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Higher education balanced literacy resources for administrators
Feedback Comments for Student Writing
BEST SELLER!! Does it seem like you give students the same generic compliments on their writing over and over? Do you struggle to find kind, supportive ways to suggest improvements? Have you given up on detailed feedback because it's just too time-consuming to provide?This document contains hundreds of comment suggestions to help you give meaningful feedback to students on their writing assignments. You can use these comments to help guide your conversations during writing workshop and writing c
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Letter of Recommendation Template
This is an easy fill in the blank template to use for writing a recommendation letter for a student teacher, substitute teacher, or a candidate for a teaching program. It is in Microsoft Word, so you just need to add in your school information and you will be all set to go. :)Any questions, don't hesitate to contact me.__________________________________________________________________________________________Terms of Use - Copyright Ā© Monica Abarca. This resource is intended for classroom and pe
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Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Greek and Latin Roots - Root Words Lists and Quizzes for 4th, 5th, and 6th Grade
Greek and Latin Root Words Weekly Lists, Quizzes, and Tests BUNDLE:This Latin and Greek roots and stems UNIT ONE AND UNIT TWO BUNDLE is perfect for teachers who want their students to learn common Greek and Latin roots. Each unit includes:Weekly lists (10 words on each list for eight weeks)A mid-week matching quizAn end of week test (which is progressive and includes stems from prior weeks)These files can be used for ANY grade level, but have mostly been used with 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade s
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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edTPA Elementary Literacy Portfolio - Task 1, 2, & 3- Passing score of 56!!
Welcome toedTPA guidance!! Are you going through the edTPA process and stressing out about what a passing portfolio looks like? You will be so happy with this purchase and guidance through it all. My edTPA was submitted in November, 2018 and I received a passing score of 56 out of 75!! A 56 will allow you to teach in ANY state. I received the highest score EVER in my program and my University uses my portfolio as an example to guide the educators. This purchase includes the complete Task 1 for t
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K - 6th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Reading Text Connection Task Cards - Text to Self, Text to Text, Text to World
Making text connections is vital to student comprehension and can enhance reading motivation and engagement. This pack includes 28 different task cards which can be used in multiple activities. They can be used with ANY fictional text and therefore can be used throughout the whole year.The task card questions include:- 12 x Text to Self - 8 x Text to Text - 8 x Text to World Simply print these task cards out and laminate them!ā„ā„ā„ Follow me to be the first to hear about FREEBIES and updates ā„ā„ā„ā„ā„
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
English Classroom Decor Young Adult Literature: Make Your Own Pennant Banner
ELA Classroom Decor {Young Adult Literature}: Make Your Own Pennant Banner
This classroom decor helps you bring enthusiasm to your common core literacy lessons all year long!
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60 pennant printables
60 TITLES:
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl Edited by O
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
English Classroom Decor British Literature Make Your Own Pennant Banner
English Language Arts Classroom Decor {British Literature}: Make Your Own Pennant Banner
This English language arts classroom decor helps you bring enthusiasm to your common core literacy lessons all year long!
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26 pennant printables ā each flag is a different novel / unit of study
26 TITLES:
1984
A Christmas Carol
A Midsummer Nightās Dream
A Tale of Two Cities
Aliceās Adventures in Wonderland
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Literary Elements and Devices Jumbo Power Point
This power point is loaded with fun multimedia, high engagment video clips to increase understanding of the necessary, domain specific ELA vocabulary every student should know and understand. This works well as a note-taking lecture foundational lesson for students to keep and reference all year long. Check out my free guided note-taking activity that accompanies this power point as well as the assessment tool used with the lesson.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Greek and Latin Roots: Root Words Lists & Quizzes for 3rd 4th 5th 6th Grade
Greek and Latin Roots Words Weekly Lists, Quizzes, and Tests UNIT ONE:This Latin and Greek Stems and Roots UNIT ONE file includes: Weekly lists (10 words on each list for eight weeks)A mid-week matching quizzesEnd-of-week tests (which are progressive and include stems from prior weeks)Final test with all 80 stems/rootsThe test at the end of each week has 20 questions (except the first week only has 10 because there isn't an established pool to pull additional parts yet). For the ninth week, the
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Letter of Recommendation for Paraprofessional
If you've not written a letter of recommendation before, the process can seem a bit intimidating. Fortunately, all letters of recommendation involve common elements that you can master easily. But there are times you just don't have the time and may be in need of a template that you can arrange according to your needs. This letter of recommendation is for a paraprofessional teacher trying to secure a position in one of the various departments. This letter speaks for a versatile, nurturing indivi
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
edTPA Elementary Literacy Lesson Plans- Task 1
Welcome to edTPA guidance!! Are you going through the edTPA process and stressing out about what a passing portfolio looks like? You will be so happy with this purchase and guidance through it all. My edTPA was submitted in November, 2018 and I received a passing score of 56 out of 75!! A 56 will allow you to teach in ANY state. I received the highest score EVER in my program and my University uses my portfolio as an example to guide the educators.If you're looking for examples of Task 1, Task 2
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K - 6th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
17 Professional PDF Editable Achievement Certificates in Color
Here are 17 professional looking color achievement certificates. They are all PDF and editable. They are all in a zipped folder ready for you to give your students the recondition they deserve. Awards are below:
Blank, Achievement, Art, Band, English, French, Gym, History, Math, Music, Orchestra, Reading, Science, Spanish, Sports, Sportsmanship, and Writing.
