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These visual schedule cards with an ocean theme have visual depictions of each activity to support ELLs, and to make your daily schedule more user friendly for all of your students! The text is editable, so you can rewrite them using the suggested font, or one of your own. They can be used in a pocket chart, on a magnetic whiteboard, or even on a bulletin board. Choose from the following cards: Arrival, Morning Announcements, Journals, Writing, Social Studies, Math, Science, Morning Meeting, Bel

These text structure exercises are unlike any your students have ever done! This no-prep packet of engaging worksheets will develop your students' mastery of the five nonfictional text structures: Description, Sequence, Problem & Solution, Comparison & Contrast, and Cause & Effect. The packet includes interesting readings, sorting exercises, mazes, paragraph analysis, problem-solving activities, writing assignments, and a text structure assessment/review. These fun and unique exercises (see desc

These monthly text structure exercises are unlike any your students have ever done! This huge collection of engaging no-prep worksheets will develop your students' mastery of the five nonfictional text structures: Description, Sequence, Problem & Solution, Comparison & Contrast, and Cause & Effect. Each monthly packet (September-May) includes interesting readings, sorting exercises, mazes, paragraph analysis, problem-solving activities, writing assignments, and a text structure assessment/

In this narrative sequencing lesson, students get to play with "Story-Catchers" instead of “Cootie-Catchers!” These Common Core aligned foldables will catch their imagination while teaching them valuable lessons about the conventions of narrative writing. After having to confiscate so many cootie catchers from students who were getting distracted from their work, I finally decided to use their enthusiasm for these foldables and make a version that would help them with their writing instead. Th

The Perfect Verb Tenses are usually the trickiest for English language learners to master. Even native speakers of English who can use them correctly often don’t understand why and how they are using them! This interactive PowerPoint presentation provides students with a fun explanation of how each of these tenses (Present Perfect, Past Perfect, and Future Perfect) work. An animated penguin explains when each tense is useful, and provides multiple concrete examples of how to use them. The first

These text structure exercises are unlike any your students have ever done! This no-prep packet of engaging worksheets will develop your students' mastery of the five nonfictional text structures: Description, Sequence, Problem & Solution, Comparison & Contrast, and Cause & Effect. The packet includes interesting readings, sorting exercises, mazes, paragraph analysis, problem-solving activities, writing assignments, and a text structure assessment/review. These fun and unique exercises (se

These text structure exercises are unlike any your students have ever done! This no-prep packet of engaging worksheets will develop your students' mastery of the five nonfictional text structures: Description, Sequence, Problem & Solution, Comparison & Contrast, and Cause & Effect. The packet includes interesting readings, sorting exercises, mazes, paragraph analysis, problem-solving activities, writing assignments, and a text structure assessment/review. These fun and unique exercises (se

These text structure exercises are unlike any your students have ever done! This no-prep packet of engaging worksheets will develop your students' mastery of the five nonfictional text structures: Description, Sequence, Problem & Solution, Comparison & Contrast, and Cause & Effect. The packet includes interesting readings, sorting exercises, mazes, paragraph analysis, problem-solving activities, writing assignments, and a text structure assessment/review. These fun and unique exercises (se

This Memory Book is designed to make a treasured keepsake for families to look back on in years to come. Once complete, students will have a “snapshot” of all of the things and people that they appreciated during the 2025-26 school year. [Newly updated for 2026]. An added bonus to this book is that it is designed so that students can take a photo of the pages in which they honored a special school staff member (see below) and send them to the staff members as end-of-the-year gifts! There are 30

These text structure exercises are unlike any your students have ever done! This no-prep packet of engaging worksheets will develop your students' mastery of the five nonfictional text structures: Description, Sequence, Problem & Solution, Comparison & Contrast, and Cause & Effect. The packet includes interesting readings, sorting exercises, mazes, paragraph analysis, problem-solving activities, writing assignments, and a text structure assessment/review. These fun and unique exercises (se

