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Your students will enjoy writing poetry using this workshop format. Each lesson contains comprehensive directions, clear teaching points, models, supporting posters, links and in the free download 'Supplement' the poems used in the 16 lessons listed below: Lesson 1: Immersion Lesson 2: Defining Poetry Lesson 3: Lyrical Poetry Lesson 4: Line Breaks Lesson 5: Generating Ideas; Everyday Poems Lesson 6: Generating Ideas; Small Moment Poems Lesson 7: Generating Ideas; Authors Lesson 8: Looking at ho

This seven day unit of study emphasizes the importance of the election process in the United States. Since recent presidential elections have become divisive, students nominate and then elect a candy as the head of state of their Confectionery Country. The unit begins with students developing ideas about why someone would want to be president. Students learn the requirements and job description of the executive office and the qualifications of voters through history. Students make a graph, a

Are you looking for a unit that systematically teaches common core language arts standards? In 19 lessons, you'll find that your students will have made demonstrable gains in the language arts literature strand, craft and structure. This unit is written for 5th and 6th graders, but could be easily modified for 4th graders. It contains complete lessons plans, worksheets, rubrics, specific techniques for intervention and acceleration, chart descriptions, literature links and assessments. Cynth

Are you tired of making endless work page copies which may keep your students busy but do little in developing higher level thinking skills? Are you looking for something different? This over fifty page theme based novel study for Sharon Creech's "Ruby Holler" is focused on helping your students develop ideas and support them with text evidence. Instead of pulling your students to an 'expected answer', your students will develop their own ideas, push them into gist statements, learn to support

In this 29 page packet you will find easy to use slips to monitor and foster mastery of the fifth grade common core standard AO.1: use parentheses, brackets, or braces in numerical expressions, and evaluate expressions with these symbols. Everything is included: 16 slips of increasing difficulty, student and teacher monitoring sheets, additional practice worksheets, a summative assessment and all answer keys. Explicit directions of how to use the slips & work with students who are struggling a

This complete lesson will help your students think about the process of multiplying. Some common core mathematics practices that are fostered in this lesson are: makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them, construct viable arguments, model mathematics & look for and make sense of structure. The lesson includes detailed directions and worksheets. Students work in triads to develop a comprehensive understanding of multiplying and strategies. Four additional worksheets are included f

Are you looking for language arts lesson plans that address multiple targets? This 57 page unit uses five Common Core exemplary poetry texts to teach many language arts targets in a whole class setting. It provides you with detailed instructions on five poems. Each poem has one week of direct instruction for fluency, word study, reading comprehension and discussion skills. It includes everything you need: detailed lessons, copies of poems, home fluency practice handouts, posters and internet

One page lab for students to record and draw observations of cells: onion and potato. Materials needed for lab: onion, potato, red food coloring mixture, iodine mixture, tweezers, knife, slides, cover slips and microscopes. Make sure you dilute the red food coloring and iodine with water before the lab. This one page lab goes with the free Smartboard file: from Cells to Systems

Booknotes are a tool for both you and your students. Your students can use them to take notes while reading, keep track of goals, practice strategies, and engage themselves in their reading. Teachers can use them to hold students accountable, monitor student thinking about reading and provide individual instruction. They are easy and relatively inexpensive, just make the copies you need. In this 54 page bundle of notes, you'll find notes for book groups, individual needs, specific genres, plo