Hello!
My teaching experience includes teaching students at the Primary and the Middle school levels. I find each teaching experience so unique and a scaffold for further teaching and learning.
As learning is eclectic, I focus on creating resources that are not just practical and meaningful but also fun.
So connect with me to motivate, inspire, and empower.
Laurane @teach2tell.com
Hello!
My teaching experience includes teaching students at the Primary and the Middle school levels. I find each teaching experience so unique and a scaffold for further teaching and learning.
As learning is eclectic, I focus on creating resources that are not just practical and meaningful but also fun.
So connect with me to motivate, inspire, and empower.
Laurane @teach2tell.com
This useful pack on fractions will help your students to identify and work with wholes and fifths. Included are anchor charts and printables to reinforce conceptual content. All printables may be collated into a booklet for reference.
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
Student Cover for Booklet
Anchor Charts x 8 on Wholes and Fifths
Finding Fifths: circling shapes that show fifths
Identifying Halves, Fourths, Thirds and Fifths
Colouring a fifth of a shape
Colouring fifths of shapes to represent the fractions
Colouring fifth of groups
Colouring visuals to represent the fractions
Drawing Fifths: cutting shapes into 5 equal parts
Cut and glue fraction visuals to match fractions
Equal Shares: fifths (cut and glue)
Spinning Fifths and colouring to show fifths spun
Showing fifths via cross-sections
Identifying visuals of Fifths and writing the fraction
Writing fifths as fractions for given visuals
Interpreting ‘Fraction of’ problem: fifths
Take your students on a fun Scavenger Hunt on how New Year is celebrated around the world. From tossing coins in water for good fortune, to jumping off chairs at the stroke of midnight, and wearing coloured underpants on New Year’s Day, your students will be left amazed and fascinated with unusual traditions followed in 29 countries in this Scavenger Hunt pack.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
32 Fact Cards on New Year Traditions around the world (USA, England, Australia, France, Italy, Germany, China, Brazil, Denmark, Argentina, Costa Rica, Nigeria, Pakistan, Romania, Portugal, Spain, Japan, South Africa, Ireland, Sicily, Chile, India, Greece, Wales, Puerto Rico, Netherlands, South America, Russia, Peru).
4 Recording Sheets
4 page Answer Key and Banners
ACTIVITY
Place the 32 fact cards on New Year Traditions around the classroom. Students can work individually, in pairs, or in small groups to find the answers to all 32 questions on their response sheets. They must read the fact card to find the answer for each corresponding fact question on their response sheets.
Wrap-up the activity by getting students together and asking them to share the facts they found the most interesting.
** You may break-up the activity and do cards (1-17) or (18-32) depending upon time available.
This Bar Graphs Class Surveys collection features collecting, graphing and interpreting data on topics your students will relate to. This is perfect for a getting-to-know-you back to school activity, or alternatively for applying graphing skills in real life situations.
►What’s Included
✓ 12 Class Surveys on topics of interest.
✓ Choice of three Cover Sheets if compiling student surveys into a booklet.
✓ Vocabulary Cards featuring mathematical terminology.
►Content
The following bar graphs require students to conduct surveys to collect and tabulate data. Students then graph the data on a grid, record findings and write down two questions to ask a friend. A set of questions facilitate the interpreting of collected data.
►Targeting Differentiation
Graphing templates are provided with the scale drawn and intervals marked. For each graphing activity, there are also blank grids for students to mark the intervals. A variety of questions to interpret data collected target differentiation.
►Bar graphs under this section include:
✓ favourite Food
✓ favourite Sport
✓ favourite Subject
✓ favourite Ice-cream
✓ Sales at the Canteen
✓ favourite colour
✓ favourite Pasta
✓ favourite Season
✓ Our Birthday Months
►►In addition, the following three graphs require students to collect data against their own categories on a given subject.
✓ Best Movie
✓ Best Game
✓ Best Music Artist
►Setting Up Students For Success
Prior to having students attempt each survey, project the completed sample for each graphing activity on the interactive whiteboard so students have an overall idea of the requirements of the activity.
This resource on pie charts features 54 colour and black and white task cards.
►► 1. Reading and Interpreting Pie Charts – Section 1
There are 44 colour and black and white task cards in this section comprising of two student answer response sheets. Answers to all 44 questions included.
