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Free Common Core SL.6.1c resources
Reading Comprehension Activities Digital Resources Mystery Game - Team Building
Try this free mystery game for your classroom! This mystery is a great way to get students collaborating and working together! Kids love to solve mysteries and this game is very exciting and fun! Read the story aloud to the students. Pass out the clues to each student and let them solve the case together. This is a great tool for critical thinking, finding inferences, and team building skills. Discussion questions at the end will help the students understand how the mystery was solved! NEW Mat
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Narrative Writing Checklist - FREE - Primary Exploration - Grade 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
FREE Narrative Writing Checklist serves as a wonderful reminder for students to check their work! The checklist walks students through the editing process to ensure that they are submitting their best work! This is a great addition to a writing center or narrative writing booklet. In my classroom, I use this narrative writing checklist along with Primary Narrative Writing and Book Cover Assessment. This Narrative Writing Booklet is a step-by-step student work booklet that teaches students to suc
Grades:
PreK - 8th
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Would You Rather Valentine's Day Questions for Kids | Distance Learning
Would You Rather is a game that all students love! It's a great way to maintain classroom community and engagement during distance learning. This Would You Rather Valentine's Day version was created to use specifically around Valentine's Day. Check out my other Would You Rather resources by clicking here. Students can practice important speaking and listening communication skills, learn a little bit about their peers, have friendly debates, practice their writing skills, and also brush up on t
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Valentine's Day Reading & Writing Activities | Print & Digital
AVID Sentence Starters for Desk - FREE
This can be used to put on your students' desks to promote AVID academic language.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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A Game for Small Group Discussions: Who Would You Hire? (a scenario)
A fun small group collaborative discussion activity - especially for Back-to-School! How it works: Group members imagine they are hotel managers who have the task of hiring someone for a front desk position. Eight candidates were interviewed. Each small group has to go through the list and agree on who they would hire. Bonus: After sharing their final choice, students will learn about the opinion of a real-life hotel owner/manager. All handouts are included: Detailed Instructions, Hotel Hiring S
Grades:
6th - 10th
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6th-8th Grade Poetry Stations
Need a FUN way to start a poetry unit? These poetry stations will have students MOVING around the room. One station encourages DISCUSSION with incredible questions to get students talking. Other stations have poems with grade appropriate questions to encourage student thinking and READING and ANALYZING. Other stations will allow students to LISTEN to slam poetry, to WRITE their own poems, to complete a SCAVENGER HUNT, and to DRAW a visual for a poem they read. With this product you will receive:
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5th - 8th
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FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES LIST 4 ALL GRADES K-12 AND SUBJECTS + TEACHER RESOURCE
Sometimes, you just need a list of websites for everyone. Here it is. FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES Put together by Teach Me, Maria!It takes time to gather this information, figure out the appropriate grade levels, and format, maintain, and update this page. All I ask is for an honest review if this list helps you.
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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Growth Mindset Bell Ringers FREEBIE: Social Emotional Learning Writing Prompts
These fully-editable growth-mindset bell ringers will get your class thinking and are perfect for social emotional learning as well! With thought-provoking and engaging prompts, they can be used as individual writing prompts or large group discussion topics. Teachers agree that these bell ringers are perfect for daily warm ups or morning meetings. I’m so excited for your students to experience a variety of life-impacting questions to write about individually or discuss within groups.⭐️ Get all 3
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Homeschool
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Student Engagement Discussion Strategies FREE Activity
Are you tired of using the same speaking and listening strategy over and over again? Do you love the tried and true strategy "Turn and Talk" but are ready to add a few more discussion strategies to your teaching tool belt? This simple strategy will engage your students in discussion and help them meet the Speaking and Listening Core standards. The colorful poster is ready to print and hang or project in your classroom for easy reference when you want kids to talk about a topic or text. If you
Grades:
K - 6th
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Also included in: Community Building Activities - Classroom Community
Peer Team Evaluation Rubric
Have you ever wished you had a way to evaluate students within a small group? Do you struggle to understand how teams are really functioning?
