Kathy Ryan

Do you need a way to quickly assess your students' interests, attitudes, and learning styles? Try these 14 easy to use questionnaires to get to know your students preferences right away. Students will enjoy completing these simple and cute surveys. You can use the information gathered to plan your instruction and gauge how students enjoy certain lessons and/or activities. Can be used a pre- and post-assessments for individual units. This type of assessment also helps students to build self-aware

Do you want to help your students improve their emotional vocabulary? Are you tired of hearing "The character feels happy," for a response over and over again? These feelings word wall cards are a great way to your students expand their emotional vocabulary in both written and oral work. Included in this product are:1 Feelings Word Wall Poster 12 vocabulary cards for “Angry” 10 vocabulary cards for “Happy” 10 vocabulary cards for “Sad” 10 vocabulary cards for “Excited” 12 vocabulary cards f

It's time to stop celebrating the 100th Day of School, and start celebrating the 120th Day of School to meet the Common Core standards. This packet gives you everything you need to teach a full day of school integrating the number 120 into all Core subject areas. The kids will love practicing counting to 120 while completing these engaging activities. The packet includes: A 120 Day of School Schedule (suggested) We are 120 Days Smarter Poster for SmartBoard 120 Day of School Mystery Message 1

Are you looking for a way to help your students increase their feelings vocabulary in their writing? Try using these Feelings Word Walls during your writing lessons. Included in this pack are: My Feelings from A to Z Word Wall Feelings Word Cards--32 Feeling Words My Feelings Word Wall--Over 60 Feelings Words on 1 page My Feelings Word Wall--Blank copy for students to make their own word walls "Said" with Feeling--over 40 ways to show how characters speak with emotion "Said" with Feeling--Blan

Are you tired of your students responding with the same old boring responses about how characters are feeling? Are you frustrated at your students using dull vocabulary in their writing? Well, these Feelings Posters, Charts, and Graphic Organizers are exactly what you need to help improve your students' feelings vocabulary. There are over 50 pages included in this packet, as well as a black and white copy of every poster to help you reduce your printing expense. 8 Feelings Synonym Posters 8 Fe

Get into the holiday spirit with this Ugly Christmas Sweater Pack of fun! The main activity includes a Ugly Sweater Fashion Show put on by two teachers, and the students act as judges. All students can write a persuasive essay stating their opinion about who should win the Ugly Christmas Sweater Trophy. Included in this packet are: Ugly Christmas Sweater Flyer Design your own Ugly Christmas Sweater template Informational Text Poster about the Ugly Sweater tradition in color and b/w Smartboard

Looking for a sure way to get your students excited about reading and writing informational texts? Try these differentiated Winter Sports themed graphic organizers and Paper Choices. There are over 150 different graphic organizers and writing templates to help you easily differentiate for student interest and ability. Topics include 12 different Winter Sports including: Bobsleigh Luge Snowboarding Figure Skating Pairs Skating Speed Skating Cross Country Skiing Ski Jumping Downhill Skiing Curlin

These 28 cards help students develop the speaking, listening, and writing skills needed to communicate clearly in science. These sentence starters may be used in mini-lessons, in group work, and as part of science journals.

This pack contains a total of 47 different Ancient Egypt-themed bookmarks. These will be highly motivational for students to use while reading both non-fiction and fiction books. There are 10 oversized non-fiction bookmarks for students to record facts while reading informational texts about Ancient Egypt. Each has a graphic organizer to help students organize their research. Each bookmark also has a separate icon, so students can select by topic or their interest. There are 6 regular sized n

Need a fun, quick activity for the first days of school? Download this FREE Back to School Word Search now!

Your students will love learning all about what school was like for their moms (or other special people) by conducting and interview! Their moms will love the adorable keepsake book their children bring home! And you'll love how you can integrate so many Common Core ELA skills into one project! This 73 page product gives you everything you need to differentiate this project. Students can choose to interview their moms, grandmothers, teachers, or other special women in their lives. There are gra

Your students will love learning all about what school was like for their dads (or other special people) by conducting an interview! Their dads will love the adorable keepsake book their children bring home! And you'll love how you can integrate so many Common Core ELA skills into one project! This 73 page product gives you everything you need to differentiate this project. Students can choose to interview their dads, grandfathers, teachers, or other special men in their lives. There are graphi

Students will love reading all about different types of houses in Egypt. This 18 page PowerPoint contains captivating photos and simple text will engage your beginning readers in learning about this interesting topic. It also has all the text features of a non fiction book, including a Table of Contents, Index, and Picture Glossary. This can be used on a SMARTBOARD as a shared reading or printed and bound in a book for guided or independent reading. Thinking questions and a graphic organizer fo

Need a quick activity for President's Day? Get your students excited to learn more about U.S. Presidents with this word search puzzle. Presidents include: Clinton Eisenhower Jefferson Kennedy Lincoln Obama Reagan F. Roosevelt T. Roosevelt Truman Washington Wilson