Raise the Rigor

A New Way to Help Your Students Build Great Paragraphs A new way to help your students write great paragraphs. The key to writing strong, interesting writing is the details. This model helps your student write a paragraph that will blow you and everyone else away. With the new Smarter Balanced Assessments coming, your students will need to be able to write clear explanations. This writing model provides a writing structure that leads to clear, strong writing. This model is classroom, studen

Help your Students Write Answers to Math Constructed Response Questions A concrete model to teach your students to write answers to explain their thinking in math and constructed response questions in math This model is classroom developed and student tested. Designed for grades 3-6 but can easily be used with middle school students who need more support in writing about math. For a better deal check out this bundle Common Core Writing Tool Growing Bundle. ********************************

A ink-saving poster set with all 11 of the Depth and Complexity Icons and the 5 Content Imperative Icons. Susan Kaplan's Depth and Complexity icons are great way to get your students thinking critically in all subject areas. Each poster shows the icon/ visual, the name of the icon and some word clues to the thinking involved.The posters are 2-a-page. These would be great for display in a center or small group area. They would also be great to print on card stock, laminate and attach with binde

Now differentiated for students at the 2nd- 8th grade level A new way to help your students learn to write strong, detailed paragraphs. The key to writing strong, interesting writing is the details. This model helps your student write a paragraph that will blow you and everyone else away. With the new Smarter Balanced Assessments coming, your students will need to be able to write clear explanations. This writing model provides a writing structure that leads to clear, strong writing. This m

A colorful poster set with all 11 of the Depth and Complexity Icons and the 5 Content Imperative Icons with labels. Great for upper elementary and middle school with clip art that students can identify with. The student on each poster explains the meaning of the icon in a meaningful way. Susan Kaplan's Depth and Complexity Icons are a tool to increase critical thinking in students. I have recently discovered Depth and Complexity Icons and love using them in my classroom with both my gifted

A Task Card Set with 5 Different Games This practice set includes multiple games to practice writing and evaluating expressions. If your students are like mine this requires lots of practice throughout the year to master. I think it is an essential skill to be prepared for the math and middle school. ***************************************************************************** What You Get * Five different games with Student Direction Cards and Matching Answer Sheets. * Mix of whole group,

Higher Order Thinking Task Cards Newly update with new graphics: This is a set of critical thinking task cards. Students are required to analyze a traditional algorithm multiplication problem to find the single error. Students are then required to use their math knowledge and vocabulary to describe the problem. Then students write an extended response to help fix the error. The task cards in this packet can be used in a variety of ways in the classroom: individual work stations, partner/ gro

Help your Students Write Answers to Constructed Response Questions A concrete model to teach your students to write answers to constructed response questions. This model is classroom developed and student test. Uses the R.A.C.E. acronym to help students develop the answer. R- Restate the question A- Answer the question C- Cite evidence E- Explain evidence Designed for grades 3-6 but can easily be used with middle school students who need more support in answ

On sale for half price! Get it before the price goes up. A New Way to Help Your Students Build Great Paragraphs The original designed for students grades 4-6 (and all middle school levels). A new way to help your students write great paragraphs. The key to writing strong, interesting writing is the details. This model helps your student write a paragraph that will blow you and everyone else away. With the new Smarter Balanced Assessments coming, your students will need to be able to write

Get it while it is on sale! 30 Task Card Set Task cards designed to get students really thinking about adding and subtracting 3 digit numbers. Students will use their critical thinking skills to determine if each equation/ number sentence is true or false. Based on sample test questions and information released by Smart Balanced Assessments, students will be required to answer multiple choice questions that require higher order thinking like these on the new standardized testing coming in 2

A Complete Unit Plan with 5 Lessons Get a complete 5 lesson unit to teach Decimal Place Value with the models and thinking required by Common Core. Engage your students with interactive foldable activities, integrate technology into your lessons and deepen your students’ knowledge of topics using writing to explain prompts! At least 5 days of instruction (probably 7-8). Get your students really thinking about math and place value with higher order thinking skills. Aligned with Common Core Sta

A Critical Thinking Task Card Set for writing algebraic expression and problem solving with multiplying and dividing. Having students write algebraic expressions from problem solving/ real life mathematical situations not only practices problem solving skills in elementary school, but also helps students learn the algebraic thinking that will be required in math through middle school, high school and even college ( and real life!) This packet includes 12 real life situations that can be expres

USE ALL YEAR Help your Students Write Answers to Constructed Response Questions A concrete model to teach your students to write answers to constructed response questions. This model is classroom developed and student test. Uses the R.A.I.S.E acronym to help students develop the answer. Designed for grades 3-6 but can easily be used with middle school students who need more support in answering constructed response questions. The model can be used to write constructed response answers in

strong>Save money- If you bought each product it would be $32 A Growing Bundle of Common Core Writing Tools Newly updated with updated products. Preview will be updated soon. Get it now before the price goes up! A mega bundle of tools to teach writing in a common core classroom. This bundle includes a differentiated unit on writing better paragraphs, a unit on writing answers to constructed response questions and a unit on writing about math. This is over 500 pages of unique content. T

A Critical Thinking Task Card Set for writing algebraic expressions. A sampler pack of other products in this series. All of these problems are unique but show the set up and quality of problems in this series. This is a set of 12 task cards that require students to write expressions based on real-life engaging word problems. Most of the word problems require multi-step expressions. This set of task cards raises the rigor required in writing expressions. **********************************

Now with Photo Guide to each lesson! Interactive Notes are popping up all over the place now. What makes this Interactive Notes unit different? Higher order thinking! For each lesson students self assess their knowledge on the topic prior to the lesson, then use the interactive parts to learn the meat of the lesson, and finally apply their knowledge to write to explain in the W.A.M. section. Each lesson includes: *A pre-lesson self evacuation and a post lesson self-evaluation. *An "I can" stat

A Freebie Check out my Interactive Notes by downloading this free sample! This is a complete lesson to use your classroom on writing decimals in expanded form using fractions and decimals. ***************************************************************************** What You Get A complete lesson with: • “I can” statement written in child friendly language • Foldable activity for Interactive Notebook • Self-rating scale for students to self-assess their knowledge • Detailed directions to use

30 Critical Thinking Task Card Set Task cards designed to get students to use higher order thinking about multiplying with multiples of 10 and the mental math involved. Students will use their critical thinking skills and mental math skills to determine if each equation/ number sentence is true or false. Since there are multiple answer sheets, students can use the task card set multiple times throughout the year to practice. Designed for grades 3-4 but would be a great extension activity for

A Great Way to Teach Grammar Skills A week long lesson plan to introduce and teach the basics of compound sentences. Using a compound sentence from Charlotte's Web by E.B. White as a mentor or example sentences students learn the basics of compound sentences. Grammar lessons for a whole week including an assessment. Download this free sample to see how my mentor sentence units work. Each unit includes materials for a week long unit. All of my mentor sentences use this format. If you like t

Clip art for the Depth and Complexity Icons and the Content Imperative Icons. 96 png images in package. Only for personal use.