Sarah's Teaching Points and Resources

Looking for something for students to do who finish early? Need individually paced work for HiCap classrooms? This long term independent math project is just what you need! Math Independent Study Project Recommended Uses: • Enrichment -- Real World Application Requirement • Motivation -- Students will be excited to get back to their ideas • Application of Math Skills -- Emphasis on Fractions, Decimals and Data • Differentiation—assign less tasks or more bonus! Use the blank rubric to specialize

** Updated version with photos of classroom posters and notes!!! ***Now with compare/ contrast supports for CCSS RL3.9 ** This product is not worksheets. It is based on authentic literary discussion with students and co-created artifacts. These are whole group lessons for the "with" part of your workshop. For a preview of the lesson plan style and layout, please see my free sample from this unit. Patricia Polacco's wonderful picture books, written in her personal narrative style, bring the righ

Students love games and these partner games from basic addition to more complicated mental equations with two operations (addition and subtraction or addition and multiplication) are a just right fit for intermediate classrooms! All you need are dice and counters to differentiate your math centers, guided math groups, or whole class activity and because student skills will grow, there's always a board at the next level to grow into! This resource also in my 16 Math Stations product. Thank you fo

** New **Conversation Cues for each of the 8 Practices, aligned to the exit slips! At Sarah's Teaching Points, I post what I like to use in my own class. The 8 Mathematical Practices (Superhero Theme) are a great guide through any math lesson and come with two sets of exit slips, Set B being slightly more advanced in thinking work, and documentation sheets to plan intervention. These can be used with any math lesson/ activity and all you need are clothespins! Enjoy! For more great resources, pl

Looking for something for students to do who finish early? Need individually paced work for HiCap classrooms? Want to kickstart a Makerspace? This long term independent math project is just what you need! Math Independent Study Project Recommended Uses: • Enrichment -- Real World Application Requirement • Motivation -- Students will be excited to get back to their ideas • Application of Math Skills -- Emphasis on Geometry, Measurement, and Data • Differentiation—assign less tasks or more bonus!

Trying to push all students into deeper thinking? Need to differentiate for highly capable students? Looking for ways to pull that small guided group? Recently, I have been frustrated by the choice boards available that seem to focus mostly on “activities” (see my blog on activities at sarahsteachingpointblog.blogspot.com) or various multiple intelligences, but not deeper levels of thinking. Most Choice Boards seem to ask for Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Level 1 Recall/ Reproduce or 2 Application /

Student - led conferences? Goal setting? Progress reports? All three can be easily done with this resource! I have used this system for the past 7 years and appreciate it again every progress reporting/ conferencing session. Included: 3 page student self-evaluation 1 page teacher progress report correlating to student evaluation for parents at conferences, cumulative folders, or other documentation purposes. Thank you for visiting my store: Sarah's Teaching Points Please visit again for more sup

Now Adding Groupwork Jobs! These jobs are for groups to function independently. They can be randomly assigned or connected to other Roles. Group Organizer: introduces task and keeps group on target Fact Checker: returns to text/ data and puts sticky note on proof (cite evidence) Reporter: reports group findings to class, using proof (cite evidence) Fact Checker naturally goes with Clarify. Reporter naturally goes with Summarize. Group Organizer naturally goes with Predict or Question. At S

Looking for something for students to do who finish early? Need individually paced work for HiCap classrooms? This long term math project is just what you need! Math Independent Study Project Recommended Uses: • Enrichment • Motivation • Application of Math Skills • Differentiation—assign less tasks or more bonus! Use the blank rubric to specialize grades! Includes: Recommended Uses/ Rubric, Partner Conference Supports,Teacher Materials, Organization Suggestions, Student Plan/ Rubrics pages, 12

This resource is meant to be used with all students in a first grade math literate classroom but can also be used for extremely independent kindergarten students or intervention for second graders. You will be planning for three levels of independence (the less independent, the more guidance from you will be needed) but with the key areas intact:  Student Choice  D.O.K. (Depth of Knowledge at 3 and 4)  1st grade Common Core Math Standards for Measurement, Numbers in Base Ten, Operations and A

