Shannon Tatman

This straightforward escape room requires students to answer ELA questions in order to find the codes to unlock a bank safe. It has review questions on parts of speech, figurative language, literary elements, and sentence types. Just print out the recording sheet and share the escape room with your kiddos and you're good to go.

Help your students develop mastery of homophones through this in-depth lesson and accompanying writing project!

This logic puzzle will help your students develop those problem solving skills that are so difficult to engrain! It's included as a printable document and as an easel assignment. The answer key can be accessed with the link below. Answer Key

Help your students develop their deduction and problem solving skills with this fun logic puzzle about a natural scavenger hunt between friends.

Help your students develop their deduction and problem solving skills with this fun fall cryptogram!

Just a poster I made for beside my guided reading table to remind myself of good strategies to use with students who read below grade level when working with grade level texts.

This is a Microsoft Word file that you can edit in any way you please. I love using "Mystery Student" because it is a very easy and hassle-free way to keep my students on-task. I pull a name at the beginning of each day without showing the students, watch that student's behavior throughout the day, and reveal the student before dismissal. If they earned the ticket, I announce it to the class. If they didn't, I speak to them in private about it. Even simple comments such as, "uh-oh I think our My