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Need a fun, holiday-themed, content-reinforcing activity this Christmas season? Look no further! This activity utilizes the classic poem ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas and includes a student copy of the entire story and a page with explicit, step-by-step directions prompting students to analyze the story through annotation, emphasizing literary elements such as imagery, figurative language, rhyme scheme, vocabulary acquisition, and more.  The best part? You can print as is and leave for sub

It's 2026, and the research is out - good readers are made, not born! After reading (and annotating!) the article "What Research Tells Us About Reading, Comprehension, and Comprehension Instruction" by Reading Rockets (use AI to generate a student-friendly version), display this poster for your students to remember what reading strategies are appropriate to use and when. The poster was built on ideas from the article: https://www.readingrockets.org/topics/comprehension/articles/what-research-te

Teach students the difference between comet, asteroid, meteor, meteoroid, and meteorite with this interactive, teacher-led presentation and guided notes! As you facilitate the Google Slides presentation, students should complete the associated handout. Students get practice analyzing and interpreting charts and diagrams in the presentation and will label and complete a diagram template on the back of the handout. Finally, students apply their newfound knowledge by revisiting the video clip

Need a close read activity for your students to complete while reading the novel I Survived The Great Molasses Flood, 1919? This document is perfect for you! Seven questions further prompt readers to closely read the text, applying the skills of cause and effect, identifying text evidence, and employing the R.A.C.E. strategy! It also includes a scaffolded version for students needing additional support (or students at lower grade levels!) and an answer key. The question set corresponds to the t

Students are prompted to identify 8 different types of figurative language and explain the literal meaning of each, using context from th and the definition and example provided on the handout. This resource is adaptable to whatever text you are reading in class! You can even edit the document to suit your students' needs. Figurative Language Types Used: idiomsimilemetaphoronomatopoeiahyperboleironypersonificationimageryAfter using this resource, your students will better know how to apply figu

Use the attached packet to prepare your class for their student-led conferences! This document includes a sign-in sheet for parent/guardians, a checklist for students to use during their meeting, and a questionnaire for students to thoughtfully reflect on their learning. The file was designed with the use of data notebooks in mind, but you may easily edit out what does not apply to your class.

This chart aids teachers in documenting task completion behavior. Edit digitally or on paper to document how a specific student completes tasks in your classroom through a fidelity rating scale! You might choose to reward your student after he/she achieves so many points or if a certain number of tasks are completed to an acceptable rating; you may also choose never to show your student at all and simply provide this as a documentation of data in an RtI meeting or parent conference. This file

Increase scores in your middle school classroom by motivating students with Data Notebooks! Your kids will soon take ownership of their learning, challenging themselves to improve on any assessment type taken consistently throughout the year. Not only will they log scores in chronological order across assessment types, they will reflect on that score and set a goal for their next assessment. The document currently includes Star Scores (Star by Renaissance), Math Assessments (for midterm and quar

Need an engaging social studies lesson to inquire about the American flag? Look no further! This 2-day inquiry lesson facilitates student learning in an effort to help them better answer the essential question, "Does the United States flag represent our country well?" --- Open the lesson by posing this question to students, then having them complete a quickwrite with their prior knowledge. Then, direct students to rotate in centers, completing each activity in their notes handout packet which sh

Welcome your students and parents to a fantastic school year with this all-inclusive classroom management plan! Parents will know exactly what kind of environment their kids will enter into, and students will know what is expected of them, especially if you walk through this resource with your class at the beginning of the year. This file downloads as a totally customizable .docx that can be printed or shared digitally. COLLEGE STUDENTS: Have an end-of-semester final project for a classroom mana

Utilize the CRA model (Concrete-Representational-Abstract) to teach students how to create equivalent ratios! In this guided handout, students will create a ratio using foam tokens/counters (each has a red and yellow side), then will discover how equivalent ratios can (and cannot!) be created. Can you just multiply the numerator?Can you just multiply the denominator?Can you simply add or subtract the number of tokens in the ratio?As students model ratios with the manipulatives (concrete), they

Teach your students how to write in the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning format with these TWO posters! One poster gives a sample CER writing, and the other provides a definition for each element and several sentence frames. Print, laminate, then post these in your classroom for students to reference throughout the school year.

Students on a curriculum compacting plan can hold themselves accountable with this resource! In a calendar format, students will use the key to indicate what work they completed each day to serve as documentation and as a self-monitoring tool. A sample January 2024 template and completely blank template are included. The calendar is ready to be printed and placed in student folders or uploaded to your preferred digital classroom work management system (Google Classroom/Schoology/etc.). If you wo

Teaching the distributive property? Incorporate hands-on manipulatives in the form of array cards to provide students with concrete learning. Students match two small array cards to completely cover one large array, then record these dimensions on the recording sheet. Students will slowly move to an abstract understanding by connecting area to the distributive property. You can edit scaffolds in or out to differentiate the sheet for your students! BONUS: This resource also supports the skills o

Teaching students the concept of planetary gravity and orbits can be difficult to grasp, but not with this lesson! I highly recommend building one (or two!) spacetime models like the one in the "Gravity Visualized" video below for students to use in class. If not, they can just watch the video or simply answer the questions in the handout as an independent research activity. ENGAGE: Pose the questions, “What really is an orbit? Why don’t satellites drift away and why don’t they fall back down?”

Need a guided handout for a mini-lesson on simplifying fractions? This resource is perfect! Students learn of five strategies that can be used to simplify fractions. Each strategy comes with three practice problems, and there are 9 challenge exercises included at the end. Strategy descriptions/directions are attached, and important vocabulary is used (prime, factor, and simplify instead of reduce). Strengthen your students' skill ability so that they can move on to adding and subtracting fract

After teaching students how to find missing coordinates, length of lines, and area of polygons in the coordinate plane, assign this 5-question quiz to assess your class's formative data. Plus - Google Forms auto-scores this for you! For students needing accommodations, print it for them so that they are able to write on the graphs.

Facilitate a surface area discovery with this lesson plan and recording sheet! Supply your own real-world examples of rectangular prisms, and place them as centers in your classroom (don't forget to pre-measure the edge lengths - or don't!). Some boxes should be unfolded to represent a net. Student groups should work together to record their findings (length, width, height, surface area) in the attached recording sheet options. Accommodate your tier 3 students with the scaffolded version, and ch

Need to revamp your system for taking attendance and lunch count? This is the resource for you! Make a copy of the file, paste your class roster into the left column, and post the page somewhere in your classroom! By checking under the lunch choice they prefer that day, students have signed in to show their presence. These papers may also serve as physical documentation of attendance for possible future inquiries.

Strengthen the success of your next observation by displaying the 8 Mathematical Practice Standards in your classroom, just large enough for visibility/readability, but small enough to save space for other items.