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Everyone loves Peter Pan! This is a book study slide deck to accompany Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie. This is a wonderful way to incorporate several skills while reading the book as a read aloud or a book club read. Skills covered are: writing summaries (gist), point of view, character traits, sequencing, central message, and text-dependent questions. Each chapter has a slide for students to write the gist of the chapter and add an image. Throughout the book, students can jump to the character trait

This packet contains several resources supporting the Empowering Writers program on Expository writing. You will find a valuable pre-writing tool for students to use and a mini poster of informative verbs to support students in forming a great expository writing piece.

The three R’s is a math procedure to be used in problem solving. This protocol engages students to create a deeper understanding of the problem and relate it more to a real-world situation. Encouraging students to verbalize their thinking, create their thinking using manipulatives, and reason through their thinking deepens understanding in problem solving. Included: * Teacher Protocol Checklist * Color student / classroom poster * B & W student poster

This SmartBoard lesson includes everything you need for Representing and Interpreting Data based on standard 1.MD.4. I use this over a period of a week when teaching this unit. Students are able to represent data and answer questions based on data collected. Questions included are: -Will you drink milk with your lunch today? (tally marks/checkmarks) -Which do you like better? Ice cream in a cup or cone? (tally marks) -Would you rather be a whale or an eagle? (pictograph) -What is your favorite c

This is Poetry unit I use every year and conclude with a Poetry Reading/Picnic, inviting parents to enjoy their child's work. When working on the unit, my students use their poetry notebook in class to generate ideas/drafts before creating their final works. I've included the following pages and poems with descriptions of each poem: -Booklet Cover -dedication For the dedication, I take a picture of my students reading under a tree and have them write their dedication, which I type and include w

Excellent resource to use when teaching Area or Perimeter or both! Can be used to help students understand the difference between the two concepts. Includes definitions, key vocabulary, visuals, examples, real word connections, and practice.

This packet contains five pages of resources supporting the Empowering Writers program on Narrative writing for 3rd grade. You will find a valuable pre-writing tool for students to use, mini posters to support the tools needed to form a great narrative, and example sentence starters and detail support for students.

Guess the Word is a fun, interactive game that serves as a way to involve students in your small group or whole class zoom meetings. The theme is SPRINGTIME and each slide has a different category from which the students need to "guess the word". For example, if the category is "Food and Drink", students need to think about food and drink in the springtime. When the teacher "presents" the slide show, the letters will be blank. As the teacher click, letters, one by one, will begin to appear. Allo

This is a great resource to assist students in narrative writing.

This page is a pre-writing resource for students to use while planning an informative or expository writing piece.

This slide show presents students with an easy way to learn the size and conversion of capacity measurements. Using a creative story, with letters representing characters, students can easily draw out the scene to help them solve conversion problems or simply to understand the size difference of capacity measurements. The story goes... Once upon a time, in the Kingdom of Gallon, there ruled four queens. Each queen had a prince and a princess. Each prince and each princess had two children.

This is a report on the text features found in non-fiction books. It should be used similar to a scavenger hunt. Students are to look for text features within their independent reading level books. Students will also identify facts learned from reading. It's important to preview the book that each student will use to ensure there are text features in the book. Some non-fiction books do not contain these text features. This should be done after several mini lessons about text features have been t

This Reader's Workshop poster can be used as a teacher tool or a whole class tool. It's useful in having a visual for the teacher and the students to see as they accomodate themselves to the Reader's Workshop Routine, especially at the beginning of the year. It includes the steps taken through the Reader's Workshop instruction and time allotted for each part. It also has an I do, We do, and You do to emphasize the student/teacher parts in the process. Enjoy!

This activity supports Unit 8 in First Grade investigations but can be adapted to be used in K or 2. Since measurement is covered around this time of year, using Easter egg candies are fun to incorporate. You can also use Swedish fish candies to go along with the "measuring fish" lessons in Unit 8. Prepare a small baggie of candies for each child or use the "fun size" bags for easier preparation. Have stations set up or have these items available at tables for students to use: * Connecting cubes

This page is a pre-writing resource for students to use while planning a narrative writing piece.

Getting prepared for State Testing? There's an app for that! Share multiple strategies with students to prepare them for testing. This activity can be used over several days or in one time block. It covers 9 strategies to prepare students for testing. As each strategy is covered, students add the "app" to the printable iPhone that accompanies the slideshow. Each "app" comes with questions for class discussion. Included in this product: slideshow, printable full page iPhone template, and printab

Your students will love this spin on the traditional guessing game! There are 15 puzzles, each giving a category and number of letters. Many puzzles are multiple words but all are holiday related. When playing the game, put in "present" mode. As you click a letter will appear. Students try to guess the word before all letters appear! Enjoy!

This is a wonderful resource to support students in expository or informative writing.