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Common Core Writing Rubrics FREE for Grades 1-4
By request, I have created Common Core Writing Rubrics based specifically on the language used in the Common Core Standards to assess the students in their writing. I have included a rubric for each grade level (Grades 1-4) in each of the 3 types of Common Core Writing: Opinion, Informative/Explanatory, and Narrative Writing. You can use this as a self-assessment for the students or as a teacher assessment guide. This is the perfect companion to my Common Core Writing Bundles #1 and #2. They
Grades:
1st - 4th
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100+ Questions to Build Relationships - Free SEL Activity
Use this free list of over 100 questions to help build relationships, integrate social emotional learning, and develop a positive class climate with your students! Strong, positive, and genuine relationships are a foundational element for success for all learners. This includes relationships between students as well as relationships between students and adults. Spend some extra time discussing positive qualities, friends, hopes for the future, and more with these questions. Getting to know your
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Not Grade Specific
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Social Emotional Learning: Self Control Lesson and Printables
Are you curious about my Character Education curriculum, but want to try a sample out first? Do your students need a refresher on using self-control to handle big emotions? I created this pack for you!
This is the first lesson from my Self-Control, and includes a lesson plan, anchor chart, printables, and a poem to use for shared reading! :)
If you're interested in other Character Education lessons, be sure to check out the other units below!
Kindness
Fairness
Respect
Self-Control
Confli
Grades:
K - 2nd
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Social Story - Blurting Out In The Classroom
Blurting Out is a FREE Social Story to help students learn to listen to others while they are speaking and why it is important to follow the classroom rules. Social Stories are a great way to promote positive behaviors in the classroom. Social Stories are a visual guide to describe interactions, situations, behaviors, skills or concepts. This story will help children on the autism spectrum, children in your special education class, children in primary grades, or children in an inclusive classroo
Grades:
PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Special Education Bundle of Classroom Activities and Teacher Resources
Common Core Math Cheat Sheets for Grades K-5
Are you tired of flipping through dozens of pages to figure out what a certain Common Core standard is?! I know I was. I decided to make this 1 page "Cheat Sheet" that I keep in the back of my Math Lesson Plans Binder. Every Common Core math standard is on 1 page! It has been extremely useful. I find myself constantly looking at it when I need to know what a certain standard is.
This freebie has Common Core Math Cheat Sheets for grades K-5!!
Math Resource Bundles by Grade Level:
MATH RESOURCES
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K - 5th
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50+ Free De-escalation Strategies
This resource includes over 50 de-escalation strategies that educators, administrators, and other adults can use when working with kids and young adults to de-escalate a situation. Kids and young adults who become emotionally overwhelmed or upset in a situation may begin to express their emotions in challenging ways. De-escalation is a calming and problem-solving approach.In many cases, the best way to handle these types of behaviors is to de-escalate the situation as soon as possible. It’s very
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Staff
FREE Digital Lesson Plan Template Weekly & Monthly Calendar Google Slides
Planning and sharing made easy! These beautiful Google Slides, digital lesson plan and calendar templates come in weekly and monthly format. FULLY EDITABLE and easily shareable with administrators and colleagues. Best of all: They are FREE!Each month and week includes:Calendar Information slides: resources, activities, objectives, assessmentsStandards and Notes pageMoveable icons to easily slide onto the calendar: planning, testing, professional development, holiday, open house, personal day, pa
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Staff
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I Wish My Teacher Knew {Now Your Teacher Knows}
If you're like me, you were extraordinarily moved by the "I wish my teacher knew..." movement and hashtag on Twitter. Thanks to Denver teacher Kyle Schwartz, many of us have begun to discover things that our students want us to know but have not before shared with us. This is a way to build and maintain a #ClassroomCommunity.
I created this writing center addition based upon Kyle Schwartz's original lesson; I take no credit for her idea, hashtags, or anything else -- that was all that amazing t
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Not Grade Specific
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Rewards and Incentives FREE List
Use these rewards lists to help encourage, promote, and reward positive behavior in the classroom. Rewards lists are easy to read, post, or keep in a binder when coming up with ideas for student success. This can be an essential component to making behavior plans work, helping students work towards goals, and building a positive classroom climate.What's Included: This resource includes 3 pages of printable lists, including: Rewards for elementary studentsRewards for middle/high school studentsCl
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Not Grade Specific
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FREE Core Vocabulary Communication Board for AAC Users Autism Special Ed
Need a quick, done-for-you core word based communication board for your AAC users?This is a free picture communication board with core vocabulary for students who use augmentative-alternative communication (AAC).Research shows that core words provide students with the most robust and flexible access to words they need for genuine message construction.Give your aac users access to the most effective words for communicating.Uses Symbol Stix from N2Y, familiar to most classrooms and AAC usersLookin
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: AAC Core Words Curriculum Teaching Resource Bundle for Speech Therapy
Friendship Freebie {A Wrinkled Heart} {Beginning of the Year Activity}
I hope you are able to use this fun little freebie with your class. My kids had a blast with it and it was an extremely meaningful bonding activity. Thanks for downloading - please leave feedback if you are happy with the product! I appreciate you!
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
September 11th Remembrance: A Lesson Plan for Upper Elementary
I was conferencing with a student about "I Survived the Attacks on 9/11" As the student was summarizing the book, he said, "Ms. W, it was really crazy. The planes crashed into the World Trade Center and a ton of people died. It was really scary. I am so glad it was just a book."
It was after this reading confernece, I know I had to teach about September 11th. It wasn't in my pacing guide or my curriculum notebook, but it had to be done. I wrote this informational article to share and explore w
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4th - 7th
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Task Card Handbook: Everything You Need to Know - FREE!
