Valerie's Core Classroom

This Google Slide presentation activity was made to practice identifying plot elements while incorporating creative writing opportunities. This source is great for remote teaching and can easily be edited or used as is for any text or story. Teachers can assign a text for students to work with or let students self-select a story. First, the students work on identifying plot elements of the story using strategies (see a list below). Then, students revise the climax and resolution to alter the end

This presentation was made to directly teach the elements of plot using Pear Deck to make the slides interactive. While teaching remotely, I've used this in lieu of a direct instruction lesson to review elements of plot with my students. In order for the presentation to work as designed, you must have a Pear Deck account and add the Add-On extension for Pear Deck in Google Slides. With Pear Deck, you can schedule a lesson and teach a live lesson to your students OR you can start a session and le

This editable Google Slides presentation was made to directly teach the elements of plot using Pear Deck to make the slides interactive. While teaching remotely, I've used this in lieu of a direct instruction lessons to review elements of plot with my students. In order for the presentation to work as designed, you must have a Pear Deck account and add the Add-On extension for Pear Deck in Google Slides. With Pear Deck, you can schedule a lesson and teach a live lesson to your students OR you ca

This presentation was made to directly teach and practice using strategies to identify the elements of plot. The presentation includes Pear Deck slides to make the lesson interactive and allow teachers a way to formatively assess student understanding. While teaching remotely, I've used this in lieu of an in-class lesson to practice strategies for finding plot elements with my students. In order for the presentation to work as designed, you must have a Pear Deck account and add the Add-On extens

This presentation asks students to choose a story from something they've read or watched to practice identifying plot elements. While teaching remotely, I've used this in lieu of a direct instruction lesson to review elements of plot with my students. Teachers can edit the slides to scaffold for students as needed. This is part of a distance learning unit on plot elements and utilizes the terms and strategies introduced in the unit. Check my store for the other products in this unit and/or the u

This Google Slide presentation was made to help students practice identifying plot elements while analyzing any text. This is an especially helpful tool for remote learning. This resource is interactive and EDITABLE allowing you to add or take-away to better suit your students' needs. This resource is part of a distance learning, digital unit on plot elements. Check my store for the other products in this unit and/or the unit bundle. Identifying Plot Elements Practice for Any Text includes dire

The opportunities to creatively incorporate error analysis into your classroom are endless! Use this resource as a printable activity or assign digitally through Google Classroom! This is an adapted version of My Favorite “No” (a warmup activity for math error analysis). Put simply, My Favorite "Almost" walk students through analyzing a prompt, identifying strategies to approach the prompt, and evaluating a sample response to the prompt. The response used is "almost" an example or proficiency,

Use this Star Wars themed handout to help students with the basics for formatting documents. I usually require my students format all assignments using APA and MLA basics (12 pt. font, Times or Arial, etc.) This handout includes screenshots that help students with alignment and indenting paragraphs using the TAB key. Check my blog for more on how this handout works in my classroom. http://valeriescoreclassrm.wixsite.com/coreclassroom

Reach out and connect with families before the school year begins! This template helps you make a beautiful, memorable, and positive first impression with your students and families. This template is editable in Google Slides, so you can customize the content to meet your needs. It includes: Space for personalization of each letter to a studentTemplate for message to parents/guardiansTemplate for message to studentsScratch off space (insert your picture) for students to scratch off and "meet' th