This activity guide is set up so it can be used as a unit plan for the teacher, or used by students in literature circles. It is broken up into a 16 day plan, and includes chapter questions, vocabulary, projects, and reading comprehension. ************************************************************...

I'm always trying to come up with fun new ways to have students do what are usually considered boring activities, like writing a summary of a book. In my latest novel unit on Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume, I wanted to come up with an end-of-unit project that wo

An everything you need, no prep, comprehensive novel study and vocabulary packet for the book Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing, by Judy Blume. This is a great resource for small group or whole class instruction for students who benefit from supports in comprehension and language. Included in this resource is: This includes a 23 page packet with comprehension questions for each chapter, writing/drawing activities, a word search, and a who said it activity. Questions are geared to aid student understanding by drawing attention to key points of the novel. Included in this bundle as well is the vocabulary component of this novel study. This product comes with a 49 page digital google slides that provides vocabulary instruction for words present in the text. These are recommended to be introduced at the beginning of each chapter to enhance understanding for all learners. Each slide provides a vocabulary word, the definition of the word and a visual support. Each chapter has at least two or more terms provided. To allow students practice and a chance to engage with the new vocabulary repeatedly, we have provided a 24 page packet with vocabulary building worksheets, building vocabulary as the book progresses. To maximize engagement, we have different activities such as fill in the blank, matching, find the synonym, a crossword and more!

Printable resources that educators can use to improve and teach reading comprehension strategies school-wide. FREE reading comprehension worksheets for elementary!

This package for the novel, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume could be used before, during and after reading the novel. It includes: -a condensed novel report page, where the students summarize the characters, setting, plot and one of the major themes -a word search containing 50 of the vocabulary words found in the novel. This word search could be used before reading the novel or after completing the novel -a vocabulary sentence writing sheet -a word sort sheet where the word search words will be placed in the correct parts of speech section -2 acrostics, "Peter" and "Fudge" - a BONUS "Story Book Character Traits" sheet This sheet could assist the students in completing the character acrostics. -1 sheet containing 50 vocabulary words found in the novel -a sheet with 15 vocabulary matches, (answer sheet included) which includes sentence writing as well Students could match the word with the meaning by using the novel or a dictionary as reference.

Want a terrific way to start off the school year with your new fourth graders? How about reading Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing by Judy Blume! Of course, you will want to help your students build their Tier 2 vocabulary as they read the book. Fortunately, this product will save you time by pre-sele...

Give your students a literary experience they won't forget! Escape Rooms have become all the rage…and for good reason! They are highly-engaging activities that allow students to deepen their understanding of content. It’s a win-win situation for all! This ESCAPE ROOM is designed to be used after reading the popular novel, TALES OF A FOURTH GRADE NOTHING, by Judy Blume. It assesses students’ knowledge of major story events (Task #1), characters (Task #2), vocabulary (Task #3), and theme (Task #4 with the Quote Reflection) through the use of 4 coded stations. This product also allows students to reflect on themselves as learners (Escape Room Reflection). This Escape Room can be used after a whole class read (or read aloud), novel study, or even independent reading. The beauty of an Escape Room is that students work collaboratively to solve puzzles; however, it could be completed by individual students as well. How It Works: → Station 1: Students sort through Plot Cards to determine which events actually occurred in the text and put them in plot order. Doing so will reveal a hidden code. → Station 2: Students match characters to distinct character descriptions to reveal a hidden code. → Station 3: Students match vocabulary words extracted from the text to their respective definitions in order to reveal a hidden code. → Station 4: Retrieving clues in the previous stations, students work to decipher a secret message related to the text. If this is your first time implementing an Escape Room, rest assured that my goal is to make this as painless as possible! As such, I have included VERY detailed teacher guides to walk you through every step of the process. This Comprehensive ESCAPE ROOM Product Contains: → background information on the novel, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing → a 3-page, step-by-step How-It Works Teacher Guide → a Station Details: Teacher Guide → a Frequently Asked Questions tip sheet → Station Set-Up Instructions → an Escape Room Print Checklist → an Escape Room Student/Group Completion Checklist → a Certificate of Achievement for students → 4 Station Signs → 4 Clue Card Envelopes → 4 pages of Clue Cards → Task Card Directions → a Student Answer Book → an Answer Key → 2 Different Student Reflection Sheets I hope your kids enjoy working with it as much as I loved creating it! ♥ Check out my other Novel Study products here. Rating after downloading is greatly appreciated. Yours in Literacy, Sheila ☺

