Nonfiction Vocabulary You Should Know PowerPoint presentation on vocabulary used in a nonfiction unit of study. Supports Common Core! 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 as an introduction to nonfiction reading and writing, and can be accompanied by my PowerPoint Structures of Nonfiction Text for more specific information on text structures. Includes animated graphics. Reading more nonfiction is essential to the common core standards. Prepare your students for the terminology. - HappyEdugator Common Core Standards CCRA.L.3, CCRA.L.6

Appositives and Appositive Phrases Handout and Practice. This includes a two page handout with clear graphics detailing what an appositive and an appositive phrase is, providing examples and the rules for correct punctuation of them. It can be copied front and back to save paper. The third page is a worksheet for practice, and the last page is the answer key. - HappyEdugator

Adjective Poem. This is a form poem to help your students write a poem from a simple pattern. Students must create their own poem using the parts of speech in the pattern. The poem starts out with a plural noun, and then uses other parts of speech, including positive, comparative, and superlatvie adjectives. It can be used as a handout or projected on your whiteboard if you wish to save paper. Have students work in small groups to stimulate creativity. The key is not to allow students to use boring adjectives, such as "good" or "bad". They must use specific and colorful language to paint the picture for the reader. Includes directions and adjective list to help with brainstorming. - 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

Correlative Conjunctions Practice Worksheet. Worksheet on correlative conjunctions. Definition, Examples, and practice identifying the conjunctions in a sentence and what they connect. Writing practice using correlative conjunctions in sentences. Key inlcuded. Supports common core. - HappyEdugator CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.1e Use correlative conjunctions (e.g., either/or, neither/nor).

Forms of Energy - Energy KeyTerms Graphic Organizer to accompany my Forms of Energy PowerPoint. This is a vocabulary graphic organizer for students to fill in with a definition and a place for students to draw a picture or a symbol to help them remember. Revised to include pictures for students to glue if they don't wish to draw. Includes the different forms of energy, which are all covered in my PowerPoint presentation. - HappyEdugator

Homophones to Remember PowerPoint. Animated slides of homophones and example sentences to show meaning. Fun graphics and sounds will engage students. Homophones are frequently confused words that sound alike but are spelled differently and mean different things. Often confused, and often found on standardized tests, they should be memorized. These words and sentences are appropriate for almost any age. Writing activity on the last slide. Note: Do you know the difference between a homophone and a homonym? The difference between a homophone and a homonym is that a homophone sounds the same and is spelled differently, and has different meaning. (to,too, two) A homonym is both spelled the same and sounds the same, but has different meaning. (chair - like you sit in, and chair - department head) Last slide is a writing activity. Supports common core standards. 38 slides. - HappyEdugator

Symbolism PowerPoint - What is Symbolism? Understanding symbolism in literature, including definition of a symbol, recognition of symbolic pictures, how symbolism affects reading comprehension, and a step by step guide to identifying symbols in a story or other literary text, which can be used as a practice activity with the story you are reading. Animated and thought-provoking slides, which may lead to interesting class discussion. - HappyEdugator

End of the Year Assignment Menu. This end of year assignment is a great final project. Useful for differentiation. Print and go. Students like to have a choice to complete any of 6 different projects to demonstrate what they have learned in the course of the school year. Displayed in two different formats. One is presented as a menu choice board, and one is presented as strips that you can cut apart and then have them select by chance. Rubric included. Revised April 2015. - HappyEdugator

Polar Bears - Fun Facts About Polar Bears PowerPoint. Polar bear facts including information on polar bear size, adaptations, what polar bears eat, cubs, global warming, the environment, etc. Informational text for reading practice. Animated clips make it more engaging to young readers. Includes three activities! Activity 1 - Read Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do You Hear? By Eric Carle. Click on the sound icons and identify the everyday sound. Name the sound and draw a picture. Activity 2 - Discuss camouflage. Find multicolored toothpicks thrown in the grass...why is it harder to find the green ones? Activity 3 - True False facts about the polar bear. The last slide has book suggestions for further reading for literacy and math development, such as Polar Bears Past Bedtime. Fun to use around the Christmas season or during the winter months! - HappyEdugator

Multiple Intelligence Choice Board. Use this board to culminate a unit of study. This is an assignment menu. Students can choose activities from the board to complete based on the unit they are studying. boxes for different types of learners and learning styles, with choices for Verbal or Linguistic, Mathematical or Logical, Visual or Spatial,Bodily or Kinesthetic, Musical or Auditory, Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Naturalistic, and a box for student-teacher choice. - HappyEdugator

Organelles Graphic Organizer - Cell Theory Graphic Organizer for Organelles. A blank web graphic organizer for students to fill out when taking notes on organelles and cell theory. It can be used with my PowerPoint presentation on organelles. - HappyEdugator

Elements of a Fairy Tale PowerPoint. This PowerPoint will introduce your students to the main characteristics and elements of fairy tales, such as magic, royalty, characters, lessons and more. Animated slides will engage your students. I use this presentation to introduce a unit on fairy tales. Use it in combination with my Elements of Fairy Tales chart, then have students read several fairy tales (I assign at least 5) and let them determine what elements they can find in each story. - HappyEdugator

Rikki Tikki Tavi Preview PowerPoint. Preview the short story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling with this introductory powerpoint. Has vocabulary with definitions, plot diagram, literary elements, anticipation guide, author biography and background information, and strategies for reading short stories. Cobra and mongoose facts and photos included, as well as a link to a National Geographic video clip of a mongoose encounter with a cobra. This is an engaging story for the beginning of the year, and a good one to introduce literary elements, especially plot and conflict. Readers will love Rikki Tikki Tavi! - HappyEdugator

Plot Summary Guide. Summarize the plot elements of any fiction short story or novel with this handy sheet. Based on the common core standards of analyzing how particular story elements interact, like how the setting shapes the plot. Students will list the characters, determine the protagonist and antagonist, describe the setting and its relationship to the plot, describe the conflict, complications and rising action, the climax, falling action, and resolution of the story. - HappyEdugator

Mythology Museum Project. Make a mythology museum exhibit. A fun group project for students to use creativity and knowledge of mythology. 10 activities required, with a signature line for each part a student participated in. Includes a detailed rubric. - HappyEdugator

Preposition Poem Worksheet. Prepositions and poetry together! Worksheet will help students playfully combine poetic form with a riddle, while extending awareness of prepositional phrases and their use. Also encourages use of imagery and figurative language like similes and metaphors to paint pictures with words. - HappyEdugator

Latin America - All About Latin America PowerPoint. Teach Spanish or Social Studies? Latin America: the land, the people, the history and the culture. Packed with information! Animated slides. Can be used as an introduction to Spanish in a foreign language class, or in a Social Studies class. Engaging and entertaining, with interesting facts, and lots of photographs, this presentation is a good way to supplement a unit of study with an overview of population, politics, manufacturing, products,and agriculture. All countries in Latin America are included. 25 slides.

Economics PowerPoint. Defines economics and the study of supply and demand. Explains in simple terms the differences between three different economic systems: the market economy, which is also known as capitalism; the command economy, which is also known as communism; and the mixed economy, which is also known as socialism. Animated graphics will engage your students. Last slide is a review for students to define the three different economies and answer a 3-2-1 question summary. - HappyEdugator

Poetry - Five Senses Poem. Handout, brainstorming pages, and final poem publishing page. Help students get started using sensory language and begin writing poetry using vivid imagery. Guides students with a format for writing a poem using their senses. Examples will get them thinking. You will be amazed at some of the original and creative poems you can get students to write using this format. - HappyEdugator