Teaching Ninjas

This activity helps students to understand the difference between protagonists and antagonists in a story and identify characters in a text as the different roles. It is Common Core State Standards aligned. It includes posters, a foldable for an interactive notebook, 24 character sorting cards, 12 definition sorting cards, an exit ticket slip (one version with the words exit ticket and one without), and directions on how I used it. It is 17 pages long, including the cover page, the state stand

This packet is for Part Two: Via, from the book Wonder, by R. J. Palacio. It is a close reading packet, to guide students while reading the book. It includes several types of questions including: "right there" questions, inferential questions, vocabulary (synonyms, context clues, choosing the most appropriate definition), figurative language, drawing conclusions, and making comparisons. This is a helpful tool while teaching the novel to help students pay attention to detail, and understand wh

This product includes close reading questions from each of the parts for the book Wonder, by R.J. Palacio. Each part is saved separately, and includes some "right there" questions, some inferential questions, some drawing conclusions, making predictions and vocabulary questions. There are a variety of question types including short answer, multiple choice, comparison (venn diagrams), sketching, listing, etc. It also includes the Julian Chapter, and answer keys for all sections of the book. I

You can use this as a review after having gone over all of the text structures, and have students cut and paste the different pieces on to the board as a center. You can also use this to go over each type of text structure and fill out the chart together, using the cut and paste activity as an assessment. You can fill out the chart with your class using an ELMO, a projector, or saving it to Smart Board and writing on it, and use the cut and paste activity as a way to engage special education s

This packet includes questions from Part Three: Summer, from R.J. Palacio's book Wonder. It includes inferential questions, "right there" questions, drawing conclusions, making predications, and vocabulary questions. It is saved as a PDF file to ensure that fonts and spacing appear correctly on your screen. the file is 8 pages long, and includes a cover page, 2.5 pages of worksheets and a credits page. It also includes an answer key. My next step is to type out answer keys. I hope to have tho

This product is for Wonder: Part Six August. This product is a series of "right there" questions, vocabulary questions, inferential questions, evaluating questions, etc. I designed this series to go along with the reading, as a set of questions to be used as guided reading. This includes the chapter from Wonder on August only. It is not for the entire book. The file is saved as a pdf file, and is 8 pages long. It includes a cover page, 3 pages of worksheets, 3 pages of answer key, and a credits

This product is saved as a PDF. It include a choice board for Reading, Choice Board for Math, a blank Reading and a black Math choice board. This is a great tool for summer vacation, summer school homework, or beginning or end of year homework options.

This product is a close reading guide for only Part Five: Justin, from the book Wonder, by R. J. Palacio. It is a series of questions designed to guide students through the reading and ensure that they are paying attention to details. It asks "right there" questions, inferential questions, comparison questions, and drawing conclusion questions. This product was created in word, but saved as a PDF file to ensure that when it is downloaded to your computer it opens nicely with the fonts that I h

This product is a shapes sort. It was designed to help learn the difference between a polygon and a non polygon, and learn the names associated with the different sides. It includes 21 pages total: 8 pages of shapes with 4 shapes and 4 definitions, 2 pages of 8 shapes, 3 sorting matts by sides, 2 sorting matts for polygons and non polygons, and 3 worksheets, a cover sheet, a thank you sheet, and a directions sheet.

This Packet includes: 2 versions of the 220 Sight Word List, Flashcards for each word, and a Tracking sheet that students can use to chart their sight word growth. It also includes other sheets for tracking: one for each level by number and by word. Sight Word Tracking Sheet: I will fill in the Date and the Score, Draw the line where the student correctly read the words, and write the number above the line. Then I let the students color the boxes up to the line with a highlighter. Students lov

This product includes posters for who, what, where, why, why, and how. It also includes a graphic organizer. I print each poster on a different color paper (making sure that I have coordinating post-it colors). I like to laminate the posters and attach them using rings. When we are reading I have students answer each of the questions on post-its that are the same color and stick them on the matching poster when they are finished answering each question. I also included a graphic organizer

This product was created for my self-contained K-4 students with Autism and Developmental Delays. The file contains 14 pages: Page 1: Cover Page Page 2: January (Color Blue) Page 3: February (Color Red) Page 4: March (Color Green) Page 5: April (Color Purple) Page 6: May (Color Pink) Page 7: June (Color Yellow) Page 8: July (Color Blue) Page 9: August (Color Brown) Page 10: September (Color Red) Page 11: October (Color Orange) Page 12: November (Color Yellow) Page 13: December (Color Green) Page

This packet includes work on 5 worksheets for students to practice their divisibility rules. There are three worksheets that practice the rules for 2,3,4,5,6,8,9 and ;10, and 2 worksheets that practice the rules for 2,3,5,6, and;10 for modification purposes, or students that need scaffolding.

This file is saved as a PDF. It includes an interactive story focusing on ocean animals, color matching, and sight words (I, see, a). It also includes a color matching ocean animal game. I am a special education teacher, and I created this to use with my blended preschool classroom, but this would also be great for students in special needs classrooms, and nonverbal students. The pictures at the top of each page are also velcro so that you can easily change the order of the story so that stude

This product includes Math posters for: Rounding, Congruent, Reflection, Similar, Symmetrical, Rotation, Locating points on a Grid, Ratio, Translation, Mean, Median, Mode. It also includes fraction, decimal and percent conversions. It also includes a smaller version of the posters to be given as note cards to students. I like to punch a hole in the corner of them and place them on a ring, or put them in a zip lock baggie. I print them on card stock or laminate them.

This file contains 40 NO PREP worksheets that are color, tracing, cut and paste, circle the word, and write the word in a sentence or write the word over and over (you can decide this based on the level of your students). It includes the first 40 words of the Dolch Sight Word List. This file is saved as a PDF. I use this work independent work after Calendar Time.

This resources is saved as a PDF. In includes 3 sample pages for building sentences. Use this as a center, or send it for homework. It can be used as a paper, pencil and glue activity, or laminate it and add some Velcro, to have it last and save paper. This product is Common Core aligned. It is good for Kindergarten to Second grade. I use it for my K-4 Special Education Classroom. My students love using the laminated version of this activity. I print on colored card stock to make it look more

This packet is great for practicing and becoming fluent with fractions, decimals, and percents. It also has a column for word form to help students to understand what the numbers mean, and how they may appear in a word problem. This packet is saved as a pdf file and is 12 pages long. The first page is a cover page and the last page is a Thank you and Credits page. This packet includes worksheets and answer keys. There are four worksheets for benchmark fractions; all have the same answer key

This product contains two versions of the coloring sheet, and the answer key. One version tells the student what a noun, verb, adjective, and adverb is, and the other one does not.

This product is saved as a PDF. The file includes 26 beginning sounds cards, with an ocean theme, and 26 letter cards. You can use the product in two different ways: as a booklet, or as write and wipe cards for a center.