy corner to the unit bulletin board. Here I have ideas for the students if they finish an assignment early and need something to do. I included ideas for both Language Arts and Math (excuse my hand…I forgot to hang up 3M hooks today!):

I keep supplies for our literature centers next to the back bookshelf. We do centers once (sometimes twice) a week. Students can work 3 to a center and they include topics from “Fiction Books” and “Poetry” to “Imagination Station” and “Typing”. Many of these ideas I got from a book about literature centers (but of course I can’t remember the name of it now…):

The kiddos’ desks all set up and ready for them to come! I always get them small pencil holders that are designed for lockers and stick them to the side of their desks filled with a few small goodies, but this year the magnets would NOT stick! It was terrible! I decided to velcro them to their desks instead and this has worked great so far:

The front of the room with Morning Work posted for the first day. The area on the right of the board is where we write our homework every day:

Here’s a close-up of the board with the cursive alphabet above, a few motivational posters, and the brain teaser of the week:

I ran out of wall space, so I did a little rearranging and pulled some bookcases away from the wall – voila! Instant wall space! I purchased this awesome writing set from TpT and I can’t wait to use it here. You can also see my tired words pocket chart that I made last year :

So excited for this classroom Boggle board I made!! I was inspired by this  Boggle board and was pleasantly surprised to see that our school Cricket had the exact cartridge I needed to make the cute scalloped background for each letter. I laminated 3 sets of the letters and keep them in a purple basket, along with the recording charts, below the board:

Here is my library/reading area. I just got that chair from Big Lots for $25 and the kids love it already! I have tons of books – I am and have always been an avid reader so I love having lots of options for my students to read. They are organized by AR levels, but the kids are encouraged to read based on their interests too. I got the blue chair at Big Lots last week and my students were loving it all day:

Last but not least, here is my beautiful lovely stunning wall of wood! Isn’t she a beauty? Oh boy…haha. The closet doors on both side of the “nook” will be filled with reading/writing vocabulary and math vocabulary. The bulletin board in the nook is one that I do every year – the students decorate puzzle pieces that we hang up on the 2nd day of school. I also have the always wonderful chart paper posted here which is wonderful and gets lots of use:

So that’s my classroom! Thanks for taking a tour and checking it out. Any suggestions or ideas or comments??

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