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This product is to be used as a center activity to practice the skill of identifying author's purpose. It is three different centers at three grade levels (3-5) and all practicing the skill of author's purpose. There are 5 different levels included in this center activity. It starts with sorting book covers into "for fun" or "to teach you something." In the final center activity, they are reading quotes and sorting into to entertain, to inform, to persuade, or to express.

This activity was originally made as a work box for a life skills classroom. I created envelopes with different food categories written on the front (these correlating to what you would see in your grocery store-produce, dairy, snacks, etc.). The students would practice sorting these cards into the appropriate envelope or "aisle" of the grocery store. This was used to help students with disabilities get ready for the workplace and living life independently. *An answer key, directions, and an a

Have you seen the viral "It's Corn" TikTok video? I can guarantee your students have! Use what they know to teach them something new! This is a self-paced exploration of finding the main idea in a text using resources from TikTok, YouTube, and NewsELA.

This is a graphic organizer to help your students organize a three-paragraph text dependent analysis using the STARTS acronym for the introduction and TRIQAP for body paragraphs. The organizer is completely editable, so if more body paragraphs are needed, you can just copy and paste to fit your needs!

This is to be used for St. Patrick's Day celebrations. It is a center activity. You should laminate or place this page in a sheet protector so that you can use dry erase markers to write on it. On each clover I placed a math fact. This game is to be played against a classmate. You move from clover to clover by answering the math fact correctly. When you reach the pot of gold you get a gold token. The person with the most gold coins "wins". This game could be used with high frequency word

This is a checklist made so that students are responsible for keeping track of how many times they are redirected for a problem behavior. This is customizable and can be adapted for a specific behavior.

This is a simple bathroom log to use when documenting when and how often students leave your room for the restroom.

This is a behavior log used for a behavior intervention plan. This chart is set up so that a student can earn points during each class period that he/she can transfer to minutes towards a desired activity (I used computer time). This is a Word document so it is totally customizable and can be adapted to fit your needs!

This is a weekly homework template for five problems a night Monday-Thursday.

This is a RAFT writing assignment used to assess students' reading comprehension of the book "Out of the Dust" by Karen Hesse.

This is a board game that I used to help reinforce skills within the elementary classroom. Game cards can be made by you with any skill and divided between the colors shown on the board. (Example for math: addition problems in red, subtraction in blue, shapes in yellow, etc.) Can be manipulated to however you see fit in your classroom!

This is an intensive Positive Behavior Support Plan used for a student who had severe anger issues. This plan can easily be adapted for any behavior.

This is a webquest that was used to introduce our unit on the Civil Rights Movement and our first lesson on Rosa Parks. This helps students to gain background knowledge that will help support them in their understanding of the unit.

This is a simple expectations chart I use to track that my students are meeting my classroom expectations. If at the end of the day the student follows all expectations, they will receive a check/sticker in their chart. When the entire chart is filled they earn a reward (I use my behavior coupons that were posted earlier).

These are cards of rhyming words with pictures for each word. This was originally developed for a physical education academic lesson. These words were placed onto bowling bins and the students would bowl and then got a point for every rhyming word pair they knocked down. This was also used by taping them to a wall and student threw a ball at each word and then aimed for the rhyming pair. Could also be used with hopscotch or any other use you think of!

This is a log to document when books are checked in and out of your classroom library.