Elementary Drive

This can be used as a mini anchor chart or put into student's writing notebooks/folders as a reference to use when creating their conclusion paragraph for their personal narratives.

This can be placed into students folders/notebooks to use during partner time of Writing Workshop. Students have discussion prompts to use during partner time to provide GLOWS (compliments) and GROWS (suggestions) about their partner's work.

When students take the New York State ELA exam, they are faced with many different types of multiple choice and short response questions. For true understanding of each question, students must notice what type of question is being asked. Use this chart to help your students identify the type of question they are answering by using these clue words. Students can label the question right next to it, so they can identify and develop a deeper understanding of what the question is asking.

Students can use this M.I.N.T.S mini checklist to assess their work and determine whether they have used proper capitalization rules. There are 6 checklists on a page! These checklists can be stapled into students notebooks or on their worksheets. M - Months and Days I – the word “I” N – Names of People, Places and Things T – Titles of Books, Movies and People S – Start of a Sentence

This worksheet will help your students notice and identify who the main character in their story is, what the main character's problem is, and how they react to their problem. Once students identify this, they can develop a theory about their character based on how they react to their problem.

This rubric will assist teachers and students in grading a short response answer using the RACC strategry (Restate, Answer, Cite Evidence, Cite Evidence). Quality of work will be assessed with a level 1, 2 or 3 answer. This rubric can be attached to any student work, blown up as an anchor chart or copied for student folders/notebooks.

This choice board will encourage students to grow their opinion writing skills. Used for homework or independent writing time.

Encourage students to annotate any fiction or nonfiction question as they read to fully understand what the question is truly asking them! This document has 2 mini charts on a page. Can be used in their notebooks for a quick reminder, taped down onto their desks, or blown up as a whole class chart.

This worksheet accompanies the text “I Knew You Could” by Craig Dorfman. This can be used at the beginning of the school year to help students create a goal for themselves for the school year.

This document can be glued into student's notebooks to give them an expectation of what their writing journal entries should look like. There are two sheets on each document so cut in half and glue into students writing notebooks!

This resource is for students to properly engage in partner time during Writing Workshop block by giving them sentence starters to make corrections and give compliments and suggestions.

This rubric can be given to group leaders to use as an assessment of their group members during discussions.

Use these mini anchor charts to assist students in finding the main idea of a text and the details to support the main idea.

Students will use the kindness quote to answer the 4 questions: -What do you think about this quote? -What do you think this quote means? -How does this quote relate to friendship or kindness? -Do you have a connection to this quote?

This mini anchor chart can be placed into student's writing notebooks to remind them when it is appropriate to begin a new paragraph.