Weekend Plans

The Starbooks Birthday Bulletin Board pkg offers multiple versions to best suit your classroom. You'll be able to select from four border colors, five Starbooks logos, and two styles of Birthday headings: Happy Starbooks Birthday or Frappe Birthday. Each month's drink image offers space to insert your students' names. This is a digital product that you will receive immediately after payment.

Students will be researching a U.S. National Park of their choice as part of creating a survival guide for backcountry camping. They will use a link to select their U.S National Park. Next they will complete a series of research, and writing activities that will help them complete their planning & project. I've broken the project into six days of activities that can be modified to meet your needs. A rubric is included for grading as well as links for day one's planning process.

This is a novel study that I used with an advanced first-grade class, as a reading resource specialist. It could be used with students reading Princess Pulverizer at another grade level. It provides teachers with chapter-by-chapter vocabulary and definitions, journal questions, and three skill-building activities including a printout board game, a kindness quest, and a princess seeking a helpful dragon activity that builds thinking and creative skills.

This is a complete list of challenging vocabulary words found by chapter in the Bookwanders novel. The words are listed by chapter and include definitions. This file is a pdf.

This novel study is for The Lost Fairy Tales, (Book 2 of the Anna James series The Book Wanderers. This novel study includes journal questions for each of the 31 chapters, vocabulary and definitions for each chapter. It also includes a final test of the novel. Also included are two journal activities. One is a travel planning activity for Paris. The second is a sketching/art-related activity.

These quick five minute debate questions are designed to get students engaged in discussions on topics including The Boston Tea Party, The Intolerable Acts, and The Stamp Act from the perspective of both the American Patriot and the British Loyalist.

This Google Slideshow provides your students with an understanding of what a Presidential Transition team does. It also explains the Presidential Transition Act of 1963, and why it is important. It provides basic biographical information on both Presidential-Elect candidates. Lastly it provides two different activities to use with your students. One is a group activity and one is an individual activity.

This rubric is geared toward short story/narrative writing. It's editable and offers four categories grammar and punctuation, creativity, language and style, and development of story arc. An area is also provided for teacher comments and scoring.

This rubric is geared toward narrative writing/short stories.

This is a podcast mapping plan to support students when creating a podcast. It provides note-taking spaces for students and links to videos and sound effects that are free for students to use.

This rubric provides a scoring area for grammar, creativity, language, and style as well as the development of narrative and story arc. It also provides teachers an area to add comments.

Ideas and Tips for creating a regular Book Talk chat. Book Chat provides students an opportunity to get excited about new books that their peers are reading.