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Over twenty years teaching, developing lessons and conducting professional development - coupled with fiction and film writing - is who I am. Family, education and writing define what I love.
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Phonics: phonograms: Word Family -ay Activities for Centers, Group or Whole Class Work
This is a print-and-go learning center or whole class set for the “ay” word family. It includes:
• -ay phonics read and color booklet – “Ray and Kay Play”
• A 136 set of “ay” cards for Phonics Go Fish!
• Two separate Readers Theater scripts – at two levels
Learning word families (also known as phonograms) helps students read in “chunks”. Reading in “chucks” allows students to recognize different word patterns – or sections of a word, such as “ay”, rather than having to sound out each letter. For example, the –ay family includes play, say, stay, etc.
Why are word families important?
1. When children begin to read, they sound out every letter. This breaks up the flow of the words, is extremely slow, and makes it difficult for them to transcend to reading comprehension. By learning families of words, children are able to read familiar patterns of letters quickly and fluently.
2. As children progress from simple to more complex words, the patterns, or chunks – continue to help them to decipher longer words.
3. Word families also help with spelling – as students are able to recognize spelling patterns and apply these to other words of the same family.
Print-and-Go Reader: 5-9 - Disneyland Resort Parades SPaG, Non-Fiction, CCSS Lessons for Centers
Print-and-Go Readers ! A series of engaging English Language Arts lessons that allows students to incorporate engaging and essential ELA themes and standards while learning about fun places to visit. Perfect for centers, early finishers, ESL, intervention, whole class, SPaG and more.
High Interest Content!
Disneyland Resort Parades – contains 12-print and go pages of activities that include: fluency practice, comprehension, word play, informational text , grammar, study and more.
Perfect for whole class, groups, pairs, intervention, centers and more. Use with the entire Journey series for a comprehensive fifth grade program. Works for summer school as well.
• Twelve pages in color and also in black and white for printing ease
• Great for students learning English
• Great for early finishers
• Work in pairs for intervention
Students practice reading, writing, grammar, critical thinking and 21st century skills
• Access their creativity
• Learn new words
• Learn about new places
Table of Contents
2. Fluency
3. Comprehension Assessment
4. Grammar: Contraction Practice and Adjective and Alliteration Practice
5. Pronouns
6. Words, Words, Words
7. Vocabulary practice
8. Figurative Language: Metaphors
9. Grammar: Proof reading practice
10. Sentences and Personification
11 -12. Sentence Writing Practice
13. Answers
FREE! Print-and-Go Reader: Grades 5-8 Disneyland Resort Pirates SPaG, Non-Fiction, CCSS, Centers
Print-and-Go Readers – Grades 5-8 – is a series of English Language Arts lessons that allows students to incorporate engaging and essential ELA themes and standards while learning about fun places to visit. Perfect for centers, early finishers, ESL, intervention, whole class, SPaG and more.
High interest, engaging content.
Disneyland Resort Pirates, Pirates, Pirates– contains 14 print and go pages of activities that include: fluency practice, comprehension, word play, informational text, grammar, study and more.
Perfect for whole class, groups, pairs, intervention, centers and more. Use with the entire Journey series for a comprehensive fifth grade program. Works for summer school as well.
• Fourteen pages in color and also in black and white for printing ease
• Great for students learning English
• Great for early finishers
• Work in pairs for intervention
Students practice reading, writing, grammar, critical thinking and 21st century skills
• Access their creativity
• Learn new words
• Learn about new places
Table of Contents
2. Fluency
3. Comprehension Assessment
4. Grammar: Contraction Practice and Adjective and Alliteration Practice
5. Pronouns
6. Words, Words, Words
7 and 8. Vocabulary practice
9. Figurative Language: Metaphors
10. Grammar: Proof reading practice
11. Sentences and Personification
12 -13. Sentence Writing Practice
14. Answers
The Great Panda Rescue ebook Chapter 1 - Novel, SPaG, CCSS, Centers, Whole Class and More
FREE 17-page Print-and-Go Reader for grades 3-5. Chapter 1 and lessons included.
