Write to Understanding by Rebecca

This versatile resource offers the necessary scaffolding to help students write a Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning paragraph independently! 1. Save time as students can use the checklist to make certain they have included each of the necessary components for each part of the paragraph. 2. The sentence frames can be used to scaffold and differentiate for students needing support as they begin 3. Refer to the color-coded example from the commonly read text, The Hunger Games, to help student

Increase your students Lexile growth and reading comprehension by helping them track their progress in the Read180 program and set goals for their long-term success in the program! Use this chart to conference and monitor your students progress in the Read180 rotations: track their independent readingtheir progress in the student applicationtheir Lexile Growth! This resource can be adapted to have students track their own progress at the end of each testing cycle, teachers and coaches can confe

These Google slides contain activities for characterization, setting, plot, theme, vocabulary development, and more. With both Spanish and Chinese translations these can easily be used for an individual research project or group literature studies! Easily edit instructions or delete slides to meet student needs. Great activity for long-term subs!

Teach your students how to write a biographical essay with scaffolded support. Begin with sentences, paragraphs, and into a complete essay. Translated copies: EnglishSpanishChinese! Easy to use and editable google slide. Print them off and use as handouts, or upload to Google Classroom.

A quick and easy guide to One-Pagers. Use this at the end of a novel study, literature circles, or individual reading projects. Easy to use final project or substitute plan!

Help students easily identify character descriptors from positive, neutral, and negative using this color-coded chart! Learning can be scaffolded by directing students to a particular color or category, or you can guide students to identify whether the tone/mood seems positive, neutral, or negative. It can be easily printed and handed out as a class set, or edited to post on Google Classroom!

This reading log can be used for silent and independent reading, tracking a whole-class text, an entrance ticket to review the previous days reading, or an exit ticket to recount the days reading. Students in literature circles can work as a group to complete their reading logs and the teacher can track their progress by monitoring their group reading chart. The versatile resource can even be used in history and science classes to summarize the days lesson!