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Kindergarten critical thinking classroom community literature circles
Student Pairing Cards | Student Grouping Cards | Partner Match Up - Food Theme
Picking student partners and grouping students will never be easier with these pairing and grouping cards in a fun food theme! Students will love the mystery in not knowing who their partners is!***This set is included in my Student Pairing Cards Bundle at a big discount! Click here for the BUNDLE!***STUDENT PAIRINGThere are 15 pairs of food partners – makes a total of 30 cards. These come in color and black and white for you to print on colored stock paper if you prefer. It’s as easy as print,
Grades:
K - 6th
Also included in: Student Pairing Cards | Student Match Up , Student Partner Match BUNDLE
Jumbo Poster Size Graphic Organizer Collaboration and Group Discussion Mats
Need some help getting your group to record their discussions or stay on topic? More important, do you need a way to do that conveniently without a lot of effort? Yes, graphic organizers can be found anywhere. These poster size printouts save you the time of formatting and enlarging them for whole or small group use. As a teacher, my time is valuable, which is why I made these. These printable collaboration mats print across 6, 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper each. Once taped together, they make the p
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff, Not Grade Specific
Mistakes - A Growth Mindset lesson using Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg
This growth mindset lesson is all about making mistakes as a part of the learning process. This lesson requires you to buy or have the book "Beautiful Oops" by Barney Saltzberg. This is a wonderful little board book where an artist turns many common "mistakes" into fun little drawings.
This is a growth mindset lesson I use with my once weekly growth mindset classes from Kindergarten all the way through 5th grade. The students really love the pictures in this book and the message that mistakes a
Grades:
K - 4th
Science of Reading Centers | Heart Words | Center Rotation Slides
These slides include activities you'd find following the Science of Reading. Display these daily classroom slides to organize your guided reading center time! The center rotation slides give students clear class expectations and structure during small groups. There is also a slide to make your own custom activities! Simply edit the name of the activity or insert your own pictures. The reading centers can easily be projected on a Smartboard.The center rotation slides are easy to follow, save you
Grades:
K - 2nd
Depth and Complexity Primary Extension Literature Units BUNDLE (Gate)
Depth & Complexity Primary Literature Units (4 Included)4 Units Included: Details, Big Idea, Unanswered Questions and RulesEACH UNIT CONTAINS: 1 Week Long Unit - 5 LessonsThis weeklong unit was designed to introduce primary aged students to the one depth and complexity icon through mentor texts. It is great for whole group lessons, small group extensions, and independent practice.Each unit has:One full week of lesson plansActivities and extensionsSuggested mentor texts (fiction and non-ficti
Grades:
K - 5th
The Fabulous Friend Machine Book Study- Literacy & Online Safety Activities
The Fabulous Friend Machine English Language Arts Activities (ELA) and Digital Safety ActivitiesThis packet includes ready to go story companion activities for a variety of levels from Pre-K to early elementary so you can use one wonderful storybook across many classes! Use this book companion after reading the wonderful The Fabulous Friend Machine by Nick Bland. I am not affiliated with the author, and the book is not included. Not only will your students LOVE this thought-provoking story, the
Grades:
K - 3rd
CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES BUNDLE Literature Extensions Critical Thinking GATE
Story Sleuths I, II, and III Bundle delivers 3 products at 20% savings. You will receive 12 weeks of clues for the Story Sleuth challenge; an enrichment unit using Caldecott Award winning books to cultivate critical thinking. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is
Grades:
K - 4th
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Solve the mystery case files | Problem solving | Group activity for preschool
This Secret Spy Detective mystery case file game is a fun and educational game that challenges students' reasoning skills and builds teamwork. As they work as a team to solve the case, players will develop their critical thinking skills, understand logical reasoning, increase memory recall and improve their reading comprehension. Each of the cases comes with materials for 10 case files, making this ideal for an extended 2 week lesson. Solve a new case every day, or solve them all at once!⭐️This
Grades:
PreK - K
Our Class is a Family: Classroom Community Writing and Drawing Book Craft
Perfect book craft activity to accompany the School Time Back-to-School or End of the Year Classroom Community Read Aloud, "Our Class is a Family" by Shannon Olsen, Illustrated by Sandie Sonke~ a celebration of class community and all the special moments a class shares together. Great for Reading, Literacy, ELA Centers for all grade levels! Read aloud the story "Our Class is a Family" and then encourage students to create their own School Craft to reflect on and share about the important people
Grades:
K - 3rd
Philosophy Questions Kit Printable - 78 Question Cards with Discussion Guide
Philosophy Questions Printable Kit : Suitable for Kindergarten to Fifth Grade
These printable Philosophy Question Cards will provide teachers with ideas to facilitate whole class or small group philosophy discussion sessions.
