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This tri-fold poster board project is a great companion to a California mission model/replica that can be purchased and any craft store. The project handout includes a Big Idea, CA state standards, purpose, material list, and paper sample. The project is also translated for you Spanish speaking parents.

Promote college awareness year round in your classroom. This calendar provides a monthly activity that promotes college awareness. Activities are short and can then be posted in the classroom/hallway.

This handout is kept in my students writing folder. It is a handout that is revisited before each writing task. The handout reflects the structure of an essay. The handout is blow-up and a nearby Staples for two bucks and displayed on classroom writing center wall.

Reciprocal Teaching refers to instructional activities in which teachers model, then help students learning using four strategies: summarizing, inferring, clarifying, and predicting. Once students have learned the strategies, they take turns in leading a dialogue about what has been read. The student handouts include sentence frames to help students initiate the dialogue conversations. The handouts can also be blown-up at your local Staples for less than $2.50 and have a great poster for

Reinforce the word of the week by also rewarding your students positive behavior. Great way to give rewards to your students at the end of a hard working week!!!! Full step - by - step directions included.

Start you unit with paper that will encourage your students to take charge of his/her learning.

Allow your students to complete vocabulary worksheet for homework once a week. Assign vocabulary words and students will complete the following at home: synonym, part of speech, related words, antonym, create sentence, and picture.

This file is used to introduce the writing genre. The handout is kept in writing folders. A poster of the file can be made at your local Staples for $2.00 bucks.

This file is reviewed and given to my students before writing prompt is given. The handout reviews all the elements that make a strong persuasive essay.

Poster is a complimentary piece to The Art of Taking Notes powerpoint lesson plan. Take pdf. to any Staples and have it blown up for two bucks and you have yourself a great poster for your classroom.

This file defines each students cooperative group role. The file includes a colored coded copy and a black and white copy that can be shaded. I recommend you make a poster size page for page two and place on door or wall. Each week students roles change according to their color selected/rotation.

Here is math daily agenda that can be blown-up at your local Staples and laminated for daily use. Recommend Expo Vis-à-Vis Wet Erase markers. The agenda includes the following: -essential question -class agenda (lesson order) -Common Core Standard box -Homework -Date

Here is a fun poster for your classroom. Simply print and have it blown-up at Staples for two bucks.

This form provides teachers and students classroom norms/expectations. A copy can be placed in students notebook or file may be blown-up as a classroom poster.