Your students will enjoy this informational text article all throughout the spring and on into summer enrichment classes. This is an informational text article that is approximately 750-850 words long. It is the story of how the popsicle was created actually by accident. The article is complete with illustrations and captions as well. At the conclusion of the article, there is a ten question formative quiz with questions ranging from vocabulary, main idea, author's point of view, sequencing, inferring, and predicting. There are also performance- based questions as well! Your students will delight in knowing more about this summer treat that everyone enjoys!

Wow! It is "THAT" time of year! You know... the dreaded state assessments. Take the time to really examine the goals that students can all make for themselves as they investigate their strong points, their areas that need focus, and the steps they need to take to achieve the goals they establish. This is the perfect culminating organizer for student data notebooks. Additionally, there are desk cards (nine to a page) that allow students a constant reminder about the steps they are currently taking to achieve their goal. As well, these cards might also be used to create shorter, incremental goals if need be to meet the larger goal: SUCCESS on the STATE TEST!

Perhaps most importantly in today's information age, thinking skills are viewed as crucial for educated persons to cope with a rapidly changing world. Many educators believe that specific knowledge will not be as important to tomorrow's workers and citizens as the ability to learn and make sense of new information. —D. Gough, 1991 With that being said, it is critical for students to learn strategies to employ when thinking through a scenario, a problem, a situation, a research project, etc. This set of mini-posters can be used as a year long resource in any classroom to equip students with eight strategies that students should learn to use each and every day as they strive to be successful in school. With a relatively small size, the mini-posters will fit perfect above a white board or on a bulletin board as a constant reminder for students to persevere and solve problems when working.

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 is a set of ten mini-posters each referencing a literary element. The set includes: plot, setting, protagonist, antagonist, narrator, narrative method, dialogue, conflict, mood, and theme. These are great mini-posters for referencing these important parts of a story. They can be used as a bulletin board all year long to serve as an easy reference or placed above the white board for easy reference as well.

In this packet of mini-posters, you will find a set of three posters that serve as reference tools for students in aiding in trying to determine the author’s purpose of a specific text! These posters are a perfect fit for a bulletin board and/or right above your whiteboard! You can’t go wrong in displaying these mini-posters in that throughout the year, students are asked to identify and justify the author’s point of view!

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!

Use this fall pennant to accomplish multiple tasks within your classroom during this wonderful fall season. This packet contains a fall student centered pennant for each of your students to complete to share in your classroom! The pennant is made in five different fall colors and ask the students to write three favorite things that he/she enjoys doing during the fall of the year. Also, students are asked to write the names of three sports which are played during the fall! Finally, students are to write a goal they hope to accomplish during the fall! You will love this short writing task as a springboard for a writer's notebook, a tool for brainstorming to create a poem for fall, or simply to use as a pennant hanging in your classroom for this wonderful time of the year!

Your students are absolutely sure to be engaged in this informational text! This is an informative article written about the legend behind carving a pumpkin-- a fall favorite past time! The young and old alike love this activity! The article is 458 words long, complete with illustrations and captions that help to explain the information. Also, at the conclusion of the article, there is a six question quiz. The quiz has three multiple choice questions and two open ended questions, and one sequencing question. This text is sure to engage a room full of readers! A great read for your students!

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!

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!

Your students will absolutely love this short passage of nonfiction informational text about none other than the highly decorated Drew Brees-- the New Orleans Saints quarterback. The article begins with information regarding Drew as a child and and gives information about his early life and one sibling. It continues to progress into his high school and college days and culminates with his career in the NFL. At the conclusion of the four page article, complete with illustrations that enhance some of the text, there is a six question formative assessment quiz. The quiz has four multiple choice questions and three open-ended questions asking the student to cite evidence from the text and defend his/her answer. Finally, there is a performance based assessment at the end of the quiz that students are sure to enjoy that includes a project regarding the two homes of Drew Brees. Your students will LOVE this text and the performances based assessment!

In this packet, you will find six mini-posters perfect for a bulletin board or above your whiteboard. These posters can be used to guide the thinking process as students are involved with a reading selection– fiction as well as nonfiction. Students should always think about what they read before they read, as they read, and after they have finished reading the selection, and these posters help them do just that! Each poster gives a key word to consider. These words include: connect, picture, summarize, predict, question, and evaluate! This is a great reference tool for students that you don’t want to miss!

Have fun with this resource set of mini-posters to explain a plot sequence to your students while using the concept of roller coasters to illustrate your explanation. This set of mini—posters includes includes six illustrations of how to explain the plot sequence to your students from the beginning, middle, and then to the end! Your students will love the roller coaster illustrations! This resource is perfect for the reading/language arts classroom to display all year long!

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!

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 set of seven mini-posters that will easily fit on a bulletin board or above the whiteboard in your classroom for easy reference all year long! These posters highlight editing and revision techniques that all good and great writers adhere too! As you work with the Common Core State Standards, particularly the writing standards, refer to each of these editing suggestions all year long with your students so that these suggestions simply become habits of mind when they write in any genre and narrative!

Show your students there is more than one way to express their words in poetry! In this packet, you will find eight mini posters each featuring a form of poetry to use when teaching each instructional format. Each poster also has an example of the type of poem explained. Students are sure to love writing these forms of poetry about their favorite topics. As well, this could be converted into a Christmas poetry unit utilizing the awesome Christmas scenes as springboards for brainstorming. Forms of poetry included are: limericks, diamantes, cinquains, haikus, couplets, acrostics, shapes, and free verse.

This is an awesome informational text article on the history of scarecrows and all of the different versions of scarecrows throughout the world. The informational text article is approximately 1,000 words long and includes illustrations to help better explain the text. One illustration includes a caption that can be discussed as a text feature. At the conclusion of the article, there is a formative assessment in the form of a quiz.

You will not want to miss this series of packets on the novel, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. In this first packet, you will find a character chart for each of the characters introduced in chapter one. The student must list several pieces of information as they connect deeper and deeper with each character. Also, there are potentially seventeen vocabulary words in this first chapter; therefore, there is a vocabulary template for each of the chosen vocabulary words. Finally, there is a comprehension sheet for this first chapter, which has twelve open-ended questions of a variety of different levels of thinking. This comprehension sheet might be used for a formative assessment/quiz at the end of each chapter.