Eloquently Elementary

Use in your own way. Primary grades, you may just want the log. Upper grades, you may want the log and a Read and Respond component. **I am working on a READ/ RESPOND outline, so stay tuned**

It's never too early to start spelling homework. Students are to practice the words by re-writing, writing sentences, and sorting words into alphabetical groups (pre-alphabetizing).

Help your students plan and organize their biographies. Students can write about each other or famous people in history.

Get your classes talking about academic content whether they are: -English only -Spanish only -English Language Learners -Spanish Language Learners or -Bilingual! Get them producing language with competence and confidence!

Explorers and influencers from 350 BC-1847 are included in these colorful Timeline cards. Most Explorers included had connections to the exploration and statehood of California. Use them to: •introduce explorers/exploration •create a timeline •create a world map displaying the origins of explorers The cards are about 3"x5". Explorers (and then some) included are: Aristotle, Leif Eriksson, Marco Polo, Zheng He, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Sir Francis Drake, Francisco de Ulloa, Herna

Proofreading Strategies: By the time students have mastered the art of compiling sentences into a paragraph or more, proofreading becomes the next conquest. Use this handy tool to guide your students toward proofreading more independently. Reading Strategies: This bookmark is designed to help your students stop to clarify what they are reading. Decoding and vocabulary comprehension are imperative to overall comprehension/ summarization of any book, story, passage, or text. Students can also u

•Read and Respond templates •Graphic organizers for "Balanced Literacy" writing tasks Great for coaching your students to write in a variety of genres. Get those primary kiddos ready for Performance Based Assessments (PBAs). Ready, set, GO!

Included are labels for classroom management, materials, schedule, etc. In my class, I laminated each label (except bathroom pass and small numbers) and stuck a magnet strip on the back to place on the whiteboard. I used the larger numbers for team point sections on the whiteboard and the smaller ones to label team material boxes using contact tape (like laminating but sticky). The bathroom passes can also be stuck to things using contact tape. I stuck them to hand sanitizer for both boys' an

This timeline is great for pre-unit inquiry centers, visual reminders of time periods, and the outline for building your own California Timeline. Native Americans, European Explorers, Spanish Missions, Russian Settlement, Mexican Government and American Settlement are included.

My students are always in need of ways to organize the ideas and events in a story. I have created a few graphic organizers for summarization, and the BEGINNING, MIDDLE, and END Story Outline seems to be working the best. In the top three boxes, students can complete a quick sketch of the events and then follow the bottom boxes with written responses. You can modify using sentence starters, sentence frames or let them have at it in teams or solo. :) Enjoy! :)

•Spanish translations •Reading Log •PE log •Spelling (ABC order, Boggle, Sentences, Scrabble) •Read and Respond (Comprehension) -Summary -Main Idea/ Detail -Opinion -Author's Purpose •Standards Based scoring •WEEKLY AND DAILY PAGES

Teaching your students how to write letters to people? Use this template to organize the letter correctly! Simple copy the 2 pages onto one, double sided and students can fold it in half long ways to make it look like an envelope!

I'm using this activity with elementary Newcomer students... and have used it with Kinder in the past. Your students can grow grass, or whatever spring plant you wish and watch it grow while making predictions and recording their results! Enjoy :)

Want classroom currency? Here are what I like to call "Brain Bucks." They worked well alongside team points with my 2nd and 3rd graders. Students earned money for jobs, using complete sentences when speaking, following directions the first time, wearing uniforms, helping classmates, staying organized, etc. Then, spent their money in the classroom store (reasonable items at "inflated" classroom prices). Use these however you like to keep your classroom running smoothly. HEADS UP! You will want

Starting these soon with the first graders! Use them to your needs :) Each group of facts has its own sheet.

Included are clarification strategies for reading along with the anchor charts of skills students need for comprehension (main idea,summarization, inference, drawing conclusions, author's purpose, characterization, and theme)

Work with adjectives, sentences frames, and spring vocabulary with your primary grade students, or ESL. I generated lists of spring words, adjectives with my newcomer students on chart paper, then they went on to complete the follow-up activity sheet. Use this tool however you like. The kids love to recreate anchor charts! Enjoy! :)

Keep these cards in a pocket chart, on the whiteboard, or to label materials and areas for choice time.

Work on words used to describe MORNING, AFTERNOON, NIGHT, and what activities might take place during those times on a daily basis with your primary students or ESL. With my students, we generated 3 lists of Morning, Afternoon, and NIght words... they re-generated on their own sheets (PARTS OF THE DAY GRAPHIC ORGANIZER). After, students can decide which activities they do everyday and fill in their own "Daily Activities" sheet. Use this tool however you like. The kids love to recreate ancho

Great graphic organizer for that tricky understanding of main idea. I printed a blank copy, colored the castle, outlined the detail boxes and drew flow chart type arrows on a re-usable laminated page that I use all the time for reading comprehension. Enjoy:)