Beginning Sounds Matching Game. Teach phonemic awareness and build vocabulary. This is a Literacy Center that is fun for your emergent readers! Students match the beginning sound of the picture on their game card to one of 6 pictures on their game boards. Included materials: Game Sign for Center (Slide 1) Directions for Center (Slide 2) Game boards: 8 for variation of play (Slides 4-11) Game cards: 60 (Slides 12-21)

Science Fair or Social Science Fair Project PowerPoint. How to research a science fair project and/or a social studies fair project from start to finish. Specific details. Editable for your classroom use Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts teachers can use the different parts of this presentation to teach students the expectations of a high quality science project or research paper. Example photos of prize-winning projects included.

Adverbs - Finding Adverbs in a Sentence Interactive PowerPoint. An animated PowerPoint on identifying adverbs in sentences has introductory slides on adverbs that tell how, where, when and to what extent, with examples. Includes common comparative-superlative forms. Students can take notes on the introductory slides. The rest of the PowerPoint has students actually practice finding adverbs in 25 different sentences by writing them down on their own paper and checking themselves after each question. They can use their notes to help.Great addition to your parts of speech unit. Instant feedback! There is also a key at the end for them to double check. - HappyEdugator

Sentence Structure: 4 Kinds PowerPoint. PowerPoint about sentence structure. Explains independent and dependent clauses (subordinate clauses), sentence fragments and complete sentences. Defines simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. Practice slide with 8 questions at the end for assessment where students have to identify the sentence structure of the sentences. Interactive...they can check their answers with the last slide. 15 slides. - HappyEdugator

Peak by Roland Smith Introductory PowerPoint Presentation. This book is about a boy who climbs Mt. Everest. The PowerPoint presentation introduces students to the novel Peak by Roland Smith. Information about the author of the book, an overview of the plot, a list of main characters, slides on setting (the Woolworth building, Bangkok, Everest and base camp), themes, and a few important vocabulary words to get started. The last slide has students make a prediction about the book and gets them ready to READ! Just updated with new slides...a total of 34 slides! Includes information on climbing Mt. Everest, specialized equipment needed, dangers and expenses, routes to the top with links to video, and a short history of climbing Mt. Everest, including the youngest person to make the summit in 2010. Enjoy - HappyEdugator

Essay Rubric - for a Formal Essay. Based on the rigor of the common core standards. Rubric measures nine areas of assessment which are: format, understanding of literary texts, idea development, text support,organizational pattern, word choice, sentence structure, transitional devices, and language mechanics. Criteria for assessment categorized as exceeds standards, proficient, meets standards-- but not proficient, and does not meet standards. - HappyEdugator

Fairy Tales Story Pattern. How to write fairy tales! This is a simple story pattern that can be used to help students write their own fairy tale. They can fill in the blanks to create a story sketch, which they can then elaborate and expand on to create their own personal fairy tale. Good to use as a follow up to a unit on fairy tales, or after reading a fairy tale, like those written by Hans C. Andersen or the Brothers Grimm. Helps students avoid writer's block by scaffolding and gives them the confidence to complete their own story. Writing practice is essential to the CCSS (common core state standards ) in Language Arts. Example included.

The Gift of the Magi PowerPoint. Animated PowerPoint on The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, a classic Christmas story that is a good resource for the holidays. Focus on figurative language. Complete lesson with before, during, and after reading activities. Includes background information about the author, twelve critical vocabulary words, review of foreshadowing and suspense, and a link to read the story online. Students close read to find foreshadowing and suspense, and focus rereading on discovering figurative language. Includes definitions and examples of figurative language in the story, such as metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, and idiom. Discussion questions, explanations with examples of irony and allusion, and concludes with a short story writing activity with a 100 point rubric. Includes a quick interactive comprehension check. - HappyEdugator

Infinitives and Infinitive phrases - includes a Graphic Organizer to aid comprehension, and a handout where infinitives and infinitive phrases oar defined and examples are given (which can also be used as an overhead transparency, or projected on a whiteboard), Also includes a very short worksheet on infinitives for practice, where students have to identify infinitive phrases in sentences, fill in the blanks about infinitives from the notes, and create their own infinitive phrases to complete sentences. (higher level thinking) Also includes a quiz on infinitives and infinitives phrases. Key included.

Back to School Study Skills Tips for Success PowerPoint. Great study tips for back to school! 13 slides with animation on basic study skills, such as setting up a study center, organizing papers, prioritizing assignments, and managing time...plus more! Use on the first day of school to get students off to a good start. The slides can be printed as posters as well. Last slide ends presentation with an inspirational quote from Bill Cosby.

Reading - Independent Novel Reading Assignment. Keep your students focused on learning with this weekly independent reading assignment. Students select the novel they wish to read, and then read during a silent reading time. This assignment will have them learning new vocabulary, summarizing, and analyzing what they read with response to character, setting, plot, theme and author's style. The first page is a handout detailing the assignment, and the other pages are the student work pages. Includes a partner sharing activity. Enjoy! -

Penguin Digraph Sort Literacy Center Activity. Fun winter activity with penguins. Students match the pictures on the eggs to the penguin with the correct digraph. Four penguins: TH, CH, SH, and WH. 32 eggs to match. Print out penguins and eggs on cardstock,and cut out and laminate for durability. Have students match the pictures on the eggs to the penguin that has the correct digraph. Some cards have the digraph as an ending sound and some as a beginnig sound. Example – tooth matches the penguin with TH on his tummy Store pieces in a gallon size zipper lock bag. Directions and key included. - HappyEdugator

Expository Essay Writing PowerPoint and Graphic Organizer. Guide students step by step through an expository writing prompt, using a four square graphic organizer. Students will learn how to put their ideas in logical order to support their thesis statement, develop an introductory paragraph with a hook, and develop a concluding paragraph that ends with a punch! Includes printable graphic organizer template to print (black and white), links to online resources, and a writing prompt for students to develop into their own 5-paragraph essay. Helpful test prep to develop writing for state standardized writing tests. -

Chromebooks Keyboard Shortcuts - Essential guide for using Chromebooks in the classroom. If your school is using Google Chromebooks in the classroom, you can use these quick keyboard shortcuts for using notebooks in the classroom to help your kids and yourself navigate on a Chromebook. Keep them handy...share this file with your students to keep as a handy reference tool, or project them on your SMARTBOARD or whiteboard and go over them with your kids before you begin. Useful for any subject, and especially helpful in computing classes. Hope you find it helpful! - HappyEdugator

Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco Tic Tac Think. Differentiated assignment menu to use as an extension writing activity for the book. In this activity, students choose a task from each horizontal row. Students have a choice, but all will focus on symbolism, perspectives, theme. In some cases the teacher may want to specify certain tasks for individual students. You may challenge some students to complete all the squares for enrichment. PowerPoint format. You can display on whiteboard or print out slides as handouts. Included is a writing checklist for assessment. - HappyEdugator

Parts of Speech Scavenger Hunt. Find the different parts of speech in books or other texts. A sheet for each of the eight parts of speech. Verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, interjections and prepositions. You will need to provide a variety of picture books for your students or let them use their books that they are reading for independent reading. You could also select stories to use from a textbook, or project a text on your whiteboard. Students have to find as many of the specified part of speech as possible in the time allowed. Great for differentiation. Use as a whole class activity, in centers, or in cooperative learning groups. You can rotate students to different centers, each with a different story or book and a different part of speech to search for, or you can have all students search for the same part of speech in a particular text and use it as a review

Charles - by Shirley Jackson - Making Inferences Chart. Making inferences and finding and citing evidence from the text to support your opinions is an important skill required by common core standards and this short story is a good one to use to teach that skill. This is a chart for students to use to record page numbers and clues to the inference that Laurie and Charles are the same person. After students complete the chart and have had practice going back to the text to find details, they can answer three questions about the story which also require them to find evidence from the text to support their conclusions. - HappyEdugator

Greek and Latin Roots. 30 Sets of Word Stems from Latin and Greek Roots. ADVANCED Lists of Greek and Latin roots that will help your students understand the building blocks of the English language. The lists contain the stem, the meaning, and an example word. This set is a more challenging set of word stems, roots, prefixes, suffixes, and affixes that can be used for enrichment after the basic Greek and Latin word stems have been mastered.

Common Core Standards for Language ELA PowerPoint Posters. Common core standards for ELA language usage and conventions for grades 6, 7 and 8 summarized. Use as WE CAN posters or as a slide show. You can go over the standards with your students, and afterwards you can print out the slides and laminate them to post in your classroom. Kid friendly language with colorful graphics.

Hard C or Soft C Word Sort. Is it hard or is it soft? Print out these cards, laminate, and students can sort them into words that begin with hard or soft C. 28 cards - 14 colorful and bright cards of each sound. Includes Center sign, Sorting Mat, and Answer Key and Directions for Teacher. In blue background and in white background to save ink. English can be difficult for a young child because some of the letters make a variety of different sounds. It is important that children be exposed to them. The purpose of this activity is for the student to divide these cards into two groups: those with a hard C sound, as in cake, and ones with a soft C sound, as in celery. When you go to print, select page setup, and you can adjust the size to 4 X6 or 3X5 cards, booklets, or whatever other size is suitable for you. - HappyEdugator