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Persuasive Techniques Task Cards: Comparison, Causality, Parallelism Contradictory Statements, Misleading Statements, Exaggerated Statements These cards can be used to help students during a persuasive text unit or as a refresher to prepare for the STAAR test. They correlate to the following TEKS: 5.12 Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Persuasive Text. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about persuasive text and provide evidence from text to support their analy

This product includes sentences with a missing verb that students need to complete by selecting the correct verb. There are also non-answer cards included with the same verb in an incorrect tense. Students will read sentences about earthquakes and hurricanes, which also build their background knowledge or may connect to their existing schema. This product comes with: Cards (sentences and verbs) for matchingStudent Recording SheetAnswer KeyGoogle Slide with directions to displaySubject-verb agre

This is a graphic organizer that shows our current elected government leaders for each of the three branches of government. It includes the position name, a blank (to fill in the name of the person - see names below), and a picture to help students put a face to the names that they may hear about in the news. We put this chart in our social studies ISNs (Interactive Notebooks) for students to refer to when we learn about our government and the Constitution. This also explains how Representati

This bundle includes several EDITABLE, Microsoft Word behavior charts to help track, organize, and inform parents about student behaviors at school. These charts can be used for data collection, as an incentive tracker, or as a means of communication with parents. The following charts are included in this bundle: - Individualized Daily Behavior Chart (Glow/Grow): You will select 3 ideal student behaviors and track the student's work toward these behaviors throughout the day. The schedule is brok

This is a tool to help you keep track of where your students are in the writing process. You can use this across all assignments and genres. In the blank at the top, you will add whichever assignment or genre your students are working on. The boxes are a place to type student names. Once they move from one step of the writing process to the next, I would either have my students come tell me so I could move them or they would go to my computer (while it was displaying the tracker) and move themse

This graphic organizer works great for intermediate elementary grades when analyzing an author's craft during an author study unit. The graphic organizer includes prompts with descriptions to get students thinking about: - Word Choice - Themes - Character Development - Sentence Structure - Purpose for Writing/Common Genres - Figurative Language - Tone -Other Things We Notice/Plot Lines I used this graphic organizer as a pre-writing organizational tool to help my students write a style stateme

This graphic organizer helps students think about identifying the subject, the person's motivation, the problem, solution, and theme in literary nonfiction stories. This pairs well if you are working on a read aloud or independent book.

There are two behavior goal charts included in this product. You will set behavior goals for the student (the number is up to you) and record points that this student earns. There are two forms: 1. Daily form with box for each day 2. Daily form with time slots broken down (this helps identify if a behavior is increased during a certain class/time of day) If you are departmentalized, you can put the sheet in a folder to pass between teachers to record points. You can use these forms to guide

These resources are great to get students thinking more deeply about what they have read in expository texts...and writing about it! The first page is a list of when to sticky note your thoughts when reading (i.e., identifying text structure, finding main idea/details etc.). I have my students put this in their reading notebooks to refer back to and have on their desks during independent reading time. The next two pages are used to create a double-sided reading response based on what stude

Every day is so much smoother after lesson planning with this template! This template is used to plan out weekly literacy workshop lessons. You have space to list your teaching points for the entire week for reading and writing, your read aloud, objectives, connection, teach, active engagement, and link. You also have a place to record your small group or conferring teaching points. Using this template on Google Drive allows our team to collaborate together on writing lesson plans, link possibl

This graphic organizer can be used to measure understanding with a number of skills within nonfiction. It covers main idea, supporting details, text structure, text features, making connections, and a general reading response. This organizer aligns well to the 5th grade reading TEKS 5.11A-E, but can be used for other standards and in other grade levels. We also ended up using this assignment for both a reading and writing grade since the students had to demonstrate mastery of writing as wel

This activity helps students practice long division with remainders while helping them stay interested by incorporating Mad Libs. Students begin by filling out random names and numbers, then fill them into a word problem. Students work to solve the problems using long division and can also draw a picture to show their thinking.

You can use this log when conferring with students to help them track their goals. I talk about what we can set as a measurable goal as readers during a conference, then provide the student with anchor charts or tools to refer to when working toward the goal. Students have space to record progress toward their goal by writing text evidence of the work they are doing as readers. I also make a photocopy of the organizer when the students complete it to keep on hand for RtI meetings, parent-te

These resources are great to get students thinking more deeply about what they have read in narrative texts...and writing about it! The first page is a list of when to sticky note your thoughts when reading (i.e., making a prediction, experiencing a word you don't know, etc.). I have my students put this in their reading notebooks to refer back to and have on their desks during independent reading time. The next two pages are used to create a double-sided reading response based on what stu

This product is perfect to guide students to make connections while conducting an author study. As students read multiple texts by the same author, they will take time to got notes about: word choicepurpose for writingcharacter developmentsentence structuretonethemesfigurative languageother things we notice/plot linesThere are questions to prompt student notes in each of these areas and boxes for students to jot their notes. If you have multiple students studying the same author, this is a grea

This activity can be used to assess comprehension with higher-level thinking while reading the novel Bud Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis. Students will put items in Bud's suitcase, then describe the item and why it would be included in his suitcase. This activity can be done independently, then can lead to partner discussions or a talk as a whole class. Students can also complete this with a partner, where students will have to discuss their ideas and agree on what to include.

This quiz can be used to assess student understanding of the roles and responsibilities of each of the three branches of national government. The file is editable to ensure that the assessment is aligned to your instruction.

Perfect for primary students! A wonderful way to practice thinking of adjectives related to a topic and also includes a QR code to a read aloud to get students' ideas flowing before writing.