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To have a little fun with your students and make learning flexible and self-directed, use these Challenge BINGO boards! Choose one of the pre-created boards, or use one of the editable boards to build your own.
Zip File | 28 pages
Building staff morale is even more challenging in this difficult time of distance learning. To have a little fun with your teachers, use these Challenge BINGO boards! Choose one of the pre-created boards, or use one of the editable boards to build your own. Email it or upload it to Google Drive or OneDrive. Teachers download the board, color it in, or use stickers to mark off which blocks they have completed. They turn it in by the date you set. You can choose a winner, or acknowledge everyone who participated with the included Google Slides!
Zip File | 23 pages
This virtual resource is perfect for Distance Learning! In this resource, students will use graphic organizers to analyze characters, match character emotions with descriptions, brainstorm examples of different character feelings, and learn about how characters feel, have relationships, and change! The entire resource is compatible with Google Slides in Google Classroom.
PDF | 35 pages
To understand a fiction story, we need to understand the character: their traits, emotions, conflicts, relationships, lessons, and changes. This pack includes 41 different tools to use when teaching character analysis in fiction stories and books in grades 3-5.
PDF | 70 pages
This resource gives students the tools they need to analyze character traits. Students practice with a hands-on activity in groups which is used to build an anchor chart, participate in discussions during a modeled lesson, get practice with differentiated task cards, and apply their learning with reading responses.
PDF | 25 pages
Students use information provided on the word wall and emotions posters to make inferences about characters in short paragraphs and sort them by emotion. Then they make learning personal by creating an emotions collage!
PDF | 28 pages
This set of Christmas Around the World partner plays includes four different reader’s theaters for students in grades 3 – 4. These plays include a two-person cast, stage directions, and dialogue.
PDF | 9 pages
This set of Christmas partner plays includes four different reader’s theaters for students in grades 2 – 4. These plays include a two-person cast, stage directions, and dialogue.
They are perfect for partner work, daily fluency practice, a presentation for other classes, or to put in a reading station or center, such as Buddy Reading or Read to Someone.
PDF | 9 pages
If you’re coaching new teachers this year, this resource will save you so much time and mental energy! Grab this toolkit and start making an impact today!
Zip File | 65 pages
Learn exactly how to coach teachers who are implementing Reader’s Workshop with this Coaching Professional Development Video! It’s the perfect way to set yourself up for Reader’s Workshop coaching success! You can use this as a new coach, when you’re new to a school or district, or when you need a do-over!
PDF | 28 pages
Coach resistant teachers and change your coaching relationships with teachers who have not with this Instructional Coaching Professional Development Video! This is a recording of a live session that I gave, so I do interact with and respond to questions from the live participants.
PDF | 8 pages
Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. This week-long unit focuses on using commas in a series. Students analyze a sentence, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, and revise and create sentences following specific structures.
PDF | 18 pages
This social studies pack includes graphic organizers, formats, and activities to work with the concepts of communities and being a good citizen. They are perfect to use to gather and record information from sources.
PDF | 20 pages
This unit includes a presentation for whole-class instruction in using strategies to figure out the meaning of unknown words and multiple meaning words, and gives students plenty of practice in centers and on worksheets.
PDF | 50 pages
Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. This week-long unit focuses on contractions. Students analyze a sentence, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, and revise and create sentences following specific structures.
PDF | 17 pages
Have fun teaching fifth grade science with these eight different partner plays reinforcing scientific concepts of the TEKS including formation of sedimentary rock and fossil fuels, landforms, weather, climate the sun, Earth, and moon, and more!
PDF | 39 pages
In this unit, students learn about natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides through vocabulary activities, folded flipbooks, mix-pair-share, and an interdisciplinary writing activity.
PDF | 42 pages
This set of Easter 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.
They are perfect for partner work, daily fluency practice, a presentation for other classes, or to put in a reading station or center, such as Buddy Reading or Read to Someone.
PDF | 9 pages
Using this resource, you can start a book buddy reading program that will encourage your reluctant and struggling readers to read together, across grade levels! Reach your readers and encourage positive reading experiences through this program!
Zip File | 20 pages
Engage readers with these fun book projects for different seasons and holidays! Edit them to suit your class’ or school’s needs! Disguise-a-Pumpkin, Turkey in Disguise, Help the Gingerbread Man Escape, Snowmen in Disguise, Disguise a Bunny, and Design a Bookmark!
Zip File | 60 pages
This bundle includes 17 newsletter for coaches and administrators to send to their faculty. Keep your faculty up-to-date with information about upcoming dates, reminders, best practices, professional development resources, teacher features, and more!
Zip File | 18 pages
This set of hands-on stations activities and practice helps students to find equivalent fractions and compare fractions that are parts of wholes and parts of sets. Interactive activities give students opportunities to explore manipulate fractions.
PDF | 47 pages
This toolkit is designed to help you identify the intervention your students need in expository or informational writing and know exactly what lesson to do to help them grow! 80 strategy lesson cards help you intervene meaningfully at every step of the writing process.
ZIP File | 200 pages
Do your students fix their spelling on a word or two and call it revision? These expository revision guides can help students learn to evaluate their writing with a critical eye and make revisions that help the reader understand their message.
PDF | 20 pages
This resource is designed to support students in distinguishing facts and opinions. With these handy printables, you can model and think aloud about this skill, get kids engaged with a hands on activity, use task cards, and apply in their own reading!
PDF | 16 pages