The kit includes:
-A full list of the seventy-eight philosophical questions
-A poster titled ‘A Guide For Philosophical Discussion’
-Seventy Eight Philosophical Question Cards (Two large cards per Landscape Letter/A4 size page)
Philosophical inquiry offers students the o
Grades:
K - 5th
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Listening and Following Directions - Math
This product is filled with worksheets that promote building listening skills and following directions. These worksheets are for whole group, small group, or independent. Depending on the students level of independence, it can be for independent or teacher prompted instruction. These are great self-explanatory sheets that are good to leave for substitutes.
This is the MATH Edition.This product is also available as part of a discounted bundle in my store: Listening and Following Directions BUNDL
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Grades:
K - 12th
Also included in: Listening and Following Directions - BUNDLE
Black and White Classroom Decor | Daily Slides | Center Rotation Slides
This Black and White classroom decor bundle has products that fit any classroom theme (especially speckled black and white ones). This bundle will continue to grow / more products will be added to it later!!Included you'll find 3 products:1. Display these daily classroom slides to organize your center time! These Center Rotation Slides are a great visual so that your students know what they should be doing during reading small groups. This virtual schedule goes well with Black and White Classro
Grades:
K - 6th
When I Grow Up... (CLASS BOOK)
When I Grow Up... (CLASS BOOK)This class book will be a great addition to your classroom library and will go great with your Community Helpers Theme!Directions1. Print cover page2. Print (pg. 3) for each student and draw a picture of what they want to be when they grow up (optional: add a photo of each student)3.Laminate cover page 4.Bind pages together to make a class book
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Grades:
PreK - K
CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES Story Sleuths I Literature Extention Critical Thinking
STORY SLEUTHS I is a 4 week, critical thinking project based on Caldecott Award winning books. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which Caldecott Award winning book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is CCSS aligned. Students also enjoy great literature, learn about artistic media, and participate in col
Grades:
K - 4th
Reading Comprehension Cards Based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
Comp. Quest Cards 2 are based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. Cards are color coordinated based on various levels of thinking. They are a great tool for teachers, teacher assistants and parents to engage children during a read aloud, and reading groups. I have used these cards as a third grade teacher, a resource room teacher and as a reading specialist.⭐ These are based on more recent changes from Anderson & Krathwohl (2001).➀ Light red: Remembering➁ Light orange: Understanding➂ Light yellow:
Grades:
K - 5th, Staff
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Bundle
Blanks Questions and Book Companion - Who Sank the Boat
Practical resources for Speech and Language Therapy I love using books in therapy sessions with my clients and I’m sure you do too. Using books provides an endless array of content on which to build your therapy. Having a structure on which to build this therapy makes your life easier. That is why we have developed our Blanks Questions and Book Companion series. Marion Blank devised a four-level system of questioning for oral language development aimed at children in the early years. She acknow
Grades:
PreK - 3rd
Also included in: Blanks Questions and Book Companion BUNDLE 1
Fairness: Being a Fair Friend-Character Education
Help kids understand what Fairness and being a Fair Friend looks like.
