Cindy Clark

A great selection of learning targets to choose from to help make your planning easier. They are written as "Can do" statements and follow the SIOP model. The targets are divided into categories: reading literature, reading informational, writing, language/conventions, and other to cover speaking and listening. Make life easier for yourself as we transition to the Common Core standards. Make your students' learning more engaging by using these "Can-do" statements to put the language of the stand

This mini bundle includes a power point to introduce students to the strategy of inferring, cloze notes for differentiation, and a book mark for students to use as a follow up for practice with their own reading, or if you decide to extend the lesson with a small group. It is short and sweet to hook students to the idea of a new reading strategy. Enjoy!

This mini-bundle includes a few powerpoint slides to introduce the five finger rule for choosing books, so it is great at the beginning of the year. Other items such as the book pass form and the mini-lesson make it a great way to prepare students for literacy circles and/or book clubs. Use the book pass forms to generate your groups. Copy on both sides so students have more books to preview. You can make the book pass a station in your literacy centers once students are comfortable and confiden

This power point can be used as an opener/bell ringer, a station for literacy centers, a differentiation tool, or a lesson. You choose how you wish to use it based on your students' needs. Using Munch's The Scream as a platform, students are asked to infer, analyze, write, and areas such as figurative language (including allusion) are reinforced. Because they are so many activities ( including research extensions), it would be difficult to list all the Common Core standards covered. This is enga

An engaging center where students not only identify and define idioms, but practice with synonyms, antonyms, parts of speech, sentences structure, and more. Students work independently while you conference, run a small group, or act as a roaming facilitator! Another great center by Cindy Clark. A great way to prepare for standardized tests.

When is a verb not a verb? When it is a verbal! This powerpoint introduces the concepts and offers opportunities to practice. Included are close-notes so students can fill in notes while they view and practice during the presentation. Engaging and educational. Grammar can be fun!

Engage students by using the diction in The Outsiders for students to translate sentences into grammatically correct sentences. The students are also asked to find examples of figurative language in the book. Best practices tell us to teach in context, and this worksheet will help you do just that. Use as a scaffolding tool in small group or heterogenous cooperative groups. Answer key is included, although, answers may very. Kick it up a notch and have students explain their choices. This practi

Thank you for choosing my product today. It is a group of questions for educators that can be used several ways including: a. modeling and practicing the use of question stems b. a formative assessment such as ticket out the door c. give each participant one question (I printed the slides so there would be lines on the side for written response), ask them to share with a partner, ask for volunteers to share with whole group (think/pair/share) d. once completed, make a poster with the responses

The Common Core challenges our students, and so in turn, we must challenge ourselves as well as our students. This product will get you started on the road to using analogies and increasing your students' depth of knowledge. From band to chorus to science and social studies, this will help you build analogies easily into your practice. And, if you find that you are too busy to complete this task, just send me your words and I'll build a program for you. Too often the analogy has been overlooked

Even though we teach grammar in context, it sometimes helps to have a mini-lesson or practice to review. This power point includes similes about sentences. Try to get students to create their own. This is especially valuable for ELL students. There is a chart that is easily printed or can be a template to create cloze notes to differentiate. Answers are provided, sentences build upon each other, and students are engaged. You can use this as an opener for whole group, a station or literacy cente

Just pull out some novels the kids have read, a few poetry books, or even picture books. Students can work with a group independently while you can run that small group that needs a mini-lesson. You get student directions and examples. It's easy to differentiate-just choose different level materials for different groups.

An engaging way to review plot, literary elements, and figurative language. The cards are made. Just print and cut. I suggest using card stock and laminating so you get more use out of them.

This is an easy way to help students read across genres, keep them accountable, and increase text complexity. It is an easy way to integrate Common Core requirements and develop independent readers and give an alternative to responding to literature. This differentiation tool offers choice and can be used as the foundation for a choice card/tic-tac-think book report or project. The form can be edited so you can put in themes you are working on, genres, lexiles, etc. The sky is the limit! I hope