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This is an anchor chart for teachers and students to use when working in rounding numbers. This tool can help students visualize "what to do" when you're asked to round a number to a given place value. Works easily as a scaffold for visual learners...rounding is an abstract concept! Goes along well with my place value desktop charts! There is a color version and then black and white, also, if students would like to color their rainbows themselves.

A close-reading comprehension guide for Thanksgiving on Thursday by Mary Pope Osborne Focuses on comprehension and understanding of the narrative in the story. Reinforces the skill of citing text evidence. Students can check their understanding after reading, whole-group or independently.A way to track if learners are following the plot, focusing on WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, and WHY.Encourages serial reading: most students are familiar with The Magic Treehouse series!Easy to implement...just prin

A close-reading comprehension guide for A to Z Mysteries: Mayflower Treasure Hunt by Ron RoyFocuses on comprehension and understanding of the narrative in the story. It also reinforces citing answers and text evidence. Students can check their understanding after reading, whole-group or independently.A way to track if learners are following the plot, focusing on WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, and WHY.Easy to implement...just print and go!Excellent for the month of November and fits in with myFirst Tha

It's the time to organize assessment binders to prepare for a new year! This PDF includes binder covers for PreK-12th grade and then there are 3 dividers for beginning, middle, and end of year progress monitoring. They can be colored and personalized by students as a beginning of the year activity. These are ideal for student-led conference binders to assist learners in keeping themselves organized when presenting to parents and they are also perfect for homeschool families to keep track of ass

This is a helpful form to meet multiple standards with your intermediate students. Paired with Career Day activities, it guides the research process and encourages collaboration and presentation skills.

+ An informative PDF with examples for the Six Types of Context Clues: Definition, Example, Synonym, Antonym, Inference, and Internal + Contains: 10-page PDF, easily printable as posters or for reminders during small-group instruction. + A 10-slide Keynote presentation (it's identical, minus some fonts) is available here!

Using these labels, you can help keep your students organized from day to day. The bonus is that students can help their parents because there won't be questions about what stays at home and what goes back to school. These work with any 2-pocket folder. The front of the folder is labeled "Homework Folder". The first inside pocket is labeled "Bring Back" and is for any homework, signed papers, etc that need to come back. The second pocket is for the corrected work or notices that need to stay at

I always found myself not having a model of a place value chart...when I needed to teach place value! I wanted a reproducible that could be used by students over and over again, and I wanted something I could easily project for demonstrations during math lessons. This purchase includes: A full-sized place value chart (fits 8 1/2 x 11) that you can print, project, and/or copy. A page of 4 place value charts that you can print and copy for students to use. These are great for putting on desks,

This is a set of instructions that can help your elementary-aged students (or even older students!) solve their own problem when it comes to "I don't have a pencil". I've used this method in multiple schools and classrooms and it takes your classroom management to a whole new level! It's a FREE product, so it's worth a try if you're struggling with pencil problems in your classroom!

These reminder cards will help you to keep students engaged during whole-group lessons, and will work for small-group lessons as well. Students will have the expectations right in front of them! Easy to print, cut out, and fasten to desks. Laminate or tape, print onto cardstock, etc. Even put them onto the cover of notebooks if students bring a certain book to your classroom or small-group table. I found that having an open discussion and talking about each of these strategies was helpful in c

+This questioning resource will be very helpful to teachers at any level, because the questions are done for you! +Any subject matter will fit! +Perfect for differentiation, group work, or class discussion! +These cards can be used by individual students, in pairs, small groups, or as a whole class. Perfect for checking for understanding, formative assessments, and summatively assessing a unit. +Covers multiple ELA standards for each grade level +Perfect for test prep! +Included: *Full size pa

+Make your classroom library student-friendly with an easy sign-out sheet for books and a set of posted rules! +Know who has what book and the length of time they've been reading it, and it helps to ensure they don't have a whole stack of books (that others could be reading!) in their desks. +Having the expectations posted is a great way to prevent messy shelves too!

+This is a version of a book report that's very student-friendly and focuses on genre, theme, characters, plot, structure, setting, and narration. The questions help guide the students' thinking about the book, instead of asking them to summarize. +Appropriate for any intermediate ELA class +Offers book choice to students or you can assign books +Includes a grading checklist for efficient feedback

+Teaches the Cornell Notes method to primary and intermediate students +Models an efficient introduction to note-taking from text, while the teacher is speaking, or from media sources (video) +Includes a space for picture-drawing under each topic

This activity can be done whole-group, in small groups, or independently as a formative or summative assessment. Students use construction paper (or any other large sheet of paper) to organize the literary theme with it's description and also include an example of a fiction story that has that theme. It can pasted together in clusters or as a three-column chart. This can also be done as a whole group activity on a document camera, or glued into interactive notebooks for reference. Color-coding

+A resource for parents...perfect for back-to-school nights or parent conferences +An easy way to give out tips and tricks for students who may be struggling with reading at home +Can accompany a reading log or reading calendar that is assigned as homework +2 per page to save copies

+Writing rubric for Capitalization-Usage-Punctuation-Spelling +Quick and easy tool for formative feedback on writing +Can be used for small groups, individual, peer-feedback, self-reflection, etc. +2 rubrics per page for easy copying

+This guide helps transition students to the skill of note-taking. +Can be used with text, videos, presentations, etc. +Great for independent thinking or for partner or group-work using collaboration or Think-Pair-Share +Can be used with intermediate through high school +Great for exit tickets or interactive notebooks!

After teaching the three branches of American government, this game can be used as a review, partner/table activity, center work, or a formative or summative assessment. *Students can cut out the squares and headings (found at the bottom) and glue them onto construction paper into the correct categories. *Can also easily be used with interactive notebooks *Students can work together to match the descriptions to the branch. *Students can color-code the squares with crayons/colored pencils/m

Using this note-taking chart, students can fill in bullet points or important details in an organized way. Perfect for intermediate students who don't have a grasp on note-taking skills. Great for printing out for interactive notebooks and/or projecting on a Smartboard to teach the three branches of U.S. government.