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Introduce your students to the timeless poetry written by one of our great American poets, Robert Frost. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening invites your students to share the experience of one traveler’s brief stop in the deep winter woods on a snowy evening. Stretch your students’ thinking through a variety of meaningful activities wrapped around the Common Core. *Figure of Speech: Hyperbole Activity and Poster *Vocabulary Game *Parts of Speech Sort *Ordering Adj

Casey at the Bat is a well known American classic poem that every child should have the pleasure of reading. This CCSS poem is packed with incredibly rich vocabulary, a sampling of literary devices, and opportunities for your students to explore language and stretch their thinking. Using the collection of activities in this unit, your students will enjoy reading, analyzing, and performing this delightful story of a small town hero put to rhyme. Here’s some of what’s included in the unit:

Student goal charts can be used in any classroom and at any grade level to inspire students to meet the standards. Collecting the eight colorful monster stickers makes it fun for students to work hard and achieve their goals. This packet contains everything you'll need to create your own student charts. Just select eight main goals for your students (from the Common Core Standards and/or your own) and fill in the blank template chart and monster stickers templates. It's that easy! Whether

Provide your students with their own personal Dibles and DAZE Goal Charts so they can track their own progress throughout the year! They'll be eager to chart their growth in reading when they can personally interact and color in the bar graphs and record their own scores. Students will be excited to share their chart at parent conferences, too! I've used the individual student Dibles and DAZE Charts in my classroom for the past three years. My students are much more aware of their own pers

Inspire your students to achieve the Common Core Standards by providing them with their own personal goal charts! Watch students take ownership of their learning and eagerly work to fill their charts. Their enthusiasm will gradually build throughout the year as they see their academic growth visually displayed, and their goal charts filling with colorful stickers. Parents will love the goal charts too! Each time they visit your classroom and see the bulletin board, they'll get a quick snapsh

Inspire your students to achieve the Common Core Standards by providing them with their own personal owl themed goal charts! Watch students take ownership of their learning and eagerly work to fill their charts. Their enthusiasm will gradually build throughout the year as they see their academic growth visually displayed, and their goal charts filling with colorful stickers. Parents will love the goal charts too! Each time they visit your classroom and see the bulletin board, they'll get a quic

Inspire your students to achieve the Common Core Standards by using the interactive Student Goal Folder system! Goal Folders can be used in any classroom and at any grade level. It’s a simple and straight forward program that spans the entire school year! All you need are file folders (one per student) and various goal charts. Use the goal charts included in this packet (see Goal Charts Overview), and/or create your own to match the Common Core ‘BIG Learnings’ focused on at your grade level.

Challenge your students to build and spell words using only the letters in four different Christmas songs. Watch as they eagerly apply grade level phonics and word analysis skills to create as many words as they can to fill the charts. You'll be amazed at how quickly your students realize the benefit of building words using word families, affixes, short and long vowel patterns, syllabication patterns, and Greek and Latin roots. Give your students the opportunity to practice what they've been ta

My Shadow is a timeless poem written by the well known Scottish poet, Robert Louis Stevenson. In this unit, your students will investigate the craft and structure Stevenson used to create this childhood classic, and they’ll come away with a deeper understanding of what it means to analyze poetry on their own. Students will explore the science of shadows using informational text, discover the power of similes, sort and decode rhyming words, order synonyms by their meanings, perform puppet plays

Eating While Reading is a darling poem written by Gary Soto just for kids. It’s a CCSS exemplar poem too! Your students will immediately connect with the delightful language he uses to paint a picture of what it’s like to read and snack on favorite foods at the same time. Use the various activities included in this unit to unpack Soto’s unique style, and watch your students fall in love with words! Here's some of what's included in the unit: *Vocabular

When you’re planning a Literature or Informational Text based unit of study, you want to keep track of what standards you’ve selected to use in your lessons as you brainstorm and plan. But where do you record your ideas for teaching those standards? The Common Core Unit Planning Templates have just what you need! They include all the 3rd Grade ELA standards, and they also provide a blank space for jotting down notes and ideas opposite each standard. In the spaces provided, you can record you

The Goal Progress Chart form is an easy way to keep track of your students' progress throughout the year! It is part of the Student Goal Folder program and the first page in the student folder. Use the Goal Progress Chart when conferring with each of your students. It's a quick reference and provides an overview of each student's goals, performance levels, and progress in reading and math (basic fact fluency). The form is updated three times during the year (Fall-baseline, Winter-1st Semeste

Inspire your students to achieve the Common Core Standards by providing them with their own personal goal charts! Watch students take ownership of their learning and eagerly work to fill their charts. Their enthusiasm will gradually build throughout the year as they see their academic growth visually displayed, and their goal charts filling with colorful stickers. Parents will love the goal charts too! Each time they visit your classroom and see the bulletin board, they'll get a quick snapshot

When you’re planning a Literature or Informational Text based unit of study, you want to keep track of what standards you’ve selected to use in your lessons as you brainstorm and plan. But where do you record your ideas for teaching those standards? The Common Core Unit Planning Templates have just what you need! They include all the 4th Grade ELA standards, and they also provide a blank space for jotting down notes and ideas opposite each standard. In the spaces provided, you can record your cr

Now you can finally have one document that lists all of the standards plus provides a place to record what you’ve taught throughout the school year! The ELA Standards Checklist is a basic tool that could eventually become just as important as your grade book. You’ll want it by your side when you’re planning with your team, pulling together a new unit, filling out report cards, or meeting with your principal. Each time you teach a standard, highlight it and make a note of the date it was taugh

Challenge your students to build and spell words using only the letters in Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s name! Watch as they eagerly apply grade level phonics and word analysis skills to create as many words as they can to fill the chart. You'll be amazed at how quickly your students realize the benefit of building words using word families, affixes, short and long vowel patterns, syllabication patterns, and Greek and Latin roots. Give your students the opportunity to practice what they've be

Provide your students with their own personal Reading Log so they can keep track of the books they read throughout the year. There's a place for them to record the title of each book, author, reading level, AR quiz score, the date each book was finished. The last column gives them an opportunity to evaluate whether the book was 'easy, just right, or challenging'. When my students use the Reading Log, they are much more aware of how many books they've read and the progress towards meeting th

Challenge your students to build and spell words using only the letters found in Thanksgiving themed words! Watch as they eagerly apply grade level phonics and word analysis skills to create as many words as they can to fill the charts. You'll be amazed at how quickly your students realize the benefit of building words using word families, affixes, short and long vowel patterns, homographs, syllabication patterns, and Greek and Latin roots. Give your students the opportunity to practice what the

Challenge your students to build and spell words using only the letters in St. Patrick's Day or Leprechauns! Watch as they eagerly apply grade level phonics and word analysis skills to create as many words as they can to fill the charts. You'll be amazed at how quickly your students realize the benefit of building words using word families, affixes, short and long vowel patterns, homographs, syllabication patterns, and Greek and Latin roots. Give your students the opportunity to practice what th

Challenge your students to build and spell words using only the letters in The Water Cycle, Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, and Transporation! Watch as they eagerly apply grade level phonics and word analysis skills to create as many words as they can to fill the charts. You'll be amazed at how quickly your students realize the benefit of building words using word families, affixes, short and long vowel patterns, syllabication patterns, and Greek and Latin roots. Give your students the