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These posters are a great way to decorate your classroom or reading area for back to school! Each poster features an inspirational or thematic quote from a middle grade or young adult novel. Each of these books/quotes speak to the best and most unique parts of being a young person today. They also feature a picture of the author on each page to inspire students to write like their favorite authors. Quotes from books include: Ghost, Jason Reynolds Internment, Samira Ahmed Refugee, Alan Gratz Th

Students simply choose one of the four images that "doesn't belong" and justify why. This can be as short or lengthy as you need it to be. This can be a quick one sentence critical thinking exercise or a whole paragraph, asking students to cite evidence and give an explanation and reasoning why they chose it. This slideshow includes 20 different examples!!!! Some ideas of how you might use this - ...build critical thinking  ...introduce how to restate and answer questions / prompts with eviden

You put hours into creating a specific look for your classroom. Why settle for less when choosing a sign for your room? Your teacher name sign should reflect your personal style, and what better way to do that than a customized sign? In this package, you will find 5 different brightly colored signs to fit your decor. They are all fully editable, and I have included an example slide for each design and a simple "Click to add name" version as well. Simply customize and print the slide you like.

This activity combines short stories, mood vs. tone, making inferences, justifying your answer with text evidence, and fun in one neat, tidy package! Your kids will love this HANDS-ON activity with a fun text. Included: Lesson plan with TEKS and Common Core standards, objectives in teacher and student language, pdf of complete short story, anchor chart of mood vs. tone, interactive notebook page, major project with example, and a rubric! This is a great, comprehensive lesson for fictional sh

You put hours into creating a specific look for your classroom. Why settle for less when choosing a sign for your room? Your teacher name sign should reflect your personal style, and what better way to do that than a beautifully crafted sign? In this package, you will find 13 different brightly colored alcohol ink inspired name plates to fit your decor. They are all fully editable. Simply change the name "Mrs. Jackson" and room number to your information and print the slide you like.

These stations will reinforce student understanding and allow them to practice each organizational pattern with another text and a writing prompt. Patterns included - Sequential, Description, Compare-Contrast, Cause-Effect, and Problem-solution

You put hours into creating a specific look for your classroom. Why settle for less when choosing a sign for your room? Your teacher name sign should reflect your personal style, and what better way to do that than a customized sign? In this package, you will find 5 different brightly colored chevron and patterned signs to fit your decor. They are all fully editable, and I have included an example slide for each design and a simple "Click to add name" version as well. Simply customize and prin

Use this resource to help your learned practice their S sounds in a fun way. Circle the s sound in the picture and then check it off like an eye-spy game! It's important to practice articulation. It can help learners by: Improving their ability to produce clearer speech.Improving their ability to be understood by others.Helping them to engage in more productive, encouraging relationships with othersFacilitate interactions with unfamiliar individuals more easilyReduce frustration Improve spelli

March is Women's History Month. Celebrate the accomplishments of 14 women across America of various backgrounds who show how important women are to our history. Simply print these and frame them or make them into posters for a beautiful themed display in March or all year long! Women included are Marie Curie, Rosa Parks, Margaret Thatcher, Maya Angelou, Grace Lee Boggs, Ava DuVernay, LaDonna Harris, Delores Huerta, Tammy Duckworth, María Elena Salinas, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Ellen Ochoa, Sonia Sotom

This PBL / Inquiry unit focuses on What does it take to Persevere. By learning about heroes and courage, students discover and analyze how people can develop grit and perseverance. Students will use their research, interview with a family member or friend, and provided resources to come up with the criteria they believe is important for this set of qualities.Included in this lesson:-Student outcomes -Video introduction -Essential Questions -Engaging hook -Exploratory articles, videos, and optio

Printable literary quotes bundle. A bundle of 10 literary quotes by famous authors and books complete with beautiful floral theme. Can be used to decorate your home, kids room, reading nook, business, office, school, classroom, library, or give away as a gift. READY TO PRINT on your home printer or any professional printing shop. *Literary quotes included in this bundle are:Books are uniquely portable magic Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world Reading i

You put hours into creating a specific look for your classroom. Why settle for less when choosing a sign for your room? Your teacher name sign should reflect your personal style, and what better way to do that than a customized sign? In this package, you will find 5 different brightly colored signs to fit your decor. They are all fully editable, and I have included an example slide for each design and a simple "Click to add name" version as well. Simply customize and print the slide you like.

Play this "What do you meme" game with your English classes today! Just print a copy for each group of 4-5 students and watch them make connections between memes and classical literature (and some new song lyrics thrown in for fun as well). Students learn to analyze the author's tone and represent it visually in a fun game! No prep work needed - just print and go!

These posters are a great way to decorate your classroom, reading area, hallway, or library! Remember that Black History Month is not the only time to celebrate Black authors. Encourage students to have authors as a mirror AND a window into other worlds, times, places, or perspectives. Each poster features an inspirational or thematic quote from a middle grade or young adult novel. Each of these books/quotes speak to the best and most unique parts of being a young person today. They also feature

Use this resource for any fiction story. It has students detail the development of characters as the story progresses. This is particularly great for having students analyze the deeper meanings to make inferences based on text evidence. It also helps students understand how conflict can influence character motivations. We used this while we read "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" and students did their character analysis on Greg Ridley or Lemon Brown. They must provide

Use this slideshow to practice naming different types of quadrilaterals. This slideshow is enabled with Peardeck (add-on for Google Slides) to enable students to practice and teachers to gather responses from all students. Included in this slideshow: Definitions of rectangles, squares, parallelograms, rhombus, and trapezoid3 practice examples of which one doesn't belong 5 practice examples of "drag the parallel sign to the pairs"Find all the quadrilaterals Quadrilateral maze - draw your way ou

These posters are a great way to decorate your classroom, reading area, hallway, or library! Remember that Black History Month is not the only time to celebrate Black authors. Encourage students to have authors as a mirror AND a window into other worlds, times, places, or perspectives. Each poster features an inspirational or thematic quote from a middle grade or young adult novel. Each of these books/quotes speak to the best and most unique parts of being a young person today. They also feature

No matter whether you're a muggle or wizard, you'll love these magic-inspired posters and classroom decor signs. This pdf features the 5 classroom rules from Whole Brain Teaching as well as some learning feature signs and magical quotes from the books.

This slideshow has a quick reminder about what each sentence type entails. This slideshow also includes 20 mentor sentences from books for student practice. This slideshow has a box and label strategy to check independent clauses and dependent clauses. This slideshow can be printed OR done digitally in several ways: Project it on the board and have students edit liveUse PEARDECK (add-on for Google Slides). This slideshow is already enabled with Peardeck drawing slides on all applicable slides fo

These posters are a great way to decorate your classroom, reading area, hallway, or library! Encourage students to have authors as a mirror AND a window into other worlds, times, places, or perspectives.  Each poster features an inspirational or thematic quote from a middle grade or young adult novel. These posters also feature a picture of the author on each page to inspire students to write like their favorite authors.  Quotes from books include:Amari and the Night BrothersEfren DividedTri