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This set of 18 flash cards is designed for parents and school teachers whose kids are learning Chinese. The theme of this set is places within a school, such as classroom, gym, cafeteria, and etc. Simply cut the cards out. Place them around the school, or use them to help your kid learn Chinese. On each card, there are: 1) English term 2) Traditional or Simplified Chinese term 3) pīn yīn for Mandarin pronunciation *I've included an alternative set of card that includes a picture for each term.

This pdf includes an activity that teachers can use after reading aloud Not all Princesses Dress in Pink. The aim of this activity is to allow students to compare their personalized princess to typical fairy tale princesses.Students pick one of the princesses provided on the worksheet, and illustrate the way their princess dresses. In addition, they use the literacy frame/ sentence frame to describe their princess and to compare her to other princesses.

There are 2 ways you can use this: 1 - While teaching text features of non-fictional texts, you can have students fill out the boxes to identify the features. 2 - After teaching students how to identify text features in nonfictional texts, you can use this worksheet to access their learning. Quick & Easy!

This graphic organizer is a handy tool for student to track how a character transforms throughout a story. Students have to gather evidence of the character's traits in the beginning and at the end of the story. With the evidence collected, they can make a conclusion of the traits. In addition, they need to look for the reason(s) why the character transforms, and jot it down on the organizer. For younger students, teachers can prepare pictures (evidence) from the story, and guide student how

This graphic organizer helps students to comprehend the cause-and-effect relationships within both fictional and non-fictional reading. As they are reading, they can pause and investigate the relationships between events, no matter if it's in science, social studies, ELA, or even math! With the inclusion of transitional phrases, such as "therefore" and "since", teachers can guide students (especially ELLs) to transfer ideas on the graphic organizer into writing. This is also useful for younger

This pdf document includes words that consist of a r-controlled vowel (ar, er, ir, or, ur) pattern. Simply print the sorts out , and let your students enjoy sorting! For teachers of ELLs, images are presented to help your students understand some words. For variation, teachers can cut our all the words with an r-controlled sound, and let students sort into ar, er, ir, or, and ur lists. Sorts: 1) ar, short a, long a (a_e) 2) er, short e, long e (ee) 3) ir, short i, long i (i_e) 4) or, ore, short

This simple graphic organizer is a handy tool for your upper elementary-, middle- and high-school students to infer from texts. It is also a formative assessment for us to dissect students' thinking when they infer, and understand the challenges students may face when inferring. The Making Inference Chart includes three parts: 1. Clues from the text 2. My schema 3. Inference Students need to use textual evidence combined with their schema (background knowledge) to support their inference. Te

Teachers can personalize the anticipation guide depending on the topic they are teaching. At the beginning of the unit, this graphic organizer can be used to activate students' background knowledge and help them build curiosity about the topic. Through the unit, students read texts about the topic, and decide whether they change their mind of agreeing or disagreeing with statements listed on the guide. They have to write down quotes to support their stances, and made reflections on the "double

There are 2 ways you can use this: 1 - While teaching text features of non-fictional texts, you can have students fill out the boxes to identify the features. 2 - After teaching students how to identify text features in nonfictional texts, you can use this worksheet to access their learning. Quick & Easy! This is in Microsoft Word format, so your students can fill out the boxes digitally and return to you via online learning.

Early elementary students can use this story map to retell a story by illustrating and labeling. It is a quick assessment for teachers to check whether a student comprehends the story and is able to retell a story in a correct sequence. The pumpkin design is perfect for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Autumn.

After teaching the elements of poems, it is time for your students to explore poetry on their own. This Poetry Study works like a book report in which students retell and analyze the poems they read on their own. It is an addition to your school library or classroom library! Meanwhile, you can assess your students' comprehension of the poems!

Teachers can personalize the anticipation guide depending on the topic they are teaching. At the beginning of the unit, this graphic organizer can be used to activate students' background knowledge and help them build curiosity about the topic. Through the unit, students read texts about the topic, and decide whether they change their mind of agreeing or disagreeing with statements listed on the guide. They have to write down quotes to support their stances, and made reflections on the "double

Our readers can use this to form predictions systematically. Instead of just asking them "what will happen?", teachers need to guide readers to form better predicting questions to deepen their thoughts. While readers are writing down their questions, teachers can access their questioning skills and modify instructions to better them. Also, it will be fun for our readers to exchange their questions with a partner, so they can be exposed to different ways to predict.

Used for character connections in a literature circle.