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Students speak emoji-like images; teachers need information on student progress. This quick assessment gives teachers quick student feedback after a learning activity. It's great for organizing small groups and identifying areas a teacher needs to target.

Are your students still confused about the difference in compound and complex sentences? Try this cheat sheet that breaks sentence parts down into simple color-coded pieces. Taken from my activity packet "Color Coded Sentence Structures", this is a short, simple, and colorful tutorial. Sentence parts are color-coded to help students evaluate a sentence for its subject, verb, and conjunctions. I have used this visual model successfully for over ten years with my students, and it helps them

Have you every read a student paper and felt like you were chasing a rabbit through a maze? Graphic organizers help beginning writers know which details to put where -- or organize their thoughts. This graphic organizer is for a basic report, like a news story. Activity Suggestion: Choose a news article, have students identify the details in the article and place them on the graphic organizer. This helps students identify the flow of information in an Order of Importance article. Students may o

'How do I start?' 'What do I do first?' These are questions frequently asked to writing and composition teachers by their beginning writers. Frequently, beginning writers need the stages of the writing process broken down into simpler steps. This helps beginning or struggling writers build a foundation for future writing instruction. Simply telling some students to prewrite isn't enough. In this minilesson, students are instructed how to create a jot list, graphic organizer, and outline. In ad