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Get your students to self evaluate their reading with these easy to follow oral fluency rubrics! Students can record themselves reading, then listen to their reading and use these rubrics to self assess what they need to focus on. Students of all levels love to self assess their fluency by listening to their own reading fluency and reflecting using a rubric. These fluency rubrics provide a resource for students to be self reflective, track their growth and set goals as readers. There are 4

What better way to end the school week with a structured time for student reflection. Students in any grade will benefit from taking time to think about their successes and challenges of the week as well as setting goals for the future. This weekly reflection sheet is a staple in my classroom and allows students to think about what they learned this week, what made them proud this week and set a goal for the upcoming week. By giving students a designated time at the end of the week to reflect

Get your students thinking about what they're reading while they read with these stop and jot bookmarks for independent reading time. These bookmarks are an amazing and easy addition to any ELA block. During independent reading time, students can choose a questions from the bookmark to reflect on. When independent reading time is up, students will respond to one of the comprehension questions on a sticky note and stick it to the bookmark. This makes independent reading more intentional. Easy to

Looking for an easy way to introduce or review reading and writing numbers in base ten to your second grade students? This place value mini lesson makes it easy to teach and provide students with meaningful practice. A great addition to any math block, this resource includes a slide deck with printable note catcher, lesson outline, exit ticket and numbers in base 10 worksheet with answer keys. This makes meaningful math instruction easy to implement and requires little prep for you. This resour

Looking to get students excited about practicing their 3 digit addition and subtraction and adding some creativity to your math routine? This snow globe craft is the perfect addition to any winter addition and subtraction lesson and is sure to engage students during your math block! Included in this resource are 5 worksheets (answer keys included) that students can use to practice their 3 digit addition and subtraction skills, a snow globe craft which includes 3 workpages/craft sets and 4 wri

Looking for an easy way to introduce or review hundreds, tens and ones place to your second grade students? This place value mini lesson makes it easy to teach and provide students with meaningful practice. A great addition to any math block, this resource includes a slide deck with printable note catcher, lesson outline, exit ticket and place value worksheet with answer keys. This makes meaningful math instruction easy to implement and requires little prep for you. This resource includes:Hundr

Looking for an easy way to introduce or review expanded form with numbers to 1,000 to your second grade students? This place value mini lesson makes it easy to teach and provide students with meaningful practice. A great addition to any math block, this resource includes a slide deck with printable note catcher, lesson outline, exit ticket and expanded form independent worksheet with answer keys. This makes meaningful math instruction easy to implement and requires little prep for you. This res

Looking for an easy way to introduce or review number forms (expanded form, word form, number form and base 10) to your second grade students? This place value mini lesson makes it easy to teach and provide students with meaningful practice. A great addition to any math block, this resource includes a slide deck with printable note catcher, lesson outline, exit ticket and place value independent worksheet with answer keys. This makes meaningful math instruction easy to implement and requires li

Looking for an easy way to introduce or review adding or subtracting 10 and 100 to your second grade students? This place value mini lesson makes it easy to teach and provide students with meaningful practice. A great addition to any math block, this resource includes a slide deck with printable note catcher, lesson outline, exit ticket and place value worksheet with answer keys. This makes meaningful math instruction easy to implement and requires little prep for you. This resource includes:A

Start the year off with reviewing school knowledge, expectations and more all while building student relationships with this Back-to-School Team Building Challenge: Escape Room Game! Designed to engage students to work together to learn and explore elements of their school, this is the perfect way to get students connecting and excited about the school year. In this exciting team builder, students will be given 6 activities to complete which include solving puzzles, riddles, and challenges that

Get students writing on the first day of school with these back to school print and go writing pages. This resource includes 10 back to school writing prompts with planning pages to get students writing right as they head back to the classroom. Students can use these writing pages to reflect on their first day of school, reflect on how their feeling, share about themselves and learn about people in their school. Writing Pages Included in this Resource:1. First Day Portrait (includes Last Day Por

We all know how important it is to celebrate our students, but during the school day it can feel difficult to find time to communicate these celebrations with families. This resource provides an easy way to write notes to student's families to celebrate their successes and positive behaviors throughout the day. Just print, add student names and a quick note and send it home with your class at the end of the day. While classroom behavior can be challenging, sending home positive notes celebrat

Students will love writing about back to school and autumn topics using this September writing journal. This resource comes with three cover options (in color or black and white) for students to choose from as well as 16 journal prompts. There are 4 prompts per genre (narrative, opinion, informational and poetry) You can print and bind or simply assign the digital version through Google Slides. Use these writing journals for monthly writing ideas, morning work or as a writing center and student

Get your students to show off their opinion writing skills with this back to school creative writing prompt and craft This craft is based on answering an opinion writing prompt where determine the most important thing a classroom needs. This resource includes a prompt and brainstorming page, planning maps, opinion writing checklist (and a blank checklist that students can fill out independently based on classroom opinion writing expectations) and a writing publishing page where draw the object e

Get students practicing and showing off their informational writing skills with this back to school craft. This craft is based on responding to an informational writing prompt where students give the steps of how to have a great week of school. This resource includes a prompt and brainstorming page, planning maps, informational writing checklist (and a blank checklist that students can fill out independently based on classroom informational writing expectations) and a writing craft where student

Get your students engaged in writing school related personal narratives at the beginning of the school year with this back to school writing craft. Students will receive a prompt to tell a story about their favorite moment from the week and include characters, setting and events. This resource includes a prompt and brainstorming page, planning maps, narrative writing checklist (and a blank checklist that students can fill out independently based on classroom narrative writing expectations) and a

Students will love starting their year off with an engaging creative writing craft to show of their narrative writing skills! This craft is based on writing a narrative writing prompt where students describe a school that isn't what it seems (see prompt below). This resource includes a prompt and brainstorming page, planning maps, narrative writing checklist (and a blank checklist that students can fill out independently based on classroom narrative writing expectations) and a writing craft wher

Build your classroom community right at the beginning of the school year through writing! Using this creative backpack writing project, students will go through the writing process by planning, drafting, editing/revising and publishing a writing craft where they share how they are feeling going into the new school year. Students will reflect on the following sentence stems:This year, I am excited for...This year, I am nervous for...One goal I have for this school year is...My favorite part of s

Get your students writing over the summer with these 16 ocean themed writing prompts. This resource includes mermaid and ocean-themed prompts that will keep your students engaged and motivated to practice their independent writing skills. Whether you choose to print and use the prompts in class or assign them digitally through Google Slides™, your students will love exploring their imaginations with these fun and interactive prompts. All elementary writing genres (narrative, opinion, informati

Engaging students in independent writing can be challenging! This build-a-story writing activity is the perfect way to support writers with scaffolding planning. With this picture prompt writing resource, students will have a fall setting and up to 5 characters to choose from. They can cut out the characters, add them to the setting and then write about the picture they created. This activity allows students to be creative but also have scaffolding to help them brainstorm writing ideas. Yo