Integrate literature and social studies while you get your students up and moving! This scoot was developed for use with the beautiful Caldecott Medal winner "Ox-Cart Man" by Donald Hall. This is also a great book to use for discussion on colonial life, producers and consumers, opportunity cost and interdependency. Also includes a producer/consumer T-chart
Do your students cheer when you announce a test? I didn’t think so. My students DO cheer when I announce we are going to “SCOOT!” This kind of assessment gets students up and moving, allows kids to work at their own pace, and gives the teacher a chance to quickly spot and provide remediation.
This scoot has 30 cards to review contractions and possessives including possessive pronouns and the dreaded IT’S/ITS and THEIR/THEY’RE.
Differentiation
There are three answer sheets for your students t
This learning game allows students to explore antonyms and multiple meanings of words. Includes 24 cards and a caller's sheet. A great activity to reinforce vocabulary. If you have more than 24 students, please send me a message and I will create more cards for your class.
This sentence sort is a great way to teach and reinforce proper use of apostrophes, contractions, and possessives. The sentences are simple allowing students and teachers to focus on the context of the word.
This sort can be placed in a station for older students or may be a small group reading and writing lesson for younger students or English Language Learners.
Give your students a meaningful gift and a chance to stretch their skills into summer.
This journal has 9 different covers to choose from and 20 prompts to guide writing, including two "letters to my teacher." At the end of the year, I will give each student a journal and two stamped envelopes with the school address to keep in touch.
Also included are cut and paste prompts if you want the students to create their own journals instead of binding them ahead of time.
Give your students the tools to discuss and comprehend in groups and literature circles. This set includes 30 cards to help readers start discussions on a variety of fiction texts.
This activity is a great addition to a non-fiction text features unit. Students can work solo or in pairs to find the different features listed and then determine the importance of each.