Classroom SPEAK

Use the children's story "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" to inspire students to write their own cause and effect books. This activity has proven to be lots of fun for students as they share their stories with each other.

Teaching classes with rotations? Print this page on normal paper or poster size and then laminate for an easy to utilize small groups poster. I use this for my Read 180 and System 44 classrooms.

42 Quick Games (Brain Breaks) for the middle school classroom. These are intended to be printed on card-stock, cut out, and then added to a keyring to have quick and easy access to abbreviated directions at your fingertips. The games are a compilation of favorites that I've learned over the last 15 years of working with middle schoolers.

Looking for a simple, more sanitary solution to hall passes in your classroom? Look no further. Download these PDF passes and add your name and room number on the printed copy. I used them in badges with clips so students are clipping them on and taking them off when they are leaving the classroom. ** These were originally created in Pages and were exported to PDF. If you would like the pages format please let me know. **

Helping students create gifts for family and friends can be fun. This powerpoint was created to help middle school students create a coupon book. It includes pictures, and slides with step by step directions.

While filling their brains with important information each day, it's fun to share random facts sometimes too. That's what this product is for. It is a pdf of random facts found from a variety of sources. I post a Random Fact of the Week, which is a great conversation starter for students!

If you are ever in need of a quick reading strategy or classroom discussion activity, you are in luck. This powerpoint presentation can be saved on your computer and pulled up at any time.

Are you looking for a way to challenge your students to try new genres? Do you want to offer guided choice for your students' independent reading? Inspired by a colleague, this document is a bingo board to encourage kids to read a variety of texts. You could use it for a single trimester (get one Bingo), or have students choose a new row each trimester.

This power point is a presentation on the Corps of Discovery.

23 slide keynote presentation on Prisoners of War during the American Revolution. Covers: what a POW is, American prisoners, prisoner exchanges, treatment of prisoners, parole, those fighting at sea, Lord Admiral Richard, Benjamin Franklin's role, HMS Jersey, Fort Washington and more.

Handing back papers can consume valuable minutes of instruction. Print this page and have a protocol in place for students to pass back papers in the classroom. Consider pasting the second page onto a folder for each section you teach.

It can be scary starting a new school year. Imagine sitting down on day one, finding a tri-fold just for you. This tri-fold is something you can have your students create at the end of the school year, store them over the Summer, and they are ready to go in the Fall!

Do you need a form for students to use to respond to daily independent reading? This is the form for you! It includes a place for the book title, pages read each day, and a space for a response using a variety of reading strategies.

Making the steps of your discipline process clear for students is important, especially at the start of the year. This poster can be printed in any size and posted in your classroom for reference.

A small poster with the standard strategies of reading.

Help your students ask questions while learning science.

Helping pick out possible books for students is so much fun. Help make the process a little smoother with this form they can fill out and place in a basket. Then later you can pull the books together and conference with them!

Help your students ask questions while learning history.