Whether you are wondering about using task cards in your classroom or have been using them for years, this free ebook is for you! This book will tell you:Why task cards are such amazing teaching toolsThe many ways they can be usedHow to use Task Cards for Distance LearningHow to store prep and store themAnd much, much more!In addition to tons of tips and ideas, there are links to supporting resources and freebies.New to our task cards? Get started with this variety pack bundle!NOTE: This resourc
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Not Grade Specific
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Lesson Plan Template 5E Instructional Model Engage Explore Explain Elaborate
Hello Teachers! The 5E lesson plan is a teaching framework that follows a sequence of five stages: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate. It is a student-centered approach to learning that encourages students to actively engage in the learning process. I put together this lesson plan template in Google Docs that is completely editable, based on the 5e instructional model by Rodger Bybee. Stay up to date with my latest resources & follow me here. Some of my awesome creations are d
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Not Grade Specific
Feeling Angry Social Story FREEBIE!
This FREEBIE product includes a mini social story so you can see the quality of my work!
As a general education Kindergarten teacher, I was always looking for ways to reach my autistic learners as well as those needing more visual cues, in a way that worked with my current classroom management system, but also expanded on it in meaningful ways. This was something I was able to fit into my day and had great success with. I hope it helps you too! Thank you!
Grades:
PreK - 4th
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Back to School Activities - Bucket Fillers
This is a super fun Back to School Activity for kindergarten and first graders. Great books to read to reinforce positive expectations in the classroom!{How Full is Your Bucket?}by: Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer{Have You Filled a Bucket Today?}by: Carol McCloudThis packet includes:Writing How to be a Good FriendDrawing picture of FriendGraphing FriendsDecorating BucketWe are Bucket Fillers! {word art}Here are more of my Reading Comprehension - Writing Paper Packets!Reading Comprehension {LADYBUGS}
Grades:
PreK - 1st
Stick and Stone - Friendship Freebie {Great Beginning of the Year Activity}
I hope you are able to use this fun little freebie with your class. My kids had a blast with it and it was an extremely meaningful bonding activity. Thanks for downloading - please leave feedback if you are happy with the product! I appreciate you!
I really hope you enjoy my product! If you are unsatisfied in any way, contact me right away and I will do my best to make it right :)
Please follow me to be updated as I add more products and freebies to my store! :) I really appreciate your suppor
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Math Scope and Sequence for 6th-8th & Algebra 1 | CCSS & TEKS Pacing Guides
These Scope and Sequence Pacing Guides for middle school math and Algebra 1 teachers provide a great visual for teachers to be able to zoom out at the year ahead for planning and instruction! These curriculum map guides include a year-long glance at the standards, grouped by unit concepts and a suggested pacing to aide in planning. This file includes black and white grade-level pacing guides with clickable links to our units, as well as a colored printable for you to display and refer back to th
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6th - 9th
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Teaching Tips eBook FREEBIE - 300+ Tips for Management, Organization, and More!
Use this free eBook for hundreds of teacher tips and tricks from classroom management to silent reading!Each chapter includes top tips, extra tips & tricks, and resources to further help you out. It's everything you need to start back to school on the right foot!Chapters Include:Adult VolunteersAttention SignalsBathroom PoliciesBulletin BoardsClassroom LibraryCelebrating HolidaysClassroom JobsCommunity Team BuildingConferencesCorrecting PapersCurriculum NightFast FinishersGetting AlongHomewo
FREE Gradebook Template
FREE Gradebook Template -
This is a great resource for any classroom. Simply copy the correct amount of gradebook pages and customize to suit your classroom.
For those of you whose school system uses a internet based system to record grades, use this as a hard copy. You can simply transfer the grades into the appropriate system when ready.
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Grades:
K - 12th
FREE Class Attention Grabbers from our Facebook Fans - 2 pages
FREE Class Attention Grabbers from our Facebook Fans PDF fileThis download would be a great addition to most K-4 classrooms. The list of attention grabbers has been provided to you by our fabulous Facebook fans who answered our question; “What is your number one, go to attention grabber in your classroom?” in February, 2013. *** Please leave us feedback by refreshing the page. ***Many of the fans requested and liked the idea of an easy printable to help them recall and use the brilliant ideas
Grades:
K - 4th
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Guided Reading - Lesson Plan Template
This is a sample lesson plan template that I use for Guided Reading plans. It is very easy to use. Simply print & make copies. Fill in the weekly information for each group & check off the skills that you want to cover that week.
I love this format because it quick & easy! I am in the process of creating quick & easy guided reading games, activities, worksheets, and more!
If you enjoy this freebie, please leave some feedback :)
Grades:
K - 2nd
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FREEBIE Interactive Notebook Grading Rubric (All Subjects)
Grading Rubric for Interactive Notebooks that takes a look at Creativity, Completeness and Color to prompt students to take ownership in their Interactive Notebooks.
This paper is typically placed right behind the cover sheet in my classroom for our Interactive Notebooks and allows students to understand expectations from the beginning.
Check it out in use at http://4mulafun.blogspot.com/2012/08/wow-already-tuesday.html
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Topic Sentences FREEBIE
This freebie provides you with some fun, engaging activities for you and your students to tackle topic sentences!
This product is very similar to my much larger product, Tackling Topic Sentences.
What's Included:
- 2 "What's The Topic?" cards
- "Constructing Sentences" Sort
- 2 "Build The Topic" passages
- 2 "Picture The Topic" pages
I hope you enjoy this free download!
Grades:
1st - 2nd
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Also included in: Topic Sentences Bundle
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