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
The House on Mango Street Quizzes
This product includes Microsoft Word File:Chapters 1-5 Quiz (12 Questions) with Answer KeyChapters 6-10 Quiz (12 Questions) with Answer KeyChapters 11-15 Quiz (12 Questions) with Answer KeyChapters 16-20 Quiz (12 Questions) with Answer KeyChapters 21-25 Quiz (12 Questions) with Answer KeyChapters 26-30 Quiz (12 Questions) with Answer KeyChapters 31-35 Quiz (12 Questions) with Answer KeyChapters 36-40 Quiz (12 Questions) with Answer KeyChapters 41-44 Quiz (12 Questions) with Answer KeyOther Produ
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Ā The House on Mango Street Bundle
Tone and Mood PowerPoint, Google Slides
Now over 50 slides! Videos! Examples! Tone and Mood are difficult concepts for students to grasp. Often the difficulty lies within trying to distinguish the two. In this PowerPoint presentation the terms will be defined and explored in a fun and interesting way. Using pictures, paintings and movies students will determine the tone and then look at their own reactions to find the mood. My own classes had a ton of fun with this PowerPoint! Enjoy! Google slides links provided.This is produc
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The 7 Big Rocks of Literacy Posters - ELA Essentials All Kids Should Know
I created these posters as a result of trying to be as transparent with students as possible when teaching them what and why they were learning what they were learning. I think it's important that students know why they are learning something, it's the value added layer that makes them put in the extra effort, or for some, the initial effort.
To read more about how I introduced these to students, read my blog post about it here.
If you are someone responsible for teaching ELA, specificall
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Instructional Coaching & Mentoring Question Stems with Communication Forms
As an Instructional Coach or Mentor, we are often called to help our colleagues/interns grow within this world of education. As we do, we need to remember to be the āguide on the sideā; enabling the person to find his/her own way through the journey. Instead of fixing things for them, doing the work for them, or planning for them, we need to engage in conversations that will facilitate professional growth. By allowing our colleagues/interns to come up with their own goals, plans, and solutio
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Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Ā Instructional Coaching and Mentor Document Bundle
Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" Google Slides, PowerPoint
Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" brought to you in Google Slides or PowerPoint! This is the perfect way to introduce this powerful story to your students!! Filled with a ton of information related to state standards, as well as images to spark the imagination! Included in this lesson are the following: background information, literary focus, an overview of the plot, and questions for guided reading or pre-reading. Great for short story units, summer school, review and any variety of activities!
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Symbolism Literary Symbols Motifs Common Core
Symbolism and Traditional Literary Symbols
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Symbolism Bundle 130+ Pages/Slides of Materials
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This valuable high order thinking resource is over ninety (90+) pages of amazing ELA materials. There is just about everything you need to teach your students Literary Symbolism and so much more. This is
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
Common Core Lesson Plan Template with Danielson Framework for Special Education
My district has adopted both the Common Core and the Danielson Framework for our evaluations and instruction. This lesson plan template includes a Common Core standard for use in Special Education. Literacy is the focus of this lesson plan template, though it is easily modifiable.
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Objective
Benchmarks
Standards
Assessment
Alternative Assessments
Activities: Pacing and Sequence
Checking for Understanding During Activities
Question Types for Checking Understa
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Ghost Boys Unit BUNDLE - Quizzes, Writing, Project, Vocabulary, Discussion +More
Ghost Boys Novel Bundle:This package includes all of the materials I used to teach the novel Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes, and more! This novel is suited for mid-level readers. However, I used these materials and the novel with level 1 & 2 EL students in high school, and it was appropriate (and they BEGGED me every day to read a little more!).This package includes:7 Quizzes for sections of the novel. The quizzes focus on character, events, and vocabulary. Quizzes are for every 4 chapte
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4th - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Oxymoron : Lesson and Exercises PowerPoint, Google Slides
Over 25 slides in length! Introduce your students to OXYMORON through this spectacular PowerPoint presentation. Jam-packed with information that will get your students excited about writing and recognizing oxymoron. Included in this Powerpoint presentation are the following: notes, guided instruction, tons of examples and problems that can be used to check understanding. As with all of my PowerPoints there are spectacular images that will help your classes identify oxymoron! This PowerPoint can
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Ā Wordplay: Pun, Oxymoron, Alliteration Lessons
Phonological Awareness Curriculum: Text Based & Common Core - Kevin Henkes Set
**ONE YEAR CURRICULUM BUNDLE is ready and available for a 20% discount when you purchase all months at once - CLICK HERE**
This is a complete month of original Common Core aligned phonological awareness curriculum. If you follow our curriculum in your classroom, which requires 15 minutes a day on the first day and 10 minutes a day for the next four days, you will see amazingly ridiculous phonological awareness growth in your students. This program is tried and true, used in K and first grade cl
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PreK - 3rd, Higher Education, Staff
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Ela Classroom Decor American Literature Make Your Own Pennant Banner
ELA Classroom Decor American Literature: Make Your Own Pennant Banner
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Ready for you to easily line up by using the directions on how to assemble. The preview shows more!
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29 pennant printables ā each flag is a different novel / unit of study
29 TITLES:
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
I Still Rise by Maya Angelou
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Ch
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Word Choice Digital BUNDLE: Diction, Tone, Imagery, Figurative Language FREEBIE
Over 100 slides!! Available in Google Slides OR PowerPoint. Features lessons on CONNOTATION/DENOTATION, TONE, FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE, and IMAGERY. As required by most state standards, students need to be familiar with subtle differences between words and the words that go best with the tone of a piece of writing. Using examples, these presentations will allow students to understand the "charges" certain words have, and how to make their writing more descriptive! Includes free presentation focusi
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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