DotEd Materials

This a GREAT game to engage students in exploring words! My students have this as an option at a word work station. They practice finding similarities in words by fitting them together. Students relate easily to this game because even those who haven't played the "old fashioned" Scrabble, have played "Words with Friends"! This could also be used with vocabulary words for different units. The kids LOVE it!

This is a generic book club journal that can be used with most fiction chapter books. Students are asked to retell main events, create character maps, summarize and cind new vocabulary as they read. These are a great tool to use when training students to do independent book clubs.

Part of A Camp MAP Review Series 9 GLE aligned questions to review content commonly assessed on state assessments. Topics included in this review: - adding fractions - order of operations - perimeter - area - decimals to percent

This outline is a great way for students to organize their writing before beginning an entire piece. As a teacher, this is a great way to make sure students are off to a good start before they start writing their full piece.

DOTed Materials by Heather Rice Objective: adding money, counting money Description: Students will use this problem solving story to add amount of change together and find different ways to create the amount of money. Great for practicing beginning money skills! Special Features! This problem solving format is a great way to assist students in their ability to identify important information, choose a strategy to solve the problem and explain their thinking.

This is a form that can be used to assess student comprehension of the story elements in a fiction text. Students will be asked to recall... - Main Character - Description of the Main Character - Setting - Problem - Solution - and give a summary that includes a beginning, middle and end This document also includes a RUBRIC for scoring the summary.

DOTed Materials by Heather Rice Objectives: place value Description: Students will practice the concept of place value through this problem solving story. Special Features! This problem solving format leads students through an organized process in which they choose a strategy, show their work and explain their thinking. Great for strengthening problem solving skills!

Students use clues to find the missing digits in a given number. This is a great way to informally assess students' ability to apply number sense. After purchasing and downloading the document, it would be great to extend this activity using different number clues. Extension: Have students come up with clues.

This template is an excellent way to assess student’s knowledge of sounds. Students write each SOUND of a word in a different color and sort words according to given word patterns. This is an excellent form that can be adapted from grade K to 5 and beyond. I use this as a choice in one of my Word Study stations and the kids LOVE it! ?

This great problem solving practice for multiplying two digit by two digit whole numbers. Students also get EXCELLENT practice going through the steps of breaking apart a problem, not just pulling out the numbers. This KWL chart helps students figure out what they KNOW, what they WANT to know (restating the questions) and communicating what they found out in word form. LOVE!