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Reading Menus x2Allows students to have a choice. Students create a reading goal and pick reading responses to help them achieve the goal. One menu for fiction, one for non-fiction. Reading Response x14Provides students a scaffold to respond to their reading. Each one includes why readers use that strategy and sentence starters. Includes: predictingquestioningconnectingvisualizinginferringsummarizingnew vocabularycompare/contrastthemecharacter traitstext featurescause and effectfact vs opinionma

A great end of the year activity for students to write to their future teachers. Includes sections "things I want you to know about me" "questions I have" "things I love" and a self portrait section.

Includes: Rhyming wordsüoetry vocabularyFigurative language cheat sheetFor each poetry type includes both a definition/ example page AND a blank page for students to write their own. Rhyming poemsLimerick AcrosticHaikuCinquainAlliterationColor PoemSimileBalladTwo different versions available both in color OR in black and white. One version the rules of the poem is given. The other, the students need to write it themselves. Each sample poem is about Vietnam. Have your students learn how to writ

Great worksheets for students to fill out that allow you to learn who they are as people. Time capsule for students to capture their beginning of year thinkingGuess Your teacher: Students guess facts about their new teacherFacts Facts Facts: Students share important facts about themselvesMy Family: Students share who they live with and who they consider familyLanguage Profile: Great for EAL students to learn how they view their own languages Emoji Emotions: Students use emojis to see how they’r

Help students reflect on their behaviors to create a more sustainable classroom and school environment. Includes: Article that explains sustainability and how to be more sustainable. Two versions: Color and black/white 3 Different Worksheets How students can help their learning environments be more sustainable as well as setting sustainable goals Sustainability detectives (students look for solutions to be more sustainable) Spread Awareness (students focus on one problem they notice and spread a

6 worksheets •there/their/they’re •its/it’s •your/you’re •then/than •effect/affect •too/to/two Each worksheet includes •Part of speech •Definition •Place for students to draw their own definition •9 fill in the blanks •1 write your own sentence •Answer keys

Worksheets: Things they've done by the time they're 100 years old100 things they can eat/do/wish etc.Unscramble Research about 100 years agoAs a class, students come up with: 100 dreams100 things they've learned100 ways they've helped people Writing Prompts: Students can pick from 9 different writing prompts using the number 100. Students are encouraged to be creative and use their imagination when answering! You can encourage your students to be factual or to be as wild as they want.

Help students recognize their feelings by writing their thoughts down. Feelings BookFeelings book can help students recognize their feelings through words. Print a feelings book for each student. During the first week, go over the first 3 pages to have students identify different ways to calm down when they’re feeling big feelings. Throughout the year, students can pull out their book and record their big feelings (both positive and negative). Feeling ThermometerDisplay the feelings thermomete

Students estimate how old they are in months, weeks, days, minutes and seconds. Then they calculate how old they are. Includes: -Worksheet for estimations -Worksheet for calculations (differentiated) -Reading on one billion vs one million

Help your students make more complex sentences!

Two menus: Fiction and Non-Fiction Students have options to choose before reading/during reading/after reading. They then leave feedback for each other either on an online platform or in each others notebooks. I use these menus for my higher independent guided reading groups. This way I can meet with my phonics groups every day and my higher groups still get what they need.

Useful for learning about different cultures, and that culture is more than just food and clothing. Great for grade 2 standards as well as the "All About Me" unit in PYP.

Use peer interviews to create an environment where students help each other!“What am I supposed to do?” “Where does this go?” “I don’t understand” Encourage students to help each other out instead of always asking you! Pair up students with a “Critical Friend.” At the start of each semester, they interview each other to learn a bit more about their CF. Beginning of the year interview is quite basic (what's your favorite...) Middle of the year interview requires more complex thinking (what woul

Conferencing is a great way to make sure all of your students are getting what they need in reading. I use this log to keep track of each one of my student’s reading progress. We come up with a reading goal together and then as I meet with each student during guided reading, we discuss how they are working to reach each goal. This product has two different Conference Logs. •4 students per page (for a whole guided reading group) •1 student per page

Students use this workbook to better understand the united nations global goals. For each global goal students draw their own icon, write the goal in their own words and come up with specific things that they can do to help each goal.

Sentence stems are designed to help students engage in their learning. Using sentence stems reminds students to use academic language and to be specific. With inquiry thinking, students gather information, connect information and finally extend their thinking by questioning the information.