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Have you been wanting to try Genius Hour in your classroom? Do you know everything about it but don't know how to organize your lessons or the unit? Here is a handy resource pack that is a step-by-step guide to make Genius Hour run a little bit more smoothly in your classroom. There are lots of goodies in this packet. Included: Page 2: Benefits of Genius Hour Page 3: Passion Project Cover Page (if you decide to put the pages in a stapled packet for the kiddos) Page 4: What is Genius Hour? A

This is the newsletter I send home to parents via e-mail once a week. I have provided you with the template I have created, however, I have made the product EDITABLE! You can change the fonts, placements, and graphics if you wish. I have attached the WORD version and PAGES version in a ZIP file. I made this in PAGES and had to convert it to word. **Please remember the fonts you see on my preview may not show up if you do not have the same fonts as me. I used KG Next to Me Solid, KG Eyes Wide Op

Do you have a book club that is having a hard time staying focused or not knowing what to talk about? This product is a template for those Book Club groups that need a push in the right direction. There are only two templates in their product that help guide the students in their discussions. Skills covered: Predicting Questioning Character Vocabulary Summarizing Quotes Connections Visualization

This product is a great way to introduce your students to analogies. It helps students understand what analogies are, how to make analogies, and compares the different types of relationships to each other! This product has the students investigating, working with partners, and completing independent work that reinforces the different analogy relationships that you will teach. The packet includes: Page 1- Title page Page 2- What is an Analogy? poster Page 3- Analogy 101 - formal form vs. sente

Inspired by Donalyn MIller- The Book Whisperer, I tweaked her 40 book challenge to a 20 book challenge for my third graders! Included in the packet: -A who, what, when, how, why of the 20 Book Challenge -"My 20 Book Journey" Booklet- a log to keep track of all the books they have read - includes all the different genres they are to read. -a sticker chart for an alternate way for the students to keep track of their 20 books that they've read. Also included...The 30 Book Challenge! Everything

This packet is a resource you can use to reinforce affixes in your classroom. This packet contains: -What is an affix? prefix? suffix? and root word? posters. -What is a prefix? visual representation -What is a suffix? visual representation -Prefix of the Week poster -Suffix of the Week poster -Root Word of the Week poster -10 prefixes ( tri, sub, dis, re, un, mis, pre, auto, trans, post) Most prefixes come with 4 sheets for each prefix 1. brainstorming 2. define (applying what you know about d

This packet is based around the book, My Teacher's Secret Life. There are 7 community building activities for the beginning of the year. All of them are great activities to help your students get to know each other and you, the teacher! You could use these lessons and games in a week or use them over time! Main purpose of the lesson: Two students may look at each other and think they have nothing in common but these lessons and activities let students realize they have more in common with other

This product is a great way to RIDE INTO READING. I use these activities to kick off reader's workshop and to build and foster a love for reading in my room. Some of these activities/ideas were inspired by Donalyn Miller (The Book Whisperer). Included in the packet: Reading Interview (reading survey) Interest Interview (interest survey) What Kind of a Reader are you? (survey) Best Reading Memory page- (use as a class book) Favorite Place to Read- (use as class book) Choosing a Good Book I Rea

A poster to put up in your room to remind the students which way to round numbers!

This product helps students visualize the writing process they are continually on during writer's workshop. There are 7 steps included in this writing process poster pack! Along with the 7 posters of each step is an explanation (in kid friendly terms) of what each step entails. I use these posters to keep up all year on our writing bulletin board. All things included in this pack is: Page 1- title page 2- example of bulletin board set up 3- student tracker writing process check list 4-17 Steps

Stressing about the first week of school? Need some lessons or ideas to get you up and running in your classroom. Boy! Have I got the bundle for you! This packet is geared towards 3rd graders because of the How NOT to start Third Grade book activities, however, all the other files can be used with 2nd-4th graders! Here are 5 of my beginning of the year-first week of school packs! If you would like more information on the products included in this bundle please see my store for more detailed inf

This product is a fun way to kick off the year supporting literacy in your classroom. The resource can be used from 1st to 3rd grade. The students get to bring in their favorite book and share it with the class! Setting out all the favorite books, makes your classroom look like a book museum!! The students enjoy listening to the other students talk about their favorite book while moving around the classroom! Included in the packet: -Instructions on how it works -Parent letter informing about b

This product let's teacher's know how their students are feeling when they enter the classroom and when they leave! There is a rating scale 1 to 5. The students TAP the sign corresponding to how they are feeling like when they walk in the door or when they leave to go home! I love it because if a kid walks in and TAPS the 1 (upset), automatically you can turn their day around by doing something positive for them or talk to them about what's wrong! I hang mine right inside the door so they see it

This product is a no prep, ready to go intervention or strategy group lesson! Blend of the Day is geared toward a second and/or third-grade classroom for a student or students who are struggling with their beginning and ending blends. With these printables, students are taught the blend, recognize and say words with the blend, build words using the blend, and find the blend in sentences. There are 27 blends in all. 6 ending blends and 21 beginning blends. beginning blends: fr, fl, cr, cl, br,

This is a product you can use along side of the Lucy Calkin's Reading Units of Study. This product is only for the first unit, Building a Reading Life. I have noticed that my students have a hard time using post-its in the first unit. They want to write more, the post-its get lost, or they plain forget about them! I decided to make a notebook/"Thought Spot" to help students learn how to make great jots from the get-go. It also holds them accountable for the skills they could be working on during

Are you having partnerships in your classroom that are having trouble staying on task, completing their work, or knowing what to do? Then this product is for you! Each page of the notebook gives the students discussion questions they could talk about, a spot where they make a goal/job for their next meeting, a book rating, and pages they read that day. This helped my kiddos who had a hard time being accountable for their work during reading tremendously!

Cut, laminate, and piece together to get an adorable Reading is Thinking heading for your reading bulletin board!

Do you need more confidence in your conferring skills? Do you need help with how to structure your conferences? Well, then this 13-page conferring toolkit will help you become better at conducting conferences with your kiddos! - Conference templates for notes - How to structure your conferences - Questions to ask - Charts to help with conferring when you know nothing about the books! ** Yes, I know the cover should be Reader's Workshop. However, I lost my editing file for the this product an

Are your students having a hard time writing strong jots? Here is a quick and easy bookmark for them to use to encourage stronger jots.