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COMPLETE Launching Reader's Workshop Unit - Pictures, Charts, Notebook INCLUDED!

By Active Learning Playbook

This is what you've been waiting for! The ENTIRE unit to launch your reader's workshop to help your students achieve agency and intellectual independence. There's no better way to start off your year. Set includes: Unit Overview with Essential

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Back to School

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Unit Plans, Lesson

$10.00

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Playbook Visual Guide - 126 Active Learning Journal Photos!

By Active Learning Playbook

VISUAL GUIDE: 126 color pictures of journal pages and inspiration to create your own Active Learning Journal! Finally, all the ideas you need in one user-friendly place.This guide will help you skillfully and intentionally customize learning

Subjects:

Math, Handwriting, Phonics

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, Homeschool

Types:

Workbooks, Activities

$10.00

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My Prewriting Playbook - An Active Learning Journal Printable

By Active Learning Playbook

60 Hand-drawn pages for practicing prewriting skills. This is a print + play packet with no prep required.Prewriting Skills- Horizontal Lines- Vertical Lines- Diagonal Lines- Round Lines- Irregular LinesRecommended Age: Preschool/Early

Subjects:

Visual Arts, Handwriting, Phonics

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, Homeschool

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Activities, For Parents, Independent Work Packet

$5.00

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Getting to Know You M&M Activity - EDITABLE

By Active Learning Playbook

Great activity for the beginning of the year! Help your students get to know each other while having a sweet treat. Print these cards on cardstock and laminate to use every year. Categories can be edited. Prints four per page. Clipart ©Sonya

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Back to School

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

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Activities

$1.00

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Active Learning NAME Journal

By Active Learning Playbook

This Visual Guide includes 36 examples of how to help your child identify, build and write their name in their Active Learning Journal or on a blank sheet of paper. Each page in the guide is filled with photographs and play-based activities to use

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Handwriting

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten

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Activities, Printables

$5.00

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Close Reading Cheat Sheet with 4 Different Lenses

By Active Learning Playbook

Looking for a basic overview of what close reading is? Included are key points to get you started! If you've already started close reading, use this is a cheat sheet or quick reference guide to the four main lenses: -text evidence - word choice -

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Close Reading

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Teacher Manuals, Professional Documents, Professional Development

$2.00

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Teacher's Guide to Narrative Craft Writing Unit

By Active Learning Playbook

I highly recommend reading through Calkins' units but they can be dense and time consuming. Here is the Narrative Craft Writing Unit broken down by each minilesson component with only ONE PAGE per lesson! It's the best writing unit to launch with.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Lesson

$5.00

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Launching Reading, Writing and Character Education with Mentor Texts/Read Alouds

By Active Learning Playbook

The first few weeks of school I always like to introduce my class to my favorite read alouds that will be our mentor texts throughout the year. At the same time I like to start building our classroom community, as well as start Reader's and Writer's

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English Language Arts, For All Subject Areas, Back to School

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Unit Plans, Activities, Outlines

$3.00

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Research Project Graphic Organizer - EDITABLE!

By Active Learning Playbook

There are SO MANY components to research projects and it's easy to lose what kids are working on during the process. Use this graphic organizer as a checklist to keep students focused and on task. This outline uses the Big 6 method but it's

Subjects:

English Language Arts, For All Subject Areas

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Research, Handouts, Graphic Organizers

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Launching Lesson Plans for 1st Weeks of School - Charts and Pictures INCLUDED!

By Active Learning Playbook

Take a look at my schedule for the first two weeks of school. Includes character building activities, first mentor texts introduced, anchor charts, pictures and more. Great way to kickstart Reader's and Writer's Workshop and Teacher's College work!

Subjects:

For All Subject Areas

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Outlines, Professional Documents, Lesson

$3.00

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Specials Schedule for the Refrigerator

By Active Learning Playbook

Send students home with a specials schedule they can attach to their refrigerator! Add all of the important information families would need at their fingertips, like specials, snack time, emails, phone numbers, early dismissal times, etc. Editable

Subjects:

For All Subject Areas, Back to School

Grades:

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, ...

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Handouts, Printables, For Parents

$2.00

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My Number Playbook - An Active Learning Journal Printable

By Active Learning Playbook

51 Hand-drawn pages for practicing number writing and number sense. This is a print + play packet with no prep required.My Number Playbook combines number formation, number sense, numbers in nature and numbers in fairy tales. Invite children to draw

Subjects:

Math, Visual Arts, Handwriting

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, Homeschool

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Activities, Independent Work Packet

$5.00

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Prompts for Thinking, Talking and Jotting by Reading Band

By Active Learning Playbook

Help students think, talk and jot about their reading with these sentence starters. Excellent for Reader's Workshop and Teacher's College work! I print and paste these into their reader's notebooks so that they can refer to them quickly and easily.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Handouts, Graphic Organizers, Interactive Notebooks

$1.50

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My Letter Playbook - An Active Learning Journal Printable

By Active Learning Playbook

112 Hand-drawn pages for practicing upper and lowercase letter formation. This is a print + play packet with no prep required.Included for every letter is prewriting practice, letter-sound review, nursery rhyme with letter sound, upper and lowercase

Subjects:

Visual Arts, Handwriting, Phonics

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Activities, Independent Work Packet

$7.00

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Earth Sun Moon Unit Test and Study Guide

By Active Learning Playbook

Multiple question types - - true and false - multiple choice - open-ended response

Subjects:

Science, Astronomy, Earth Sciences

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

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Assessment

$3.00

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Building Accountable Talk Conversations

By Active Learning Playbook

Help students build their discussions with these starter and builder sentence start prompts! Great for book clubs, partner work and grand conversations. The perfect tool for Reader's Workshop and Teacher's College work.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Handouts, Printables, Literature Circles

$1.00

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Student - Teacher Conference / Rubric Sheet

By Active Learning Playbook

Use these form throughout the entire writing process! Record strengths, weaknesses, and notes to give students the specific feedback they need. Rubric included on the bottom to show students how the writing process leads to their overall grades.

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Assessment, Scaffolded Notes, Rubrics

$1.00

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American Revolution Task Cards

By Active Learning Playbook

Includes 6 task cards with descriptions of each center, possible tasks and guiding questions: Revolutionary Women Cause/Effect Battles and Maps Compare/Contrast Perspectives Quote Analysis Image Analysis Great for Reader's Workshop, Writer's

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Social Studies - History, U.S. History

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Task Cards, Centers

$3.00

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Shared Reading 5 Day Schedule

By Active Learning Playbook

Here's the perfect 5 day outline for shared reading with some key points to follow. Fits into your reader's workshop in just 10 minutes a day!

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Close Reading

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Teacher Manuals, Professional Documents

$1.00

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Letters in Nature Playbook - An Active Learning Journal

By Active Learning Playbook

This playbook combines letter formation practice with nature journaling. Included are 26 lowercase letter formation cards and 26 hand-drawn directed drawing pages.Recommended Age: Early ElementarySee more ideas for Active Learning Journals in my

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Reading, Handwriting

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Interactive Notebooks

$5.00

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I taught grades 3, 4 and 5 and have been trained by Teacher's College in Reader's and Writer's Workshop.

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