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My goal after years of classroom teaching experience was to create useful and meaningful resources that teachers love using and find helpful. I started creating resources in 2012 when I couldn't find anything that would help me teach students to write, as well as support students' social and emotional learning.
Most of my career has been in the primary years; specifically grades 2 and 3. I've also taught and been an instructional coach for K-6. Many of the classes I have taught were split/combination classes, so I learned early on how to integrate subject areas for maximum learning and engagement. I find this approach helps with the overwhelming feeling of trying to "get it all done". I enjoy helping new teachers with this!
You will find resources for K-5 on reading, writing, math, social-emotional learning, and project-based learning.
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Writing BUNDLE Opinion Narrative Informational 2nd & 3rd Grade
Not sure where to start teaching writing? ✏️ Start here! Quality writing instruction in primary starts with sentence-level writing skills. Your 2nd & 3rd-grade writers will have fun and learn writing skills with these step-by-step writing units. This writing unit bundle will help you teach writing all year long! Get a full year of writing lessons ( 900+ pages) including narrative writing, opinion writing, and informational writing. Each detailed lesson plan is integrated with aspects of
2nd - 3rd
English Language Arts, Reading, Writing
CCSS
RL.3.4
, RL.3.5
, RF.2.4
+27
Writer's Notebook Writing 2nd & 3rd Grade
Help your students learn to write using a writer's notebook. Step by step lessons and ideas that engage even the most reluctant writers. This writer's notebook is very detailed and includes lessons on many curricular outcomes for writing, listening and speaking and language. Each learning outcome is identified as a focus with supporting outcomes listed as well. Writing lessons are taught in a fun way by combining the writing standards with the write traits using children's literature that
2nd - 3rd
Balanced Literacy, Writing
CCSS
W.2.1
, W.2.2
, W.2.3
+10
Also included in: Writers Notebook and Editing BUNDLE
PERFECT Book Unit | Back to School
Add Perfect by Max Amato to your back to school activities. Your students will be drawn to this playful story of perfectionism and learn that it's okay to make mistakes - right from the first day of school! This is a delightful story about a "perfectionist" eraser and a carefree pencil. Together, that is not a good combination. As the eraser works like mad to erase everything the pencil does, it ends up learning that the energy spent is not only exhausting but makes for a lonely existence. Th
1st - 4th
Character Education, Reading
Writers Workshop Guide BUNDLE
This comprehensive Writer's Workshop Guide is everything you need to know to set up and successfully run Writer's Workshop in your classroom. It includes set up ideas, writing lessons and a full beginner's dictionary of high frequency sight words. Included in this Writer’s Workshop bundle: A full description with classroom photos on how to set up a Writer's Workshop in your classroom What Good Writers Do - classroom poster setA step-by-step guide to using Writer's Notebooks with photosMini L
1st - 3rd
Writing
CCSS
SL.1.1
, SL.1.5
, SL.1.6
+10
Also included in: Writing Bundle Mega Pack
Sentence Writing Unit | Writers Workshop
Sentence writing is a very important skill but not always easy to teach. In this helpful unit, students will learn all about sentences and how to find writing ideas. 4 mentor texts support your writing instruction on building sentences and developing writing ideas. The writing skills that are highlighted in this unit are: the parts of a sentencehow to write a sentencenouns, verbs, adjectivesconventionspre-assessing and analyzing your sentence writersmentor text vocabularyhow to generate wri
2nd - 3rd
Writing
CCSS
L.2.2
, L.2.6
, L.3.1a
+3
Also included in: Writing BUNDLE Opinion Narrative Informational 2nd & 3rd Grade
Animal Changes in Fall
Animals adapt to all kinds of situations in order to survive. 3 kinds of adaptations include behavioral, physical and physiological. Help your students learn more about these adaptations in relation to North American animals. Included in this science and literacy set: teacher notes on each adaptation mini poster about these 3 adaptations in kid-friendly languageteacher notes on each of the 3 animals featured: bear, Canada goose and snowshoe harestudent worksheets with information to reada wr
1st - 3rd
Balanced Literacy, Science, Writing
Also included in: Fall Cross-Curricular Bundle
Friendship Activities and Lapbook Set
This fun packet will help you to teach friendship skills and kindness on Valentine's Day or any day of the year! Your students will learn how to recognize a good friend when they see one and be a good friend. Students will learn good character and social skills through lessons, friendship games (played and created), and through building their very own friendship lapbook! Being a good friend is a very important part of school and life. We often teach kids about friendship but have lot
1st - 3rd
Character Education
Also included in: Lap Book Year Long Bundle Fire Safety Christmas Earth Day Friendship
Visualize a Story
