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Digital This or That Reading Response Journal for Google Slides

By That Teaching Spark

Offer your students some choice in their Reading Response Questions! Turn reading comprehension into a game with these This or That Response Journal Slides for use in Google Slides!What's Included?PDF with Google Slides linkOver 50 premade color

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Balanced Literacy, Reading, Reading Strategies

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3^rd, 4^th

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Graphic Organizers, Google Apps, Independent Work Packet

$3.50

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Editable ELA Rotation Board

By That Teaching Spark

Do you do rotations for reading, writing, or word study? Included in this product you will find an ELA rotations bulletin board as well as an ELA Rotations Bunting Banner! Download the preview! There are FIVE rotation options with FIVE rotation

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English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy

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1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Bulletin Board Ideas

$3.00

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Getting Ready for Book Clubs Hints, Rubrics, Conference Forms and More

By That Teaching Spark

Are you doing book clubs in your grade 2-4 classroom? Well this is the perfect resource to get you started and get your kiddos having great conversations, not just sharing! What's included? Download the free preview for a few samples! Book Club

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Back to School

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

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Activities, Professional Documents, Rubrics

$4.50

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Comma Lesson Freebie

By That Teaching Spark

Instead of just teaching your students the rules about commas, have them research through the work of real authors and discover the rules themselves! Included in this freebie... Comma Hunt anchor chart Comma Rules to cut out and glue on anchor

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Grammar

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Activities, Printables

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Mystery Book Club Unit

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Turn your classroom into a Detective Agency and hire your young detectives to solve mysteries! Students LOVE reading Mystery Books! In this 5 week unit, students will be learning about elements of mysteries, how to make inference and predictions

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Halloween

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

$14.99

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Reading Workshop Resources and Rubrics

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Are you using Reading Workshop? Are your kiddos using Reading Response Logs? Are you taking Running Records and holding conferences? (make sure to download the FREE preview!) In this amazing file, you will find lots of different rubrics for

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English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Reading

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Assessment, Classroom Forms

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Making Connections Resources (Rubric - Poster - Bookmark- Assessments)

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Teach students to make meaningful connections using this resource pack of a rubric, poster, bookmark, and assessments. In my classroom I give one of the graphic organizers as a pretest during Reading Workshop. I then fill out the rubric. I place

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Balanced Literacy, Reading

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Assessment, Graphic Organizers

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I have been teaching since 2004 in 3rd grade and have been awarded Teacher of the Year. I have a Master's Degree in Curriculum and Instruction. I am Google Certified and have many digital resources I believe that movement in the classroom is extremely important. You can find many activities in my store that are engaging and require students to get up and move! I am trained in Singapore Math, Reader's and Writer's Workshop, Smartnotebook, Google, and Trauma.

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I was honored with Teacher of the Year.

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I attended Lindenwood University in St. Charles, MO for my undergrad. degree. I completed my Masters in Curriculum and Instruction in the University of Missouri-Columbia's Teaching Fellowship Program.

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Adult Education, Homeschool, Staff, Not Grade Specific

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English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Algebra, Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Fractions, Geometry, Graphing, Measurement, Science, Astronomy, Basic Principles, Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment, Other (Science), Social Studies, Government, Native Americans, U.S. History, ESL-EFL-ELL, Other (Specialty), ELA Test Prep, Math Test Prep, Geography, Life Skills, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Professional Development, School Counseling, Economics , Character Education, Word Problems, General Science, Writing, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Mental Math, Halloween, Winter, The New Year, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month, St. Patrick's Day, Spring, Place Value, Tools for Common Core, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, Test Preparation, End of Year, Classroom Community