Michele Maloney

I created this Excel spreadsheet to be a visual for our Master Schedule. We are a very inclusive school, offering the full spectrum of services as required by law. We give students the support they require in their least restrictive environment in our building, utilizing all staff available. In the Excel spreadsheet you will notice Teachers, Instructional Assistants and Special Teaching Program Assistants being utilized throughout the building with general education, and special education

This is a short powerpoint to show the difference between homophones and homographs. Gives examples, and opportunity for class or small group discussions.

This is a helpful tool that can be used for any grade level student who spends time in a General Education classroom with or without support. Teachers can fill this out as frequently as you need them to. As a special ed teacher in 4th/5th grade, I like it once a trimester. It's quick checklist, so it doesn't take the general ed teacher a long time to fill out, but it helps guide progress on the student keeping up in class. Inclusion is great, depending on the success of the communication between

This is a great way to combine friendly letter writing and social skills. The advice column cards are situation cards, and the students write a letter back (similar to "Dear Abby") to the letter writer. In their letter they need to help the person solve their problem. Some are school related and some are more social or home related.

I LOVE THIS POWERPOINT!! I created it from a Marilyn Burns activity in one of her books, but the Powerpoint is all my creation. Students LOVE this activity, where they are told a story about a couple opening a restaurant, and attempting to open their restaurant for banquet style seating, but are not sure how many people they can seat. This is a great introduction to Algebra. Our fifth graders don't even realize they are doing algebra until the slide show tells them they are!

Million Dollar Shot is a great novel for 4th/5th grade level readers. These quizzes are broken into chapters 1-3 and 4-8. Each quiz is multiple choice and short answer, and comes with an answer key. Save yourself time from reading the book by using these time saving quizzes!!! Life savers!

Each page has questions and thought provoking ideas to think about from the novel, Among the Hidden. My students LOVE this novel and often it sets them into the series of books from Margaret Haddix. There are 24 pages - which can be used for a study guide or teacher can pick/choose which chapters are used for various quizzes throughout the reading.

Here are questions for each chapter of the book SAVING SHILOH. I also have questions for the other two books in the series available. Each chapter has 5-7 questions, along with requiring students to ask questions, make predictions and make connections to what they have read. **** PLEASE NOTE - NOT ALL CHAPTERS INCLUDED.... There are 7 chapters not included.... Price reduced.....

This is a FUN way to review lots of concepts in a game format that my students LOVE! FIfth grade concepts being reviewed in small groups or even boys vs. girls gets kids revved up to show their stuff. Review includes decimals, geometry, and even a "potpourri" category. This is the second of three powerpoints available.

This chart is helpful for students when they are trying to "stump the teacher" or their own classmates. When they are reading fiction or non-fiction, if they use one question word from one side and one question word from the top, wherever they land on the matrix is how difficult the question is (based on Bloom's Taxonomy). The more down and to the right, the more complex the question and the more up and to the left, the more basic the question. Great for differentiating instruction or expectatio

This is a quick way to quiz students on their application and understanding of non-fiction elements. Each section of the sunburst focuses on one element of non-fiction (glossary, bold faced words, index, etc.). Based on the students' reading of non-fiction, they have to pull out examples of each element. Teachers have given this to students to fill in with a general piece of non-fiction, like a Scholastic News, or they can base it on their chosen topic. Easy to see, easy to use, easy to do, easy

Students need to be able to know how many combinations of items they can make given a number of objects (pizza, with various toppings, etc.) This is practice that can be done independently, in pairs, or small groups.

RTI can be a pain - but if you use this graph, it can be easier... all you need to do is add what you are monitoring and fill up the chart for frequency/corrects. Easy to see, easy to read.

I have used this chart at the beginning of the year. It is easily filled in by me, the special education teacher, and distributed to all relevant staff members (general education teachers, specialists, and administration). It allows the staff to get basic information about each student in a grade level, who has an IEP on one piece of paper. For example, my Librarian likes getting this information because if a 5th grade student is reading at a first grade level, she will have to accommodate for t

This behavior plan guideline can be used for any student - and gives any teacher the basic guide to be sure all components are there for a complete behavior plan. This is written for a fictional student, however teachers can save and change information as appropriate for their student.

This is a FUN way to review lots of concepts in a game format that my students LOVE! FIfth grade concepts being reviewed in small groups or even boys vs. girls gets kids revved up to show their stuff. Review includes decimals, geometry, and even a "potpourri" category. This is the third of three powerpoints available.

This chart is helpful for students when they are trying to "stump the teacher" or their own classmates. When they are reading fiction or non-fiction, if they use one question word from one side and one question word from the top, wherever they land on the matrix is how difficult the question is (based on Bloom's Taxonomy). The more down and to the right, the more complex the question and the more up and to the left, the more basic the question. Great for differentiating instruction or expectatio

Here are questions for each chapter of the book SHILOH. I also have questions for the other two books in the series available. Each chapter has 5-7 questions, along with requiring students to ask questions, make predictions and make connections to what they have read.

CHAMPS program is a classroom management program that gives students expectations for everything that happens in your classroom. I've just recreated the posters to fit my 5th graders. You can save this poster as a new document and change the activities accordingly.

This is a great way to check comprehension - upgraded now, to include ALL chapters... :) Students must comprehend, predict, summarize and ask questions after reading.