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This book club guide will work for ANY book! Students are in charge when they use this guide. It contains all the information they need to set up their own book clubs! There are 13 pages that give information, detailed directions, and examples on many aspects of a book club. This is a tool you show students how to use, and then let them at it! It helps students build a love of reading, as well as sharing the experience with other students. I set 30 mins a week aside for book clubs and my stu

Several revising strategies that improve writing through use of transitions, adding detail, and ordering paragraphs. Can be printed out as an activity packet for students to use on a completed rough draft.

Use this product to help students understand the correct usage of homophones. It can be printed out as a booklet, and personalized to fit the need of each individual student. Using the list of homophones, students will write the definition, draw a picture that represents the word, and use it in a sentence. There is even a sample provided! Use with the homophone pretest to help students determine which homophones they need to work on, or assign students specific homophones to practice. This p

This product can be used with the Homophones booklet on my site. There are 8 individual pretests that students can take to assess their knowledge of common homophones. Students can use this information to then focus on learning only the homophones that they don't already know. The pretests assess the words that are listed in the homophones booklet on my site. They are in the same order as the list in the booklet.

Use in place of an editing checklist. These editing rings follow the CUPS method, and prompt the student to complete 12 editing tasks. A single hole punch in the corner and a binder ring will complete this product.

Step by step, key by key instructions to help your students publish their persuasive or friendly letter in a word document.

Want to try out student led book clubs, but worried about keeping your students accountable? Use the meeting report to keep students on track. The categories will help students keep on task during book clubs, as well as letting them know you are keeping up with their reading progress. For the first few meetings, I met with students and filled out the report with them, just a simple check if they did it, and a cross if they didn't. After they understood how it worked, the groups kept up with

An editable graphic organizer for persuasive letter drafts. Includes greeting, sign off, and signature.

Have you been using the book club guide all month, and want to give students a grade on all the hard work they have been putting in? I saved the meeting reports from my book clubs each semester so that I could take a grade, and used this rubric to report the grade to my students. It is easy to use, each category is worth 25 points and corresponds with the categories on the Meeting Report. Use this product with the book club guide, and the book club meeting report.