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Lunar New Year 2024 | Year of the DRAGON Reading Comprehension | Spring Festival
Chinese New Year in 2024 starts on Saturday, February 10th!It’s the Year of the DRAGON!Did you know that the Chinese believe that people born in the Year of the DRAGON are strong, tenacious, and ambitious? Do you know what the lucky colors and numbers are for people born during the Year of the DRAGON?Find out more by close-reading interesting text all about the Year of the DRAGON.Create a Cool DRAGON Collage, perfect for a 2024 Year of the DRAGON Bulletin Board!*** This resource has been updated
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Motivational State Testing Letters for Students and Parents | Editable in Canva
Introducing the Motivational State Test Notes for Students, a simple and effective way to bring a wave of encouragement and support into your classroom during test times—and beyond. This tool is designed to make it incredibly easy for busy teachers like you to get parents involved in a meaningful way, without adding to your already packed schedule.In just a few steps, you can send home a ready-made letter to parents, inviting them to write personal notes of encouragement to their children. Your
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3rd - 6th
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Student Self Reflection & Evaluation | Conferences & Report Cards
This student self reflection resource is an excellent way for your students to evaluate their learning to share during student led and parent teacher conferences. It can be used for any reporting period to converse with your students about their successes and ways in which they can improve. The activity can be used for in person instruction as well as assigned digitally to share in an online portfolio.May be used as a printable resource or assigned on Google Classroom with your students.Resourc
Grades:
4th - 8th
3/D Tipi, Circle and Welcome Pole Craft, EASY Native American Art Fall Activity
This bundle includes 3 Native American themed craft projects made for students using circles (Mandela) cones (3/D tipi), and cylinders (welcome poles) These crafts are a great way to integrate the arts with your Native American curriculum. This is three of my students favorites put together in a money saving bundle! See descriptions for each project, and check out the teacher reviews of individual items! Crafts include a 3/D tipi, mandella, and 3/D welcome pole. Great for Bulletin boards, door
Grades:
1st - 7th
Critical Thinking Activity High School Reading Comprehension Socratic Seminar
Ready to revolutionize the way your students learn? Tired of battling plagiarism and quick-fix essay generators like ChatGPT? We've got the solution!Introducing innovative Socratic Seminar, Annotation, and Visual Essay tools - designed specifically for ELA middle and high school students.⭐Reduce cheating and plagiarism⭐Spend less time marking essays and more time giving helpful feedback⭐Capture students’ ideas more effectively and engage them in learning⭐Help your visual learners understand conc
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Picasso Pumpkins: Hispanic Heritage Month, EASY Fall or Halloween Craft Cut&Glue
A fun Fall art activity for Hispanic Heritage Month. Learn about Spains most famous artist while creating a cubist style pumpkin in the likeness of Picasso’s famous paintings. Several pumpkin images and sizes are included for student choice, including one created after Picasso's "Girl in the Mirror" painting. There are 2 pages of facial features drawn from Picasso’s most popular paintings including “Skull with Leeks. Students of all ages and abilities will have fun mixing up the face features
Grades:
K - 6th
Growth Mindset Information Letters for Parents: Send Home Notes
Growth Mindset Letters for Parents: 33 Weekly Informational NotesGrowth Mindset Information for Parents: This growth mindset notes for parents pack is perfect for teachers who want to help parents understand growth mindset concepts. In addition to 33 half-page notes that can be sent home throughout the year, you will find two pages of information to send home right at the beginning of the year (or the beginning of your growth mindset instruction). These pages give parents a firm foundation fo
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2nd - 10th
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Fall Crafts Picasso Style: Pumpkin, Turkey, Portraits. Thanksgiving Art Bundle
This Fall or Autumn, Thanksgiving and Halloween craft collage bundle is a student and parent favorite! Each lesson contains a variety of student choices, resulting in amazing unique student Art. I tested them with students in Kindergarten through 5th grade with amazing results. My grade 5 students were especially engaged when I challenged them to invent new ways of using patterns and colors like Picasso did in his “Blue and Rose” period’s. Lessons take students 2 to 3 art classes to finish, depe
Grades:
K - 6th
Grammar Unit One: What is a Sentence?
The purpose of this series of workbooks is to make a better writer. Grammar, taught in isolation, does not improve writing skills. Grammar taught with skills connected to application can and will dramatically improve a student�s abilities in writing. Each workbook is easy to use with lessons that walk the student through the skill to an independent application level.
Unit One: What Is A Sentence?
Students will learn to identify a correct sentence and be able to
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4th - 8th
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iReady Contest ~ AWARD ~ Motivates Students Math and Reading! Editable!