►► 2. Constructing and Interpreting Pie Charts – Section 2
This section has 6 colour and black and white task cards that require students to collect real-life data via class surveys. Collected data is tabulated and represented in a pie chart. Students use a protractor to construct the degrees of each sector. There are 12 response sheets (2 per page) to represent and interpret data collected in pie charts.
►► 3. Constructing and Interpreting Pie Charts – Section 3
There are 4 colour and black and white task cards that require students to use hands-on materials (dice, spinners, M&M’s and coins) to collect data. There are 8 response sheets (2 per page) to represent and interpret collected data in pie charts. Students use a protractor to construct the degrees of each sector.
In addition, there are 12 vocabulary cards featuring key mathematical terminology and 1 poster defining and explaining the concept of pie charts.
►► A completed sample of each graphing activity is included.
ACTIVITY:
✓ Spread task cards around the classroom. I personally like to tape to walls, so they don’t get lost in all the excitement.
✓ Provide students with a clipboard and the recording sheet.
✓ Students work, individually, in pairs, or in small groups to record their responses.
►► PRE/POST ACTIVITY:
Project the (included) completed samples of each graphing activity on the smart board/interactive whiteboard for students to understand the requirements of the task or to check their answers. Provide further explanation accordingly.
►► Suggested Use:
✓ As a follow-up to an instructed lesson on pie charts.
✓ As a practice and assessment activity.
✓ At Independent Math Centers or Work Stations
✓ Morning Work
✓ Early finishers
✓ Homework folder
►► Similar content on Pie Charts is also available in WORKSHEET format:
PIE CHARTS/PIE GRAPHS/CIRCLE GRAPHS: NO PREP INTERACTIVE SHEETS
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pie-charts-pie-graphs-circle-graphs-no-prep-interactive-sheets-11602666
Review subtraction facts and build number sense with these 32 subtraction scoot cards featuring a fun Christmas theme .
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There are two sets of Recording Sheets (Numbers 1-16 and 17-32). Students have a choice between the scaffolded (to elicit the desired response) and blank sectioned. An answer key is provided to have students independently check their answers.
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The subtraction skills reinforced in this pack are:
✓ writing a subtraction fact for a number bond
✓ writing a subtraction sentence for a given array
✓ Identifying the minuend, subtrahend and difference in a subtraction sentence
✓ writing the answer to a subtraction problem
✓ writing a subtraction sentence for a given illustration
✓ problem solving using illustrations
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HOW I USED THE PACKS IN THIS BUNDLE:
♦ For this 32 scoot pack, you may break up the activity and have students do cards 1-16 during one session and 17-32 the next. There are 2 recording sheets for this purpose.
♦ I generally have cards 1-16 placed on one section of the classroom walls, and cards 17-32 on the opposite side. Students solve at their own pace. This is to cater to all; students who would perhaps need more time and the early finishers.
**There is so much fun and excitement as kids walk around the classroom solving the cards. They seem to be racing to finish them all :)
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PREPARATION:
♦ Stack and perfectly align sheets. Cut along task card borders carefully. Work with 3 sheets at a time for better manipulation.
♦ Laminate cards for durability. There are four cards on a single sheet.
♦ Store cards in zip-loc bags (small plastic pouches). Label with the specific number operations skill featured.
♦ Place cards and copies of Recording Sheets (2 options) in file folder.
♦ Glue file folder cover (included) on folder.
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SUGGESTED USE
→ Small group rotations (cards may be rotated among small groups of students)
→ Math Centres
* Have work ready for fast finishers, alternatively assign a buddy for students who need help to finish.
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EVIDENCE OF LEARNING
After the entire class has finished solving the scoot cards, you can display the pdf file on the interactive whiteboard and discuss answers. This way students can reflect on their responses while referring to the questions again.
Wearing the colour red, eating candied crab apples and giving red envelopes with money (hongbao/lai see); these are some of the fascinating traditions in this 32 fun facts pack on Chinese New Year.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
32 Fact Cards on Chinese New Year.
4 Recording Sheets
4 page Answer Key
11 Poster Templates featuring New Year images; 1 blank poster included for students to self-illustrate.
ACTIVITY
Place the 32 fact cards on Chinese New Year around the classroom. Students can work individually, in pairs, or in small groups to find the answers to all 32 questions on their response sheets. They must read the fact card to find the answer for each corresponding fact question on their response sheets.
