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Kids learn a whole lot of editing skills and written language conventions in their journeys to become stronger and stronger writers. However, they so often leave all of this knowledge by the wayside as they try new genres, experiment with new craft moves, or just get lost in their own stories. These editing station directions allow kids to slow down and apply everything they already know (though you could also use them as guides for teaching new skills for the first time too!). As kids move thro

Building Block Writing is a series of Google Slides files designed to help students elaborate in their writing by recognizing and using different “building blocks” within each genre of writing. While this could be a whole-class tool, it also works for intervention, providing scaffolding for kids who have difficulty remembering all the elements of a writing piece and using them effectively. Students can drag and drop different elements of a writing piece into the slide and type in their own cont

Peace Places go by a lot of names – Calm Corner – but all mean that they are a safe, quiet place in the classroom for our students to get away. Our kids have a lot going on both inside and outside of school, and it’s all but impossible to learn when you’re not emotionally ready. A Peace Place allows students to take the time they need, build their mindfulness skills, and come back to learn when they’re ready to learn. This product has some easy tools and tips for setting up a Peace Place in your

Looking to keep kids accountable for their reading - but in an engaging, real-life way instead of reading logs turning the joy of reading into a chore? Using Goodreads with your students can give students a social media outlet to share their reading and their love of books, and this set of materials makes it easy to do! Goodreads allows your students to: • Review books (responding to their reading) • Recommend books to each other • Comment on each others’ reviews • Find new books to read bas

Trying to make your accountable talk work fit very different learners? Just don't have enough space on your walls and charts for all the prompts and reminders good conversation might need? Getting overwhelmed? These bookmarks break discussion skills into four big categories: - Depth - Respect (both in speaking and in listening) - Balance among speakers - Getting quieter students to find an entry point. They provide tips, prompts, and reminders for kids to work towards their own personal goals

Calculation? That's the easy stuff. Metacognition is the hard part. Getting students to take a step back and think about their own thought process is both so challenging and so important. It's the first step to growing their agency as mathematicians - and beginning to make plans and goals about how to get stronger. This is a set of thought prompts that students can use to reflect about their math process, both in conversation with a group or partner or in their math notebooks in writing. These

Prompts to push your students' thinking about reading - so they always have them with their books. These are originally to be used with TCRWP's Interpreting Characters unit of study, but they can be used with any reading (especially but not only narrative reading). They can be helpful both for writing or "jotting" about reading or for having conversations with their book clubs or partners. There's space for students to add their own starters, too!