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Specialty literature circles for Microsoft Word
Peer Feedback Glow and Grow Sentence Starters
Wanting to have more meaningful conversations regarding feedback between your students? I was used to hearing the same things from my students when they would offer peer feedback.
Use these sentence starters to help students give kind, specific, and helpful feedback in the classroom. A great tip is to laminate these (there are two to a page) and leave them on your students' desks or in a specific center of your room to encourage ongoing feedback!
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Not Grade Specific
Whole Body Listening Posters / Active Listening
Use these posters in your room to visually encourage listening skills. Available are a girl and boy poster. Visuals are made to be velcroed on and removable. Visuals include: hands are quiet, ears are listening, lips are closed, feet are quiet, eyes are looking. Perfect for helping prep level engage in the curriculum 'Let's Chat' unit "Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations (ACELY1646)."
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PreK - 2nd
Bible Study: The Book of Job: The Bible as Literature Unit Plan
This intensive study of the Book of Job (NIV version referenced) is taught in my AP English course as a study of literature. It raises a number of deep-thinking questions about God, Satan, and Man. The unit plan can be used for a parochial / Christian curriculum or an accelerated / honors level course that lends itself to Socratic Seminars and Literary Circles and open discussion. I also have used the unit as a study for Adult Sunday School. The plan includes: (1) Discussion for Job 1-14, (2) Di
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Front Desk Comprehension & Test Prep: ALL CHAPTERS
This product include six sets of comprehension assessment and writing prompts. The book is divided into six sections (each with 10-12 chapters). Each of the six chunks includes 10 text-based multiple choice questions and one culturally responsive short response. Tips for the writing prompt and an answer key are also included.THIS SET INCLUDES A TOTAL OF 60 HIGH QUALITY MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS AND 6 SHORT RESPONSE QUESTIONS COVERING ALL CHAPTERS IN THE TEXT.The questions cover the CCLS Stand
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4th - 7th
Elementary Philosophy: Discussing Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
What does it mean to live a good life? What is happiness? What does it mean to truly be wise? These three concise and well-researched stories regarding Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle will act as catalysts for lively discussions that promote critical thinking, careful reading, and reflection on some of the most important questions imaginable. Each can stand alone, or the three can be strung together to form a small unit on ancient Greek philosophy.Appropriate for 4th, 5th, 6th grade and up. Inclu
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4th - 10th
Also included in: Elementary Philosophy Bundle: Diverse Reading and Discussion Activities
Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express READING + STEM Elementary GATE
If you’ve come to know my units, you’ll find the same sort of critical thinking and hands-on exploration and creativity here . . .
Come all the way across the curriculum from READING to STEM activities in this hands-on unit. My advanced group 2nd graders loved this! I would use this for advanced 1st graders in their second semester or 3rd grade as well. I don’t think it would be a stretch to say 4th graders would enjoy it as well.
“Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express” is a Reading Rainbow
Grades:
1st - 4th
The Wizard of Oz and the Perseverance Road - Whole Group Reader's Theater
This is a Reader's Theater for the entire class. It was designed to be read or used as a play - depending on the time you have. There are 18 speaking parts but opportunities to double up or expand them allow you to fit it to your class/group. It is based on the Wizard of Oz. In the script, Dorothy is the type of girl who always gives up when things get tough until a tornado comes and whisks her away to the Land of Oz She’s ready to give up there until the munchkins volunteer to take her to see t
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
This is a visual quiz I developed for my Life Skills students about "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day." Students have to make a judgment about Alexander and to answer basic comprehension questions. Next, students are asked to reflect and think about a bad day they have had. Students are directed to make visual representations about details of their bad day.
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Not Grade Specific
100 Questions from The Candymakers by Wendy Mass
Save yourself some time! 100 questions to use for battle practice, games, tests or other activities. Written in Battle of the Books format. Page citations included.
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3rd - 5th
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Speaking and Listening Rubric
This rubric is great for all classrooms that value student speaking/listening. I introduce this when we first begin collaborative discourse. We refer to it when using turn/talk, Socratic Seminars, Collaborative Discussions, and Active Listening.
This sets high expectations for student participation, meaningful classroom contributions, and active listening skills.
It is student friendly and basic enough for them to memorize their expectations and the skills they need for successful speaking a
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Not Grade Specific
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Group Discussion & Analysis Questions for Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner
This is a set of questions for each chapter in Khaled Hosseini's Kite Runner.
My goal was to create a set of questions for use in group discussion - specifically, I wanted them to be challenging - as in requiring textual specificity, for the most part - but also I wanted them to be open-ended in nature, ultimately facilitating deeper discussion.