Early finishers who complete the Scavenger Hunt can design their writing posters. Wrap-up the activity by getting students together and asking them to share the facts they found the most interesting. They may refer to their recording sheets and posters.
** You may break-up the activity and do cards (1-17) or (18-32) depending upon time available.
Review multiplication facts and build number sense with these 32 Winter themed multiplication scoot cards on the 1-12 times tables. These cards feature colourful illustrations to make abstract content more concrete and meaningful. There are two styles to the Recording Sheets, one scaffolded to elicit the desired response, and the other includes blank answer sections.
The multiplication skills for the 1-12 times tables reinforced in this pack are:
writing a multiplication fact for an addition number sentence
writing a multiplication fact for a given array
writing the missing factor
writing the product of two given numbers
writing a multiplication fact for a given illustration (group, collection)
filling in the blanks with numbers next in sequence
relating multiplication and addition
completing the multiplication facts for illustrations
problem solving using illustrations
There are two sets of Recording Sheets (Numbers 1-16 and 17-32). Students have a choice between the scaffolded and blank sectioned Recording Sheets. An answer key is provided to have students independently check their answers.
Prior to having students work on the cards, work-out similar sample questions on the board to familiarise students with the question types.
Use this fun hands-on spinner wheels pack to document the life cycles of 6 birds. Both black and white and coloured wheel templates included.
There are 3 different base templates to accompany each black and white and coloured wheel cover template.
with labels of the life-cycle stages and images
with just images for students to label the stages
with just images and blank lines for students to label and write a brief overview of each stage in the animal’s life cycle
The wheels feature the life cycles of the following birds:
Barn Owl
Chicken
Penguin
Robin
Goose
Turkey
Please note these wheel templates do not feature detailed information on the life cycle of the above animals, but are a tool to document student’s findings on the life cycles from books, videos and/or the internet.
Use these scaffolded interactive notebook templates and poster set to target differentiation and teach your students all about Simple and Compound Sentences.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
12 posters/anchor charts featuring a definition and explanation of the Simple Sentence, Compound sentence and the seven coordinating conjunctions.
Notebook Templates:
Notebook Templates 1 (cover and response sheet) – students identify the subject and predicate (complete and simple) in the sample Simple Sentences.
Notebook Template 2 (cover and response) – students combine two simple sentences to write a compound sentence with compound subjects/compound predicates.
Notebook Template 3 (cover and response sheet) – students identify compound sentences by highlighting the coordinating conjunction used and writing the two simple sentences that make up each compound sentence under the flaps.
Notebook Template 4 – students write compound sentences by joining the two simple sentences with the coordinating conjunctions.
Notebook Template 5 (cover sheet) – students identify simple sentences and compound sentences.
Notebook Template 6 (cover and response sheet) – students write compound sentences on the visuals.
Notebook Template 7 – three-flap set featuring the 7 coordinating conjunctions. Students write their own compound sentence with each of the conjunctions.
Activity Sheet – one print-n-go sheet where students record examples of compound sentences from a book of choice.
Adhering to structure specific to a writing genre is necessary to generate a cohesive whole. These three flipbooks will scaffold the structural components of an OPINION, a NARRATIVE and a BIOGRAPHY at every stage of the writing process.
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The range of resources included in the flipbook packs in this bundle are outlined below:
1. NARRATIVE WRITING EDITABLE FLIPBOOK PACK
✓ Blackline flipbook templates (editable)
✓ Twenty Posters/Anchor Charts on the structural components of a Narrative
✓ Seven detailed Narrative Picture Prompts
✓ Lined sheets for publishing written content
✓ VCOP (colour) Posters/Anchor Charts
✓ Student reference sheets on vocabulary, punctuation, openers, and connectives
✓ Self and peer-editing Checklist
✓ Teacher Grading Rubric
✓ Graphic Organisers x 2 on the Plot
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EDITABLE FLIPBOOK PARTS: Edit text in text box
Cover Template X 5: edit student details and quote
The Writing Prompt: a prompt is given on this template. You also have the option to edit text and write your own prompt.
The Introduction: point of view, characters, time and setting, brief prelude to what will take place
The Body: plot (rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution), the conflict and how it is getting resolved
The Conclusion: problem is solved, conclusive ending (new beginning, surprise ending, or a self-reflection)
Use VCOP to colour code when self-editing after draft is written. Then have students use the self and peer-editing checklists, and finally have students publish their writing.
