Erin Guge

Print and Digital! With free optional student instructional video lessons! This resource will help your students gradually learn how to use the RACE or RACES strategy for constructed responses to text dependent questions. The RACE(S) strategy is an acronym (Restate question, Answer the question, Cite text evidence, Explain the evidence, and optional Sum it up) that helps students structure their response to a question in a thoughtful, organized way that draws from the text. This resource incl

Print and Digital! With free optional student instructional video lessons! This bundle includes two RACE(S) products at a discounted price: RACE(S) Writing Strategy for Text Dependent Questions 2nd-3rd Grade and RACE(S) Writing Strategy All Year 2nd-3rd Grade! Please see the descriptions of each product below and the preview for a good look at the whole package! Purchasing this bundle will enable you to download the traditional PDF version of each resource to be printed as well as have acces

This mega bundle includes all my RACE resources at a discounted price: RACE Writing Strategy for Text Dependent Questions Grades K-1, RACE(S) Writing Strategy for Text Dependent Questions Grades 2-3, RACE(S) Writing Strategy All Year Grades 2-3, and Paired Passages Using the RACE(S) Writing Strategy Grades 3-4! Please see the descriptions of each product below and the preview for a good look at the whole package! Purchasing this bundle will enable you to download the traditional PDF version o

Print and Digital! With free optional student instructional video lessons! This bundle includes two RACE(S) resources at a discounted price: RACE(S) Writing Strategy for Text Dependent Questions and Paired Passages Using the RACE(S) Writing Strategy! Please see the descriptions of each product below and the preview for a good look at the whole package! Purchasing this bundle will enable you to download the traditional PDF version of each resource to be printed as well as have access to a dig

Print and Digital! This RACE (or RACES) writing strategy resource provides practice for written responses to text dependent questions! The RACE(S) strategy is an acronym (Restate question, Answer the question, Cite text evidence, Explain the evidence, and optional Sum it up) that helps students structure their response to a question in a thoughtful, organized way that draws from the text. This resource includes 36 passages (half fiction, half nonfiction) with a text-dependent question (a varie

A RACE strategy resource geared toward K-1st graders! This resource will gradually give your students (even pre-readers and writers!) exposure to and experience with answering text dependent questions using the RACE strategy. The RACE strategy is an acronym (Restate question, Answer the question, Cite text evidence, Explain the evidence) that helps students structure their response to a question in a thoughtful, organized way that draws from the text. This resource is differentiated with a l

Print and digital! With free optional student instructional video lessons! This resource will help your students learn how to navigate paired passages (also called paired texts or paired selections), making use of the RACE or RACES writing strategy. This resource gradually builds the concepts for comparing and contrasting two texts, first by using pictures and words, then very short passages, then longer passages. This helps our students build confidence and understanding of the process. Stu

Print and Digital! This product contains one page for each letter of the alphabet, and the letters progress in the order that they are introduced in the Jolly Phonics program. These pages contain short, simple tasks that help our little ones with letter recognition, letter formation, letter sounds, beginning sounds, and blending cvc words. The content on the pages is shifted over a bit so that the pages can be copied back-to-back, hole-punched, and look nice in a folder with clasps. An optional

Print and Digital! This bundle includes three phonics notebooks: 1.) Individual Letter Sounds; 2.) Two- and Three-Letter Consonant Blends; and 3.) Vowel Teams, Diphthongs, Digraphs, R-Controlled, and Silent/Magic E! Please see the descriptions of each product below and the preview for a good look at the whole package and how the pages are to be completed! For all of the notebook pages, the content is shifted over a bit so that the pages can be copied back-to-back, hole-punched, and look nice i

Print and Digital! With free optional student instructional video lessons! This four-day lesson plan with printables will have your students understanding and writing alliterative sentences, culminating in a fun Alliteration Pyramid Poem! The first two days include an introduction and practice with alliteration. Then the next two days focus on creating the poems. The printables have a completed sample (if needed), and note that a picture book is recommended to kick off one of the days (not inc

