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Set up as many boxes as you want. I usually use 4-5 boxes and cover the tops. Inside I pour different sensory things such as pudding and worms or string in glue. Something usually creepy for Halloween. I make a packet of this work sheet copied however many boxes that many times. The kids take around their worksheet to each station and try to describe/figure out what is in there.

Here is a rotations bulletin board that can be used in your classroom. I attached the other files as PDF’s. There are also little rectangles where you can write the student’s name and then stick to the “who’s in my group” posters. The Headings are also attached in this file. If you would rather have station on the circles and station as the heading, you can make the word station out of ROTATIONS just print out an extra S and not the R and O. I usually laminate these.

Have all the students leave their fingerprints from that year on the balloon document. The results are awesome. The more stamp colors you use the more amazing this comes out to!

A combination anchor chart for the student's ISN and a foldable you can use with it. I have used picture books such as, A Bad Case of Stripes or Alex and the Terrible No Good, Very Bad Day with this foldable and it has been a tremendous success.

Thinkmarks are an easy and convenient way to check on a student's reading and understanding.They can also mark their place while they are reading in case they need to catch up to where they left off the day before. This includes fiction and nonfiction thinkmarks.

This is a great tool for you to glue in Interactive Notebooks, or to use in a grammar foldable, or writing office. In my classroom we glue this in our ISN on the first week and every time we learn a new word we add it to our Word Wall Chart.

Great for independent reading or whole group read alouds.

Students can pretend they are a secondary character from a fairytale and create a diary entry for one day in the life of that character.

A great way to compare texts across the board. This is very successful with books within the same genre. Fairytales and fractured fairytales are especially fun!

A fun reading strategy foldable for students to fill out why they are in a rotation for silent reading, or after a read aloud to the class. Made for types of fiction as well.