This is Chapter 1 of “The Great Panda Rescue” Interactive Reader. This is a perfect STEM story with ELA and other cross-curricular activates and lessons for each chapter. Lessons include: fluency, comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, science, math and more. This particular chapter is aligned with 3, 4 and 5 CCSS for ELA.
Twelve-year-old Claire wants to be a large animal vet when she grows up, but not the typical horse and cow variety. Claire wants to doctor endangered and vulnerable animals – especially giant pandas. Claire gets the thrill of her life when her class takes a field trip to the Randolph Reserve. Not only does she get to see the giant pandas – she and Julia and their group receive the special honor of viewing a set of panda cub twins – only weeks old.
Just when she thinks the day can’t get better, Claire is asked to volunteer at the center for a month that summer. With summer only four weeks away, Claire acts fast. She loves her job; however, she soon discovers that Chenguang, the mother of the cubs, is being sent home to China. A great victory for the Randolph Reserve – as one of their pandas is going back to her natural habitat!
Claire is shocked to learn that the cubs, not only are being kept from bonding with their mother, but that they will not be going home with her. Claire knows a lot about pandas and she knows that the cubs need their Chenguang for at least eighteen months!
With this in mind, Claire solicits friends of all ages and starts a campaign to keep the panda family together. “The Great Panda Rescue” is one adventure after another as Claire battles for the pandas, faces a fire at the reserve and realizes that there are no easy answers when it comes to animal rescue, preservation and endangered and vulnerable wildlife.
41 -Sentence Task Cards CCSS 1.RF.3
These are 41 sentence task cards perfect for centers, buddy work, whole class practice – even bell ringers. Also included are the 41 answer task cards for student checks.
Included:
Full page task cards in color
Full page task cards in black and white
Smaller task cards in color – six to a page
Smaller task cards black and white – six to a page
PowerPoint of all of the task cards to use as bell ringers.
CCSS 1.RF.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Set 2: Dolch Sight Word Go Fish! and Concentration CCSS - 2nd, 3rd and Noun Lists - 8 Games in All
Sight Word “Go Fish” and Concentration
These are engaging versions of Go Fish! and Concentration that use Dolch Sight Words rather than numbers for these fun and engaging games. The decks of cards are Dolch lists.
This packet includes:
2nd Grade Dolch Card Deck: 46 Words 184 Cards
3rd Grade Dolch Card Deck: 41 Words 164 Cards
Dolch Noun List 1: 51 Words 201 Cards
Dolch Noun List 2: 42 Words 160 Cards
Go Fish First! This is an engaging version of Go Fish! that uses Sight Words rather than numbers rather than numbers. The decks of cards are Dolch lists.
Copy cards on cardstock. (Avery 5271 Business Card template also works and makes cutting easier!)
Laminate for durability.
Each player gets five cards.
If you are dealt four of a kind, or get four of a kind during game play, those cards are removed from your hand, and you get a point.
Moving clockwise, players take turns asking a specific player for a given word card: “Do you have any “the”s?
The person with the most packs of four at the end of the game wins.
*Option: If you want to put backs on the cards – the last page can be used to copy the backside of each set.
*Note: Mix and match the cards any way you wish. Some of the sets are large – break them up but be mindful of needing to keep “packs” of four together.
The font is KG Behind These Hazel Eyes. I have paid for a license; however, since you are using this resource for your class and are printing the Word version – you may download the font for free. I chose this particular font because the “a”s are: a and easier for students to read.
Concentration
Rules:
Use the same cards as for Go Fish!
Game Set Up:
1. Shuffle, or mix up, the cards well
2. Place each card face down in rows and columns
Game Play
1. Each player takes a turn by turning two cards over.
2. If the cards match, then the player picks up the cards and keeps them
3. If they don't match, the player turns the cards back over
Included:
2nd Grade Dolch Card Deck: 46 Words 184 Cards
3rd Grade Dolch Card Deck: 41 Words 164 Cards
Dolch Noun List 1: 51 Words 201 Cards
Dolch Noun List 2: 42 Words 160 Cards
Print-and-Go Reader: 4-9 Disneyland: Frontierland SPaG, Non-Fiction, CCSS, Centers
Print-and-Go Readers - a series of engaging English Language Arts lessons that allows students to incorporate high interest topics with essential ELA themes and standards while learning about fun places to visit. Perfect for centers, early finishers, ESL, intervention, whole class CCSS work, SPaG and more.
