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Looking for a creative and hilarious way to build classroom community, spark conversation, and start the week with some giggles? Meme of the Week will make every student look forward to Monday morning! This ready-to-use resource includes a collection of student-friendly meme images and playful, relatable captions that capture big student emotions—from confidence and competitiveness to those “oops” and “aha!” moments we all know too well. Whether you're using it for morning meetings, brain break

Salt Dough Landform Project – Hands-On Earth Science Fun! Looking for a creative, low-prep way to bring landforms to life in your classroom? This Salt Dough Landform Project is a student favorite and an awesome way to reinforce Earth Science concepts while promoting collaboration, artistic expression, and content mastery. Aligned with NGSS 2-ESS1-1, 2-ESS2-2, and 2-ESS2-3, this flexible multi-day project fits beautifully into your science block. What’s Included: Sketch & color rough draft te

Streamline your 5th-grade ELA instruction with this comprehensive Vocabulary Bundle! This resource includes explicit instruction slide decks for all 10 units of the Benchmark Advance Grade 5 curriculum.Designed with Structured Literacy and Science of Reading principles in mind, these materials take the guesswork out of teaching 10 weekly words plus unit-specific knowledge-building words.What’s Included in This Bundle?10 Full Unit Slide Decks: Each unit covers Weeks 1, 2, and 3.360+ Words Total:

Streamline your 5th-grade ELA instruction with this comprehensive Vocabulary Bundle! This resource includes explicit instruction slide decks for all 10 units of the Benchmark Advance Grade 3 curriculum.Designed with Structured Literacy and Science of Reading principles in mind, these materials take the guesswork out of teaching 7 weekly words plus unit-specific knowledge-building words.What’s Included in This Bundle?10 Full Unit Slide Decks: Each unit covers Weeks 1, 2, and 3.360+ Words Total: I

This activity is a wonderful one for early elementary, and also a go-to for St. Patrick’s Day! You can use as a STEM only activity, or use the attached worksheet to quiz your students and have them “earn” their fruit loops to make their rainbow. The only materials you will need is a box of fruit loops, pipe cleaners, and some play dough. (Hint: if you need a lot of it for several students, sometimes I make my own salt dough and dye it… you just need flour, salt, and water).  **Earn TpT credits w

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💭 What if you never had to manually create a vocabulary slide deck. Ever. Again. 🤯⏱️ Seriously, stop making vocabulary slides one by one!We’ve all been there: it’s Sunday night, you’re planning vocabulary for a new unit or prepping for the upcoming grading period, and you are trapped in an endless loop of manual copy-pasting.Listen, I have put in all the work, the late-night tech sweat, and quite possibly a few tears to figure this out so that YOU don't have to! After spending way too long on

An explicit vocabulary and morphology system aligned with the Science of Reading using vocabulary from Benchmark Advance!This explicit vocabulary and morphology instruction system is all you need for explicitly teaching 7 words per week, plus teaching morphology so students can unlock the meaning of many additional words. This set is for Benchmark Advance Grade 3 Unit 10: Building Knowledge, Week 1-3. Perfect for whole-group instruction, small group instruction, or self-paced review. Student wor

An explicit vocabulary and morphology system aligned with the Science of Reading using vocabulary from Benchmark Advance!This explicit vocabulary and morphology instruction system is all you need for explicitly teaching 7 words per week, plus teaching morphology so students can unlock the meaning of many additional words. This set is for Benchmark Advance Grade 3 Unit 9: Building Knowledge, Week 1-3. Perfect for whole-group instruction, small group instruction, or self-paced review. Student work

An explicit vocabulary and morphology system aligned with the Science of Reading using vocabulary from Benchmark Advance!This explicit vocabulary and morphology instruction system is all you need for explicitly teaching 7 words per week, plus teaching morphology so students can unlock the meaning of many additional words. This set is for Benchmark Advance Grade 3 Unit 8: Building Knowledge, Week 1-3. Perfect for whole-group instruction, small group instruction, or self-paced review. Student work

