This simple and student friendly template is designed to facilitate student note taking. The format is customized from Cornell Notes and adapted for success for students at all levels. This product comes with 4 differentiated versions that include different line spacings, bullet points, and empty spaces to meet the needs of all students in your classroom!
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This graphic organizer facilitates students planning for writing a summary or paragraph. Following the five sentence template, students will be prompted to think through various components that should be included such as a topic sentence, supporting details, and a conclusion sentence. The file comes in three different formats that can be used to differentiate and meet student needs with open spaces, bullet points, and lines.
Using this template will organize the thoughts and ideas of your students to make their paragraphs far more developed and meaningful.
This differentiated template with the prompt of "I wish my teacher knew..." holds amazing power in gaining insight into the thoughts, feelings, emotions, and ideas of students. Through a comfortable, non-verbal way, students are able to inform the teacher of things they find important and most valuable, in a non-confrontational way. This variety pack includes templates in different formats including lines, space, and bullet points, for simple and easy differentiation to meet students' needs and different grade levels. They are also pre-made for full size sheets and half size sheets for your convenience!
Check out this simple but effective differentiated acrostic poem template. There are three levels in which you can easily designate for different students or for different grade bands. A clear set of instructions are also included for the students and can be easily removed for display in the classroom!
Completing a writing assignment in your classroom that is related to stars, space, rockets, planets, or goals? Well check out this great differentiated star writing template that has three different templates with different line spacing to accommodate different students and skills.
This simple yet effective reflection form, will allow students to deeply and thoroughly reflect on a reading, activity, video of lesson. Trying to figure out how to make videos more purposeful and meaningful in your classroom? This is the answer. Starting off with the worksheet and then transitioning to students drawing the shapes and answering the memorized prompts will allow students to think through what stuck out, something they agreed with, and something that is still spinning in their head. It's simple to use and highly effective!
In an effort to hold students accountable in a meaningful way, try giving this template a try for when students read at home. This simple and student friendly organizer allows students to record the title of their book, the time they spent reading, and a brief summary about what they read. Parents will then initial each night, and at the end of the week you will have a quick reference guide of what students read, and their level of understanding the text. This has the ability to build comprehension, fluency, and ultimately the love of reading. This form offers great documentation for interventions and reference. It also holds students and families accountable with the initials component.
This simple and student friendly template is designed to facilitate student note taking. The format is customized from Cornell Notes and adapted for success for students at all levels. This product comes with 3 differentiated versions that includes lines, bullet points, and empty spaces to meet the needs of all students in your classroom!
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Check out this awesome engaging task card to build vocabulary. Based on the Frayer Model, students will answer six questions about a vocabulary word based on the roll of their die. Implementation is flexible based on teacher preference, but the goal is that students respond to the six prompts which include things like define the word, find a synonym, antonym, draw and picture and more. This fun and exciting activity will keep kids learning and on task with ease!
Invest students in building their vocabulary, increasing their spelling and improving their handwriting all while having fun! For this worksheet, students will draw an image on the computer screen and then write what it is below. The drawing will allow great student buy-in and will hook them into wanting to label it. As students develop they can describe their image with more words and/or larger words!
This activity works perfectly as an introduction to a lesson, a fun homework, a quick assessment after learning new letters, or a Do Now to get students thinking!
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Check out this fun and empowering poem in which students will complete sentence stems to form a poem about themselves. This is a great activity for the beginning of the year or as an introduction to poems. It can be easily adapted for any age and can offer insight into how your students see themselves and the world.
*The "I Am: ___________" component is supposed to be the same for the three times it resurfaces.
Check out this simple and user-friendly log that can be used to record and document your student conferences regarding their progress. This can easily be used for student led conferences or can be facilitated by the teacher. The template has 4 meeting spots on it, if you want to meet weekly or whatever best fits your schedule. Easily create a binder tracking these conferences over the course of the year for each student.
The log has three main areas which include "Strengths", "Areas of Focus", and "Next Steps". Best of luck to you and your students!
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This clear and well-organized Venn Diagram is a must! Each page has two sets of diagrams on it; one can be used to model while the second one can be used for independent practice. With it, comes three templates that are leveled for differentiation purposes. One has no lines, and the other two have differently spaced out lines to accommodate different students or different grades!
This really simple, clear, and well-organized read log template is a must for all classrooms! Students need to be reading daily at home, and this log is a great way for students to own their own tracking as well as offer data points for teachers to track home reading time. The log is differentiated to three levels to allow more and less books for more and less space.
Check out this awesome set of Acrostic Poems all associated with Valentine's Day! You will find 13 different poems that can easily be distributed to different students for easy differentiation. Students will love to engage with this interactive activity and will be proud to have their work displayed in the classroom!
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Check out this awesome set of Acrostic Poems all associated with Valentine's Day! You will find 12 different poems that can easily be distributed to different students for easy differentiation. Students will love to engage with this interactive activity and will be proud to have their work displayed in the classroom!
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This fun and well-designed worksheet is comprised for 10 different images where students will be responsible to identify those images and then choose one of three letters that makes the same beginning sound. Students will develop their phonemic awareness while following the theme of the topic.
RF.K.1, RF.K.1d, RF.K.2d, RF.1.2, RF.1.2c, RF.1.2d
This is a really fun challenge page to promote higher level thinking and can offer a quick solution to early finishers, gifted and talented or just a fun activity to make a Teacher's Day. The goal is for students to complete traditional proverbs with their own sentences.
While students are being assessed for their reading fluency, make your feedback that much more meaningful but following these simple to use abbreviations. When they are marked on the copy of the reading assignment, it makes the running record of fluency purposeful; not only does it inform you what they need to work on, but provides precise components for parents and students to focus on moving forward. This simple abbreviation reference guide has six per page and is meant to be cut, to include one small one per reading passage. It also has a space for total words read in that given minute. Take you feedback to a whole new level!
This simple and student-friendly graphic organizer takes your students' writing and reading to the next level. Student will begin with a main idea at the top of the page. The students then will identify two supporting details of that main idea. Off of each supporting detail, students will need to identify two sources of evidence from the text. This can also be done working your way backwards, to facilitate students identifying the main idea. The template has three different varieties for differentiation purposes.