Play Sentence BINGO in language classes to expose students to language in context and give them opportunities to interpret contextualized language.
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This Responsibility poem spoke volumes to me, and I now have it laminated and posted in my classroom for my students to read each day. Use this FREEBIE, especially during Back to School time, to reinforce student responsibility and good character. Students may use the paper provided to write about ways they demonstrate responsibility, or even set goals for success for the school year to come! Enjoy! Follow me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/BryantsBrainTrain or at my blog at http://bryantsbraintrain.blogspot.com. Responsibility Writing FREEBIE by Shannon L. Bryant is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
If you don’t have time to use our super-simple title capitalization tool there is another simple way to capitalize titles quickly. The M.I.N.T.S. Acronym for Title Capitalization Rules The “MINTS” acronym will give you some set rules to capitalize titles correctly: M. – Months, days, holidays I. – The pronoun I N. – Names of […]
Another set of cards for my hard working Mum! These cards have been made to match the action song 'Pakipaki.' (this is her version of the song with some extras added in!) Mum prints, laminates and joins the cards in the corner with a jump ring, then flips the cards over as the song progresses to support her special needs learners. The cards include the Māori and English words for the action, plus a matching picture to scaffold all your little learners! This resources contains cards for: Pakipaki (Clap) Hurihuri (Turn around) Peke (Jump) Oma (Run) Kanikani (Dance) Hula (Hula) Takahia (Stamp) Kata (Laugh) Korero mai (talk to me) If you're creative (like my Mum) and think of an alternate action card you'd like included that's not listed - please leave me a comment below or flick me an e-mail using the mail icon on my blog header and I'll endeavor to include your verb. *EDIT JULY 2016 - as per request, I've now also included the following cards - enjoy! Rere (Fly) Hikoi (March) Whakarongo (listen) Click here to download your free set! Hope you all had a great Māori language week, Grubbily yours,
After a smashingly successful first day doing proofs in Geometry I was excited to prepare for day two! Our Geometry classes are not tracked (leveled). On day 1 I noticed that I had a wide range o…
When I spend time explaining my syllabus on the first day of school or at open house, I often get that deer in the headlights look: Acquisition, Storyasking, Standards Based Grading…it’s a lot to take in at once! And because there is never enough time on either of those occasions to accomplish everything that I…
Level: This is most suited to A0 + - A1 level, but can be used for revision at A2 level. Time: 40 minutes + This lesson on Prepositions of Time introduces students to the use of on, in and at with days of the week, clock time, dates, months, seasons, years, parts of the day, and more. It includes various practice exercises and a speaking task. We have a teacher's copy including and answer key and a student version which you can email to your class for online lessons. For best results when printing our PDFs, open and print them through Adobe Acrobat. https://get.adobe.com/reader/
Parent Teacher Conferences are right around the corner. The beginning of the school year has gone by SO fast! I am wanting to try something new
How are you doing with teaching non-fiction, informational texts? Do you feel you have a good grasp on expository text structures? With the Common Core ELA standards, students are expected to be proficient in reading complex informational texts. State assessments are also becoming more non-fiction focused, to evaluate student abilities in navigating these complex texts. So what can we do to help our students meet these standards? The purpose of this post is to provide a few resources for teaching non-fiction, in preparation for the higher levels of achievement students are expected to reach! The ideas shared are perfect for upper
"If I knew then what I know now..." It's a phrase we've all used or thought at some point. Band directors, click here to read this inspirational article!
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*53 slides! *2 predictions questions per chapter for FULL NOVEL.*Fully editable in PowerPoint*Instructional suggestions included!*Promotes reading engagement! This is my students' favorite class activity! I project these questions on the board before the read aloud each day and ask the students to c...
