Christmas Pictionary and Charades Game. A fun Christmas game of Pictionary or Charades - where all words are related to Christmas, Winter, or December, and even include Christmas songs and Christmas movies. 99 Different Cards! Print out Cards. Cut out and Laminate. You can then use the cards to play the game Pictionary or Charades. Just team up. Either game is for four or more players. The more, the merrier! The object of the game is to have fun! Fun party game at school or at home! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! - HappyEdugator

Behavior Management Warning Cards. Classroom management tool.. Slip quietly on a desk and don't stop teaching! Be prepared for the beginning of the year or anytime you need a behavior plan. Explain to your students when they come back to school at the beginning of the year that you will expect them to follow your classroom expectations. Give them examples of positive and negative behaviors Tell them that once you give a verbal warning, you expect the behavior to stop. If it does not, and you have to address the issue again, they will quietly, without disrupting instruction, be given a behavior warning card. Just put it on their desk and don't stop teaching! They must sign it, date it, and write the behavior they are being warned about on the back and return it to you. You keep the card for documentation, which is useful for parent conferences or in the event of an office referral. Includes a plain set without name and date if you wish to use repeatedly without documentation. Includes cards with place for name and date, blank cards with a line to write on that you can customize, Last Chance cards, Stop! cards, and Oops! cards...which you can use as you choose. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Frayer Model. Blank Frayer Model Graphic Organizer. Build vocabulary by having students use this graphic organizer to define the term in their own words, provide relevant characteristics and pictures, and give examples and non-examples from their own experience. Includes two versions for differentiation, and two formats...one larger for projecting on a screen, and one smaller with a place for student name and date for printing. Thanks!

Synonyms. Other Ways to Say...Synonyms for Commonly Overused Words. Ten different charts you can use to help your students choose the best words when writing. These can be placed in centers, made on index card rings, or blown up into posters to hang on the wall. Lots of different ways to say common words such as said, walk, run, happy, sad, good, bad, nice, laugh, and like. Great reference tool for students to use when writing. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Bell Ringers - Common Core - Context Clues. Thirty vocabulary in context warm-ups. Quick 5-7 minutes of practice that will help students build vocabulary and determine meaning of unknown words in text. Two slides with strategies for using context clues that students can apply to their daily warm-ups. Each slide has a passage that students must read and then figure out the meaning of the underlined word. They are given four multiple choice answers. Each slide has an answer slide so they can quickly check themselves. After they check, they are directed to write the word, their own definition of the word, and to create a sentence using the word. These can also be printed out on index cards and turned into fun task cards. Supports Common Core. - HappyEdugator

Speech Presentation - Teacher Evaluation Sheet. Easy checklist to assess a student's performance when making a speech or presentation. Assess whether student exceeds, meets, or does not meet standards for organisation, staying on topic, supporting ideas, logical arguments, appropriate sources, voice clarity and volume, etc. Has a column for N/A, so it may be used to evaluate an expository or persuasive speech. Nice to use on presentations given at the end of each grading period. - HappyEdugator

ABC Summarizer. This free summary sheet has students look for things that begin with each letter of the alphabet to summarize their learning. Students can even summarize the school year at the end of the year! As a summarizer, it can be used to conclude a unit of study, a lesson, a novel or short story, or even a movie. May be an assessment tool as well. There is a place for extra notes at the bottom. Supports common core! Thank you for looking. Please check out my shop. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Reading Strategies - Bookmarks and PowerPoint. Use these bookmarks and PowerPoint minilesson to help your students use 7 different reading strategies when they get stuck on a word. Includes bookmarks (double-sided), teacher directions, handout, and PowerPoint slide presentation. - HappyEdugator

Punctuation - Punctuating Dialogue PowerPoint FREE! Improve writing by using quotation marks! Punctuation is important! Show students how to use quotation marks in dialogue correctly. 10 slides explain the correct way to punctuate dialogue. Explains split quotations, capitalization, commas, question marks, exclamation points, and periods. Helpful for understanding where to place punctuation. Good for reviewing for state tests. Supports Common Core! CCSS L 3.2c - using commas and quotation marks in dialogue. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.2b Use commas and quotation marks to mark direct speech and quotations from a text. A great activity to do with this PowerPoint is to have the kids write their own dialogues. I cut out of magazines some interesting pictures of all kinds of different people interacting. I glued them on cardstock, with the words Who? What? Where? When? and Why? written on each card, and laminated them. I passed the cards out, and students had to imagine what the people were saying to each other in the pictures, and then write the dialogue, using correct punctuation. They also had to later incorporate the dialogue into a short story that answered the five W questions/ The kids enjoyed this activity and got very creative with their stories! Enjoy! :) HappyEdugator

Myth Writing Lesson for Middle School. Fun for your mythology unit or writing lesson. Includes lesson plan details, assignment handout, and rubric. Students will learn the elements of myth, research a mythological hero, and write their own narrative on how the hero they chose can solve one of a list of problems that face middle school kids today. - HappyEdugator

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury. Two versions of a final test for the short story. Includes constructed response questions. The first version includes vocabulary and has three sections: Fill-in the Blank, Multiple Choice, and a Constructed Response requiring evidence from the text to support the answer. 25 total questions, plus a constructed response. 5 Fill in the blank questions, and 20 multiple choice, with key. Grading scale given for constructed response. This test assesses understanding of story vocabulary, literary elements, and reading comprehension. The second version of the test does not assess vocabulary, but also has three sections: Multiple Choice, Short Answer Constructed Response, and Essay. All of the constructed response questions require text evidence, critical thinking, and are of the rigor expected for the new standards. 16 multiple choice questions, 3 short answer questions, and 1 essay. They are on separate pages, so you may choose which parts of the test you wish to give. - HappyEdugator

