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This is the series of lessons I use every year that leads to student-created classroom rules. It incorporates ideas from True Colors and The Responsive Classroom teaching strategies. After they create these rules, my students have ownership and strive to allow others to reach their Hopes and Dreams, which the students all illustrate for a really colorful bulletin board. A great project to do at the beginning of the year and before Open House!

A creative performance task for intermediate students when teaching structural/behavioral adaptations in science. Kids love the freedom to create what they wish, and find challenge in coming up with adaptations for their creature. SAMPLE: http://bit.ly/1rCgxLb

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A complete listing of every 5th grade Florida Mathematics and Language Arts standard, with a spot to add a check mark for mastery/accountability purposes. If you just want the LAFS standards, click here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/5th-Grade-LAFS-Florida-Common-Core-Checklist-1315610 If you just want the MAFS standards, click here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/5th-Grade-MAFS-Florida-Common-Core-Checklist-1315768 If you are a customer and wish to have an editable

A complete listing of every 5th grade Florida Language Arts standard, with a spot to add a check mark for mastery/accountability purposes. Want both the LAFS and MAFS standards? Get my Bundle!: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/BUNDLE-5th-Grade-LAFS-and-MAFS-Florida-Common-Core-Checklist-1315798

Teach 4th grade? In Florida? With Journeys? Then this bundle is for you! Each lesson has a fiction and nonfiction response activity. I used this as weekly homework, but they can be used in centers as well! Aligned to common core and utilizes the skills taught each week. All lessons in Unit 1 are here, plus some extras of later lessons (I don't use every lesson in Journeys). I included the Microsoft Publisher file in case you wish to edit or add content of your own.

A great alternative to the standard book report. Students bring in a box, cover it with construction paper, and draw/write on all six faces, according to the directions. Students can even make a story-themed toy to put inside!

This Bingo grid gives students 20 different choices for reading seatwork. Students choose five to complete each week! Can be used as class or home work.

Tired of the same Reading Log homework assignment? I'm sure your students are, too! This Reading Log Bingo allows students to choose how to respond to their reading at home. Activities are common core aligned and offer flexibility for students' interests.

Bingo options for weekly reading log. Tired of the same old reading logs? So are your students! Give them a CHOICE with this Reading Log Bingo Sheet. Included is the file in its original Word format so you can edit and adapt it to your own standards or criteria. Enjoy!

Includes both a Fiction and Nonfiction Reader Response Activity for Unit1 Lesson1 of the HMH Florida Journeys student edition. Activity follows Common Core, and the skills correlate with the publisher's Target Skills of the week. I send these Reader Response sheets home along with a Ziploc bag that contains a fiction and nonfiction leveled reader (from our old series). Students can choose their own book/article to read, or use one of the bag books. If you'd like to change something, feel fre

This is a template I use with my 4th/5th grade students when converting metric units (ex: 47L = ___ mL). Students simply write down the first unit, aligning the decimal (47.0) on the unit's dashed vertical line. They then move the decimal to the new unit and like magic, their unit is converted! It takes a few examples for it to sink in with kids, but they love it once it clicks!

For advanced writers, this is a collection of not-so-common color words. Great for descriptive writing lessons! Color adjectives for the following colors: black blue brown gray green orange pink purple red white yellow