Leap year is just ’round the corner … how about focus on the number ’29’ all day long!
This a list of ’29’ things to do revolving around the number 29!
This Pack Includes: *29 Activities To Do Revolving Around the Number ‘29’ ~5 Math Related Ideas ~9 ELA Related Ideas ~1 Science Related Idea ~5 Getting Active Ideas ~4 Getting Crafty Ideas ~5 Miscellaneous/Fun Ideas
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.
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Total Pages
2 pages
Answer Key
N/A
Teaching Duration
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After researching and/or learning about Leap Year, students can use this graphic organizer and coordinating writing paper to express how they feel about February 29th happening only once every four years.
Please note that the informational text needed to write this opinion piece about Leap Year is not included in this FREE download.
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Read about the Angler Fish, the Clownfish, and the Mimic Octopus! This resource includes informational paragraphs and follow-up questions for vocabulary and sentence writing.
This 3 page sampler contains short factual paragraphs; quick reads… so kids can glean the main facts and key ideas about each animal.
I created these for some of my students who get too stressed when they see long passages. Having less complex text makes it easier for them to read and feel successful.
Use them for independent work, center work, or as a supplement to a unit study on the ocean or ocean animals. These are especially great for summer school or after school mini lessons.
ELA Common Core Standards are listed for second and third grade level expectations.
Consider the priced version if your students were successful with this sampler.
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.
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Total Pages
6 pages
Answer Key
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This FREE resource allows you to bring a little bit of Leap Day themed fun to your math classroom! Included are two different activities :
Activities included :
Leap Year Scatter Plot Activity – Students compare their leap length to their height by graphing class data and analyzing the correlations.
Leap Year Math Activity – Students analyze the relationship between leap years in a given date range. They also determine how many leap years occur in other ranges. On the second page, students are given the “rules” for determining whether or not a year is a leap year and are asked additional questions about specific years and date ranges.
By purchasing this product, you own a license for one teacher only for personal use in their own classroom. Licenses are non-transferable and therefore can not be passed from one teacher to another. If the teacher who purchased this license leaves the classroom or changes schools, the license and materials leave with that teacher. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire team, grade level, school or district without purchasing the correct number of licenses. If you are a coach, principal or district interested in transferable licenses that would accommodate yearly staff changes, please contact me for a transferable license quote at lindsayperro@gmail.com.
Analyze This! is a step-by-step guide to analyzing literature
I created this bundle to help my students understand analysis and how to apply their newfound skills to write an effective essay.
The bundle includes:
– A page with suggestions on how to use the bundle
– Two pages explaining the difference between analysis and literary analysis
– One page on how to create an effective outline (what content should be included)
– An exercise using the “Ant and the Grasshopper” fable to help students analyze elements of plot, characterization, symbolism, theme, and setting.
– An answer sheet with detailed information
– Instructions on how to use the above information to focus a topic and write a thesis statement
– An outline activity – students need to complete an outline using a given thesis statement
– An answer key (with a possible outline) to help student compare their outline with this one.
The bundle includes 13 pages and two to three days worth of lessons.
This is a practical and simple way to guide students through the analytical process.
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Save time and paper with this 165 slide PowerPoint and 25 .PDF reproducibles in a ZIP file, everything you need for a novel study of The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis is included {review questions, writing prompts (multiple prompts for each chapter to make choices and differentiating instruction easier), vocabulary work (including illustrated dictionary, parts of speech, affixes; roots and sorts), graphic organizers, projects, fact and opinion and more.}
Graphics help students visualize. Links to free online review games are included. The preview consists of materials for chapter 1. Answers for most of the .PDFs are contained in the Power Point.
Wuthering Heights Student Workbook contains everything a teacher needs to teach Bronte’s novel. Instead of the boring question and answer format, the Student Workbook prompts students’ ideas about characters, asks them to comment on significant quotes, and to notice some of the essential techniques used by the author such as symbolism, allusions, themes, etc. in each of the chapters. I have created this resource for my own classes, and students love the meaningful format. Instead of writing information about themes, symbolism, characterization, etc. on separate sheets apart from the chapter questions, everything is integrated in a simplified way.
In addition, a comprehensive answer key is also provided for the teacher. You now have all of the flexibility needed for your lesson plans with all of the work provided for you.
More specifically, the Student Workbook contains work on (42 activity pages):
· Important information from each chapter
· Setting description and symbolism
· Characterization (you can see the characters develop as the students’ read)
· Gothic elements
· Symbolism
· Themes
· Supernatural occurrences
· Significant quotes
· Narration
· Allusions
· Sociogram (to show characters’ relationships)
· Inferencing questions to further students’ understanding
· Family tree (to help students remember who is who)
· Conflicts
· Literary techniques used by the author
· Characterization chart
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This resource includes 84 pages in total. Please see the preview for further details.
