Show your students there is more than one way to express their words in poetry! In this packet, you will find eight mini posters each featuring a form of poetry to use when teaching each instructional format. Each poster also has an example of the type of poem explained. Students are sure to love writing these forms of poetry about their favorite topics. As well, this could be converted into a Christmas poetry unit utilizing the awesome Christmas scenes as springboards for brainstorming. Forms of poetry included are: limericks, diamantes, cinquains, haikus, couplets, acrostics, shapes, and free verse.

You will not want to miss this series of packets on the novel, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. In this first packet, you will find a character chart for each of the characters introduced in chapter one. The student must list several pieces of information as they connect deeper and deeper with each character. Also, there are potentially seventeen vocabulary words in this first chapter; therefore, there is a vocabulary template for each of the chosen vocabulary words. Finally, there is a comprehension sheet for this first chapter, which has twelve open-ended questions of a variety of different levels of thinking. This comprehension sheet might be used for a formative assessment/quiz at the end of each chapter.

This product is a collection of teaching and learning activities for grades second through fifth on the topic of scarecrows. What a better theme than scarecrows for fall learning! This unit includes scarecrow humor, poetry writing with scarecrows, opinion/argumentative writing, informative writing and sequencing in a "how to" piece of writing, designing and publishing a mini-book from "how-to" work to share with younger children orally, categorizing the history of scarecrows, conducting research skills with scarecrows to determine potential problems with the different designs, and reading and comprehending informational text passages in regards to the history of scarecrows! What an awesome fall learning experience for your students during this favorite time of the school year!

This product is training material in the form of a powerpoint presentation. This presentation will be great for a Parent University, a focused faculty session, a PTO open house session, or a professional learning community. As well, this material might be used with a parent group in terms of advice regarding parenting and disciplining children with ADHD. In this material, there are seven strategies to work with children where discipline is concerned particularly children diagnosed with ADHD. Finally, this is basically seven great pieces of advice for when a parent reaches the end of his/her rope with an unruly child who raises the volume on challenging behavior!

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!

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.

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 instructional resource is a packet centering around the poem, Polka Dot Pajamas. Children will delight in the rhyme, rhythm, and pattern of this poem. Included are several literacy extensions that reinforce many Common Core State Standards to include choral reading, response and chant, constructing a similar poem, identifying adjectives, and sequencing the events in the poem. There is also a formative assessment with ten statements about the events in the poem for the students to sequence.

So just exactly what do great scientists do? Scientists who are trying to find a cure for diseases like Ebola, measles, aids, cancer, and many other threatening illnesses all have methods and procedures in common that they do on a daily basis while performing their work! In this packet, one will find a resource set of fifteen mini-posters that exhibit the verbs that great scientists use on a daily basis. These mini-posters are the perfect size for a science bulletin board or fit well right above the white board in a science classroom. Posters include verbs like: question, hypothesize, experiment, record, organize, and analyze data, make conclusions, observe, classify, compare, measure, predict, infer, communicate, estimate, practice safety skills, and make models!

Your students will certainly enjoy participating in this activity converting temperatures using different rooms in Santa's home at the North Pole as well as additional areas on Santa's property such as the garage and the state-of-the-art toy-making facility. Specifically, the students will utilize pictures from Santa’s home at the North Pole, such as the living area, the kitchen area, the outside of the front of the home, the garage, the kitchen where a fresh batch of chocolate chip cookies are in the oven, the toy-making facility, and the study where Santa creates and engineers all of his next wonderful creations for deserving children. While investigating each of the rooms and areas utilized, a scenario is given as to the temperature of the room. It is given in either Celsius or Fahrenheit degrees.Your students are asked to make the conversion, specifically if the temperature is given in Fahrenheit degrees, then they are asked to convert the temperature into a Celsius measurement and vice versa. Students are asked to show their work, justify or explain their answer, and then conclude with their final answer. Merry Christmas And a Happy New Year!

You surely do not want to miss this resource! This packet is 32 pages long and focuses on argumentative/persuasive writing. The students conduct research on the different types of Christmas lights and how to “elegantly” decorate their tree using the appropriate lights. After conducting research and reading articles which are provided including the source, the students develop a “hook” statement that will allow the readers to want to read more to determine the best decision to make in terms of buying and decorating with the proper Christmas lights. Next, after developing the “hook” statement, students utilize a graphic organizer that is provided, and develop their claim and actually state it. The next part of the graphic organizer allows the students to state three reasons why their claims is the best decision to make. As well, after stating and writing each particular reason, there is also a space on the graphic organizer for students to write their evidence in the form of a sentence that supports their specific reason for the claim. Finally, at the end of the graphic organizer, the students are to provide a concluding sentence for their claim. Students will enjoy this particular activity so much during the holiday season; you can’t go wrong with this teaching and learning activity!

