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.

For all of you owl lovers out there getting ready to start back to school, this resource is a set of approximately fifty name plates that can be utilized for each student that follow an owl theme! Brighten your classroom with these versatile name plates that will make each one of your students feel special and important. Each name plate can be laminated to each students’ desks and lockers. They can also be used to personalize announcements and schedules! Have an awesome school year!

This resource packet is a must for heading back to school. It’s uses are multiple! The first fifteen slides are for each child in your classroom to celebrate his or her uniqueness as he/she comes back to school to get started with a new school year. Students are able to draw a portrait of themselves in the middle oval of the crayon template and then write a message about themselves somewhere on the crayon! Finally, they can color the entire crayon template for an awesome bulletin board to begin the year with a community of learners! Next, there are six slides of colored crayons that can be used for class name tags, a classroom door, desk plates, or a class bulletin board. The final six slides are templates of boxes of colors that can be utilized for the same purposes! Begin the year with a colorful theme! The students will love it!

May is right around the corner! Use this resource in a multitude of ways! This is an awesome list of more than 100 May words to use as a springboard for writing in March. These words will aid in narrative, informative, and argumentative writing as well as poetry! These sheets can be given to each student to place in his/her Writer’s Notebook! Students will hugely enjoy writing poetry during the month of May when so much state testing occurs. Students might write cinquains, diamontes, haikus, and other forms of poetry throughout the month. Additionally, utilize this May word bank to help jog your students’ brains for topics in writing! This May word bank may serve to keep their creative juices flowing. The uses of the word bank are limitless!

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 three focuses on syllables. This poetry packet on cinquains is great for whole group instruction, small group instruction, as well as in a poetry center. Students will be very proud of their poetry they create. Upon completion, publish a book of cinquains for fall. The beautiful, fall scences serve as a springboard students’ thinking and constructing. Students might also take the opportunity to recite their poetry to the class and focus on their speaking and listening skills!

Here is an October word bank that will completely come in handy for a Writer's Notebook. This word bank is comprehensive of the many words that come to mind during the month of October and are sure to get your students' creative juices flowing! There are approximately 20-25 words that spur your students' brains for all kinds of writing-- narrative, expository, argumentative, etc. Use this October word bank for writing, ABC order, poetry, etc. It's uses are only limited by your imagination!

When teaching the writing process, utilize this mini-poster set, which includes ten posters, for easy reference to point out all of the different purposes for why writers write! These mini-posters are the perfect size for being placed above the whiteboard all year long or they will fit perfect on a bulleting board for referencing. Happy Writing!

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!

In this resource packet, you will find absolutely beautiful mini-posters to reinforce ten basic shapes in teaching geometric concepts. Shapes include: circle, hexagon, oval, pentagon, rectangle, square, trapezoid, triangle, and rhombus. These mini-posters are the perfect size to arrange on a math bulletin board or positioned right above the whiteboard for easy reference! They are just plain beautiful posters!

Use these six mini-posters for easy reference in establishing great beginnings with bringing writing to life. These can serve as a year long reference for students! Each poster focuses on a different way to begin one’s writing and an example is given for each way to begin. This is a great resource for any classroom that will focus on different aspects of writing all year!

How many of us have great intentions when it comes to placing on our "To-Do" list making a positive call, email, text, etc. to one of our students' parents to communicate with them something great their child has achieved. While we have great intentions, all too often, it "slips to the back burner" and doesn't happen as often as it should. Use this resource to make sure this happens, and use it as a tool to make sure that within a given amount of time most all of your students have received that magic "bellsouth" call expressing something that everyone can be proud of... we know that many times the not-so-positive phone call, email, text, etc is received so much better and more positive when a positive piece of news has been shared as well along the way. Use this log to keep track of your communication as well as a tool to utilize at parent conferences-- great tool to begin the year with not to mention how much students will love your efforts!

Evidence suggests that children who reverse numbers or letters may have a visual tracking problem that produces dyslexia. Use these “blue bandages” to place under the text or problem that students are working on to help them focus. The “blue bandages” might be placed on a craft stick for more durability or laminated for longer use! This resource packet contains thirty “blue bandages.” Students will be able to focus better on keeping up and tracking as they read with this tool!

In this packet, you will find an awesome classroom management tool for students who are oppositional and refuse to follow directions. Oftentimes, these students fall behind in their academic progress because of challenging behavior. This communication tool is to help increase the chances of these students having a positive response and follow the directions given! The first four pages are the tickets that challenging students can earn for “not wanting to do something but choosing to do it anyway!” The next set of four pages are the tickets that challenging students earn when they “choose to say NO!” This is a great Tier II and/ or Tier III intervention as well!

When elementary students learn to follow directions, it begins a complimentary compliance with requests that improves their relationships with everyone! Young students sometimes have difficulty transitioning from one activity to another, especially students on the autism spectrum. Many times transitions causes anxiety or students just seem to be stuck and not be able to transition to the next task well. Because transitions can be difficult, use this packet of materials to help teach students how to transition effectively. This packet allows students to follow adults’ directions without whining, arguing, and/or complaining. In this packet is a set of visual, nonverbal signal cards that can serve as transition signals. These cards are very nonthreatening, non-obtrusive individualized approach to transitioning. A teacher can simply place a card on a student’s desk and walk away. Cards include “GO,” “slow down and breathe,” and “STOP!” Students are sure to respond to these cards and will receive an individualized warning that a transition time is approaching!

