Anne Blaylock

This interactive journal is the perfect way to engage students in reading the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan. Students are asked to draw 3 settings and provide a written description of each using text evidence. They are asked to draw and describe a number of characters including Esperanza, Mama, Miguel, the Tios, Isabel and Marta. Finally students are asked to respond to two reading reflection questions using higher order thinking. This is a great project to leave for students when with

Are you looking for a fun way for students to learn about the different regions of the United States? Try having students make a travel brochure! Students are asked to complete a list of the states in the region, the landforms, climate, natural resources, and landmarks that make the region unique. This brochure is in ENGLISH. Check out my other listing for the Spanish version. Perfect for homeschool or homework. Make sure to print or copy on BOTH sides of the paper to create your brochure. Rub

This product includes everything you need to engage your students in a research project celebrating their cultural heritage. Included are a bilingual (English/Spanish) home-school connection for students to fill out with their family members to get information about their family's immigration history to the United States, a note taking form (one in English, one in Spanish) and a rubric. Also included is a completed sample. This is a fantastic project for students to learn about their own fami

Are you looking for a fun way for students to learn about the different regions of the United States? Try having students make a travel brochure! Students are asked to complete a list of the states in the region, the landforms, climate, natural resources, and landmarks that make the region unique. This brochure is in SPANISH and is ideal for the Spanish Language classroom or a Spanish Dual Language classroom. Perfect for homeschool or homework. Make sure to print or copy on BOTH sides of th

Este producto, El folleto turístico: Países del mundo, es parecido a mi producto, El folleto turístico regiones de los estados unidos. Este producto requiere que estudiantes investiguen (con un formulario para tomar notas incluido) un país y luego presentar la información en este folleto. Este recurso utiliza frases para completar y espacio para añadir dibujos. La información cubierta incluye la ubicación, incluyendo el hemisferio y el continente, los recursos naturales, características físicas,

This product is a great way for students to learn about different regions of the US. In small groups students become experts on 1 of 4 regions. A fifth region is included as a model to use with the whole class. Each group of students will learn about the states that make up the region, landmarks, landforms, resources and climate. This product can be used in conjunction with the “Folleto turístico de las regions de los estados unidos” or the “US Regions Travel Brochure” both available from my sto

¿Buscas una manera creativa para integrar las ciencias naturales con la lecto-escritura? Este producto es para ti. Este producto presenta 4 insectos diferentes (las polillas, las mariquitas, las abejas, y las hormigas). Estudiantes se convertirán en expertos de una clase de insecto y luego compartirán su conocimiento con otros estudiantes. Este producto está disponible en español y en inglés e incluye instrucciones detalladas para su uso. Tarda más o menos 2 semanas para enseñar los cuatro grupo

Figurative language is a hard concept to teach and yet it's one of our CCSS! Lucky for us, Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan is FULL of meaningful figurative quotes that we can leverage. This lesson plan and graphic organizer will help you teach your students HOW to recognize figurative language and to INTERPRET it to gain a much deeper meaning of the text they're reading. When done right, figurative language is a blast. Your students will love figuring out and drawing the literal meaning o

This interactive journal is the perfect way to engage students in reading the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan. Students are asked to draw 3 settings and provide a written description of each using text evidence. They are asked to draw and describe a number of characters including Esperanza, Mama, Miguel, the Tios, Isabel and Marta. Finally students are asked to respond to two reading reflection questions using higher order thinking. This is a great project to leave for students when

Are you looking for a creative way to integrate Science and Literacy? This is for you! This product highlights 4 different insects (moths, ladybugs, honeybees, and ants). Students become experts of one kind of insect and then share their knowledge with other students. This product is available in both English and Spanish and includes detailed directions for use. This activity takes a good 2 weeks and can be done as the "work with teacher" station for reading or science centers.

Use this student friendly resource to help teach and assess how to answer questions using a CER framework. CER or Claim, Evidence, Reasoning is most often used in Science and STEM, but can be easily extended to other content areas like math and reading. This rubric works great for all content areas and includes criteria for all components of a CER response using 2 details as evidence.

The Country Travel Brochure is similar to my product, US Regions Travel Brochure. Students will conduct research on a specific country (notetaking template included!) and present their findings using this template. This resource includes sentence frames and places for students to add pictures. Information covered includes location, including continent and hemisphere, natural resources, landforms and landmarks and cultural aspects like language, traditions and religion. This resource is in Englis

Welcome to the Gingerbread Bakery! Your students will LOVE learning how to count coins with this hands on activity that allows them to design their own gingerbread cookie. Students choose from a menu of candies to create their own gingerbread person or gingerbread star cookie design. When their design is complete, students find the cost of their designs using the attached template. Take it one step farther and have students bring their creations to life either with construction paper or real

Looking for a fun way for your students to learn geography? Use this Missing poster to help students learn the location of a continent. Assign students a continent to focus on or give them the clues and ask them to figure out which continent is missing! Bilingual-English and Spanish.