Monthly Archives: October 2021


FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “FREE SMART Board Templates”

by Downeast Teach
Kindergarten – 6th Grade

FREE SMARTBoard Template Sampler!

This set of 5 lined, and 5 matching unlined templates will add a little pizzazz to your SMARTBoard files! Simply open one of these templates in Smart Notebook, and you are ready to add your content. The lined templates are perfect for writing a morning message using the pen tool. They can also be used for spelling, handwriting, word work, mini-lesson anchor charts, or shared writing on the SMART Board. The unlined templates are great if you want to type in your own content, or for other times you don’t want lines, such as when students are solving story problems.

Morning Message is a wonderful opportunity to build community and practice skills. These templates will increase student engagement because they are colorful and fun! Check out my Blog Post About How I Use Morning Message

**Hint**If you add each page to the “My Content” section of the gallery, you can pull one out anytime you have Smart Notebook open, and have a cute and colorful page to write on! You can also then clone the page if you want a multi-page file with the same themed background.

Check out my other sets of SMARTBoard templates.
SMARTBoard Morning Message Template Bundle

SMARTBoard Morning Message Templates Set 1

SMARTBoard Morning Message Templates Set 2

SMARTBoard Morning Message Templates Set 3

SMARTBoard Morning Message Templates Set 4

SMARTBoard Morning Message Templates Set 5

SMARTBoard Holiday Templates

**This is a SMARTBoard file. You must have Smart Notebook or compatible software to use this file.

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Thanks!
Cathy McGaffin, aka Downeast Teach

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Free Inference Cheat Sheet

Description

Do your students insert examples and quotes into their texts without properly analyzing them? Without proper analysis, an essay can sound like a long, drawn-out list written in complete sentences. We teach students to infer and to analyze, but they sometimes forget to incorporate this into their texts and essays.

I have created an “Inference Cheat Sheet” with key inferencing words and phrases to remind students that after inserting a piece of evidence, they need to explain its relevance.

Included are:

❒ Two different styles of the at-a-glance “Cheat Sheet.”

❒ An inference poster (8.5×11) – as seen on the cover.

❒ Two different styles of letters for an inference bulletin board.

❒ A copy of ALL the phrases used on the Cheat Sheet to create a bulletin board in class.

I hope that this resource will be helpful to students in your classes.

You may also be interested in the following products:

Analyze This!

English Grammar Cheat Sheet

Essay Writing Flip Book

Parts of Speech Grammar Circles

Poster: Developing Themes in Literature

Teaching the Essay Package

It’s teaching made easy!

Total Pages
24 pages
Answer Key
N/A
Teaching Duration
N/A


FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “Horn of Plenty Shape Writing Thanksgiving”

by Margo Gentile
2nd – 5th Grade

Don’t you love those word-themed shapes? Here’s a way you can have your students make one without having to try a capricious app.

There are 2 versions of the cornucopia in this product.

The first is for younger children. Have the students write what they are thankful for within the blank spaces of the cornucopia. They may also color the picture.

The second cornucopia is more suitable for older children or those that are pretty adept at printing. The cornucopia on this page is outlined in very light gray. Have students use these as writing lines to record what they are thankful for. The final result will be a word-picture.

Hope you enjoy this freebie. Happy Thanksgiving!

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ELA Literature Study Unit – Use with ANY Work of Literature

Description

ELA Literature Study Unit – Use with ANY Work of Literature

This bundle has everything needed to teach any work of literature, to start literature circles, or as an alternative to independent book reports. It also teaches literacy skills which are essential for students to add meaning to content.

Now comes with a fill in the blank PDF for students who prefer using the computer

There are 24 pages in the unit guide that include:

❒ Anticipation guide

❒ Prediction chart

❒ Plot Chart

❒ Plot chart (graphic organizer)

❒ List of character traits and a STEAL chart for characterization

❒ Characterization graphic organizer

❒ STEAL characterization graphic organizer

❒ Character traits graphic organizer

❒ Conflict activity

❒ Personal word wall

❒ Important passages (quotes) activity sheet

❒ Questions for Comprehension (generic- before, during, and after reading)

❒ Event map

❒ Chapter summary pages

❒ Making inferences activity sheet

❒ Activity on author’s purpose

❒ Themes and how to develop them

❒ How to develop themes in paragraph form (using PEEL)

❒ Paragraph graphic organizer (using PEEL)

❒ How to answer a test question in paragraph form (using PEEL)

Included are 2 evaluations with rubrics:

1) Writing a journal as one of the characters in the story (focus on characterization)

2) Writing a newspaper article on an event from the story (focus on plot and cause and event)

Characterization poster for the classroom is also included in two different formats (legal size paper required).


