Common core aligned worksheets to supplement Chinatown as published in Houghton Mifflin Reading 2.1. Common core aligned activities include: two vocabulary activities (6 words each) which focus on using a combination of dictionary skills and context clues, ten comprehension questions/activities with a focus on Bloom's Taxonomy, a KWL chart, a making judgements activity, a vocabulary puzzle, an informational reading extension; What's Your Kung Fu? and a template for a map activity. (10 pages of activities) Revised Jan 2016

A double-sided worksheet for The Last Dragon, as published in Houghton and Mifflin Reading 4, that tri-folds into a pamphlet. It includes an illustration section, a vocabulary practice (10 words), a crossword puzzle or a poetry writing activity (according to teacher choice), comprehension questions (4), and a 5 star review/recommendation section. An instruction page and answer key are included. Created Feb 2015

The BFG Workbook has "comic style" worksheets and novel study activities for the story by Roald Dahl. It includes; cover page with a background knowledge activity, vocabulary (14 pages), questions (6 pages), similes (1 page), creative activities (5 pages), puzzles (2 pages), and word problems (1 page). It also includes the answers to the two puzzle pages. No other answer keys are provided. There are thirty-two pages. The vocabulary pages include nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjective, synonyms and antonyms. Each question page has five questions. Creative activities are; Cooking with Snozzcumbers Frobscottle Advertising Poster Letter to Human Beans Make a Dream Jar Giant Menu Clipart is intentionally absent from this workbook. It is designed so students can add their own artwork. __________ The BFG Comic Style Workbook by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

A step by step, scaffolded approach to teaching your students how to write a five-paragraph descriptive essay about an animal. There is a writing model from which students complete a graphic organiser to guide them in deconstructing the model essay. This process helps students to intuit the structure of an essay. There are graphic organisers for research, introduction and conclusion. There is an editing symbol guide and a works cited guide. It draws special attention to a six-step writing process; research, draft, share, edit, revise and publish. There are check boxes for monitoring students' progress through the writing process. The workbook is printed on loose leaf notebook style paper. This workbook is included in the How to Write Essay Bundle (Biography, Comparison & Contrast, Descriptive Essay) at a discounted price.

A set of nine parts of speech posters in landscape with yellow background with fun clipart to demonstrate concepts. Includes: ▢ a cover page ▢ noun ▢ verb ▢ adjective (2 versions) ▢ adverb ▢ preposition ▢ conjunction ▢ interjection ▢ article A4 Landscape with yellow background.

A set of nine parts of speech posters in landscape with red background with fun clipart to demonstrate concepts. Includes: ▢ a cover page ▢ noun ▢ verb ▢ adjective (2 versions) ▢ adverb ▢ preposition ▢ conjunction ▢ interjection ▢ article A4 Landscape with red background.

A set of nine parts of speech posters in landscape with blue background with fun clipart to demonstrate concepts. Includes: ▢ a cover page ▢ noun ▢ verb ▢ adjective (2 versions) ▢ adverb ▢ preposition ▢ conjunction ▢ interjection ▢ article A4 Landscape with blue background

Persuasive, Expository, Comparison and Contrast, Descriptive and Narrative writing are covered by this brightly coloured set of A4 landscape posters. Nine posters detailing the types of writing. Mentor texts are included with the posters making them great teaching tools. Poster headings include; Five Types of Writing What is an Essay? Persuasive Expository Comparison and Contrast Descriptive Narrative Fictional Narrative Non-fiction Narrative These look great when printed on photo quality paper. __________ Types of Writing Poster Pack by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Uniquely designed colourful posters defining various story elements. There are fourteen A4 size posters. Includes; ▢ cover ▢ title ▢ author ▢ illustrator ▢ characters ▢ setting ▢ transformation ▢ plot ▢ conflict or problem ▢ climax ▢ resolution or solution ▢ theme Landscape with blue background.

Uniquely designed colorful posters defining various story elements. There are fourteen A4 size posters. Includes; ▢ cover ▢ title ▢ author ▢ illustrator ▢ characters ▢ setting ▢ transformation ▢ plot ▢ conflict or problem ▢ climax ▢ resolution or solution ▢ theme Landscape with white background and minimal use of colour.

Uniquely designed colourful posters defining various story elements. There are fourteen A4 size posters. Includes; ▢ cover ▢ title ▢ author ▢ illustrator ▢ characters ▢ setting ▢ transformation ▢ plot ▢ conflict or problem ▢ climax ▢ resolution or solution ▢ theme Landscape with red background.

