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Paired Texts [Print & Digital]: Earth's Revolution/ Rotation & Leap Year

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These paired passages, or paired texts, meet the demand for more complex texts that students can use to compare and build knowledge to integrate information and draw conclusions. The high-interest, rigorous passages in this set are great to stretch

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Assessment, Printables, Google Apps

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R.1, R.2, R.3 Fiction Fable Standards-Based Reading Assessments SAMPLE

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This pack includes a SAMPLE of the DIGITAL AND PRINTABLE FORMATS of differentiated tests that assess standards covering fiction key ideas and details standards R.1, R.2, and R.3. These standards include skills such asdrawing inferencesciting

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Literature

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Assessment, Printables, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.3.1, RL.3.2, RL.3.3, RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.3, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2...

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Digital Download ZIP (3.97 MB)

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Reading & Writing Free Activities for Each Kindness Mentor Text (grades 3-5)

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This free sample provides reading activities and a writing prompt designed to use with the mentor text, Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson from my resource, Better Than Basal for Volume 3. (Book not included.)Why is this better than a basal?

Subjects:

Literature, Writing, Classroom Community

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers, Lesson

FREE

Digital Download PDF (2.76 MB)

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Turkey Pardoning - Close Reading Passage Standards-Based Assessment Sample

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This pack includes a sample of my differentiated tests that assess all standards. I have aligned them with Common Core, but because reading comprehension skills are assessed similarly across the board, you can easily use these even if you don’t use

Subjects:

Thanksgiving, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Printables

CCSS:

RI.3.1, RI.3.2, RI.3.3, RI.3.4, RI.3.5, RI.3.6, RI.3.8, RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.3, RI.4.4...

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Volume 1 At-A-Glance (Mentor Sentences & Better Than Basal Reading/Writing)

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This free download will help you see all of the skills included in Volume 1 that span the course of the year! It is laid out to show all the mentor sentence skills, as well as the reading and writing activities and ideas for all 40 books in Volume

Subjects:

Reading, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Unit Plans, Outlines, Professional Documents

FREE

151

Digital Download PDF (1.46 MB)

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Free Mentor Sentence & Interactive Activity for Diary of a Worm (2nd Grade)

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This free sample provides a mentor sentence and interactive activity designed to be used over the course of a week with the mentor text, Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin. (Book not included.)Teaching your daily grammar lessons with the mentor

Subjects:

Reading, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

2^nd, Homeschool

Types:

Printables, Interactive Notebooks, Lesson

CCSS:

L.2.1, L.2.1f, L.2.4d

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Digital Download PDF (2.80 MB)

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Paired Texts / Paired Passages: Pets Grades 2-3

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Paired passages, or paired texts, meet the demand for more rigorous, complex texts with Common Core- especially these passages that students can use to compare and build knowledge to integrate information and draw conclusions. The passages in this

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, Homeschool

Types:

Research, Assessment, Printables

FREE

101

Digital Download PDF (2.00 MB)

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Figurative Language Freebie

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Students sort holiday-themed sentences written on bulbs onto their matching wires by their type of figurative language: similes, personification, and onomatopoeia. Feedback and ratings are much appreciated! Be sure to follow my blog for more ideas

Subjects:

Reading, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Poetry

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Handouts

FREE

102

Digital Download PDF (1.49 MB)

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Close Reading Bonus Lesson

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This fun freebie includes the poem, Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening by Robert Frost (1923) and a guiding question for the first, second, and third reads of the poem. Possible answers are also provided. Check out my blog post that shows a

Subjects:

Reading Strategies, Poetry, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables

FREE

Digital Download PDF (1.42 MB)

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Reading Challenge for Winter Break and Christmas Break {Freebie!}

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These ten reading challenges will encourage your students to keep reading over the break! I have created different challenges- one for "Winter Break," one for "Christmas Break," and one for "Holiday Break." You might provide a reward if they

Subjects:

Reading, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Winter

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Homework, Printables

FREE

Digital Download PDF (2.00 MB)

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Free Mentor Sentence & Interactive Activity for Each Kindness (grades 3-5)

By ideas by jivey

This free sample provides a mentor sentence and interactive activity designed to be used over the course of a week with the mentor text, Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson. (Book not included.)Teaching your daily grammar lessons with the mentor

Subjects:

Grammar, Writing, Classroom Community

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Interactive Notebooks, Lesson

FREE

Digital Download PDF (3.13 MB)

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Paired Texts [Print & Digital]: Epidemics and Germs Grades 4-6

By ideas by jivey

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Assessment, Printables, Google Apps

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.7, CCRA.R.8, CCRA.R.9

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258

Digital Download PDF (5.45 MB)

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Design a Leprechaun Trap: Simple Machine Science Project

