Where you will find all resources and materials aimed at Early Childhood and Primary/Elementary Education, covering ELA, Science, Math, ESL, Gifted and Talented, STEM Education, and much more!!!
Where you will find all resources and materials aimed at Early Childhood and Primary/Elementary Education, covering ELA, Science, Math, ESL, Gifted and Talented, STEM Education, and much more!!!
This is a display banner, or you can utilize the letters and explanations. This is a great visual reminder for asking different types of questions to your students. Each letter offers a unique idea on how to question your students. Also a great way to show to your admin during observations that you are trying different questioning techniques!
Q: Quality
U: Understanding
E: Encourage multiple responses
S: Spark new questions
T: Thought provoking
I: Individualized:
O: Ownership shifted to students
N: Narrow and broad
S: Success building
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This is a set of clipart to be used when teaching the Prompts of Depth and Complexity. Great to include as visual reminders when creating Thinking Maps or Independent Study products.
This packet includes:
11 Black and White Masters without words
11 Color Masters without words
11 Black and White Masters with words
11 Color Masters with words
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This is a pack of 9 clipart pieces in color and black and white for teaching the Human Body Systems. This pack includes:
Digestive System
Circulatory System
Skeletal System
Nervous System
Respiratory System
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This is a nice set of 12 cards containing Bloom's Taxonomy Questions and sentence starters, and Bloom's Taxonomy Math Verb Cards. You can purchase these items separately in my store, or get them both for a cheaper price!
Great to have on hand during a lesson to prompt some higher-level questioning and thinking. I keep them right with me during whole group or small group lessons.
This is my bundle pack for my 3 student surveys. Buy them separately or all together in this pack to save $$$.
Behavior Management:
We all know the importance of differentiating curriculum to student learning styles. But how many of us actually apply that same principal to behavior management...not too many I bet. It is so simple to apply one behavior management system to the entire class, or sometimes our principal requires us to use a school wide model. However, we all know that our students are going to behave differently, and therefore we should be actively differentiating behavior management methods to best meet the needs of our students.
Using this survey will give you additional data to help your classroom function more smoothly, and to show administrators why differentiating behavior management is important to the student development in class. Also a great thing to have on file during parent teacher conferences!
Multiple Intelligences:
This is a visual survey based on aspects of Howard Gardener's Multiple Intelligences I made for my ESL students to be used at the beginning of the school year. Given a language barrier it was a great tool that gave me insight into how my students like to learn, what materials they like to use, and what their favorite part of school is. While I used this survey for ESL, I feel it can be used for any mainstream/ESL grade level in the primary grades
Each student completes the survey by either circling or coloring (whatever is easier depending on your students' abilities), one or more answer for each question. Make sure they understand not to circle every answer, but to pick only the ones that pertain to them.
Once the survey is complete, you can use the teacher answer key to understand what the data means and how to effectively use it. I used my surveys to help me differentiate my lessons, how to manage my guided reading and writing more effectively, as well as how to motivate my students to complete their work. It also gave me good ideas about how to set up my seating chart, which students might work well together, and which of my more chatty students might need to be separated.
And one extra bonus, this is a GREAT tool when it comes to observations and professional development, and you get asked about why you have differentiated in a particular way!
Approaches to Learning:
This survey allows you to best assist your students when it comes to their learning. It allows you to see if there are distractions that are slowing learning, how your students work at home, and where they feel most comfortable in class.
This is a great assessment for data collection to justify differentiation in the class environment for administrators.
BEST BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT SURVEY
Owing to the popularity of my Multiple Intelligences Survey: How Do You Learn?, I created a new survey to be completed by students in class or at home with parents to show what they think and feel about classroom rules and behavior management techniques.
We all know the importance of differentiating curriculum to student learning styles. But how many of us actually apply that same principal to behavior management...not too many I bet. It is so simple to apply one behavior management system to the entire class, or sometimes our principal requires us to use a school wide model. However, we all know that our students are going to behave differently, and therefore we should be actively differentiating behavior management methods to best meet the needs of our students.
Using this survey will give you additional data to help your classroom function more smoothly, and to show administrators why differentiating behavior management is important to the student development in class. Also a great thing to have on file during parent teacher conferences!
This is a set of question cards designed to get students used to giving answers and collecting data on a daily basis. Questions can be simple or require a more critical thinking approach, but all questions require a yes or no answer. Simply print out, laminate, and cut the cards, being sure to post a new question each day. Provide 3 containers beneath where the daily question is posted, (1 for yes, 1 for no, and 1 for holding counters such as pennies, marbles, cubes, etc...). When students enter class they read the question, select a counter, and place it in the container for yes or no dependent on their answer. Assign one student daily or weekly as the tallier who must go and total the counters for yes and no. being sure to record it as well.
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This is a complete set of classroom display items including:
Numbers 0-20 posters
Days of the Week
Months of the Year
Calendar Numbers
Calendar Events
Word Wall Header
Word Wall Letters
Objective Cards and Poster
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This colorful and fancy banner spans 7 pages and creates a great focus point for display student's self assessed work. I use mine on my wall where my students self assess for their Math Mastery as well as how many sight words they know.
Perfect for BACK TO SCHOOL or GETTING TO KNOW YOU units!
These are two social games to help students realize their connections to each other. This game includes 25 game cards, and colored "I Can Connect" cards.
Game 1: In a group, one student at a time reads aloud one of the 25 game cards. If the students can relate to what is on the card, they hold up their "I Can Connect" card.
Game 2: In a large group, or in smaller groups, students individually share something relating to themselves, such as personal interests. If others in that group can relate they hold up their "I Can Connect" card.
Both games are designed to let students see more ways they may connect with their peers, and to encourage discussions in class.
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This is a set of Number Display cards/posters for numbers 1-10, each featuring:
Number
Number word
10 frame
Dice
Fingers
Counting cubes
Print full size for posters or make them smaller for personal use such as flash cards. Please make sure to rate and leave feedback!
This is a set of Pumpkin Life Cycle clipart for personal and commercial use. It includes color and blackline masters. Please make sure to rate and leave feedback!
This is a perfect activity for the beginning of the year, that offers some simple guidance and explanation but also encourages natural inquiry. Students should understand that what they value about being at school by explaining what they feel is most important during their day. Similar to a "taxonomy" pyramid that organizes information based on importance, students will create a list of what they do each day at school, sort it based on the level of importance to them, and then create the pyramid.
Once all pyramids are made, students will look at each others and complete a comparison recording sheet. This is also great at getting students to see how they each value the different parts of the day, and that the importance could be based on personal interests, what they find easy or challenging, or based on their level or creativity/logic.
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This is a nice, simple, and classy set of classroom labels for all your tubs, bins, and baskets. Keep everything streamlined around the room and help students stay organized. Labels are chalkboard with an arrow theme with white font; over 30 labels included. Please make sure to rate and leave feedback!
This is a nice set of 6 cards containing Bloom's Taxonomy verbs for math that can be used in questioning and sentence starters. Great to have on hand during a lesson to prompt some higher-level questioning and thinking. I keep them right with me during whole group or small group lessons.
A simple yet effective way of making sure that all students have their names on their papers that they turn in. Place this stop sign by your trays/bins where papers are collected to assure that every student has written their name on their work.