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The ORIGINAL Paragraph of the Week program on TpT! This daily, scaffolded approach to paragraph writing is perfect to help get your students writing good, solid, detailed paragraphs. Students will write one weekly paragraph, focusing on the organization and format of the paragraph itself. There are 36 weeks worth of writing prompts (plus 5 BONUS prompts) in this 258 page file. All of the prompts are student-centered so that they will not get bogged down on the topic but rather focus on

These two writing programs, which go hand in hand with each other, are the perfect companion to any writing program. First, the Paragraph of the Week helps students construct a clear, concise, and organized paragraph. Then, when your students are ready, you can transition them to the Essay of the Month, where they take the principles they learned in POTW and apply them to a 5 paragraph essay. Buying this bundle will save you $ off of the price of purchasing both programs separately. There is

The weeks leading up to winter break is the perfect time to work on literary devices/figurative language and a poetry unit. This Christmas Poet-Tree is just the thing you need get your students excited about these fabulous poetry devices while creating a fun craft fit for display! The students will learn about personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, simile, and metaphor. Each of these are used in poetry and add life to dull language. Students will be given examples of these

Teaching paragraph writing has never been easier! In this 8 LESSON Boot Camp, your students will learn the fine art of structured paragraph writing. Following the same format as the ORIGINAL Paragraph of the Week, students will be taught how to: Dissect a prompt Brainstorm Write details Explain those details Write topic and closing sentences Piece it all together Students will be guided step-by-step through the process of paragraph writing using practice printables, writing notebook inserts,

Essay Writing This daily, scaffolded approach to essay writing is perfect to help get your students writing good, solid, detailed 5 paragraph essays. Students will write one essay a school month (20 days), focusing on the organization and format of the essay itself. There are 20 separate writing prompts in this 300+ page file. Prompts cover the genres of: Personal Narrative Imaginative Narrative Informational Writing Opinion Writing All of the prompts are student-centered so that they will not

This Classroom Procedure Manual is the PERFECT addition to your classroom. It is my hope that by using this Classroom Procedure Manual, your students will become self-sufficient learners within the walls of your room. I have used this manual for 17 years now and find it invaluable to my classroom teaching. It truly helps set the tone for my year. This manual is meant for STUDENTS. This is not something to be sent home to parents to read about the classroom, rather it is intended for the stu

This daily, DIGITAL scaffolded approach to paragraph writing is perfect to help get your students writing good, solid, detailed paragraphs. Students will write one paragraph weekly, focusing on the organization and format of the paragraph itself. There are 36 weeks worth of writing prompts in this 200+ page file. The prompts are all housed on Google Slides and can be assigned to your students through Google Classroom. All of the prompts are student-centered so that they will not get bogged do

This recently updated classroom tested project will have your students learning a great deal of information about the peoples who inhabited the Americas before European exploration. This is a fully contained NO PREP project, meaning that you can copy it, hand it to the students, and they can run with it. I have assigned this as an at home project, and an in class project. Both times, I am incredibly impressed by the results. This project includes: * Explanation cover letter for students * R

The ORIGINAL Paragraph of the Week program on TpT! This daily, scaffolded approach to fictional narrative paragraph writing is perfect to help get your students writing good, solid, detailed FICTIONAL NARRATIVE paragraphs. Students will write one paragraph weekly, focusing on the organization and format of the paragraph itself. There are 12 weeks worth of writing prompts in this 77+ page file. The first 4 weeks are PICTURE prompts, where the students are given a picture and have to construct a

Make researching animal adaptations fun and engaging with this interdisciplinary project! This creative research project will have your students researching, writing, drawing, and creating all in one amazing digital display! This is something that I created to help students focus their research efforts on animal adaptations and record it in a clear, concise, and attractive manner, as well as practice their digital literacy skills. What you will find in this resource are five lesson plans to

Teaching about story plot has never been easier with this 5-day lesson plan! This standards-based (both CCSS and TEKS) interactive lesson study of the literary element of Plot will have your students learning about, discussing, and applying ideas about how plot works and is created in fiction throughout the course of five days. There are five engaging classroom-tested lesson plans that detail everything you will need to do, STEP-BY-STEP, to teach your students about Plot. There are also graph

Engage your students with open-ended, student-led passion projects where they can show off what they know about any given subject! This Teach Me Something project, which is perfect for Genius Hour or for when you want students to dive deeper into a subject, is a great way to get your students passionate about a subject without restricting them too much. Odds are, your students are very used to being told what to do every part of their day. When they are assigned a project, task, or other

This Calendar Math Starter Kit perfect DAILY scaffolded spiral review of all key 5th grade Common Core Math standards that will have your students begging for more! This is an entire manual that has been classroom tested and broken down so that you, the teacher, can successfully implement Calendar Math in your fifth grade classroom. This is something that I swear by in my own classroom. RECENTLY UPDATED FOREVER! This no longer has to be updated each year!!! This contains over 300 pages

Teaching STORY ELEMENTS in Fiction has never been easier than with these 5-day lesson plans! This is a BUNDLE of 6 week-long lesson study standards-based (both CCSS and TEKS) sets to teach fiction story elements of plot, character, setting, theme, conflict, and fictional narrative. These 6 individual literary element lesson packs will have your students learning about, discussing, and applying ideas throughout the course of five days (times 6...as there are 6 different lesson sets!) That is 3

Calendar Math is the perfect spiral review to get your students practicing all of the key Common Core math standards on a daily basis. This comprehensive pack contains over 300 pages to help you implement Calendar Math in your room. This kit includes: * Detailed descriptions of what Calendar Math is and looks like in the 4th grade classroom. * Pictures of actual Calendar Math boards with examples of problems to include in a 4th grade classroom. * A routine/procedure "script" to help you kno

A rigorous, scaffolded, clear cut biography report that will have your students researching and writing about the life of any person you choose! They will then culminate the biography with a fun project where they create a magazine on Google Slides or Power Point in the likeness of the biography subject! Your students will first go through the complete writing process, with a great deal of scaffolding found in the form of Prewriting Graphic Organizers. Students will write their rough draft,

Reading log without parent signatures! This eleven page Language Arts document allows the students to think about their nightly reading and respond in a meaningful way. No more "mom sign this" Reading Log. Students use comprehension strategies and graphic organizers to respond to their nightly reading...not just list a title and get a signature. Student are actively and meaningfully engaged in the recording of the books being read. This file contains 11 different logs that can be copied bac

Editable Paragraph of the Week Templates are the perfect add-on to your Original Paragraph of the Week program and the DIGITAL Paragraph of the Week program. Please be sure you have Power Point installed on your computer, as well as Kimberly Geswein's KG Blank Space Font. Using the same format at the original program, this template pack allows you to TYPE IN your own writing prompts while keeping the familiar style that the students are used to. This Add-on pack DOES NOT contain any writ

Make teaching fractions fun and engaging with this interdisciplinary Math and Art project! This exciting cross curricular project is the perfect way to get your students learning about basic fractions while applying those same concepts to their original artwork. Throughout this three lesson mini-unit of study (in which actual LESSON PLANS are included), the students will learn and practice the math skills of creating fractions on a fraction strip and then identifying them on a number line. They

Graphing ordered pairs on a coordinate grid meets early European explorers! This math-social studies cross-curricular activity will have your students learning how to graph ordered pairs on a coordinate grid. In doing so, they will also learn the exploration routes of many early European explorers. This three part lesson plan, designed to take approximately 2 days, will guide your students through the concept of plotting ordered pairs on coordinate grids. All ordered pairs and coordinate g