Teaching with Thomas

This powerful poem is an amazing resource to cover a variety of elements. In the teacher notes you'll receive questions to facilitate your class discussions, answers, and prompts for student annotating. These teacher notes also make a great scaffold for various learners. The notes discuss the use figurative language, message, tone POV,, mood, and setting.

This poem is amazing to teach POV, tone, mood, and message. It's the perfect poem to make comparisons by only using one text. These teacher notes should make it easier to guide your discussion or scaffold for various learners.

This interactive "foldable" is designed for interactive journals. The tab that says "Types of Context Clues" is to be glued down in the journal and the tabs cut. I wrote the definition of the context clue on the backside of the tab and wrote an example sentence, using that context clue, on my notebook.

These quilting squares can be used to create a paper quilt for any writing task. Each quilting 'rectangle' contains a coloring square and a lined writing portion. There are 4 different designs and they alternate directions so that they will create a complete square. Two rectangles will complete one square.

This magical and fun Christmas poem is an amazing resource to teach for, tone, mood, message, and use of figurative language. These teacher notes should facilitate the class discussion by having pre written questions this is also a great tool for scaffolding for various learners.

If you're using "I Heard it on the Bus One Day" with your class, this is a quick quiz to assess their understanding. It specifically covers the mood, point of view, and message of the poem. This poem is free use with a google search, but I have a more detailed version in my store as well. It helps guide students, using questions, to the different aspects of the poem. It would help prepare them for this quiz. Being a Texas teacher, all questions are formatted using STAAR stems for 6th grade...but

This resources uses Google Slides to have students digitally complete a synthesizing target. The first slide shows students a visual of how synthesizing builds your knowledge after reading text on a specific topic. Each circle is linked to the corresponding slide, for students to fill in the information. This can be used completely digitally or printed and students fill in by pencil.

These 4 good morning/welcome slides are editable and hand designed. I created 4 different slides that stray from the usual bright colors and use neutral tones. Each slide includes different ideas for each category, but feel free to edit to match your needs. I also created the same slide designs, but with "Welcome," for teachers who have multiple periods throughout the day.

In video games, when a character dies, they leave behind the loot they have collected. In this activity, students will imagine a character from their novel has left behind loot. They will draw their loot and describe why their character would carry this using text evidence. It will work for just about any novel, multiple grade levels, and any characters. You can also use at different points in the novel. This resource is great in the virtual setting or in person, or a combination. Personally,

This two speaker poem is an amazing resource to compare different perspectives of a shared experience. It's simple, yet powerful, and really shows student's how author's use point of view to send a message.

Perfect Fall/Halloween poetry assignment that is fun, engaging, and so versatile! Use this resource with a variety of grades, levels, and even different texts! I have provided two different leveled poems, 5 different layouts, an example, and instructions!

Using either digitally or on paper, have students focus on the 5 big elements of informational text by finding examples, describing their examples, and explaining their purpose! The 5 elements are author's purpose, genre elements (text features), text structure, theme/message, and language. This can also be adapted for other texts and with other elements. There is an example included that explains each category more in depth, as well as given sentence starters to help guide students with what to

This is an easy and simple plot diagram. Each dot will take you to the corresponding slide so students can easily write what each component of the plot is. This is easy to use for distance learning and applicable for any story.

This 'fold-able' is meant to be used in an interactive journal. You glue in the strip that says "Plot of ____________" and cut the tabs apart. You can write underneath the tabs to section the different parts of the plot.