You know that collective sigh, the one that choruses around the room when you enthusiastically announce, "Class, the next unit we'll be entering into is poetry!" If poetry is taught the right way, students should be cheering at the thought of a Poetry Workshop day. Below I will outline the "why" of Poetry Workshop along with tips and tricks that I have picked up to make any poetry unit a raging success in your middle school classroom. If you like what you read below and want to implement a Poetry Workshop in your classroom, make sure you check out the Poetry Workshop resource available in my TpT store. This resource will walk you through every single step of implementing Poetry Workshop in your classroom, along with the assembly of a student Poetry Workshop binder that can be utilized across the entire school year. Lesson plans, graphic organizers, grading rubrics, and so much more awaits you in this comprehensive resource. Why Use Poetry Workshop? *It’s a change of pace. We immerse students so heavily into Reading Workshop and Writing Workshop day after day. It’s nice to have the option to mix things up a bit with Poetry Workshop. It is also a great transition between units. For instance, maybe you’ve just completed a three-week persuasive writing unit and you’re about to head into a round of literature circles. Take a day or two hiatus in between to do Poetry Workshop once the Poetry Workshop Kick-Off lessons are completed. Poetry Workshop can serve as a natural transition between the big, heavy units throughout the whole school year. *It will reach unexpected students. You may have a pretty good idea right away of who in your class excels at writing or can already read college-level material, but you may be surprised at which students soar while writing poetry. Poetry Workshop is a great way to hook in students who struggle or are unmotivated when it comes to reading and writing because it appears to be a manageable chunk. The thought of writing a five-paragraph essay or reading a 300-page book scares them half to death, but reading or writing a poem may not seem as scary. *It’s a great way to teach literary elements on a smaller scale. Sometimes it’s too daunting for students to come up with the theme of an entire book, but starting out teaching theme through poetry is the perfect scaffold before teaching theme in relation to a novel. The concept of theme will transfer perfectly between a poem and a book, but more students will understand the concept if you start teaching it through a poem all students understand and can easily read and reread. The same goes for teaching figurative language. Poetry is the perfect pathway to finding examples of figurative language and teaching them how to identify and use it. Point of view is also a great lens to look at poems through and teach students about through poetry. *It gets students to appreciate words and how words can evoke images. Poets have a gift for saying a lot with only a few words. It’s important that we’re teaching students how to be impactful writers in few words and make every word count. A poet keeps his/her audience in mind and thinks about what emotions he/she would like the reader to feel. Teaching-wise poetry allows so many pathways into teaching students about word choice, organization, sensory images, and audience awareness. *Poetry removes the need for perfect capitalization and punctuation. The poet gets to structure his/her poem how he/she wants to, and there is an art in playing around with punctuation and capitalization while writing a poem. Releasing this pressure of having to write “right” will allow students to write freely and openly. *A lot of times when we think about teaching poetry we think about having every student write a haiku, an “All About Me” poem, a name poem, a limerick, and then we call it good. Students publish a few poems, and we call it good for the year. This is not what Poetry Workshop is. Poetry Workshop gets students to read poems, analyze poems, consider techniques poets use that they would want to use, and write their own poems once they feel comfortable doing so. Teach students what poetry really is. As teachers, sometimes I think we’re afraid of poetry ourselves and then default into teaching poetry through a set of “form” poems. We hate it and are uncomfortable with it, so these views get passed right down to students. Let’s shift this attitude! Poetry can be a beautiful thing that teachers and students alike have a positive attitude about. Tips for Teaching with Poetry Workshop: Tip One: Teach Poetry in Phases I was first introduced to the idea of teaching poetry in phases when I read Fountas and Pinnell's book, Guiding Readers and Writers. Here's how I've taken the idea of phases and broken them down to work for my middle school students. Phase One: Collecting & Responding Have students read through poetry books or poetry websites, reading as many poems as they can. If they come upon a poem that they really enjoy or relate to, they can copy the poem down. I also like to have my students respond to the poems they write down in Phase One using prompts from the anchor chart below. Phase One exposes students to poetry in a non-threatening way. Students think about the poetry they enjoy. As they copy down poems, they also have to focus on how the poet structured the poem, what letters they capitalized, and how they punctuated it. Phase Two: Mimicking Techniques This is where it gets fun. Students now take techniques they've noticed other poets use and mimic these techniques to create poems of their own. Take a look at the anchor chart below to get an idea of the types of techniques students could mimic. Phase Three: Original Poetry Students can now create poetry of their own choosing. Give them the green light to let their creative spirits fly. Also discuss with them what they've learned from the first two phases that will help them as they create poetry. Check out the anchor chart below to see ideas for what makes a good poem. Tip Two: Whole Class Poetry Stalking I teach grammar in my classroom through pulling mentor sentences from our class interactive read aloud and have students "sentence stalk" the sentences by noticing everything the author did to construct that sentence. I transferred this concept into our poetry unit by having students notice everything they could about a particular poem as shown below. What has been great about poetry stalking is we have realized together words to use to describe poet's techniques. It has also been a great way to show that poetry has flexible rules for capitalization, punctuation, and poem structure. Not all poets construct their poems the same, but it's fun to infer why poets make the choices they do while writing poems. Check out this website for a great list of poems to use with middle school students while sentence stalking. Tip Three: Use Poetry Interactive Read Alouds There are so many great books out there written in verse. As you kick-off Poetry Workshop for the year with a poetry unit, consider doing a read aloud with one of the amazing book choices below to complement the work students are doing in Poetry Workshop. Tip Four: Teach New Types of Poetry Mix is up with your students by showing them poems different types of poems. Three of my favorites are below. Book Spine Poems: Give book boxes from your classroom library to students and have them create a book spine poem of their own. Blackout Poems: Copy off pages from several different books and make photocopies, allow students to select one, and then have them black out the words they don't want leaving the words they'd like to use to create a poem. Sandwich Poems: Students take the first and the last line from a poem they copied down during Collecting & Responding and write a poem filling in the middle. Tip Five: Make Everyone a Poet Show your students that everyone is and can be a poet, even you. Model the work you complete alongside your students during Poetry Workshop. Also, make sure you give plenty of time to have students share what they're doing in Poetry Workshop with one another.
