About the store
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Perfectly Perfect Wish Book Unit
The Perfectly Perfect Wish by Lisa Mantchev is an absolutely beautiful book about gratitude and empathy. This book unit helps you to teach this to your students in a very powerful way. The Perfectly Perfect Wish shares a delightful story about a little girl who is given one wish. She is not allowed to wish for more wishes. Through a series of thoughts of her own wishes she realizes she has much to be grateful for so she decides to turn the wish around for others. This reading unit includes:3 d
1st - 3rd
Character Education, Reading
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
Narrative Writing Unit | Writers Workshop
This writing unit is all about narrative writing, voice and putting all the story elements together to create powerful writing! Strategies and ideas will be shared to take students through the writing process from start to finish! The writing skills that are highlighted in this unit are: narrative writing review narrative writingdeveloping voice for setting tone and purpose in writingoral story telling stationsreader's theatre learning about and writing introducing presenting writingbold
2nd - 3rd
Writing
CCSS
W.2.3
, W.3.5
, L.2.6
+3
Also included in: Writing BUNDLE Opinion Narrative Informational 2nd & 3rd Grade
Opinion Writing Unit | Writers Workshop
This unit is all about opinion writing & practicing voice. Students will build skills and confidence in developing their own opinion and voice by practising different active writing strategies. The writing skills that are highlighted in this unit are: what is an opinion?fact vs opinionrevising vs editingdebating with opinions and factsdesign challengestep-by-step opinion writing processwriting a drama script based on the mentor textThis unit is JAM PACKED with ideas to teach writing eve
2nd - 3rd
Writing
CCSS
W.2.1
, W.2.5
, L.2.2e
+4
Also included in: Writing BUNDLE Opinion Narrative Informational 2nd & 3rd Grade
Number Sense Math Lessons Games Worksheets Assessments
Teaching conceptual number sense understanding with manipulatives and lots of practice counting, subitizing, decomposing quantities, and numbers, place value as well as talking about math are all building blocks to understanding. This easy-to-use resource will help you to teach all this and more! Do your students have difficulty with addition, subtraction, or fact families? Or maybe you are just looking for an early math resource that will help your students start on the right foot with nu
K - 2nd
Basic Operations, Math, Place Value
CCSS
K.CC.B.4
, K.CC.B.4a
, K.CC.B.4b
+31
Also included in: Number Sense Worksheets and Activities Bundle
Personal Narrative & Opinion Writing
Personal Narrative and Opinion Writing - This unit is fun to teach and it will help you to add rigor to your teaching and it is aligned to the AUS, USA and Cdn (BC) curriculum for personal/opinion writing! love cake so they will love see the analogy of writing as a layered cake. The more you put into it, the more fantastic your cake will be!
Included in this unit:
* Introduction to the writing traits so that students can get used to organization of beginning, middle and end with a tie in
2nd - 3rd
English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Expository
Publishing and Presentation | Writing Unit | Writers Workshop
This writing unit will open your students' writing world as they explore the many ways that they can present their polished writing to an audience. Students will learn about verbal and non-verbal communication and why it is important. They will choose a way to present their writing in a format that builds on their strengths. This resource is all about student choice. Students will choose writing they have already completed or a new piece to showcase their communication and presentation s
2nd - 3rd
Writing
CCSS
W.2.6
, W.3.3
, W.3.5
+2
Also included in: Writing BUNDLE Opinion Narrative Informational 2nd & 3rd Grade
Writing Units Bundle Overview & Book List | Writers Workshop
This year-long writing curriculum is a comprehensive program designed to help young writers learn important writing skills. Students will learn to express their ideas and communicate effectively both orally and in written form. Your 2nd & 3rd-grade writers will love the craft of writing and the success they will have learning to write. The Year-Long Writing Unit is available here.The details:Don't know where to start with teaching writing? This writing program contains strategies and skil
2nd - 3rd
Balanced Literacy, Writing
CCSS
RL.2.4
, RL.3.4
, RL.3.5
+28
Winter Literacy and Math
This WINTER Literacy and Math Set will keep your students learning while the snow is falling. This resource is full of skill based printables with a penguin, polar bear and winter theme. For this unit, all you will need are penguin, polar bear, brown bear non fiction books and a selection of winter stories. What a fun way to learn! The Penguin section: long vowels r-controlled vowels friendly letter guidance and practice writing in role reading for information: text boxes and information 1 step
2nd - 3rd
Balanced Literacy
The Incredible Freedom Machines Book Unit
The Incredible Freedom Machines by Kirli Saunders is the perfect book to use to launch your reading lessons. The Incredible Freedom Machines is about a little girl who wants to read books that are just right for her but that are also full of adventure! The main character is part of the story as it unfolds but is actually on the outside looking in, She is reading the books and has lost herself in all the exciting and interesting things that happen in the book. Inside each image at the beginning
1st - 3rd
Character Education, 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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