Soni Krasky

This organizer will help your students reosrd the important parts of plot when reading. Look for my matching poster to create a great bulletin board with students' finished work or remind them why finding the parts of plot when reading is important.

Active Reading and Annotating Strategies can be so hard for students to remember! What if they had a handy cheat sheet right there while reading? I put together some of the most common ways to annotate literature in this easy-to-understand bookmark. It includes highlighting, margin notes, and using symbols. This pdf is a 2 pager - print 2 copies per page, giving you an ideal size to hand out to your students. Have them keep it in whatever novel you assign! It's designed for high school, but shou

Active Reading and Annotating Strategies can be so hard for students to remember! What if they had a handy cheat sheet right there while reading? I put together some of the most common ways to annotate literature in this easy-to-understand infographic. It includes highlighting, margin notes, and using symbols. Print and hand out for students to glue into an interactive notebook; or enlarge and hang up in the classroom. It's designed for high school but should also work for middle school students

Use these pages in conjunction with lessons that include actual work students are doing in school. My students create a "strategies notebook" and add a page each time we cover a skill in class. They could also be printed and placed on the walls in the classroom as reminders. Included: -Taking notes from a textbook -Taking notes during class -Making good use of study time -Doing well on assessments -Doing work at home

This organizer will help your students practice paraphrasing using sentences from short stories or novels that they are reading. Look for my matching poster to create a great bulletin board with students' finished work or remind them how to paraphrase when answering questions or summarizing.

This organizer will help your students draw conclusions based on evidence from the text and their own background knowledge when reading. I use it with guided reading and small novel groups. Look for my Drawing Conclusions poster and create a bulletin board with your students' work!

This organizer will help your students identify and keep track of the different types of graphic sources and the information they provide when reading. Examples include illustrations, pictures, tables, charts, diagrams, and maps. I use this with my students in content class (science or social studies) and when reading informational or expositiory text in reading class. Look for my matching poster to create a great bulletin board with students' finished work or remind them how to identify and use

This worksheet will help your students collect their thoughts to determine the theme after finishing a short story or novel.

This organizer helps students plan out important story details before they begin writing - Setting, Characters, Problem/Conflict, Rising Action, Climax/Turning Point, and Resolution! It can be used with almost any grade level, although will probably work best in upper elementary school or middle school.

This is a great executive functioning tool to use to help students plan out for long term assignments or projects. It's adapted from Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare.

This organizer will help your students determine the author's viewpoint when reading. It will also guide them to see why finding the author's viewpoint and forming their own opinions when reading is important. Look for my matching poster to create a great bulletin board with students' finished work.

This organizer will help your students determine the author's purpose when reading. Look for my matching poster to create a great bulletin board with students' finished work or remind them why finding the author's purpose when reading is important.

This organizer will help your students collect their thoughts to write short summaries when reading.

This organizer helps students plan out important story details before they begin writing - Who, When, Where, What, and How! It can be used with almost any grade level, although will probably work best in elementary school.

This organizer will help your students collect their thoughts to make judgments based on evidence when reading.

This organizer will help your students record cause and effect relationships when reading. Look for my matching poster to create a great bulletin board with students' finished work or remind them how to find cause and effect relationships.

This organizer will help your students sequence events from a story they have read or brainstorm for a story they are writing themselves.

Students sometimes struggle with word problems! This will help them to figure out how to tackle them. Post it in your classroom and/or distribute to students.