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Heart, blood vessels, blood cells, spleen, and platelets oh my! Are you studying the circulatory system and need a quick review? Have your students practice this reader's theatre. Packed with 11 characters including a funny virus and a white blood cell who hopes to gobble up every germ in their path, this reader's theatre will help your students become more fluent readers and learn about this important body system at the same time.

Do you need a way to help student's better understand the respiratory system? Are words like alveoli and pharynx difficult to explain? After studying the respiratory system, why not review its functions and parts using a reader's theatre? This 11 part reader's theatre easily explain what happens when Oxygen enters a person's nose, travels through the trachea, pharynx, bronchial tubes, and into the lungs. Add the character diaphragm and you have a fun filled way to learn more about this important

The book Take Me Out Of the Bathtub by Alan Katz is an excellent example of incorporating VOICE into writing. After reading several of the poems in the book, I explain what a parody is. The students then create their own parodies of famous songs such as It's Raining it's Pouring, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and I'm a Little Teapot. I encourage students to use their own VOICE while writing their parodies.

Are you realizing that teaching morphemes is important, but you're having a difficult time making the learning of meaningful parts fun and engaging? Look no further than Morphed, an exciting card game to practice both reading and spelling highly frequent words with common prefixes, base words, and suffixes. What you’ll get:Over 40 Common Base Words taken from Dolch/Fry Word listsPractice with words that contain short vowels and consonant digraphs th, ch, ng, and sh, and vowel digraphs ee and ooS

Are you realizing that teaching morphemes is important, but you're having a difficult time making the learning of meaningful parts fun and engaging? Look no further than Morphed: Twinsies Edition, an exciting twist on the original Morphed card game to practice both reading and spelling highly frequent words with common prefixes, base words, and suffixes. What you’ll get: Over 40 Common Base Words taken from Dolch/Fry Word listsPractice reading and spelling words where there is ONE short vowel f

This file contains a 4 page minibooklet explaining the unusual relationships of four animal pairs. Each page is picture-rich and appropriate for more advanced first graders and higher. A complimentary flipbooklet is also included. Students can record facts they learn as well as reflect on what additional questions they have. There is also a writing component as well as a memory game. Depending on the ability of the students, the reading and writing activities could be sustained for an entire wee

Tired of boring, regular sentences in your student's writing? Do you need examples of great writing that will help inspire your students to write more descriptively. This activity helps model what it takes to make regular sentences REGAL or amazing. It's especially useful for students who enjoy illustrating. The pages contained in this activity can be used whole class or in centers during a literacy period.

Are you frustrated with your student's lack of descriptive writing. This activity is a great introduction to the concept of showing not telling in writing. On each of the twelve pages, students have an opportunity to sketch a picture related to an emotion. At the bottom of each page, they should describe the emotion without using the actual word (e.g. my heart was racing, my jaw dropped, and etc.)

Are you looking for a way to provide students with independent practice in questioning? Questioning spinners can be used while reading both fiction or non-fiction texts. In pairs or in groups, students read through short portions of a given text. They use one of the provided spinners to help develop a question about what they've read. Questions can be written in the circles provided on the questioning sheet. When finished, it's helpful to have a discussion about what questions were written down.

Created in Powerpoint, this Jeopardy game is designed to test students knowledge of both butterflies and moths following the end of a unit. Simply click on the number of points under each category to elicit a question. The answer can also be retrieved by clicking on the screen following a student's response. Click the "Back to gameboard" icon in the bottom right corner to return to the main game board. Students love playing Jeopardy, and it's a fun way to review.

A two-sided sheet featuring recommended sites for parents and kids. There is also a section for Reading Games as well as approximately eight Reading/Language Arts Apps. We pass this out to parents to help engage students over the summer.