Stacey Smart

This product includes 4 worksheets of guided questions to help a student write a report about a famous African American. It includes 2 worksheets for book and website references and a rubric to score the finished report.

This unit for students is based on the Lucy Calkins series. The unit develops understanding of turning points, generating ideas based on feelings, story arch, narrative leads, choosing seed ideas, adding details, self and peer editing checklists, and a rubric.

This unit for students is based on the Lucy Calkins series. It contains essay examples, student observations, t-charts, using questions to form opinions and push thinking, creating a thesis statement and supporting ideas, conclusion, and an assessment rubric.

This is a complete unit for the students that is adapted from the Lucy Calkins series. It contains a survey, a section for a student writing sample, ways to generate writing, watermelon versus seed story, identifying a small moment story, revising leads and endings, a self and peer checklist. This also contains a test and student study guide. This is a great way to kick off your Writer's Workshop.

This unit includes 20 mini-lessons, stop and jot ideas, stop and jot recording pages, journal ideas, journal recording pages, book club discussion rubric, book club self-evaluation rubric, character analysis page, compare and contrast self to character page, book survey, and book selection page.

This unit helps students understand the different aspects of the following literary elements; characters, setting, point of view, plot, mood, theme, and foreshadowing. This unit also contains an end of unit assessment.

This is a complete unit for the students that contains activities and worksheets to assist with creating a persuasive writing piece. The unit contains information on the persuasive essay format, brainstorming sheet, examples of articles for and against a topic, a persuasive argument planner, and rubric.

This is an entire unit based on the National Geographic book Seeds of Change in American History - The Struggle for Equality. This packet includes student work pages, study guides, tests, and an answer key for the complete unit.

This is a complete unit for students that is adapted from the Lucy Calkins series. The unit has story planning, developing believable characters, sequencing the story, orienting readers with setting, story leads, giving characters struggles and motivations, mini action scenes, heart, and rubric.

Students can use any non-fiction book to complete this unit. The unit includes identifying text features, understanding the main idea, includes text support, student driven questions and answers, purpose of the book, and an assessment.

This is a complete unit for the students. It contains a reading survey, how to find just right books, reading strategies, how to abandon a book, book genres, a reading stamina test, and celebrating book activity. There is also a test and student study guide.This is a great way to launch your Reader's Workshop.

This product includes a variety of worksheets including transitional sentences and rubrics to complete open ended questions. The worksheets use the It Says, I Say, And So and the RACE method. The packet contains graphic organizers for OEQ's and reading response journals.

This is a great unit that allows the students to work in groups with any group book. There are 20 alternating independent and group work days. This unit allows the students to predict, make connections, analyze characters,support ideas with text connections, vocabulary work, identify and explain story elements, etc.

This includes a conference log to be used during reading and writing conferences with the teacher. There is also a student conference log to use as a follow up tool to log use of strategies/goals.

This product includes 6 different icebreaker activities to be used at the beginning of the school year. Some activities include: brown bag, sharing circle, sentence circles, read all about me, two false/one true.

These worksheets are a great homework reading log. The log includes 3 different weekly logs. The logs use various reading strategies and students have to include a text support to justify their answer.

This is a great in class or homework activity. Students or teachers can choose a question to complete for the journal. Students answer the question, include text support, and make a connection. There is a rubric to be used to grade the journal entries. Over 35 student/teacher reading response questions are included.

This is a complete unit for the students to help them identify interior and exterior character traits, similarities between student and a character, character analysis of motivations, identifies minor characters, and author message.

This packet includes several beginning of the year letters and a lunch posters. There is a parent contact form, pg movie permission form, class rules form, classroom sign out form, and a set of posters to be used when doing lunch count.

This product can be used in-class or as a homework assignment. It includes a generic form for students to complete a reading response entry which includes text support. It also includes two pages of other possible journal entry selections.