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Book study guide for Megabat by Anna Humphrey. Use these before, during and after questions to guide your students through this adorable book. Reading skills included: making predictions, making inferences, visualizing, extending the text, characterization, making connections, author's message/theme, and evaluating. There is also a question around identifying genre and two questions that require doing research.

Book study guide for My Kingdom of Darkness, Pets Rule! Series #1 by Susan Tan. Use these before, during and after questions to guide your students through this adorable book. Reading skills included: making predictions, making inferences, making connections, and vocabulary. There is also a page that requires doing research.

Simply cut out the pieces and assemble a beautiful anchor chart to have up for student reference all year long.

Students will follow directions and color each part of the keyboard correctly which will help in familiarizing them with the layout of the Chromebook keyboard.

Cut out the CVC word penguins and “hide” them around the school by taping them to walls in various places: hallway walls, drinking fountains, doors, gym, library, etc.Read Aloud a story about penguins. (See last page for some suggestions)Take students on a Penguin Hunt around school to find the CVC word penguins. They can just read them or have them bring a clipboard and pencil to write them as well.

Following the Interactive Read Aloud model where the teacher stops periodically at previously selected points and has students discuss or write about the book. These sticky notes have done all the preplanning work for you. Simply print them out, place them on the corresponding page and start reading! Skills include: making predictions, inferring, using evidence from the text to support thinking, figurative language, author's craft, author's message, theme, self to text connections.

Get students up and moving around the room while practicing digraphs. 20 word cards and 2 different answer sheets for the digraphs sh, wh, th, ch, ck.

This includes 5 days of problems for number talks. Each day has 4 problems to present to students: representing a number, addition, subtraction, and making sense of a word problem without numbers. Sample student responses are included for week 1 to give you an idea of possible answers students should be able to come up with.

Use talking about math to help students develop their number sense around decimals.

Have your students learn the basics of coding by writing code and programming their peers who are acting as robots. Great introductory activity for even the littlest of coders. Easy way to incorporate Hour of Code into any classroom.

This little booklet is a great tool for students to use to keep track of what they want to read and what they have already read.

After reading the book All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold, students draw pictures of things from their lives that follow along with what is seen in the pictures from the book. After all students are done drawing, students can then share with the class and the teacher can lead a discussion about every person is a unique individual.

This is a great resource for students to practice writing a decimal in various different forms: drawing a model, fraction, decimal, expanded form and word form. Use for decimals: tenths, hundredths, thousandths.

Guide students through the process of making conjectures and using those conjectures to make sense of different tasks.

This includes a Powerpoint presentation. Each slide has a image that shows a state and the following slide gives the name of the state. This is a great way to quiz students as they are learning to identify the states. These could also be printed out as flashcards.

Give students practice with sight words and time to color!

Graphic organizer for students to identify what a character is thinking or feeling and using evidence from the text to support their ideas.

Students can use this form to interview each other and introduce a friend to the rest of the class.