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2. PERSUASIVE WRITING EDITABLE FLIPBOOK PACK
✓ Posters/Anchor Charts on the five ways to begin an Introduction: a scene, a quotation, a definition, a hypothetical question and a strong statement
✓ Posters/Anchor Charts on the three Body paragraphs and one concluding paragraph.
These posters/anchor charts provide a visual structural example of how a persuasive piece is written. The sections are color-coded, so students can distinguish between the hook, opinion, and thesis statement in the Introduction, and topic sentence, supporting details, and concluding sentence for each Body paragraph.
✓ Flipbook templates in black and white
✓ Self-editing Checklist
✓ Peer-editing Checklist
✓ Teacher Marking Rubric
✓ Lined sheets for publishing
✓ Six writing task-card (colour and blackline) prompts
✓ Graphic Organisers x 5 to scaffold structure
EDITABLE FLIPBOOK PARTS: Edit text in text box
THE WRITING PROMPT
There is a given writing prompt for students to write persuasively on. You also have the option of writing your own writing prompt.
THE INTRODUCTION
Prompt for students to include a hook, their opinion, and a thesis statement.
THE BODY
Guideline for students to include a topic sentence for each of the three reasons, followed by supporting details, and a concluding sentence. There are two templates for the body paragraphs.
THE CONCLUSION
Checklist for students to include a summary statement to re-state their opinion, brief summary of the reasons provided, and a call to action.
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3. WRITING A BIOGRAPHY FLIPBOOK PACK
✓ Blackline flipbook templates (editable)
✓ Posters/Anchor Charts on the structural components of a Biography X 9
✓ Lined sheets for publishing written content
✓ Self and peer-editing Checklist
✓ Teacher Grading Rubric
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EDITABLE FLIPBOOK PARTS: Edit text in text box
Cover Template X 7: edit student details and quote
The Writing Prompt: instructions to access the given website and collect information on any one person’s biographical information
The Introduction: Name of subject, time period and place, what the subject is known for and how has the subject made a difference in the lives of others or to society.
The Body: key information on the subject’s family, childhood, and major achievements, accomplishments, and obstacles.
The Conclusion: current place of residence of subject or date, year, and place of death if applicable, importance of subject, contributions to society and famous quote.
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HOW TO ASSEMBLE: FLIPBOOK
You can choose either of the two options.
1. Print out the templates in blackline. Cut around each template and assemble from smallest template to largest template. Have students color in image and lettering. Staple/glue at the top.
2. Print out the templates on cardstock (different colours). Cut around each template and assemble. Students may color in image and lettering. Staple/glue at the top.
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SUGGESTED USE:
→ Project the PDF file on the interactive whiteboard to teach the structure via the posters/anchor charts. Also show students the flipbook templates and completed sample. Discuss the requirements for each template.
→ Have students fill in the templates. This could also serve as their draft where they could use the self-editing and peer-editing checklists to edit. Finally have students publish on given writing sheets or type out content from draft observing corrections.
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HOW TO ASSEMBLE: INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK
Cut around templates. Assemble smallest to largest. Glue down largest template (conclusion) in notebook. Paste other templates at the top tab one above the other from largest to smallest. Photo of completed sample included.
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PREPARATION
Have students compile all sections of the flipbook prior to research and writing.
This flipbook is sure to make the entire experience of writing, not just enjoyable, but more meaningful.
Have your students go digital with this fun unit on budgeting that features interactive activities to enable students to plan a budget taking into account earned income, expenses, and a short-term spending goal. This resource is completely editable giving you the flexibility to modify it to suit your students’ needs. You will be able to change spellings, currency format and other written content by overwriting sample content. All clipart is secured in accordance with the artists’ terms of use.
Content
Students will work digitally on the following 4 main activities:
Four tasks that facilitate an understanding of what it means to budget wisely.
a. My Lucky Week
Planning expenses with no relation to income. Students get a feel of expenses
and work with whole and decimal numbers to calculate total cost.
b. On a Budget
Planning expenses in relation to a stipulated income. Students need to determine how to
best budget to keep their expenses less than the given income.
c. Reaching My Goal
Planning expenses in relation to a given income and achieving a short term goal. Students
work out a spending plan to achieve a short-term goal.
d. My Personal Budget
Drawing up a personal budget plan on the basis of personal income received and wants.
students determine the feasibility of a budget plan through constructed reflection.