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You've never seen kids so excited for a home project until you let them know they will be designing a leprechaun trap! Students must use their knowledge of simple machines to help them create a clever trap! This download includes 2 versions of

Subjects:

Science, Physical Science, St. Patrick's Day

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Projects, Activities

FREE

Digital Download PDF (1.64 MB)

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The Kissing Hand: Free Mentor Sentence Lesson for Emergent Readers (K-1)

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These mentor sentences are perfect for integrating reading and writing. Students will listen to you read the mentor text, identify/notice words, punctuation, and parts of a sentence, read the words of the mentor sentence, arrange the words to

Subjects:

Reading, EFL - ESL - ELD, Writing

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

W.K.3, W.K.5, W.1.5, L.K.1, L.K.1b, L.K.1f, L.1.1, L.1.1b, L.1.1j

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Digital Download PDF (1.95 MB)

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Close Reading Freebie

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This fun freebie includes the poem, The Spider by Jane Taylor (1883) and a guiding question for the first, second, and third reads of the poem. Possible answers are also provided. Check out my blog post that shows a step-by-step lesson using this

Subjects:

Reading Strategies, Poetry, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables

FREE

Digital Download PDF (1.95 MB)

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Second Grade At-A-Glance for Mentor Sentence Units and Interactive Activities

By ideas by jivey

This free download will help you see all of the skills included in the 2nd Grade Mentor Sentence Units, Interactive Activities, and Reading and Writing Units (Better Than Basal) that span the course of the year! It is laid out to show all the mentor

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

2^nd, Homeschool

Types:

Unit Plans, Outlines, Professional Documents

FREE

Digital Download PDF (1.55 MB)

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Mentor Sentence Notebook Covers, Labels, and Ideas

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I get asked a lot about how to set up my notebooks... here it is in one pretty package with some free covers and labels for you too! Enjoy! :) Copyright © 2016 Ideas By Jivey, LLC All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool, Staff

Types:

Classroom Forms, Interactive Notebooks

FREE

Digital Download PDF (3.40 MB)

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Terrible Things Mentor Text Lesson: Upstander vs. Bystander

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Terrible Things by Eve Bunting is a book that lends itself well to helping students see a bystander in action who realizes one must become an upstander to stop intolerance. It is an allegory of the Holocaust but it does not have to be taught as part

Subjects:

Reading, Character Education, Classroom Community

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Posters, Lesson

FREE

Digital Download PDF (1.28 MB)

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What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? Nonfiction Activities

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In this free sample, you will get activities to use for reading and writing with the book, What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. Students will retell facts about animals, compare two animals, and write about what

Subjects:

Reading, Writing, Informational Text

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RI.K.1, RI.K.2, RI.K.3, RI.K.7, RI.1.1, RI.1.2, RI.1.3, RI.1.7, RI.2.1, RI.2.2, RI.2.3...

FREE

Digital Download PDF (1.55 MB)

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Reading & Writing Free Activities for Diary of a Worm Mentor Text (2nd Grade)

By ideas by jivey

This free sample provides reading activities and a writing prompt designed to use with the mentor text, Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin from my resource, Better Than Basal for Second Grade. (Book not included.)Why is this better than a basal?

Subjects:

Reading, Literature, Writing

Grades:

2^nd, Homeschool

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Activities, Graphic Organizers

FREE

Digital Download PDF (2.57 MB)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Hi! My name is Jessica, affectionately known as Jivey! I have 10 years of classroom teaching experience in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades, and 7 years of professional development delivery experience in ELA and Social Studies. I am currently creating curriculum, sharing ideas, and mentoring other teachers, as well as continuing to deliver professional development sessions on utilizing mentor texts and mentor sentences in the classroom. Although I miss being in the classroom, my passion has always been to help instill best practices in other teachers, and I'm so lucky to be able to call my dream, "a job." It is humbling, yet exciting, to know I am affecting classrooms worldwide!

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HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Teacher of the Year Nominee 2013, 2014

Outstanding Master of Education Student in Early Childhood Education

University of West Georgia Dean's List

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Specialist in Teacher Leadership, Piedmont College, Demorest, GA, December 2012.

Master of Education with a Reading Endorsement, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, July 2007. GPA 4.0

Bachelor of Science in Education, Early Childhood Education, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, December 2005.

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English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Basic Operations, Fractions, Geometry, Measurement, Numbers, Science, Earth Sciences, Environment, Physics, Social Studies, Native Americans, U.S. History, ESL-EFL-ELL, ELA Test Prep, Math Test Prep, Critical Thinking, Literature, Professional Development, Economics , Character Education, Word Problems, General Science, Physical Science, Writing, Reading Strategies, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Halloween, Winter, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Decimals, Black History Month, St. Patrick's Day, Place Value, Earth Day, For All Subjects, Informational Text, Test Preparation, End of Year, Close Reading, Women's History Month, Classroom Community