Heather Fleming

Includes three products:Product 1: Google Slides to display and guide students through a summative Socratic Seminar that focuses on the Essential Question of the Grade 6 Wit & Wisdom Module 3 over the novel "Blood on the River" and informational text "Written in Bone".Product 2: Handout to be used after reading the historical novel "Blood on the River" before a brief Socratic Seminar.Product 3: Handout to be used to help support students' reading of informational text "Written in Bone." Focuses

This is a template to get students started writing a more complete summary of a piece of nonfiction without retelling it like they often do. It was modeled after the AVID strategy of providing a template for a rhetorical precis. This is, however, on a more basic level than that because my students weren't to that point yet.

Designed for targeted writing practice to focus on writing a solid introduction with a hook and clear thesis statement, a detailed ToSEEC body paragraph, and a clear & concise conclusion. Great for grades 5-8.

Jigsaw activity designed to supplement Wit & Wisdom Grade 6 text "Written in Bone". Pages 1-4 are a student handout that students can use as they read and find evidence in their assigned chapter. Pages 5-7 are teacher materials for instruction and group assignments. Page 8 can be used for students to track discussion during the Socratic Seminar or to use after as a reflection activity.

This slideshow was designed to lead students through a Socratic Seminar discussion after reading the texts "Blood on the River" and "Written in Bone" as part of the Grade 6 Wit & Wisdom curriculum.

Designed to help students visualize and discuss as they read the first chapters of the historical novel "Blood on the River." Great for grades 5-8 but designed to supplement Wit&Wisdom Grade 6 Module 3 Lesson 2.

Designed to help students create a clear claim and organize their evidence prior to a Socratic Seminar over the novel "Blood on the River" as part of the Grade 6 Wit & Wisdom curriculum. Pages 1-2 are meant for the whole class, but pages 3-4 are designed to provide sentence stems for English Language Learners or other struggling readers.

Handout designed to guide students on the expectations for the End of Module 3 Assessment (Wit&Wisdom Grade6). 4-point rubric is included.

Designed as a group anticipatory activity for the historical novel "Blood on the River." Great for grades 5-8, but designed to go with Wit&Wisdom Grade 6 Module 3 text.

Designed for targeted writing practice to focus on writing a solid conclusion using the Restate-Review-Reflect method. Great for grades 5-8

Designed for targeted writing practice to focus on writing a detailed body paragraph that follows the ToSEEC structure used with Wit & Wisdom. Great for grades 5-8

Designed for targeted writing practice to focus on writing a solid introduction with a hook and clear thesis statement. Great for grades 5-8

This is a template to get students started writing a more complete summary of a piece of fiction without retelling it like they often do. It was modeled after the AVID strategy of providing a template for a rhetorical precis. This is, however, on a more basic level than that because my students weren't to that point yet.

This graphic organizer shows students the difference between truly summarizing something and simply retelling the entire thing. Each part of the worksheet walks students through the elements that a good summary has for both a narrative text and expository text. This has been used very successfully within a unit over the Brothers Grimm. The expository text was a short biography of their lives, and the narrative text used was one of several short stories retold by the Brothers Grimm.

This is a great worksheet format to use with a great story "Rikki-tikki-tavi". It using the Cornell Note format, and the guided reading questions are taken from our course textbook and then modified slightly. This is a great activity for all students, and has been done in this way to modified for our exceptional students. It can easily be taken further for students by having them utilize the questions column. The BEST part of this activity is the summarizing template at the end. Our student

This was named "Text Structure Story" even though it's not a story per se. It is more of a narrative nonfiction piece that students will read based off of a chosen setting. The important factor here would be that it needs to use each of the five text structures normally seen in expository writing (description, sequence, compare/contrast, cause/effect, and problem/solution). It seems like an overwhelming project, but students really have fun with it and learn a lot about these text structures

This is a comparison chart I created to use with two articles that we teach in class (both pertain to the issue of whether or not professional athletes' are paid fairly). Any two articles pertaining to the same issue could be used though. It was designed to follow the author's argument in both articles so students must identify the claim, counterargument, and propaganda techniques used in both. The bottom can be left off or altered, but it was put there as a part of our engagement and wra

Great note taking activity that utilizes the Cornell Notes format. Students will take notes over the various story elements and then take it one step higher and visually represent each of these words. The third and final step is that students then must apply these words by summarizing the plot of their favorite movie (which is meant to be the essential question at the top). Activity also allows for extension with the challenge words at the bottom, but it can easily modified more if need be.

Students will have a chance to practice both revision and editing and see the distinct difference between the two. It also incorporates AVID strategies and the Cornell Note-taking style.

This was designed to be used with a play version of "A Christmas Carol" in our textbook but could easily be used for any version. It could also be adapted for other texts as well. It helps students look at major/minor characters, static/dynamic characters, review other plot elements and how they affect one another (setting, climax) etc, and to analyze the theme of the story. My kids had a great time with this when we did our unit on reading and watching multiple versions of the classic.