** Also included is a booklet cover if you would like to print students’ work and compile
and task sheets, posters (colour and blackline) in an editable Power Point file.
Other Activities
Creation of Bar Graphs to show differences and comparisons in expenditure for the budgeting activities. Graphs are linked to charts in Google sheets. Students will be able to input their data to automatically reflect graph creation. Instructions are in the slide notes pane.
Making wise choices from the Dream Collection Catalogue to achieve a short term goal.
Constructive reflection on a budget plan with emphasis on spending patterns.
Self-assessment, peer assessment, and teacher assessment using rubrics as a tool.
SETUP AND USEAGE INSTRUCTIONS INCLUDED IN FILE.
Are you looking for an informative collection of posters featuring popular poem types? This types of poems poster collection will surely enhance your classroom decor this National Poetry Month. Each poetry types poster includes a concise definition of the poem type, accompanied by a sample poem. This setup allows students to analyze and understand the structural and thematic elements of each poetic form.
Both US and British English (spelling) Files included.
Item Included
1 pdf file featuring 28 posters (8.5 x 11 inches, landscape orientation)
28 high-resolution (300 dpi) JPGs
The Types of Poems featured in these posters are:
Acrostic
Ballad
Bio Poem
Cinquain
Clerihew
Concrete Poem
Couplet
Diamante
Elegy
Epic
Epigram x 2
Five Senses
Free Verse
Haiku
Limerick
Lyric Poem
Narrative Poem
Octave
Ode
Palindrome Poem
Pastoral Poem
Quatrain
Riddle Poem
Sestet
Sonnet
Tanka
Tercet
Key Features:
Vibrant Imagery:
Each poster features engaging, colorful designs that capture the essence of different poem types, making your bulletin board pop with creativity and color.
Educational Content:
These posters cover a wide range of poem types, including haiku, sonnet, limerick, free verse, and acrostic, providing students with clear definitions and examples that enhance their understanding and appreciation of poetry.
Interactive Learning:
Use these posters as a springboard for classroom activities during National Poetry Month. Encourage students to create their own poems in the styles showcased, fostering a hands-on learning experience.
Versatile Use:
Ideal for classroom walls, library displays, or even as a resource in writing centers, these posters are versatile and can be used year after year.
Celebrate the art of poetry with this “Types of Poems Posters,” collection and create an educational space that both inspires and informs. Perfect for teachers looking to add a functional yet artistic touch to their classroom during National Poetry Month or any time of the year!
Use this bundle of activities to teach your students about popular poem types and poetry elements this National Poetry Month.
This bundle includes a variety of engaging activities designed to explore different poem types and fundamental poetry elements.
Items Included
1. 15 Types of Poems
This print and digital poetry writing resource will help scaffold the writing of 15 poem types.
15 sample poem types in print black and white version
15 sample poem types in digital color/colour version: format PowerPoint file & Google Slides (link included)
Writing sheets with images and lines to scaffold poem writing
Teacher Marking Rubric (grades)
Performance Rubric (no grades)
Student Self-Reflection
Center/Centre Checklist
Poem Table of Contents
Anthology Cover Sheet
You can upload the digital PowerPoint file to your LMS.
The 15 Poem Types featured are:
A Simile Poem ‘About Me’
‘I Am’ Poem
‘With My Senses’ Poem
5 W’s Poem
Bio Poem ‘About Me’
Haiku
Cinquain
Antonym Diamante
‘I Don’t Understand’ Poem
‘Just Because’ Poem
Limerick
Concrete Poem
Creature Alliteration Poem
Acrostic Poem
Parts of Speech Poem
2. 12 Elements of Poetry
Dive into the world of verse with this comprehensive resource designed to teach 12 essential elements of poetry. With printable response sheets, interactive task cards with QR codes, and visually appealing posters featuring explanations of the poetic devices and sample poems, this resource promises to engage and inspire your students in their poetic pursuits.
