Jamie Rector

The Mouse and the Motorcycle is certainly a hit in any elementary classroom! This novel study pack is loaded with fun! It is Common Core-Aligned for Grades 2-4 and is sure to be a hit with your students! Included in this 62-Page Novel Study: Comprehension Questions for Each Chapter (13 in all)An Activity for Each Chapter (13 in all)A Complete Vocabulary Study (over 70 words and graphic organizer)A Mouse Craftivity for Student Work Display/Bulletin BoardAnswer KeyPlease check out the Preview to s

This product is a bundle of my Monthly Common Core Writing Activities for Grades 1-4. Each of the Writing Units offer practice with all 3 types of Common Core Writing: Opinion, Informative/Explanatory, Narrative, PLUS Shared Research Writing (also in the Common Core Writing Standards and often overlooked). Your students can write one piece per week OR you can pick and choose writing pieces based on your students' needs or, even better, let the students choose! These activities will not "teach"

If you need a fun way to teach the Common Core Standards for English-Language Arts, this fairy tale unit is for you! Through reading, writing, and higher order thinking, you and your students will work your way through ten 2nd Grade Common Core Standards using 25 different activities! The students will write newspaper articles, create posters, publish invitations, write police reports, and more! After reading the fairy tales and fractured fairy tales, students will create their own fractured fai

This product is a bundle of my Monthly Common Core Writing Activities for Grades 1-4. Each of the Writing Units offer practice with all 3 types of Common Core Writing: Opinion, Informative/Explanatory, Narrative, PLUS Shared Research Writing (also in the Common Core Writing Standards and often overlooked). Your students can write one piece per week OR you can pick and choose writing pieces based on your students' needs or, even better, let the students choose! These activities will not "teach"

Are you teaching adverbs? If so, this is the perfect mini-unit for you! This unit is aligned to the 2nd grade and 3rd grade common core standards. It includes hands-on, engaging activities that are perfect for whole group, small group, or centers! This download contains the following: anchor chart and student printablesadverbs board game and recording sheetadjective and adverb word sortadverb cut and paste activityadverb acting gameYou might also be interested in:Informative Writing UnitOpinion

If you liked my Common Core Graphic Organizers for 1st, 2nd, or 3rd Grades, you'll love my 4th Grade Edition! I have dissected the standards and created a resource that is perfect for assessing your students in reading! The graphic organizers included in this packet will provide formative assessments that are an easy form of documentation for mastery of the Common Core Standards. Each graphic organizer highlights the specific vocabulary from the standard and some standards even have up to 4 diff

Need a Narrative Writing Unit that will save you TONS of time lesson planning, prepping, and teaching? Then this unit is for YOU! This easy-to-implement Narrative Writing Unit includes the following: standards-based, detailed lesson planspre-made anchor charts in full color and black & whitegraphic organizers and student printables (can be printed at 80% for interactive notebooks)teacher examplesmentor text suggestionspublishing papersDownload the Preview File to see all that's included! You mig

Looking for writing units that will save you TONS of time lesson planning, prepping, and teaching? Then this bundle is for YOU! This easy-to-implement Writing Bundle includes 3 units (narrative, informative, and opinion) with the following: standards-based, detailed lesson planspre-made anchor charts in full color and black & whitegraphic organizers and student printables (can be printed at 80% for interactive notebooks)teacher examplesmentor text suggestionspublishing papers...and more!Guide yo

This FREE download contains a Noun, Verb, and Adjective Sort with a sorting mat, 24 word cards to sort, and a recording sheet. I hope your kids enjoy practicing with nouns, verbs, and adjectives! You might also be interested in:Informative Writing UnitOpinion Writing UnitNarrative Writing UnitPerfect Paragraphs One Step at a TimeAdvanced Perfect Paragraphs One Step at a TimeCommon Core Writing Activities (monthly writing centers)Interested in a COMPLETE SYSTEM for assessing students in reading

Use this FREE printable as morning work or however it suits your needs. The top half will accompany your study of the calendar each day. The number of the day is the number of days we have been in school, then we write that number multiple ways. You could also just choose a random number. The bottom half can be used as a Daily Fix It or DOL. I write two sentences incorrectly on the board (capitalization, punctuation, spelling, or usage errors). The students write the two sentences correctly on t