You may also be interested in the following products:

Creative Writing Bundle

Inference Cheat Sheet

Poetry Lesson: Analyzing Poetry

Poster: Developing Themes in Literature

Opinion Letter with the Novel Holes

Opinion Piece Bundle

It’s teaching made easy!

Total Pages
31 pages
Answer Key
Included with rubric
Teaching Duration
N/A


FREE SCIENCE LESSON – “Australian Indigenous story “Budburra’s Garden” – food, health and nutrition”

by Ripper Reading Resources
1st – 3rd Grade

What’s terrific about this picture book is that it introduces children to different nutritious foods (fruit and vegetables) according to their colours. It is also terrific to use as a mentor text to reinforce learning about adjectives.

“Budburra’s Garden” is written and illustrated by the children of Cherbourg in Queensland, Australia. You can find out more about this picture book, including how to purchase it here: http://www.budburrabooks.com.au/budburras-garden.html

It introduces students to traditional fruits and vegetables, but also traditional Australian Indigenous foods. The picture book includes information about the bush tucker found in “Budburra’s Garden” at the back of the book and recipes to “Colour Yourself Healthy”. I really think this is a powerful picture book with the potential to be used on many levels.

All resources are for personal/ single classroom use only and are not to be distributed further. Multiple licenses are available at a discounted price. No sharing of this resource is permitted through email, photocopying, internet groups/blogs, offline groups, school district or regional websites/servers, discussion lists, school websites/servers, or personal websites.

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The Elevator Short Story Mini-Unit

Description

“The Elevator” Short Story Mini-Unit is a one-stop-shop for teaching the short story. Other than photocopies, all of the work has been done for you.

This mini-unit is suitable for grades 7 through 10 and includes:

❒a copy of the short story

❒questions for comprehension

❒a plot chart organizer

❒activity to help students discover the author’s purpose for writing

❒an instructional sheet on how to develop themes (with a practical example)

❒an instructional sheet on how to develop a theme in paragraph form

❒a graphic organizer to help students organize their paragraphs

❒an example of a completed graphic organizer to plan the paragraph

❒an example of a paragraph for “The Elevator.”

❒a comprehensive answer key for all handouts

❒a three-day lesson plan to accompany the story

You may also be interested in the following products:

ELA Literature Study Unit

Charles by Shirley Jackson

Rain, Rain, Go away Short Story

Seventh Grade Short Story

Short Story Bundle

It’s teaching made easy!

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


FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “Veterans Day Emergent Reader (Free)”

by Mrs VanMeter
Kindergarten – 1st Grade

This emergent reader text is a fun and informative way to help your emerging readers track print and learn about Veteran’s Day. Color words and sight words are used in this reader. All pages, images and text are black and white to save on ink. Page numbers are on each page.

Common Core correlation for kindergarten:
K.RF.3
K.RF.1
K.RF.4

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Hamlet Scene Summary Visual Notebook (Digital Resource)

Description

***NEW – The Hamlet Visual Notebook is now available in digital format on Google Slides for distance learning.

This resource has been created as a substitute for the traditional “questions and answers” method we are used to. As teachers, our goal is to make sure students understand the important elements from the play, but we also want to engage them in a “hands-on” fashion.

Studies demonstrate that Sketch noting and doodling help students retain information and understand concepts better than simply answering questions.

This resource allows students to complete notes during the reading process and use the images and heading provided to help them know what the focus should be on.

This is also an excellent study and review tool.

Included in this resource is:

❒a note taking page for every scene in the play

❒a note taking page for every soliloquy in the play

❒a comprehensive answer key for all scenes and soliloquies

You may also be interested in the following products:

Hamlet Bundle

Hamlet No Prep Unit

Much Ado About Nothing No Prep Unit

Romeo and Juliet No Prep Unit

Wuthering Heights Student Workbook

The Yellow Wallpaper No Prep Mini-Unit

It’s teaching made easy!

