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NEVER BEFORE HAVE YOU SEEN A POWERPOINT LIKE THIS!!! I have spent at least 17 hours creating this one PowerPoint. WHY? I have a FLIPPED CLASSROOM and understand that students must be engaged in what they see in order to want to learn. My students can't get enough of these highly engaging PowerPoint because they are all ANIMATED with VIDEO CLIPS, and done in a game style format. This can easily be used in any classroom for a fun lesson to teach this content. I also use this as a reference t

WHO KILLED MISS JACKSON? TEACHER'S NOTES Skills: Analyze text, determine importance, infer, synthesize, question, use background information, monitor for understanding, speaking, and listening Grades: 6-10 Age groups: 10-17 Materials: Character cards, Character Analysis Worksheet Time: About an hour Preparation and Rules Step one: Explain to the class that you are going to play a murder mystery game. Everyone will be a character in the game and one of them is the murderer! Give them the ba

NEVER BEFORE HAVE YOU SEEN A POWERPOINT LIKE THIS!!! I have spent at least 18 hours creating this one PowerPoint. WHY? I have a FLIPPED CLASSROOM and understand that students must be engaged in what they see to want to learn. My students can't get enough of these highly engaging PowerPoint because they are all ANIMATED with VIDEO CLIPS, and done in a game style format. This activity can easily be used in any classroom for a fun lesson to teach this content. I also use this as a reference

My students can't get enough of these highly engaging PowerPoint because they are all ANIMATED with VIDEO CLIPS, and done in a game style format. This can easily be used in any classroom for a fun lesson to teach this content. I also use this as a reference tool for students to continuously refer back to if they need a refresher. This helps differentiate the needs of my diverse learners. LESSON FOCUS: The focus of this lesson is to help students understand the SCIENCE FICTION GENRE. Stu

This game is a fun activity that I use in my classroom to review key concepts, help students learn from each other, and to build teamwork and critical thinking skills. There are three game boards for your classroom depending on class size. A game board with 4, 6, and 8 teams. The team names can be customized so students can be creative with whatever team name they would like to come up with for their group. The back story for this game is that each group has been captured on a stranded i

NEVER BEFORE HAVE YOU SEEN A POWERPOINT LIKE THIS!!! Having a challenge getting students to understand the vocabulary surrounding “Flashbacks”? This vocabulary is crucial to improving comprehension and is also included in the Common Core and MAPs testing. This lesson/activity WILL help your students succeed! Differentiation happens because students can keep track of the words that they miss, and work on those words to improve their understanding of “Flashbacks”. This can easily be use

NEVER BEFORE HAVE YOU SEEN A POWERPOINT LIKE THIS!!! I have spent at least 20 hours creating this one PowerPoint. WHY? I have a FLIPPED CLASSROOM and understand that students must be engaged in what they see in order to want to learn. My students can't get enough of these highly engaging PowerPoint because they are all ANIMATED with VIDEO CLIPS, and done in a game style format. This can easily be used in any classroom for a fun lesson to teach this content. I also use this as a reference

Want a good way for students to self-assess and monitor their own behaviors throughout the week? This behavior self-assessment sheet has been instrumental in helping students become aware of their responsibilities and behaviors. The behaviors fit under the umbrella of kindness, responsibility and respect. This sheet is editable to meet the needs of your students, or you can use the skills that I included. Each day my students take a few minutes to mark where they feel they were for that day.

This product is a uses the different areas that the MAPS test assesses (Word Recognition and Vocab, Reading Comprehension, Literary Response and Analysis) and breaks the questions found in each area into the different RIT bands for various students. The harder the question, the higher the RIT BAND. There is one section for the 230+ RIT band that are all worth $1000. This is a fun and interesting way to be able to study and prepare for a MAPS test.

