Seasons in Learning

Walk your students through the writing process by using a directed drawing to capture their attention! Some students think they can’t write, or believe that writing is hard - not true! If they can follow steps to create a monster, they can trace those same steps to write about it, using the writing process. This resource can be used as a station, a gallery walk, or whole group - it all depends on your students and classroom. I personally used it as a station as I looped with my class, so I knew

If you are looking for a ready-made, no prep method of providing your students with a spelling list and/or a list to help keep yourself on track, look no further! Each module of Into Reading’s Spelling words are used, making this super easy to use, time saving, and organized. I use the color trimmed lists as a flip booklet that I keep on my board. It enables me to quickly flip to the current week’s list of words to write on the board. Each card/page is marked for a hole punch. I use a 1” binder

This is a complete word wall for use with HMH Into Reading for 4th grade. It includes all of the critical vocabulary used in every week and module in the textbook. Each week is color coded, and each word card is labeled with the module and week. Includes: header cut outs (“vocabulary”) 26 letter tiles ALL of the words for each module

If you are looking for a simple way to propel your students into a positive day, look no further. These cards are perfect for posting, engaging in discussions, or simply giving students a positive thought to keep with them for the day, the bus ride home, etc. Each set contains 18 color and 18 black and white quotes/thoughts that are 5x7 sized - perfect for framing near the classroom door. Also included is a page sized poster, just to remind students they are loved. ***This set is SPORTS related

If you are looking for a simple way to propel your students into a positive day, look no further. These cards are perfect for posting, engaging in discussions, or simply giving students a positive thought to keep with them for the day, the bus ride home, etc. Each set contains 18 color and 18 black and white quotes/thoughts that are 5x7 sized - perfect for framing near the classroom door. Also included is a page sized poster, just to remind students they are loved. If you use the program that *c

If you are looking for a simple way to propel your students into a positive day, look no further. These cards are perfect for posting, engaging in discussions, or simply giving students a positive thought to keep with them for the day, the bus ride home, etc. Each set contains 18 color and 18 black and white quotes/thoughts that are 5x7 sized - perfect for framing near the classroom door. Also included is a page sized poster, just to remind students they are loved. If you use the program that *c

Teaching students to completely answer a question is one that I find works best when utilized very frequently. I often tell my students to chew up the question and spit it back out with their answer. That is, using the explicit words of the question in their response. This card set serves as a next level into this skill, as the keywords are not highlighted for students (found in my “Answering in complete sentences” set). Each card has a nonfiction excerpt on a variety of topics (finches to Dum-D

Correctly citing text evidence is a skill that takes time to teach and learn. I like to start my students off in small steps (sentences) before taking leaps (paragraphs) to accomplish the task. I designed this task card set to set my students up for success with evidence, as a means of asking them to cite text evidence in a variety of ways. NOTE : I ONLY wrote the questions on these cards. The text is from kids.nationalgeographic.com, and I have included a QR code that links back to the exact

Homophones are one of my favorite things to teach because of the way it engages the creativity and critical thinking in my students. I love hearing them think aloud of all of the different homophones they can. Since they tend to be aware of so many already, I wanted to present them some that may be a little more obscure, or overlooked. Some are not so subtle, but are included due to common spelling errors. This card set is designed as a station, but could be used in any number of ways. There are

Homophones are one of my favorite things to teach because of the way it engages the creativity and critical thinking in my students. I love hearing them think aloud of all of the different homophones they can. Since they tend to be aware of so many already, I wanted to present them some that may be a little more obscure, or overlooked. Some are not so subtle, but are included due to common spelling errors. This card set is designed as a station, but could be used in any number of ways. There are

Helping students to understand author’s purpose in nonfiction text can be quite the task. Many students think that it is a simple concept. They know that an advertisement’s purpose is to persuade, a news article’s purpose is to inform, and a work of fiction is to entertain, but there is a whole world of text yet to be deciphered! I needed to bridge the gap of understanding and guide them to dig deeper. This card set is a station that I created to help my students pick apart a text, dig a little

Guiding students to hone in on an author’s purpose is a skill I am always more than happy to help my students practice - even if just to keep the skill fresh. This card set is designed as a station, but can be used in any number of ways. Each card gives a brief passage / paragraph and asks what the author’s purpose is. This is not a complex set, as there is some guiding in the answer choices - each gives a statement as to WHY it might be the purpose stated, rather than just just purpose categori

This introduction to division station activity provides hands-on practice for students to better understand the concept of division by seperating unifix cubes (or any other manipulative) into equal groups. Each card gives a total and details how many groups to create. Students will use the work mats to divide out their cubes, circle the groups, and complete the statements. They will then complete the same statements on their recording sheets, and transform it into a division equation. Includes:

Division practice is fun with this Did You Know It? self checking game. Students will read each card and determine the division statement. They will then record that statement (or answer) on their recording sheets. Then, they will remove the answer cover (can be attached with Aileen’s Tack It or velcro dots cut in half) to see if they are correct. If correct, they move as many spaces on the came board as it says to, or they lose their turn if their answer was incorrect. The included gameboard ca

Bring some fun to practicing multiplication models and word problems with this task card set! I use it as an ‘around the world’ (or scoot), but it could easily be a station, used for small group, partner work, or anything you see fit. I double laminate the cards and give my students dry erase markers to use on them. This set contains twelve cards that have short word problems and an assigned model to use. The models used include area models, arrays, equal groups, and number lines. This gave m

This card set is designed as a station, but could easily be used for small group, partner work, scoot / around the world, or individually. The sixteen cards have a variety of three questions: 1) How much money is shown, 2) Draw the value shown in least amount of bills and coins, and 3) Show an alternate variation of the amount shown. Values range from $5 to $30, to allow use of all common bills. Only common coins (quarter, dime, nickel, penny) are used. My third graders used this when we reviewe

Understanding point of view seems simple enough to students looking for key words, but when put in context of the genre of the story can become increasingly difficult. I created this card set using our curriculum textbook to boost engagement, familiarity, and to help isolate the concept. This card set is designed as a station, but could easily be completed individually, in pairs, or in small group. A scoot could even be fun! Each card gives a quote from various HMH Into Reading (3rd grade) stor

As a plant person, I am finally decorating my classroom to match! I have a few plants here and there, but no prints of plants. My sink/counter are needed a little something, and motivational poster is what sprang to mind. My school is focusing on mindfulness as a campus theme this year, so it seems in tune. These are simple, plant-meets-motivation-for-kiddos-style prints. I printed at full size, laminated, cropped just a tad, and placed on the wall with 8x10 frame fronts. Fills the space and fi

Identifying point of view can be increasingly difficult as students get older, since they have often been trained to look for key words such as “I”, “me”, “they”, “he/she”, etc. My skimmers (those who want to skim any reading piece to get to the questions) are forced to read the piece when I started mixing up the key identifiers (pronouns) so that they had to think about who the narrator was. This card set is designed as a station, but could easily be completed individually, in pairs, or in smal

Add some fun to estimating with a little friendly competition, or individual quickness. This activity is designed to increase student automation with rounding numbers to the nearest TENS, HUNDREDS, and THOUSANDS - category cards are in increments of 50. Students will spread out the 10 category cards (10 - 100), leaving room to place cards underneath (think Solitaire). They will shuffle the number cards up and place them in a stack upside down. Drawing one card at a time, they will place it under