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Make Amplify CKLA more accessible for your all your 5th grade students with these powerful PICTURE vocabulary slides. Separated by lesson, each vocabulary slide contains the vocabulary word, definition, and a picture that illustrates the meaning of the word. Designed as a companion to the Amplify CKLA curriculum, this presentation matches all 580 of the vocabulary words from the 5th Grade: Unit 1: Personal Narratives Unit 2: Early American Civilizations Unit 3: Poetry Unit 4: Don Quixote Unit 5

Need a quick Christmas Math Worksheet that is also FUN, ENGAGING, and FESTIVE? This FREE cryptogram is yours! Fantastic for helping your students practice their multiplicative math, this page can also bring in some holiday cheer. The puzzle will share the lyrics to a familiar carol. Happy teaching!

Tackle those Spelling Word Lists actively with Crosswords! Students can focus on learning the spellings of words as they define them and pencil them in, letter by letter! Amplify CKLA includes Spelling Word Lists in many of the units. This resources includes one puzzle for each of those lists. Students should feel engaged by the vocabulary and spelling lists. This is a fantastic way to get your students even more involved with their spelling! In Amplify CKLA, 5th Grade contains 9 individual spel

Tackle those Spelling Word Lists actively with Word Search! Students can focus on learning the spellings of words as they search for them, letter by letter! Amplify CKLA includes Spelling Word Lists in many of the units. This resources includes one puzzle for each of those lists. Students should feel engaged by the vocabulary and spelling lists. This is a fantastic way to get your students even more involved with their spelling! In Amplify CKLA, 5th Grade contains 9 individual spellings lists fr

Get rid of the hassle of students constantly asking for you to spell the same words over and over for them! This Spelling Notebook fits perfectly with any curriculum or grade, and it takes very little prep at all! 1. Print the Spelling Notebook ( two-sided printing works best)! 2. Hole-punch it and put it in a binder or folder. If that's too much hassle, simply staple it as it is! Viola! When a student asks you how to spell a word, direct them to their Spelling Notebooks. If it isn't in ther

There are SO many times I wish I had flashcards while teaching 1st Grade Amplify CKLA! It would be SO EASY to tell them, "OK get out your flashcards and practice the Tricky Words!" Print this FREE printout on yellow paper (or any color, your preference), then cut to create these easy-to-practice tricky word flashcards. Seriously, this resource is FREE. Get yours for the school year!

This writing notebook comes with 60 writing prompts to be used in a daily writing unit or spread throughout the whole year! Ideal for writing interventions, no matter the grade! Print as individual pages as needed, OR print as a set, front and back! How I use this in my classroom: 1 prompt per daySet a timerLet them writeI've noticed that a lot of teachers put writing on the back burner. It's hard, it takes too much time, and many teachers just aren't sure how to fit it in. This is a simple acti

Make CKLA Amplify more accessible for your all your 5th grade students with these powerful PICTURE vocabulary slides. Separated by lesson, each vocabulary slide contains the vocabulary word, definition, and a picture that illustrates the meaning of the word. Designed as a companion to the CKLA Amplify curriculum, this presentation matches all 90 of the vocabulary words from the 5th Grade Unit 1. After teaching the Amplify curriculum for a number of years, I committed this year to bringing a r

Tackle those Spelling Word Lists actively with Word Search! Students can focus on learning the spellings of words as they search for them, letter by letter! Amplify CKLA includes Spelling Word Lists in many of the units. This resources includes one puzzle for each of those lists. Students should feel engaged by the vocabulary and spelling lists. This is a fantastic way to get your students even more involved with their spelling! In Amplify CKLA, 4th Grade contains 9 individual spellings lists

Organize student behavior in a simpler, condensed fashion that doesn't leave you writing or typing your entire planning period! This is a one-page quick documentation sheet, with checkboxes that list most of the common behaviors you would need to document! Don't spend forever with the little details. Quickly note where it happened, when it happened, who the offender, victim, and witnesses were, and then write the details you need in the space provided! I like to print off many copies and keep

