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This includes identifying story elements of character, setting, plot, and solution as well as the beginning, middle, and end of a story. This correlates with 1.RL.3 and 2.RL.3 but can be used in any grade as the standards continue and/or overlap grade levels. These are great for assessments or just practicing. *Be sure to check out all of my other assessments/practice pages for every Reading Information Texts and Reading Literature Common Core Standard or just look for my huge bundle with all

This Power Point presentation has 130 writing prompts with pictures. Every morning or for a writing warmup I have a new slide open and the students free write for 10 minutes. By the end of the year you have an amazing way to show see the student's writing progression (I use these at conferences and meetings for specific children all the time). The best part is when the students get to compare their first response to their last response and see the improvement! The first slide is "Free Choice Fr

Great for teaching students about internal and external character traits. I have my students first circle their own character traits on the first page. Then, on the second page they create themselves using crayons, fabric, yarn, buttons, etc. and write character traits about themselves (inside the person outline for internal traits and outside the person outline for external traits).

This bundle has a cut and paste practice, a written assessment, and a teacher checklist where students can show you the various parts in a book. It covers: -table of contents -map -index -glossary -heading -bold words -caption -diagram -labels

I find that even my fluent readers struggle with reading with fluency. This poster combines all of the tips in Jennifer Servallo's popular Reading Strategies book. I made this to display in my room for my kiddos all on one poster instead of making a bunch of separate anchor charts to have as a reminder during stamina reading, to help me guide my readers during reading groups, and I passed them out at conferences for parents!

It's here! I made this to go along with the second grade FOSS Balance and Motion kit. There is a section to go along with each of the experiments as long as a mini word wall at the bottom with pictures to support emergent readers/English Language Learners and perfect for students to use in their predictions and observations. *Check out my Balance and Motion Comprehension packet that go hand-in-hand with the FOSS book as well!

I use this at the beginning of the year to introduce the Common Core types of writing: narrative, opinion, and informative. The added pictures will help your developing readers or ELL students. Works for all grade levels and independent or partner work with the game board and pieces to sort.

These are the 1,000 most frequently used words in reading and writing. The words are broken up into lists of ten so that you can just focus one list at a time (or really, just a few words at a time from that list). Research shows readers should NOT focus on memorizing words. Instead, we should teach them how to decode (sound out) the words. Readers are MUCH more likely to learn a word if they use this method rather than memorizing a word, which takes much, much longer to retain. There are so man

Let's move on from "criss cross applesauce" and let students make their own seating choices while still respecting other's learning!

This includes being able to determine how different characters respond to the same major event or challenge. This correlates with 2.RL.3 but can be used in any grade as the standards continue and/or overlap grade levels. These are great for assessments or just practicing. *Be sure to check out all of my other assessments/practice pages for every Reading Information Texts and Reading Literature Common Core Standard or just look for my huge bundle with all of them combined!

This has students compare and contrast two fiction stories from different cultures. This correlates with 2.RL.9 but can be used in any grade as the standards continue and/or overlap grade levels. These are great for assessments or just practicing. *Be sure to check out all of my other assessments/practice pages for every Reading Information Texts and Reading Literature Common Core Standard or just look for my huge bundle with all of them combined!

An assessment to track progress of your kids on EACH of the Common Core standards. I give this test at the beginning, middle, and end of the year and can easily figure out which standards I need to focus on. There is a problem for each Common Core standard and it is listed below the problem so that you can see exactly where your kids need help and easily share the results at conferences with the breakdown on the first page! *Be sure to check out my matching quick check-in's/exit slips that cover

This choice board has with examples and/or pictures to help support your younger kiddos, English Language Learners, and even parents at home). It is always recommended for kids to work on just a few words at a time and to put an emphasis on the kids decoding/sounding out the words instead of trying to memorize the words!

I use this for every writing piece my students do as a simple way to guide them through the editing process and while making sure they stay on task! First they use the left side to edit their own writing. Then students get with a partner and their partner uses the right side to edit their writing. Covers capitals, end of sentence punctuation, commas, quotation marks, transitions, sight words, writing makes sense, and adding details. Each checklist item has an example underneath.

Practice showing numbers and writing number sentences.

Hang this behind your guided reading groups area and on your floor space for a constant reminder!

This has two pages which goes over author's purpose and if they wanted to explain, describe, or answer as well as if the author wrote to entertain, persuade, or inform. This correlates with 2.RI.6 and but can be used in any grade as the standards continue and/or overlap grade levels. These are great for assessments or just practicing. *Be sure to check out all of my other assessments/practice pages for every Reading Information Texts and Reading Literature Common Core Standard or just look f

I've created this because I wanted a simple and clear way to keep track of my daughter's progress as I begin teaching her some basic skills at home! This would be wonderful for homeschool or in the classroom. For letters, "l" stands for being able to say the letter name and "s" stands for being able to say the letter sound For numbers, "n" stands for being able to say the number name and "c" stands for being able to count a group of objects of that number (I plan to ensure she can do this with p

A great way to teach writing paragraphs with an opening sentence, three detail sentences, and a closing with a student checklist at the bottom, as well as a page for the final copy.

This product is going to make your life so much easier! I have been looking everywhere for an all-in-one resource my students can have at all times to use no matter what type of writing they are doing so I don't have to keep printing different papers every time we do another writing piece. I couldn't find one anywhere so I created this. I print it double sided and laminate it so my students can keep it in their desk all year and use a dry erase marker when they want to check things off of it. As