Jacobs Teaching Resources

Use this Author's Purpose PowerPoint (converted into a PDF file) to help teach your students the 3 main purposes why an author writes (entertain, inform, persuade). This PowerPoint will help simplify the concept by relating it to books and short stories. There are a total of 27 slides that include direct instruction and guided practice opportunities. Display the presentation for students through your projector or print it up to use with a document camera or overhead transparency. For personal

This powerpoint introduces the three main body systems - digestive, circulatory, and respiratory. There is information about each system and also a link to a website with great animated videos for each system. This powerpoint is simple and great for beginners! The powerpoint has 11 total slides. For personal classroom use only. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.This license is the most restrictive of our six main li

Use this Prefix presentation during whole group instruction to teach students about common prefixes. This is a PowerPoint file that has been converted to a PDF to prevent formatting issues. This presentation is suitable for 2nd-3rd graders. Just project it and you have everything you need for a 30 minute lesson on prefixes. Students can play along on whiteboards or paper. The prefixes used in this file are un, re, in, dis, mis, over. Thanks, Jamie Jacobs This work is licensed under a Creative

There are 15 different 2 digit regrouping timed tests with both subtraction and addition. I give my students (second grade) 2 minutes to complete the tests. Once they pass test #1 they would move onto test #2 until they have completed all of 15 of them. You can reward students for passing their tests and chart their progress. This is a fun way to practice basic operations with regrouping everyday. For personal classroom use only. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCo

Use this interactive powerpoint to introduce and practice different homophones with our students. There are 18 slide of examples and questions with lots of graphics for all students to practice. For personal classroom use only. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit

A fun activity to help reinforce graphing. Students create a tally table, bar graph and pictograph based on their own bag of Skittles. You just provide the Skittles... the mini bags work best! For personal classroom use only. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit yo