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


FREE MATH LESSON – “November Count, Color and Graph Freebie for Kindergarten”

by Gretchen Ebright
Pre-Kindergarten – Kindergarten

#thanksgiving, #november, #math, #graphing

Get your kiddos graphing with this fun November scene! Students take a look at the objects in the picture and then color in the bar graph accordingly.

This feebie page is a sneak peak at my November Math and Language Arts Packet!
CLICK HERE!
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November Write the Room – Kindergarten High Frequency Words
Thanksgiving Book Activity – Teaching Story Elements

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Free Thesis Writing Poster

Description

As any English teacher can tell you, the thesis statement is the most important part of the essay. It defines the arguments and orients the reader. Unfortunately, many students have difficulty with the thesis statement. This is why I have created the “7 Steps to Writing an Effective Thesis Statement” poster.

The poster is a step by step guide on how to write the thesis starting with selecting a topic the student understands and walks them through the process until the end.

I am making the poster available in different formats for the facility of use in the classroom:

❒ The first format measures 70 cm (27.6 inches) (easy printing) PDF

❒ The second format measure 97 cm (38.2) – information can be more easily read from further away (easy printing) PDF

❒ One smaller poster PDF

❒ An image format JPEG

You may also be interested in the following products:

Creative Writing Bundle

Essay Writing Flip Book

Free Thesis Writing Activity

Inference Cheat Sheet

Teaching the Essay Package

Thesis Writing Activity

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Total Pages
4 different formats of posters
Answer Key
N/A
Teaching Duration
N/A


FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “FREE Fine Motor Days of the Week Cut and Paste and Writing Activities”

by Mrs Ds Corner
Pre-Kindergarten – 3rd Grade

FREE Days of the Week Activity • Practice fine motor skills with your students each day, as they cut and paste, then trace and write how to spell the days of the week. It is an important skill for students to learn!

Print and go, no-prep activities are a great way to accommodate and modify curriculum for a variety of ability levels – and not just in a special needs classroom! Great for service provider sessions (Speech and OT), homeschool, outside therapies, or in a regular ed classroom setting.

What is included?

• Errorless Sentence case. days of the week matching (1 page for each day)

• Errorless UPPERCASE days of the week matching (1 page for each day)

• Matching with Sentence case. days of the week (1 page for each day)

• Matching with UPPERCASE days of the week matching (1 page for each day)

• Color, trace, box, write, and find practice (1 page for each day)

How do I use this?

Use these free sheets to supplement your already amazing calendar routine. Practice fine motor skills and hand-eye-coordination with the cut and paste activity. Practice different writing techniques and a seek-and-find activity too! So many ways to differentiate… all for FREE!

Need months of the year cut/paste fine motor practice too? Grab the FREE set on my blog here.

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• I make a laminated set of these sheets for each student, too. Using a dry erase marker or laminating the sheets and turning them into velcro-tasks help to spice up the activities when students need a change from the paper and pencil task.

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Spelling Flip Book

Description

The Spelling Flip Book is designed to help young learners become familiar with spelling rules and to incorporate them into their work.

Students can color and personalize their flip books to enhance the spelling learning experience.

I always like encouraging my students to use their flip books as reference sheets when they are working to promote good spelling habits. The goal is that eventually, by using the flipbook when working, the student will begin to remember common errors made in the past and correct them. I have had much success with this strategy in my classes.

I’ve also included a color copy and an answer key – a total of 18 pages.

You may also be interested in the following products:

English Grammar Cheat Sheet

Opinion Piece Bundle

Poster: Developing Themes in Literature

Sentences Grammar Circles For Easy & Effective Grammar

Superhero Themed Parts of Speech Posters

It’s teaching made easy!

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


FREE MATH LESSON – “Calendar Set – November – Turkeys FREE”

by Key to Kinders
Pre-Kindergarten – 6th Grade

104 Calendar pieces for your November pocket chart. Size of daily pieces are 2.5 x 3 inches and will fit standard Calendar pocket charts.

There are 2 sets of calendar pieces included to use in any pattern you’d like to create. On our daily Calendar page, my students draw the corresponding pictures along with the date. I give them brown and red crayons to use and by the end of the month, their calendar looks great!

