excELLent Resources

This story has been used on the TN Core website within the 2-3 grade span Oceans and Continents Unit. I by no means wrote any of this informational text, but simply formatted. It is used with the Water, Water, Everywhere: Facts About the Ocean Story. This is a great introduction to oceans and continents unit. Be sure to check out my FREE vocabulary powerpoint that I use as a pre-teaching tool.

These task cards can be used multiple ways (Scoot, I Have, Who Has, Matching, Literacy Center, etc), but can also serve as a great powerpoint review for students after finishing the informational texts Oceans, and Water, Water, Everywhere: Facts About the Ocean. I put these in a center, and have my students go back in the text, find the answer, highlight, then complete the match. You can find other resources for this unit in my TPT store!

This resource was created to be a follow-up activity to the book The Great Smoky Mountain Salamander Ball by Lisa Horstman. If you need a copy of the book, please click here. I created this resource during summer school. My students loved learning about salamanders and their habitats. I used this with intermediate grade students, but it would also work well with primary. It is critical for students to engage in the text multiple times, and all the words in the matching game come straight from

This PowerPoint guides students through the process of writing a compare and contrast paragraph on bats and spiders. I print this as a book for students to complete throughout the week, and at the end of the week, students take the guided sheets to write a paragraph independently. This product was designed for my 2nd and 3rd grade low ESL group. Adapt however you wish to fit your students. Happy teaching!

I created this powerpoint for my ESL/ELL students when reading the informational text Water, Water, Everywhere: Facts About the Ocean. I have pulled out words from the text that are key vocabulary words to study. I have used many pictures, and embedded sentence context within the powerpoint. If you would like to grab the informational text, it is used in the Oceans and Continents Unit for the 2-3 grade band of the TN Core site.