Kerri Trucano

💘 Figurative Language Valentine’s Day Project Looking for a meaningful Valentine’s Day activity that goes beyond crafts and candy? This Figurative Language Valentine’s Day Project helps students build a strong understanding of figurative language while encouraging creativity, critical thinking, and writing development. In this engaging project, students choose a Valentine’s Day–themed figurative language phrase, create an illustration to represent it, and write a structured paragraph explaini

This template is made for the purpose of sharing information with your parents in a simple and easy way. It's geared more towards the middle school or high school level without all the cute and fancy decor. It provides an area for a welcome introduction, grading policy, late policy, class expectations, homework, supplies, and contact information. It is easily adaptable to fit your needs. I find that this quick and easy reference is easy to review at a middle school/ high school Back to School n

This is a checklist for students to use during the editing stage of writing to make sure they have met all of the requirements for before publishing their final piece of writing. It is based off the writing rubric but written in a student friendly way for students to easily understand and review their work independently without feeling super overwhelmed. There are check boxes included for students to physically check off once they have review that skill.

This sheet helps students record their homework reading or their in-class independent reading. It's a great way for readers to set goals for themselves as well as track their reading progress. This is also a great way for teachers to hold their students accountable for their reading that is done at home. This worksheet also includes a 20 minute breakdown reading goal formula in order to help the students create their weekly goal. This worksheet can be easily adapted/ put on google classroom as w

This is a checklist for students to use during the editing stage of writing to make sure they have met all of the requirements for before publishing their final piece of writing. It is based off the argumentative writing rubric but written in a student friendly way for students to easily understand and review their work independently without feeling super overwhelmed. There are check boxes included for students to physically check off once they have review that skill.

This is a checklist for students to use during the editing stage of writing to make sure they have met all of the requirements for before publishing their final piece of writing. It is based off the writing rubric but written in a student friendly way for students to easily understand and review their work independently without feeling super overwhelmed. There are check boxes included for students to physically check off once they have review that skill.

This form is used for when students want to abandon a book. The point of this form is to limit students from choosing "not right" books frequently. It's a questioner that is worded in a VERY SAD way for students to feel guilty about abandoning their book. There are 9 guilty worded questions for students to complete before being allowed to abandon their book. The goal is for students to convince their teacher that they have a better option lined up for them!

This form is for when students finish reading a book. The point of this form is for students to PROVE that they have read the book completely. This form asks simple questions about the story elements and their opinion on the book.

Use this resource while recording individual weekly conferences with students. It is an easy way to track what was discussed during the conference, as well as track who you met with each week. The goal is to write down one positive comment to the student and one teaching point for the student to work on for that week. Each week you can refer back to the following log to check and see what was discussed and if the student mastered the skill.