I have also included medallions for holidays and special days. You can tape the medallion to the upper left or lower right corner of the calendar piece. When the month is done, store them with the other pieces so that next year you can change the dates when you re-use them.

Also, there are extra clipart pieces to make a master pattern for your students to follow.

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Sight Word Printables – Dolch Set 1

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Building Suspense in Creative Writing

Description

In creative writing, the only thing that will keep the reader engaged in your story until the last page is by building effective suspense. This resource includes a visual chart of the different types of suspense to include in writing and includes relevant examples and tips to achieve it.

In addition, also included in this resource are two suspense building activities and 4 pages of notes on how to effectively build suspense within any type of story.

Please see the preview for more details.

You may also be interested in the following products:

Creating Characters in Creative Writing

Creative Writing Activity

Creative Writing Bundle

Exploring the Elements of Fiction in Creative Writing

Introduction to Creative Writing

It’s teaching made easy!

Total Pages
6 pages
Answer Key
N/A
Teaching Duration
N/A


FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “NWF – Nonsense Word Fluency Scarecrow FREEBIE from Ms. Lendahand”

by Ms Lendahand of Lendahand’s Printables
Kindergarten – 2nd Grade

Assess Nonsense Words with a SCARECROW theme.

One school assessment and one homework assessment provided.

For more school and homework assessments along with parent letters see my monthly homework teacher packs:)

-NWF ASSESSMENTS

Enjoy!

Ms. Lendahand;)

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Charles by Shirley Jackson Short Story Mini-Unit

Description

This short story mini-unit features Shirley Jackson’s short story “Charles.” Appropriate for grades 7 to 10, the lessons focus on the development of theme and paragraphs.

Included in the mini-unit is:

❒ A copy of the short story

❒ A prediction chart

❒ An anticipation guide

❒ Activity sheet (select important passages in the text for later theme and paragraph support)

❒ Author’s purpose activity sheet

❒ How to develop a theme sheet with an example

❒ A graphic organizer to help students plan their paragraph

❒ An answer key for all activities

❒ 3-day lesson plan for easy planning

16 pages total

All the prep work has been done for you.

You may also be interested in the following products:

ELA Literature Study Unit

Opinion Letter with the Novel Holes

Rain, Rain, Go away Short Story

Seventh Grade Short Story

The Elevator Short Story

Short Story Bundle

It’s teaching made easy!

Total Pages
16 pages
Answer Key
Included
Teaching Duration
3 days


FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “Short Vowels Game Apple SPLAT Short A Edition”

by Joya Crawford
Kindergarten – 2nd Grade

Short Vowels: Short Vowels Game

Apple SPLAT is a fun game for students to practice short A words and rhyming. The game is played in partners and is similar to slap jack.

Inlcuded:

directions and CCSS covered

-at family words (3 letter words)

-ap family words (3 letter words)

-an family words (3 letter words)

-ag family words (3 letter words)

-mixed 4-5 letter short a words (includes blends)

Short Vowels | Vowels | Free | Games | Printables | Literacy Centers | Activities | Fall | Apples | Back to School

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Rubrics: Self Evaluation and teacher assessment rubrics

Description

Self-evaluation grids are a great way to guide students in their evaluations. Students will know exactly what is expected of them and will be made responsible for their own success. This package can also easily be changed to be used as peer evaluations.

Included within this document are over 20 different self-evaluation grids.

These self-evaluation grids are also very helpful to teachers:

Helps the teacher justify the final mark;

❒ Helps the teacher create meaningful evaluation grids;

❒ Helps to identify students’ weaknesses and strengths;

❒ Helps parents and students better understand the task required;

❒ Helps teachers create rubrics for the final evaluation.

This package was created in a Word document in order to be easily modified and changed according to the individual teacher’s needs.

This self-evaluation package contains self-evaluation grids for:

❒ Newspaper article

❒ Short story writing (intermediate and senior)

❒ Essay writing (various different types)

❒ Essay evaluation rubrics (for teacher –with and without sources)

❒ Independent study unit

❒ Research paper

❒ Skits

❒ Board game

❒ Group work

❒ Opinion piece

❒ Editorial

❒ Friendly letter

❒ Debate

❒ Movie review

❒ Journals

❒ Scrapbook

❒ Seminar

❒ Speech

❒ Riddle writing

You may also be interested in the following products:

Comment Bank

ELA Report Card Comments

Group Work Assessment Tool

Opinion Letter with the Novel Holes

Opinion Piece Bundle

Poster: Developing Themes in Literature

It’s teaching made easy!