By request, I have created Common Core Writing Rubrics based specifically on the language used in the Common Core Standards to assess the students in their writing. I have included a rubric for each grade level (Grades 1-4) in each of the 3 types of Common Core Writing: Opinion, Informative/Explanatory, and Narrative Writing. You can use this as a self-assessment for the students or as a teacher assessment guide. This is the perfect companion to my Common Core Writing Bundles #1 and #2. They

This product was designed to give students an opportunity to practice all 3 types of Common Core Writing: Opinion, Informative/Explanatory, Narrative, PLUS Shared Research Writing (also in the Common Core Writing Standards and often overlooked). Your students can write one piece per week OR you can pick and choose writing pieces based on your students' needs or, even better, let the students choose! These activities will not "teach" the types of writing, but will merely give the students practi

This product was designed to give students an opportunity to practice all 3 types of Common Core Writing: Opinion, Informative/Explanatory, Narrative, PLUS Shared Research Writing (also in the Common Core Writing Standards and often overlooked). Your students can write one piece per week OR you can pick and choose writing pieces based on your students' needs or, even better, let the students choose! These activities will not "teach" the types of writing, but will merely give the students practi

This product was designed to give students an opportunity to practice all 3 types of Common Core Writing: Opinion, Informative/Explanatory, Narrative, PLUS Shared Research Writing (also in the Common Core Writing Standards and often overlooked). Your students can write one piece per week OR you can pick and choose writing pieces based on your students' needs or, even better, let the students choose! These activities will not "teach" the types of writing, but will merely give the students practi

This WRITING MEGA BUNDLE includes everything you need to teach writing - complete writing units for each genre of writing, monthly writing activities to use in centers, and paragraph writing practice across content areas. Narrative, Opinion, and Informative Writing Units:standards-based, detailed lesson planspre-made anchor charts in full color and black & whitegraphic organizers and student printables (can be printed at 80% for interactive notebooks)teacher examplesmentor text suggestionspubli

Need an Informative Writing Unit that will save you TONS of time lesson planning, prepping, and teaching? Then this unit is for YOU! This easy-to-implement Informative Writing Unit includes the following: standards-based, detailed lesson planspre-made anchor charts in full color and black & whitegraphic organizers and student printables (can be printed at 80% for interactive notebooks)teacher examplesmentor text suggestionspublishing papersDownload the Preview File to see all that's included! Yo

This product was designed to give students an opportunity to practice all 3 types of Common Core Writing: Opinion, Informative/Explanatory, Narrative, PLUS Shared Research Writing (also in the Common Core Writing Standards and often overlooked). Your students can write one piece per week OR you can pick and choose writing pieces based on your students' needs or, even better, let the students choose! These activities will not "teach" the types of writing, but will merely give the students practi

This BUNDLE of ADVANCED Perfect Paragraphs will give you a 20% savings! This product is the ADVANCED version of Perfect Paragraphs and is designed to help students write perfect paragraphs with EIGHT main parts: an introduction, three details or reasons, three examples to support those details or reasons, and a closing statement. The students are asked to complete the parts in a step-by-step approach in a logical order that makes sense and is easy for students to grasp. They will also review

Need an Opinion Writing Unit that will save you TONS of time lesson planning, prepping, and teaching? Then this unit is for YOU! At the end of this unit, your students will have a Persuasive Letter published and ready to share their opinion with others. This easy-to-implement Opinion Writing Unit includes the following: standards-based, detailed lesson planspre-made anchor charts in full color and black & whitegraphic organizers and student printables (can be printed at 80% for interactive noteb

Want a fun, engaging way to integrate technology into your classroom? If you have access to at least one iPod Touch, iPhone, or iPad with camera capabilities, all you have to do is download a free QR Code Reader app and you instantly have a self-checking center activity that will be tons of fun for your students! This product contains the following: Set 1: Addition Without Regrouping (8 task cards)Set 2: Subtraction Without Regrouping (8 task cards)Set 3: Addition WITH Regrouping (8 task cards)S