Klakers

Use this 2 page worksheet to practice matching and naming synonyms and antonyms for targeted words.

Use this chart to pick the elements (characters, elements of magic, setting, good/evil, etc.) for your own fairy tale. After picking all of these elements, write your own story using the included writing frame.

This differentiated lesson has 3 levels of activities in which students read a description of a robot and his spaceship and then use the directions (including size, shape, color, number of wheels, lights, etc.) and draw a picture to match. Klakers

First, have the students draw a picture of the scariest, silliest, funniest monster they can imagine. Then, use the following 2 pages (at different levels of complexity) to help them describe the color, shape, number of legs, arms, mouths, etc. that their monster has.

This document has book basket labels for three broad categories (books by certain authors, books by genre, and books by topics). I mount all of the books by authors on pink paper, the genre cards on black paper, and books by topic on orange paper. I get them all laminated, punch two holes in the top and use cable ties to secure them to my book baskets (some of my labels are just taped onto the cardboard magazine boxes rather than laminated and hole punched).

My students do weekly literacy centers that they rotate through. This is a checklist I developed so students would know how many times they were expected to go to each center during a week. Each student had a copy of this in a plastic sheet protector in their center binder and would use a Vis-a-Vis marker to initial when they finished a center. I would also give the student choice centers during the week that they could do when they finished other centers.

My students do weekly literacy centers that they rotate through. This is a checklist I developed so students would know how many times they were expected to go to each center during a week. Each student had a copy of this in a plastic sheet protector in their center binder and would use a Vis-a-Vis marker to initial when they finished a center.

Allow your students' creativity to shine in writing a story about the alien picture. After filling in their ideas, they can transfer the information to a 'mad-libs' type of format to have a funny alien story of their own.

This differentiated writing activity contains 3 pages, each with a varying level of complexity. Students are given prompts such as "What if money grew trees?" and asked to write or draw what life would be like if their topic was true.

This calendar provides daily writing prompts (Tues, Wed, Thurs) for students at a variety of grade levels. The file is in Publisher so that it can be modified to fit your needs.

Use this writing frame to help students develop a fairy tale with beginning, middle, and end. When they are finished, they can draw a picture to go along with their story. To get you started, you might want to check out my "Create Your Own Fairy Tale" resource.

Cut this page in half and give one to each student. Allow them to search your classroom library to hunt for non-fiction text features such as table of contents, glossary, index, etc. The students can use a classroom camera to take a picture to document their find and then check off their find on the checklist as they work.

A graphic organizer to use to sort and write book titles into fiction and non-fiction categories. You can use with any fiction or non-fiction books in your classroom library.

Upon completing the 'create a monster with descriptive adjectives' lesson, have students begin planning out their story for their newly-created monster. This document contains two levels of writing frames.

Have the students choose books from the classroom library (or use books you select for them) and have them analyze each book for title, author, table of contents, glossary, index, pictures/captions, and whether the book is fiction or non-fiction.

This page contains three checklists in which you can enter student names for each class period/subject/etc. and then print. I cut the checklists apart, write the name of the assignment on the top, and can mark as each assignment is turned in and the grade they received. I can transfer these to my grade book later. These checklists can be used for a variety of purposes.

Give students a book (mine was titled "Fruit") and make a list of important terms found in the book. Have the students search through the book to find each time the word is used and to write the page number (using commas between each) to indicate where that word can be found.

This is a simple book report form for students to use to summarize a book they have read and to make a text-to-self, text-to-text, or text-to-world connection.

At the culmination of every week, students would fill out a brief form to reflect on their successes as well as to set goals for the upcoming week.