A critical component NWEA MAP growth is VOCABULARY. This NWEA MAP Prep Reading Game set creates an engaging environment where your students can learn critical vocabulary to assist them in meeting growth targets and beyond. Our vocabulary activities cross over to all district, state, and national assessments. Our games are easy to play and compatible with interactive whiteboards, projected screens, desktop computers, and laptops. Our games will work on any device that has office or office 365

Increase your students State and National Test scores while playing Math Game Show for NWEA MAP and Common Core! Your students will love this challenging seven category 2nd grade math game. They can compete with classmates or on their own. You get both the Power Point version and Google Slide version. Each category includes 5 high quality questions mirroring NWEA MAP, Smarter Balanced, PARCC, and State assessment question types. The categories include: ✏ Numbers and Comparing✏ Patterns✏ P

NEVER BEFORE HAVE YOU SEEN A POWERPOINT LIKE THIS!!! I have spent at least 18 hours creating this one PowerPoint. WHY? I have a FLIPPED CLASSROOM and understand that students must be engaged in what they see in order to want to learn. My students can't get enough of these highly engaging PowerPoint because they are all ANIMATED with VIDEO CLIPS, and done in a game style format. This can easily be used in any classroom for a fun lesson to teach this content. I also use this as a reference

NEVER BEFORE HAVE YOU SEEN A POWERPOINT LIKE THIS!!! I have spent at least 16 hours creating this one PowerPoint. WHY? I have a FLIPPED CLASSROOM and understand that students must be engaged in what they see in order to want to learn. My students can't get enough of these highly engaging PowerPoint because they are all ANIMATED with VIDEO CLIPS, and done in a game style format. This can easily be used in any classroom for a fun lesson to teach this content. I also use this as a reference

Help your students reach and exceed their target growth on MAP and other assessments using this Quiz/Jeopardy game. Each game includes essential vocabulary with definitions and pictures set up in a fun quiz game. Use this product with your whole class or as a differentiated tool for individual students. This game includes all words taken from the NWEA website in RIT Band 211-220. Use this product along with the Quiz set RIT 211-220 for a complete system to help your students achieve! You can

NEVER BEFORE HAVE YOU SEEN A POWERPOINT LIKE THIS!!! We understand that ALL teachers want an engaging classroom, but time is always an enemy. Students must be engaged in what they see in order to want to learn. Our students cannot get enough of this highly engaging PowerPoint because of its ANIMATIONS, VIDEO CLIPS, and VIDEO GAME format. This can easily be used to teach INFERRING and make it into an engaging activity. We also use this as a reference tool for students to continuously refer to if

PURPOSE: To many students, much of school has become bland, impersonal, boring and without meaning to students. Figuring out theme is a challenge, but one that can be achieved if we can make it personally meaningful to them. This activity will help students see the importance of theme is to build a bridge between that they do as a matter of course in their day-to-day lives and their literary reading. Giving advice is part of a student’s day-to-day life. Giving advice, resembles what one nee

NEVER BEFORE HAVE YOU SEEN A POWERPOINT LIKE THIS!!! I have spent at least 7 hours creating this one PowerPoint. WHY? I have a FLIPPED CLASSROOM and understand that students must be engaged in what they see in order to want to learn. My students can't get enough of these highly engaging PowerPoint because they are all ANIMATED with VIDEO CLIPS, and done in a game style format. This can easily be used in any classroom for a fun lesson to teach this content. I also use this as a reference t

LESSON FOCUS: The focus of this lesson is discovering PERSONIFICATION AND WHY AUTHORS USE THIS FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE WHEN THEY WRITE. Students will be introduced to personification through interactive videos and animations that is sure to engage each of them. YouTube clips are embedded inside this PowerPoint that reinforce their understanding of PERSONIFICATION. Students are asked to independently create their own working definition of PERSONIFICATION in a fun and interactive way. Jump into

Students have a hard time understanding hooks, and the importance of a good "hook". This engaging lesson will have students literally "fishing for hooks". They will discover the importance of hooks in their persuasive writing. After students learn what a hook is, they will actually fish for hooks in a plastic swimming pool using a fishing pole and magnet. Once they fish out a "hook" they will read the hook and determine its effectiveness. This activity provides an engaging way to teach stud

Increase your students State and National Test scores while playing Math Game Show for NWEA MAP and Common Core! Your students will love this challenging seven category 4th grade math game. They can compete with classmates or on their own. You get both the Power Point version and Google Slide version. Each category includes 5 high quality questions mirroring NWEA MAP, Smarter Balanced, PARCC, and State assessment question types. The categories include: ✏ Numbers Sense✏ Geometry✏ Logical R