High Interest Content!
Disneyland, Frontierland – contains 16-print and go pages of activities that include: fluency practice, comprehension, word play, informational text , grammar, word study and more.
Perfect for whole class, groups, pairs, intervention, centers and more. Use with the entire Journey series for a comprehensive fifth grade program. Works for summer school as well. Super for advanced fourth and to reinforce sixth grade skills as well.
• Eighteen pages in color and also in black and white for printing ease
• Great for students learning English
• Great for early finishers
• Work in pairs for intervention
Students practice reading, writing, grammar, critical thinking and 21st century skills
• Access their creativity
• Learn new words
• Learn about new places
FREE Earth Day Themed Task Cards - CCSS Aligned for 4th and 5th Grades
These are 14-print-and-go Earth Day Themed Task Cards. They are engaging and aligned with the Common Core State Standards in ELA.
This resource contains 3-mini posters and 14-Task Cards - **Silly Sentence, Parts-of-Speech and Combining Sentences. **
The Scarlet Letter ebook plus Non-Fiction Readings For Source Document Analysis and CCSS
This is a free ebook download for as many devices as you like
Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter, was originally published in 1850 and is an American Classic. Herein lies the unabridged tale, set in Puritan New England, of Hester Prynne who conceived a child in an adulterous affair and must wear a scarlet A upon her breast. Hawthorne’s tales weave moral messages through complex and psychologically dark romance. His work is part of the Romantic Movement and The Scarlet Letter has been hailed as the first and most important novel in the Romantic Movement in America.
Contains:
1. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. Nathaniel Hawthorne Transcendental Themes in The Scarlet Letter? You Decide
3. Transcendentalism in New England: A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
4. Essays Before a Sonata by Charles Ives: New York, The Knickerboker Press, 1920
FREE: Ethan Frome ebook plus CCSS Aligned Source Documents for Analysis
This is a free ebook download for as many devices as you like.
Edith Wharton's tale set in working class New England, of a loveless marriage, a horrible accident and a love that can never be. Told through the eyes of a visitor, Ethan Frome's life comes to light in a tormented bleak reality that mirror's the novel's setting.
Also included, for literacy across the curriculum and Common Core State Standards analysis are source documents that provide insight into Wharton's life, as well as poetry that is a sharp contract to the dismal overtones of Ethan Frome. This poetry highlights the dedicated and charitable spirit that Wharton espoused and provides a window into her political views and life outside of America.
Table of Contents
Introduction page 5
Ethan Frome page 7
Primary Source Document Letters page 88
From the 1922 Anthology Poems of American Patriotism Chosen by Brander Matthews page 90
Hospital Sketches with Form Fillable Exemplar Questions ebook for CCSS Test Prep
Before she wrote what was to become a classic of all ages, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott worked as a volunteer nurse in an army hospital during the Civil War.
Written during the winter of 1862–63, her active and heartfelt accounts appeared in the newspaper Commonwealth where the friends and families of soldiers read them as a way to get a glimpse of the horrible realities of battlefield medicine. LMA’s Hospital Sketches also provides a window into some of the early roles of women in the military.
Writing under a pseudonym, Alcott recounted the vagaries of her two-day journey from her home in Concord, Massachusetts, to Washington, D.C. These chronicles provide a raw and truthful perspective look into an overlooked aspect of the Civil War.
This edition contains form-fillable pdf document. Students can answer questions directly on their computer, phone, laptop or tablet and send the answers directly to you. Or you may print out the pdf and use it for packets.
FREE ebook Mary Shelley's Frankenstein & Polidori's Vampire: One Summer in Geneva
n 1816 Mary Godwin (Shelley) and poet-philosopher Percy Shelley traveled to Geneva, Switzerland to spend the summer with their friend Lord Byron. They whiled away their time on the waterfront boating, writing and talking late into many summer nights.
This was the summer in which Frankenstein was conceived. Research suggests that Mary, Percy, Lord Byron and Byron’s guest, physician and writer, John Polidori, decided, at the suggestion of Lord Byron, to have a competition to see who could write the best supernatural story.
It seems the summer was rainy and the group spent many hours amusing themselves reading German ghost stories and were thusly inspired. Shortly thereafter Mary Godwin had a waking dream and Frankenstein was born. Mary was 19-years-old.
Also, born of the same competition was the most famous of John Polidori's works: The Vampyre. This story was originally credited to Lord Byron; however, both he and Polidori attested it was indeed conceived and written by Polidori. Contained within this publication: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, John Polidori’s The Vampyre plus an excerpt from The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Julian Marshall and an excerpt from the Selected English Letters (XV-XIX) arranged by M. Duckitt and H. Wragg (1913).
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
John Polidori’s The Vampyre
Plus an excerpt from: The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Julian Marshall
and
Excerpt from: Selected English Letters (XV-XIX Centuries) Arranged by M. DUCKITT & H. WRAGG 1913
Table of Contents
Frankenstein page 5
Original Manuscript Page from Frankenstein 1816
The Letters and Life of Mary Wollstoncraft Shelley Chapters 1,2 and 3
Selected English Letters for Primary Source Analysis
Giant Roman Empire Teaching and Learning Pack: Including PPTs, Warm-Ups, Assessments and More
This unit contains three teaching PowerPoints, assessments, primary and secondary source document analysis, workbook pages and more --- over 100 pages of learning. Daily Reading and Writing Warm-ups are included!
The PowerPoints are also in PDF - because sometimes versions are not compatible.
All things RISE AND FALL of the Roman Empire
State of the Union Addresses: The First 5 President PLUS CCSS Document Analysis Template
CCSS demands non-fiction document analysis. Additionally, college prep demands it. This resource contains the complete texts of the State of the Union Addresses of the first five presidents of the United States of America. Formative words that reflect the prosperity and growing pains of a new nation plus CCSS Document Analysis Template for differentiated - cross curricular instruction, debate and engagement.
Read and study the words of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe.
Our interactive readers are designed to help students read for information and think critically as they form their own thoughts and opinions about United States history. This series allows students to explore history by looking at and interpreting artifacts constructed by the people and events that made history. Primary source document analysis
Perfect for any classroom, from guided Fifth Grade through college, this series engages students and prompts them to think for themselves, question, reflect and gain a deeper understanding of the events that shaped the United States of America.
State of the Union Address
George Washington
January 8, 1790
December 8, 1790
October 25, 1791
November 6, 1792
December 3, 1793
November 19, 1794
December 8, 1795
December 7, 1796
John Adams
November 22, 1797
December 8, 1798
December 3, 1799
November 11, 1800
Thomas Jefferson
December 8, 1801
December 15, 1802
October 17, 1803
November 8, 1804
December 3, 1805
December 2, 1806
October 27, 1807
November 8, 1808
James Madison
November 29, 1809
December 5, 1810
November 5, 1811
November 4, 1812
December 7, 1813
September 20, 1814
December !3, 1816
James Monroe
December 12, 1817
November 16, 1818
December 17, 1819
November 14, 1820
December 3, 1821
December !3. 1822
December 2, 1823
December 7, 1824
Fantastic Mr. Fox No Prep Novel Unit
This is a complete no prep Novel Unit for “Fantastic Mr. Fox” by Roald Dahl Over 130 pages of:
activities,
lessons,
writing templates,
interactive notebook pages,
formative assessments,
teaching presentations
fluency,
daily warm-ups
comprehension and more.
Differentiated for grades 3-6 with Common Core State Standards alignment pages for quick reference.
Also includes two weeks worth of Daily Reading and Writing Warm-Ups - Roald Dahl and Fantastic Mr. Fox themed.
This is an all inclusive – must have – engaging lesson for all levels. This is a comprehensive novel unit that is research-based and offers high-order reading, writing and thinking activities.
