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Product Description Tired of struggling to come up with ideas for those last few days of school that will keep the kids thinking, learning, and interested? This end of year slide show is a 21st-century alternative to the end of year letter that many teachers use to give next year’s students a student view of what to expect in the next grade. It adds communication, collaboration, and creativity to the assignment simply by using Google Slides to complete it. It addresses these common core standar

Use this as a review of the characteristics of fiction and nonfiction. The first page includes a shade to cover each characteristic so you can discuss one at a time. The second page is for sorting with pictures of actual books. The last two pages are suitable for printing. One of them contains the characteristics from the first page, and the next is blank if you prefer to have the kids fill it in themselves.

This sheet can be used as an introduction to dividing words with the vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel spelling pattern, or as a review. The spelling pattern is reviewed and words with the same pattern are provided for review. I use this as an introduction to a spelling list that contains this pattern, but it could also be used to work on teaching syllabication rules for readers struggling with decoding words with two or more syllables. If you find this helpful, I have a product that includes thi

These sheets are great for introducing spelling lists with these patterns, reviewing syllabication rules, or working with students who struggle with reading multisyllabic words. They can be used in small groups, for homework, or previewing skills before a unit of study. Covers words with these patterns VCCV—Double Consonants VCCV—Different Consonants VCCCV—Dividing into Syllables

Instead of just lecturing your students about independent and dependent clauses, why not give this flipped lesson a try? Students take this worksheet home and use a computer, tablet, or smart phone to access a video which will help them gain a basic knowledge of the difference between the two types of clauses. This is a great foundation to grammar units about complex sentences. The kids love watching a video for homework and it eliminates the necessity for traditional lecture. Filling out the

Product Description Are you looking for a way for your students to practice the difference between there, their, and they’re? This multiple choice Google Form gives you a digital option for assessing your students’ knowledge of these three difficult homophones. Assign this form to your students after your lessons. This is a Google Quiz, so the form will grade the students and give them instant feedback as to their score. As the teacher, you will have a spreadsheet with all of your students’

Product Description If you are looking for an easy way to keep parents in the loop about what is going on in the class, these Google Slides presentations fit the bill. This product has all five of my weekly newsletter templates for Google Docs in one place and at a discounted price. Use these colorful slides to update your parents on upcoming events, current topics of study, next week’s schedule, or anything else that you need. The shapes are color matched to the clip art. Delete some. Duplic

Instead of just telling your students about the layers of the Earth, give this flipped lesson a try! Students take this worksheet home and use a computer, tablet, or smart phone to access a video to gain a basic knowledge of the structure of our planet. This is a great foundation to units about earthquakes and volcanoes. The kids love watching a video for homework and it eliminates the necessity for traditional lecture.

Product Description Would you like to be able to have your students annotate online texts instead of using tons of paper just for practice? This resource is designed to be used as an online close reading exercise. Students annotate the paragraphs to prove the structure of each paragraph. Included in this resource are five paragraphs, each written in a different nonfiction text structure; sequence, compare contrast, cause and effect, chronological (sequence) and description. Each paragraph is

Product Description Are you using self-assessment with your students yet? Exit tickets and other self-assessing tools are great, but sometimes those slips of paper can be overwhelming. And how do you keep track of the results? These self-assessment Google forms are designed to be a time-saving digital alternative to traditional exit tickets and self-assessments. At the end of class, have the kids pull up the form on their devices and answer the question about how well they understood the conc

Product Description These four products are designed to complement each other for your students to learn the correct uses of the words there, their, and they’re. Smart Notebook File This Smart Notebook file will give your kids definitions of these three difficult homophones. It also shows ways to remember how to check and make sure they are using the correct form by replacing the word with other words to see what makes sense. Next the kids get to practice each homophone by sorting sentences

Product Description Forms for parents are synonymous with the beginning of the year. As frustrating as it can be for parents to fill out all those forms, it can be just as frustrating for teachers to round it all up and keep it available for when it is needed. This resource is designed to be a time saving digital alternative to traditional student information and parent surveys. Included are two Google forms and two Google Slides documents. The Google Slides were created to send home to paren

Product Description Do your kids have trouble remembering the different types of point of view for fiction stories? These posters were designed to explain the most common points of view taught in the later elementary grades. They include first person, second person, third person limited and third person omniscient. Each poster is designed to stand alone--for example, on a display in the classroom, but they can also be printed 2 per page to fit in composition sized interactive notebooks. You c

Product Description Are you looking for a way for your students to practice the difference between there, their, and they’re? This product is a series of pages that are designed for interactive notebooks. Students take notes, practice the skill, and practice each homophone by sorting sentences that may or may not be using the word correctly. Lastly, the kids write sentences of their own using the skills. ***************************************************************************** Includes::

Here's a fun way to improve your students' informational writing. Even though this is fictional, the students are encouraged to write like it is fact, so they will be using writing structures like descriptive, sequential, and how-to as they try to protect their turkey. The National Turkey Protection Agency needs your students’ help! There are so many turkeys requesting to be a part of this program, that we have run out of agents that are available to help them! In order to get to rescue a turke

If you are looking for a writing project that is fun, appropriate for Halloween, and aligned to the common core, this is it. This unit includes student pages to walk students through generating ideas for strong beginnings, reflective endings, and using sensory details to be used in their stories. Since it doesn't actually have the title on any of the student pages, this packet would be appropriate for any Halloween or bat themed assignments.

Looking for a fun way to introduce or review fiction and nonfiction genres to your students? The Genre Web uses pictures of spiders dressed in costumes to add a memorable connection to the genres. The first slide is a blank web that you can fill in with your students. On the second slide, each genre bubble is linked to the corresponding slide explaining the genre.

Product Description Are you looking for a way for your students to learn the difference between there, their, and they’re? This Flipped Lesson uses video to teach the kids about these three difficult homophones. The flipped lesson can be used as homework or a center activity to prepare the kids for practice in class. They can access it on mobile devices, computers, or just about any other method. Students will watch the video and then answer the questions about “the theres.” Having the le

Use this file from TeachMouse during indoor recess when you have specific activities and you only want a certain amount of students working in each area. Students move their name onto the acorn with the activity that they want to do, and only one name is allowed in each acorn. This would also be useful for classroom activities when students need to choose and you want to control the number of students at each center or activity that day. The squirrel theme will be popular with many elementary a

Product Description Want a reason for your students to smile everyday? With these name tags on their desks, they’ll always be reminded to put on a happy face! Included in this purchase are 7 different colors of name tags, both lined and unlined. You can print out the lined ones and write the names in your own handwriting, or you can use the blank ones to create name tags in Google Slides. To make them in Google Slides, add a text box that fits inside the border of the tag and type in the names