Jess Goad

Do your students need practice writing from a different perspective? Do they love fractured fairy tales? Here's a quick pre-writing worksheet to help students brainstorm as they rewrite scenes from their favorite fairy tales.

Use these structure strips to scaffold and guide an extended response comparing and contrasting regions of the 13 colonies (New England, Middle, and Southern). Great for struggling students or those who need help writing a solid extended or constructed response.

These questions are for the short story/personal narrative "The Scholarship Jacket." I used them for "tabletop discussions" in which students move around the room to each question and respond on a piece of poster paper alongside other students' responses. The questions focus on plot and making inferences about the story.

Have your students easily map out the story elements for any fictional story or book! Perfect graphic organizer for elementary students!

Students can use this chart to determine the endings for several of the main characters from Number the Stars. Students will use Chapter 17 and put what happened to the characters in their own words then find supporting text evidence.

Students will use lines of dialogue from Chapter 3 of Tuck Everlasting to make inferences about the character Winnie Foster.

Are your students learning about different types of weather or storms? Here's a simple template to help them research tornadoes, hurricanes, or other forms of weather. It's also great for student oral reports or video reports!

Here's a simple graphic organizer to help your students organize their thoughts as they research animals! Great for beginning researchers, especially in 2nd and 3rd grades!

An easy to use template for writing friendly letters, great for upper elementary! Just print and go!