Creating Creators

I love using this at the beginning of the school year! It's also a product to leave for a sub! The kids use the lines on the paper to create their own drawing! I then have them share with their classmates! A great way to get them talking and sharing!

This is a list of possible mentor texts for second grade reading literature and reading information standards 1-10. This is growing document and I will add mentor texts for the language and writing standards.

Response sheet that works with any poem. It asks the student to draw what they are visualizing, and then write about what words helped make that mental picture. Standards 1st Grade Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. [RL.1.4] With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for Grade 1. [RL.1.10] Second Grade Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhyth