Data Folders
Hi Friends! As teachers we have to collect lots of data on our students throughout the year. This data drives our instruction. I work...
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Hundreds of FREE short passages for students in grades 5-12, organized by theme. Each comes with questions for students and a guide for teachers. www.CommonLit.org
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Opinion Writing Unit
Teach kids how to write an opinion piece in a SIMPLE way that the kids understand! This Opinion Writing unit includes FRAMES, EXAMPLES, POSTERS, and PROMPTS. It is designed to TEACH students how to write an opinion piece STEP BY STEP. The young students need lots of examples and practice before th...
Interactive Notebooks - Yet Again
I am determined to get ALL of the pictures I took a few weeks ago of my language arts interactive notebook before the end of school! I hope to actually get it done faster than that. I have a few other things I want to blog about before the end of the school year. Seriously, this is the last set of pictures I have from a few weeks ago. Any new ones will be newer pictures taken recently. Here are some more pictures of various activities that we have included in our interactive notebooks so far…
I.C.E. — Introduce, Cite, Explain. An acronym for teaching your students how to properly incorporate citations into their writing.
Parts of Speech Posters - Distance Learning
Get 8 mini anchor charts to help teach your students about the 8 parts of speech. These mini anchor charts are a great addition to any student journal.
Teaching Literary Analysis
Guide students through the five steps of understanding and writing literary analysis: choosing and focusing a topic, gathering, presenting and analyzing textual evidence, and concluding.
English Worksheets
English Worksheets for use in the classroom and at home. These English Worksheets provide good English practice for all grade levels. Learn and review your English skills today.
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Social Sundays: The 1 Website I won't teach History Without
This is my favorite US history website for finding primary resources, ideas, and for students.
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I Can Common Core!
A few weeks ago I was looking for some help with Common Core standards and "unpacking" them for students. Our district has completed dropped...
New Reading Passages for 7th & 8th Grade
Improve your students’ reading comprehension with ReadWorks. Access thousands of high-quality, free K-12 articles, and create online assignments with them for your students.