Teaching Growing Doing

This is a fully editable PowerPoint presentation to help you guide your lesson on descriptive writing. It's also a great jumping off point to teach evidence writing! It can be used over seveal days and provides opportunities for guided instruction, group work, and independent writing.

This product is designed for kindergarten through second grade, but older students who struggle with coding could enjoy this "game" too! You can do this activity by projecting it on a white board and moving a cut out character through each level, or you could use it as a coding station/center/done box. This is a great way to introduce coding before having students logging onto a computer and using your favorite coding website. This product comes with 26 slides: 8 introduction and set up slides w

This PowerPoint guides students through using a 4-Square planner for writing an argument. It is meant to help students look at information critically, decide which information to use, and then organize it in a meaningful way. When I used this with my class of 6th graders, we did this lesson over a few days and then they had to write the opposing view on the same topic.