An explicit vocabulary and morphology system aligned with the Science of Reading using vocabulary from Benchmark Advance!This explicit vocabulary and morphology instruction system is all you need for explicitly teaching 7 words per week, plus teaching morphology so students can unlock the meaning of many additional words. This set is for Benchmark Advance Grade 3 Unit 7: Building Knowledge, Week 1-3. Perfect for whole-group instruction, small group instruction, or self-paced review. Student work

An explicit vocabulary and morphology system aligned with the Science of Reading using vocabulary from Benchmark Advance!This explicit vocabulary and morphology instruction system is all you need for explicitly teaching 7 words per week, plus teaching morphology so students can unlock the meaning of many additional words. This set is for Benchmark Advance Grade 3 Unit 6: Building Knowledge, Week 1-3. Perfect for whole-group instruction, small group instruction, or self-paced review. Student work

An explicit vocabulary and morphology system aligned with the Science of Reading using vocabulary from Benchmark Advance!This explicit vocabulary and morphology instruction system is all you need for explicitly teaching 7 words per week, plus teaching morphology so students can unlock the meaning of many additional words. This set is for Benchmark Advance Grade 3 Unit 5: Building Knowledge, Week 1-3. Perfect for whole-group instruction, small group instruction, or self-paced review. Student work

An explicit vocabulary and morphology system aligned with the Science of Reading using vocabulary from Benchmark Advance!This explicit vocabulary and morphology instruction system is all you need for explicitly teaching 7 words per week, plus teaching morphology so students can unlock the meaning of many additional words. This set is for Benchmark Advance Grade 3 Unit 3: Building Knowledge, Week 1-3. Perfect for whole-group instruction, small group instruction, or self-paced review. Student work

An explicit vocabulary and morphology system aligned with the Science of Reading using vocabulary from Benchmark Advance!This explicit vocabulary and morphology instruction system is all you need for explicitly teaching 7 words per week, plus teaching morphology so students can unlock the meaning of many additional words. This set is for Benchmark Advance Grade 3 Unit 3: Building Knowledge, Week 1-3. Perfect for whole-group instruction, small group instruction, or self-paced review. Student work

An explicit vocabulary and morphology system aligned with the Science of Reading using vocabulary from Benchmark Advance!This explicit vocabulary and morphology instruction system is all you need for explicitly teaching 7 words per week, plus teaching morphology so students can unlock the meaning of many additional words. This set is for Benchmark Advance Grade 3 Unit 2: Building Knowledge, Week 1-3. Perfect for whole-group instruction, small group instruction, or self-paced review. Student work

An explicit vocabulary and morphology system aligned with the Science of Reading using vocabulary from Benchmark Advance!This explicit vocabulary and morphology instruction system is all you need for explicitly teaching 7 words per week, plus teaching morphology so students can unlock the meaning of many additional words. This set is for Benchmark Advance Grade 3 Unit 1: Building Knowledge, Week 1-3. Perfect for whole-group instruction, small group instruction, or self-paced review. Student wor

This explicit vocabulary instruction slide deck is all you need for explicitly teaching 10 words per week! This set is for Benchmark Advance Grade 5 Unit 1: Building Knowledge, Week 1-3. Perfect for whole-group instruction, small group instruction, or self-paced review. Student worksheet included for both knowledge building words and 10 weekly words.6 Knowledge Building Words + 10 words per week for 3 week unit = 36 explicitly taught wordsKey Features for Structured Literacy TeachersInstructiona

This explicit vocabulary instruction slide deck is all you need for explicitly teaching 10 words per week! This set is for Benchmark Advance Grade 5 Unit 2: Building Knowledge, Week 1-3. Perfect for whole-group instruction, small group instruction, or self-paced review. Student worksheet included for both knowledge building words and 10 weekly words.6 Knowledge Building Words + 10 words per week for 3 week unit = 36 explicitly taught wordsKey Features for Structured Literacy TeachersInstructiona

This explicit vocabulary instruction slide deck is all you need for explicitly teaching 10 words per week! This set is for Benchmark Advance Grade 5 Unit 5: Building Knowledge, Week 1-3. Perfect for whole-group instruction, small group instruction, or self-paced review. Student worksheet included for both knowledge building words and 10 weekly words.6 Knowledge Building Words + 10 words per week for 3 week unit = 36 explicitly taught wordsKey Features for Structured Literacy TeachersInstructiona