These text structure exercises are unlike any your students have ever done! This no-prep packet of engaging worksheets will develop your students' mastery of the five nonfictional text structures: Description, Sequence, Problem & Solution, Comparison & Contrast, and Cause & Effect. The packet includes interesting readings, sorting exercises, mazes, paragraph analysis, problem-solving activities, writing assignments, and a text structure assessment/review. These fun and unique exercises (se

This is a free sample of a writing activity that helps familiarize students with parts of speech, similes, metaphors, and transitions. The complete bundle can be purchased at 50% off here: Writer's Shopping Spree Bundle by Teacher’s Palette Instead of going on a regular shopping spree, students get to see how fun it can be to go on a “writer’s work-shopping spree”! This activity invites students to “shop” for words in each of seven “stores,” with each store selling a different type of word o

••• Keyboarding Mnemonic Game ••• There are so many exciting ways to meet the Common Core technology standards through multi-media projects, but, if you’re like me, you might have found that projects that should take a week wind up taking longer than expected because many students can’t type their ideas as quickly as we would like. Even though typing tutorials can be useful for intermediate students, none of them seem to address how students should tackle the beginning step of memorizing where t

••• Presidents’ Day Clipart Freebie••Patriotic Clips••Independence Day Clips ••• This free 10-image Presidents’ Day clipart set includes one colored PNG image and one black and white PNG version for each image shown. Your Download Includes: ● Whitehouse (color) ● American Flag (color) ● Heart-shaped Flag (color) ● Patriotic Cake (color) ● Happy Presidents’ Day Banner (color) ● Whitehouse (black & white) ● American Flag (black & white) ● Heart-shaped Flag (black & white) ● Patriotic Cake (black

This is a free sample of a Memory Book that is designed to make a treasured keepsake for families to look back on in years to come. What makes this Memory Book different is that each of the writing topics comes with a partially drawn scene for students to complete. These unfinished scenes are a great springboard to get students excited about writing—and coloring! This sample includes: 1) My Favorite Field Trip; 2) Ways That My Principal Helps Our School; and 3) Favorite Science Lesson/Project.

This noise level monitoring system works in the opposite way of most noise management systems—for maximum effectiveness! I learned the hard way that students get too excited by the visuals and sound effects of most systems. (I once had a traffic light noise indicator, but soon wound up having to disconnect it because students just couldn’t resist the temptation of making a loud noise in order to watch it light up and make noise)! After trying several different gadgets and charts over the years,

Are your new students lost? This EDITABLE desert themed décor bundle will help your new students--especially ELLs--to easily learn your routines and to find their way around your classroom. With supporting visuals that illustrate each activity and classroom item, students will be able to quickly decode words--making this décor set both attractive and functional! The set includes all of the pieces you need: an illustrated daily schedule, calendar, table labels, name plates, message pennants, curs

My students were having a hard time distinguishing between adjectives, verbs, and adverbs, so I designed these activities to give them the tools that they would need to be able to figure out a word’s part of speech all on their own. Note: To get this product at 50% off, you can check out the Bundle here: Parts of Speech: Sentence Structure, Coloring, Graphing, Writing BUNDLE More than just a color-by-code sheet, this activity includes a “Word Labeling Machine” that will help students decide

My students were having a hard time distinguishing between adjectives, verbs, and adverbs, so I designed these activities to give them the tools that they would need to be able to figure out a word’s part of speech all on their own. More than just a collection of color-by-code sheets, this bundle of activities includes 6 “Word Labeling Machines” that will help students decide which part of speech a word is, so that they can work independently on even the most challenging of words! Using the “Wo

Are your new students lost? This EDITABLE ocean themed décor bundle will help your new students--especially ELLs--to easily learn your routines and to find their way around your classroom. With supporting visuals that illustrate each activity and classroom item, students will be able to quickly decode words--making this décor set both attractive and functional! The set includes all of the pieces you need: an illustrated daily schedule, calendar, table labels, name plates, message pennants, cursi