Nicholas Reitz

The favorite family game has been altered to be played so that kids can practice their multiplication fact fluency! These sheets can be printed and laminated for permanent use. Perfect for partners to play during a Math Workshop.

This 174 page novel study unit on Wonder by R.J. Palacio contains: List of Chapter Titles organized by Part 1-8 Book Part Teacher Cheat Sheets • Vocabulary for book part • Strategies to Focus On Chapter-related Activities • Vocabulary for each chapter • Important Events of each chapter • Comprehension + Inferring Questions for each chapter • Use of Figurative Language in chapters when used • Over 20 additional extension ideas, some chapter specific and some for the book in general Character

The Invention of Hugo Cabret is an amazing choice for delving deeply into literature with your kids. This Caldecott Award winning book is written and illustrated in a unique style and is full of excellent opportunities to study author's craft, figurative language, cause and effect, and inferential thinking. This novel study unit for The Invention of Hugo Cabret includes: 30 pages of chapter breakdowns 7 activity lapbook pages Unique vocabulary sheets Assessment task cards Plot Graphic Organize

The One and Only Ivan is an excellent choice for delving deeply into literature with your kids. This Newberry Award winning book is written in a unique style and is full of excellent opportunities to study author's craft, figurative language, cause and effect, and inferential thinking. This novel study unit for The One and Only Ivan includes: 32 pages of chapter breakdowns 13 activity lapbook Unique vocabulary sheets Pre-reading and assessment task cards Figurative Language Game Plot Graphic O

This brochure activity can serve as a great mini-research activity for kids to do as part of a unit on astronomy, or as an enrichment activity. Students are asked to research a planet in our solar system, and illustrate and fill in various pieces of information on the brochure. This project can easily be adapted for kids in grades 2-5 by adjusting your expectations for the amount of writing and specific levels of detail given by the students. Brochure template, an example of student work, and i

This pack contains directions, fake blank checks, and record keeping sheets for a great project for your math students. Students are tasked with spending a million dollars. They are required to buy a house, a vehicle, and a college education. Students research those required purchases, along with other luxury items, until they've spent every dime! This project based learning activity helps students understand the value of money, place value to a million, and addition and subtraction of large

This novel study unit and set of activities is perfect for using with the short novel Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr. This packet includes several unique activities. Table of Contents: Book Part Teacher Cheat Sheets • Vocabulary for each chapter • Strategies to focus on Chapter-related Activities • Vocabulary • Important Events of Chapter • Comprehension + Inferring Questions • Use of cultural references in chapter • Extension ideas for each chapter Directions for wri

One of my opening week activities is to have my kids fill out this Reading Interest Inventory (usually while kids are taking turns doing their first book shopping) to learn a bit about their tastes and habits. Every time one of my students completes a chapter book, I ask them to fill out one of these simple, but engaging, book reviews. It helps assess a few areas quickly. Do they know the genre? Can they visualize a scene from the book? Are they able to give a brief summary? ****************

This is a multi-faceted project based learning project that has the students simulate building a large garden/small farmlet, harvest produce and honey, rent space at a farmer's market, purchase ad space, and eventually sell their products. It takes the students through all of the steps, and can be worked on individually as an extension exercise or as a whole class to add interest to your math workshop. The level of difficulty can be adjusted by allowing students to use calculators, or by asking

This product contains student sheets for writing their own scripts to be used for Readers' Theater. Three varieties of the script writing pages are included, as well as options for the story summary and a page for character descriptions that can be used to assign roles to classmates.

This is a fun way to practice placing fractions, decimals, and percentages on a number line! Students will practice this skill by hanging up some laundry to dry. Practice with just one of the skills at a time, or add rigor by mixing the laundry up! Perfect for a guided or an independent math center for your math workshop!

This is a 36 page novel unit to accompany the companion novel to Wonder, title The Julian Chapters by RJ Palacio. This story tells the events that occur during and following the book Wonder from Julian's perspective! This is a wonderful story of growth, change, and redemption. The unit includes: Chapter Break Downs • Vocabulary for each chapter • Important Events of each chapter • Comprehension + Inferring Questions for each chapter • Use of Figurative Language in chapters when used Seven a

This is a set of 30 task cards to help kids practice measuring angles between 0 and 180 degrees with a protractor. A student recording sheet, teacher answer key, and directions are also included.

These cards can be used to randomly group your students. No more fighting or hurt feelings over grouping! Quickly match kids up for games, activities, and projects! Just print and laminate each deck. Shuffle the cards and have each student choose a card from the deck that matches the size group you want to form. They are partnered with their set! Includes: • 30 partner cards (make 15 groups of 2) • 30 triad cards (make 10 groups of 3) • 32 4-person group cards (make 8 groups of 4) • 30 6-per

When studying energy or simple machines, having kids make their own Rube Goldberg Machine can be an engaging, and memorable experience that solidifies understanding. A planning sheet, suggested materials list, and student material request sheets are included.

This is a lapbook set that includes materials to construct a lapbook about the 11 human body systems, cells and homeostasis. I've also included a list of the systems and their major organs. I have my students set up a KLEW chart inside each flap of the book. The black and white clip art is perfect for coloring in after completing your study of each system. ***************************************************************************** You May Also Like: Jeopardy Template - Blank Rube Goldbe

Every Jeopardy template I could find online just wasn't quite right for me. So I finally made my own. This template could be used as it is once questions are added, but is completely customizable and can be filled with 6 categories of your own choosing with 5 questions in each category. There is also one Daily Double, and Final Jeopardy. Unlimited personal use! If you plan to make this into a commercial product, please link to my TpT store and give credit.

This pack allows you to print a book of 45 engaging activities for kids to use as brain breaks, during indoor recess, or when they are fast finishers! The activities are highly engaging, call upon students' creativity, and have educational value while seeming like simple fun. This book could be kept in students' desks or mailboxes until they finish work early, or pulled out whenever the teacher feels the class needs a brain break! Purposefully created so that kids of all ages can complete the

This brochure activity can serve as a great mini-research activity for kids to do as part of a unit on any important historical figure, or as an enrichment activity. Students are asked to research an important figure, and illustrate and fill in various pieces of information on the brochure. This project can easily be adapted for kids in grades 2-5 by adjusting your expectations for the amount of writing and specific levels of detail given by the students. Famous Women, Black History Month, Auth

This set of 25 Multiplication and Division Word Problems with Too Much Information Task Cards are perfect to have kids practice looking through a word problem to find the relevant info for solving the problem. A student recording sheet and answer key are also included. Ever have kids that just see the two numbers in a problem, know you're studying multiplication, so they skip reading it carefully? The mix of operations and the addition of one extra number in these word problems is perfect to c