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A summary is retelling what the book or story is about. It includes the main event or key points of the story. In a summary, these events should be told in chronological order. Characters, setting, problems, and solutions are also main events and should be included in the summary. This download includes: Sentence Frames; Sequencing Frames; and Writing Paper

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 Building Vocabulary with Word Mapping worksheet includes boxes to identify prefixes, root words, and suffixes. They identify and discuss/look up the meanings. In addition, they add synonyms, antonyms, part of speech, related words, definition, and a sentence. They become excellent index cards for vocabulary exams or quizzes.

This is a worksheet is designed to help students comprehend the story before they actually read it. The file includes the following sections: vocabulary, clues, prediction, Big Idea, genre, genre elements, and much more!

This graphic organizer with sentence frames allows student to organize their thoughts, ideas, and transfer them onto a 5 paragraph composition.

Apply Bloom's Taxonomy Comprehension Questions to Your Student's Daily Reading Logs! The purpose of these reading is to ensure that your students independently understand what they read.

The Peer Editing Check List allows students to systematically edit their writing in a group setting.

This graphic organizer file helps young writer's brainstorm their plot.

Have your students publish their Westward Expansion writing/reports on a gravitating or motivational paper.

Students solve and explain perimeter and area problems. Perimeter and area each have a parallelogram problem. students will then use their knowledge to solve and explain one parallelogram perimeter and area problem.

Have your students publish their American Revolution writing/reports on a gravitating or motivational paper.

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.

Objective: Given a multi-syllabic word, students will practice breaking words apart by their syllables. In this activity they will be identifying syllables with double vowels -ei and -ie to help break the words apart, Then, read the word. Each slide contains animations that isolates each syllable then a star animation that puts the word together as you and students read the word.Lesson At Glance: (10–12 minutes) The students will break up a multi-syllabic word and then read the word quickly. You

Objective: Given a multi-syllabic word, students will practice breaking words apart by their syllables. In this activity they will be identifying open syllables to help break the words apart, Then, read the word. Each slide contains animations that isolates each syllable then a star animation that puts the word together as you and students read the word.Lesson At Glance: (10–12 minutes) The students will break up a multi-syllabic word and then read the word quickly. You can do this activity with

Taking Words Apart Vocabulary Cards To prepare, assign children weekly vocabulary words. The word detective worksheet becomes index cards for their review.

This math log is similar to a reading log, but its intention to keep track of student classwork and homework.

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.

For those teachers that use OCR (Open Court) as their curriculum, this is a worksheet that I use to scaffold the lesson. The worksheet is kept in their notebook and word knowledge is reviewed with this worksheet.

Kick off your new unit with a KWL chart that serves as a motivator.