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Super Spellers is over 60 fun, engaging, free-choice activities for your students to use with their weekly spelling lists. Students select the words they need to learn how to spell from their own writing and class word lists, then they learn the patterns using Super Speller Activities all while earning points for their spelling team. Students will draw pictures, write poems, create codes, learn braille, make games, play games and plenty more. Whether they work independently or as a partner, y

Start the school year with independent learning activities that allow you to learn about your students and them to learn about each other and their school community. You will find in these task cards over 50 activities that will motivate students to produce projects that engage their multiple intelligences and thinking skills. I started the year last year with my grade 6 students using this unit and it was a hit. I set up the posters around the room like task cards. I set out the materials

Get cooperative learning underway in your classroom with a set of activities designed for mixed ability groups. While you are teaching students how to work cooperatively in groups and how to take on different roles within a group, use these activities to also address concerns students have regarding bullying, friendship, leadership and emotions. Each of the 5 tasks should take 60 minutes to complete if the students are effective at delegating tasks and working efficiently. If they are new to

Get you students thinking with this straightforward place value activity. Students roll a dice and decide where to place the digit to build a larger number than their partner. More able students delve deeper into the activity to explore elements of chance as well as analyze and explain the strategy involved in winning the game. Students who are even more able continue to analyze how changes to the rules effect the strategies used. A great naturally differentiated activity that can be set up