Active Learning Playbook

This is what you've been waiting for! The ENTIRE unit to launch your reader's workshop to help your students achieve agency and intellectual independence. There's no better way to start off your year. Set includes: Unit Overview with Essential Questions 19 FULL lessons with all mini lesson components (connection, teaching point, active engagement, link, mid-workshop teaching point and share) Sample process charts, anchor charts and notebook pages Lessons are inspired by Columbia's Teacher's C

60 Hand-drawn pages for practicing prewriting skills. This is a print + play packet with no prep required. Prewriting Skills- Horizontal Lines - Vertical Lines - Diagonal Lines - Round Lines - Irregular Lines Recommended Age: Preschool/Early Elementary Prewriting practice is a great before moving into learning letter formation. See more ideas for Active Learning Journals in my shop: - Playbook Visual Guide- Letters in Nature Playbook- My Letter Playbook- My Number Playbook- Name Journal Vi

Great activity for the beginning of the year! Help your students get to know each other while having a sweet treat. Print these cards on cardstock and laminate to use every year. Categories can be edited. Prints four per page. Clipart ©Sonya DeHart: http://www.sonyadehartdesign.com

VISUAL GUIDE: 126 color pictures of journal pages and inspiration to create your own Active Learning Journal! Finally, all the ideas you need in one user-friendly place. This guide will help you skillfully and intentionally customize learning activities, nurture individual needs and cultivate strong habits. See how to prep journal pages and what supplies you need to get started. Recommended age: preschool/early elementary Visual Guide Topics: - Getting Started - Name Pages - Prewriting Playbook

Excellent way to help your students not lose their reading log! These narrow logs fit into all chapter books perfect. Easy for students to record their most useful reading information. Great for Reader's Workshop and Teacher's College work!

I highly recommend reading through Calkins' units but they can be dense and time consuming. Here is the Narrative Craft Writing Unit broken down by each minilesson component with only ONE PAGE per lesson! It's the best writing unit to launch with. On each page you will find: Connection Teaching Point Active Engagement Link Conference Ideas Mid-Workshop Share Anchor Chart and Process Chart ideas This unit is written for Grade 5 Writer's Workshop but can be easily adapted for older or younger g

51 Hand-drawn pages for practicing number writing and number sense. This is a print + play packet with no prep required. My Number Playbook combines number formation, number sense, numbers in nature and numbers in fairy tales. Invite children to draw or color the number, count the number, and trace the number. Included are prewriting number activities, like candles in a cake for #1, and directed drawing (DD) steps that pair with a fairy tale. Recommended Age: Preschool/Early Elementary See more

This Visual Guide includes 36 examples of how to help your child identify, build and write their name in their Active Learning Journal or on a blank sheet of paper. Each page in the guide is filled with photographs and play-based activities to use as a reference when planning and prepping your journal. The Name Journal Visual Guide will help you skillfully and intentionally create pages to meet the individual needs of your child. Blank paper, markers, dot stickers and sticky notes are general su

Take a look at my schedule for the first two weeks of school. Includes character building activities, first mentor texts introduced, anchor charts, pictures and more. Great way to kickstart Reader's and Writer's Workshop and Teacher's College work!

112 Hand-drawn pages for practicing upper and lowercase letter formation. This is a print + play packet with no prep required. Included for every letter is prewriting practice, letter-sound review, nursery rhyme with letter sound, upper and lowercase letter formation practice, fingerprint drawing and a space for drawing a sound story. Recommended Age: Preschool/Early Elementary See more ideas for Active Learning Journals in my shop: - Playbook Visual Guide- Letters in Nature Playbook- My Prew

The first few weeks of school I always like to introduce my class to my favorite read alouds that will be our mentor texts throughout the year. At the same time I like to start building our classroom community, as well as start Reader's and Writer's Workshop. For the first time I correlated them all! Here is an overview of my first 10 days of school, PICTURES INCLUDED! Includes: - 10 Read alouds (I guarantee you already have in your library) - 10 Essential life lessons to be taught for beginni

Looking for a basic overview of what close reading is? Included are key points to get you started! If you've already started close reading, use this is a cheat sheet or quick reference guide to the four main lenses: -text evidence - word choice - structure - point of view Steps include -- Reading through a lens! Finding a pattern! Developing a new understanding!

Send students home with a specials schedule they can attach to their refrigerator! Add all of the important information families would need at their fingertips, like specials, snack time, emails, phone numbers, early dismissal times, etc. Editable schedule. Prints two per page. Print double-sided, laminate and add a magnet strip.

Includes 6 task cards with descriptions of each center, possible tasks and guiding questions: Revolutionary Women Cause/Effect Battles and Maps Compare/Contrast Perspectives Quote Analysis Image Analysis Great for Reader's Workshop, Writer's Workshop, Social Studies Centers and Teacher's College work!

Multiple question types - - true and false - multiple choice - open-ended response

There are SO MANY components to research projects and it's easy to lose what kids are working on during the process. Use this graphic organizer as a checklist to keep students focused and on task. This outline uses the Big 6 method but it's uploaded as a DOC so that you are able to edit it to fit your needs. Let me know if I can help make this organizer useful for you in any way!

This playbook combines letter formation practice with nature journaling. Included are 26 lowercase letter formation cards and 26 hand-drawn directed drawing pages. Recommended Age: Early Elementary See more ideas for Active Learning Journals in my shop: - Playbook Visual Guide- My Letter Playbook- My Prewriting Playbook- My Number Playbook- Name Journal Visual GuideThank you! Happy journaling!

Help students think, talk and jot about their reading with these sentence starters. Excellent for Reader's Workshop and Teacher's College work! I print and paste these into their reader's notebooks so that they can refer to them quickly and easily. Great for book club discussions, conferences, independent reading, notebook pages, etc. Excellent scaffold for the beginning of the year as students learn how to do the work required for their band of reading. Also a great tool as students move up l

Print these posters of the reading band characteristics for students to refer to as they think, talk and jot about their reading. Great for Reader's Workshop and Teacher's College work! Formatted in black and white so you can copy these pages on color paper. (In my classroom it was easy to have each reading band color coded. Leveling stickers corresponded with the colored posters.) Reading Bands: KLM NOPQ RST UVW XYZ

Print these cards and stick them in students' reader's notebooks, around your library, on index cards... any place students are talking! Great sentence starters to help students push each other's thinking and responding with evidence-based answers. Great for Reader's Workshop, Writer's Workshop and Teacher's College work!