Visualizing is a powerful tool to help engage learners and improve comprehension and the creation of ideas. This versatile writing activity will help students learn this important skill and can be used with ANY children's picture book. Students love this lesson! You will need to choose a favorite unseen book and 6 artifacts from the book that they will show the students one at a time. (You can also do this without a book and with random items of your choosing.) Example:Artifacts can range from
1st - 4th
Balanced Literacy, Vocabulary, Writing
CCSS
W.1.3
, W.2.3
, W.3.3
+3
Social Emotional Learning Gratitude & Social Skills Curriculum
This social-emotional learning set takes you step-by-step through a mindful, self-regulation program that helps students to become kinder and more self-aware. Teaching these social skills help to build a strong classroom community. Watch your students grow in self-confidence and self-regulation and become stronger learners. This set includes both a DIGITAL and print version. Explicit teaching of social-emotional learning in the classroom is becoming more and more important for every child to
K - 4th
Character Education, Classroom Community, School Counseling
Also included in: Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Bundle
Food and Nutrition Activities| Healthy Eating Unit
Teach your students about healthy eating, and healthy living with fun lessons and activities. Students will learn the importance of nutrition and food groups, sleep, exercise and hygiene with these engaging and real-life activities. This set has been updated to include both the PRINT and DIGITAL for USA and Canada Food Guides. This unit is packed with anchor charts and information for teachers and students and activities to make learning these things fun and effective. Students will le
1st - 3rd
Health
Also included in: Social Emotional Learning and Health and Nutrition Bundle
Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Bundle
Teaching our students to be mindful leads to self-regulation and independence. These resources will help students to learn about self-awareness, self-regulation, critical thinking and how they learn, and how they can put all of that into a passion project. Mindful Brains is a detailed unit outlining how to begin teaching students all about themselves and their brains. It includes lessons, printables and photos. Train Your Brain is an extension to Mindful Brains. It is a set of task cards,
2nd - 4th
Classroom Community, For All Subjects
Social Emotional Learning Bundle
Social-emotional learning involves learning about self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. This BIG mindfulness bundle covers many areas of SEL and mindfulness from whole class lessons to individual mindful journal entries and interactive mindful notebooks making it easy to implement and fun for kids. There is even a set for you, the teacher, to help you experience mindfulness so that you can more authentically teach your students
1st - 4th
Classroom Community, School Counseling
CCSS
CCRA.W.1
, CCRA.W.10
, CCRA.SL.1
Personal Narrative Writing Unit | Writers Workshop
This fiction narrative writing unit takes a unique look into personal narrative writing through mentor texts. By exploring and learning about memoirs and fictional personal narratives, students will learn how to use sentence fluency to write their own narratives. Do your students have trouble with organizing the writing they do? This writing unit is all about organization, word choice and research. The writing skills that are highlighted in this unit are: using memoirs and fictional pers
2nd - 3rd
Writing
CCSS
W.2.3
, L.2.5b
, L.2.6
+5
Also included in: Writing BUNDLE Opinion Narrative Informational 2nd & 3rd Grade
A Bear in War Book Unit Remembrance Day November
A Bear in Warby Stephanie Innes & Harry Endrulat is an endearing story about war and family told from the point of view of a little teddy bear. This book, based on the true story of a Canadian teddy bear that traveled all the way to France in 1916, will surely bring a tear to the eye and is perfect for Remembrance Day or Memorial Day. The story will help engage students to understand a bit more about the impact of war as they see it unfold through the eyes of a teddy bear. Through this connectio
2nd - 4th
English Language Arts, Social Studies
Also included in: Remembrance Day Bundle November
Informational Writing Unit | Research Writing | Writers Workshop
Do your students have trouble with organizing the writing they do? This writing unit is all about organization, word choice and research. Opportunities to learn about and write non fiction and fiction is included in this unit. The writing skills that are highlighted in this unit are: pre-assessing student understanding of organizationprinciples of organization in non fiction writingintroduction to the paragraphresearch strategiesusing text featuresusing technology to researchusing word choi
2nd - 3rd
Writing
CCSS
L.2.2a
, L.2.4e
, L.2.5a
+6
Also included in: Writing BUNDLE Opinion Narrative Informational 2nd & 3rd Grade
Writers Notebook for 4th and 5th grade
The writers notebook is a key tool to help your 4th and 5th grade writers to learn and practice the craft of writing. It is a very detailed unit that includes 17 standards-based writing mini-lessons that include the Write Traits: Writing: Ideas Writing: Word Choice Writing: Organization Writing: Sentence Fluency Writing: Voice ****************************************** Each mini lesson comes with a printable that students glue into their 5x7" notebook. (I recommend students buy their ow
4th - 5th
Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing
CCSS
W.5.3a
, W.5.3b
, W.5.3c