Are you working on trying to reinforce nouns, adjectives, facts versus opinion phrases, and synonyms? Is it necessary in your classroom to scaffold instruction in terms of rigor level? If so, this packet is for you and your classroom. This packet contains ten absolutely gorgeous fall scenes from which students can create cinquains. After each fall scene is cinquain pattern one, two, or three. Pattern one tends to be less difficult, patten two follows a parts of speech pattern, while pattern three focuses on syllables. This poetry packet on cinquains is great for whole group instruction, small group instruction, as well as in a poetry center. Students will be very proud of their poetry they create. Upon completion, publish a book of cinquains for fall. The beautiful, fall scences serve as a springboard students’ thinking and constructing. Students might also take the opportunity to recite their poetry to the class and focus on their speaking and listening skills!

Use these six mini-posters for easy reference in establishing great beginnings with bringing writing to life. These can serve as a year long reference for students! Each poster focuses on a different way to begin one’s writing and an example is given for each way to begin. This is a great resource for any classroom that will focus on different aspects of writing all year!

When elementary students learn to follow directions, it begins a complimentary compliance with requests that improves their relationships with everyone! Young students sometimes have difficulty transitioning from one activity to another, especially students on the autism spectrum. Many times transitions causes anxiety or students just seem to be stuck and not be able to transition to the next task well. Because transitions can be difficult, use this packet of materials to help teach students how to transition effectively. This packet allows students to follow adults’ directions without whining, arguing, and/or complaining. In this packet is a set of visual, nonverbal signal cards that can serve as transition signals. These cards are very nonthreatening, non-obtrusive individualized approach to transitioning. A teacher can simply place a card on a student’s desk and walk away. Cards include “GO,” “slow down and breathe,” and “STOP!” Students are sure to respond to these cards and will receive an individualized warning that a transition time is approaching!

Children are sure to love these reward menus for a job well done! In this packet, you will find three different types of reward menus for your students to choose from in being rewarded for doing a great job, doing the right thing, or meeting his/her target goal on a behavior contract! On each page are three reward menus to use with your students. Some of the menus relate more to younger children while some are specifically designed with older students in mind. Additionally, some rewards relate to academics while others relate to helping roles, praise, recognition, prizes, or recreation. You can’t go wrong using these with your students!

You are sure to love this product! This is a packet of six reinforcement menus with a fall candy corn background to serve as a reward for great behavior. Oftentimes, in terms of universal screening for behavior, there are students who need more reinforcement than others. This product is ideal for those students who are on Tier II for behavior as well as those students who just need that extra “booster shot” in terms of working on his/her behavior and making great choices! The reinforcement menus relate to different areas such as academic activities, helping roles, praise/recognition, prizes/ rewards/privileges, and recreation. Your students are certain to work hard to be able to pick from one of these menus! This is a great product for Response to Intervention as well as reinforcing established behavior contracts!

You will not want to miss this packet of informational text articles to use with your students in the classroom! This is a bundle of four fall articles that range from 450-650 words. Each article has illustrations and captions to further explain the text. At the conclusion of each article, there is a six question formative assessment to get a snapshot of students vocabulary and comprehension skills. The following articles are contained in this packet: (1) Visiting An Apple Orchard: A Fun Fall Activity! (2) The Origins of Carving a Jack-O-Lantern (3) Bobbing for Apples: A Fall Fun Favorite! (4) Fall Fun: Wind Your Way Through the Corn Mazes!

What child does not love sock monkeys? This resource is a set of seven classroom rules with a sock money theme! You may only want to use four or five of the rules or change the rules out to suit the needs of your classroom and the challenges that it presents!

Have fun with this resource set of mini-posters to explain a plot sequence to your students while using the concept of roller coasters to illustrate your explanation. This set of mini—posters includes includes six illustrations of how to explain the plot sequence to your students from the beginning, middle, and then to the end! Your students will love the roller coaster illustrations! This resource is perfect for the reading/language arts classroom to display all year long!

This is an awesome resource for a language arts teacher. This is a mini-poster set for referencing parts of punctuation. This set includes a mini-poster for apostrophes, colons, semi-colons, exclamation point, periods, quotation marks, question marks, and commas. They are a perfect fit for a bulletin board. As well, they are the perfect size to fit right above a whiteboard for easy reference all year long!