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This fun lesson allows students to read about 7 important women of the Revolutionary war including Martha Washington, Betsy Ross, and more. The lesson has a link to a youtube introductory video about the topic, lesson sequence, and graphic organizer.

This is a great introduction lesson to teaching about the 13 colonies in the 17th century. The lesson includes a map which students can color to distinguish the three regions, a table where students can take notes in about each of the industries and climate, as well as a link to a cute youtube music video.

This lesson is an interactive lesson on the maximum, minimum, mean, mode, median, and range. It has students filling in fun information about themselves and interviewing others to find out their information. It walks students through a data collection process, a finding the mode, median, maximum, etc. part, and it has students make a graph of the found data. Since this is for 5th grade or above students, students should already know how to make a bar graph (thus that is not included).

Readers Theater is a great way to engage all learners! Use this worksheet to keep students engaged in reading while working with others. It provides roles and prompted questions!

Creating a fun, friendly, trusting dynamic in every classroom is an essential part of a successful classroom. I have provided 6 easy and reliable ice breaker activities that will help your students bond and create a great classroom culture.

This is a worksheet for 4th-6th grade students that includes 8 math work problems allowing students to practice adding and subtracting using decimals.

Have you ever had a student who just makes poor choices? Well maybe it is time to have that student reflect on these choices and do some old school writing. These paragraphs give students a chance to reflect on their behavior AND practice their writing.

This writing calendar includes a writing prompt for every day of the month. Topics range from days in history, memories, weekly goals, fall, family members, and even super heroes! I use this in my own 5th grade classroom as apart of our morning routine and give student around 5 minutes daily to write a hefty paragraph. I have used this with middle school and ELL students as well.

This fun activity allows students to become a Master color namer for a day. Students get in groups and choose a category that they will be color naming for (house paint, markers, t-shirts) and then they get to work! It is a great activity for students to get creative and do something they are not used to doing.

Students who will access this worksheet should be on a unit working with Place Value. Some items you can be teaching in correlation with this lesson is: -How to use a place value chart -Finding the value of digits in a whole number -How to represent fractions with denominators of 10, 100, or 1,000 as decimals.

This mini lesson is a two part lesson on self identity and using adjectives to describe who we are. The lesson provides an example of each me poem or question.

This is a great introduction lesson to teaching about the 13 colonies in the 17th century. The lesson includes a map which students can color to distinguish the three regions, a table where students can take notes in about each of the industries and climate, as well as a link to a cute youtube music video.

This would be a great professional development tool for fluency and ESL students. Decoding is the ability of the reader to accurately read the words in the text. *Orthograpic cues refers to the stressing of what is important. Graphophonic connections help CLD students make connections to the sounds of their native language and recognize similarities between words and syllables in the English language. For example in Spanish “Te gusta leche?” o “Te gusta leche”. You can disucss the intonation o

Have you ever had a student who just makes poor choices? Well maybe it is time to have that student reflect on these choices and do some old school writing. These paragraphs give students a chance to reflect on their behavior AND practice their writing.

This March writing calendar has prompts dealing with luck, childhood memories, and more! Enjoy

This is a set of 5 word problems dealing with ice cream, fractions, and money.

A great slide show for ESL students explaining facts and cultural information about the history of Halloween

Students listen to Akon's song "No Labels" and discuss the importance of living in a democracy where ALL peoples vote counts. Standards SS.5.7.3 Understand the fundamental principles of American constitutional democracy, including how the government derives its power from the people and the primacy of individual liberty. SS.5.7.4 Understand how the Constitution is designed to secure our liberty by both empowering and limiting central government and compare the powers granted to citizens, Congr

When I was teaching ESL my students of all levels loved doing a pair or team warmup with brainstorming words associated with each letter. I usually gave the students a topic and gave them a time limit depending on their level.