Creative Teaching Counts

Boxes and Bullets - Opinion and Persuasive Writing Pack for upper elementary! → Need a product that shows your students that the content and structure of an essay are important? Looking for a way to guide your students through the process of writing an opinion or persuasive essay? → If so, you have come to the right place! This product includes = anchor charts for your classroom, quick reference guides your students can paste in their writers notebooks, planning sheets, graphic organizer

Literary Essay Pack ** This product works well with Lucy Calkin's Literary Essay Units of Study and other writing curriculum's that use Writer's Workshop!** → Intimidated by the literary essay? Need a product that guides your students through this expository piece? → If so, you have come to the right place! This product includes = *Be sure to check out the product preview!*- How to write a literary essay chart - Basic structure of a literary essay (color + black and white) - Common themes in fi

Arc of the Story Unit of Study - Lucy Calkins Realistic Fiction Supplemental Resources → Love the Units of Study but wish there were some extra resources that went along with each lesson? Need a resource that can help with your minilesson or work period activities? Need a visual that your students can go back to as they draft/revise/and edit their realistic fiction stories? → If so, you have come to the right spot! This product offers five great pages to go along with five of the lessons from t

Super Star Stop and Jots - Have your students develop their thinking on post-it notes! Super Star Stop and Jots will transform the way your students think about their books!! → Do you have your students jot their thinking on post-it notes during Reader's Workshop? Do you wish they would put more effort into their jots and develop their thinking? With this product, students will create more in depth post-it notes by using a rubric and sentence starters. Encourage students to write about their O

→ Test your students’ knowledge of literary genres with this two-part fun activity! This resource highlights the main characteristics of each genre and has the students look for these key components in their texts. → HOW to use: Find a fiction and nonfiction text (can be books, Time for Kids articles, short fiction passages, etc.). Then, split students into pairs or groups and have them read each text while filling out their characteristics search. Your students will = - identify which te

→ Transitions are vital in every type of writing. When your students use them, their writing is more clear, coherent, and sophisticated. → This product takes two genres of writing - narrative (stories) and expository (essay's) - and shows students different types of transitions and how to use them in their writing. This resource is a great tool to use in writer's workshop! Included in this product you will find: - Why to use transitions poster - Examples of narrative writing - Narrative Tra

HOMOPHONES -- No Prep Fall Themed Pack To, Too, and Two Their, They're, and There → Teaching your students what homophones are? Check out this resource! It includes: - 1 page explaining what homophones are (with various examples) - 2 worksheets with explanations and activities for to/too/two - 2 worksheets with explanations and activities for their/there/they're I hope you and your students enjoy this pack! Happy Teaching :)

Narrative, Opinion, and Informational Winter Writing Prompts for upper elementary students! → Tired of boring winter writing prompts? Looking for a way to spice up writing in your classroom? → This writing product makes writing fun while reminding students how to write well! Use it for independent writing time, literacy centers, assessment, morning work, etc. This product includes: - 1 winter themed "would you rather" game - can be played as a game or can be turned into an opinion writing

→ Teaching your students map skills? Need a fun and engaging way to teach them cardinal and intermediate directions? → This product is just for you! It includes the following: - Cardinal and Intermediate directions sheet which has students use a map, compass rose, and legend to answer questions - Four cardinal directions cards (north,east,south, and west) to hang in your classroom - Cardinal/intermediate directions classroom game - asks directional questions about your classroom. For example -

Lucy Calkin's Units of Study - Reader's Workshop Essentials to build a READING LIFE → Whether you have been teaching Reader's Workshop for many years or are just starting out, this product will help your students learn to become engaged readers! → Included in this product are = - Reading Log - A book is too hard when mini anchor chart - Reader's stop and jot when chart - Sentence starters to push thinking when writing about reading - Analyze your reading log sheet → I hope you and your

***NO PREP PACK!*** → As back to school season is upon us, I am already looking for ways to welcome and engage my students. → This BACK TO SCHOOL ACTIVITY PACK is perfect in achieving a way to welcome your students. It includes: - Let me take a selfie drawing and adjective sheet - Best part of summer writing activity - K-W-L chart for grade sheet - Classroom scavenger hunt - Classmate ice breaker - Teacher prediction quiz - Classroom goals sheet - Yearly goals sheet - This or that questio

→PRIMARY & SECONDARY SOURCES -- NO PREP PRODUCT!! Interested in teaching your students the difference between primary and secondary sources? Whether you are teaching a Social Studies lesson or having your students use sources for a Literacy writing assignment, this product will aide your teaching in numerous ways! → Included are: - Two posters (Can be printed as is or in poster format) defining each source and giving examples - Black and white versions of posters - Worksheet for kids to pra

→ BOOK CLUBS are engaging, fun, and promote discussion! This resource includes: - A list of historical fiction book club books - Topics worth covering when discussing and reading historical fiction - A finished book sheet to hold students accountable for their reading -- filled out once the students are done reading their books → Check out my other book clubs product: Introduction to Book Clubs to help set up your book clubs!! HAPPY TEACHING :)

→ Are your students ready to move on to two digit addition? Well this Two Digit Addition without regrouping pack will be perfect for them! → Make these addition facts STICK with word problems and fun task cards. All pages are cake themed because lets be real... who doesn't love a sweet treat?! → Included in this product are: - 3 pages of word problems - 4 pages of addition task cards - 1 recording sheet for the task cards - 1 answer sheet for the problems Thank you for reading this product d

→ Teaching fiction and nonfiction to your students?! Download this FREE venn diagram so your students can easily see the similarities and differences between these genres! Please leave some feedback. Thanks!