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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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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
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 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
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
Self-Esteem Rock What Ya Got Book Unit
Rock What Ya Got by Samantha Berger is a fun book that shines a light on an illustrator that begins to create a drawing of a girl but wants to erase it and redo it because she is not satisfied with the hair, the body etc. The image comes alive and tells her to leave it be because she loves who she is and reminds the illustrator to "rock what ya got". Rock What Ya Got highlights the need for everyone to love who they are and not want to change. It's a powerful and timely message. This reading u
1st - 3rd
Character Education, Reading
The Belonging Tree Book Unit SEL
Teach your students about belonging and inclusion with this wonderful book called The Belonging Tree by Maryann Cocca-Leffler. This book is perfect for back-to-school to establish a safe, kind and accepting classroom climate but can be used any time throughout the year .The squirrel family likes things just the way they are. Little Zeke loves variety and new animals and things. He doesn't really understand what his parents are complaining about when new animals start moving into their commun
1st - 3rd
English Language Arts, Social Emotional Learning
CCSS
W.1.5
, W.1.8
, W.2.2
+18
Also included in: Fall Cross-Curricular Bundle
The Invisible Boy Book Unit SEL on the Go
Social Emotional Learning on the GO! is a mini lesson series using quality mentor texts as springboards to explicitly teach social and emotional skills to kids. The Invisible Boy has themes throughout the book that address: self-regulation, personal identity,inclusion and friendship.This grab and go set gives you a summary of the book to use as you wish, a metacognitive "before, during and after" set of essential questions to ask students as you do a shared reading, and some printables to
1st - 3rd
Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Reading
Teddy Bear Writing Prompts
Teach social and emotional learning with this fun and endearing teddy bear writing prompts set. Teddy Bears are so important in a young child's life for such things as security and imagination. This writing set contains prompts and writing ideas with differentiated pages for writing or drawing. What child does not love a teddy bear or stuffy? Have a bring your stuffy to school day or teddy bear picnic! This set includes: an anchor chart created by students, 3 different options for how to use
K - 3rd
Balanced Literacy, Writing
CCSS
W.K.1
, W.1.1
, W.2.1
+3
Lap Book Year Long Bundle Fire Safety Christmas Earth Day Friendship
Lap books are perfect for capturing the learning taking place in your classroom. They are very visual and appealing to students and versatile for teachers. This year-long set will help you to engage your learners and teach the curriculum in an easy-to-use and organized way. Lap books can be used for teaching content or assessing learning after a unit, They also make great bulletin board displays and keepsakes for students. I have bundled up all of my lap books into this handy year-long lap boo
1st - 4th
Balanced Literacy, Science
Kindergarten and 1st Grade BIG Bundle Printing Number Sense Writing Center
Use these resources to provide your students with the important skills and practice they need for early literacy and numeracy. Use this printing practice and number sense resource set to help you assess and teach these building blocks of reading, writing, and math skills. What's inside:Printingprinting practice teacher notes and informationprinting practice worksheets that guide students through letter writing with starting points and clear lines.1/2 and full-page sheetsinitial sound image t
PreK - 2nd
Math, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Writing
Lap Book Year Long Bundle Fire Safety Christmas Earth Day Friendship
Lap books are perfect for capturing the learning taking place in your classroom. They are very visually appealing to students and versatile for teachers. This year-long set will help you to engage your learners and teach the curriculum in an easy-to-use and organized way. Lap books can be used for teaching content or assessing learning after a unit, They also make great bulletin board displays and keepsakes for students. I have bundled up all of my lapbooks into this handy year-long lapbook bu
1st - 4th
Balanced Literacy, Science
Remembrance Day Bundle November
Help your students understand the significance of Remembrance Day with this lap book and book unit bundle. Included in this set: ★ Remembrance Day Lap Book: → things we do on Remembrance Day → an original poem for reading, handwriting practice or assembly use → why wear a poppy? → this is what peace looks like to me ★ A Bear in War: book unit. → 3 detailed mini lessons with a spark idea to generate interest →background knowledge check →learning intentions and success criteria
1st - 4th
Canadian History, English Language Arts
Fall Cross-Curricular Bundle
Welcome fall with this science, literacy and social studies-themed bundle. Students will love the connections they will make with the animals in both The Belonging Tree Book Unit and the Animal Changes in Fall resource. You will love the rich learning they will experience. This fiction and non-fiction-based bundle will appeal to all kinds of learners. These sets will inspire your students as they navigate the theme of belonging with rich thinking and writing lessons in the book unit, and learn a
1st - 3rd
English Language Arts, Science
Self Awareness and Social Awareness
One of the most important skills children need to learn is how to develop self-awareness. Self-awareness leads to social awareness. It is an important skill that enables kids to learn to notice their surroundings, see how their actions can affect others and learn to be kind and compassionate. This social skills lesson can be used as a tool at any time and is perfect for classroom meetings. Use it as a single lesson or an ongoing lesson as certain situations arise in your classroom. It is the pe
1st - 3rd
Character Education, Classroom Community
Mustafa Book Unit SEL on the Go
Social Emotional Learning on the GO! is a mini lesson series using quality mentor texts as springboards to explicitly teach social and emotional skills to kids. Mustafa has themes throughout the book that address: new immigrant life, trauma personal identity, friendship and mindfulnessThis grab and go set gives you a summary of the book to use as you wish, a metacognitive "before, during and after" set of essential questions to ask students as you do a shared reading, and some printables to
1st - 3rd
Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Reading
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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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