Kelly's Creative Teaching Resources

RACER Writing Unit plan. RACER, a paragraph writing strategy, is an acronym for Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain, Recap. We also sometimes will use RACE(CE)R to create two citations (and therefore two explanations. Here is a unit plan that will walk you and your students through the RACER writing strategy. This will help aid your students to restate the question when answering and remind them to explain and back their answers.

Are you working on creative writing? Need students to elaborate on their details? Here's an interactive resource that will have students engaged in learning through multiple modalities including hands-on, videos, book excerpts, and more, while completing activities, writing responses, and adding details! Students will learn to elaborate on their writing. Their writing will include thoughtful details with the use of senses, emotions, with figurative language such as similes and metaphors and more

Let's spice up writing! Working on creative writing? Students lacking details? Students dislike writing? Show, don't tell is a classic concept of including details within your writing. This powerpoint and included activities will help your students understand what it means to "tell a story", what it means to "show" and explain your story, as well as making your writing interesting for reader's! Our students know they don't want to watch paint dry, these slides help scaffold the show, don't tell

Fact vs Opinion mini lesson. We paired this with an ocean themed book. Within this lesson, you will probe for background knowledge, introduce and build on what fact and opinion are and practice with a sort.

Getting into Show, Don't Tell! After you've introduced what it means to "show and not tell," this scaffolded resource can help practice what they've learned. This lesson will touch again on show vs tell sentence examples, as well as emotion-adjective pairs. This is an interactive resource that will have students writing responses, completing an emotion sort, and find examples within a story to help expand their writing. To additionally help students get the sense of a "showing" story, students w

Fact vs Opinion mini lesson with sort and fact file worksheet. This lesson was paired with the text "What is an Ocean?" and can be paired with any similar ocean book.

Continuing with Show, Don't Tell? This is part 3 of 4. This scaffolded resource will help students find examples of show vs tell. This introduces figurative language, such as imagery, similes and metaphors. Additionally, included are emotion sorts (as seen in preview, to show what it looks like and what adjectives are used), highlighting scavenger hunt, drag and drop game, and a story starter to get your kids to end a story using what they've learned.

Sequencing mini-lesson and mini writing activity. Mini-lesson on sequencing, -What is sequencing? -What are keywords to look for? -Why is it important? Differentiated Sequencing activity using graphic organizer: 1. Above level (untitled graphic organizer without key words, they need to produce- I printed a picture of the key words slide as a resource) 2. On level (titled graphic organizer) 3. Below Level (titled graphic organizer with sentence starters) 4. Extra Modifications ( for ENL, Spec

Daily agenda slides to have up with your students in the morning or at the beginning of a lesson. These slides have editable dates, reminders/notes, today's topic/schedule and assignments/homework (those titles are editable as well), and Bitmoji. You can replace my Bitmoji with yours...just type "pose" or another keyword into your Bitmoji, copy, paste and ta-da! (You can always message me for help!)

Looking for a quick game? A "Would you rather" or "This or That" game: sea animal edition! If you're working on the ocean, the sea or sea animals, or even preferences, here's a game to play. This is an adapted game that can work for all students. This works for students who use AAC devices, Eye-gaze devices, and other assistive technologies. It can be completed individually or can be completed in whole class setting.

Daily agenda slides to have up with your students in the morning or at the beginning of a lesson. These slides have editable dates, reminders/notes, today's topic/schedule and assignments/homework (those titles are editable as well), and Bitmoji. You can replace my Bitmoji with yours...just type "pose" or another keyword into your Bitmoji, copy, paste and ta-da! (You can always message me for help!)