Daily Archives: April 14, 2015


Earth Day Science from Sandra’s Savvy Teaching tips

So this week we will be using my latest product.  I have just finished a Science / ELA unit on WATER.  I am currently finishing up one on SOIL, and hope to have the one on AIR done by next week.  These are units that I have been using for years and I am just pretty’ing them up for TPT.  I included some levelled readers and some levelled reading passages too.  There are writing activities and also some Science experiments.  There are lots of visual aids like word wall cards and photo cards.

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 if you want to check out your own copy.Here’s a preview of what’s included.


Comment Bank

Comment Bank

With report cards right around corner and an increasing demand for specific student comments, make your life easier with this Comment Bank.

 

The Comment Bank has been constructed to save the Language Arts teacher time when offering constructive and helpful comments on students’ evaluation. 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.
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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.

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.