You will not want to miss this packet of informational text articles to use with your students in the classroom! This is a bundle of four fall articles that range from 450-650 words. Each article has illustrations and captions to further explain the text. At the conclusion of each article, there is a six question formative assessment to get a snapshot of students vocabulary and comprehension skills. The following articles are contained in this packet: (1) Visiting An Apple Orchard: A Fun Fall Activity! (2) The Origins of Carving a Jack-O-Lantern (3) Bobbing for Apples: A Fall Fun Favorite! (4) Fall Fun: Wind Your Way Through the Corn Mazes!

This is an awesome resource for a language arts teacher. This is a mini-poster set for referencing parts of punctuation. This set includes a mini-poster for apostrophes, colons, semi-colons, exclamation point, periods, quotation marks, question marks, and commas. They are a perfect fit for a bulletin board. As well, they are the perfect size to fit right above a whiteboard for easy reference all year long!

This is a resource pack that you do not want to miss! This packet is ten pages long and contains the following activities: *Sentence dictation with Conversational Candy Hearts *Estimation *Finding the Difference *Constructing a Bar Graph *Writing a Haiku *Constructing a Pie Graph All of these teaching and learning activities are from the central theme of Conversational Candy Hearts!

This resource is sure to engage all of your learners. They will be most eager to get started on these activities leading to the 100th day of school or… work as many activities as possible on the actual 100th day of school. Activities range from guessing how old the teacher will be in one hundred years, to predicting what their town/city will be like in 100 years. Additionally students are asked to make a list of 100 reasons why they love their school and many other thought provoking, brainstorming, jumpstarting the brain activities in celebration of this big day! This resource is set-up in a power point format so that each activity can be approached on individual days leading up to the event or each activity can be placed in a center unto itself. This resource can be used in such a multitude of different ways! Your students are sure to love these ten activities to celebrate this day of achievement in their school year!

Your students will enjoy working with the “Daily Buzzword” all year long. Use the mini-poster with the honeycomb to post the “daily buzzword” (vocabulary word for reinforcement). Students should then work through each of the activities listed on each of the mini-posters to include: defining the buzzword, using the buzzword in a sentence, illustrating the buzzword sentence, writing a synonym for the buzzword, writing an antonym for the buzzword, listing the part of speech that the buzzword is mostly used as in a sentence, and then finally illustrate the daily buzzword in general!

You are sure to enjoy this set of mini-posters to use with your students. As we all know, it is hugely important to continue to work with our students daily on refining their writing skills while also spending time writing for different audiences and purposes. To practice a lifelong skill, teach students the importance of annotating their work when reading and in turn they will better understand annotating when writing. This set of mini-posters all give students important hints and clues of how to read critically and write critically in annotating their work. This resource set includes six mini-posters all providing reference information for you to refer to when teaching annotating!

This is an awesome 66 slide training resource for ALL educators! The training ranges from a definition of differentiation, cartoons of differentiation for icebreakers, aspects of instruction that can be differentiated to strategies of differentiating, examples of menus, choice boards, menus, planners, and tic-tac-toe choice boards! These slides can be utilized at a focused faculty meeting, professional development session, and/or a PLC.

With the recent release of the new Batman versus Superman movie, what better time to take a stand as to who really is the best superhero. As a way to reinforce argumentative/persuasive writing, utilize this resource to engage your students! This resource contains the following: (1) graphic organizer to frame one's thinking for forming an opinion or an argument (2) sample of five pages of a plain writing template for drafting and editing (3) sample of five pages of those who prefer "Batman" writing paper for drafting and editing (4) sample of five pages of those who prefer "Superman" writing paper for drafting and editing (5) 4-5 research articles on Batman (6) 4-5 research articles on Superman Allow students to conduct their research and form his/her opinion based on evidence from their research. Students will love this as you are teaching so many important standards!

This packet is awesome to say the least! You will find twelve posters with amazing backgrounds to help illustrate twelve different genres of literature. These genres include: poetry, fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, realistic fiction, mystery, biography, autobiography, drama, fanciful tales, and humor. These mini-posters are perfect for a bulletin board or to be placed above your whiteboard as a reference tool all year long as students embark on each genre throughout their studies. The absolutely amazing, beautiful illustrations are sure to capture your students attention!

This timeless Caldecott winner is sure to bring our the imaginations of all of your students. Students absolutely love this story of fantasy and will delight in engaging in all of the teaching and learning activities. In this literature study, you will find a total of twenty-five teaching and learning activities all connected with this great piece of literature! Activities are all correlated to Common Core State Standards. Additionally, there is a formative comprehension check with ten questions. You don't wanna miss this literature study particularly during the month of October while potentially doing a study of "wild things and monsters!"

This unit is a literature study of The Greedy Triangle. In this unit, there are eight teaching and learning activities with opportunities for extending the literature study with eight additional activities. In the reading and math activities, there are approximately sixteen Common Core State Standards addressed and covered in the teaching and learning sequence. There are questions written at the remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating levels of thinking to formatively assess comprehension. There is also a quiz at the end of the literature study to help gauge success in mastering math geometry vocabulary. Your students will absolutely love this literature study!

This resource is a must have for giving a solid description of the three tiers of instruction. It is full of infographics that aid in the explanation for a refresher session on each tier. The training slides progress from the programs, methodologies, and strategies that we specifically use at tier one to ensure high quality instruction to the intensiveness of tier III and the possibility of progressing to a child-study through the MET team. Next, an in-depth look is given to tier two and specific strategies that help to intervene in specific deficits. Then, a look at tier III is investigated and discussed. This training is meant to take the participant through each tier looking at strategies, decision-making skills, and timelines for best practice. This training can be used in a focused faculty meeting, a professional development session, or in a smaller professional learning community as a specific focus group strengthens their process in Response to Intervention!