Plus three teaching PowerPoints: Literary Elements, Plot Diagram and From Sentence Sorting to Essay Writing –a template-based, differentiated guide to writing
NGSS Grade 2 Structure of Properties and Matter Pancake 3 Lab Unit - Differentiated
This NGSS Pancake unit contains three lab projects – for singles, pairs or groups – to be conducted over two days. The labs contain student template pages and are differentiated for different aptitude level.
This unit also contains a teaching PowerPoint on the Structure and Properties of Matter.
Disciplinary Core Ideas
PS1.A: Structure and Properties of Matter
Different kinds of matter exist and many of them can be either solid or liquid, depending on temperature. Matter can be described and classified by its observable properties. (2-PS1-1)
• Pancake ingredients classified into solid or liquid.
PS1.B: Chemical Reactions Heating or cooling a substance may cause changes that can be observed. Sometimes these changes are reversible, and sometimes they are not. (2-PS1-4)
• Heating the liquid batter turns it into a solid. Students will form a hypothesis as to whether or not this solid will turn back into a liquid and test their hypothesis. Students will explain their experiments.
No Prep Book Unit for "Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story"
This No Prep Book Unit is a companion to “Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story” and contains pages and pages of interactive notbook pages, cross-curricular and engaging activities – all standards-aligned. This print-and-go unit contains interactive journal pages, a review of Cinderella Elements, essays, social studies assignments, quizzes and a whole lot more. Differentiated for use with the whole class.
Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway or Anishinabe Background Worksheet RI.1 3
Questions Along the Way RL.1 4
About Sootface: In My Opinion RL.2 and W.1 5
Theme Interactive Workbook Page RL.2 6
Character Motivation Interactive Workbook Page RL.3 7
Analyzing Fiction through Illustrations RL.7 8
Summary Interactive Notebook Pages RL.2.2 9
Story Details Interactive Notebook Pages RL.3 11
Compare and Contrast Sootface and Cinderella RL.9 12
Structure of a Story – Sootface – Plot Diagram RL2 and RL.10 13
Sootface Character Analysis RL.3 14
Correct the Errors – Grammar Practice L.1 15
Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story Assessment RL.10 16
Character Conflict in Sootface RL.3.1 and RL.7 17
Inferring Character Feelings RL.1.2 18
Cause and Effect 19
Think, Question and Analyze Critical Thinking RL.5 20
Sootface Report Card 21
Sentence Sorting Cinderella for Practice RL.2 1, 7, 4, 5, 3, 6, 2 22
From Sentence Sorting to Guided Essay Writing W.2 23
Sootface Sentence Sorting L 26
Lights, Camera, Sootface 30
Rubric for All Constructed Response Questions 31
Answers and Resources 33
Thank you for looking,
Elizabeth Chapin-PInotti
#ChapinPinotti
FREE Patrick Henry: Primary Source Document Analysis & Critical Thinking
The non-fiction readings and primary source Document Pamphlet series: Discovering America is designed to help students read for information and think critically while forming their own ideas. Students and adults alike will discover history by looking at artifacts constructed by the people who shaped the United States of America. Perfect for any classroom, from Fifth Grade to college, this series engages students and prompts them to think for themselves, question, reflect and gain a deeper understanding of history. In this edition, students discover the prolific Patrick Henry – who some historians credit as firing the first figurative shot of the Revolution in his fiery “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech. Read select letters written by Henry, engage in his oratory, learn about his life and decide for yourself the impetus behind a man called one of the greatest Patriots in the history of America.
Bundle
Five Minutes to Fluency Bundle + DOL on the Side
RESOURCE !: Differentiated site word practice.
Over 140 pages of site word printables -- These blackline masters help students learn site words by reading passages and writing sentences -- and then repeating the process.
Site words are the most commonly used words in reading and writing and represent about 67% of words students encounter in daily text. These words are often grouped and learned by grade level. The site words contained herein are the first one hundred, plus essential words from subsequent lists designed to help struggling and early readers recognize them automatically.