This rubric can be used across the disciplines. I have used this rubric for
-Group Writing Projects
-Group Science Labs
-Group Social Studies Projects
-Group Math Projects
-Literature Groups
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Spaghetti Towers-STEM and Team Building Activity-Group Norms
A classic STEM activity enhanced with a student reflection sheet and tool for building Group Norms in the classroom! Great for a community circle discussion!Resource Includes:Teacher GuideStudent Instruction SheetReflection Sheet and Group Norm Builder
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Economics Activity: Economic Questions & the Factors of Production | School Gear
The basic concepts of economics are learned in this fun lesson called School Gear! While understanding economic decisions that need to be made, students will form groups and design school gear as if they were going to produce and sell it. Groups are instructed to answer 12 questions as they imagine and create their school gear. Students are also responsible for a visual representation of their gear along with a written description of their products. Enjoy this free download and thank you so mu
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Not Grade Specific
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Chritmas Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions for SEL
Reading Comprehension and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or any other winter holidays!⭐️See the full 55 page activity bundle here including differentiated stories and activities, vocabulary instruction, a collaborative project, written responses, and more!⭐️Lesson Topics Included: Academic PressureSocial ExpectationsQuality vs Quantity in SocializingFamily DynamicsBalancing PrioritiesSelf-Care TechniquesCreate a Stress Management PlanNormalization of StressPeer
Grades:
5th - 12th
Project Based Learning: Plastics | Microplastics | Oceans | Pollution
Are you looking for a unit on the environmental impacts of plastic pollution? Having trouble finding a unit where students are actively engaged through inquiry? We've got you covered! Our FREE mini unit on plastic ocean pollution and microplastics is the perfect supplement to your curriculum. In this unit, students will be introduced to an incredible, real innovator who created a way to reduce plastic ocean pollution using technology. Students will engage in inquiry, research, and collaborative
Grades:
5th - 8th, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
MS-ESS3-2
, 5-ESS3-1
, 4-ESS3-2
Daily Agenda Slides-World Geography Theme - Digital Version
Are you looking for an easy way to display student learning and expectations for your students everyday? These Daily Agenda Slides are a PERFECT way for you to start each class off organized and ready to go!This resource includes a Google Drive link where you will be able to force copy a set of 6 individual Google Slides that can be used for your daily schedule. The theme of these Slides is World Geography and can be used to display the daily agenda within your World Geography unit of study!Th
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Introduction to Geography Bundle | Reading & Notes - Print and Digital
Social Communication Rubric: Initiating for Self-Advocacy and Socializing
Use this rubric to help identify support levels for various skills related to initiation with your students with pragmatic language needs. Breaks this skill down into functional skills related to initiating for help, with peers for schoolwork, with peers for socializing, and with adults.
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2nd - 12th
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Historical Fiction Novel / Roll & Chat / ELA Small group activity
Get your students discussing their historical fiction novels with this easy to use roll and chat activity! This activity can be used in several small groups at one time or works great as a station option. For this activity you will need a die. Foam die, paper die, game die, whatever you have! You can display the roll and chat chart up on the board for every student to see or print out the document for each group to have.As the students roll a number, they are to answer the question that goes alo
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Free Build Personal Narratives and Conversation Using iPad Story Creating Apps
This FREE handout explains how story-building apps can be used to build narrative skills in your students with language disorders or delays or complex communication needs.Narratives are the heart of our interactions. Conversations are built on personal narratives. Narratives are the heart of understanding literature.Narrative discourse is different from other types of interactions. It is interaction based on stories; either of real-life experiences (one’s own or events overheard/seen) or of f
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in: AAC Core Words Curriculum Teaching Resource Bundle for Speech Therapy
Introduction to Mythology Slideshow
Are you about to teach mythology? Need to give some kids context before diving in? This slideshow is a simple way to introduce the basics of mythology.It includes:- word study about the origins of the word 'mythology'- explanation of mythology as a genre- what unexplainable questions were answered with mythology- how mythological stories were passed down, by both oral and written traditions- discussion of Mt. Olympus, the 12 olympian gods, the Underworld and other Greek 101- explanation on why w
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Grades:
5th - 7th
How to Have a Whole Class Debate- Slide Deck
This slide deck guides you through one week of engaging, challenging activities to prepare for a whole class debate. Debates are student-run activities where they practice speaking, listening, close-reading, using vocabulary, analyzing topics deeply, and working in groups. They can be used in any subject! Purchase the bundle to get the worksheets that support each role in the debate and some teacher sources to help you prepare.
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Community Circle | Middle Grades | Social and Academic Prompts | Free Sample
Why is starting your day with an academic circle right for your grades 5, 6 and 7 students? The answer…The 4 C’s: Community, Communication, Collaboration and Curriculum. Curriculum such as reading comprehension, number sense and financial literacy, writing, media, oral language, science and social studies discussion about global issues, etc. are all covered WHILE building a sense of community and connection with your students.A strongly connected classroom is what we all want. However, as the ye
Grades:
5th - 7th
NGSS:
MS-LS2-5
, MS-ESS3-4
4-Point Discussion Rubric | 4-Point Small Group Discussion Rubric
Check out the variety of discussion rubrics to assess small group and whole group discussions. There are three different versions of the rubric to make it easier for teachers to access their students’ work, as well as students to engage in self-assessments. What is AssessedPreparationListeningParticipationConduct These rubrics are aligned to the Common Core and the Next Generation. Thank you for visiting my store!Janelle LawrenceThe Urban Teacher, LLC For more teacher tips, tricks, and resourc
Grades:
5th - 8th
Say Something Strategy Sheet
Introducing Say Something, the revolutionary strategy that transforms passive reading into active engagement. Designed to empower students with critical thinking skills, Say Something interrupts the traditional reading process, prompting students to pause and reflect on what they've just read.Here's how it works: Students form small groups and take turns reading aloud from a text. After each passage, they invite their peers to "Say Something." This simple prompt sparks a flurry of predictions, q
Grades:
6th - 12th
Total Participation Techniques Bounce Card
Classroom conversation tool as seen in Total Participation Techniques: Making Every Student an Active Learner (Himmele & Himmele, 2017). Use this tool to facilitate and scaffold student-led conversations by displaying on instructional slides, printing for each student, or laminating for repeated use across classes!
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
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