Practical Pedagogs

Creative, engaging poster project to compare and contrast the novel and movie versions of The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963! Perfect for a final project after your novel study. With this resource, your students will create a poster comparing and contrasting characters, plot events, and setting in the novel and the movie. You can incorporate technology by having your students create a poster in Google Slides, PowerPoint, or another program. Students can work independently, in partners, or in sm

Creative, engaging poster project to compare and contrast the novel and movie versions of Holes! Perfect for a final project after your novel study. With this resource, your students will create a poster comparing and contrasting characters, plot events, and setting in the novel and the movie. You can incorporate technology by having your students create a poster in Google Slides, PowerPoint, or another program. Students can work independently, in partners, or in small groups on this project. T

Introduce, scaffold, and extend the R.A.C.E. writing strategy in grades K-4. Tiered graphic organizers allow for easy differentiation. Each step in this progressive system adds a level of complexity - and students master each element of constructed responses before moving to the next step. With this resource, your primary students will build a strong foundation for using the R.A.C.E. writing strategy as they progress through school. Students will learn to restate questions, provide strong answer

Creative, engaging, ready-to-use poster project to compare and contrast the novel and movie versions of Wonder! Perfect for a final project after your novel study. With this resource, your students will create a poster comparing and contrasting characters, plot events, and setting in the novel and the movie. You can incorporate technology by having your students create a poster in Google Slides, PowerPoint, or another program. Students can work independently, in partners, or in small groups on

Introduce, scaffold, and extend the R.A.C.E. writing strategy in grades 4-8. With this resource, your students will learn to write strong constructed responses through clear explicit expectations. Tiered graphic organizers allow for easy differentiation. Each step in this progressive system adds a level of complexity - and students master each element of constructed responses before moving to the next step. Your students will clearly and concisely restate questions, answer inferential questions,

Engage your students as readers by exploring the 10 main genres through picture books, chapter books, and graphic novels. Teach mini-lessons with picture books and note-taking pages, and assess students’ understanding of genre before, during, and after the unit. Knowledge of genre is a foundational skill of responsible, informed readers. Genres Covered: Realistic FictionHistorical FictionScience FictionFantasyMysteryTraditional LiteratureAutobiographyBiographyMemoirInformationalThis resource in

An engaging, ready-to-use creative writing companion to the book or movie versions of A Christmas Carol. Students will use creative writing skills to write a letter, addressing key plot events, character analysis, and themes. This product incorporates student choice through three different letter types and allows you and your students to have fun with a great story, while staying true to key reading and writing standards. Included in this product: Detailed student directionsDescription of requi

Book Commercials are an effective and fun way to hold students accountable for independent reading, work on speaking and listening skills, and create excitement among their classmates for the books they are reading! This single-point rubric was created to streamline your assessment of Book Commercials in your classroom - and gives you the flexibility and freedom to assign grades and point totals that are best for your students.

Building a relationship with each student is essential to creating a productive and safe classroom environment. This ready-to-use survey will help you get to know your students, so you can set up a student-centered classroom in which all students thrive as readers and writers.

Talking with students about the books they are reading is a great way to connect, assess, and build rapport. Using a conference assessment tool keeps those conversations targeted and aligned with standards, yet still allow for organic discussion.This is a rubric to be used early in your conferencing, as its focus is book selection, genre identification, identifying plot events and explaining how they influence future action.

A quick, efficient way to assess your students' reading skills using their independent reading books. You choose the skill, and we provide a rubric to help you accurately assess each student's proficiency. Use this to assess all reading standards at your grade level! Resource includes two versions of the assessment, so you can choose which works best for you and your students. Check out our blog post on using Reading Conferences as an accountability measure in our classroom!