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This bundled unit has been designed to make life easier for the Language Arts teacher. It contains a teacher guide with detailed lessons, a student guide with all of the notes required by students, an answer key for students’ work, and three evaluations (answer keys and evaluation rubrics included). All you need to do is print and begin teaching.
This purchase includes:
•A comprehensive Teacher guide with 15 detailed lessons (7 pages)
•A student guide with guiding questions and activities (focus on characterization, themes, figurative language, irony, etc…) -10 pages
•A Scavenger Hunt activity to introduce students to Shakespeare and his times (includes eight colorful cards and a PowerPoint with answers.)
•A detailed answer key for students’ work (10 pages)
•A quiz on Acts 1 and 2 – answer key included
•Oral presentation on Irony – evaluation rubric included
•Culminating Activity – Students write a children’s story based on the themes in the play. Evaluation rubric as well as work process sheets included (7 pages)
There are a total of 51 pages included in this unit.
The unit will last between 17 to 20 periods. (3 – 4 week unit)
All that’s left is to teach. I hope you enjoy this unit.
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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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Encourage friendship and community in your classes while improving vocabulary at the same time—so much better than those common, perfunctory, pre-printed Valentines! The set includes a Matching Exercise (with KEY) for improving knowledge of adjectives that explore character traits. They are then used as prompts for the blank, individual Valentines that are included. Ideas to make this process easy for busy teachers are also included.
Appropriate for grades 7 to 9, students learn how to recognize and write a supported opinion using Louis Sachar’s novel “Holes.”
The bundle includes:
-An activity sheet on “What is a Supported Opinion?” (with answer key)
-Instructions on how to write an effective opinion letter
-The evaluation which contains the instruction sheet and list of topics (that were selected for students of different needs. Students who are high achieving might select one of the more complex topics, while a student who struggles can choose a more obvious one.)
-An evaluation grid is included along with evaluation expectations
-All writing process directions and sheets are included (Pre-Writing or Brainstorming sheet and a Paragraph Organizer)
-Also included is an example of the writing process from beginning to end to help students fully understand what the task entails. (Pre-Writing sheet, Paragraph Organizer and the final draft, which includes format expectations.)
It really is teaching made easy! Print it and go!
Ten pages in PDF format are included.
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Encourage acts of kindness with this Winter Kindness Freebie!! Students will set goals in throughout winter. Each time they achieve one of these goals, they will color a pair of mittens on their sheet and write about it in their Kindness Book. After all of their acts of kindness are completed, there is a writing activity included for students to write about what they have learned and how their acts made a difference!
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Our quizzes are brief, formative diagnostic tools designed to test mastery and identify misconceptions a student has around a single Common Core standard. Assess your students’ ability to recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person with this quiz.
This product includes:
• 4 multiple choice questions
• An accompanying answer guide with correct answers, answer choice rationales, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels
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The Rain Rain Go Away Mini Unit includes all materials to teach this short story. Students also get the opportunity to be creative and collaborate with others in the creative process. This unit is always a hit in my class.
The resource includes:
-An anticipation guide
-A copy of the short story
-Questions for comprehension
-Plot graph activity
-Information sheet on characterization and an accompanying activity
-A personal word wall to improve students’ vocabulary and understanding
-A comprehensive answer key for all activities
Also included are two evaluations with evaluation grids:
-An individual evaluation where the student must write an alternate ending to the story
-A group evaluation where students must work collaboratively to produce an alternate ending
24 pages total
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This is a sample of a year long common-core aligned interactive notebook writing program that improves student writing through sentence imitation (generative grammar). Each day, the teacher guides students through a scaffolded imitation of a sentence.
At the end of the week, students will use the sentence patterns they’ve experimented with to construct a paragraph. At the end of the six weeks, students will construct an essay using a variety of sentence patterns that they’ve experimented with.
Each of the six week sections deals with a different type of writing: Narrative 1 (Descriptive), Narrative 2 (Plot and Dialogue), Explanatory 1 (Develop Facts and Details), Explanatory 2 (Explain With Quotes and Graphics), Argumentative 1 (Point and Counter Point), and Argumentative 2 (Making Your Point With Reason and Evidence).
I have a year long common core aligned set of this writing program coming out for grades 11 &12, and 6, 7, & 8.
