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Fun and simple way to kick off the holiday season. Bring your students holiday traditions into your classroom using this easy tool. After discussing what a tradition is in class, have students continue the conversation at home with their family. Students fill in the boxes with writing, images or a combination based on their language proficiency and grade level. Students will enjoy presenting their holiday traditions to their classmates and finding similarities and differences among each other. I

This is an editable version of my SWBAT Cloze Summary. This version includes color coding and guiding questions for each section. This resource will allow you to easily differentiate for your ELL (and non-ELL) students, allowing for increased independence at higher proficiency levels.

This fun demonstration of absorption and color mixing can be used for vocabulary development, targeted speech or as a simple science experiment. Engage children in making predictions, inferencing, and recording observations. Perfect as part of a weather study, a color study, St. Patrick's Day unit or just for fun. Includes step by step directions, ideas for discussion questions and writing activities, printable observation sheet and printable review questions with lines for writing.

Use this monthly reading log to help students develop daily reading habits and guide them to think about what they read. Each month will include space to track book titles and pages read, as well as a skill check for each day. A second page is provided for students to record responses or have them respond in their reading journals. A great way to build reading stamina, monitor understanding, and incorporate reading and language skills

Build fluency and confidence in readers. Scroll through phrases using the First 100 Fry Words. Clean print with contrast for easy reading.

Support your students English language development by introducing them to the 6 basic syllable patterns. Research has shown that if students can master these patterns, the should be able to improve reading fluency. Great for any learner, perfect for working with ELLs and struggling readers. File includes a review of alphabet and vowel sounds for those who need it.

Cloze writing to support language acquisition. Use this resource to help students learn to summarize chapters from novels using the Somebody Wanted But So Then strategy.

Use this monthly reading log to help students develop daily reading habits and guide them to think about what they read. Each month will include space to track book titles and pages read, as well as a skill check for each day. A second page is provided for students to record responses or have them respond in their reading journals. A great way to build reading stamina, monitor understanding, and incorporate reading and language skills