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This product takes your students step by step through the research process. It gives your students the choice of 10 different spiders to research and investigate. It provides all the links for each spider’s research. It has a journal for students to complete and fill in as they research their spider. It provides an example paper that students can learn from. It has sentence stems that help students set up their research paper. It has a resource page and a rubric for grading. It provides extensio

This product is the journal companion to the Mentor Text - Christmas in the Trenches.It gives your students:  *Research opportunities *Vocabulary study *Character analysis *Opportunities to use text evidence *Analysis of action  *Theme *Mentor Sentences

This product is the journal companion to the Mentor Text - Crossing Bok Chitto. In my classroom, I use these journals to teach standards to go along with my classroom read aloud. This journal allows you to differentiate for your students or assign only the slides for the standards you are working on. *Research opportunities *Vocabulary study *Morphology Word Part Study for "in/im" and "s/es" *Plot Analysis *Story Element Study *Theme * Story Sequencing *Depth and Complexity: Summary, Setting An

Everything you need to have a PBIS positive classroom management. Opening week activity to introduce game Behavior incentive cards that allow you to evolve your pokemon for rewards. Pokestops and Gyms. System to turn your classroom into a Gym and postively promote competition and positive behavior through a 3 team (red, blue and yellow team competitions. Pokemon Eggs that you can use for students to earn additional pokemon through teacher created incentives.

This is a great culminating project choice board. It gives your students a means to express what they know about renewable and nonrenewable resources. As well, it differentiates to the multiple learning styles in your classroom. Students may choose one, two or three activities to complete.

This product is the journal companion to the Mentor Text -How the Grinch Stole Christmas  It gives your students:  *Research opportunities *Vocabulary study *Character analysis *Opportunities to use text evidence * Story Sequencing *Theme *Mentor Sentences

This product is an online WebQuest- it can be done whole group, small group or individually  It gives your students a chance to learn about: *Where soil comes from *The importance of soil *Soil types *Soil in their state and backyards *Soil Layers *Soil Texture

This product is an online literature circle that you can use with your students in Google Classroom. Once you have assigned your students to groups, you can then create an assignment in your GOOGLE CLASSROOM and allow students to edit the literature circle. You are able to reuse this resource each week by making a copy of the literature circle. This literature circle provides 11 different roles students can have for online discussions. (Moderator, Investigator, Clever Connector, Artful Artist, W

Your students will love this project. It makes research easy and fun. Product includes. - Resource to help launch project - Printable notecards for each component of the research - Rough draft template - guides students through paragraph writing - Spider Life Cycle Poster Project - Spider model project - rubrics for all 3 components

This product is the journal companion to the Mentor Text - Island Born. It is a great way to bring a mentor text read aloud into the upper elementary classroom. Each slide in this activity addresses an ELA standard. For the vocabulary and word study you can differentiate by doing a jig saw activity, partner work, or delete/keep slides for different reading groups. In my classroom, we use these journals for every mentor text and it helps to make sure I keep my students on track in their reading

This product is a Close Reading Journal For The Brothers Grimm’s Cinderella  It gives your students:  *The original text * Literal and Figurative Language *Vocabulary study *Paraphrasing a challenging text *Opportunities to use text evidence *Character analysis based on words and actions *Symbolism *Elements of a Fairy Tale

This product is a COMPLETELY digital journal companion to the Mentor Text - Stolen Words. It covers the following areas of instruction: *Vocabulary Study *Word Parts (Morphology)- “ed”  *Dream Catchers *Character Analysis *Story Mapping *Theme  *Mentor Sentence

This product is a mentor sentence GOOGLE Slide activity. It takes one week to work through these slides with your sentences. Mentor sentences will help to strengthen your students understanding of grammar, sentence structure and figurative language. As well, it will provide instruction in paraphrasing and revising text.

Encourage evidence based writing with these bookmarks. The bookmarks provide students with transition statements that encourage them to return to the text.

This rubric is based on PARCC writing standards for research task. The rubric is written so students in 3-5 grade are able to understand the components of a well-written essay. Rubric provides an essay scoring tool that is based on the Common Core Standards.

This product provides you with an interactive grammar notebook that is completely GOOGLE CLASSROOM compatible and provides you with 5 GOOGLE FORM Quizzes to access student learning. * Students will learn the basics of what is a noun. * Students will learn to identify and use proper nouns. * Students will learn to identify and use concrete and abstract nouns. *Students will learn to identify and use plural nouns. *Students will learn to identify and use irregular plural nouns. *Google Forms Quiz

This product is the journal companion to the Mentor Text - Along the Tapajos. With this product you will find that you have a complete ELA lesson to along with your read aloud. This product would work well in an upper elementary classroom. Students could work together with a partner or independently on this set of Google Slides. This product contains: *Vocabulary Study *Research: Choice of 2 Topics (Anacondas or The Amazon River) *Paragraph Writing *Point of View *Character Analysis *Story Map

This product is the journal companion to the Mentor Text - Her Right Foot. This journal allows your students to study vocabulary. It has activities that go along with a prefix and suffix word part investigation. The journal allows students to research and have a better understanding of the Statue of Liberty. Through a close read of the poem "The New Colossus"- students will increase their skills in reading comprehension. Finally, the journal provides grammar with a mentor sentence. I love using

This product is the journal companion to the Mentor Text -  Fishing with GrandmaIn the classroom you can use the entire product or use different slides to differentiate for reading groups. This story is a great read aloud for the classroom and this product provides the instruction you need for your reading and writing block. *Research opportunities *Vocabulary study *Morphology Word Part Study for “un” , “ing” and "ness" *Character Analysis *Setting Analysis *Theme * Story Sequencing * Mentor S

This product is the journal companion to the Mentor Text - The Polar Express. This is a COMPLETELY digital product and can be assigned to students online with Google Slides. *Research opportunities *Vocabulary study *Character Analysis *Theme *Writing Recipes  *Summary Writing *Mentor Sentence