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


FREE MATH LESSON – “Factoring GCF a=1 Task Cards (Digital/PDF)”

by Activities by Jill
8th – 10th Grade

This FREE download includes both a PDF and digital Google Slides version of this activity.

Links are included for both a student copy of the task cards and an answer key. You may combine them if you want to create a self-checking activity. I felt that Google Slides was more user friendly than Google Forms for this particular set of task cards.

Need to provide your students with engaging practice? Task cards are great for this whether they are used traditionally or digitally.

Ten task cards are included in this free resource. Students will factor out the greatest common factor, then finish by factoring the polynomial expression completely. All factoring will be done with the “a” value equal to 1.

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Sentences – Grammar Circles for easy and effective grammar

Description

Teach grammar in a creative and meaningful way. No more boring 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 the following products:

English Grammar Cheat Sheet

How to Write a Paragraph

Poster: Developing Themes in Literature

Spelling Flip Book

Superhero Themed Parts of Speech Posters

It’s teaching made easy!

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


FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “Digital Spelling and Word Work Activities”

by Sailing into Second
2nd – 4th Grade

These NO PREP spelling activities are the perfect way to practice ANY spelling words or ANY type of word work. Each activity is created to be used with any word list and would be great in an independent center. The coolest part is that they are all PAPERLESS and DIGITAL. Share with your class using Google Classroom™, Google Slides™ or via Microsoft OneDrive™. You can even use these with SeeSaw and PicCollage.

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Paragraph Writing Activity in conjunction with Frankenstein

Description

Paragraph Writing Activity in conjunction with Frankenstein

Very often, students have difficulty with the analysis process involved in literature. Where they not only have to analyse but now have to apply their newfound skills to a well-developed paragraph, some students become overwhelmed with the process.

This particular activity will focus on both the analysis and writing a paragraph using the PEEL method.

Paragraph writing and analysis are two essential components in essay writing. To facilitate this process, I have created a lesson where students can become more comfortable with the revision process by modelling the proper steps from beginning to end. The lesson includes a modelling of the writing process from understanding the topic to the final draft. See preview for details

This lesson can only be used after students have read chapter 19 from the novel Frankenstein.

5 pages total

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Total Pages
5 pages
Answer Key
N/A
Teaching Duration
N/A


FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “Characterization Webs for “The Pardoner’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer”

by Juggling ELA
9th – 12th Grade

There are 3 characterization webs for “The Pardoner’s Tale” from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer included in this product.

There are characterization webs for The Three Rioters and The Old Man.

I have also provided one blank graphic organizer so that you can give students the opportunity to use whatever character that they want.

These characterization webs can be used individually or in groups. 

You can have students do all of them or you can give different students or different groups graphic organizers for different characters. 

This activity can be done in class or at home for homework. 

This is a good way to review the characters before a test.

There is no answer key for this product because answers can vary.

If you have any questions feel free to ask.

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• Characterization Webs for “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer

• Characterization Webs for “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer

• Character Maps for The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

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Free Poetry Lesson: Analyzing Poetry (NO PREP)

Description

FREE LESSON – This mini-unit on Walt Whitman’s “I Heard the Learned Astronomer” and “A Noiseless, Patient Spider,” teaches students how to analyze poetry. Students must learn to observe, connect, make inferences, and draw conclusions on themes.

This mini-guide includes:

❒ a detailed lesson plan for the teacher

❒ poems for students

❒ answer key and poetry annotation

This mini-guide includes six pages. I hope you enjoy it.

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Total Pages
6 pages
Answer Key
Included
Teaching Duration
90 minutes


FREE MATH LESSON – “Equality vs. Congruence Notes for Interactive Notebooks FREE SAMPLE”

by Kacie Travis
7th – 10th Grade

Need quality Geometry notes for your interactive notebooks (INB) that don’t waste paper? These free notes teaching Equality vs. Congruence use all parts of the page and give guided notes, guided practice, and independent practice as you introduce your students to this fundamental skill. Students cut the guided notes section off for note-taking and then use the leftovers for guided practice, visual cues, and independent practice. No more wasting space on a page or scraps of paper!

