Digital Paper - Background Textures 5. High quality digital papers for your creations. 12 different styles of textured backgrounds.12 X 12, 300 dpi. JPEG file format. Personal or commercial use. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Chevron Digital Paper - Fall Colors. 23 different styles. 12 X 12, 300 dpi. High quality digital papers for your creations. Personal or commercial use. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

RTI or Response to Intervention Documentation forms. Includes pyramid of intervention team recommendation form, tier 2 and tier 3 strategies response form, tier 2 and tier 3 documentation of intervention strategies, reading, math and written expression referral forms. These are RTI forms teachers or intervention specialists fill out to document interventions. - HappyEdugator

Prefixes and Suffixes Flashcard PowerPoint. Greek and Latin roots of prefixes and suffixes. Animated and interactive flashcards. Use as interactive flashcards or as an interactive quiz to study the following prefixes and suffixes: PREFIXES un-, dis-, non- re- super- sub- fore- post- uni- anti- mal- bene- semi- micro- SUFFIXES -ship -hood -ness -er, -ist, -ian -ish -al -able -ism -ology Directions included. Enjoy. - HappyEdugator

Writing Essays - how to write an essay starting with a graphic organizer. This PowerPoint will walk students through a graphic organizer and using it to write a rough draft of an essay, either expository or persuasive. A sample of the graphic organizer is on a slide, but I usually make two blank copies of the organizer to give to each student. A printable graphic organizer is included at the end for you to print for student copies. We do one together on the practice thesis statement, and then they have one to use when they write from a different prompt. Great test prep for state writing tests. - HappyEdugator

Literary Terms for Fiction Handout. This handout has 47 essential literary terms defined in easy to understand language that students should be familiar with when taking standardized tests. Great for test prep! Some of the litereature terms include elements of a short story, such as exposition, climax, resolution; elements of plot, conflict and theme. Supports common core standards. Goes with my Literary Terms for Fiction TEST. - HappyEdugator

Middle School Expository Writing Rubric. Use with expository essays, and help middle school students focus on what they need to acheive in order to meet state standards. The standards based rubric has four categories: conventions of language, purpose and style, organization, and development and support of content. Standards-based grade: students will exceed, meet, approach, or fall below standard in each category. Students can self-evaluate their work. Editable for your classroom use. -Happyedugator

Research Paper Writing PowerPoint for Middle Grades. This PowerPoint will walk your students through the BASICS of doing research and writing a research paper. Includes the purpose of research, selecting a topic, making source cards and note cards, taking notes, creating an outline, drafting, writing a bibliography, sources to use, and avoiding plagiarism. 27 slides. - HappyEdugator

Strong Verb Sentences and Paragraphs PowerPoint. Teach students to use strong verbs in their writing and avoid "dead" verbs. Sentence and paragraph practice for writing improvement, based on common core. Students can practice using a variety of vivid verbs to bring their sentences and paragraphs to life. This works as a great mini-lesson. Some teachers like to have mock funerals for the "dead" verbs to put them to rest forevermore. Revised and improved with new content and animated graphics! Enjoy! Updated August 2014. - HappyEdugator

TEST PREP Reading Test Strategies PowerPoint. Standardized Test Strategies for Reading Comprehension. Test prep on how to pass the CRCT for reading (or any state standardized reading test) using 6 essential steps. Students are given six basic strategies, and three slides of basic terms that they should be familiar with in order to be successful on a reading test. There is another slide on test-taking tips that can also be used for any test. 17 slides. Aligns with common core. - HappyEdugator

EST PREP Common Core Vocabulary for Middle Grades PowerPoint. Test prep for middle grades Language Arts. Academic vocabulary. Vocabulary words that may be tested on the new common core assessments for middle school Language Arts. Each slide has a word, a definition, and an illustration or animated graphic to help students remember. Can also be printed out on index cards and used for a word wall or as flash cards. Now updated with even more words! Helpful for test preparation. Includes Sprenger's words - essential and critical vocabulary for common core- HappyEdugator

Back to School Classroom Expectations PowerPoint. Just what you need at the beginning of the year. Use at Open House, Back to School Night, or Parent Night. A basic slideshow template of classroom expectations for students at the beginning of the year. Fill in your own specifics. Back to school expectations include behavior, routines, etc. Project it on your SmartBoard for the first day of school. Editable. Revise for yourself as necessary. I also play it continuously looping at Open House at individual student computers, set up like kiosks. - HappyEdugator

