Daily Archives: November 14, 2018


We Teach So Hard…Episode 16…It’s a Teacher’s Thanksgiving

Mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberries and TURKEY! It’s a buffet of Thanksgiving topics for teachers! We’re laughing and crying our way through Thanksgiving cocktails, teaching ideas, sing-a-long songs, culturally responsive teaching, and more! You don’t want to miss this episode…we PERFORM a head banging rendition of our favorite Thanksgiving song! The words are included for you below! (To the tune of Frere Jacques)
Turkey dinner, turkey dinner,
gather round, gather round,
who will get the drumstick…
yummy, yummy yumstick?
All sit down, all sit down.
Cornbread muffins, chestnut stuffin’
pudding pie, one foot high.
All of us were thinner,
’til we came to dinner,
me oh, my…
me oh, my.
 

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Sentences – Grammar Circles for easy and effective grammar

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sentences-Grammar-Circles-for-easy-and-effective-grammar-2110090

 

Sentences – Grammar Circles for easy and effective grammar

 

Product Description

Teach grammar in a creative and meaningful way. No more boring grammar. grammar

Simplify your life and make grammar fun and effective.

One of the biggest challenges I had in my English classes was how to fit in grammar with everything else I had to teach. I would give students grammar pages, and then we would correct them together. It was tedious, and it took forever! What’s more is that students were not learning the way I wanted them to. They wouldn’t apply what they had learned from the grammar pages and activities.

I found a solution!

Grammar Circles. Grammar Circles are very similar to literature circles in the sense that students are teaching one another grammar. It is a fun and functional way to teach and learn grammar. Although this may be done individually, it can also be completed as a group where students, through a specific process outlined in the package, teach one another grammar. They also correct the work together, so the teacher has very little to do.

The package includes:

1) A Student Packet – which contains the Literature Circle directions, the notes, directions, and activities, and a “Mark Calculation” page to keep track of their marks. (16 pages)
Activities included focus on:
-the logistics of the sentence (the basic parts)
-the prepositional phrase
-the adjective phrase
-the adverb phrase
-the verbal phrase
-the appositive phrase
-the independent and subordinate clauses
-subjects and predicates
-fragments
-run-on sentences
-types of sentences

2) A teacher Guide with easy to follow instructions on how to organize the Grammar Circles.

3) The Answer Key – devised to allow students to correct their work and learn from one another.

For those who are from Ontario, Canada – this unit adheres to the Grade 9 English Curriculum (academic). The unit can be taught in any grade to about sentences.

(27 pages total for this unit)

You may also be interested in:
Parts of Speech Grammar Circles (Superhero Themed)

Super Hero Themed Parts of Speech Posters (FREE)

It’s teaching made easy!

Total Pages
27 pages
Answer Key
Included
Teaching Duration
N/A

FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “20 Journal Prompts on Task Cards (Free)”

by Juggling ELA

5th – 10th Grade

 

 

There are 20 journal prompts included here.. Each prompt is on it’s own task card.

Use them for:
✥ Bell Ringers (Do Now Activities)
✥ Students who complete their work early
✥ Extra Credit Writing Assignments
✥ Writing Centers

The task cards are aligned with the common core state standards for grades 5-10 and the standards are listed at the end of the product for your convenience. 

This file contains a PDF copy of my 20 Journal Prompts On Task Cards.

I would print them out on stock card paper (colored or white) and laminate them so you can use them year after year.

These free prompts are part of a more extensive set of prompts listed here:
200 Journal Prompts on Task Cards (Aligned with the CCSS)

Related Products
• 100 Journal Prompts on Task Cards (Aligned with the CCSS for grades 5-12)
• Over 250 Writing Prompts/Journal Topics on Task Cards (Aligned with the CCSS)
• Task Cards for Independent Reading: Fiction Set
• Task Cards for Independent Reading: Non-Fiction Set
• Task Cards for Independent Reading: Poetry Set

 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/20-Journal-Prompts-on-Task-Cards-Free-2896603

 

 

 

 

 

 

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