The 12 elements of poetry featured are:
Alliteration
Analogy
Assonance
Consonance
Hyperbole
Idiom
Imagery
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Simile
Symbolism
Interactive Notebook Foldables, Posters, Anchor Charts
Interactive notebook templates for 15 poem types. Color photographs of assembly instructions included,
Colored and blackline posters/anchor charts for 15 poem types.
Student Center Checklist
Student self-reflection
sheet
Teacher Marking Rubric
Performance Rubric
27 Types of Poems Posters
1 pdf file featuring 28 posters (8.5 x 11 inches, landscape orientation)
28 high-resolution (300 dpi) JPGs
The Types of Poems featured in these posters are:
Acrostic
Ballad
Bio Poem
Cinquain
Clerihew
Concrete Poem
Couplet
Diamante
Elegy
Epic
Epigram x 2
Five Senses
Free Verse
Haiku
Limerick
Lyric Poem
Narrative Poem
Octave
Ode
Palindrome Poem
Pastoral Poem
Quatrain
Riddle Poem
Sestet
Sonnet
Tanka
Tercet
MULTIPLICATION: TIMES TABLES: CENTRES ACTIVITY
Help your students know their multiplication tables with this fun interactive 0 to 12 times tables wheel pack. There are two writing styles for each of the times tables from 0 to 12. Choose the one you prefer to use in the classroom consistently for students to excel in their multiplication facts.
Multiplication facts of 0 will help students better gain conceptual understanding of the value of zero.
WHAT'S INCLUDED:
✓ 13 cover wheel templates from 0 to 12
✓ 13 base wheel templates from 0 to 12 (style A: 2 x 1 = 2)
✓ 13 base wheel templates from 0 to 12 (style B: 1 x 2 = 2)
ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS:
→ Have students first personalise their wheels. They write their name, colour and write in the multiplication facts.
→ Cut around the circle boundary of each wheel.
→ Attach both wheels in the middle with a fastener.
→ Spin to see and practise each multiplication fact.
I hope your students will know their multiplication facts like clockwork with the help of these wheel templates.
Are you looking for four types of sentences worksheets? Use this collection of no prep print-n-go sheets and posters to teach the four kinds of sentences: Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, and Exclamatory.
In this collection, your students will have the opportunity to practice the four types of sentences, not in isolation, but rather through integration with writing.
They will write:
a creative paragraph
a formal persuasive letter
an eight-line poem
a narrative short story
informatively
Answer key to practice sheets and writing samples included.
Both US and British English spellings and terminolgy included.
Items Included
No prep worksheets, 1 Pdf file (US spelling & terminology; 8.5x11 paper)
No prep worksheets, 1 Pdf file (British English spelling & terminology; A4 size paper )
8 Posters Style 1 (color and blackline) featuring definitions and examples of the four types of sentences.
8 Posters Style 2 (color) featuring definitions and examples of the four types of sentences.
Posters come in two sizes: 8.5x11 inches and A4
Overview of Content (worksheets)
Cover sheet if compiling all sheets into a booklet
Definitions of the four sentence types with examples
Identifying sentence type
Identifying sentence type with QR answer codes
Writing the missing punctuation for each sentence type
Writing sentences featuring the four types
Writing sentences on visuals
Changing Interrogative sentences to Imperative sentences
Changing Declarative sentences to Interrogative sentences
Sentence Transformations to each of the four types of sentences
Writing a creative paragraph using the four types of sentences
Writing a formal persuasive letter using the four types of sentences
Writing an eight-line poem using the four types of sentences
Writing a narrative short story using the four types of sentences
Writing informatively using the four types of sentences
Answer Key and sample writing pieces
Your students will not only have strong conceptual knowledge of the four types of sentences in writing, but will also be fascinated to learn about the magnificent Nile crocodiles, the subject in focus.
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Are you looking for task cards to teach and reinforce the four types of sentences? This collection of 32 types of sentences task cards and anchor charts/posters will help reinforce the understanding of the four kinds of sentences: Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, and Exclamatory.
Items Included
32 Task Cards featuring the four types of sentences
Recording Sheet x 1
Answer Key
8 Posters Style 1 (color and blackline) featuring definitions and examples of the four types of sentences.
8 Posters Style 2 (color) featuring definitions and examples of the four types of sentences.
Posters come in two sizes: 8.5x11 inches and A4
Both US and British English files included (difference in punctuating sentences, terminology)
Activity
Use the posters/anchor charts to introduce and elaborate on the four types of sentences.
