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This is a PowerPoint slide that offers great comparisons of technology from the past to present. I used this in my kindergarten class and the kids got a kick out of the "old" round dial phones. It is just pictures but one picture includes every cell from the original to the latest and as long as you know what the items are are great for you to describe.

Have your students measure items around the room using paper clips and then record the data on this chart. Chart is great for lower level students who need visual cues to help them identify what they need to write. Chart can be edited to reflect inches or centimeters.

Have trouble keeping track of the date you put out an assignment and when the student turned it in? Or have you forgotten the grade? Need to keep track of homework turned in? This free editable worksheet allows you to adjust the work to your needs and keep a printed sheet of items that you have given to your students. Great for keeping printed backup or for schools not yet online with grades.

The story is Patricia Polacco's Thundercake. This strategy is great for developing students' oral language and literacy skills of recall of facts and details, distinguishing between fact and opinion, sequencing of events, recognizing cause and effect, and identifying the main idea. Prior to the lesson, read the text to your students. Then use these ten important sentences that as a whole capture the events and main idea of the text. Here are some sample ideas of what to do with the sentences

Practice context clues with your students by using this daily problem. Use of nonesense words in the sentences encourage students to seek out the correct word instead of attribituting a false defition to them. This is a great way to teach and practice context clues with grades 1-7.

This strategy is great for developing students' oral language and literacy skills of recall of facts and details, distinguishing between fact and opinion, sequencing of events, recognizing cause and effect, and identifying the main idea. Prior to the lesson, read the text to your students. Then use these ten important sentences that as a whole capture the events and main idea of the text. Here are some sample ideas of what to do with the sentences. 1. Sequencing Events-Using the ten important

Good worksheet to teach money and help students identify coins and dollars. Both front and back sides of coins are used so students can learn to identify all parts. Worksheet is able to be edited.

Spanish version of a weekly homework guide to send home to parents. Best for bilingual Spanish classrooms. Contains daily conduct information as well. Gu�­a de trabajo semanal en espa�±ol para padres de ni�±os biling�¼es. Gu�­a de conducto tambien.

Tabla de medidas para los estudiantes bilingües. Worksheet is in spanish. Have your students measure items around the room using paper clips and then record the data on this chart. Chart is great for lower level students who need visual cues to help them identify what they need to write. Chart can be edited to reflect inches or centimeters.

Are you trying to teach 3-D objects but having difficulty finding the perfect slide program that shows real life examples cones and spheres and more? This slide show program is perfect for you and your students to help them a better understanding of what true 3-d objects are.

This is a great way to introduce students to graphic organizers. Use this graphic organizer when working with your students in several different manners. You can do the basic frayor model. For younger students have them write a letter or word and simply draw examples of the letter/word in the middle.

A quick cheat sheet for students to look at to remember the author's purpose and their meaning. A clown for entertain, teaching for inform, and a man slamming his fist down for persuading. This is done in word. When I first teach it, I take each individual one and make it into a full size sheet and back it with colorful cardstock. Later I remind students with the term PIE and a picture of a pie.

Use this instruction guide to fold single sheet 8 page mini books.

For those of you who have purchased the context clues expanded edition, I have uploaded an answer key. It is free to download, happy teaching.