Full unit at my store includes: *photos of classroom posters and notes!!! *compare/ contrast supports for CCSS RL3.9 ** This product is NOT worksheets. It is based on authentic literary discussion with students and co-created artifacts. These are whole group lessons for the "with" part of your reader's workshop. Patricia Polacco's wonderful picture books, written in her personal narrative style, bring the right tone of literary study to reader's workshop. For the past several years, I have kick

Olive Style! This COMPLETE "How To" for Math Stations / centers resource is meant to support and help create math literate classrooms, reinforcing and pushing learning of new and review concepts. There are stations for all of these 2nd-4th grade plus special education (tried and true!) common core specific areas and more! For a preview of the quality of these pages, see my FREEbie-Intermediate-Math-Stations-for-Growth-Mindset-and-Risk-Taking. The following areas may be purchased in this bundle o

I have used these T-Charts in a variety of intermediate grade levels as well as with intermediate special education students to allow access to complex text. Supports Common Core reading standards for Craft and Structure. For more scaffolding supports in math, literacy, classroom management, parent communication, and documenting RTI, please see my store: Sarah's Teaching Points. Thank you!

** Updated version with photos of classroom posters and notes!!! ***Now with compare/ contrast supports for CCSS RL3.9 ** This product is not worksheets. It is based on authentic literary discussion with students and co-created artifacts. These are whole group lessons for the "with" part of your workshop. For a preview of the lesson plan style and layout, please see my free sample from this unit. Patricia Polacco's wonderful picture books, written in her personal narrative style, bring the righ

These cutout letters, numbers, and banners can be used on bulletin boards, word walls, posters, back to school signs, parent volunteer boards, directions pages, and student name / work display boards. Use these letter and number decorations in addition to my Garden CALENDAR, BIRTHDAYS, loss of baby TEETH decorations! See other Garden and Gnome Themed classroom tools at my store www.teacherspayteachers/Store/Sarahs-Teaching-Points! Table of Contents Ideas for Display/ Us

I use this form all year for my intervention reading groups in my classroom and have used similar forms as a special education teacher and Title 1 teacher. Where do you go to find out if a student missed more instruction than received if you don't have an attendance chart? How do you track what big ideas each student and their group are getting or struggling with? These forms are easy to stop and jot each time you meet and keep in weekly order so you can refer to them all year long. Next time yo

Superhero STAR! (to go with my classroom theme this year) I use this constantly, especially the monitoring cards -- the students really buy into those, and review behavior expectations after any lengthy break; it's easy to remember and keeps us all using the same language of expected behavior. It is my experience that students who have ownership in the classroom will participate more, have less behavior problems, and make more academic growth. To have ownership, students must be accountable to

**Now with "I Can ... " header and "How many days of school" header! These classroom posters can be used to design book box labels, shapes and colors posters and centers.The easiest start of the year to make student created reference is book bin labels. I presort and number bins and books but students determine what the topic or genre of the bin is, write it and draw a helpful illustration. Although not perfectly matching on day one like pre-made bin labels, students will use and remember the l

My classroom theme this year is Garden and Gnomes, so I'm sharing with you what I have created! Use these decorations to add to your blank CALENDAR template: --Display Month Poster --Use Numbered Days --Use Weather Cards Use these decorations to celebrate and organize class BIRTHDAYS: -Give each student a gnome. -After writing their name and birthday on the gnome, choose how to DISPLAY – graph above mushroom months to use for data collection, -- hang in month themed mobiles from the ceiling,

At Sarah's Teaching Points store, I sell units I've used many times before. This Writer's Workshop resource is based on classroom use from the last ten years in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades. Students enjoy being in charge of their movement through the writing process and I can easily adjust my mini lessons (based on teaching points on the posters) to a quick glance at my bulletin board. I also note periodically on my monitoring grid, which part of the process each student is on and am able to give i