Amy Ruffo

Get to know your new readers with this 2 page inventory. Find out how they view independent reading, what genres and topics they like, what they've been reading recently, and what they struggle with as a reader. Then refer back to these forms throughout the school year as you suggest new books for them to read independently and pick out books to use during guided reading. A great motivator!

This PowerPoint file is 8 weeks worth of writing prompts. It is intended to be used as a review of three types of writing: Persuasive, Informational, and Narrative, and to familiarize the students with deconstructing writing prompts using the RAFT strategy. After writing each day, you can then have the students share and discuss Golden Lines and Ideas from their writing. At any time you could stop and allow students to pick one of their rough drafts into a full paper. For Writing Journals: Pri

Included are 6 challenging square puzzles. Students are given the puzzle pieces and must solve the problems to match the pieces together. This makes for a great center activity! Simply cut and laminate the pieces for repeated use OR give the students a scrambled page for them to cut out and assemble. The 6 puzzles are: 1. Adding Fractions with Like Denominators 2. Adding Fractions with Unlike Denominators 3. Adding Fractions with Mixed Numbers 4. Subtracting Fractions with Like Denominators 5

This activity will have your students exploring perimeter and area of rectangles and squares while playing with Cheez-Its! What kid doesn't love a math activity involving food???

Coordinating, Subordinating, and Correlative Conjunctions One page for each type of conjunction. Use these as notes pages or blow them up and print on a poster maker for anchor charts for your classroom wall. The posters list examples of each type of conjunction and examples of how to use them in sentences. Note: The coordinating conjunctions just discuses compound sentences and not joining words or phrases.

Short Response Chapter Questions These chapter questions are a quick way to assess your students’ reading comprehension while reading Carolynn Reeder’s Shades of Gray. With each chapter only having 2-4 short response questions (no multiple choice or fill in the blank), they work great as a ticket out the door. The questions range in depths of knowledge with very few surface level questions. The majority require the students to analyze characters, their point of view, their motives, and their ch

Included are 6 challenging square puzzles. Students are given the puzzle pieces and must solve the problems to match the pieces together. This makes for a great center activity! Simply cut and laminate the pieces for repeated use OR give the students the scrambled puzzle pages to cut out and assemble. The 6 puzzles are: 1. Multiplying Fractions with Whole Numbers 2. Multiplying Fractions by Fractions 3. Multiplying Mixed Numbers 4. Dividing Fractions with Whole Numbers 5. Dividing Fractions b

In this file, you will find a poster, a graphic organizer, flashcards, and 6 quizzes over the 19 amendments covered in the 5th Grade Georgia Performance Standards for Social Studies. This file covers the following Amendments: Bill of Rights (1-10) 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 23, 24, 26 Activities Included: Graphic Organizer: Assign each student one of the 19 amendments. They will then write the amendment, paraphrase it in their own words, and draw a picture to correspond with it. These make wo

This is a compilation of all my Fraction Square Puzzles bundled together at a lower price than the cost of buying each individually. Included are all 16 puzzles! Students are given the puzzle pieces and must solve the problems to match the pieces together. This makes for a great center activity! Simply cut and laminate the pieces for repeated use or give the students a sheet of the scrambled puzzle pieces for them to cut and assemble. Also included is an optional answer sheet for students to rec

These challenging puzzles make for a great center activity! Included are 6 square puzzles. Students are given the puzzle pieces and must solve the problems to match the pieces together. Simply cut and laminate the pieces for repeated use OR give the students a scrambled page for them to cut out and assemble. Also included is an optional student recording sheet for students to use to show their work. Included in this product are completed and scrambled puzzles for each of the following: - Addi

This is the graphic organizer to a Halloween writing activity that has students creating their own monster and producing a descriptive informational writing with multiple paragraphs. For the activity, students draw their own monsters in secret being sure no one else sees what their monster looks like. After drawing, the students then write an informational paper about their monster using the attached graphic organizer to plan their writing. The main body of the paper will focus on being very d

Great display for classroom door or library. Signs point to famous settings in children's literature. Either cut out the individual pieces to create your own or just print out the whole picture. Looks great blown up on a poster maker! Literary Places Include: Camp Halfblood (Percy Jackson Series) Narnia (Lion, Witch and Wardrobe) Hogwarts (Harry Potter) Terabithia (Bridge to Terabithia) District 13 (Hunger Games) Klickitat Street (Ramona Series) Elsewhere (Giver) Blackbird Pond (Witch of Bl

Better document your students' progress in meeting the Common Core writing standards with these two forms. I keep these forms in my students' writing portfolios and use them during every writing conference. The first form is for taking notes during individual writing conferences. It includes space for notes on the current writing piece along with recording what skill you would like for the student to focus on improving in their next piece. This is great for differentiation as each student will

This packet will give you an alternative to the traditional reading logs. Independent Reading Letters offer rich, meaningful homework (or class work if you choose) that has students analyzing their independent reading at a much deeper level and citing textual evidence. Great for achieving those Common Core Standards! The reading letters require students to write a four paragraph letter to their teacher that goes beyond simply a summary of what they've read. Instead, the focus is on their think

Inspired by the classic game, Battleship, this is a partner game where students apply their knowledge of plotting points on the coordinate grid (all four quadrants). The students are trying to hit all of their opponent’s shapes by guessing at least one coordinate within or along the outline of the shape. The first one to hit all of their opponent’s shapes wins! Included are 20 different shape game boards and one blank game board for the players to record their hits and misses. Tip: Laminate

Students are challenged to match improper fractions to mixed numbers in these two square puzzles. They make a great center activity! Simply cut the squares apart and place at a center for your students or give them a scrambled page for them to cut out themselves. Laminate the puzzle pieces for repeat use or allow the students to glue their completed puzzles onto construction paper. Optional recording sheets for answers are included. ****Updated 10/19/14 with larger font, scrambled pages, and r

Included are two versions of this fun, superhero themed poster and in two different sizes for a total of four images. These are high resolution (300 ppi) images that look great printed at most any size. Print them out poster-size for a great door display, use them in your digital projects, or simply print to display in your classroom. Included: 1 "I Read. What's Your Superpower?" at a 2:3 crop ratio 1 "I Read. What's Your Superpower?" at a 4:5 crop ratio 1 "We Read. What's Your Superpower?" a

These two pages are for students to take notes over the main ideas of World War 1. They are sized so they can easily be cut out and placed in an interactive notebook.

This challenging puzzle is a fun way to practice contractions and is very easy to prepare. Simply give your students the puzzle pieces already cut up and challenge them to match up the contractions to create a square. Use this a center activity or even as a quick assessment.

Great Center Activity with built in self-checking! Students are given 16 small squares to match together by finding equivalent decimals and fractions. Once the puzzle pieces are matched together correctly, the students will have made a larger square. For repeated use, cut and laminate the pieces and have students record their answers on the included pages. For single use, simply cut the pieces and have students glue their final board onto construction paper. Included: 2 Decimals to Fractions