In this packet, there are eight writing prompts focusing on Abraham Lincoln. There are two prompts on each page and can be easily set up to use in writing centers or in whole group instruction. These are great tools as well for research and investigation. The prompts range from Lincoln's campaign to Presidency to his assassination. They are all somewhat open-ended in nature so that you, as the teacher, can dictate the length. Your students are sure to enjoy them!

A mini-poster your students are sure to enjoy! It's All About 100! *I can do 100... *I wish I had 100... *On the 100th day of school, I will... *In the last 100 days, I have... *In the next 100 days, I will... *A fact I can tell you about 100 is... *If I had 100 dollars, I would...

As your students prepare to go back to school from the Christmas holidays, this is an exciting resource that your students can make connections with for sure! This resource is an informational text article about the famous iconic series "The Love Boat." This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the show and the celebrations are being kicked off at the Rose Bowl Parade where the original cast members will be on "The Love Boat" float! This article is approximately 790 words long and includes a formative quiz which includes ten questions that range from multiple choice to open-ended formats. This is an awesome resource to review comprehension and get back into school after a long Christmas break!

You will absolutely engage your students with this wonderful informational text article that most every child can relate to. This is an informational text article about the Home Alone mansion being on the real estate market. The article is approximately 680 words long and is completed with several illustrations, including captions, to motivate any reader. At the conclusion of the article, there is a ten question formative quiz that ranges from multiple choice questions regarding vocabulary to open-ended questions which require inferencing and multi-step thinking! You can't go wrong in working on vocabulary and comprehension utilizing this informational text!

These twelve slides can serve as an excellent training tool for a parent conference, small group parent workshop, or a larger scale Parent University activity. The content contained in the slides is material published by the ATTitude journal in regards to ADD and ADHD children, teenagers, and adults. Many, many parents are in need of such information. In the set of training slides, reference is noted to two books that parents might want to check out for further information. Specifically, there are ten anger management tips that might be used with your students and his/her parents! The slides are set up to be used as a great presentation and a springboard for further discussion.

As the 100th day of school approaches, get all of your students excited about what they have already accomplished this school year as well as what is in store for them for the rest of the school year. In this resource, you will find a mini-poster for students to all involve themselves in some writing activities that include: a self portrait of what they believe they would look like in 100 years, a listing of the games that they believe that children will play in 100 years, a writing activity about what their hope is in the world of medicine in the next 100 years, a writing activity about what they believe will be available in the world of technology in 100 years, a writing activity about what life was like for a student 100 years ago, and what they predict their world will be like in 100 years. Many of these exercises are meant to be springboards for further research and study and more extended writing activities as well as performance based projects. Students will all enjoy this activity. When complete, you might display each students’ poster!

These eleven slides will serve as excellent material to use for training in terms of a focused faculty meeting, a professional development session, a parent conference, a Parent University forum, or simply a professional learning community for teachers. The slides focus on eight specific challenges that ADHD, ADD, and/or LD students/children face daily. Along with each challenge, there are four to five suggested accommodations given to try with students ~ students who have a 504 plan, students who are IDEA eligible, and other students who might need the extra support! As much as these slides can be shared with teachers, they should also be used to share with parents as well!

This resource is sure to engage all of your learners. They will be most eager to get started on these activities leading to the 100th day of school or… work as many activities as possible on the actual 100th day of school. Activities range from guessing how old the teacher will be in one hundred years, to predicting what their town/city will be like in 100 years. Additionally students are asked to make a list of 100 reasons why they love their school and many other thought provoking, brainstorming, jumpstarting the brain activities in celebration of this big day! This resource is set-up in a power point format so that each activity can be approached on individual days leading up to the event or each activity can be placed in a center unto itself. This resource can be used in such a multitude of different ways! Your students are sure to love these ten activities to celebrate this day of achievement in their school year!

You are sure to engage your students with this informational text article entitled, "Will your shoes be filled with goodies or twigs?" This article is approximately 800 words long and includes text illustrations including captions with each. At the conclusion of the article, there is a formative quiz with nine different questions including multiple choice questions, open-ended questions, and performances-based scenarios. If you and your class are engaged in a study of Christmas Around the World, you will not want to miss this article!

If you are implementing a study of the different traditions of Christmas Around the World, this informational text article is for you! This article is approximately 800 words long and gives information in regards to Christmas traditions in Australia complete with dinner menus, decorations, and favorite pastimes. Additionally, the articles contains several illustrations complete with captions that compliment the text. At the conclusion of the article, there is a formative quiz complete with multiple choice questions as well as open-ended questions regarding the article. The last question is a performance based question where students will create a dinner menu for twenty-five guests based on relevant information in the article. Your students are sure to enjoy this study of Australia!

Your students are absolutely sure to be engaged in this informational text! This is an informative article written about the lighting of the famous Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree in New York City. This article is approximately 934 words long complete with a couple of illustrations to match the text. At the conclusion of the text, there is a formative assessment that consists of an eight question quiz to include questions on vocabulary, comprehension, sequencing, context clues, inferring, etc. This text is sure to engage a room full of readers! A great read for your students!

