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This common core aligned rubric is used to evaluate student writing of any text read during language arts or any another content area. This rubric may be used with narratives or nonfiction text.

A dialectical journal is another name for a double-entry journal or a thinking journal. A dialectical journal is a journal that records a dialogue, or conversation, between the ideas in the text (the words that you are reading) and the ideas of the reader (the ideas in the mind of the person reading).

This poem was written by a child in the Terezin children's concentration camp during world war II.

Students will fill in the missing forms of whole numbers through the millions--expanded form, word from, and standard form. Can be used for practice or an assessment. An answer key is provided.

Writing rubric used to evaluate expository writing. Four domains of writing are evaluated: ideas, organization, style, and conventions. Each domain details indicators of performance. Point values are assigned to each level.

Includes poem and critical thinking/comprehension puzzle cards. Aligned common core standards are also included.

This is a whole number place value review sheet. Students will identify forms of numbers: word form, expanded form, and standard form. Students will round whole numbers and compare the values of whole number place values. For example: values in the hundreds place are 10 times greater than values in the ones place.

Civil War study guide includes vocabulary, important people and annotated notes of key concepts including rising tensions over slavery, causes for seccession, and major battles/events of the war.

Figurative language card #1 defines each type of figurative language and also provides a written example. Students write their own example on card #2.

Collection of poetry by Langston Hughes. Use for teaching elements of poetry and about the Harlem Renissance.

Primary sources from the Civil War Quotations by Robert E. Lee Political Cartoons Image of destruction

Students use this graphic organizer to identify relevant detail when preparing to write an constructed or extended response. Students will record the question or writing task that is described and then identify details from text(s) that are relevant to the writing task.

Collection of poems by well-known poets.

Classic poem about the beautiful Willow and the all withstanding Genko tree. The author compares the differences in each to the uniqueness of each individual person.