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This is a common core aligned reading and writing activity on the history of St. Patrick's Day. It includes two non fiction texts on the history of St. Patrick's Day. One of the texts includes the subheadings of "Who, What, When and Why," for differentiation among your students or grade levels. A cute foldable template with sections labeled, "Who?, What?, When? and Why? is included for your students to create and write in.

This rubric allows you to give an overall weekly grade to your students center activities. It scores Completion, Staying on task, Working quietly, Capitalization and Punctuation and Neatness of all turned in assignments in a rubric format. At the bottom of the rubric are point/grade conversions that you may use or you could make your own and paste it over the top. I use this as a weekly writing grade to go along with the reading grade I assign students in guided reading.

Personalized Days in School calendar. Let your students keep track of the number of days they have been in school as well as preview upcoming important dates like special programs and birthday celebrations! Use the calendar during your morning meeting or math lessons to practice math skills such as: skip counting, counting by 5’s or 10’s, even and odd numbers, and posing addition or subtraction problems! The students love being able to keep track of their days in school!

This weekly chart from Serendipitously Second has uncolored library pocket pictures for each day of the week. If you use colored cards and library pockets for behavior management, the students simply color in their end of day color. There is a space below each pocket for students to write a sentence explaining the color of their card. There are also spaces for teacher and parent comments. The bottom half of the chart contains space to record homework each day in the subjects of spelling, rea

In order to hold students accountable and on task during the read to someone part of daily five or centers, I created a rubric. The listening partner evaluates the reader in three areas: Fluency, On task behavior and clarity. This way you are able to assess whether students are using the read to someone time correctly and also the reader's fluency and attention to the text.

This is a beginning, middle and end graphic organizer on a Google slide. Your students will be able to type their answers in the scoops of ice cream.

This is a Venn diagram Google slide. It can be used for any subject to compare and contrast.

This is a one page document containing 2 exit slips for writing about a selected reading strategy.