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Pi Day is celebrated in the math world on March 14th, but why limit the fun to only math classrooms? This resource is PERFECT to teach Author's Purpose and Perspective on Pi Day! Author's Purpose and Perspective is as EASY as PIE...or is it?? Go deeper and have your upper elementary students anlyze texts and find text evidence to support the Author's Purpose and Perspective using this cute graphic organizer. It is perfect for Grades 4-6. You can use this resource all year long, not just on P

If you are looking for a UNIQUE writing project for your upper elementary students to do the first week in March, look no further! Here it is! This resource comes with EVERYTHING you need for this project: -writing prompt -idea list -graphic oranizer -model paragraph -two paragraph scaffolds for struggling students (BW and colored) I hope you love this project. I can't wait to start this with our fifth and sixth graders!

If you are looking for a poetry resource, this 42 page resource is full of tons of pure poetry possibilities to keep your students analyzing and writing all winter long. In this resource, your students will analyze the popular poem by Robert Frost "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". After analyzing the poem for poetic devices, your students can write three poems or you may allow them to choose! Published poems will make your hallway a Winter Wonderland when printed on GLITTER card stock

**NEWLY UPDATED** This Back to School Writing resource for Grades 4-8 will help your students set meaningful goals at the beginning of the year while writing a cohesive five paragraph essay. Your students will choose one goal for each of the following areas: academic, behavior, and personal. EVERYTHING you need to teach this lesson at the beginning of the year is included in this jam-packed writing resource with 26 pages to include detailed instructions, various planning sheets, modeled writ

I am combining TWO wonderful resources to be used with writers in Grades 4-8. You will receive my RACE writing bookmarks as well as my latest graphic organizers for planning a Text Dependent Analysis writing prompt.

Do your students struggle with analytical writing skills? My newest writing resource for Grades 4-8 will help your students become successful with Text Dependent Analysis type writing. My outlines will provide your students with a successful FORMULA for attacking Text Dependent Analysis questions and BREAK it down for them very simply using the R.A.C.E.S. Strategy. I provide you with TWO options for my graphic organizer. It can be used for every single T.D.A. writing prompt that you give you

This RACES Writing Bundle includes two excellent resources for Text Dependent Analysis writing for upper elementary students:

This RACES Graphic Organizer will help your upper elementary students organize their Text Dependent Analysis essays. This organizer is specifically for organizing a three paragraph essay using the RACES Strategy, but it can be easily adapted for more a four or five paragraph essay. RACES stands for: R-Restate the question A-Answer the question C-Cite the evidence E-Explain the evidence and newly updated: S-Sum it up This graphic organizer is broken up into three parts to help your students vis

Get your Third Graders ENGAGED and EXCITED about Grammar Instruction with my Rainbow Grammar Resources! You can use Rainbow Grammar to SUPPLEMENT ANY grammar program that you already use in your classroom. However, these lessons go VERY nicely with the HMH Journeys Program. Rainbow Grammar can be used to ENHANCE the grammar instruction that you already use in your classroom. Rainbow Grammar will ENGAGE your students because they will use crayons or colored pencils to color-code parts of spee

Get your Third Graders ENGAGED and EXCITED about Grammar Instruction with my Rainbow Grammar Resources! You can use Rainbow Grammar to SUPPLEMENT ANY grammar program that you already use in your classroom. However, these lessons go VERY nicely with the HMH Journeys Program. Rainbow Grammar can be used to ENHANCE the grammar instruction that you already use in your classroom. Rainbow Grammar will ENGAGE your students because they will use crayons or colored pencils to color-code parts of spee

Get your Third Graders ENGAGED and EXCITED about Grammar Instruction with my Rainbow Grammar Resources! You can use Rainbow Grammar to SUPPLEMENT ANY grammar program that you already use in your classroom. However, these lessons go nicely with the HMH Journeys Program. Rainbow Grammar can be used to ENHANCE the grammar instruction that you already use in your classroom. Rainbow Grammar will ENGAGE your students because they will use crayons or colored pencils to color-code parts of speech da

