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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 video shows the unit in more detail. copy/paste link http://screenr.com/ezR7 First two minutes cover a Characters Unit then you get to see the Book Club unit in its entirety This is an outstanding 17 page Book Club unit that fits perfectly for ANY 4th-8th grade class working with book clubs or literature circles. This is a VERY comprehensive resource that provides the specific structure and organizational requirements for the Book Club/ Literature Circle format. There are a couple of se

This is an outstanding 13 page unit that supports the Fantasy Reader's Workshop Unit. It is an entire unit of reading skills that can be used by any 4th-6th grade student during a course of study on fantasy. The resource begins as a tic-tac-toe menu of 9 unique reading skills that discuss reading skill related to the genre. Skills include: Nuanced Characters Major themes Multiplicity of Problems Learning Curve Symbolism Elements of Fantasy Archetypes Plot lines and backstories Setting of fant

Forces and Motion: Pushes and Pulls is a Kindergarten NGSS Unit with engaging hands-on investigations for students. Additionally, this unit includes supporting resources such as an anchor chart and vocabulary cards Within this PowerPoint please find 25 slides filled with: A unit overview Guiding questionsEnduring understandingsVocabulary cardsAnchor chart5 Learning Performance Tasks (or 7 investigation stations) Check out for more N.G.S.S. products here coming from the H.I.V.E. (Hub of Innovat

This is an outstanding 11 page unit that support the Following Characters into Meaning Reader's Workshop Unit. It is an entire unit of reading skills that can be used by any 5th-8th grade student during a course of study on characters. The resource begins as a tic-tac-toe menu of 9 unique reading skills that discuss character. Reading skill titles include: This video shows the unit in more detail. copy/paste link http://screenr.com/ezR7 Objects that Reveal Characters Making Personal Connectio

Teaching your students to have a growth mindset is an important part of any classroom instructional approach. These are 12 beautifully designed 'growth mindset posters' in A4 size pdfs that would be prefect for any middle school or high school classroom. Each poster users a title of a key character trait; grit, attitude, perseverance etc. as the heading for the poster. More mature fonts make the message more appropriate for older students than almost all of the other resources on TpT.

These two sessions are part of my series on Higher Order Thinking Skills that teach students how to be better 'students'. This session focuses on teaches students to connect with how they learned best in the past and use those skills to become great future learners. The lessons also continues into getting students to identify what characteristics they need to possess to become effective learners. These lessons are perfect for any stage of the year fro 3rd-10th grade. The first part of the sessi

This is a lovely activity for teachers to use around the holiday season to practice the difference between topic, main idea, and details. The resource contains one passage which the teacher uses as a model for students. There are then 4 passages for students to practice. Each passage contains content about holiday traditions around the world. There is a H/W activity and a challenge activity that encourages students to think about topic, main idea and details of all the passages read in the sessi

FREE - Easily printable file to make your students a 'just right book' bookmark Follow me for more freebies coming soon

FREE: this simple resource is a quick tool you use do to get your students to check for patterns in their reading log Follow me for other great freebies coming soon.