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7th grade Autumn professional development literature circles
Restorative Practices: Classroom Integration through Academic Peace Circles
Academic Peace Circles fall under the umbrella of Restorative Practices, which evolved from Restorative Justice. The fundamental premise of restorative practices is that people are happier, more cooperative and productive, and more likely to make positive changes when those in authority do things with them, rather than to them or for them.
Using Circles is not new, but applying Circles to an instructional environment allows a teacher to reap the benefits of restorative environment without sa
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K - 12th, Higher Education
Multi-Sensory Story: A Trip to the Pumpkin Patch
Looking to make story telling more fun and engaging in your classroom?This multi-sensory story is for you!Typical story telling often targets our listening and visual skills- which may not be enough for our students with severe to profound learning disabilities.This multi-sensory story encompasses all five senses for a more engaging approach.This product includes:DirectionsGoal SuggestionsMaterials ListSensory StoryVocabulary CardsAAC/Switch VisualsTherapy PlanData Sheet** You can make story tel
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PreK - 7th
History of Johnny Appleseed Student Reading and Activity
Johnny Appleseed: What is the story with this guy? A guide to Johnny Appleseed!This Johnny Appleseed lesson is included in the 14-lesson Holiday Collection, located here! This pack includes lessons on Johnny Appleseed, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, Christmas, Hanukkah, President's Day, Martin Luther King Jr Day, Saint Patrick's Day (St Patrick's Day), Veteran's Day, Memorial Day, Kwanzaa, and New Year's Day! Enjoy these 14 hands-on activities at one great price! ------------------I
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5th - 8th
All Rise For The Honorable Perry T. Cook Lit Log (novel study) (For Distance or
This is a lit log for All Rise For The Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor. This is a wonderful story that gives readers a glimpse into the lives of children with incarcerated parents and into the lives of inmates in a minimum security prison. The themes of this realistic fiction are: parent in prison, social issues, friendship, family relationships, and adoption and foster care. The focus skills for this lit log are: using text to draw inferences; summarizing; describing chara
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4th - 7th
Something to Crow About...The History of the Scarecrow
How about a close read on the subject of scarecrows?! The scarecrow history is really fascinating. Come along with me as we learn about scarecrows 3,000 years ago. Use this close read in literacy circles, small group work, individual reading, or even whole group reading. After reading, students are able to choose a scarecrow to visualize with the accompanying sheet. Scarecrows are really something to crow about!
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3rd - 7th
The Only Road Lit Log (Novel Study) (For Distance or Classroom Learning)
This is a lit log for The Only Road, a realistic fiction by Alexandra Diaz, about a boy and his cousin who flee their Guatemalan village to live with a brother in the United States. Even though this story is fictional, it is like the millions of real immigrants whose "only road" is to travel illegally into the United States. Themes are: immigration, undocumented immigrates, gangs and violence, bravery and fear, family and friendship. This lit log could be used as a guide for direc
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6th - 9th
Just Like Jackie Lit Log (Novel Study) (For Distance or Classroom Learning)
This is a lit log by MrsDsEducationalTools for Just Like Jackie by Lindsey Stoddard. This is an awesome realistic fiction about the true meaning of family and acceptance (no matter what it looks like). Difficult topics include: Alzheimer’s, group guidance, bullying, racism, self-reliance, The key focus skills of the lit log are:- use text to explain/draw inferences- describe/compare/contrast characters, setting, events- describe point of viewOther skills in the lit log are:- determine t
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4th - 7th
Fall Autumn Bookmarks to Color
Students can choose between four Fall inspired bookmarks to color and make their own. Text includes:Fall into a book.Fall in love with reading. Find a nook and fall into a book.
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PreK - 10th
Also included in: Seasons Bookmarks to Color | Summer Fall Autumn Winter Spring
Fall Conversations: ELL Conversation Practice
This resource is full of relevant fall conversations that you can practice now with your ELL students. With five conversations and vocabulary review provided, this resource is full of language practice for your students.
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
Fall Autumn Virtual Digital Library ELA Hybrid Distance Google Slides Editable
This resource is a collection of 12 children's picture storybooks that students of all ages could read as a fun Fall Autumn or any literature lesson if you need an activity. These are all favorites of my students and very entertaining. I use this in my middle school classroom and have used it with 1st graders. These are great read-aloud books and come with links to YouTube videos so students do NOT need the actual book to enjoy the story. This resource is completely editable and can be shared on
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1st - 8th
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Three Pennies Lit Log
This is a lit log for Three Pennies by Melanie Crowder.
This book is mostly a realistic fiction about foster care, family life, and adoption. However, there are also short chapters about a Confucius-quoting owl and the development of an earthquake.
The main focus skill of the lit log is to use text to explain/draw inferences. Other skills are: determine theme/summarize; use text to determine meaning of words/phrases; describe/compare/contrast characters, setting, events; and de
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4th - 7th, Adult Education
Reading Response Cards (Fiction)
This Reading Response Card Set contains 24 colorful cards with an autumn crow theme. Perfect for literacy centers, literature circles, and small groups!
These cards can be used for any fictional story and are appropriate for grades 4 and up!
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★24 Autumn Colored Response Cards
----Question Topics Include: setting (3), characters (5), theme (1), point of view (3), problem solution (1), figurative language (1), connections (2), genre (1), inferences (1), cause and effect (1), course of
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4th - 8th
Morning Meeting Questions: September
This is a perfect morning meeting activity to build a stronger classroom community during you morning circle.