Get your Third Graders ENGAGED and EXCITED about Grammar Instruction with my Rainbow Grammar Resources! You can use Rainbow Grammar to SUPPLEMENT ANY grammar program that you already use in your classroom. However, these lessons go nicely with the HMH Journeys Program. Rainbow Grammar can be used to ENHANCE the grammar instruction that you already use in your classroom. Rainbow Grammar will ENGAGE your students because they will use crayons or colored pencils to color-code parts of speech da

Get your Third Graders ENGAGED and EXCITED about Grammar Instruction with my Rainbow Grammar Resources! You can use Rainbow Grammar to SUPPLEMENT ANY grammar program that you already use in your classroom. However, these lessons go nicely with the HMH Journeys Program. Rainbow Grammar can be used to ENHANCE the grammar instruction that you already use in your classroom. Rainbow Grammar will ENGAGE your students because they will use crayons or colored pencils to color-code parts of speech da

Get your Third Graders ENGAGED and EXCITED about Grammar Instruction with my Rainbow Grammar Resources! You can use Rainbow Grammar to SUPPLEMENT ANY grammar program that you already use in your classroom. However, these lessons go nicely with the HMH Journeys Program. Rainbow Grammar can be used to ENHANCE the grammar instruction that you already use in your classroom. Rainbow Grammar will ENGAGE your students because they will use crayons or colored pencils to color-code parts of speech da

Get your Third Graders ENGAGED and EXCITED about Grammar Instruction with my Rainbow Grammar Resources! You can use Rainbow Grammar to SUPPLEMENT and ENHANCE the grammar program that you already use in your classroom. Rainbow Grammar will ENGAGE your students because they will use crayons or colored pencils to color-code parts of speech daily! It's all about REPITITION and REVIEW with Rainbow Grammar! Rainbow Grammar will get your students EXCITED about grammar instruction because, l

Get your Third Graders ENGAGED and EXCITED about Grammar Instruction with my Rainbow Grammar Resources! You can use Rainbow Grammar to SUPPLEMENT ANY grammar program that you already use in your classroom. However, these lessons go VERY nicely with the HMH Journeys Program. Rainbow Grammar can be used to ENHANCE the grammar instruction that you already use in your classroom. Rainbow Grammar will ENGAGE your students because they will use crayons or colored pencils to color-code parts of spee

Get your Third Graders ENGAGED and EXCITED about Grammar Instruction with my Rainbow Grammar Resources! You can use Rainbow Grammar to SUPPLEMENT and ENHANCE the grammar program that you already use in your classroom. Rainbow Grammar will ENGAGE your students because they will use crayons or colored pencils to color-code parts of speech daily! It's all about REPITITION and REVIEW with Rainbow Grammar! Rainbow Grammar will get your students EXCITED about grammar instruction because ev

Get your Third Graders ENGAGED and EXCITED about Grammar Instruction with my Rainbow Grammar Resources! You can use Rainbow Grammar to SUPPLEMENT and ENHANCE the grammar program that you already use in your classroom. Rainbow Grammar will ENGAGE your students because they will use crayons or colored pencils to color-code parts of speech daily! It's all about REPITITION and REVIEW with Rainbow Grammar! Rainbow Grammar will get your students EXCITED about grammar instruction because ev

Get your Third Graders ENGAGED and EXCITED about Grammar Instruction with my Rainbow Grammar Resources! You can use Rainbow Grammar to SUPPLEMENT and ENHANCE grammar program that you already use in your classroom. Rainbow Grammar will ENGAGE your students because they will use crayons or colored pencils to color-code parts of speech daily! It's all about REPITITION and REVIEW with Rainbow Grammar! Rainbow Grammar will get your students EXCITED about grammar instruction because everyt

Get your Third Graders ENGAGED and EXCITED about Grammar Instruction with my Rainbow Grammar Resources! You can use Rainbow Grammar to SUPPLEMENT and ENHANCE any grammar program that you already use in your classroom. Rainbow Grammar will ENGAGE your students because they will use crayons or colored pencils to color-code parts of speech daily! It's all about REPITITION and REVIEW with Rainbow Grammar! Rainbow Grammar will get your students EXCITED about grammar instruction because ev