Learning 4Less

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.

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

Here is a homework planner that is kept in my student's binders. Planners are submitted every Monday morning with parent signature. Teacher comments are added every Friday. The file includes the following sections: teacher's message, student reminders, and parent signature.

The powerpoint is simple but straight to the point. It includes 7 slides that includes the structure of a paragraph. Its objective is to allow students to think about the complete structure of a paragraph. Each is left with plenty of space to personalize your presentation.

This file is a writing rubric that can be a poster or a handout for parents and students.

The file is reviewed and given to my students before the narrative writing prompt is given to them. It's kept in their writing folder and I also blow it up to a poster size at the local Staples for about $2.00.

Introduce the reading log on Back to School Night. The reading log is designed to get parents involved their children's reading/learning. The reading log gives step by step instruction to reassure consistency and practice. The reading log is in both English and Spanish.

This file contains all three writing genre posters that you can purchase. It's a bundle deal! The handouts are reviewed before each writing assignment is introduced. Handouts are kept in writing folders.

Here is a file that I used to include with our take home reading book library. The file was kept in a folder that included my students' reading log. A copy was also given to parents.

This rubric is for the audience to actively grade their peers as they see their peers present mathematic projects. The rubric contains the following subgroups: -Eye Contact & Posture (100 pts.) -Entusiasm & Pronunciation (100 pts.) -Organization & Subject Knowledge (100 its.) The students may also include one wish and one like of the presentation. The file also comes in color and in black & white.

Everyday as your students walk in the classroom, they sign in. Depending on your students, you can add last names.

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 a handout that my students keep in their grammar binder. I have also taken to Staples and have had it blown up into a poster.

Introduce the reading log on Back to School Night. The reading log is designed to get parents involved their children's reading/learning. The reading log gives step by step instruction to reassure consistency and practice. The reading log is in both English and Spanish.