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PreK - 8th
Also included in: Morning Meeting Questions for every month of the school year!
Prof Development-How to Teach a Common Core Literature Study Unit - For Teachers
This easy to use Powerpoint presentation is for teachers. It teaches in a step-by-step manner how to begin a Common Core Literature Study with your students, and even suggests books to start with.
The presentation includes a Response Journal Form for student use. The form supports students as they make Text to Text, Text to Self, and Text to World connections between the books they study.
Teach your students to talk and write about their thoughts and feelings through the use of high-qual
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2nd - 8th
Halloween Short Story - Storm Creatures
A New Literature Experience for Halloween! This original scary short story with figurative language, rich vocabulary, & literary elements comes with literary analysis questions.⭐Story Synopsis: A private boarding school for boys gets a visit from cannibalistic creatures one stormy night. This product can be used as a stand-alone activity or a supplement to a unit/lesson.Trick or Treat? Treat! Treat your students to something new!Product Package includes:✅Original Horror Short Story - 4 pages
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3rd - 8th
Also included in: Halloween Short Stories Bundle
Building Literature Circles
Building Literature Circles
is a comprehensive book, with general information as well as an in-depth look at actual classroom experiences and teacher-tested suggestions. Section One discusses the "What, Who, When, Where, Why and How" of Literature Circles. General information about planning, training, getting started, managing the Literature Circle classroom, evaluation and grading is presented in this section of the book. Section Two reveals the anatomy of the Buck-Aydelott Model for a Literatu
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3rd - 9th
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Ruby on the Outside Lit Log
This is a lit log for Ruby on the Outside by Nora Raleigh Baskin.
The themes of this realistic fiction are: having a parent in prison, friendship, family, emotions, and honesty. The main focus skills of the lit log is making personal responses. Other focus skills are describing characters and making inferences.
The lit log can be used for reading instruction (guided reading, novel study, literature circle, or read aloud), but can also be used for professional development (
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4th - 7th
Making Literature Circles Come Alive
Use literature circles to differentiate instruction using Novice, Developing, and Expert levels. To respond thoughtfully to top level questions, students must understand HOW to engage in high level thinking and questions.
Making Literature Circles Come Alive
lays a solid foundation and provides step-by-step plans and hands-on activities to directly teach students about high level thinking. Includes learning to recognize, develop, and classify high level questions using Bloom's Taxonomy; 12 easy-
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4th - 9th
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Fantastic Fall Poetry Copywork - EBOOK
Copywork Notebooks are designed to help your children to learn spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, and vocabulary while copying from historical information. The idea is that your student will actually begin to imitate the elements in his or own writing. This Copywork Notebook includes several classic poems about this time of year. This ebook format includes a downloadable PDF file. It is designed to be used on any Windows or Apple computer system. Just follow the instructions to create
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3rd - 9th
Academic Discussion CONVERSATION Bundle! | Digital Talking Chips SETS 1 & 2
This is a bundle of both Cooperative Learning Structure Talking Chips SET 1- for all grades/ ages and SET 2 - extended thinking prompts! The conversation prompts can be used over and over to increase critical thinking with any content. Students & adults have fun with Digital Talking Chips conversations on Jamboard! The structure requires thoughtful participation in discussion, and gives choice as to which stems/ order to use. The movable Jamboard "chips" or discussion cards are valuable for
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
It's a "Fall" Kind of Time! Fall Cinquain Poetry
Are you working on trying to reinforce nouns, adjectives, facts versus opinion phrases, and synonyms? Is it necessary in your classroom to scaffold instruction in terms of rigor level? If so, this packet is for you and your classroom. This packet contains ten absolutely gorgeous fall scenes from which students can create cinquains. After each fall scene is cinquain pattern one, two, or three. Pattern one tends to be less difficult, patten two follows a parts of speech pattern, while pattern thre
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2nd - 8th
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Halloween Bookmarks | Pumpkins | Unicorn | Sloth | Giraffe | Puppy | Candy Fall
4 different bookmark designs to choose from. Each bookmark features different Halloween pictures to color. Pictures include kawaii Halloween animals. Images include cute baby animals with a Halloween theme: -Giraffe -Unicorn -Sloth -Puppy Your students will love coloring these cute Bookmarks for Halloween. Perfect for coloring after some stories in the library or around Halloween. Your students may like to create their own bookmark or make one for a friend. For best results print in Landscap
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K - 10th
Also included in: Halloween Bookmarks Kawaii Cute Animals BUNDLE | Pumpkins | Fall | Color
Using Multiple Text Sets in Secondary Classrooms
This presentation was created to showcase how multiple text sets can help a teacher teach difficult concepts and or texts to a wide range of ability levels within a classroom. The presentation also talks about how using multiple text sets can help teachers meet the academic expectations associated with the Common Core State Standards.
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6th - 12th
Halloween Bookmarks | Pumpkins | Potions | Bats | Cats | Candy | Witches | Fall
8 different designs to choose from. Each bookmark features a different Halloween saying and pictures to color. Your students will love coloring these Bookmarks for Halloween. Perfect for coloring after some stories in the library or around Halloween. Your students may like to create their own bookmark or make one for a friend. For best results print in Landscape. (Horizontal) But check what is best for your printer. If you are able to print on thin card that can be quite nice, but not necess
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1st - 10th
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