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Muckraker Research Project This is a partner research activity where students become modern day “muckraker” journalists like those of the late 1800s/ early 1900s. The student mission is to investigate a problem that currently exists and is causing damage or harm to some sector of modern-day society. The problem may occur across the US, but the students must look specifically at the local impact of said problem. Students will conduct 2 or more interviews with people who have an opinion on the issue. These interviews can be done in person, via email, over the phone, or through an online venue and will be transcribed. ● The format of the project can be a. A podcast for possible downloading b. A written article for possible publication in a local newspaper c. A website that concerned citizens might visit to learn more about your issue, or how to get further involved in it ● Recommended Project Assignment Time: a. US History classes could do this project after being introduced to the muckrakers of the Progressive Era. b. AP US History classes could do the project at the same time or after the AP test as a current event project to wrap up the school year. File Includes: ● Teacher Instructions ● Project Description ● Project Scoring Guide (Rubric) ● Email Template for students to use to contact potential interview subjects ● A detailed project outline ● Student project planning page ● A detailed list of possible muckraking topics to choose from *All items are editable Materials Needed: ● Computers for online research ● Copies of the various handouts
This interactive and engaging lesson is a complete resource to teach your students about the qualities good citizens and leaders. This lesson is a PowerPoint file to be played as a slideshow for your students. There are several pages of activities and questions to keep students engaged and participating in the lesson. Because there are questions and answers on multiple slides, this PowerPoint has been equipped with clickable animations so that the answers are not shown right after the questions are asked. For example: With one click of the mouse, the question is displayed. The students have as much time to think of answers and responses as necessary. With another click of the mouse, the answer is revealed underneath the question. This is a great way to have students involved in their learning, and it is also a quick and easy assessment as you progress through the lesson. Included in this packet: -an objective of what students will be learning -slides on what it means to be a good citizen -the 5 qualities of a good citizen with picture representations -student friendly definitions of the qualities of a good citizen -scenario questions of the 5 qualities of a good citizen -what a good leader is and responsibilities of leaders -examples of types of leaders -4 past leaders with short biographies -3 current examples of leaders -a tribute to the future leaders of the world: the students -3 interactive activities reviewing the concepts from the lesson -a graphic organizer on how to be a good citizen **Since this is a PowerPoint file it is also completely EDITABLE! Feel free to add in examples of good citizens/leaders in your own school/community. These engaging and educational lessons are sure to interest students while teaching them valuable social studies concepts at the same time. With these resources, students will master how to be good citizens/leaders in no time! *************************************************************************** Follow Food For Taught for more products and chances at freebies! TpT Store Instagram Facebook Blog *************************************************************************** Customer Tips: How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. ☺ Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches: • Look for the green star next to my store logo and click it to become a follower. Voila! You will now receive email updates about this store. ☺
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What’s the most common student misbehavior? TALKING! Hands down. When I was talking to another teacher the other day, we discussed social talking and when that is appropriate. It seemed like the kids didn’t really know what social talking is and when it is appropriate. With 90 minute classes, we really don’t have any time ... Read more
Winter Sports Language Arts morning work for January. A fun way to address: verb tense, common nouns, proper nouns, prefixes, & pronouns. 4 great activity sheets to introduce your students to the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic Games. 4 Worksheets Included: Noun and Pronoun Sort Prefix coloring activity sheet Verb Tense sort Proper Noun/Common Noun sort Perfect for those cold winter days! If you like this item - go ahead and grab my Valentine's Day pack! Valentine's Day ELA morning work I also have a fun bundle for Synonyms and Antonyms
In this resource, there is a nonfiction reading passage about the Abolitionist Movement and its leaders. Text includes an explanation of the movement, along with brief biographies of leading abolitionists such as Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, ...
I recently just finished my first set of Middle School Mentor Sentences to teach grammar. As I’ve started talking about and posting about Mentor Sentences, I’ve realized that most teachers fall into the following categories when it comes to implementing mentor sentences: I have no idea what mentor sentences are, but I am intrigued now. I ... Read more
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Using transitions in writing is essential for cohesion and is emphasized in the Common Core State Standards. But not all transitional words will work for any type of paper. Therefore, I organized common transitions by the type of writing in which they should be used. I put my lists into visual aids for my students ... Read More about Common Core Writing: Using Transitions
Would you like to decorate your classroom with fun, hand-drawn anchor charts/posters? Do you simply not have the time to get them done? Well, you have come to the perfect place! I love making these engaging and appealing anchor charts. I also can draw/create any other topic you would like, just contact me directly and ask! My students absolutely love these posters and references them every day. Many of them are visual learners, so the colorful images really help them connect and remember what they have learned. This particular anchor chart is for readers/writers practicing vowel teams. It helps students remember how to read and write words with vowel teams by using a short, fun saying/song. The pictures help my students have so much fun with the new skill! It will be approximately 32 x 24 inches, and will be a copy of my original. **These will be copies unless asked otherwise for a custom poster. They are not laminated, and are printed on normal, anchor chart paper. I ship these out ASAP after being ordered, but please keep in mind once shipped, it is outside of my control. Therefore, if shipping does not meet your expectations, I highly encourage you to please reach out to me first, and we have always been able to work something out to make up for anything that may have occurred after I have sent your package, thanks so much!! Hope you love it :)
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