This Poetry Interactive Notebook is a companion to my TpT best seller, Interactive Reading Literature Notebooks. Do you dread teaching poetry? Do your students dread it even more? Spice things up this year with poetry activities and poetry lessons that are fun to teach and fun to learn. This resou

Use these 27 Figurative Language Task Cards and Google slides for ELA practice and enrichment. Seven types of figurative language are included: simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification, onomatopoeia, and alliteration. The tasks on these cards are designed to be done without extra help on

Replace that hum-drum reading log and Infuse new life into students’ independent reading, at school or at home, with the “Tower of Books” Challenge! Perfect for a summer reading challenge or an alternative to the stuck-in-a-rut reading log assignment. Printable and DIGITAL versions included!The chal

Add a little fun to ANY novel, play, short story, or history unit with this worksheet where students choose a character (or historic figure) and fill a fictional cell phone with email messages, playlist entries, and a wallpaper image.This PDF file and Google Drive version includes a blank form and a

I'm excited to offer my hand-drawn true type fonts for TpT Sellers & Digital Designers.Included in this ZIP file is:262 true type hand-drawn fonts (.ttf) Commercial Use Image (appreciated, but not required)Blog Image (appreciated, but not required)Character Font KeyAll Fonts At-A-Glance Font FAQ

Included in this TOP SELLING resource is a checklist of procedures to teach, in order to keep you organized throughout the year. This resource takes all of the guesswork out of your beginning of the year management plan. Simply take out this list, and teach each procedure based on your management

Add some creativity and customization to your students' desks using these cute, fun name tags!This product now contains two different styles of name tags. Scroll over the thumbnail images to check them out! These labels will fit inside the 9.8 inches (H) x 3.5 inches (W) pouches from Target. You can

Grab your detective hats and start the Clue-Searching fun! Research tells us that teaching vocabulary word by word doesn’t cut it anymore. In addition, state tests are becoming increasingly difficult for our students. We need to give our students strategies to determine unknown meanings. Using conte

A huge, 45 Page Elapsed Time Packet to meet common core standards AND differentiate for your students varying levels of understanding! *MASSIVE UPDATE! Now includes four sets of interactive Google Slides, totaling 99 Slides!Included in this product are:*99 Interactive Elapsed Time Google Slides to A

Perimeter and Area Math Project Engage your students with this 12 page, real-world Perimeter and Area Math Project! Your class will be masters at perimeter and area after they complete this project. Students will create and design many buildings and aspects in an imaginary city: from parks and re

A variety of over 50 frames, backgrounds and borders in many colors and themes for commercial use. This file will now be updated periodically with new free frames, backgrounds, & digital papers!! All images are in PNG format (translucent background) 300 DPI (Perfect resolution for printing and

Looking to organize your classroom library? This book spine label organizational system is the perfect way to keep your classroom library in alphabetical order! This product includes six different options to help keep your library organized! You need access to PowerPoint to use this product!OPTION 1

*Note* As of 12/10/2015, an additional Comprehension Companion Add-On Kit is available that aligns to this product. Sold separately HERE. **Note: This individual product is now available in this BUNDLE.** 60 Fluency Passages for 5th-12th Grade HERE. This product will help you progress monitor

Math Centers can be a nightmare unless you have a good management system. This board is now also available in my comprehensive new product: Guide to Organizing & Managing Math Workshop with Guided Math {eBook/Printables}165 Pages of Information and ResourcesWhile I stand behind all of my product

Growth Mindset Bulletin BoardGrowth mindset is one of my favorite things to teach my students in my classroom. This resource is perfect to accompany your growth mindset lessons. Included:Growth Mindset Bulletin Board Set-Poster that describes growth mindset for each letter of MINDSET & growth ti

Classroom Memes Posters, Teacher Memes: Your favorite teacher memes in higher-quality .png, .pdf, and .pptx files for printing and display. Editable and in letter (8.5 x 11), legal (8.5 x 14), and 10x14 sizes.NOW includes both an EDITABLE PDF and EDITABLE PPTX (Powerpoint) file, so you can customize

A bio poem is a simple poem written about a person, and it follows a predictable pattern. You can have students write Bio Poems about themselves, or they can write about famous historical figures, book characters, people they admire, and so on. This free poetry lesson includes directions, graphic or

"My students loved this resource! They've commented on how easy it is to understand sentence structure and writing paragraphs because of the lessons. They are now eager to write now vs. the groans and dread from just a few days ago. I highly recommend this resource!" This Step-By-Step SENTENCE ST

Engage your students with this digital and printable 15 page road trip themed back to school math project for upper elementary! It is FUN for students and you will get an excellent gauge of your students' math, problem solving, and critical thinking abilities!Students in upper elementary will warm

****This kit is now available as part of a money-saving BUNDLE! Check it out here (Click on the title): Save With A Bundle: Author's Purpose - All About PIE and Reader's Tool Box Get ready for the first day and week of school! Updated to include a fourth optional poster for Explain. See preview

Enrich your multiplying and dividing decimals unit with these fun and engaging resources! Students use fun and colorful menus to practice their multiplying and dividing decimals skills! You can use this math project as an independent project, homework, math centers, or even a final unit assessment

Comparing Texts on the Same Topic Task Cards includes 16 sets of paired passages (32 informational passages total) to help students compare texts on the same topic or event. Each card includes two passages with an overall main idea and also an individual focus to each passage.This product also incl

This bundle of activities focuses on identifying the main idea and supporting details of various reading passages. Several activities include test prep elements, because main idea questions tend to appear frequently on standardized tests. It is designed to teach upper elementary and middle school st

It's a TIME-SAVER, and it's EDITABLE! This is my absolute favorite management tool, and it has significantly cut down on the time it takes to prepare for a substitute, especially on days when I am basically keeling over! Having two surgeries in one school year forced me into a new system, and I am