Daily Archives: March 13, 2019


We teach So Hard…Episode 30 Standardized Testing and Your Sanity

It’s getting to be that time of year. Test prep… test prep… TEST PREP! You know what we’re talking about, don’t you? The testing manual says it should take an hour to complete the test, and it takes three hours. Nothing says, “I need a drink” like testing days. In this episode, we bitch and moan, share tips and tricks, and we laugh and cry a little, too. Listen to this instead of chewing your nails down to the quick!

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Comment Bank

Product Description

Do you run out of meaningful criticism for your students’ high school papers and work? 

I created this comment bank because I had the same problem. After a little while, you don’t know what to write on a student’s test. 

The Comment Bank has been constructed to save the Language Arts teacher time when offering constructive and helpful comments on students’ evaluations. Marking papers in any Language Arts class is always a lengthy process. Increasingly, teachers are being asked to write more detailed comments to highlight students’ strengths and weaknesses, and sometimes we run out of ideas. Being the vigilant teachers we are, and wanting to help our students achieve their potential is and will always be one of our priorities. To this end, when marking students’ papers, writing down everything we want to say to them about their papers would be a very lengthy process. I have decided to share my personal comment bank with you.

The bank comments on the following areas: 

-Structure
-Communication
-The next step
-Mechanics
-Style
-Persuasion
-Analysis

The package contains 7 pages of comments, which are divided by levels of accomplishment A, B, C and D. (levels 100 to 50)

Included in this package are over 120 comments for students. You can get inspiration from these pages to handwrite your comments, or you can do what I do and copy/paste your comments into a word document, print, and staple the comment to the students’ evaluations. This is a real time saver. Parents, students, and school administration LOVE this method of feedback. And, this way, it takes much less time to be much more efficient. I hope you enjoy it!

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Poetry Unit for Senior Students (NO PREP)
Poetry Unit for Intermediate Students
Poetry Unit: The Art of Interpretation
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It’s teaching made easy!

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “The Easter Egg Square”

by Learn for the Long Haul

Kindergarten – 3rd Grade

The Easter Egg Square by Charles Akins is a heart-warming and beautifully illustrated text with a powerful message of hope. It is about a very special little egg named Kubely who longs to be chosen to be an Easter egg for the King’s Easter celebrations.

If you are looking for a fun Easter story with cartoon illustrations that will inspire your little artists, this book is perfect for you! The Easter Egg Square is readily available as an e-book.

Includes:

* Descriptions of four of the elements of design
* Questions and activities for each element of design
* Activities and questions inspired by the text
* Higher-order thinking questions 

Artist reflections make a great accompaniment to any art display. These free Owl Artist Statement templates will do the trick!

Learn for the Long Haul

More time-saving resources by Learn for the Long Haul:

Addition and Subtraction Task Cards

Multiplication Mastery

Music of Dolphins

Quick Reading Assessment

Art Activities based on The Easter Egg Square by Charles Akins by Learn for the Long Haul is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.


https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Easter-Egg-Square-1185374

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