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Professional development Common Core CCRA.R.1 resources
Teaching Collaboration: A 21st Century Skill
Do you teach collaboration skills? This is a great resource to use before students engage in a collaborative project or activity! The activities in this resource can be used in any content area across the curriculum to teach collaboration skills. During the first month of back to school or before students engage in collaborative learning, use the activities in this resource as a springboard to help students understand your expectations during cooperative learning assignments. The activities can
Grades:
3rd - 9th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Standards Based Digital Grade Book Google Sheets (TM) Middle School Bundle
Do you use standards based grading?This Standards Based Middle School Gradebook in Google Sheets ™️ is a bundle that includes 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade teacher digital grade books.Do you want to find an easy to use, standards based grade book for your classroom or school? This gradebook in Google ™️ apps has it all. The CCSS standards are in a drop down menu to make assignment entry simple. Features:▶️Editable so you can add your local standards▶️Colors are customizable▶️Quick entry of
Grades:
6th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ESS3-1
, MS-LS4-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-PS3-1
TWIST Literary Analysis Strategy PowerPoint
T.W.I.S.T. is the perfect strategy for analyzing literature. Students will remember the acronym T.W.I.S.T. as they analyze any piece of text for tone, word choice, imagery, style, and theme. Common Core-aligned product can be used as a professional development tool for ELA teachers or a mini-lesson for students. Slides include a comprehensive explanation of T.W.I.S.T., how to apply it, examples from literature including "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Lottery," and "The Scarlet Ibis," as well as
Grades:
6th - 12th
"Ode to Teachers" by Pat Mora Reading Questions and Extension Activity
"Ode to Teachers" by Pat Mora might seem like an oddly self-serving poem to teach in class. However, this is a great poem for teaching main idea. It's also a great poem to use with other teachers when practicing new strategies and techniques. To facilitate a conversation with students or as part of professional development, I have included main idea questions, multiple choice questions, and a visualization extension activity (with rubric). Everything is included in a fillable .pdf and is Google
Grades:
11th - 12th
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The Science of Reading Breakout Game
Looking to learn about the Science of Reading in a fun, engaging, team-like format? This bundle is designed for staff Professional Development in reading. It is an excellent resource for teachers in grades Pre-K-12 as it includes researcher's findings on how to teach the components of reading! Test your knowledge with your colleagues in this game! This bundle includes all of the resources ready-made to set-up and play this game. It is best for group sizes ranging from 6 players up to 40+. To pla
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Grades:
PreK - 12th, Staff
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Student Satisfaction Survey. Needs Assessment. Checklist. Learning Feedback.
4 generic surveys teachers can give students to get feedback about how well they think the class is going. Plus a student information sheet to detail info. about students. Also, a post-lesson reflection sheet to get feedback. Do anonymously. Translate into students' L1 if needed, for ESL and EFL classes.Needs analysis and a good way to get a general view of how students feel about their classroom experiences and their learning preferences, skills/abilities. ESL, EFL, ESOL, worksheets, learning
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Inferring 101 Toolbox for Guided Reading and Beyond
Inferring 101 Toolbox includes ALL my inferring tools and more (my toolboxes combine all my resources into one, saving you money). It is 70 pages of lesson plans, graphic organizers, thinking stems and presentations to use as they are or to mix and match to fit your needs. Inferring 101 is a tool for you to help students, staff, and your own teaching as you work on the very difficult strategy of teaching inferring! Inferring 101 combines all of my inferring tools and resources all into one! Tha
Grades:
2nd - 6th
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English Language Arts Common Core Standards Checklist (grades 9-12)
This resource can be used by high school English Language Arts teachers, department chairs, curriculum specialists, etc. to examine curriculum. This tool can be used to begin the process of curriculum mapping, vertical articulation, and professional reflection.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Build a Snowball Launcher - Reading Instructions & Review Activity
This activity was born from the need for students to carefully read instructions while also reviewing content area material for midterm exams. This Build a Snowball Launcher has what you need to complete this cycle:Step 1. Students complete a review activity of your choice (whatever your students need!). Type in the instructions for this on the editable page /slide, included.Step 2. Students receive a card that explains one step of building the launcher.Repeat those two steps (up to 5 review act
Grades:
6th - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-4
Professional Development: First Day Organization for A Year of Writing Fluency
Need a lesson plan for the first day that will set your students up to become fluent writers for the state test assessment? I used this plan to challenge students to Seize the Day every year in 10th grade English. I recommend it for middle school as well.Creating a classroom community of writers was one of my teacher goals. Video clips from facebook with Robin Williams teaching students they can and will write great poems are featured (digital links in google doc for teacher). A formula poem "
Grades:
6th - 12th
TEACHING WITH INTENTION CHANGES EVERYTHING - Teacher Guide
Unlock the Power of Accelerated Reading with Our TEACHING WITH INTENTION CHANGES EVERYTHING Guide! Are you ready to revolutionize your students' reading abilities and achieve remarkable results in record time?! Look no further! Introducing our TEACHING WITH INTENTION CHANGES EVERYTHING Guide, your ultimate resource to transform your literacy teaching methods and elevate your students' reading experiences. TEACHING WITH INTENTION CHANGES EVERYTHING includes... Personalized Teaching with Data:
Grades:
K - 8th, Higher Education
Two Things Retrieval Practice Resource
This retrieval practice resource can be used for staff during professional development, or with students before, during, or after a lesson!
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Not Grade Specific
BTS: Professional Development: Teach Writing With Mentor Texts, Children's Books
Teaching Writing With Mentor Texts includes children's books I have used successfully in a variety of grade levels to teach writing. Includes a summary of the book, a link for a reading of the book, and suggestions of what writing lessons will work with the books.I taught K-8 pullout Gifted and Talented classes using these books. I also used them to teach high school students. The quality of writing produced varied widely depending on the grade level. The first graders had fun with first person
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Stop and Jot
Stop and Drop is a formative assessment, reflection, and discussion tool to use with students and adult learners. No matter the learner, engagement is a struggle. This tool will help you to increase student learning at all ages!Use Stop and Drop as a reflection on new learning that has just taken place. Have students pause and think about their learning. You can edit the quadrants to your desired questions or use the ones provided. Once students have been given sufficient time to reflect, have
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
Growth Mindset Article of the Week
This is a student-friendly article on growth mindset that I adapted from Mindsetworks.com to include excerpts from the book The Growth Mindset Coach by Annie Brock and Heather Hundley. When I taught ELA, I assigned this article as an Article of the Week assignment, which students had to annotate and summarize. I also paired it with a TedTalk video on Grit by Angelea Lee Duckworth, which students were to watch with their parents/guardians and post a reflection on as a Canvas discussion. While I u
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Not Grade Specific
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Study Skills Handbook: Elaboration, Distinctiveness, and Making Connections
Companion to my Youtube video series on study strategies.This handbook in no way exhausts the different ways elaboration, distinctiveness, and making connections can be used to study and to learn. These are all examples of strategies in action from my own classroom.Elaboration strategies can take many forms, but is always involves going DEEPER and uncovering MORE information about facts, words, ideas, skills, concepts, or texts.Distinctiveness strategies help students strive to make clear contr
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Not Grade Specific
Close Reading, Literary Analysis, Critical Literary Analysis Comparison Chart
These terms for approaches to text are often used interchangeably; however, these are different approaches as I show you on this chart.This chart is basically for teachers. It details what is the same and different about these three approaches.
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
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