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!

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.

This product is a collection of teaching and learning activities for grades second through fifth on the topic of scarecrows. What a better theme than scarecrows for fall learning! This unit includes scarecrow humor, poetry writing with scarecrows, opinion/argumentative writing, informative writing and sequencing in a "how to" piece of writing, designing and publishing a mini-book from "how-to" work to share with younger children orally, categorizing the history of scarecrows, conducting research skills with scarecrows to determine potential problems with the different designs, and reading and comprehending informational text passages in regards to the history of scarecrows! What an awesome fall learning experience for your students during this favorite time of the school year!

You will not want to miss this resource! In this packet you will find five different templates for opinion/argumentative writing. The templates are themed with candy bars to include: Snickers, Reeces, Almond Joy, Twix, and Butterfinger. Using the templates, students are able to form their opinion of one of the candy bars. Next, they give the first reason for their opinion. Then, they give an example. Next, they state their second reason for forming their opinion and give another example. Finally, they formulate a third reason for their opinion complete with an example. Then, finally, they are to write a final opinion statement. Students are sure to be completely engaged with such an awesome topic. What child does not like any of these chocolate bars… not to mention what teacher wouldn’t enjoy teaching opinion/argumentative writing with such a scrumptious topic.

This product is training material in the form of a powerpoint presentation. This presentation will be great for a Parent University, a focused faculty session, a PTO open house session, or a professional learning community. As well, this material might be used with a parent group in terms of advice regarding parenting and disciplining children with ADHD. In this material, there are seven strategies to work with children where discipline is concerned particularly children diagnosed with ADHD. Finally, this is basically seven great pieces of advice for when a parent reaches the end of his/her rope with an unruly child who raises the volume on challenging behavior!

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!

Grab students’ attention in a big way with these math problem solving mini-posters. Each poster gives a strategy for problem solving in math. The packet includes nine different mini-posters and because of their size will fit absolutely perfect above a white board or on a math bulletin board! Each serves as an easy reference when giving direct instruction in math problem solving!

In this packet, there are eight writing prompts focusing on Abraham Lincoln. There are two prompts on each page and can be easily set up to use in writing centers or in whole group instruction. These are great tools as well for research and investigation. The prompts range from Lincoln's campaign to Presidency to his assassination. They are all somewhat open-ended in nature so that you, as the teacher, can dictate the length. Your students are sure to enjoy them!

A mini-poster your students are sure to enjoy! It's All About 100! *I can do 100... *I wish I had 100... *On the 100th day of school, I will... *In the last 100 days, I have... *In the next 100 days, I will... *A fact I can tell you about 100 is... *If I had 100 dollars, I would...

As your students prepare to go back to school from the Christmas holidays, this is an exciting resource that your students can make connections with for sure! This resource is an informational text article about the famous iconic series "The Love Boat." This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the show and the celebrations are being kicked off at the Rose Bowl Parade where the original cast members will be on "The Love Boat" float! This article is approximately 790 words long and includes a formative quiz which includes ten questions that range from multiple choice to open-ended formats. This is an awesome resource to review comprehension and get back into school after a long Christmas break!

These twelve slides can serve as an excellent training tool for a parent conference, small group parent workshop, or a larger scale Parent University activity. The content contained in the slides is material published by the ATTitude journal in regards to ADD and ADHD children, teenagers, and adults. Many, many parents are in need of such information. In the set of training slides, reference is noted to two books that parents might want to check out for further information. Specifically, there are ten anger management tips that might be used with your students and his/her parents! The slides are set up to be used as a great presentation and a springboard for further discussion.

As the 100th day of school approaches, get all of your students excited about what they have already accomplished this school year as well as what is in store for them for the rest of the school year. In this resource, you will find a mini-poster for students to all involve themselves in some writing activities that include: a self portrait of what they believe they would look like in 100 years, a listing of the games that they believe that children will play in 100 years, a writing activity about what their hope is in the world of medicine in the next 100 years, a writing activity about what they believe will be available in the world of technology in 100 years, a writing activity about what life was like for a student 100 years ago, and what they predict their world will be like in 100 years. Many of these exercises are meant to be springboards for further research and study and more extended writing activities as well as performance based projects. Students will all enjoy this activity. When complete, you might display each students’ poster!

These eleven slides will serve as excellent material to use for training in terms of a focused faculty meeting, a professional development session, a parent conference, a Parent University forum, or simply a professional learning community for teachers. The slides focus on eight specific challenges that ADHD, ADD, and/or LD students/children face daily. Along with each challenge, there are four to five suggested accommodations given to try with students ~ students who have a 504 plan, students who are IDEA eligible, and other students who might need the extra support! As much as these slides can be shared with teachers, they should also be used to share with parents as well!

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!

You are sure to engage your students with this informational text article entitled, "Will your shoes be filled with goodies or twigs?" This article is approximately 800 words long and includes text illustrations including captions with each. At the conclusion of the article, there is a formative quiz with nine different questions including multiple choice questions, open-ended questions, and performances-based scenarios. If you and your class are engaged in a study of Christmas Around the World, you will not want to miss this article!

If you are implementing a study of the different traditions of Christmas Around the World, this informational text article is for you! This article is approximately 800 words long and gives information in regards to Christmas traditions in Australia complete with dinner menus, decorations, and favorite pastimes. Additionally, the articles contains several illustrations complete with captions that compliment the text. At the conclusion of the article, there is a formative quiz complete with multiple choice questions as well as open-ended questions regarding the article. The last question is a performance based question where students will create a dinner menu for twenty-five guests based on relevant information in the article. Your students are sure to enjoy this study of Australia!

Your students are absolutely sure to be engaged in this informational text! This is an informative article written about the lighting of the famous Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree in New York City. This article is approximately 934 words long complete with a couple of illustrations to match the text. At the conclusion of the text, there is a formative assessment that consists of an eight question quiz to include questions on vocabulary, comprehension, sequencing, context clues, inferring, etc. This text is sure to engage a room full of readers! A great read for your students!

In this training and support packet of materials, you will find a powerpoint presentation that can be used for a professional learning community session, a focused faculty meeting, and/or a professional development session. There are a total of fourteen slides which encourage teachers to shift students into "high gear" thinking. The slides focus on the point that as long as students are involved in only memory and recall then they have trouble with "low gear" thinking! The point is made to involve students in "high gear" engaging activities, and they will grasp and retain much more than when asked to simply recall. This training presentation is a "jumping off point" into constructing/creating engaging teaching and learning activities!

This is an awesome packet of ten slides to help students with writing skills specifically linking words and phrases in their writing. This is the perfect resource for the language arts classroom when teaching the writing process. This resource can be placed above the white board as a reference tool or on a bulletin board.