+7
How-To Writing Unit | Writers Workshop
Do your students often miss out important elements of their story or non fiction writing making it confusing to the reader? This writing unit is all about How-to writing. Step by step, students will learn the skills to help develop this type of writing. Students will also learn all about how to organize and write paragraphs Many kids struggle with paragraph writing. This unit will help you to teach them how, using 4 mentor texts. The writing skills that are highlighted in this unit are: le
2nd - 3rd
Writing
CCSS
W.2.2
, W.3.2
, L.2.1e
+3
Also included in: Writing BUNDLE Opinion Narrative Informational 2nd & 3rd Grade
Number Sense Worksheets and Activities Bundle
Number sense games and hands-on learning help students understand Math. Use this Math unit to teach counting, subitizing, decomposing quantities, and numbers, and place value. Talk about number sense concepts easily and have students practice with manipulatives and math games. This bundle will help your students build a solid understanding of number sense. Not only is it full of math lessons, activities and practical math tools for your students, but it is also full of useful information
K - 2nd
Math, Numbers
Memory Jars Book Unit
Memory Jars by Vera Brosgol is a must-read! It is a story about a child that uses hundreds of jars because she wants to save her precious memories. She learns that memories are made in the heart and mind and the things she puts in jars are those reminders. This print and teach shared reading book unit: provides rich learning on background knowledge building which is very important for reading comprehensionvalues and acknowledges each student's personal storyprovides materials to teach about th
1st - 3rd
English Language Arts, Social Emotional Learning, Writing
CCSS
RL.1.1
, RL.1.7
, RL.2.1
+8
Also included in: End of Year Memories BUNDLE
Poetry Writing Unit Poetry Month
This writing unit explores the world of poetry through the lens of the Earth. Teach about different kinds of poems as well as environmental information - perfect for Earth Day! Students will learn the rhythm and flow of poetry through word choice, beats, and alliteration. The writing skills that are highlighted in this unit are: rhythm and flowbeats and alliterationtypes of poemsfree verse writingconcrete poem writingusing facts about the earth and environment to write free versepersuasive w
2nd - 3rd
Writing
CCSS
RL.2.4
, RL.3.4
, RL.3.5
+6
Also included in: Writing BUNDLE Opinion Narrative Informational 2nd & 3rd Grade
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About the store
Experience
My goal after years of classroom teaching experience was to create useful and meaningful resources that teachers love using and find helpful. I started creating resources in 2012 when I couldn't find anything that would help me teach students to write, as well as support students' social and emotional learning.
Most of my career has been in the primary years; specifically grades 2 and 3. I've also taught and been an instructional coach for K-6. Many of the classes I have taught were split/combination classes, so I learned early on how to integrate subject areas for maximum learning and engagement. I find this approach helps with the overwhelming feeling of trying to "get it all done". I enjoy helping new teachers with this!
You will find resources for K-5 on reading, writing, math, social-emotional learning, and project-based learning.
Teaching style
I'm a big believer in using a reading, writing and math workshop approach to teaching. It provides such a great framework for students to follow and allows for creative and expansive learning. I'm also a big fan of the integrated learning approach.
Teaching more than one curricular area in a unit will not only save you time AND resources but will also increase engagement and learning. For this reason, I also love to create science, social studies, math, and project-based learning/genius hour resources where literacy and social-emotional learning are woven in.
My creative resources are skill-based and uniquely designed to make it easy for you to teach and motivate kids to learn to their fullest potential! They are designed to:
* be time-saving and easy to use for teachers
* increase reading, writing and math skills (both explicitly and in an integrated way)
* promote learning independence and collaboration skills
* develop higher-level thinking skills even with the youngest learners
* increase social-emotional skills
* adaptable for all learners
* making learning fun
Awards & shining teacher moments
Always the best shining moments are the ones that involve students and their successes both academically and socially and emotionally.
I just completed writing an online course for teachers for a large university on Teaching Reading and Other Literacies.
I wrote the Scholastic Canada Let's Do Science Units (3rd-grade Biodiversity & Matter) for British Columbia. I was also the literacy reviewer for the 3-5th grade Social Studies curriculum (Pearson Canada)
In past years, I was featured in Texas Teachers magazine for mindfulness, the BC Primary Teachers journal and the Tennessee Reading Teacher.
My own education history
BEd. (elementary education) University of British Columbia
MEd. in Curriculum and Instruction University of British Columbia
Additional biographical information
You can find out more about me and some teaching ideas and tips on my blog: www.thewritestuffteaching.com
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