Valentine Quiz...a free Valentine's Day Activity for choosing the right word. Multiple choice questions about Valentine's Day. Help children with word choice. Students have to choose the best choice of three words to fill in the blank. Grammar usage that is often tested on standardized tests. Great for building an understanding of how words are used correctly. Especially good for ELL, ESL and ESOL students, who may need extra help in identifying subtle differences in word choice and easily confused words. - HappyEdugator

Valentine Quiz. Valentine's Day Activity for choosing the right word. Multiple choice questions about Valentine's Day. Help children with word choice. Students have to choose the best choice of three words to fill in the blank. Grammar usage that is often tested on standardized tests. Great for building an understanding of how words are used correctly. Especially good for ELL, ESL and ESOL students, who may need extra help in identifying subtle differences in word choice and easily confused words.

United States Word Search. 49 out of 50 states are hidden in this word search puzzle. Students need to find the states hidden in the puzzle and also discover which one is missing. Fun activity for a United States geography unit or patriotic holidays such as Presidents' Day, Flag Day, Memorial Day, July Fourth, and Veterans Day! Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Presidents' Day Word Search. 38 Presidents are hidden in this President's Day word search puzzle. Students need to find the United States Presidents hidden in the puzzle. Fun activity for Presidents Day and other patriotic holidays such as Flag Day, Memorial Day, July Fourth or Independence Day, and Veterans Day! Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Welcome students back to school with this WELCOME banner in black and white chevron. Includes the letters W-E-L-C-O-M-E-! and an editable one so you can write your own messages in your own fonts. - HappyEdugator

Middle School Writing Rubrics - BUNDLE! Rubrics for writing assessment at the middle level. Includes rubrics for technical writing, essay writing, narrative writing, and expository writing. Some writing assignments also included. 19 different files. Full assessment rubrics and short rubrics for brief summaries. All together you would pay more than $20 for these separately, but buy the bundle and save a ton! Some rubrics are editable, so you can adjust for your own classroom use. Nice to have at the beginning of the year to help plan instruction. Zipped file contains PDF and Word Documents. Includes all of the rubrics in my store. Save money and buy them all! 26 pages created to support common core standards. - HappyEdugator Bundle includes these products which are also sold separately: Short Story Writing Project Rubric Biography Poster Person Project with Rubric Middle School Expository Writing Rubric Children's Book Writing Project Rubric 100 Points Book Report Rubric for Nonfiction Biography Project Rubric Informational Text Writing Rubric Middle School Writing Rubric Middle School Technical Writing Rubric Rubric for Writing a Brief Summary 100 Points Research Paper Rubric Book Project Rubric Essay Rubric for a Formal Essay. Standards Based Persuasive Writing Rubric Standards Based Narrative Account or Short Story Rubric Standards Based Ruric for Analyzing Character Standards Based Technical Writing Rubric. ©2016 HappyEdugator.

Poetry Bundle – Teaching Poetry - a large variety of poetry resources for Grades 4 - 8. This 140 page poetry unit is a resource that includes: What is Poetry - an introduction to any Poetry Unit – 6 pages PDF All About Poems Graphic Organizer and Poetry Preview Activity- 5 pages PDF Poetry Characteristics Notes and Poetry Writing Activity – 2 pages PDF Nursery Rhymes - Poetry You Should Know PowerPoint – 26 slides PPT Poetry Concept Map – 1 page PDF Poetry Image Map – 1 page JPG Poetry Elements Graphic Organizer – 4 pages PDF Poetry Graphic Organizer Sheet – 1 page PDF Poetry Scavenger Hunt – 3 pages PDF Poetry Sound Patterns – 2 pages PDF Rhyme in Poetry Practice sheet – 2 pages PDF Poetry – Five Senses Poem Handout – 1 page PDF Poetry Activity for A Remarkable Adventure by J. Prelutsky – 3 pages PDF Poetry Anthology Anchor Activity and Rubric – 3 pages PDF Poetry Using Emotions to Create Poetry PowerPoint – 20 slides PPT SMARTBOARD Writing Poetry is EASY Activities - 8 slides - Notebook Adjective Poem – 3 pages PDF Preposition Poem Worksheet – 1 page PDF Diamante Poem – 1 page PDF Cinquain Formula Poem PowerPoint – 10 slides PPT Writing a Parody Poem Activity-How Doth the Little Crocodile- 3 pages PDF Reading Poetry Process Handout – 2 pages PDF Alliterative – Superlative Adjectives – 1 page PDF Reading Poetry Process Handout – 2 pages PDF Ways to Read Poetry PowerPoint – 15 slides PPT Poetry Terms Study Guide with Key – 2 pages PDF Poetry Multiple Choice Formative Assessment – 3 pages PDF Poetry Types Test – 3 pages PDF Poetry Terms Crossword– 2 pages PDF - HappyEdugator

Vietnam Memorial Reading Comprehension Sheet. Students can read about the history of the Vietnam Memorial and where it is located in the United States. Includes a short nonfiction reading and reading comprehension questions sheet. Good activity for Veteran's Day.

Words to Avoid When You Write. This is a handout for students on formal academic and professional writing which explains the importance of avoiding certain words in order to have a credible style. Also includes a list of words and common phrases that should not be used or limited when writing. - HappyEdugator