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

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

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

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!

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.

So many great ways to use this class list! - Checklist - Grading sheet - Record notes - etc.

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!

Record key information during guided reading groups.

My students wanted a rubric that assigned a letter grade so that they could get ready for the transition to middle school.

Keep track of the work students need to complete when they are absent. Record the work being missed as the day goes on. This coversheet can be completed and handed in with the work that was missed. This promotes a self-guided classroom! Clipart ©Sonya DeHart: http://www.sonyadehartdesign.com

Record all of your student data on this form, including common assessments, interventions, anecdotal notes, etc. Great to bring to parent conferences. Edit as needed!

Great note-taking sheet for conferences! Assign each student a number and record information throughout the week in each student's box. Cheat notes in the upper left-hand corner include: Types of Conferences - Check In, Compliment, Informal, Formal Conference Process - Research, Decide, Compliment, Teach One of the best tools in my toolkit!

Keep track of your weekly interventions with this easy-to-use log!

Like recording your guided reading data on labels? Print these out on shipping labels and stick them right into students' notebooks or your data book!