Don’t you just hate it when you finally get the hang of a reading or math program and your district (or admin) decide it’s time to start using something new. When that happened at my school, we were told to “trust the process”… The only problem is that while the process is going on, we’re in the trenches having to figure out how to make it work.It took me a while to get the hang of iReady, but I can FINALLY say that I have figured out a system that’s been working for me and my kiddos! I send th
Grades:
PreK - 8th
Depth and Complexity Frames for Every Month of the Year | Print-and-Go
This set of Depth and Complexity frames offers one frame for each month of the year. If you are looking for a quality print and go activity for your students, this is the perfect resource for you. There are twelve Depth & Complexity frames tied to holidays and month themes (such as Black History Month). They've got great graphics and strong, high-level thinking questions. There's even a rubric you can use to evaluate your students' completed frames.No need to be a Depth and Complexity expert
Grades:
4th - 10th
MAUS | Teacher notes, activities, tests, answers, Google Slides, Forms, Creative
MAUS | Teacher notes, activities, tests, answers, Google Slides, Forms, Creative Ideas for the High School Classroom 200 PAGES and 63 SLIDES! When it comes to Holocaust literature, there are few books that can compare to Maus. Written and illustrated by Art Spiegelman, Maus tells the story of Spiegelman's parents and their experiences during the Holocaust. The book is unique which helps to bring the story to life in a way that few other books can. Maus is an excellent choice for high school stud
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Conference Letter for Student Self-Evaluation to Parents CCSS Grades 3-6
This Student-to-Parent Conference Letter transforms communication, ensuring that crucial information is conveyed effectively and efficiently. By involving students in the conversation, it promotes accountability and enriches the conference experience.Key Features of This Resource:Student Self-Evaluation: Students assess their academic journey and set future goals.Streamlined Communication: Creates a clear, direct dialogue between teachers, students, and parents.Collaborative Approach: Designed f
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Note-Taking Strategy -- CORNELL -- Training for Middle and High School Students
Introduction to Resource:The intent of this resource is for you, as an educator, to be able to utilize it as a year-long teaching tool when teaching and reinforcing one of the most important life skills one can attain and master – the ability to take notes and be able to utilize the notes in a fashion that strengthens one’s knowledge and skills in general. The resource is 82 pages long but does NOT have to be implemented in its entirety; but rather in small more “digestible” chunks of informatio
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Culturally Responsive Teaching Activity Cards
Do you need some ideas for your cultural responsive teaching? Here are 25 culturally responsive teaching activity cards that will help you engage and involve all students in your classroom. Each card contains the name of the activity, a description, and an example of how to use it in your classroom. Culturally Responsive Teaching Activities Included:Call and ResponseThink-Pair-ShareJigsawChoral ReadShout OutPass the CardCircle the SageElbow PartnersEcho ReadKnowledge ParadeCloze the GapJump in R
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Holocaust, activity for Night by Elie Wiesel, textual analysis, writing prompts
Pre-reading activity for Night by Elie Wiesel, analysis HOPE, DESPAIR AND MEMORY This is one part of a larger lesson on Elie Wiesel. There are some common elements between the two, but my second product goes beyond the scope of this product, so if you like what you see here please have a look at the following: ❤️❤️Elie Wiesel: Hope, Despair and Memory ❤️❤️This is a self-contained product on textual analysis; everything you need is here. This product focuses on a small section of the Nobel Peace
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Morning Message SEL Writing Prompts for April
This month long set includes 25 questions that will help to build a strong community in your classroom. Questions are a combination of thought-provoking, motivational, seasonally relevant, and sometimes a little silly. They are perfect for morning meetings! I use these questions daily and my students look forward to finding out the question each day and answering them! Each day of the week is themed- see the preview and thumbnails for the different options. There is a color and a black & whi
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Morning Message SEL Writing Prompts Morning Work & Bellringer BUNDLE
Theme: Identify + Show the Evidence Reading Passages
Need UNIQUE short reading activities? NO-PREP comprehension assessment? Look no further than this set of three worksheets with a Native American flair!Get this set of worksheets and all others in the ELA series as part of this bundle and save big! ELA Identify Complete BundleFEATURES• Three worksheets with four short (and leveled) passages on each. Each passage features one theme.• Students must match each theme from the word bank to a passage.• Student will also underline sentences that helped
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Identify and Show Evidence Reading Passages - ELA COMPLETE BUNDLE
Code Crackers #2 - Pigpen Cipher
Help your students develop critical thinking skills, learn a bit about secret societies, and have some fun at the same time with this Code Cracker activity! Students will be introduced to the Pigpen cipher and learn how it works, then they will have an opportunity to crack some codes themselves. There is also a space for them to create their own codes for each other to decipher.This is the second activity in my Code Crackers series. You can now get this resource as part of a bundle! Have a look
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Code Crackers - Ultimate Bundle
Morning Message SEL Writing Prompts for March
This month long set includes 26 questions that will help to build a strong community in your classroom. Questions are a combination of thought-provoking, motivational, seasonally relevant, and sometimes a little silly. They are perfect for morning meetings! I use these questions daily and my students look forward to finding out the question each day and answering them! Each day of the week is themed- see the preview and thumbnails for the different options. There is a color and a black & whi
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Morning Message SEL Writing Prompts Morning Work & Bellringer BUNDLE
Virginia PALs Word List Flashcards
These are printable teacher and student flashcards that are aligned with the Virginia PALs word lists A, B, & C from Pre-primer to 5th grade. The teacher flashcards are bigger so that they can be used in a small group. The student flashcards are on 1 sheet, smaller, and can be sent home for further practice. Included are Preprimer through 5th grade word list. I even print each level on different color paper so that I can keep track of who needs which word list next.
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PreK - 6th
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The Rose that Grew From the Concrete - Tupac Shakur Poem Analysis
Short analysis of Tupac Shakur's famous poem, "The Rose that Grew from the Concrete." Three discussion questions follow the poem by Tupac. Used during Black History Month in a 6th grade classroom in Oakland, CA.
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4th - 12th
7th Grade Reading Diagnostic Assessment (CCSS / TEKS) Reading level test
This is a diagnostic reading assessment appropriate for use with 7th grade aged children. It is aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and to the required reading skills identified by the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). The assessment includes reading and response tasks based on reading literature, reading informational texts, and reading argumentative or persuasive texts. Moving beyond skills taught in the lower grades, this assessment emphasizes more complex comprehensi
Grades:
6th - 8th
Sixth (6th) Grade Reading Diagnostic Assessment (CCSS / TEKS) Reading level test
This is a diagnostic reading assessment appropriate for use with sixth grade aged children. It is aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and to the required reading skills identified by the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). The assessment includes reading and response tasks based on reading literature, reading informational texts, and reading argumentative or persuasive texts. Moving beyond skills taught in the lower grades, this assessment emphasizes more complex comprehen
Grades:
5th - 7th
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