Many of these questions could also be used as essay prompts, or short answer questions on tests and quizzes.
Grades:
10th - 12th
UDL lesson plan: THE MAGIC FISH
The story for this lesson came from a Scholastic Publishing resource book, which featured a Brothers Grimm tale. The comedy helps tell a social/moral lesson which can be appreciated by a diversity of students. Whether learning disabled, an English Language Learner or a grade level student, the situation and illustrations spell out a clear message of over indulgence. The repetitive song helps bring the story to a fun sing-along meets slap stick comedy experience. Feel free to start singing the so
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Bound for Oregon Unit Test
Here is an editable unit test for the conclusion of your Bound for Oregon literature study.
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Clothes study "Question of the Day" Creative Curriculum
Posters for every Question of the day for Clothes study to print , cut out and assemble on poster board.
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PreK - K
New Year Traditions around the World Quizzes
New Years Traditions Around the World by Ann Malaspina is a short book that explores different New Year customs, celebrations, etc. You can purchase this book on Amazon but it is available with a free account on www.getepic.com There is a separate chapter 1 quiz and a separate chapter 2 quiz; the rest of the quizzes each cover two chapters each. Each quiz is 3-4 questions and they all consist of multiple choice or fill in the blank questions. The quizzes serve as a good comprehension check after
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Not Grade Specific
How To Steal a Dog Literature Circle Guide
If you do literature circles or book studies with your students, then you'll be interested in this lit guide I created for the book How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor! This is a fantastic book about a young girl who experiences hardships, moral dilemma and friendships. For each chapter of the book, I created critical thinking questions for your students to answer along with some vocabulary words to reflect on as you go. The book's levels are: 4.4 Grade level, 700 Lexile, and 40 DRA. Enjoy!
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Death By Scrabble Close Reading Activities
Looking for an interesting short story?
Need a unit of activities to compliment a short story?
These activities require no prep! Just download the story and print the activities!
Charlie Fish's "Death By Scrabble" will have your students in deep discussions. The story lends itself to teaching many literary elements.
You will find yourself going in many directions with the text!
This unit of activities is enjoyable and promotes critical and creative thinking.
Grades:
4th - 12th
Menu of Independent Reading Projects FREE Enrichment and GATE
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3rd - 10th
The Napping House Extension Activity; retelling booklet
I LOVE the book "The Napping House" by Audrey Wood!!! I read it with our preschoolers, act it out using props (a cot, blue scarf/bonnet for a student to be the grandmother, a baby doll for the child and stuffed animals~ the kids love it!!!) then we do a book retelling extension activity in small groups to send home!I've put the retelling booklet on-line for you to use. It is editable and includes a parent handout which highlights key language concepts... just insert your name and position. Pup
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PreK - 1st
Helping Hands Template - Classroom Jobs
Hi Fellow Teachers :)This is a free editable Microsoft Word doc. of my "Helping Hands" template. I designed and created this template to be used in my classroom as a resource/tool for job allocations on a daily basis. The Helping Hands will be placed onto ring hooks so they can be flipped over daily. Essentially, instead of having a number of different students for a number of different jobs I will have two different students each day who will be responsible for any jobs/duties for that day. Th
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PreK - 6th
Good Manners Mini Book
A mini book on having good manners
Students can color the picture on each page.
Grades:
K - 3rd
Depth and Complexity: The Invisible Boy
This literature response task utilises Kaplan's icons, featuring questions corresponding to each icon. Additionally, it includes a Depth and Complexity grid, allowing you to easily insert and arrange questions and icons according to your lesson goals. Included in this pack:- Depth and Complexity questions for each icon related to the book- Depth and Complexity mat with sample questions, ready to use- Blank Depth and Complexity mat- Blank Venn Diagram to compare and contrast elements from the b
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Guided Reading Questions Angel Child, Dragon Child (cc aligned)
There are 13 vocab words the teacher can define with students. There are also 13 questions and one essay that will require students to go back to the text for evidence.
Grades:
2nd - 4th
A Night Divided Enrichment - Brief History of the Berlin Wall Digital/Print
Students who read the novel A Night Divided by Jennifer Nielsen often do not understand the richness of the book because they have no background on the Berlin Wall and have no idea what it is or why it was there. This three-page enrichment resource is called "Stranger than Fiction: A Brief History of the Berlin Wall." Getting straight to the point, it explains that it is all about what happened after World War II. Basically, the four victorious Allies (USA, Britain, France, the Soviet Unio
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: A Night Divided Novel Bundle - Test, Mid-point Quiz, Puzzle, Enrichment
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