Five guided sentence maps with foldable shapes to go on top A paragraph planning map with foldable shapes A descriptive narrative paragraph foldable graphic organizer Sample answers for each map, as well as the paragraph
This sample is a part of the Writing Blocks Program 1st 6 Weeks Common Core Aligned for 9th and 10th Grade. Get it HERE
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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 student 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.
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Kids will have a fun and engaging time learning about Abraham Lincoln with this interactive Smartboard.
Use as an introduction, unit review or for independent practice with your students.
Simply drag and drop the correct answer into the box. Picture cues and differences in answer box sizes will help younger learners. This can also be a great opportunity to use the Smartboard markers to locate sight words within sentences, find and mark punctuation and capitalization.
If you are interested in more engaging Smartboard activities with colorful graphics, please check out my other items, in particular:
“We the People – President’s Day Smartboard” on my TpT page
which contains 23 slides for President’s Day activities (graphic organizers, background information on Lincoln and Washington, Glow in the Dark mystery pages, Fill in the Blank activities, math and language activities.
Seventh Grade Short Story Mini-Unit is a great way to start any literature unit. Suitable from grade seven to ten, this unit reviews literary elements and allows students to practice identifying all important elements.
The unit includes:
-A copy of the short story
-An anticipation reading guide
-a two-page literary element cheat sheet
-plot graph
-word wall
-Character trait explanation sheet
-Characterization activity
-Writing evaluation (or activity) with an evaluation sheet
-A comprehensive answer key for all activities.
18 pages total
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This is a free sample of our Math Art worksheets. This download includes one worksheet requiring the pupils to evaluate expressions using algebraic substitution. Once pupils have completed the questions they need to shade all the squares with that answer in the color stated. This results in a Valentine’s image. This download includes both the UK and US versions taking into account the spelling differences.
Our purchasable Math Art has at least two, usually three differentiated worksheets per topic.
Math Art combines the fun of coloring and the consolidation of mathematical skills. Ideal as a plenary activity to determine what learning has taken place, alternatively use to determine pupils prior knowledge to a topic and of course great for revision.
All our resources come complete with instructions, solutions where appropriate and ideas to stretch and support pupils. Check out www.numberloving.co.uk for more ideas and resources like this. We hope you enjoy using this resource with your students, we would love to hear how it went, please leave a review. Get in touch via the links below.
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Along with honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., this week is our union’s
one year “strikeversary”. What a perfect time to reflect and teach our
students to stand up for what is right.
“When it comes to adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers, many students have great difficulty. In reality, it is a very confusing and abstract idea; so, it is important to give the students a concrete visual to assist them in seeing the solution. Find out how I teach this concept to my remedial college math students in my newest blog post. “
This “Cheat Sheet” was designed to help students while writing in English. This at a glance 2 page sheet is colorful and has an easy to find layout to help students remember certain important things while they write.
I allow my students to use this in class when writing a test. This is not a grammar lesson, but it will remind students about the grammar they’ve learned in the past.
Some of the reminders included:
– parts of speech
– transitional words
– quotation marks (how and when to use them)
– basic sentence structure
– spelling tips (plurals of nouns and IE rule)
– puncutaion rules (apostrophe, colon, semicolon
The other side of the page has comma rules:
– with coordinate conjunctions
-with introductory elements
– with other elements (dates, parenthetical expression, nouns in a direct address)
– with adjectives
-with appositives
It also contains tips on things to avoid, such as writing a paragraph shorter than 4 sentences. And, it contains a list of things to do, such as make sure that your paragraphs contain at least 2 pieces of evidence.
Do you want happy children learning to solve word problems in a fun and effective way?
These math problems are designed to make students to act them.Through dramatizing they discover what to do. Both the actors and the spectators are very focused and motivated to solve them.
You can customize them by adding the name of your students.
In addition you can use the worksheets doing cooperative learning (by groups using different strategies), group work, work math centers , couples or individual.
¿Quiere niños contentos aprendiendo a resolver problemas de matemáticas de una manera divertida y eficaz?
Estos problemas están pensados para que los alumnos los dramaticen. Mediante el teatro escenifican el enunciado. Tanto los protagonistas como los espectadores están muy motivados y atentos para resolverlos.
Pueden personalizarlos añadiendo el nombre de sus alumnos.
Además, una vez escenificado, puede utilizar las fichas de trabajo mediante aprendizaje cooperativo (por grupos utilizando diferentes estrategias como el folio giratorio), trabajo grupal, centros de matemáticas, trabajo por parejas o individual.
Puedes encontrar más problemas dialogados en el siguiente enlace:
