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!

This is an awesome Powerpoint training for general education teachers, special needs educators, administrators, and all other educators alike. It consists of one hundred slides that progress from definitions, descriptions, myths, how it is diagnosed, causes, deficits and gifts, executive functions, medications, strategies and interventions, and places to seek more help and resources. This is an awesome all-day training that has the opportunity to be very interactive with many visuals and graphics. It is also a great resource for a Parent University setting. As well, it can be used in a smaller faculty group such as a Professional Learning Community. Finally, paraprofessionals will also benefit greatly from this knowledge base!

In this packet, you will find approximately thirty-three pages of photo props. The props include the following: (1) Liberty Bell; (2) God Bless America statement; (3) Uncle Sam Top hat: (4) Betsy Ross; (5) bouquets of fireworks; (6) Rockets; (7) the American Flag; (8) the Statue of Liberty; (9) Uncle Sam; (10) a July 4th Emogi; (11) an American cupcake, and many more! There is at least eight of each photo prop so you shouldn’t lack for everyone having a great choice as to what he/she might want to use in making his or her perfect photo. Are you planning a summer get together in the back yard? Are you working with a summer enrichment program and want to create a photo booth for your kiddos? Are you looking for a fun activity to do with your own kiddos? If any of these scenarios apply, look no more… you have found the perfect activity. Everyone loves to make selfies and other pics with family and friends to cherish forever! If you have boas or other props to put with these, the more the merrier. All you need to do is to print these on heavy cardstock, cut them out, and glue to a dowel or even a skewer in some instances. For young children, please be sure to use dowels in that skewers sometimes have sharp ends! Happy Independence Day!

This resource is a total of fifty-one slides to use as a presentation for older teenagers, young adults, college students, older adults, parents, etc. The material discussed is that of thirteen strategies that adults can adopt and implement for success in life.

Your students are absolutely going to love this community building activity! In this resource, you will find many different photo props that your students will love to choose from to make the perfect “beginning of the school year” photo to cherish all year! Props include sayings such as (1) I’m a hot mess! (2) Say Cheese; (3) I’m Ready to Learn! (4) “I’m Only Here for Recess!” and many, many others (see entire list of photo props below)! There are approximately seventy-five photo props to choose from or choose multiple ones for different photo combinations. These photos can be used in conjunction with an “All About Me” activity, a poetry writing session about "Our New Classroom", and many many other classroom community building activities! Most of all, they can be used just to have simple plain fun as the school year gets cranked up and ready to go! Each photo prop is ready to go. One needs to simply download, copy on card-stock, laminate if possible for future year’s use, and glue or tape to a popsicle stick or any other type of short dowel, etc. Have an awesome time setting up your background to use these props! List of Photo Props: ** "I Look Good and I Know It!" ** Most Likely to Succeed ** Bookworm ** 1st Day of School 2016 (each grade level from kindergarten to 6th grade ** Class Clown ** WhooHoo! ** "I'm a Hot Mess!" ** OMG!! ** Photo Bomb ** "That's What He Said!" ** "That's What She Said!" ** "Say Cheese!" ** 2LEGIT 2QUIT ** LIKE! ** DISLIKE! ** Best Hair ** Most Athletic ** #1 Finger Sign ** Books ** Bow Ties (four of these; different colors) ** Eyeglasses (four of these; different patterns) ** #backtoschool (multiple copies; different colors) ** #BFF (multiple copies; different colors) ** apple cut-outs ** "Ready to Learn!" (multiple copies; different colors) ** "I'm Only Here for Recess!" (multiple copies; different colors) ** "I'm a Genius!" (multiple copies; different colors) ** "I Believe I Can Fly!" (multiple copies; different colors) ** "The Sky is the Limit!" (multiple copies; different colors) ** "I'm not fitting in when I was born to stand out!" (multiple copies; different colors) ** "Oh, the Places I'm Going!" (multiple copies; different colors)

This timeless Caldecott winner is sure to bring our the imaginations of all of your students. Students absolutely love this story of fantasy and will delight in engaging in all of the teaching and learning activities. In this literature study, you will find a total of twenty-five teaching and learning activities all connected with this great piece of literature! Activities are all correlated to Common Core State Standards. Additionally, there is a formative comprehension check with ten questions. You don't wanna miss this literature study particularly during the month of October while potentially doing a study of "wild things and monsters!"

This unit is a literature study of The Greedy Triangle. In this unit, there are eight teaching and learning activities with opportunities for extending the literature study with eight additional activities. In the reading and math activities, there are approximately sixteen Common Core State Standards addressed and covered in the teaching and learning sequence. There are questions written at the remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating levels of thinking to formatively assess comprehension. There is also a quiz at the end of the literature study to help gauge success in mastering math geometry vocabulary. Your students will absolutely love this literature study!

This resource is a must have for administrators. The training consists of approximately fifty-five slides that brings to light empowered teachers! In this training, administrators will gain insight on the true definition of teacher empowerment, the changing roles and responsibilities of leadership, characteristics of empowered teachers, benefits of empowered teachers, rethinking professional knowledge, and the role of administrators in empowering teachers. In examining the role of administrators empowering teachers, leadership/ownership, professional development, culture, and appreciation will be examined and analyzed. Administrators will walk away with their "A"game in how to empower teachers for increased student achievement.

This is an awesome PowerPoint training on classroom management. This resource contains forty-seven slides and is appropriate for all teachers, administrators, and other educators. This can be used in a focused faculty meeting, a professional development session, or even a small professional learning community! This training is full of strategies that are researched and recommended by Harry and Rosemary Wong! You don't want to miss grabbing this resource for a back-to-school session with your colleagues!

This resource is a must have for giving a solid description of the three tiers of instruction. It is full of infographics that aid in the explanation for a refresher session on each tier. The training slides progress from the programs, methodologies, and strategies that we specifically use at tier one to ensure high quality instruction to the intensiveness of tier III and the possibility of progressing to a child-study through the MET team. Next, an in-depth look is given to tier two and specific strategies that help to intervene in specific deficits. Then, a look at tier III is investigated and discussed. This training is meant to take the participant through each tier looking at strategies, decision-making skills, and timelines for best practice. This training can be used in a focused faculty meeting, a professional development session, or in a smaller professional learning community as a specific focus group strengthens their process in Response to Intervention!

Your students will be tickled pink by these humorous posters which feature popular idioms and clues associated with their definitions and implied meanings. Use these posters to explore parts of speech, promote understanding of figurative language, and use as a spring board for further study of figures of speech and writing experiences. This packet contains forty-three popular idioms and matching illustrations. You might focus on an idiom a week or use several to display on a writer’s workshop bulletin board! Your students will love these hilarious posters!

This resource is a set of critical academic vocabulary words that all fifth 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 and styles 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. This awesome resource consists of over 100 slides with academic vocabulary specifically for fifth grade. These words are the perfect size to add to your word wall and spiral back to all year long. This set of fifth grade vocabulary consists of over two hundred words! Check it out!

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!

This resource is a set of approximately 57 slides which discuss and provide a context for training in the realm of IEP documents vs. 504 Plans. This is obviously a very confusing world and so many times, everyone has many, many questions! This presentation explains each, compares and contrasts, and gives real world scenarios for discussion. It is a great presentation for a professional development session, focused faculty meeting, grade level meeting, or professional learning community.

This resource consists of sixty-eight slides to serve as training and support materials for rejuvenating your passion for teaching. Many of the strategies discussed originate from the book, Unshakable, by Angela Watson. All educators will enjoy being a part of this training in helping themselves to rejuvenate at a grade level meeting, a professional development session, or a professional learning community!

This is an awesome training PowerPoint for a great discussion with teachers to prevent teacher burn-out and stress! Everyone knows how challenging the teaching profession can be! It is important more now than ever to take care of great teachers and keep them in the profession and continue to enjoy what they do! This training presentation is sixty slides and ranges from causes of teacher-burnout to be aware of and then many, many strategies and examples to implement to avoid “teacher-burn-out! Use this training presentation in a focus faculty meeting, professional development session, or in a smaller professional learning community!

This is the perfect set of instructional materials to work with your students in the last few weeks prior to the Christmas break! Whew! It is a busy time of the year that’s for sure! Now, to let you know a bit more about this product. As most of you are probably aware, Zillow has drawn quite a considerable amount of attention to themselves in the last week or so by creating a listing of Santa’s home at the North Pole! So, I have taken that listing and capitalized on it as a teaching and learning experience! This packet of materials contains the following: (1) 30 comprehension questions that travel and span the different levels of complexity; (2) 10 selected vocabulary words from the listing to complete “word work” with to include fifteen different pages of vocabulary graphic organizers to utilize; (3) A performance based task that can be differentiated just simply by student preference; (4) 3 different performance based tasks which involve “designing and creating” based on written descriptions from the listing that include the topics of: (1) Santa’s garage; (2) state-of-the-art toy making facility; and (3) toy prototypes; (5) 2 argumentative/persuasive writing prompts complete with organizers to frame thinking; (6) An extended activity in terms of investigating the history of Fisher Price Toys and sequencing major events within the article; (7) An extended activity in terms of investigating the proper way to roast chestnuts and sequencing major events within the article; (8) An extended activity in terms of utilizing a cake batter sugar cookie recipe complete with comprehension questions; and (9) An extended activity in terms of using analogies complete with graphic organizers to frame the analogies.

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.

In this packet, you will find approximately thirty-three pages of photo props. The props include the following: (1) Liberty Bell; (2) God Bless America statement; (3) Uncle Sam Top hat: (4) Betsy Ross; (5) bouquets of fireworks; (6) Rockets; (7) the American Flag; (8) the Statue of Liberty; (9) Uncle Sam; (10) a July 4th Emogi; (11) an American cupcake, and many more! There is at least eight of each photo prop so you shouldn’t lack for everyone having a great choice as to what he/she might want to use in making his or her perfect photo. Are you planning a summer get together in the back yard? Are you working with a summer enrichment program and want to create a photo booth for your kiddos? Are you looking for a fun activity to do with your own kiddos? If any of these scenarios apply, look no more… you have found the perfect activity. Everyone loves to make selfies and other pics with family and friends to cherish forever! If you have boas or other props to put with these, the more the merrier. All you need to do is to print these on heavy cardstock, cut them out, and glue to a dowel or even a skewer in some instances. For young children, please be sure to use dowels in that skewers sometimes have sharp ends! Happy Independence Day!

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