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How To: Socratic Seminar — Teacher & Student GuideLooking to bring meaningful, student-led discussions into your classroom? This How To: Socratic Seminar presentation is a clear, student-friendly guide designed to help teachers introduce, model, and facilitate successful Socratic Seminars in any subject area. This resource walks students step-by-step through what a Socratic Seminar is, how it works, and what is expected of both leaders and participants. It emphasizes respectful dialogue, cri

Are you looking for a fun Halloween Writing Activity?This Halloween Writing Activity will allow your students to practice their argumentative writing skills by forming a claim on the topic "Which is the best Halloween candy?"Students must state their claim, have evidence to back it up, and a summarizing statement to conclude their paragraph. Optional extension - have students share their paragraphs to the class to get a friendly debate going!

Author's purpose is a critical reading skill, and this authors purpose video review is here to help with your lessons! ** COMPLETELY EDITABLE!!

Use this to check for understadnign after introducing a new concept, standard, or lesson! In my classroom, I will pass out sticky notes at the beginning of class. Students will write their name on the sticky note and after the lesson, activity, or at the end of class, i will display the stoplight on the board. They will stick their sticky note in the area they feel they identify with after class.