In this training and support packet of materials, you will find a powerpoint presentation that can be used for a professional learning community session, a focused faculty meeting, and/or a professional development session. There are a total of fourteen slides which encourage teachers to shift students into "high gear" thinking. The slides focus on the point that as long as students are involved in only memory and recall then they have trouble with "low gear" thinking! The point is made to involve students in "high gear" engaging activities, and they will grasp and retain much more than when asked to simply recall. This training presentation is a "jumping off point" into constructing/creating engaging teaching and learning activities!

This is an awesome packet of ten slides to help students with writing skills specifically linking words and phrases in their writing. This is the perfect resource for the language arts classroom when teaching the writing process. This resource can be placed above the white board as a reference tool or on a bulletin board.

Our classrooms are full of native digital learners. Learners who do not know life any different than being connected 24/7– they have unlimited data, face-time, snap chat, and utilize many, many other applications. Because of this, students must continually be educated about proper on-line etiquette and procedures for on-line behavior. In this resource, you will find six mini-posters that are perfect to place above your whiteboard. Each expresses a statement of proper etiquette/on-line procedures for the web. In this information age of technology, it is so completely important for students to be able to think rational and logical where on-line procedures are concerned. These posters are reminders of expected on-line behavior.

Your students are absolutely going to love this community building activity! In this resource, you will find many different photo props that your students will love to choose from to make the perfect “beginning of the school year” photo to cherish all year! Props include sayings such as (1) I’m a hot mess! (2) Say Cheese; (3) I’m Ready to Learn! (4) “I’m Only Here for Recess!” and many, many others (see entire list of photo props below)! There are approximately seventy-five photo props to choose from or choose multiple ones for different photo combinations. These photos can be used in conjunction with an “All About Me” activity, a poetry writing session about "Our New Classroom", and many many other classroom community building activities! Most of all, they can be used just to have simple plain fun as the school year gets cranked up and ready to go! Each photo prop is ready to go. One needs to simply download, copy on card-stock, laminate if possible for future year’s use, and glue or tape to a popsicle stick or any other type of short dowel, etc. Have an awesome time setting up your background to use these props! List of Photo Props: ** "I Look Good and I Know It!" ** Most Likely to Succeed ** Bookworm ** 1st Day of School 2016 (each grade level from kindergarten to 6th grade ** Class Clown ** WhooHoo! ** "I'm a Hot Mess!" ** OMG!! ** Photo Bomb ** "That's What He Said!" ** "That's What She Said!" ** "Say Cheese!" ** 2LEGIT 2QUIT ** LIKE! ** DISLIKE! ** Best Hair ** Most Athletic ** #1 Finger Sign ** Books ** Bow Ties (four of these; different colors) ** Eyeglasses (four of these; different patterns) ** #backtoschool (multiple copies; different colors) ** #BFF (multiple copies; different colors) ** apple cut-outs ** "Ready to Learn!" (multiple copies; different colors) ** "I'm Only Here for Recess!" (multiple copies; different colors) ** "I'm a Genius!" (multiple copies; different colors) ** "I Believe I Can Fly!" (multiple copies; different colors) ** "The Sky is the Limit!" (multiple copies; different colors) ** "I'm not fitting in when I was born to stand out!" (multiple copies; different colors) ** "Oh, the Places I'm Going!" (multiple copies; different colors)

Students absolutely love to hear their teachers talk about them in a great, positive way. This packet reinforces that concept that we all know to be true. In this packet, you will find several ways of delivering hand written positive messages to your students. There are notes entitled, “You got caught doing something good!”, “Here’s To You,” and “You Make Me Proud!” Additionally, there are two sets of notes entitled, “It’s the Little Things That Mean So Much.” In these sets, you can check off the things that your students have done well and reward them with just a simple note of praise!

This is a packet of six mini-posters which presents six comprehension strategies for readers. These mini-posters can serve as a great bulletin board or placed above the white board for easy reference. Strategies include: making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, synthesizing, and determining importance.

In this packet, you will find thirty sets of cue cards for students to use at their desk to alert you to how they are working independently. As you are monitoring the room, it is very easy to spot the yellow and red cue cards which let you know that some students are having a bit of difficulty. After establishing the “boundaries and ground rules” for using the cue cards, this tool can serve as a great instructional/classroom management tool. The green card indicates the student is working fine, the yellow card indicates the student is still working; however, he/she is having some difficulty, and the red card indicates that the student can not progress without help!

In this packet of mini-posters you are sure to find the literary device that you need to use with your students. Specifically, you will find Fourteen Mini-Posters each Depicting a Literary Device to include: alliteration, allegory, irony, personification, hyperbole, imagery, simile, metaphor, idiom, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, pun, and palindrome~ These mini-posters are valuable tools in using on bulletin boards, center rotations, and as reference tools all year long in a language arts classroom! Your students are sure to love them!

This simple comprehension strategy is sure to help each of your students answer open-ended questions. This is a set of three mini-posters each with a component of the comprehension strategy ~~ ANSWER ~~ CITE ~~ EXTEND. Use these mini-posters as references when students are working at constructing answers to comprehension questions with clarity as they make sure that they answer the questions being asked, cite evidence in how they derived their answer, and then finally how they extend their answer to include examples from their prior knowledge and personal experiences! Use these reference mini-posters, they are sure to ACE an awesome response!