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These student name tags are perfect for students' desks. There are also 2 options available for teachers who departmentalize and would prefer them with no student names. Includes accountable talk, growth mindset, and place value chart (2 different versions). They are editable, so type in your students' names in the text boxes. Be sure to copy and paste the template slide to create as many as you need for your class. Print and laminate! Please let me know if you have any questions!

Looking for a great way to begin the school year? This GOOGLE SLIDES student journal focuses on exploring self-identity and consists of 2 parts: "What is Identity?" and "Exploring my Own Identity." About this Resource (Google Slides) This resource is designed for students in upper elementary/middle school and meant to be an INTRODUCTION to exploring identity. It is simply a place to start, not the be-all end-all. This resource is a student journal, which means it includes spaces for students

This is a mini-unit on one of my favorite strategies to revise a narrative piece of writing. I always open 5th grade with a narrative essay. This is one of the strategies I teach that shows students how to bring their emotions/details to life. This resource contains 3 different activities/lessons that guides students on what body language is, and how to use them in describing an emotion. Students get the chance to act out different scenarios, and then jot down their reactions. Included in th

Picture books are written and published for all ages. Authors of picture books often use a combination of word play/choice and illustration to convey an important message or truth about the world. As simple as a picture book may seem, its words and message can be incredibly powerful. This resource will guide students in independently reading, analyzing, and reviewing a picture book. This resource is aimed for upper elementary/middle school students. What's included? Three different versions are

In this engaging project, students will become "Social Media Managers" for Greek Mythology figures, their "clients." A modern-day analysis into an Ancient Greek figure, students will conduct in-depth research about their selected or assigned figure and complete tasks to prove their understanding of the client. Students' final products will be a multi-paragraphed essay about their client, a proposal, and several social media profiles (ex: Instagram profile, Twitter profile, etc.). Project directi

**UPDATED to include: 1. Student Graphic Organizers to guide research and speech writing (8 pages) 2. Digital Student Graphic Organizers through Google Docs (non-editable and editable versions included) ___________________________________________________________________ In this research project, students are guided in creating a presentation and speech telling the story of a chosen activist. Students will first dig into the meaning of activism, what it is and what it looks like. Students will

Need a simple way to teach/review digital etiquette to students? This focuses on digital etiquette when communicating on school-based platforms, ex: Google Classroom. When downloaded, a PDF will take you to the Google Slides presentation. From there, you can edit, delete, duplicate slides as necessary to meet your students' needs! I've also included directions on how to share this with students and parents via email or with students on Google Classroom. Questions covered: How should I properly

This upper grade unit is meant to go with Kobi Yamada’s “What Do You Do With A Chance?” I plan on using this during the first week of school. It's a great book that teaches awesome life lessons, and this resource reviews literature/reading skills (see below). This unit does not explicitly teach reading skills, but does include helpful directions, tips, guidelines, graphic organizers, and criteria checklists. Each skill is practiced on one page, and functions as a worksheet. The worksheets may

Need a simple way to make students accountable for their Math Practices alignment? This tool interprets the 8 Common Core Mathematical Practices in kid-friendly language. Each MP comes with the MP explained in kid-friendly words, a simple checklist of what the MP is asking for, and a brief sentence explaining how I would check for their understanding of the MP, or as evidence seen in their math work. They are designed as a small tool, easy for students to flip through and use daily. Included

After switching from the traditional parent conference style to a student-led conference, I've seen my students grow and be more responsible as they are now accountable for all they have learned! Their parents love it too, as they can see their child explain first-hand their improvements, progress, strengths, and weaknesses. This product is an editable Google Slides presentation that my students complete about two weeks before conference week. There are 23 slides/templates; you get to pick and

This resource reviews all the rules and how-tos behind digital etiquette for students! This purely focuses on how students should communicate on school-based platforms to teachers or peers (how to ask for help, provide praise/feedback, reply to a message). A Google Slides document, your students will complete a digital journal on digital etiquette, otherwise known as netiquette. In total, students will work through 21 informative slides. The slides explain what digital etiquette is to studen

As we move towards standards-based and mastery grading, I found it so important to communicate to students EXACTLY what a 4, 3, 2, 1, and 0 meant in Math! This kid-friendly 4 point math rubric is aligned to the Smarter Balanced General Math Rubric. This resource contains a title page with and without "SBAC," just in case you your students don't take the SBAC, but you'd still like to use the rubric. Classroom posters are provided, as well as a student handout (I also printed these handouts ou

Use this simple tool to keep track of what your students are reading and to keep them accountable for reading daily! Students will write down the title of the book they are reading on a sticky note and stick it on their library card tracker (one per student). Feel free to laminate these templates to reuse them next year. Idea: Use different colored sticky notes for different genres, or just to keep track that students are reading a book every two weeks. This way, color changes are an indicati

This is an editable version of the checklist my students use during parent conferences! With student-led conferences, students are held accountable for what they've learned, and get to communicate first hand to their parents. I encourage you to involve students in deciding what they would like to share during the conference with their parents. Additionally, be sure to give your students practice time being the parent and student - role play with peers in class. Let me know if you have any q

This product contains an activity in which students select an example of figurative language from the text Eleven, by Sandra Cisneros, to analyze and illustrate. May be used as a formative assessment. Thank you for downloading and/or purchasing my work. I hope you find it useful and please do not hesitate to contact me for questions!

This is a graphic organizer for students to collect important information on battles and events of the American Revolution. I focused on the last four main events, but feel free to edit the document to include other battles/events. * This document is editable. However, please do not remove my copyright. A hard teacher at work; I would appreciate the credit :) Thank you for downloading and/or purchasing my work. I hope you find it useful and please do not hesitate to contact me for questions.

Students are provided a passage and a vocabulary bank. The passage covers the flow of blood through the heart, lungs, and body, knowledge required by the fifth grade science standards. Thank you for downloading and/or purchasing my work. I hope you find it useful and please do not hesitate to contact me for questions.

Quick and easy way to display the 8 Common Core Mathematical Practices in your classroom! Each MP includes a large display of student friendly wording, with the actual MP wording at the bottom. 3 different color versions included. Please let me know if you have any questions!

10 types of figurative language included: - simile - metaphor - hyperbole - personification - alliteration - onomatopoeia - allusion - idiom - imagery - assonance Each includes the definition and an example below. Please let me know if you have any questions!

A quick and easy classroom display for classroom jobs. This product includes 36 student numbers, 18 uneditable jobs that I use in my own classroom, and 10 editable job templates for you to fill out. Jobs included: Librarians Errand Runners Breakfast Leaders Light Technician Teacher Assistant Caboose Birthday Wisher Technology Engineers Clean Up Crew Recess Monitors P.E. Leaders Game Masters Supply Chiefs Absent Student Buddy Nurse Buddy Pencil Sharpener Mail Man/Woman Paper Collector Some of