Active Learning 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!

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.

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!

Help students build their discussions with these starter and builder sentence start prompts! Great for book clubs, partner work and grand conversations. The perfect tool for Reader's Workshop and Teacher's College work.

Use these form throughout the entire writing process! Record strengths, weaknesses, and notes to give students the specific feedback they need. Rubric included on the bottom to show students how the writing process leads to their overall grades.