Teaching high school life science and need to review what they know? This 100-Question Semester Review is designed for middle school or introductory high school science classes. It covers key topics from the scientific method to mitosis and meiosis, making it the perfect end-of-semester study guide, test prep resource, or classroom assessment tool. 100 Multiple-Choice Questions: Divided into 8 parts for easy navigation: Part One: Scientific Method (questions on hypotheses, variables, data, and

Make CKLA Amplify more accessible for your all your 5th grade students with these powerful PICTURE vocabulary slides. Separated by lesson, each vocabulary slide contains the vocabulary word, definition, and a picture that illustrates the meaning of the word. Designed as a companion to the CKLA Amplify curriculum, this presentation matches all 85 of the vocabulary words from the 5th Grade Unit 2, Early American Civilizations. After teaching the Amplify curriculum for a number of years, I committe

Are your fifth graders hitting the standards? How do you know? In this assessment, each Number and Operations in Base Ten (NBT) standard has its own page, with 5 questions on each page. 7 pages in all: 5.NBT.15.NBT.25.NBT.35.NBT.45.NBT.55.NBT.65.NBT.7Use this test: as a one-time exam covering all NBT topics as a fast finisherto help determine small math groupsas a quick check for your studentshowever your class needs it!I made this resource for my 5th graders--what mathematical concepts are the

Make compiling the school yearbook easy this year with this spread of easy-to-copy and editable pages! Getting the spacing right for yearbook pages is long and tedious, not to mention very frustrating. When the pictures don't align properly, you can spend many meticulous hours fixing and editing the individual pages of your yearbook to make it look right. In this Google Slides, there are TWO pages of pictures properly spaced to fit 24 faces on each page. If you keep the two sided layout, that's

Tackle those Spelling Word Lists actively with Crosswords! Students can focus on learning the spellings of words as they define them and pencil them in, letter by letter! Amplify CKLA includes Spelling Word Lists in many of the units. This resources includes one puzzle for each of those lists. Students should feel engaged by the vocabulary and spelling lists. This is a fantastic way to get your students even more involved with their spelling! In Amplify CKLA, 4th Grade contains 9 individual spel

Make CKLA Amplify more accessible for your all your 5th grade students with these powerful PICTURE vocabulary slides. Separated by lesson, each vocabulary slide contains the vocabulary word, definition, and a picture that illustrates the meaning of the word. Designed as a companion to the CKLA Amplify curriculum, this presentation matches all 65 of the vocabulary words from the 5th Grade Unit 3, Poetry. After teaching the Amplify curriculum for a number of years, I committed this year to bringin

If you teach upper intermediate grades (4th, 5th, and above), you need to show the cohesion of a 5 paragraph essay. It can be difficult for students who just want to rush through it and "get it done," but the truth is, they just don't understand the flow of it all. I invite you to show them this resource. It is a simple, straightforward 5 paragraph opinion essay example on how a student might feel we could improve the school day. In this example essay, you will find that the essay is color-co

Do you have students in need of a book study packet? Do you want to have a single packet that can fit ANY book? This 7-page Independent Novel Study was created for reading groups, book clubs, and book studies. You can use it for any book, letting students choose their own books of preference. While I originally made this packet for 5th grade standards, feel free to use this packet for any grade!

Need quick Halloween Math AND Language Arts worksheets that are also FUN, ENGAGING, and FESTIVE? This bundle of worksheets is fantastic for helping your students practice their multiplicative math, reviewing prime numbers, and working through logic problems. A big PLUS: it can also bring in some Halloween fun! This set has 4 puzzles: Pumpkin Patch Problems - The students will need to solve the multiplication problems, match the answer to the correct letter, and complete the puzzle to answer the

Make CKLA Amplify more accessible for your all your 5th grade students with these powerful PICTURE vocabulary slides. Separated by lesson, each vocabulary slide contains the vocabulary word, definition, and a picture that illustrates the meaning of the word. Designed as a companion to the Amplify CKLA curriculum, this presentation matches all 53 of the vocabulary words from the 5th Grade Unit 6. After teaching the Amplify curriculum for a number of years, I committed this year to bringing a reso