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These individual Accountable Talk reference cards expose students to a variety of phrases they should be saying while engaging in on-task talk. I laminate and tape these reference cards to my students' desks at the beginning of the year and my students refer to them throughout the entire course of the year in group discussions and while turning and talking to partners. Grab these reference cards & full size poster to increase the quantity and quality of respectful dialogue in your classroom!

Help guide students in finding the central (main) idea of ANY nonfiction text or article with these common core aligned writing questions & prompts! The Writing Prompts are fun, engaging and include visuals. I love using this assignment as a supplement to NewsELA or Achieve3000 texts that I assign, it's a great way to get students thinking, analyzing and citing textual evidence. These writing prompts are a great way to have students walk through the process of evaluating a text & text featur