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Introducing yourself and your role as an instructional coach is an important way to start building a foundation for coaching work. This resource includes a slide show, coaching menu, invitations for a special “Meet the Coach” event, and a guide to teach you how to do it!
Zip File | 64 pages
This bundle of new TEKS aligned mentor sentence units is a whole year purposeful instruction that blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. Students analyze sentences, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, revise and create sentences following specific structures.
Zip File | 360+ pages
This document is an TEKS alignment for my Fourth Grade Mentor Sentences Program for Texas schools. There are four nine weeks in the program. Each nine weeks focuses on important skills and strategies for revision and editing and is aligned to the new 2023 TEKS assessed curriculum for the Texas ELA test!
PDF | 20 pages
This money pack includes 22 pages of handouts and activities to practice money concepts including the value of coins, counting up coins and bills, and making different amounts of money. Handouts appropriate for whole class and independent practice are included, as well as a center game and two pages of challenge activities. Easily differentiated for different levels of learners.
PDF | 23 pages
This pack includes 12 monthly printable calendars, black and white. The calendar dates are blank so they can be used year after year! Students can color the adorable black and white clipart on their calendars and use them for calendar math, homework logs, reading logs, or behavior records! Great to send home daily for parents to initial!
PDF | 12 pages
A fun pack full of materials for implementing your own family night for ELA! Invite parents and families to participate in 7 fun movie themed activities that engage kids and adults in reading, writing, thinking, speaking, listening, and creating!
Zip File | 61 pages
A fun pack full of materials for implementing your own literacy night! Invite parents and families to participate in 7 fun movie themed activities that engage kids and adults in reading, writing, thinking, speaking, listening, and creating in English and Spanish!
Zip File | 102 pages
A fun pack full of materials for implementing your own literacy night! Invite parents and families to participate in 7 fun movie themed activities that engage kids and adults in reading, writing, thinking, speaking, listening, and creating in English and Spanish!
Zip File | 61 pages
Provide students with the basic understanding of how arrays represent multiplication and division, and give them practice in building arrays to represent different numbers. Includes a fun station and hands-on experiences.
PDF | 22 pages
This toolkit is designed to help you identify the intervention your students need in writing and know exactly what lesson to do to help them grow! 72 strategy cards help you intervene meaningfully at every step of the writing process.
Zip File | 160 pages
Your writing lesson plans are done for over three months with this narrative writing minilesson unit bundle! This bundle includes a step-by-step approach in using the gradual release model to teach your young writers about the following strategies in narrative writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic and include step by step plans!
Zip File | 185 pages
This free download is just what you need if you’re starting out as an instructional coach and you’re not sure where to begin!
PDF | 9 pages
This fun resource includes materials for a craftivity and bulletin board display to celebrate students’ goals or resolutions for the new year!
PDF | 13 pages
This unit includes everything you need to teach students how to comprehend and respond to nonfiction, or informational text: anchor charts, posters, organizers, reading guides, foldable flipbooks, sorts, and more for 3rd-4th graders! Hands-on activities encourage kids to really engage in nonfiction content and build understanding!
PDF | 68 pages
Text structure helps our readers understand how text works. This product is designed to support students in analyzing text structure. 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 | 20 pages
These classroom observation forms for instructional coaches are the perfect tool to help you record and reflect on what is happening in classrooms! Use these forms to document classroom management, behavior, student engagement, academic language, questioning, and more when you visit classrooms! The discussion questions help you guide a discussion with the teacher.
ZIP File | 49 pages
This beach and ocean themed Reader’s Workshop Pack includes over 55 pages of materials for implementing and maintaining Reader’s Workshop your classroom! Get students organized, learn about them as readers, help them record and respond to their reading, and more.
PDF | 60 pages
This beachy ocean themed Writer’s Workshop Pack includes over 70 pages of materials for implementing and maintaining Writer’s Workshop in your classroom! Features Creative Clips ocean and beach clipart!
Zip File | 75 pages
Using these graphic organizers, students will identify and apply the important structures and elements of each genre. Great for 4th and 5th grades!
Zip File | 20 pages
Using this resource, students will identify and apply the important structures and elements of each genre. The graphic organizers help students summarize and identify author’s purpose and other important characteristics of genre. Each student page is in Spanish.
Zip Pages | 20 pages
This partner play bundle includes four partner plays for each season for readers in grades 2 – 4. That’s a total of 16 differentiated plays for two readers! These plays include a two-person cast, stage directions, and dialogue.
Zip File | 36 pages
Each poster in this eleven poster set includes a part of speech, a simple, kid-friendly definition, and an example sentence with the part of speech marked clearly for easy reference.
PDF | 9 pages
Avoid boring passages and engage your fifth graders in TEKS based physical science with these twelve different partner plays! Each play reinforces scientific concepts of properties of matter, forms of energy, the flow of electricity, forces, and more.
PDF | 61 pages
Teach physical science through hands-on activities, science stations, vocabulary development, and interactive lessons that reinforce important concepts about states of matter, properties of matter, and other important concepts.
PDF | 68 pages
A fun pack full of materials for implementing your own family night for ELA! Invite parents and families to participate in 7 fun pirate themed activities that engage kids and parents in thinking, listening, speaking, reading, writing, and creating!
Zip File | 69 pages