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This is a tool that students can use to self assess their work habits and learning skills. It is written is student friendly language. The self assessment is of six different learning skills: Responsibility, Organization, Independent Work, Collaboration, Initiative, and Self-Regulation. The rubric may be used small portions at a time where students select one learning skill to reflect upon at a time. This rubric may also be used in Parent-Teacher or Student Led conferences.

If you are struggling for ideas for what to write for next steps for report cards, this file will help! There is 10 pages of comments of ways your students can improve in the arts. I have based it on the Ontario Arts Curriculum, but is relevant for any area, I have just sorted them according to our curriculum headings. Note -I have also incuded he/she/they pronoun options for each comment. There are approximately a page of next steps or suggestions for each of the following areas in visual arts:

This file is designed for grades 5 to 8 students.To use these Literature Circles Bookmarks, I group my students into small groups and select different novels for them based on their interests and reading levels. Each week, each group would meet together to discuss what they have read, and each student would assume a different role within their group. This file contains 7 different bookmarks that describe each role. The roles are as follows: Fortune Teller -makes predictions based on what they

This file contains a spinner with 10 different emotions and a series of sentences. The idea is your students will spin the spinner to pick an emotion (for example confused, or angry) then, they will read the sentence using that emotion. There are lesson ideas included, a spinner page, as well as 14 sample sentences. Great to play as a game, or use as a drama activity where they could write a skit. Tag words - reading fluency, reading with expression, fluency lessons, reading with emotion

What are your students' attitudes towards reading? Do they read at home? Do they go to the public library? Find out all you ever needed to know about their reading interests and habits in 20 simple short answer questions. Great to use as a diagnostic, or at any point throughout the year. I would store it in their portfolios and have them review their responses at the end of the year to see how much they have changed over the year.

Here is a fun way to teach your students how to write a sentence! You can do as a class, small group, literacy center, or independent work. One lesson or several lessons. There are Six spinners -Adjectives, Nouns (who), and Verbs, plus Adverbs, Nouns (where), and a blank spinner where students can make their own! There is also a page with the pointer arrows. I would suggest you print these out on cardstock so the paper is a little stiffer, but will work on regular paper. I did one lesson with ju

This is a 4 page reproducible survey to gather data and information about your students. After years of teaching, I came up with a few things that I wished I knew about my students, (that may not be found in their school records) like where and when do they do their homework at home, and who, if anyone do they ask for help if they need it? Also, things like, how many people are living in their home, and what responsibilities that have within the home, can greatly effect their work in school and

This package includes two pages of notes about guided reading. What is guided reading? What do you need to do before, during and after guided sessions. It also includes a lesson plan template... great to use if you are being evaluated! There is also a calendar template where you can plan when to meet each group. Finally there is a chart and rotation schedule where you can record which group/s you met with each day. Key words TPA, guided reading, how to start a guided reading program, guided rea

Great for the beginning of the year - two 81/2 x 11 sheets that can be photocopied to make an 11 x 17 size poster. The sheet has six boxes, with the following instructions at the top"This page is a way for your classmates and teacher to get to know you better. The idea is that you fill in ALL the space in each section with whatever information you think is important about you. You can write, draw, paste pictures, write poems, or whatever else you can think of. Be creative!" Great to fill up your

Have your students fill out these leaves at the beginning of the year to create a beautiful wall, bulletin board, or border in your classroom. The leaves are hand drawn with a border with the words, "I hope, I wish, I will, I want". Students could write or draw, or even create a collage of their goals and wishes for the year. This could also be used for specific subjects or units. I have included two pages, the first is a full page leaf, and the second page, I have added two leaves on the same