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Description:This is a resource I created in anticipation of teaching the customary and metric units of conversion; length, capacity, and weight. With input from fellow teachers, this has become the most popular set of posters/anchor charts in my store. IT IS NOT AN ACTIVITY (I don't know why you would confuse this with one) ! I don't make those as there are plenty of ideas already out there on the internet. Plus, I'm not good at it. If you need activities, please check Pinterest. NOTE!THE ACCE

My #1 selling resource!Take the stress out of paragraph or essay writing with these graphic organizers and rubrics, featuring sentence starters & frames! The interactive PDF pages include separate pages for each resource, as well as multi-page documents, making it a one-stop shop for your writing needs. Included are organizers for Persuasive, Cause and Effect, Opinion, Narrative, Expository, and Comparative and Contrasting writing with accompanying rubrics for more scaffolded writing. As

This resource was created SPECIFICALLY for the primary grades. With the era of high stakes testing, writing has become one, if not THE, least stressed skills there is. Many districts have NO writing curriculum to speak of. As a result, students today have difficulty even putting together solid sentences. This is my contribution to helping eliminate this deficiency. When I was taught how to write, so many decades ago, I was told that if I answered the 5 "Ws" I would always have a complete thought

PLEASE!!! This resource IS NOT intended to be used with primary grades (K-2)! I don't know why you would buy a resource that is labeled with the word "Essays" in it for children who can barely form a proper sentence, but people have done it. I would not attempt it unless your curriculum has your K-2-grade students writing ESSAYS! You could modify this resource to include simple paragraph writing as you see fit. THIS IS BUNDLED WITH TWO WRITING RESOURCES!!! DO NOT PURCHASE THEM IF YOU PLAN ON PUR

As requested! ALL of my elementary (primary and intermediate) school MATH resources in one bundle! Everything in the individual resources is included. This includes all files also in Spanish and any additional resources (If available in the original resource). Perfect for a 1st year teacher or a teacher moving subjects or even grade levels. THE ZIP FILE IS HUGE! I will continue to add resources as I create them and keep the price the same as long as I can. Printing----------------------------

This is an infographic style poster I created in anticipation of teaching division using the standard algorithm. Long division is one of the most basic, yet most mystifying of the concept elementary students need to master. To aid this I included some non-standard algorithms that might help your students. NOW INCLUDES AN EDITABLE POWERPOINT!!! This was converted from the Illustrator PDF file so there may be minor issues you have to deal with. You may have to wrangle some fonts or substitute your

DescriptionStudents are often unable to remember the basic parts of speech past a noun and a verb, especially in the upper grades. As a result, they are often unable to identify the parts of a sentence, even on a basic level. Past identifying a noun and maybe a verb, my 4th and 5th graders used to struggle! Not having this basic mastery of sentence parts limits how effectively students will be able to produce complicated writing. To offset this deficit, I created this reference chart. Workshee

2/18-UPDATED TO ADD A LESSON PLAN AND POETRY WORKSHEET Poetry and figurative language are deeply connected, but whether they should be taught together or separately depends on student readiness and learning goals. Here’s a balanced approach: Teaching Them Together (Best for Engagement & Application) Why? Poetry relies heavily on figurative language (metaphors, similes, personification, alliteration, etc.), so teaching them together helps students see them in action rather than as abstract c

As requested! ALL of my elementary (primary and intermediate) ELA resources in one bundle! Everything in each of the individual resources is included. This includes all Spanish files and any additional resources such as Powerpoints. Because I use graphic design software to make these, THE ZIP FILE IS HUGE! I will continue to add resources as I create them and keep the price the same as long as I can. Perfect for a 1st-year teacher or a teacher moving subjects or even grade levels. Printing --

Rounding numbers. They get it or are lost. From my experience, it depends on what camp you're from, "Camp 5 is in the Middle" (the way I was taught), or "Camp 0-9". The former is incorrect while the latter is more precise, and I'll explain why. While the rule to rounding is, "5 or more," rounding is dependent on knowing Place value (base 10) and not Natural numbers. In Place Value, we use DIGITS! ZERO IS A DIGIT and not a natural number! This is understood, I hope. To model this, aways use

Because history is such an abstract concept to our students, it is my opinion that major occurrences in history need to be broken down into their most important events; in short, summarized. Since history can best be described as a sequence of events, I chose to represent it on a timeline. I strongly believe that when you reduce history down to memorizing dates and places and players, you lose its importance. Spending days on end teaching each skirmish, battle, and key player for each, made my s

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.RP.A.3.C Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/100 times the quantity); solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent. This is a resource I created in anticipation of teaching the conversion of fractions to decimals and percentages to 6th-graders and high-flying 5th graders. I have updated the resource to include a separate file in Spanish. No soy un hablante nativo de español. Estoy usando aplicacione par

I created these posters/anchor charts in dreaded anticipation of teaching Fractions; mixed numbers with unlike denominators to 4th graders. From my brief time teaching 4th and 5th grade, this concept is without question the most difficult for students to master due to its multiple steps, students' weak number sense, and lack of fluency with multiplication facts. In this file, I tried to make this as simplistic as possible although I feel that I've got more work to do on it. I have updated the r

One of the most frustrating things a teacher sees when grading writing of any kind is when students do not properly respond to the question or writing prompt. Usually, the response is a very painful to read sentence fragment. My attempt to address this is a somewhat simple strategy; TTQA: Turn the Question Around. When employed and reviewed religiously, it is my hope that your students begin to respond to any writing prompt in the proper manner. Included in the resource There are color-coded "h

Paraphrase? Quote? Summarize? What's the difference? Depending on the writing assignment, it could mean similar, and also confusing, outcomes and criteria. Quotation reproduces a statement word-for-word as it appears in its original source. Paraphrasing explains a statement by using your own words and sentence structure. Summaries explain a statement using your words but typically condense a larger statement into a shorter explanation. 11/2019 Included a non-fiction version of How to Summarize.

The hardest thing I've found to do is to get my students to write using vivid, sensory words. In this offering is a writing workshop that centers around a "potato chip" comparison activity. Using this comparison to generate adjectives that the children can then use to put into their own writing is the main thrust. Using the phases of the writing process to develop, polish, and present that writing is the main goal. To that end I've created rubrics for narrative, descriptive and persuasive writi

Prove it! This is an anchor chart I created to overcome the immense difficulty my students tend to have in referring to actual text evidence in their writing. They tend to want to write from (faulty) memory rather than actually finding the evidence that is actually IN the text. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have updated the resource to include a separate file in Spanish. I am not a native speaker, relying solel

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.5 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. This is a reference poster I created to assist my students with figurative language. Figurative Language is most difficult for 4th and 5th graders to grasp, especially if they have limited background experience and rich conversations outside of school. Some might say that in some cases teaching figurative language might be developmentally inappropriate depending on the grad

History is an abstract concept for elementary-aged students. It simply isn't relevant to them as it happened so long ago. It is my opinion that major occurrences in history need to be broken down into their most important events. And since history can best be described as a sequence of events, I chose to represent it on a timeline. I strongly believe that when you reduce history down to memorizing a series of events you lose its importance. Spending days on end teaching each skirmish, battle, an

This is an infographic style poster I created in anticipation of teaching angles and the use of a protractor to my 4th graders. I also included an anchor chart on how to use a protractor. Languages ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have updated the resource to include a separate file in Spanish. I am not a native speaker, relying solely on Google Translate to do the bulk of the work, I hope that the translation is a