Type B Teaching

Have you ever struggled to teach your students how to "show not tell" when writing narratives? If so, this is the unit for you. In this comprehensive unit, students go over the reasons why we should "show not tell", why indirect characterization is so important when writing, and how to use creative language when writing by writing paragraphs about a panoramic scene and by writing paragraphs using sensory details, and color palettes featuring interesting and creative paint names to describe a ch

A short presentation on the comparisons of the 1st and 2nd Great Awakenings. It can be used for interactive notebooks (as this was) and converted into fill-in-the-blank notes or as a handout. The product is editable, so you can change notes as you see fit.

Here is a list of vocabulary terms for Early European Explorers. This includes the page to make vocabulary flaps in the notebook. This also includes the vocabulary terms. I usually have my students do this as way to preface the unit. On the left page they draw an illustrated dictionary for me, which is just the word and hand drawn and colored picture to correspond with it. The kids really like it and it also reinforces the term/word and can provide an excellent study guide for later assessments.