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This is an end of text test for Anatomy of a Volcanic Eruption within the ReadyGen program. It includes multiple choice, open ended, and short response questions.

Stereotyping and bullying have become a major problem in our society. I have taken a creative approach in dealing with this by integrating the topic into a creative writing assignment that satisfies the common core standard of argumentative/persuasive writing. Included is a fun "Wreck it Ralph" writing paper for final drafts. -Students can start the lesson off by watching the movie trailer of "Wreck it Ralph" on you tube and discuss the dilemmas at hand. Students can then focus on the writing

This is a Text Dependent Analysis (TDA) designed to go with the first 4 chapters of the book. There is a prompt, brain storming web graphic organizer, outline, final draft, and video resources.

I had a particularly difficult class one of my years of teaching and out of necessity, created this little document. Some students were consuming all of my guided reading time with their undesirable behaviors. This was greatly detracting not only from the other students, but from the target student themselves seeing as the time was wasted on just getting them to stay on task. I used this after I had exhausted all forms of discipline and could not afford to keep wasting the other student's valuab

A short constructed response created to sample how much student's have learned at the end of an introductory unit to fourth grade Social Studies. Provided is a regular version and a slightly modified version for those with special needs.