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Essay prompts for the student novel A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park & Salva Dut. Included with the essay prompts are over 20 quotes including both Salva & Nya's sections with page numbers that students can use as a modification or scaffold to support their writing. Additionally, conflicts from the novel are listed to help students brainstorm their writing.

This one pager is a great visual resource for students to use when annotating texts. It contains a small sample passage as a model, and breaks down each of the annotating strategies contingent on what information you're picking out from texts.

A fun, creative, and art-based activity to get to know your students. It allows them to write in and draw themselves, and what they carry with them in their bags most.

A conferencing sheet where teachers can track student data, apply next steps & goals, and detail the data they are conferencing on with students. Students can add their own comments or questions, teachers can take notes, and there is a conferencing guide with different types of conferences depending on student needs. Ideally, conferences would occur frequently throughout the year and teachers can track progress through these data sheets and keep them in the student's portfolio!