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Maximize your students’ reading growth with this comprehensive 3-Week (12-Day) Fluency and Accuracy Unit. Designed for 3rd-grade standards, this unit provides a diverse array of engaging, multi-modal activities that target decoding, prosody, and reading speed through consistent, structured practice. Each week follows a predictable yet exciting routine, moving from oral cloze warm-ups to deep-dive fluency activities, culminating in morphology and word-work wraps-ups. What’s Included in This 12-D

Explicitly teach and master the Common Core Speaking and Listening (SL) standards with this comprehensive, 12-day scaffolded unit. This resource moves beyond simple "talking" to provide direct instruction on active listening, collaborative discussion techniques, and respectful response strategies. Comprehensive Skill Breakdown: Each day features a clear objective, warm-up, mini-lesson, and scaffolded practice activities. Active Listening Foundations: Students identify and practice physical and

Make rounding click with this clear, visual, and engaging digital lesson!This Google Slides presentation uses simple animations to help students see what it means to round to the nearest ten. Whether you’re introducing the concept for the first time or reviewing before a test, this resource supports learners with step-by-step visuals, real-time examples, and interactive practice. What’s Included: ✅ 15 animated teaching slides to introduce and model rounding ✅ 9 practice slides with built-

Classroom Response Game: "Boom! Snap! Choose!"Transform your classroom into an interactive learning hub with our editable Boom! Snap! Choose! game—a dynamic and engaging way to encourage student participation and reinforce classroom procedures. This versatile game promotes quick thinking and collaboration while adding a touch of excitement to your lessons. Product Overview:Game Type: Classroom Response ActivityRecommended Group Size: 2-4 students per groupMaterials Needed: Choice markers (green

Make classifying quadrilaterals feel like a game—your students won’t even realize they’re reviewing!The Quadrilateral Machine is an interactive Google Slides activity where students answer a series of yes or no questions that guide them step-by-step to the correct type of quadrilateral. Whether students are identifying teacher-provided shapes or analyzing their own drawings, this digital tool brings clarity, logic, and a little bit of fun to geometry classification. What’s Included: ✅ Inte

Build-a-Number: Expanded Form Group Activity with Dice Get your students moving, collaborating, and thinking place value!This hands-on, whole-class math activity turns expanded form into an engaging game. Students each hold a color-coded die labeled with different place value numbers (ones, tens, hundreds, thousands). When the teacher calls out a number, like 5,139, students race to find their matching part (e.g., 5,000 • 100 • 30 • 9) and physically arrange themselves in expanded form. It’s

This list of nine comprehension strategies and skills includes: -A definition -Thinking stems to help you ask questions of any title. -A simple graphic organizer for class or small group discussion. -10-15 excellent picture book titles that illustrate the strategy or skill. Fantastic for a quick introduction, review, or comprehension lesson extension.