Uniquely designed colourful posters defining various story elements. There are fourteen A4 size posters. Includes; ▢ cover ▢ title ▢ author ▢ illustrator ▢ characters ▢ setting ▢ transformation ▢ plot ▢ conflict or problem ▢ climax ▢ resolution or solution ▢ theme Landscape with yellow background.

D'nealian style animal themed ABC posters designed for all elementary grade levels. The posters have both a print and cursive example. Photographs, rather than clip art, add a bit of realism so these are especially nice for slightly older English language learners. Best of all there are no chevrons, polka dots, stripes nor bubble headed stick figures anywhere on these posters. (Not that there is anything wrong with that) (^_^) Designed in A4 size but can be printed half or a quarter that by adjusting your printer settings. __________ ABC Animal Posters by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Zaner Bloser style animal themed ABC posters designed for all elementary grade levels. The posters have both a print and cursive example. Photographs, rather than clip art, add a bit of realism so these are especially nice for slightly older English language learners. Best of all there are no chevrons, polka dots, stripes nor bubble headed stick figures anywhere on these posters. (Not that there is anything wrong with that) (^_^) Designed in A4 size but can be printed half or a quarter that by adjusting your printer settings. __________ ABC Animal Posters by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

A set of square, flower-themed mini-posters based on Bloom's Taxonomy Revised; Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate & Create. There is a title poster, summary poster, and 6 posters (one for each level). I keep this hanging in my classroom as a reminder to myself when I'm working on language arts units for my classes. Green, Blue, and Yellow ersions are included. The PDF file can be printed on A4, B4, or A3 size paper. The original version is also included but the design and content are slightly different. Revised in May 2017. ___________________ Bloom's Taxonomy Flower Posters by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Adventure themed role cards and activity worksheets for cooperative reading groups and reading centers. These adventure themed role cards and activities are very motivating for students. The students can be: the Artist, the Puzzler, the Story Mapper or the Word Wizard. The role cards are provided in A4 size for uses as posters in your reading center and A6 size for making lanyards. Just cut out the A6 size, laminate and put them on a lanyard or name tag clip for fun reminders of the student's role. There are three colours: Full colour with blue parchment background Black with grey parchment background and standard black line. Useful for picture books and short chapter books. _____________________ Cooperative Reading Activity Pack by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

What do good writers do? These seven colourful posters detail a six-step writer's process for your students. They tell them a good writer; Pre-writes, Drafts, Shares, Revises, Edits and Publishes their work. Each step in the writer's process is described with key words and phrases highlighted to help students focus on the key ideas. These will look good prominently displayed in your writing workshop. __________ The Writer's Process Posters by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

Whatever you do...don't download these Super Scary Writing Sheets. (^_^) These uniquely designed Super Scary Writing Sheets are useful all year long and especially for Halloween but they are not for the faint of heart. Like I said, they are super scary. There are four Halloween themed cover sheets for students to illustrate and a fifth blank cover sheet for students' creativity. The design of the writing sheets is not quite right but don't take my word for it. Download it and see for yourself. Nonetheless, you have been warned. Notable features are: 1. Portrait and landscape designs. 2. Four styles of cover pages. 3. Additional blank cover page for student created designs. 4. Two versions of most writing sheets with regular and penmanship lines for younger writers. 5. A page number box for multiple page writing. 6. Four styles of comic strip templates for those students who love to draw comics. 7. Full colour and low ink versions are provided. 8. Minimal use of clipart leading to more student creativity and usefulness year round. 9. A complete absence of chevrons, polka dots and bubble headed clipart. (Because those are way too scary even for me!!) The number of unique pages is 31. Including the low ink versions there are 62 sheets total. __________ Super Scary Halloween Writing Sheets by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

Stop!! Don't do it!! These writing prompts and story starters are way too scary. Yes! Your students will love them. Yes! These pictures will spark their creativity. But, is it worth the risk? (^_^) If you are sure then keep reading. These picture writing prompts and story starters are great for Halloween but also appropriate any time of year. This set includes twenty super scary pictures (four per A4 sheet) that can be printed, cut and laminated for use in your writing workshop or writing center. There are two versions of each picture; one with "starter questions" on the back of the prompt to get students going. The other with a "story starter sentence" written on the front of the prompt. Choose (or allow students to choose) which is best for them. A full colour set of twenty matching publishing papers is included. Also a low ink version of the same twenty publishing papers is included. __________ Visual Writing Prompts (Super Scary) by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Crossword puzzles for the novel No Talking by Andrew Clements. There are four crossword puzzles: Chapters 1 to 5 Chapters 6 to 10 Chapters 11 to 15 Chapters 16 to 20 Each puzzle has fifteen (15) questions. The questions have single and multiple word answers.