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This is an OUTSTANDING 100 slide powerpoint TEACHING units that provides the perfect structure for the delivery of a Passion Project experience for middle school aged classes. The preview and the video explanation below only cover 20% of the depth of material offered in this unit. WATCH the video to get just a glimpse of the superb quality of the unit. This will be one of your BEST investments on TpT. Passion Project Preview Video

This unique mnemonic device titled C.O.M.M.A.S. lists, with examples, the six main uses of the comma. Each category has a brief explanation and a few examples for the students to immitate. It is an excellent tool for teaching this confusing grammar topic. When students need to remember how to effectively use the comma, they just need to think C.O.M.M.A.S. Customers who are impressed by this unique memorization tool should check out some of my other mnemonic techniques for grammar, reading, a

This is an OUTSTANDING unit on inventions and inventors. It is a 24+ page reosurce with detailed lesson plans, technology integration links, and student worksheets and handouts (including a parent letter and guidelines on how to set up the end of unit Invention Convention). Download the preview file to see a sample of both the lesson plans and some student worksheets. It is scheduled to last for 8-10 weeks. It is adaptable from 2nd-5th grade with the best age range being in 3rd or 4th. The uni

This worksheet contains six different ways you could teach your students how to write an effective 'topic sentence'. There is also some advice on what phrases should not be included in topic sentences.

This is an outstanding 14 page unit that supports the Historical Fiction BOOK CLUBS for Reader's Workshop It is an entire unit of reading skills that can be used by any 4th-6th grade student during a course of study on historical fiction The resource perfectly walks students through a typical book club set up. The graphic organizers help students plan their reading, prepare their thinking, and organize their topics for discussions. The idea being that students (after the first set up session) c

This is truly a unique collection of activities and resources that are designed to be used in either a 4th, 5th, or 6th grade classroom during the first day and throughout the first week of school. If a teacher can inspire students in those first few moments of school then, the atmosphere for a productive, engaged learning environment is set for the rest of the year. This package includes: Two highly engaging class team building exercises A welcome poem that sets the scene for the first few mom

Looking to put on the perfect class assembly, end of year play or simple class reader's theatre performance for a group of parents? Wanting to inspire your drama students with something different? This 11 page reader's theatre musical script is a beautiful reflection of the Life of John Lennon and the Beatles. It is structured in a way that both the novice teacher through to the expert director can put on an impressive performance for an audience on John Lennon's life. The resource comes as an 1

This resource is going to save you HOURS of time. If you need to put together a Moving Up Script or end of Year Graduation - you can simply use this dual template. This resource consists of a template script and a template powerpoint series of slides all attached to the movie UP by Pixar. The message is that your students are moving UP or graduating to the next stage of their education. The script is easily adaptable to any school's typical format of pleasantries, speeches by principals, and spe

This is simply a must have lesson for all classrooms. We monitor students ability to listen and we talk about their inability to maintain lesson focus, but how often do we TEACH how to listen and HOW to focus. This is a wonderfully creative session that models for students what good listening is with a series of 6-7 steps that are so tangible every student from 3rd-8th would easily understand. Students are also taught how to recognize their own distractions and given a strategy to limit these di

For Writer's Workshop teachers covering the fantasy genre, this writing unit is a must. It is a resource containing 14 lessons that carry students all the way through one of the most challenging genres to write. The lessons fit perfectly with both the old and updated version the Columbia Teacher's College Writer's Workshop fantasy series of mini-lessons. The lessons also encourage students to use an amazing tech integration component resource ( a setting and symbolism database blog). Writing ski

Maker Space classrooms are popping up in forward thinking schools around the world. A Maker Space is a designated area of the classroom or common space that is reserved for creative exploration, engineering, building, investigation, prototyping, and inventing. In a Maker Space, students have opportunities to assemble, construct, test, and explore using outside the box thinking. This resource is a 68 slide powerpoint presentation that contains a complete set of resources to get started with a '

This is a BUNDLED version of both my Fantasy Reading Unit AND my Fantasy writing unit offered at a discounted price. Buy all your Reading and Writing lessons for a month for the cost of two cups of coffee! - RECENTLY ADDED - .PDF VERSIONS AND WORD DOC. VERSIONS For Writer's Workshop teachers covering the fantasy genre, this writing unit is a must. It is a resource containing 14 lessons that carry students all the way through one of the most challenging genres to write. The lessons fit perfectl

Teaching the reading skill 'inference' can be challenging. This is an entire 32 page unit that gives the students an opportunity to learn inference through art, music, images, situation cards, discussions and so much more. Guidelines as given for teacher instruction. Each lesson builds on the previous. Unique strategies help students tackle inference in a variety of ways. The 'In SPACES' inference reading strategy helps prompt students to organize and formulate their ideas around the clues given

This is the perfect way to begin a course in 5th-8th grade. It was designed for a Language Arts classroom but could be adapted for other subject areas. The resource is an 8 slide powerpoint and 4 page set of inspirational quotes. The lesson would take between 40-60mins to complete. The idea is to inspire students on the very first day to be the very best they can be. The powerpoint contains teacher notes where needed. The lesson begins by getting students to focus on the power of words - having

This is an 11 page HOLIDAY PLAY that can be used with a class or theatre group to put on a performance to both small and large audiences. It is based loosely on the story 'Scrooge.' It centers around a student that wants to quit the Holiday play out of selfishness. After visits from Spirits the main character learns the errors of his ways. The play teaches a moral about how others depend on us even though we don't realize it. For adventurous teachers, there are also some recommendations for s

This is an outstanding 15 page unit that supports the Fantasy Reader's Workshop Unit Book Clubs. It is an entire unit of reading skills that can be used by any 4th-6th grade book club group during a course of study on fantasy. The resource contains 10 graphic organizers that guide students through the preparation and discussion sessions for their book club meetings. Skills include: Nuanced Characters Major themes Multiplicity of Problems Symbolism Elements of Fantasy Archetypes Plot lines and

The is the first in a series of explanation worksheets on sentence fluency and sentence construction. It introduces six techniques showing students how to write more advanced simple sentence openings. It begins by stating which words should be avoided when opening simple sentences; then, it models six techniques for creating more engaging and advancved simple sentence openings (e.g. use of adverbs, participle phrases and infinitives). The recommended use is as a drafting sheet after students ha

This game gives students practice at writing and punctuating complex sentences. Amusing dependent and independent clauses are joined after the throw of dice. Students progress to creating their own clauses. along the way students learn about the need for the subordinating conjunctions and different way complex sentences are puntuated. proof reading patch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

This is an outstanding 115 slide powerpoint that perfectly walks teachers and students through the creation of a realistic fiction paper for middle school age range. The video below gives a detailed glimpse of the unit. YOU WILL NOT REGRET WATCHING! Realistic Fiction Writing Unit

BEST SELLING PRODUCT! Ready to inspire your students? This is an amazing 4 week poetry unit. After 20 years of teaching poetry, I have complied the best 14 sessions I have collected from w/shops, professional development, and years of research. The unit is broken into 4 parts (bends). 1) Immersion into Poetry: This bend exposes students to a variety of poems and teaches students a number of different poetic elements. 2) Interpretation of Figurative language. This bend exposes students to a vari