Spread task cards around the classroom. I personally like to tape to walls, so they don’t get lost in all the excitement.
Provide students with a clipboard and the recording sheet.
Students work, individually, in pairs, or in small groups to record their responses.
Post Activity
Project the answer key on the smart board/interactive whiteboard for students to check their answers. Provide further explanation accordingly.
The mega Sentence Bundle comprises of interactive notebook templates, print-n-go sheets, task cards, QR code cards, editable power point presentations, and guided note-taking sheets to teach sentence structure (simple, compound, complex) and the types of sentences (declarative, imperative, interrogative, exclamatory).
There are 16 individual packs in this mega bundle. Buy in at the current price to get super savings.
GREAT ASSESSMENT TOOL
✓ To assess students’ ability to identify and differentiate between the simple sentence, compound sentence, and complex sentence.
✓ Place in Literacy Centres.
✓ Use as an extension activity for early finishers.
✓ Teach and review prior to assessments.
Looking to teach your students all about the four types of sentences? This comprehensive bundle will help you do just that! You will get access to: a PowerPoint presentation, note-taking (Cornell style) sheets, Interactive Notebook Templates, Print-n-go worksheets, posters and 32 Task Cards.
The four types of sentences in focus are: declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative.
Both US spellings and British English Spellings and terminology included.
Access the links for each of the individual products in this bundle to read more about items included.
Teach students 20 persuasive techniques of the persuasive writing genre with this interactive fun resource. This pack includes 20 Scavenger Hunt cards, 1 Recording Sheet, and an Answer Key to equip students with necessary content information on persuasive writing techniques that they can apply to their own persuasive essays.
The persuasive techniques featured in the 20 hunt cards are:
✓ adjectives
✓ adverbs
✓ alliteration
✓ anecdote
✓ sarcasm
✓ connotations
✓ metaphor
✓ exaggeration
✓ evidence
✓ expert opinion
✓ inclusive language
✓ rhetorical question
✓ simile
✓ emotive words
✓ tone
✓ repetition
✓ imagery
✓ cliché
✓ logic
✓ pun
ACTIVITY
Place the 20 information cards on Persuasive Writing Techniques around the classroom. Students can work individually, in pairs, or in small groups to find the answers to all 20 questions on their recording sheets. They must read the information on each card to find the answer for each corresponding question on their recording sheets.
EVIDENCE OF LEARNING
♦ After the hunt, discuss the answers as a class. I have the pdf version of the hunt open on the interactive whiteboard, so students refer to the information card for each question on their recording sheets.
♦ The interactive nature of the hunt makes it fun for students to learn the persuasive techniques characteristic of a persuasive essay. Students will be more confident to use these techniques when writing.
Please note that the 20 Hunt cards feature just a definition of each technique type. Students need to read the definition and identify the persuasive technique. This will enable you to assess prior knowledge and also enable students to consciously think of the answer prior to responding or to make an educated guess.
Wish you and your students a successful year!
Teach students the structural components of the persuasive writing genre with this interactive fun resource. This pack includes 20 Scavenger Hunt cards, 3 Recording Sheets, and Answer Key pages to equip students with necessary content information so that they are able to adhere to the structural format when writing their own persuasive essays.
The structural components featured in the 20 hunt cards are:
✓ The Introduction: hook, opinion, thesis statement
✓ The Body: topic sentence, supporting details, concluding sentence
✓ The Conclusion: summary statement, re-statement of reasons, call to action
✓ Transition words
✓ High-modality verbs
✓ Ethos, pathos, logos modes of persuasion
ACTIVITY
Place the 20 fact cards on Persuasive Writing around the classroom. Students can work individually, in pairs, or in small groups to find the answers to all 20 questions on their recording sheets. They must read the fact card to find the answer for each corresponding fact question on their recording sheets.
EVIDENCE OF LEARNING
♦ After the hunt, discuss the answers as a class. I have the pdf version of the hunt open on the interactive whiteboard, so students refer to the fact card for each question on their recording sheets.
♦ The interactive nature of the hunt makes it fun for students to learn the structural components of a persuasive essay. Once students adhere to structure when writing, the job is half done.
Once you have taught students the style and structure of a Persuasive Essay, the job is half done. All the best!
Wish you and your students a successful year!
