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Simple word bank to help your students use transition words in their speaking/writing. Can be cut out for individual use, laminated for re-use, posted as a word wall or given as a personal word bank. Learning transition are key in comprehension and is a great set of vocabulary to work on. Headings and colored coded help highlight their different meanings.

Stories Work: Pinocchio Reading stories (including classic tales) with students helps to build vocabulary and story grammar skills. You can use elements of the story to also build context clue ability, responses to short answer questions, and more. This resource uses the story of Pinocchio to target 11 vocabulary words, context clue skills, clip art for retelling, and thought provoking questions. All in one pack to make pulling a book off a shelf or printing from online easy as can be! Lesson ca

Build a snowman! Make a snowman character description and story writing prompt. Great to follow up with drawing or arts/crafts activity. I also focus on character traits, adjectives and story grammar elements. Simple but effective!

You will be surprised how well students will be writing. Students will need less 1:1 teacher support leading to independence given the support of this graphic organizer. There are many graphic organizers for building paragraphs. I like to pair this with the “table visual”. I find using a color-coded and graphed system that mimics an actual paragraph much more realistic and carryover is easier.

Focuses on the parts of a sentence and grammar including present tenses (-ing and -s). WHO WHAT WHERE parts help in expanding sentences and providing a visual cue.