Your students will be tickled pink by these humorous posters which feature popular idioms and clues associated with their definitions and implied meanings. Use these posters to explore parts of speech, promote understanding of figurative language, and use as a spring board for further study of figures of speech and writing experiences. This packet contains forty-three popular idioms and matching illustrations. You might focus on an idiom a week or use several to display on a writer’s workshop bulletin board! Your students will love these hilarious posters!

This resource is a set of critical academic vocabulary words that all fifth graders should know to master the Common Core State Standards! 85% of achievement and criterion referenced assessments are based on the vocabulary of the standards! Students from poverty, ELL students, and other at-risk students are particularly in need of learning these words in ways that meet their specific learning needs and styles throughout the year! Included in this set of Tier II academic vocabulary are the high frequency words of the CCSS and the words present in the exemplars provided in Appendix B. This awesome resource consists of over 100 slides with academic vocabulary specifically for fifth grade. These words are the perfect size to add to your word wall and spiral back to all year long. This set of fifth grade vocabulary consists of over two hundred words! Check it out!

This is the perfect set of instructional materials to work with your students in the last few weeks prior to the Christmas break! Whew! It is a busy time of the year that’s for sure! Now, to let you know a bit more about this product. As most of you are probably aware, Zillow has drawn quite a considerable amount of attention to themselves in the last week or so by creating a listing of Santa’s home at the North Pole! So, I have taken that listing and capitalized on it as a teaching and learning experience! This packet of materials contains the following: (1) 30 comprehension questions that travel and span the different levels of complexity; (2) 10 selected vocabulary words from the listing to complete “word work” with to include fifteen different pages of vocabulary graphic organizers to utilize; (3) A performance based task that can be differentiated just simply by student preference; (4) 3 different performance based tasks which involve “designing and creating” based on written descriptions from the listing that include the topics of: (1) Santa’s garage; (2) state-of-the-art toy making facility; and (3) toy prototypes; (5) 2 argumentative/persuasive writing prompts complete with organizers to frame thinking; (6) An extended activity in terms of investigating the history of Fisher Price Toys and sequencing major events within the article; (7) An extended activity in terms of investigating the proper way to roast chestnuts and sequencing major events within the article; (8) An extended activity in terms of utilizing a cake batter sugar cookie recipe complete with comprehension questions; and (9) An extended activity in terms of using analogies complete with graphic organizers to frame the analogies.

This resource is a set of critical academic vocabulary words that all fourth graders should know to master the Common Core State Standards! 85% of achievement and criterion referenced assessments are based on the vocabulary of the standards! Students from poverty, ELL students, and other at-risk students are particularly in need of learning these words in ways that meet their specific learning needs throughout the year! Included in this set of Tier II academic vocabulary are the high frequency words of the CCSS and the words present in the exemplars provided in Appendix B.

In this packet, you will find approximately thirty-three pages of photo props. The props include the following: (1) Liberty Bell; (2) God Bless America statement; (3) Uncle Sam Top hat: (4) Betsy Ross; (5) bouquets of fireworks; (6) Rockets; (7) the American Flag; (8) the Statue of Liberty; (9) Uncle Sam; (10) a July 4th Emogi; (11) an American cupcake, and many more! There is at least eight of each photo prop so you shouldn’t lack for everyone having a great choice as to what he/she might want to use in making his or her perfect photo. Are you planning a summer get together in the back yard? Are you working with a summer enrichment program and want to create a photo booth for your kiddos? Are you looking for a fun activity to do with your own kiddos? If any of these scenarios apply, look no more… you have found the perfect activity. Everyone loves to make selfies and other pics with family and friends to cherish forever! If you have boas or other props to put with these, the more the merrier. All you need to do is to print these on heavy cardstock, cut them out, and glue to a dowel or even a skewer in some instances. For young children, please be sure to use dowels in that skewers sometimes have sharp ends! Happy Independence Day!

Your students will be more than excited to be engaged in this informational text! This is an informative article written about the abandoned Six Flags Amusement Park in New Orleans, Jazz Land, who closed its door on August 21, 2005, and was scheduled to reopen the following weekend on August 27, 2005, and was never able to open its doors again to this day! With the forecast, the park braced for the storm and everyone evacuated. It has never re-opened. This article is approximately 2,000 words long and has eight illustrations/photos with captions. In the packet, immediately following the article, a twenty question formative assessment can be found complete with multiple-choice (state testing formatted), as well as, open-ended questions on multiple levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy with various levels of rigor. Next, in this ELA packet, one can find a performance task where the students are charged with the responsibility of re-developing the real estate visible from the interstate in New Orleans. The task is very specific in what the learner should accomplish upon completion. As well, there is an argumentative writing prompt for the students to complete and many opportunities for mini-lessons connected to the writing process prior to completion of the essay. Finally, there is an extended, or one might say, an anchor activity that can be utilized for an enrichment project, for early finishers, or for an additional small group project. The project is very versatile and can be utilized successfully in many different scenarios and across multiple class sessions. This text is sure to engage a room full of readers! Honestly, you will find yourself just as engrossed in this theme/topic as your students. There is just something about the word, “abandoned,” that invokes mystery for – the young and the old alike! Related Products: ➩ Informational Text: Old Abandoned Joyland Amusement Park ➩ Informational Text: Abandoned River Country Water Park in Disney