Need a fun and engaging way to get your students writing? This 20-page writing prompt pack includes hilarious animal mash-ups. What's a mash-up?? It is when 2 or more animals are combined!! Students will answer questions, get their creative juices flowing, and have fun sharing with the class. This is a great activity to do on a Friday as a warm-up when your students first come into class!
This is a level N passage about Koalas that you can use to assess how your students are doing with inferring about nonfiction texts. This includes 5 multiple-choice questions (aligned with STAAR) as well as 5 written response questions. I used this with my 3rd-grade class.
3rd - 4th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Reading Strategies
I made this for my 3rd-grade students for their state assessment tests. This is a word wall that includes vocabulary terms that will be used on their state assessment test. This helps them understand what the questions are asking.
These are bookmarks students can use when tracking different types of goals. I would use this when first introducing how to set goals. These are nice because the goals that students can easily track when they first start.
These are great graphic organizers to use for review before state testing or to monitor students' comprehension. There are 12 different GOs that you can use with any text.
2nd - 4th
Balanced Literacy, Close Reading, English Language Arts
This is a bundle of 16 different writing activities your students could do for Valentine's Day. I like to have things like this on hand for when students are finished with their work early!