Teaching Generation Next

Everyone loves minions, so use them to engage students in learning about characterization and literary analysis. This eight day unit uses the movie, “Despicable ME” to teach characterization, protagonist/antagonist, motivation, inference and text analysis. This unit is also aligned to common core standards. Included are eight complete daily lessons complete with mini lessons, lesson, activities and assessments. . This great little unit has tons of hand outs and worksheets like character tra

Word or “Rebus” puzzles are great activities for students. My students love to figure out these puzzles. This product is perfect for individual, group or whole class work. You can use them as bell ringers, small group tasks or individual worksheets. It is also a great substitute lesson that the kids will love. My ELL students are challenged by these puzzles, but love to figure them out and practice their English usage at the same time. Included In Your Purchase: • 48 puzzles with an answer

These little puzzles are fabulous as a bell ringer, especially while doing distance learning.  Word or “Rebus” puzzles are great activities for students.  My students love to figure out these puzzles.  This product is perfect for individual, group or whole class work.  You can use them as bell ringers, small group tasks or individual worksheets.  It is also a great substitute lesson that the kids will love. My ELL students are challenged by these puzzles, but love to figure them out and practice

This eight day unit uses the movie, “A Wrinkle in Time” to teach characterization, generalization, drawing conclusions, cause and effect, theme and text analysis. This unit is also aligned to common core standards. Included are eight complete daily lessons complete with mini lessons, lesson, activities and assessments. . This great little unit has tons of hand outs and worksheets like character trading cards, character charts and Venn diagrams, and target skill PowerPoints. These mini less

This Generic Novel Study Unit is perfect for any novel.  You can use this with a whole class novel, literature circles or independent novel studies.  This novel study unit is divided into 4 sections and it is editable.  This comes with both print and go and digital versions. Included in the Generic Novel Study Unit:Characterization Chart5 Parts of a PlotPlot ChartSummarizing- text based evidence6 Types of ConflictConflict ActivityReview of chapters/sections in novelWriting and answering discussi

This eight day unit uses the movie, “Moana” to teach characterization, generalization, drawing conclusions, cause and effect, theme and text analysis. This unit is also aligned to common core standards. Included are eight complete daily lessons complete with mini lessons, lesson, activities and assessments. . This great little unit has tons of hand outs and worksheets like character trading cards, character charts and Venn diagrams, and target skill Power Points. These mini lessons can be

Do your students love the movie Frozen? This seven day unit uses the movie, “Frozen” to teach characterization, generalization, drawing conclusions, cause and effect, theme and text analysis. This unit is also aligned to common core standards. Included are eight complete daily lessons complete with mini lessons, lesson, activities and assessments. . This great little unit has tons of hand outs and worksheets like character trading cards, character charts and Venn diagrams, and target skill P

This eight day unit uses the movie, “Finding Dory” to teach characterization, generalization, drawing conclusions, cause and effect, theme and text analysis. This unit is also aligned to common core standards. Included are eight complete daily lessons complete with mini lessons, lesson, activities and assessments. . This great little unit has tons of hand outs and worksheets like character trading cards, character charts and Venn diagrams, and target skill PowerPoints. These mini lessons c

This is the PowerPoint Template on teaching classroom procedures at the beginning of the year. This Ppt is the lesson component to the “Don’t eat the Marshmallow” activity. This is a wildly popular first day of school activity. It has been downloaded over 800 times on Edmodo. It was so popular at my middle school last year that teachers did this activity with their students on the second day of school because of the number of student requests. This lesson begins with handing students a mars

This is a great activity for the first days of school. A great way for students to share who they are and for the teacher to learn some background information. Hope you enjoy.

This seven day unit uses the movie, “Raya and the Last Dragon” to teach characterization, generalization, drawing conclusions, cause and effect, theme and text analysis. This unit is also aligned to common core standards. Included are eight complete daily lessons complete with mini lessons, lesson, activities and assessments. . This great little unit has tons of hand outs and worksheets like character trading cards, character charts and Venn diagrams, and target skill Power Points. These m

Body Biography Freebie Includes: Directions Boy/Girl/Blank versions Analysis WS- to explain the reasoning for choices made on biography Rubric

Back to School Pennants This is a quick and fun way for students to express themselves and to tell the teacher and classmates a little about who they are. This includes both color and black and white versions. There are 16 designs, four different types of questions and 6 blank pennant templates.