A Poetry Collection is a collection of templates that will take you through the school year! The collection includes easy to use Acrostic, Cinquain, Diamante, and other poetry templates. 33 Poetry templates included: Summer All About Me School Friends Autumn Halloween Thanksgiving Peace Christmas Winter Valentine's Day St. Patrick's Day Spring Easter Earth Day Mother's Day Father's Day

Contains one sheet per letter of the alphabet, A-Z This resource could be used as a morning warm up or in conjunction with any existing Language program. It could be used at the beginning of the school year or towards the end. Use it to introduce the alphabet to your students, or to review the alphabet at any time of the school year. The students first trace the letter of the alphabet that is introduced. The teacher could review the short vowel sounds as well. Students, could visually see the picture and word together. In turn this will reinforce the spelling of the object shown. Drawing a picture with one of the vocabulary words will also reinforce the learning. Lastly, students have the opportunity to write a sentence about the picture that they drew. 28 Pages.

The activity sheets in this Family Life resource are not numbered. This gives the teacher the option to present the topic to the class in any order. A curriculum guideline page is included before each strand/theme. This page could be used for your planning purposes. Use the specific expectations on each curriculum guideline page for your long range plans and for each reporting period. How to Use the Activity Sheets -Before handing out each activity sheet to the students, have a class discussion on the topic. -Hand out the activity sheet to the students and have the students follow along as you read the top of the activity sheet. -You may want to elaborate on what you read and/or ask students questions. -Explain the activity instructions to the students, giving them a few examples to facilitate their activity completion. 37 Pages.

Great as a read aloud or as a whole class novel study. The Wild Robot Escapes, is the sequel to the The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown. In the Wild Robot Escapes, Roz is repaired and shipped off to Hilltop Farm. Roz’ owner, Mr. Shareef, and his two children welcome Roz as part of the family. However, Roz is determined to make her way back to the island and her adopted gosling son, Brightbill. Included in this resource are questions for Chapters 1-90. Please note, Answers to questions are not included.

My Writing Journeys-Junior Grades is suitable for students in Grades 4-6. An excellent accompaniment to the Daily 5 Program! Cross-curricular topics too! Includes a variety of "writing forms" This writing journal book is user friendly and it could be used in many different ways. Some teachers are using the journal as a daily morning warm up or part of their existing language program. Includes "word wall" words for each activity. Great for word study. Some topics/activities could be linked to Health, Science and Visual Arts Also Includes: an All About Me page, perfect for the beginning of the year! an Autograph page and a Class Picture page, perfect for the end of the year! Topics/Activities Included: My Summer Memories My Favorites A Goldfish Story The Best… Staying Fit I Am An Upstander! Wow, What a Gift! My Talent My Hero A Spring Lune Poem Planning a Party My Friend and I A Favorite Story Character Let’s Take Care of It! My Website My Favorite Sandwich My Family My City or Town My Postcard My School Year Some other ideas are: -Use the first page of each activity as a class brainstorm. -Draw the graphic organizer on the board or chart paper and have students copy the ideas on their page in the book. -Instead of writing the ideas on the graphic organizer, they could draw them instead. -Use the vocabulary words on the bottom of each page as word wall words or to initiate discussion about the topic. -Students could also write sentences using these vocabulary words. -The second page (the drawing section) of each topic could be taken "outside the book". For example, have students do a cut and paste using construction paper, or create a scene in a box. -Each Topic could be spread out on 2-3 different days. Total Pages 47

My Writing Journeys-Junior Grades is suitable for students in Grades 4-6. An excellent accompaniment to the Daily 5 Program! Cross-curricular topics too! Includes a variety of "writing forms" This writing journal book is user friendly and it could be used in many different ways. Some teachers are using the journal as a daily morning warm up or part of their existing language program. Includes "word wall" words for each activity. Great for word study. Some topics/activities could be linked to Health, Science and Visual Arts Topic/Activities Included: My Summer Memories My Favourites A Goldfish Story The Best… Staying Fit I Am An Upstander! Wow, What a Gift! My Talent My Hero A Spring Lune Poem Planning a Party My Friend and I A Favourite Story Character Let’s Take Care of It! My Website My Favourite Sandwich My Family My City or Town My Postcard My School Year All About Me page, perfect for the beginning of the year! Autograph page and a Class Picture page, perfect for the end of the year! Some other ideas are: -Use the first page of each activity as a class brainstorm. -Draw the graphic organizer on the board or chart paper and have students copy the ideas on their page in the book. -Instead of writing the ideas on the graphic organizer, they could draw them instead. -Use the vocabulary words on the bottom of each page as word wall words or to initiate discussion about the topic. -Students could also write sentences using these vocabulary words. -The second page (the drawing section) of each topic could be taken "outside the book". For example, have students do a cut and paste using construction paper, or create a scene in a box. -Each Topic could be spread out on 2-3 different days.

The Wild Robot by Peter Brown is a story about a friendly robot named Roz, who finds herself shipwrecked on an island full of wild animals. Included in this resource are questions and vocabulary words for Chapters 1-80 (1 sheet for each chapter). Use the questions to recap each chapter orally or have students complete the sheets. Each chapter also contains chapter vocabulary words that can be used to find the meaning or write sentences for each. Check out the author's website! 82 Pages

REFUGEE, By Alan Gratz, is a captivating novel of 3 children and their families, who, in different decades and in different continents, flee their homelands searching for safety and freedom. In this resource you will find questions for each section of the novel. Each section has been numbered to make it easier for the teacher and students to follow and complete. One page for each of the 53 sections. Also included: -pages with the vocabulary for all 53 sections -template acrostics for each major character -a timeline template -bookmark template -compare and contrast characters template 67 Pages.

The One and Only Ivan is a children’s book by Katherine Applegate. After reading each short chapter, independently or as a read aloud, students will have the opportunity to complete questions to ensure understanding of the text. Resource includes questions for the complete novel. Although the novel does not number each chapter, this resource has each chapter numbered and named to facilitate its delivery. Chapter Question pages are set up to be printed or used in distance learning. Please note: This resource does not include question answers. This resources could be used for a quick assessment as well.