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The Arrival by Shaun Tan - A complete novel study created by Sharing Sharon. This is a beautiful novel with no words. It's the perfect novel to share with struggling readers or students who just haven't fallen in love with reading. This book captures the hearts of artistic and visual learners. This package includes full comprehension questions, vocabulary building , critical thinking questions, writing activities as well as 4 culminating projects based on the book. You may use all or some of th

Donavan's Word Jar - a Complete Novel Study - created by Sharing Sharon This is a great resource for a complete novel study. The questions follow Bloom's Taxonomy of higher thinking. There is often a creative type activity with each chapter, including an autobiography cereal box, an advertising campaign, acting out skits, and drawing. The final task is to write a final chapter for the book. Great for students in Grades 1-4. Challenges younger students and perfect for older students who are s

Study Skills/ Organizational Skills course created by Sharing Sharon This package is designed as a 10 week Organizational / Study Skills course. It can be used in any capacity you choose, but the purpose is to bring students through a series of self reflections about how they learn, if they are organized, how to become organized, how to study, how to find the main ideas and if they're optimistic or not. This package is designed to help students become better students and to take more respon

Frindle by Andrew Clements - A complete Novel Study created by Sharing Sharon This package includes full comprehension questions, vocabulary building , critical thinking questions, writing activities as well as 8 culminating centers based on the book. You may use all or some of the activities for your students depending on their needs and abilities. Questions for each chapter and then 8 centers upon the completion of the book with Marking schemes. Perfect for Grades 4-6.

Time Capsule created by Sharing Sharon This activity is great for all elementary school aged students. Students love filling this out at the beginning of the year, burying it and then digging it up again at the end of the year. Get students to redo the same sheet at the end of the year to compare. Great first week of school activity, get to know you activity as well as getting a sample of your new students' writing abilities.

Christmas Language Arts Centres created by Sharing Sharon These are a perfect ideas for Christmas Language arts activities leading up to Christmas vacations when students are excited and ready for a break. The package includes 8 different activities with answer key. The skills focus on spelling, grammar, homophones, editing, paragraph writing, and creative writing. These can be used as Centres, folders, independent work or extra work for fast finishers. They can be done individually or in group

5 great activities for the first week of school. NO PREP - ready to go activities that will help to get to know your students and help your students get to know each other! These are sure to be great start of the year activities that everyone will enjoy.

Real Life Problem Solving created by Sharing Sharon This is a great tool for multi-leveled learners in one class as each sheet has a natural progression of difficulty. All questions are based on real life scenarios. There are 45 questions provided through 8 different sheets with answers. Sheet 1 - Addition Sheet 2 - Subtraction Sheet 3 - Multiplication Sheet 4 - Division Sheets 5 & 6 - Mixed Operations Sheets 7 & 8 - Mixed Operations with Multi-Step questions Can be used as an enrichment act

Halloween Language Arts Centers created by Sharing Sharon. This package includes 8 Language Arts Activities that can be used as Centers. Fun and creative activities great for a few weeks leading up to Halloween. Students are usually so excited this time of year, it's nice to do something fun while meaningful at the same time. Activities focus on grammar, editing, following directions, writing paragraphs, finding words and creative writing. Perfect for Grades 2-6.

All About Me Newspaper - created by Sharing Sharon This is a perfect get to know you activity for the first week of school. Students love to see their work in a finished "newspaper" format. Students fill in the brainstorming page and then I usually type in the finished product onto the template. You can have students type it in as well. There is a sample of a finished product on the preview page.

These courses are designed to help your students study and become more independent and engaged learners. These courses take students through activities, self reflection and quizzes to find out what type of learner they are and how to use that knowledge to be more efficient studiers. Students look at ways to cope with stress, how to tackle studying, time management and self awareness of what they need in order to succeed. Learning how to ask for support and finding ways and tricks to learn how to

This rule explains what letters to double at the end of a one syllable word with one short vowel. These rules are designed to help students understand why words are spelled the way they are. Great for all students but especially for students with Dyslexia or Language Based Learning Disabilities. Are you sick of your students memorizing pointless lists of words without understanding why words are spelled the way they are? Do you want your students to understand English spelling rules and pattern

Multiplication Tips and Tricks created by Sharing Sharon. This is a great resource for your students who just can't learn or memorize their multiplication facts. These tricks help students understand what each multiplication number means. It works through patterns and a deeper understanding of how to find an answer when memorizing just isn't working. Struggling students love these sheets.

This novel study created by Sharing Sharon includes an in-depth novel study of one of my favorite novels by Lois Lowry - The Giver. This package includes full comprehension questions, vocabulary building , critical thinking questions, writing activities as well as three projects based on the book. You may use all or some of the activities for your students depending on their needs and abilities. Perfect for Grades 6-8

Anxiety and Stress Reducing Techniques created by Sharing Sharon This package is designed to help students reduce and manage their stress. It can be used in any capacity you choose, but the purpose is to bring students through a self reflection about their own stress level, what it means and then to find strategies that will work for them to reduce their stress. This package is designed to help students become calmer, happier students and to learn to manage their own stress and anxiety. Included

Math About Me created by Sharing Sharon Cute first week of school Math activity to get to know your students. Introduction to place value. Makes a fun game to see how much students are "worth" by numbers.

This rule explains when to use and when to use at the end of a one syllable word. These rules are designed to help students understand why words are spelled the way they are. Great for all students but especially for students with Dyslexia or Language Based Learning Disabilities. Are you sick of your students memorizing pointless lists of words without understanding why words are spelled the way they are? Do you want your students to understand English spelling rules and patterns? If so, thi

These rules teach when a and are soft sounds and when they are hard sounds. These rules are designed to help students understand why words are spelled the way they are. Great for all students but especially for students with Dyslexia or Language Based Learning Disabilities. Are you sick of your students memorizing pointless lists of words without understanding why words are spelled the way they are? Do you want your students to understand English spelling rules and patterns? If so, this is

Angel Square Novel Study created by Sharing Sharon This is the perfect resource for a full novel study on the Canadian book Angel Square set in Ottawa. This novel study includes a rich vocabulary building component, looking at prefixes, bases and suffixes and what words mean in relation to other words in the same family. Character development and analysis is a focus as well as plot development. Essay writing is also a component of this package.

Addition Tips and Tricks created by Sharing Sharon is designed to help students not quite grasping the concept of addition some tricks to help them along. This is also a great review for all students wanting some new methods to add. This improves mental math and the ability to manipulate numbers in order to add more efficiently. These tricks help students understand how they are adding.