This bundle includes two RACE products at a discounted price: RACE Writing Strategy for Text Dependent Questions K-1st Grade and RACE(S) Writing Strategy for Text Dependent Questions 2nd-3rd Grade! Please see the descriptions of each product below and the preview for a good look at the whole package! Purchasing this bundle will enable you to download the traditional PDF version of each resource to be printed. You will also have access to a digital version to be used with Google Classroom™ or

Print and Digital! Such a unique and engaging novel study with an awesome final product! This study breaks the book into 13 sections of 2 chapters each, and each of the sections focuses on a reading strategy or skill. In the first version, student work is recorded on pieces of the covered wagon that will then be cut out and glued together at the end, to form a memorable final product (a covered wagon)! A second version is also included in case you prefer a booklet format (same reading strate

Print and Digital! With free optional student instructional video lessons! This three-day lesson plan with printables will have your students understanding and writing similes, culminating in a cute monster simile poem! The first day includes an introduction and practice with similes. Then the next two days focus on creating the poem. Each of the printables has an answer key/completed sample. The page used for students to plan their monster/poem comes in two different levels so you can choose

Print and Digital! Get maximum engagement with vocabulary words! These 16 activities (to use with any vocabulary list) are an effective way to increase understanding and retention of new words our students encounter! And it comes in 2 versions! The first version is for an Interactive Notebook. Student directions with sample pictures are included (half-sheet size that can be laminated and placed on a ring in a word work center, or can be placed on the front of file folders containing the activ

Print and Digital! This resource provides targeted practice for vowel teams, diphthongs, digraphs, r-controlled sounds, and silent/magic e! The sounds progress in the order of the Jolly Phonics program and also include the alternative spellings for the sounds (along with a few extra alternative spellings that I added!). There is one page per sound (39 total, see below), and the pages are filled with short, simple tasks that include recognizing the sounds orally, practicing the isolated sounds

This bundle includes two writing conventions resources (grammar, capitalization, punctuation) at a discounted price: 1.) Writing Conventions Resource Notebook in 2 Versions and 2.) Writing Conventions Posters and Cards. These two resources pair perfectly together, as each topic covered in the notebook has a corresponding poster and card! Please see the descriptions of each resource below as well as the preview for a closer look! 1. Writing Conventions Resource Notebook: Grammar, Capitalization

Print and Digital! These three types of List Poems (regular List Poem, Color List Poem, -ing Poem) are an engaging and purposeful way to incorporate poetry and develop fluent brainstorming and categorizing ideas! The List Poem can be used with just about any topic (student choice such as favorite activity or teacher assigned such as a season, holiday, recent field trip, recent special school event, science or social studies topic, a historical figure or famous person, a book, etc.). This can

Print and Digital! These 26 posters are a wonderful reference for introducing and practicing different types of writing ( opinion, personal narrative, fictional narrative, informative, research, how-to, friendly letter, and poetry). They contain a brief definition of each type of writing and a picture. Also included are posters with writing samples (for each type of writing) that can be displayed alongside the correlating type of writing poster (with matching border colors for easy identificat

Print and Digital! With free optional student instructional video lessons for the alliteration and simile resources! This bundle includes four poetry resources at a discounted price: 1.) Alliteration Pyramid Poem, 2.) Monster Simile Poem, 3.) Biographical and Autobiographical Poems, and 4.) List Poems (3 different kinds). Please see the descriptions of each resource below as well as the preview!Purchasing this bundle will enable you to download the traditional PDF version of each resource to

Print and Digital! These 14 posters are a wonderful reference for introducing and increasing understanding of nonfiction text features. They contain a brief definition and a helpful picture/example. Print, laminate, and display them! Small cards are also included (identical to the posters), which are helpful during guided reading, one-on-one, and independent reading. These can be laminated, cut out, hole-punched, and placed on a ring. Note: The posters are one full page each, and the cards are