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This resource gives you ten fun activities for students in grades 3 – 5 to work with any vocabulary you choose! Editable components make customizing the activities to your vocabulary list easy so you can use them for any unit, and any subject area! Great for working with vocabulary in reading, writing, math, science, or social studies!
Zip File | 48 pages
This literacy activity pack is chock-full of activities to develop kids’ comprehension and context clues skills, using the short novel 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie DePaola.
PDF | 70 pages
In this unit, students learn vocabulary and characteristics of 2-D shapes through matching, building a folded flipbook, comparing shapes, and writing about them. Fun marshmallow shape building is a favorite activity!
PDF | 40 pages
In this unit, students work with 3-D shapes through hands-on activities, vocabulary building, writing, observing, and building. Marshmallow Shapes is an especially fun activity that kids love!
PDF | 28 pages
This suffix activity pack provides kids with practice working with the suffixes -ful and -less.
PDF | 25 pages
Including different types of details in expository writing are an important strategy! In this unit, students will read books with great details, understand different types of details, revise writing to improve the details, and try out different types of details in their own writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic!
PDF | 45 pages
A fun pack full of materials for implementing your own family night for ELA in a fun carnival theme! Invite parents and families to participate in 8 fun amusement themed stations activities including reading, writing, listening, speaking, and creating!
Zip File | 90 pages
If you are trying to start teaching anti-racism and respect for diversity in your classroom, this free download is a good place to start.
PDF | 3 pages
This product is designed to support students in asking good questions to improve their comprehension. Students learn about right there, inferential, and world questioning, as well as thick and thin questions. Teacher pages explain how to use the gradual release model to help students move from learning the new strategy to supported practice to independent practice.
PDF | 30 pages
Engage students in thinking about author’s purpose through this sorting activity. Students will read short texts and sort them into the author’s purpose for writing (to inform, to entertain, to persuade, to explain how).
PDF | 19 pages
Author’s purpose is essential to reading comprehension. This product is designed to support students in identifying author’s purpose in different texts. Teacher pages explain how to use the gradual release model to help students move from learning the new strategy to supported practice to independent practice.
PDF | 12 pages
Back to School Conversation Dice are a fun way to get kids talking to each other on the first days of school!
PDF | 3 pages
This bundle includes everything you need to start a school year as an instructional coach! Whether you’re new to coaching or new to a school, these editable tools, guides, and PD video will answer your questions and help you build a solid foundation for coaching all year.
PDF | 145 pages
This set of Back to School partner plays includes four different reader’s theaters for students in grades 2 – 4.
Partner Plays are two-person plays designed for partners to read together! These plays include a two-person cast, stage directions, and dialogue.
PDF | 9 pages
A fun pack full of materials for implementing your own family night for ELA! Invite parents and families to participate in 9 fun beach themed activities to help kids and adults think, read, write, speak, listen, and create!
PDF | 80 pages
This resource will help you discuss what anti-racism looks like with your students. As a part of It’s Time to Talk Racism: 22 Days of Anti-Racist Resources for Teachers, this resource is a starting point to helping students learn about taking action and saying or doing something when they see racism happening.
PDF | 9 Pages
Students follow the research process (asking questions, gathering research) and choose from five different biography projects to represent their learning! Diary entries, newspaper articles, mini-people books, making a map, and writing a play are included!
PDF | 44 pages
This social studies pack includes graphic organizers, formats, and activities to work with the concepts of the United States government. They are perfect to use to gather and record information from sources.
PDF | 17 pages
A fun pack full of materials for implementing your own family dream night to help your kids dream about the future! Invite parents and families to participate in 7 fun bright future-themed activities. Great for career day, too!
PDF | 34 pages
A fun pack full of materials for implementing your own family night for ELA! Invite parents and families to participate in 7 fun camping themed activities to address reading, writing, speaking, and listening!
Zip File | 52 pages
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PDF | 65 pages
Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. This week-long unit focuses on using capitalizing proper nouns including people, places, days of the week, months of the year, etc. Students analyze a sentence, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, and revise and create sentences following specific structures.
PDF | 17 pages
Teach students the reading skill of cause and effect in an engaging, hands-on way and then help them apply it to authentic reading! In this set of reading strategy minilessons, students will make cause-and-effect connections, think about the relationship between events, and try the strategy out in task cards.
PDF | 14 pages
This partner play introduces students to the life and contributions of Cesar Chavez through an engaging medium. Pair students up and have them choose a part to read and build fluency and comprehension. Partner plays are a great way to expose students to new content information in a fun format!
PDF | 4 pages