Conjunctions: Coordinating Conjunctions - Subordinating Conjunctions SMARTBOARD. An interactive Smartboard lesson and activities on coordinating and subordinating conjunctions and how they are used in sentence structure. Two slides present the acronym FANBOYS for remembering coordinating conjunctions, and another has a hands-on activity where students make compound sentences with them. Two slides present subordinating conjuntions and how they make subordinate clauses, and another slide has a hands-on activity for making complex sentences. Solutions to the activities included. Students will also use commas and periods to punctuate their sentences correctly. On the last slide, students must sort the conjunctions into the correct vortex. Engaging and interactive lesson on the Smartboard, where students can touch and move the sentences and punctuation around. EDITABLE for your classroom use. You may wish to divide the sentences into chunks. - HappyEdugator

ELA test prep interactive PowerPoint on parts of speech, subjects and predicates, sentence structure, types of sentences, verb tenses and superlative adjectives that could be on standardized tests. Language Arts grammar and mechanics practice questions with answers to help your students master some of the kinds of questions they might face on standardized tests. Use as an assessment or a practice before state testing of standards. 30 questions. Animated graphics and instant feedback. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Nonfiction Vocabulary You Should Know Game Show PowerPoint presentation. A teaching game on vocabulary used in a nonfiction unit of study of informational text. Includes nonfiction, author's purpose, exposition, description, narration, and persuasion, types of nonfiction selections and their descriptions, nonfiction text structures, the difference between dialogue and dialect,as well as stereotype and bias. Good review for standardized testing. Reading more nonfiction is essential to the common core standards. Use for fun test prep. Prepare your students for the terminology. Supports common core state standards. RI.4.4, RI.5.4, RI.6.4, RI.7.4

TEST PREP Test Practice - Language Arts and Reading. Test Preparation practice for state testing. Several nonfiction reading selections, and questions based on standards. Helps students practice answering questions similar to ones that they could have on the state assessment. Can be used for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades as practice. Useful for preparing for any state test. Use a bubble sheet or scan-tron to make it more like the real thing. Supports common core. 33 multiple choice questions. Key included.

Finding the Main Idea When Reading Non-Fiction PowerPoint. Interactive questions with immediate feedback and animated graphics. Explains main idea and how to find it when reading informational text. Common core requires more nonfiction reading! Students need to have a good understanding of what they read, and this is a key skill they need for success. Good for test prep! - HappyEdugator

Behavior chart is a traffic light that you can display and use to manage classroom behavior. Fun for race car theme. Great to set up at the beginning of the year when you go back to school. This is a classroom management tool that should encourage better work and study habits. You can blow up poster size, print out, tape together and laminate. (Blow the poster up to poster size with a poster maker or have enlarged at a copy center.) Print out the 48 unique car name tags, laminate, and write names on them with transparency markers so that you can wipe them off and reuse them. You can attach cars to the posters using restickable glue sticks, which make them act like sticky notes. -HappyEdugator

Thanksgiving Homophones PowerPoint. Fun November Activity - a homophones search! It's an interactive Thanksgiving story to read. Students have to look for two incorrect homophones on each slide. There are twenty homophones (or homonyms)to find in all, two on each slide, and then students check themselves at the end. Key included on last slide. Fun and engaging, this original Thanksgiving story is about a little boy who travels across the country to visit his grandparents for a typical Thanksgiving holiday. Develops reading vocabulary and comprehension, spelling skills, and correct usage. Supports common core standards. - HappyEdugator Keywords: Thanksgiving, Homophones, Thanksgiving PowerPoint, Thanksgiving interactive, Thanksgiving activities, Thanksgiving word study, Thanksgiving vocabulary development, Thanksgiving reading, making inferences, frequently confused words, Thanksgiving common core

TEST PREP Language Arts Standards Review PowerPoint is helpful for preparing for state tests. It has questions similar to those found on the standardized tests. 30 interactivequestions, 73 slides in all. Slides are set up so that students can answer the questions and then check their answers and discuss. Besides grammar, there are reading selections with questions about the selection as well. Supports Common Core standards for Language Arts. - HappyEdugator