Jayna Morrow

With a background in ESL, I truly understand the importance of mentor sentences and sentence stems to teach students how to become better writers through modeling and practicing great writing. This technique is based on those principles. I teach my students the following format for writing essays at the 4th grade level: Introduction: Hook Target Sentence Body Paragraph 1: Topic Sentence 1 Detail Detail Detail Personal Connection Body Paragraph 2: Topic Sentence 2 Detail Detail Detail Perso

Mother's Day is just around the corner! Use this book of simple, structured poems to quickly reinforce your poetry TEKS and celebrate MOM at the same time. Print these out on the half-sheet, then staple together in booklets. I let my students color and create these during AR time over the course of 2-3 days. My students were able to write the poems without much help because we had already covered these poetry structures in Writing class; however, this booklet could be as an independent practice

Do you teach 4th grade Reading and Social Studies in Texas? Then this freebie is for you. This product is a full six weeks lesson plans and includes complete TEK coverage for Reading and Social Studies, student objectives, language objectives for ELLs, R-time and Kagan activities, relationship-building activities, blank format area to insert any re-teaching / RTI activities based on your data, and after school program lessons (I'm using Motivation Reading). I can't insert any of the actual mater

This form is for teachers who offer opportunities to correct a test for a 70. Print these slips out on bright paper and staple to any test you want you the student to study for and retest. I require a parent signature in order to retest and change the grade in my grade book because I want them to know when their child has failed a test. This also makes great documentation at meetings.

This simple quiz is perfect to check for knowledge of the six traits of writing. I created this quick quiz to use after introducing the 6 traits of writing.

Worksheet with DRA2-style questions for the Journeys leveled readers. Use this page to teach metacognitive strategies, predicting and questions before reading, and inferencing and summarizing after reading your leveled readers. Don't have the Journeys leveled readers? You can easily adapt the questions for any reader. Check out my website at www.jaynamorrow.com!

This is a letter you can send home to parents to let them know about an ice cream sundae party reward. I use this reward for completion of the first unit in the Six Traits writing program, which involves the use of an ice cream sundae graphic organizer. There is a place for parents to sign up to send treats for the reward. Also included is a reminder note for those parents who signed up.

This quiz for ARMS and CUPS can be used as a quick assessment, warm-up, or exit ticket. Students fill in the meaning of each letter of the revising and editing process.

This blank web graphic organizer was approved by TEA for use on the 4th Grade STAAR Writing test for students who are able to have blank graphic organizers.

Worksheet with DRA2-style questions for the Journeys leveled reader. Use this page to teach metacognitive strategies, predicting and questions before reading, and inferencing and summarizing after reading your leveled readers. Don't have the Journeys leveled readers? The questions can easily be adapted for the readers you have. Check out my website at www.jaynamorrow.com!

Worksheet with DRA2-style questions for the Journeys leveled reader, "A Leader for All." Use this page to teach metacognitive strategies, predicting and questions before reading, and inferencing and summarizing after reading your leveled readers. Don't have the Journeys leveled readers? Be sure to get a copy of the general format pages for each DRA2 level that you can easily adapt for the readers you have. Check out my website at www.jaynamorrow.com!

Worksheet with DRA2-style questions for the Journeys leveled reader, "A Leader for All." Use this page to teach metacognitive strategies, predicting and questions before reading, and inferencing and summarizing after reading your leveled readers. Don't have the Journeys leveled readers? Be sure to get a copy of the general format pages for each DRA2 level that you can easily adapt for the readers you have. Check out my website at www.jaynamorrow.com!

Worksheet with DRA2-style questions for the Journeys leveled reader. Use this page to teach metacognitive strategies, predicting and questions before reading, and inferencing and summarizing after reading your leveled readers. Don't have the Journeys leveled readers? The questions can easily be adapted for the readers you have. Check out my website at www.jaynamorrow.com!

Worksheet with DRA2-style questions for the Journeys leveled reader, "A Leader for All." Use this page to teach metacognitive strategies, predicting and questions before reading, and inferencing and summarizing after reading your leveled readers. Don't have the Journeys leveled readers? Be sure to get a copy of the general format pages for each DRA2 level that you can easily adapt for the readers you have. Check out my website at www.jaynamorrow.com!

Worksheet with DRA2-style questions for the Journeys leveled reader. Use this page to teach metacognitive strategies, predicting and questions before reading, and inferencing and summarizing after reading your leveled readers. Don't have the Journeys leveled readers? The questions can easily be adapted for the readers you have. Check out my website at www.jaynamorrow.com!

Worksheet with DRA2-style questions for the Journeys leveled reader, "A Leader for All." Use this page to teach metacognitive strategies, predicting and questions before reading, and inferencing and summarizing after reading your leveled readers. Don't have the Journeys leveled readers? Be sure to get a copy of the general format pages for each DRA2 level that you can easily adapt for the readers you have. Check out my website at www.jaynamorrow.com!

Worksheet with DRA2-style questions for the Journeys leveled reader. Use this page to teach metacognitive strategies, predicting and questions before reading, and inferencing and summarizing after reading your leveled readers. Don't have the Journeys leveled readers? The questions can easily be adapted for the readers you have. Check out my website at www.jaynamorrow.com!

Worksheet with DRA2-style questions for the Journeys leveled reader. Use this page to teach metacognitive strategies, predicting and questions before reading, and inferencing and summarizing after reading your leveled readers. Don't have the Journeys leveled readers? The questions can easily be adapted for the readers you have. Check out my website at www.jaynamorrow.com!

Worksheet with DRA2-style questions for the Journeys leveled reader. Use this page to teach metacognitive strategies, predicting and questions before reading, and inferencing and summarizing after reading your leveled readers. Don't have the Journeys leveled readers? The questions can easily be adapted for the readers you have. Check out my website at www.jaynamorrow.com!

Worksheet with DRA2-style questions for the Journeys leveled reader. Use this page to teach metacognitive strategies, predicting and questions before reading, and inferencing and summarizing after reading your leveled readers. Don't have the Journeys leveled readers? The questions can easily be adapted for the readers you have. Check out my website at www.jaynamorrow.com!