Adrienne DeMarco

This is a smart board lesson that walks students through strategies to solve multistep word problems. The beginning focuses on real world situations and why our math needs to be reasonable. The presentation has 3 multistep word problems. There is an “I Do”, “We Do”, and a “You Do” problem. I had my students solve the group problem together on a large 4 square mat. Here each student used an algorithm and strategies that worked BEST for them. They then rotated around the mat and gathered str

This is a flipbook of the landforms in NYS (can be edited). It includes a box to write a description and a box to draw an illustration. The landforms include; mountains, plateau, valleys, drumlins, and moraines.

Students can use this checklist to edit and revise their peer's persuasive essay. The checklist focuses on strong topic sentences and conclusions, using text based evidence to support your claim, as well as spelling, punctuation, and grammar mistakes. At the end, they can leave the peer star and a wish. The star represents what they really liked about their essay and the wish is for what they would like them to do to make their writing stronger.

This is a smart board lesson to help kids’ understand how to convert metric units of measurement. There is the conversion chart and an arm trick to help them know whether to multiply or divide. There are practice problems too.

This lesson takes your students, step-by-step through how the character changes. Students look back in the text and search for the BEST evidence to support how the character was feeling in the beginning, turning point, and how they changed at the end. -Bell Ringer: Character Traits -Objectives as I Can statements -Modeling -Collaborative Discussion -Independent Work -Pocket chart organizer -Closure: Did we...statements -Exit Ticket

Do you want to add some excitement to grading text responses? After reading a passage and writing a short and/or extended response my students usually meet in read-around groups. Then they read each other’s passages and score them with kid-friendly rubrics. Well, they are burnt out from this. That is why I created this. This is a game, as well as, scoring responses lesson. They will get points for parts of their writing. These areas include; a claim, text evidence, prompts, and elaboratio

Here is a colorful, valuable resource for their math folders. My students keep this taped in their notebooks or folders and refer to it when solving those TOUGH multi-step word problems. In order to solve they need to remember the colors of a rainbow: ROY-G-BV. Each color stands for a step they will take to solve the problem. For example, RED: Who is the character? ORANGE: What is their problem? YELLOW: What do you know? Make a chart for this information. GREEN: How will you solve? Wha

This is a fun way for kids to practice their spelling words and use their creativity! They write their words in three different ways. They can write them curly, rainbow colors, block letter, bubble letters, with dots, or however they choose.

This is a weekly form that students use to keep track of their independent reading work tasks. There are boxes for 4 different centers/stations/targets (whatever you call them). There are sections for the individual objectives/I can statements for the following targets; independent reading, content vocabulary, close reading in a content area, guided reading. As they complete each target they shade in the star to indicate they finished the task.

Here is an integrated spelling activity. Here students are required to tell the fraction of vowels and consonants in each of their spelling words. This is a fun and unique way to practice spelling words.

This is a handout I give to my students. They keep it in their reading folders or notebooks. We refer to it often throughout the year to remind ourselves of what close readers do.

This is a grade sheet, not a rubric. I have found it allows me to identify much more precisely whether or not a student has done certain skills accurately or not when responding to reading. I have weighted the criteria differently based on what is most important. For example, answering the question with the correct text evidence is weighted much more than whether or not they started a sentence with a capital letter. It is very kid-friendly. I often give my students a copy of this grade shee

This is the form I use each week to assess spelling. I use this one form for every level. There are sections for pattern words, NO EXCUSE words, and content words. Then there is a section where the students are to use some NO EXCUSE words and pattern words and use them in complete sentences. This is a good way to assess whether they are using the words correctly and applying the pattern for spelling words in their writing. I can also check for proper sentence structure and punctuation.

This is a fun way for kids to practice their spelling words and use their creativity! They write their words in three different ways. They can write them curly, rainbow colors, block letter, bubble letters, with dots, or however they choose.

Students fill in the squares with their spelling words and then fill in the blank squares with random letter. They can then trade with a friend and search for each other's words.