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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

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 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 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

This is a penguin themed set of posters showing the six traits of writing. Each poster gives an "I can" statement for the trait, and the penguin gives a reminder of what that means or examples of it. The posters cover Voice, Organization, Ideas and content, Conventions, Excellent word choice, and Sentence fluency. The first letters of the words spell out VOICES, and can be displayed on the wall in that order to help the students remember how they are to edit and revise their stories. If you woul

These spelling boards offer students choices for practicing their spelling words. Because some children still do not have access to the internet or a computer to use, there are two different sheets. One has computer activities and the other does not. Each board has a variety of activities that utilize several learning styles to practice the words.

With the greater emphasis on nonfiction text, students need an understanding of all those different text features that they will encounter. As you teach these features, these cards can be used to decorate your word wall. Use all of them, or only a few! Words included are: bolded text italics colored print captions fact boxes bullet points diagrams glossary graphs illustrations maps headings index table of contents photograph timeline

Product Description Looking for a way to incorporate technology and 21st century skills into your reading lessons? This activity is a technological alternative to the paper story cubes. The online version is combined with a research component and communication skills to add 21st-century objectives to the activity. It comes with three different assignments as well as ideas for adding even more higher level thinking skills. I also included rubrics for scoring each activity in grades 3-5. The

Product Description Are you looking for a way for your students to practice the difference between there, their, and they’re? 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 that may or may not be using the word correctly. The l

This file is a companion to my Genre Web Smartboard file, but could certainly be done as a stand-alone activity. In this activity, students use their knowledge of both fiction and nonfiction genres to design their own costumed critter to represent the genres. Genre Critters could be adapted to take more or less time than indicated, and would be a great independent activity while you work with small groups.

Product Description Vocabulary notebooks are great, but they do use a lot of paper and can be lost in the daily shuffle. This product solves both those problems by using Google Slides to create graphic organizers. No paper, and it’s stored in Google Drive to keep it accessible at all times. This vocabulary slideshow is a 21st-century alternative to the vocabulary graphic organizers that many teachers use. There are two different formats on the slides. You can choose between the two or ask the k