Character Education in the classroom is becoming more and more important. This is a great introduction and/or reminder of what it takes to be fair and to be a good friend.
7 pages of activities including fairness rules and situations, draw or write activities, cut and paste activities, and writing I can statements. Also includes writing pages for assessment.
If you like these Fair Friend worksheets, check ou
Grades:
K - 2nd
Our Class is a Family + Our School is a Family Craft Bundle, Classroom Community
Perfect art/craft activities to accompany the Classroom and School Community children's book duo by Shannon Olsen and Sandie Sonke: "Our Class is a Family" and "Our School is a Family". These two books celebrate the people who make your classroom and school a fun, safe, and happy place to be!Great for Back to School, or End of the Year Reading Centers or all grade levels! Read aloud the stories, and then encourage students to create a craft to share about their own class and school families. *Ou
Grades:
K - 3rd
Magic Tree House #2 Knight at Dawn Text Dependent Comprehension Questions
Magic Tree House #2 Knight at Dawn Text Dependent Comprehension Questions
I created this packet of reading response comprehension questions to use with my “independent” readers who are ready to dig deeper into what they are reading. This Magic Tree House The Knight at Dawn is a 2.9 reading level.
Students will: write responses to text dependent questions about key details in the text, apply their knowledge to new situations, make inferences and draw conclusions, participate in collaborative co
Grades:
K - 3rd
Listening and Following Directions - BUNDLE
Listening and following directions activities: Grades K-6 Special Education / General Education. OVER 150 worksheets!!! Worksheets that promote building listening skills and following directions. These worksheets are for whole group, small group, or independent. Depending on the students level of independence, it can be for independent or teacher prompted instruction. These are great self-explanatory sheets that are good to leave for substitutes.This is the BUNDLE Edition. If you purchased any
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Accountable Talk Posters
Here are 9 different accountable talk posters to encourage rich partner discussions and reflections.
The prompts include:
"I agree with.... because...."
"I disagree with.... because...."
"I can conclude..."
"This makes me think about..."
"Now I am wondering..."
"I like what you said... I can add..."
"What do you think about..."
"I can connect this to..."
"The clues from the text tell me..."
All 9 include pictures that provide a visual clue to remind students of the prompts.
If you have
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
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CCSS:
Differentiated Reading-Level-Based Question Tasks
This 101 page document contains question tasks for reading levels A-Z (correlated with Fountas and Pinnell). The questions are adapted from Fountas & Pinnell (F&P) and aligned with the language and rigor of Teacher's College (TC). Question tasks can be used for guided reading, independent or peer reading, activities for when students finish reading, homework activities, for your teacher tool kit, for general reading responses, and so much more!All of the questions are differentiated, m
Grades:
K - 8th
The Name Jar: Back to School Craft - About Me Activity ELA Diverse Read Aloud
Perfect book craft activity to accompany this First Day of School, Back to School Read Aloud: The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi, a book about appreciating your culture and name, and about being the new kid at school.Great for Back to School, First Day of School Reading, Literacy, ELA Centers for all grade levels! Read aloud the story and then encourage students to create their own Name Jar to share about their name and what makes them unique. Product Includes (SEE PREVIEW )Coloring Sheets IncludedBl
Grades:
K - 3rd
I have, Who has CVC & CVCe Words | Circle Time Game | Morning Meeting Activity
Looking for a circle time game? Or fun morning meeting activity? Kindergarten and First Grade students will enjoy playing "I have, Who has" with CVC & CVCe words!This activity is great for morning meeting, guided reading, whole group reading, intervention group, or a time-filler at the end of the day!What's included? game cards with cvc/cvce words (color and black & white)in the color version, CVC words are purple & CVCe are pink2 cards per pageNO PICTURES, ONLY WORDSThank you f
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Grades:
K - 1st
Also included in: I have, Who has Literacy Bundle | Circle Time Game | Morning Meetings
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