The following passages are great for increasing the fluency of beginning readers. They start out easy and become increasingly difficult, but not too difficult. The passages may be used as bell ringers, buddy work and homework practice, or all three, as research indicates that repeated reading of the same passage helps increase fluency. The passages are basic and enable students to read from simple to more complex sentences as they become more familiar with the particular site word around which each passage is written.
Research also indicates that memorizing site words by list is less effective and less desirable than through authentic passage reading and writing exercises. The value of identifying and truly learning site words exists within reading practice and even phonics lessons (Farrell, Osenga and Hunter, 2013) that mimic genuine reading work. That’s why we’ve designed our worksheets to isolate each word, put it in a passage and then require students to think about the word as they write their own sentences and then go back and re-read what they wrote.
RESOURCE II: 198 Pages
Five Minutes to Fluency and Comprehension is a research-based program that easily fits into any busy school day. Five minutes, from start to finish, as students peer read, one and two minute strategically worded passages and stories, partner review and then provide instant feedback. Five Minutes to Fluency and Comprehension offers a quick, simple and inexpensive way to increase fluency and comprehension. The program is for classroom use, but can easily be incorporated into take home or parent involvement activities. The instructions are easy to follow, best of all, Five Minutes to Fluency and Comprehension is easy to differentiate, adapt as close readings and effortlessly incorporate Response to Intervention into a whole class or individual setting.
Table of Contents
Instructions for Fluency Letter Pages 5
Instructions for Fluency Practice for a Group or Class 6
A Few Words About Reading Instruction 9
Practice Passages: Letters to Words 11
Short “a” Letter Page 12
Short “e” Letter Page 14
Short “i” Letter Page 16
Short “o” Letter Page 18
Short “u” Letter Page 20
Long “a” Letter Page 22
Long “e” Letter Page 24
Long “i” Letter Page 26
Long “o” Letter Page 28
Long “u” Letter Page 30
“c” Letter Page 32
“m” Letter Page 34
“p” Letter Page 36
“f” Letter Page 38
“b” Letter Page 40
“ar” Letter Page 42
“ar” and “ur” Letter Page 44
“ow” Letter Page 46
Passages 49
High Frequency Words 50
Fluency “ir”, “or” and “our” 56
Fluency Words “long e spelled y” 58
Fluency Words “Contractions” 61
Fluency Words “Consonant Pairs” 64
Fluency “th” Words 67
Fluency “s” or “es” Words 70
Fluency Soft “c” and “s” Words 73
Fluency Words “Compound Words” 76
Fluency Words “f”, “ff” and “ough” 79
Fluency Words “w”, “wh” and “h” 82
Fluency Words “More High Frequency Words” 85
Fluency Words ”Even More HFW” 88
Fluency “Words, Words, Words” 91
Fluency “Words Again” 94
Fluency “Words Revisited” 97
Fluency “More Words to Read 100
Fluency “The Other Sound of C 103
Fluency “Almost Last Set of Words” 106
Fluency “Last Set of Words” 109
Fluency “Action Words” 112
Fluency “Things” 113
Fluency D, F and G Words 114
Words to Read and Know 115
Fluency First Hundred 116
Fluency First Hundred – Part 2 117
Fluency First Hundred – Part 3 118
Vowels 119
Fluency Short Vowels “a” 121
Fluency Short Vowels “e” 123
Fluency Short Vowel “I” 125
Fluency Short Vowel “o” 127
Fluency Short Vowel “u” 129
Fluency Long Vowels “a” 131
Fluency Long “e” 133
Fluency Long “I” 135
Fluency Long “o” Words 137
Fluency Long “u” Words 139
Passages 141
Story Passages 179
Inventory Sheets and Logs 191! !
Bundle
Cinderella Around the World
This Bundle combines many of the Cinderella Book Units I have in my shop including"
Cendrillon
The Salmon Princess
Egyptian Cinderella
Fair, Brown and Trembling
Jouanah: The Hmong Cinderella
The Rough-Face Girl
Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella
Prince Cenders
Naya: The Inuit Cinderella
Dinorella
CinderHazel
Cinderella and the Hot Air Balloon
Smoky Mountain Rose
The Persian Cinderella
Cinderella Penguin