Michelle Smithers

A perfect introduction to your poetry unit! Engaging content with activities to help students identify figurative language in music lyrics! Contents: 1. Suggested Aims and Timelines 2. “I Lived” by OneRepublic Lyrics with Line Numbers 3. What does this song mean? Interpretation Page by Stanza 4. Identifying Figurative Language Practice 5. “I Lived” by OneRepublic Response 6. Music as Poetry Vocabulary PowerPoint 7. Music as Poetry Vocabulary Notes Licensed font: KG Miss Kindergarten by Kimbe

Great for use as classroom posters or anchor charts! Students often ask, "Do I underline, italicize, or use quotation marks to cite the title of a work?" These posters can be printed in black/white, grayscale, or color. You can also print them as posters by changing the size to 150%, 200%, etc. when choosing printing settings.

Pressed for time to update your classroom word wall? Simply use this template to copy/paste or type your vocabulary in, print, and cut! Each slide has room for two words. You may customize the font, text size, border, and colors of both text and border using the PowerPoint or Google Slides toolbar. Each slide also has a dotted line down the middle for easy cutting. I suggest printing on thick paper, laminating, and using a paper trimmer, such as one used for scrapbooking. Use for any grade or su

This literature circle packet features the following: -an attractive cover page -an introduction to literature circles with questions and answers regarding expectations -a list of procedures for students to follow during meetings -two blank sheets for each role (summarizer, word wizard, literary luminary, discussion director, and connector) Just print, copy, and give out! You can have students fill in the dates, chapters, and roles, or you can do this before you copy it. Also, you may want to

Use this "Summary Paragraph Template Model Texts" file to scaffold writing tasks in your classroom. Students can highlight to identify parts of a paragraph or sentence structures in Google Docs. You have have them grade the assignment as if they are the teacher. (I recommend changing some of the text and making some errors on purpose if you choose to do this!) Can be edited and adapted repeatedly! Great for use with Newsela, Scholastic Magazines, and news articles from any website. See my bundle

Use this "Summary Paragraph Template" to scaffold writing tasks in your classroom. Can be edited and adapted repeatedly! Great for use with Newsela, Scholastic Magazines, and news articles from any website. See my bundle for two pre-filled model texts!

Use this "Summary Paragraph Template Model Texts" file to scaffold writing tasks in your classroom. Students can highlight to identify parts of a paragraph or sentence structures in Google Docs. You have have them grade the assignment as if they are the teacher. (I recommend changing some of the text and making some errors on purpose if you choose to do this!) Can be edited and adapted repeatedly! Great for use with Newsela, Scholastic Magazines, and news articles from any website. See my bundle

This outline will help students who struggle to organize their thoughts with reader responses! Included is an example of how to fill out the outline and then an excellent reader response written off of the outline. A great mini-lesson idea would be to have students work backwards from the reader response and try to fill in where the information would go on the outline. It helps students see how the outline and final draft work together. Suggestion: Have this copied on brightly colored paper s

This is a word sort for the novel I Survived The Joplin Tornado by Lauren Tarshis. Have students cut out the words and glue them into the appropriate places on the table. There really are no right or wrong answers; the goal of the activity is to get students exposed to new vocabulary and help them make predictions. You may want to ask, "Why did you choose to put that word into that category?" At the end, there is a place for students to use the results of their word sort to predict what the nove

Includes 6 Posters: -There is definitely no "A" in definitely -The ellipsis. There are 3 dots. Not 15. Not 2. Just 3. -The semicolon. Not just for winky faces. -Their, there, they're -To, too, two -Your, you're, then, than Fonts and freeware licenses can be found here: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/special-elite http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Copystruct

This is the blank literature circle calendar for those who purchased my literature circle packet with role sheets for summarizer, word wizard, literary luminary, discussion director, and connector.

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This is the cover for my literature circle packet available for purchase in my store.