This download includes a page of notes for interactive notebooks teaching the topic of equality vs. congruence and how to accurately use notations in geometry. It also includes an answer key!

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©Kacie Travis. All rights reserved. Purchase of this unit entitles the purchaser the right to reproduce the pages in limited quantities for classroom use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system or commercial purposes is strictly forbidden without written permission from the publisher. Kacie Travis, Kacie_travis@yahoo.com

Copying any part of this product and placing it on the Internet in any form (even a personal/classroom website) is strictly forbidden and is a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). These items can be picked up in a google search and then shared worldwide for free.

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Opinion Piece Bundle

Description

How to write an effective Opinion Piece Bundle includes:

❒ notes for students (What is an opinion piece? How do we write an opinion piece?…)

❒work process sheets to help students organize their ideas

❒ work process sheets to help students organize their ideastool for teaching)

❒ a student self-evaluation and teacher evaluation

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Total Pages
6 pages
Answer Key
N/A
Teaching Duration
N/A


FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “Parts of Speech Flipbook”

by Nicole Rios
1st – 2nd Grade

NOTE: This Parts of Speech Flipbook is now available in a full-sized, primary standard font, easier to assemble version, with tons of graphic organizer options for each part of speech (including nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, ADVERBS, and linking verbs). Parts of Speech Flip Book Full-Sized.

This flip book is a great way to introduce, or review, parts of speech with your students. This booklet reviews nouns, verbs, adjectives, and pronouns. There is an instructional cover-page, and write-in page, for each part of speech.

Enjoy, Nicole
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Free Exploring the Elements of Fiction in Creative Writing

Description

As an introduction to story writing and the creative writing process, these visual notes are a great way for students to understand what that process is and what it is not.

Note sheet includes the following topics:

❒ What makes a story good?

❒ What about the plot?

❒ Narrative unity

❒ Building suspense

❒ Includes practical examples as explanations

The resource also includes a chart to help students think about the important elements in their own stories.

Please see the preview for more details.

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Total Pages
2 pages
Answer Key
N/A
Teaching Duration
N/A


FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON – “Autumn Acorn Contractions”

by A Series of 3rd Grade Events
2nd – 3rd Grade

This fun fall activity can be used as a mini-lesson or a center activity. It is part of a larger unit called: Happy Fall Ya’ll Themed Unit which is also available at my TpT store.

What’s Included in This Freebie:
Acorn Contractions recording page, Answer Document, and 12 Acorn Contraction Cut-Outs
(4 pages).

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ELA Literature Study Unit – Use with ANY Work of Literature

Description

ELA Literature Study Unit – Use with ANY Work of Literature

This bundle has everything needed to teach any work of literature, to start literature circles, or as an alternative to independent book reports. It also teaches literacy skills which are essential for students to add meaning to content.

Now comes with a fill in the blank PDF for students who prefer using the computer

There are 24 pages in the unit guide that include:

❒ Anticipation guide

❒ Prediction chart

❒ Plot Chart

❒ Plot chart (graphic organizer)

❒ List of character traits and a STEAL chart for characterization

❒ Characterization graphic organizer

❒ STEAL characterization graphic organizer

❒ Character traits graphic organizer

❒ Conflict activity

❒ Personal word wall

❒ Important passages (quotes) activity sheet

❒ Questions for Comprehension (generic- before, during, and after reading)

❒ Event map

❒ Chapter summary pages

❒ Making inferences activity sheet

❒ Activity on author’s purpose

❒ Themes and how to develop them

❒ How to develop themes in paragraph form (using PEEL)

❒ Paragraph graphic organizer (using PEEL)

❒ How to answer a test question in paragraph form (using PEEL)

Included are 2 evaluations with rubrics:

1) Writing a journal as one of the characters in the story (focus on characterization)

2) Writing a newspaper article on an event from the story (focus on plot and cause and event)

Characterization poster for the classroom is also included in two different formats (legal size paper required).


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Total Pages
31 pages
Answer Key
Included with rubric
Teaching Duration
N/A