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This lesson is designed as a springboard to begin discussions of different types of elaboration techniques and strategies. A mnemonic device is introduced to help students recall seven different types of elaboration. Students will receive an overview, examples, and photographic descriptions. The lesson is fully scripted and includes “Teacher to Teacher Talk” for further clarification. Key words: how-to, action, setting, character, object, moment, emotion, Minecraft, The Giving Tree, stick,

Do your students have difficulty giving credit where credit is due? When they do try to cite their sources, does it sound contrived? This power point has several examples of how the authors of some Time For Kids articles cite their sources. With the push for students to write in argumentative mode and use text evidence, this is a critical skill to teach even in the elementary grades.

The attached Power Point contains my interpretation of CHAMPs in the library. Each one of the expectations uses the cover of a book to help illustrate. Also included are single sheet "slides" to be printed and placed around frequent student stops in the library, a BINGO card with my school's expectations (SOAR with PRIDE), a note for the teacher, Dr. Seuss quotes (I tape to floor and use for standing in line spots), pictures and blurbs about some of our favorite authors (I scatter these around

This power point is a whopper! There are 57 slides and 4 mentor texts (3 from the CCSS Exemplars). The sequential set of lessons spans 5 days. Each day goes through the entire Writer’s Workshop model of mini lesson, mentor text, modeled writing with scripted “Think Alouds”, independent writing time, and a sharing session with CCSS Standards as questioning and thinking stems. The notes for each slide contain the CCSS Standards which correlate. Keywords: Busch Gardens, Sheikra, roller coaste

This lesson uses a mnemonic device based on the letters OSCAR to help students develop a plan/outline/skeleton/draft for writing a character elaboration. Students are guided through the process with help from Oscar the Grouch, Sponge Bob, and from THE LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY: THE STORM by Cynthia Rylant (a selection from the CCSS 2-3 Band of Exemplar Text). Scaffolding, “Teacher to Teacher Talk”, and a fully scripted power point make this an easy lesson for both children and teachers. Key Words: w

This Microsoft Word document contains over 430 writing prompts designed for elementary students. The prompts are written to elicit responses in narrative, expository, and informational modes. Many writing topics/”big ideas” can be mixed and matched to create even more writing situations. Also, the document can be converted to an excel file that can be sorted any way you like. This set contains FCAT and FCAT style writing prompts.

This sequential lesson set is designed to mirror the Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) and/or PARRC style text based written response. Includes student and teacher text set and prompts, daily craft lessons, examples of methods of reading strategies and text coding, full piece model writing piece, and much more! Student Prompt: The sources talked about seashells. Write an informative essay in which you give information about the uses of seashells. Teacher Prompt: The sources talked about house

This lesson uses Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy as a model text for the children to use as a way to experience how authors use parentheses to add more information to their writing. Students will determine where and how Jane O’Connor uses parentheses to hug that extra information. Included is a model writing piece about RIF (Reading is Fundamental) through a moment/action elaboration strategy while using parentheses as the featured author’s craft. The power point lesson includes the think alo

This powerpoint and lesson are inspired by Roz Linder's book, The Big Book of Details. The powerpoint walks you and your students through a visual and deeper understanding of how authors use nuances in word choice to show: voice, paraphrasing, comprehension, insight... CCSS L.3.5

This lesson set was designed to be used to model text based writing by using a similar text set for student and teacher. Aligned with Language Arts Florida Standards (LAFS) and Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) or any CCSS or PARRC style assessment. Student Prompt: Write an article in which you give your opinion about whether Burmese pythons should be removed from Florida.

LAFS Side by Side is an excel file with the kindergarten through fifth grade Language Arts Florida Standards literally side by side. As a teacher, it is helpful to know the standards above and below your grade level. As a resource teacher, it is IMPERATIVE that you know the standards for the whole school. If you are unsure of which grade level standard your students are able to demonstrate with proficiency, just slide across the list until you find the standard that matches. Sort, filter, an

As I script out my lessons, I find that including my think alouds is crucial for students. Students need to see and hear what is happening in the mind of a proficient writers. Eventually, this internal monologue will become natural for both the teacher and the student. But, until then… Copy and paste these catch phrases within the body of your lessons and writing models. Included is an example of what my modeled writing looks like with the catch phrases inserted pertaining to basic conventions a

Jennifer Serravallo’s Reading Strategies BookSupporting Comprehension in Nonfiction: Determining Main Topic(s) and Idea(s)This document was designed to streamline Serravallo's work to target strategies just for nonfiction. Reading the text set for assessments such as the Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) is a huge issue for many students. Complex text is being presented and the old standard, "The main idea is usually the first or the last sentence in the paragraph" just doesn't work. As ELA

This lesson set was designed to be at the low end of the 4-5 Lexile band and toward the upper end of the word count band based on the test specs for the Florida Standards Assessment. It was written to hit both ELA standards and Social Studies standards for the state of Florida. The analysis provides the teacher with the opportunity to make a choice for which text to present based on different features of the text. Prompt 1: Your class is presenting a living wax museum so that visitors can learn

The Power Point attached was created to be used with a TPT's resource (Study All Knight who has Hispanic Heritage Banners/Pennants for sketch notes and/or display). The Power Point features step-by-step directions with screen shots to access Clever, Gale, Infobits, and to use their note-taking and highlighting tools.

This is an informational text about Hispanic Heritage Month. Students are to read, code the text for main ideas, and write to respond to the follow Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) or CCSS, PARRC, AIR style prompt: Writing Prompt: Our school is having a Fiesta to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Write an informative essay to discuss why studying about the Hispanic culture is important. Also, included in this lesson set is a list of Hispanic Heritage related books as well as Social Studies s

After reading Miss Malarkey Leaves No Reader Behind, students were assigned to start collecting books on myON to add to their "Favorites" tab. These simple step-by-step directions include screen shots to support even the youngest readers. Also included are book covers to illustrate CHAMPs expectations.

Specifically design for Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) and PARRC style text based writing. Questions are separated to target the three scoring domains: Purpose, Focus, and Organization (PFO), Evidence and Elaboration (EE), and Conventions (C). This resource is best used by printing the Power Point with 6 slides per page on card stock paper. Punch a hole in the upper corner and put on a ring. Keep handy during writing conferences!

This power point explains how to start and manage using "The Dictation Game" in your elementary classroom. The Dictation Game is a proven exercise that helps reinforce and teach basic conventions of writing: capitalization, penmanship, punctuation, high frequency words, etc.

The attached document was created to be placed near computers in our media center so that kids of all ages would be able to follow the step-by-step process for taking a quiz on Renaissance Place/Accelerated Reader. Tricky steps are supplemented with screen shots so that even very young readers are able to access this resource. CHAMPs are also illustrated by using book covers to help engage students.