Thinking Partner

This student organizer compliments the Calkins Boxes and Bullets Opinion and Persuasive Essay for fourth grade. This organizer allows students to practice all the types of writing included in this unit to write a complete essay. The student guide include pages for writing an opinion, reasons, strong thesis, reasons, examples, micro stories, parallelisms, surveys, research, introduction, and conclusion. Also includes pages for a draft and a revision and editing checklist. This organizer can t

This math vocabulary activity is a fun and exciting listening game to build knowledge of math vocabulary in EM4 5th grade Unit 1 How to use these cards • Print the game cards and cut apart (can be laminated or on card stock) • Handout one card to each student • The student with the first card begins by reading their card • Students listen to the,” Who has” until it is the answer on their card • The student then reads their card and this process continues • Th

This lesson is a 3-5 day introduction to the genre of Realistic Fiction. Lesson includes smart board lesson, graphic organizers, independent reading bookmarks, book and video suggestions.

This lesson allows students to write a persuasive paragraph or essay using strong reasons with supporting examples. Students will discuss, write, share, and vote while choosing which popcorn is better, microwave or air popped.

This math vocabulary activity is a fun and exciting listening game to build knowledge of math vocabulary in EM4 5th grade Unit 2 How to use these cards How to play the game: • Print the game cards and cut apart (can be laminated or on card stock) • Handout one card to each student • The student with the first card begins by reading their card • Students listen to the,” Who has” until it is the answer on their card • The student then reads their card and this process continues • The game

Students can make an academic goal ( read 2 books, learn my 6x table) and a personal learning goal ( Raising there hand to speak, keeping their desk organized,etc) each month. Students can reflect at the end of the month as to their progress and keep track of the goals they have achieved throughout the year. Students love looking over the goals they set at the beginning of the year in June. Great Morning meeting activity for the beginning of each month.

This Landforms vocabulary activity is a fun and exciting listening game to build knowledge of Social Studies vocabulary in the classroom.

This short survey is helpful for instructional coaches to gain feedback from teachers in order to provide the most effective assistance.

Easy to use Reading Workshop Sheets. Includes : Student Reading log with goals. Guided Reading/ Strategy Group planning sheet,Independent Reading Conference Sheets, and Student Reader Response Sheets

This math vocabulary activity is a fun and exciting listening game to build knowledge of math vocabulary in EM4 3rd grade Unit 1

This math vocabulary activity is a fun and exciting listening game to build knowledge of math vocabulary in EM4 3rd grade Unit 2. These card directly correlate to Everyday Math 4th Edition

This is a fun listening activity for the first few days of school. Students need to listen carefully to their classmates in order to play the game. The game also reviews some class and school rules and procedures.

This interactive smartboard file is set up to play the game , High Number Toss. This game has pages to play with place values to 1,000, 10,000, 100,000 and 1,000,000

This quick easy reference chart helps teachers plan a reading workshop.

This graphic organizer helps students take notes and find the important and relevant information. Students are shown to form questions, then read line by line, and then write down only information that answers their questions. A PDF, PPT, and Smartnookbook document are included