Children are sure to love these reward menus for a job well done! In this packet, you will find three different types of reward menus for your students to choose from in being rewarded for doing a great job, doing the right thing, or meeting his/her target goal on a behavior contract! On each page are three reward menus to use with your students. Some of the menus relate more to younger children while some are specifically designed with older students in mind. Additionally, some rewards relate to academics while others relate to helping roles, praise, recognition, prizes, or recreation. You can’t go wrong using these with your students!

You are sure to love this product! This is a packet of six reinforcement menus with a fall candy corn background to serve as a reward for great behavior. Oftentimes, in terms of universal screening for behavior, there are students who need more reinforcement than others. This product is ideal for those students who are on Tier II for behavior as well as those students who just need that extra “booster shot” in terms of working on his/her behavior and making great choices! The reinforcement menus relate to different areas such as academic activities, helping roles, praise/recognition, prizes/ rewards/privileges, and recreation. Your students are certain to work hard to be able to pick from one of these menus! This is a great product for Response to Intervention as well as reinforcing established behavior contracts!

WOWZA! You are going to be able to build some confidence with these motivational notes – that’s for sure! What child doesn’t want to feel great about themselves and their abilities to be successful on any given day? This resource can be utilized several different ways… (1) Use as the school year begins on “beginning of the year work” for a job well done; (2) Use as a possible header to showcase student work using the theme, “The BFG” in a bulletin board; (3) Use this set as a token to give to the parents of the students in your classroom to begin the process of establishing a great relationship in that parents can place these small tokens in their students’ lunch boxes; and (4) Use these small tokens of confidence to share with the counselor and/or the administrator for them to use as they determine they might be needed! This is only a few of the many, many ways to capitalize on these small confidence builders, and it is quite possible that everyone will have seen the new movie, “The BFG,” as the year begins! There is a total of 135 motivational notes!

Think for a few minutes how much time you spend each day trying to gather assignments for students who have had to check out early or have been absent all day. It is a very important task; however, we know that it can take valuable time. This resource is to help you out! Don’t spend any more time scurrying through your lesson plans to make sure you don’t miss any of the make-up work and/or announcements that your student(s) may have missed. Use a page each day to stay “ahead of the make-up work/announcements/what's for homework syndrome.” This assignment book is very similar to student assignment planners that are sometimes given to students at the beginning of the year. On each page, first, there is a small space to record the date. Additionally, there is a space for you to document who was absent or checked out early etc. The biggest area of the sheet is a space for you to jot down, throughout the day, assignments that were given to students. By jotting them down, you can very quickly look and gather materials quickly for these students. There is also a space dedicated to any important announcements that were made and/or notes that might have gone home or project directions, etc. This area is for all of those other important things that are communicated to the students that the student who is absent doesn’t hear or receive. The last area on the sheet is that of a space dedicated to place any homework assignments that were discussed, assigned, and/or gone over. By placing all of the information in one spot daily, this becomes a huge time-saver and we all know how valuable our instructional time is. I have included sixty-five pages in this packet but I encourage you to download as often as you need throughout the school year!

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

Educators, from novice to veteran, will all reap benefits from participating in this book study/field guide experience in an on-going professional development activity. This resource can be utilized and implemented in many different facets and scenarios. The following are a few examples of its implementation: (1) An independent professional development completed by oneself to improve his/her leadership skills; (2) A small group, possibly a PLC, of colleagues who work together either in a grade level or department/content area who want to improve leadership skills; (3) A group of novice administrators looking to improve his/her leadership skills; (4) A superintendent with a group of school site administrators who want to collectively improve leadership skills; and (5) A literacy coach who is coaching to improve the leadership skills of a cadre of teacher leaders. The following can be found in this resource of 50 pages: (1) A summary of the three fables; (2) An introduction of the entirety of the story/fable for the reader; (3) A character’s list for the reader; (4) Charts to complete that correspond to specified pages and activities; (5) Approximately 130 discussion questions to complete as the fables are read and discussed in small group; (6) Fill-in-the-Blank statements that correspond to specified pages within the story; Activities to Complete Include the Following: (1) Activity 1: “Worthwhile Work” (2) Activity 2: “Meaningless Jobs” (3) Activity 3: “Commitment and Buy-In” (4) Activity 4: “Values vs. Goals” (5) Activity 5: “Hold or Roll” (6) Activity 6: “What’s Our Why?” (7) Activity 7: “What’s Your Mantra?” Additionally, there are 10 mini-posters to illustrate each of the three fables and utilize, when needed, for small group discussion. Gung-Ho! as you all work through this professional development activity regarding improving your leadership skills! Related Products Include: (1) Professional Development Book Study: The Energy Bus Leadership Guide and Workbook (2) Professional Development Book Study: Are You Educating a Fish in a Tree? (3) Professional Development Book Study: Our Iceberg is Melting!