Greg Frates

Greg Frates again with daily and monthly practice for every day of 2nd grade! All the Common Core skills and a few more to ensure your students/children are learning the necessary skills to succeed and get ready for next year. Use as daily homework or a monthly portfolio so students can progress as their own speed and complete a great project each month to display in class, at home and for their peers. The start of each week begins with a reoccurring skill necessary for yearlong progress.

Greg Frates again with daily and monthly practice for every day of 3rd grade! All the Common Core skills and a few more to ensure your students/children are learning the necessary skills to succeed and get ready for next year. Use as daily homework or a monthly portfolio so students can progress as their own speed and complete a great project each month to display in class, at home and for their peers. The start of each week begins with a reoccurring skill necessary for yearlong progress.

Greg Frates again with daily and monthly practice for every day of 4th grade! All the Common Core skills and a few more to ensure your students/children are learning the necessary skills to succeed and get ready for next year. Use as daily homework or a monthly portfolio so students can progress as their own speed and complete a great project each month to display in class, at home and for their peers. The start of each week begins with a reoccurring skill necessary for yearlong progress.

Greg Frates again with daily and monthly practice for every day of 1st grade! All the Common Core skills and a few more to ensure your students/children are learning the necessary skills to succeed and get ready for next year. Use as daily homework or a monthly portfolio so students can progress as their own speed and complete a great project each month to display in class, at home and for their peers. The start of each week begins with a reoccurring skill necessary for yearlong progress.

Expand beyond the basic facts to focus on themes, vocabulary skills and the chance for indepth writing that include focus on Theme and relating the text to a child's own life. Greg Frates' 10 page set lets you mix and match 'Cover' pages with a back page for a variety of book report combinations so students do not get a repeat of skills. Pages easily copy back-to-back and fold in half creating an ideal 'book' format for weekly book reports in class, at home or long term assignments. The depth

Greg Frates again with daily and monthly practice for every day of 5th grade! All the Common Core skills and a few more to ensure your students/children are learning the necessary skills to succeed and get ready for next year. Use as daily homework or a monthly portfolio so students can progress as their own speed and complete a great project each month to display in class, at home and for their peers. The start of each week begins with a reoccurring skill necessary for yearlong progress.

Part 2 of 'Just Book Reports' with 17 titles, room for you to develop your own guided questions. Each is 4 pages long, or 2 back to back that makes a perfect mini book for students to write and illustrate their reflections. Topics include 'I Want To Be', 'My Favorite Games' & 'The Seasons'. Easy to reuse to fit any story, subject or just good Writing goals of students. Again, essential for Common Core which expects students to visualize their ideas. Perfect means to relate to variety of su

Here are 19 foldable paper cubes great for comprehending any subject, asking questions of peers, drawing answers from students and interacting positively using students prior knowledge. Great for any subject, start the day, regroup teams or just to have fun and encourage dialogue among peers. Perfect for differentiated learners. A blank model is included to you or your students can create their own examples. Perfect team building, starting or finishing a unit or merely a daily review of wh

Greg Frates again bringing you 4 quick comprehension skill pages to be used immediately in any subject or class setting! Enjoy 'Story Summary' as kids work on short comprehensive summaries for any story. 'ABC Brainstorm' helps kids to think of key words from any story or topic. 'A-Z Brainstorm' helps kids think of key words and visualizes them. 'Word Ladder' helps students think strategically about key words they are learning. Finally 'Top 10 List' is a brainstorm generator for any topic in

Greg Frates is back with a Math page that can be used as a warm up, activiity for 'early' finishers or merely as a team brainstorming activity. Symmetry, addition, subtraction, telling time and number patterns are some of the skills that need to be relearned throghout any elementary grade school year. This can be reused each week by merely changing the focus of the primary number that starts the entire page. Great for homework, rainy days or as fillers at any time. This page is a great too

Here is a variety of ready to use activities I do in my own class that last all year long. They are easily differentiated, tomorrow ready worksheets, for mini-lessons or homework, clearly can be used cooperatively & reproducible for any theme, subject or time of year! A-Z Chart: Perfect for brainstorming & illustrating Vocabulary in any subject. 'Cognitive Book Report': Nice guided/foldable book for any type of novel or short story. '6 Reading Themes': Great for repeated use on essential

Writing Core skills for every subject! These ready to use writing guides focus on essential skills any student should learn and reflect the goals of Common Core as students will use their developing content specific vocabulary in these story boards. They will help 'manage' any class by providing an abundance of work to fill any period. These can be used repeatedly as they are not 'theme' specific. Greg Frates is uploading all of his activiites, including these story baords, to not only focus

Essential, basic skills to jump start any English class. Edit to accomodate differentiated learners, use at any point during lesson & expand on daily skills. Fold it into a mini booklet with a cover page included! Parts of a story, syllables, compound words, multiple-meaning words & alliterations are just a few of the daily skills students can practice. Can be used for Science,Math or History to build language awareness and usage in a variety of subjects. Perfect for any genre book!

4 pages each make perfect back to back 2 page booklets. Array of topics for young children including 'Some Day', 'What is Fun?', & 'When I Am Responsible'. Can be matched to any story and save as a Word file so you can edit for differentiated learners. Can cross over to different subjects and fits all genres of books. Kids will enjoy the chance to illustrate their ideas, which is an essential goal of Common Core! Ideal to reuse to reinforce essential themes for young learners.

Hi, Greg Frates again providing monthly homework based on ALL the Common Core components, plus a few more. Use as nightly practice, free time refreshers or a monthly portfolio of work done at the varied pace of each child. An idea for every day of the month that is skill focused and perfect for any Kinder learner.

Greg Frates is back with 6 themed Reading Comprehension guides. Fits any novel, theme & time of year! Each page (6 in all!) covers the primary skills any elementary student needs to master. Cause and effect, inference, digraphs, word roots, story map, making predictions, summarizing and determining themes are just some of the skills students need to learn repeatedly through any school year. Great for warm ups, after reading practice, homework or as team builder exercises. Can be done on pa

Greg Frates again with daily and monthly practice for every day of 2nd grade! All the Common Core skills and a few more to ensure your students/children are learning the necessary skills to succeed and get ready for next year. Use as daily homework or a monthly portfolio so students can progress as their own speed and complete a great project each month to display in class, at home and for their peers. The start of each week begins with a reoccurring skill necessary for yearlong progress.

Here is an array of useful skills to build Spelling skills and Vocabulary awareness and comprehension. Self-explanatory grid of assignments Easy to use, differentiate to your class. Ideal for any type of student.

Greg Frates has created a daily, weekly or long term Reading Guide for any type of fiction or nonfiction reading. Common Core requires an array of detailed analysis and this guide gives students 20 writing choices to show their mastery of text analysis. Character Analysis, Problem Solving and Making Conclusions are just 3 of the types of skills included. This chart can be used repeatedly throughout the school year and keep quick finishers busy while having a guide for homework, rainy days o

Super warm up for Math, Science, History or any subject you need! Page can be done alone by following instructions to build words from categories, or merely adjust topics to fit your subject needs. Ideal for any grade level to begin a class. Use at beginning or end of period to get students brainstorming, planning ahead and drawing on their prior knowledge. Edit to differentiate challenge level or add sections for fast finishers. I use this with my own class and it keeps kids engaged in a