Printable Copies AND Self-Grading Google Forms - Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Test and Quiz Pack - This is a quiz and test pack for the novel by Judy Blume. The assessments are printable, but links are also provided for Google Classroom which are written in Google Forms, and are completely self-grading. Includes 5 chapter set quizzes and 1 final test (80+ Multiple Choice Questions). Includes - Printable Copies of ALL quizzes and tests Easy Google Links for ALL Assessments in Self-Grading Google Forms with Directions -FIVE Chapter Quiz Sets: Chapters 1 - 2 Chapters 3 - 4 Chapters 5 - 6 Chapters 7 - 8 Chapters 9 - 10 -One Final Test 80+ Multiple Choice Questions ALL ANSWER KEYS INCLUDED! (The Google Forms are completely self-grading!) CCSS listed in the answer key for EACH question. This makes it super-easy to tally which standards students mastered, and which need extra attention. THESE TESTS ARE COMPLETELY SELF-GRADING THROUGH GOOGLE FORMS. Most products on TpT require teachers to grade all or some portions of the assessments. With this product, all 80+ questions are self-grading! Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Final Test Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing Quizzes Follow us on Teachers Pay Teachers: A+ Literature Guide’s TPT Store Follow us on Pinterest: A+ Literature Guide’s at Pinterest A+ Literature Guides are made by a language arts teacher with 30 years of experience teaching language arts, as well as 15 years of experience writing state and national assessments that align with common core standards.

My students just finished their first novel of the school year, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume. This is a great book to start the year off with because it is a quick, easy and fun novel. I really made an effort to have my students read as many novels as possible last year, and it paid off. My students showed more growth in their reading scores than any classes in the past have shown. So, I'm going to read just as many if not more novels with this year's class! Renee Smalley has an awesome novel study that goes along with Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. It has a reading skills worksheets that go with each chapter and then ends with a character trait art project. Here are a few pictures of the completed projects that my students made. What novel do you use at the beginning of the year?

4-Page Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Test includes: 8 Character Matching questions, 7 Sequence of Events questions, 10 Multiple Choice questions, and 3 Short Answer Response. This Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing test includes Answer Key as well! Test includes 50 possible points. I recommend giving this as an open-book test so that students have the opportunity to go back and check their answers. I believe this tests Reading Comprehension skills rather than memory! It is also a great way for students to practice re-reading and skimming for important details! Click HERE for a Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Project Click HERE for a Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Word Search Click HERE for a Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Writing Activity Looking for another novel assessment? If it's not already in my store...email me at [email protected]! ❤ Click HERE to view 750+ resources by Happy Teacher Happy Students ❤ ************************************************************************************************ ⭐Happy Teacher Club Join for Exclusive Freebies, Tips & Tricks ⭐Happy Teacher Happy Students Blog Visit My Blog and Chat All Things Teaching! ⭐Instagram: Let's be friends! Use one of my resources in your class or homeschool? I want to see it! Tag me @happyteacherhappystudents in your photo I’ll send you a special freebie. ⭐ Questions? Looking for something not already in my store? Contact Me @ [email protected] ************************************************************************************************ ** Visit my STORE and click on the 'green star' to follow me and be the first to know about new products, sales & freebies! ** Please remember to rate this product so that you earn TPT Credits for future purchases! Copyright © Happy Teacher Happy Students. All rights reserved. This file is intended for classroom and personal use only. Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following: **You may print for your personal, classroom use, and non-commercial use only. **Clipart, graphics, photographs, found inside this product are copyrighted. They may not be extracted from this file without written permission from the original artist(s).

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Happy ALMOST Friday, y'all! What's the weather like in your neck of the woods? I've seen so many people posting about snow days and crazy Arctic

Our 4th Grade ELA curriculum references a lot of fairy tales, so I decided to pull in some fractured fairy tales. If you have never taught ...

Upper elementary friends, I have another update for you! Last week I updated my Place Value Notebook Package and this week I updated: Every page got an update on fonts and format (and are more printer-friendly): I also added some new picture examples: There are some NEW activities and interactive pages: Also, I updated these little pages: AANNNNNDDDD, I added the above-mentioned pages (with some bonus content) to the decimal notebook package, now making it a BUNDLE! If you own it, download it again to see the new content! If you do not own it, you can purchase it from one of my stores--and you may want to wait until the Back to School Sale kicks off on TPT to save up to 28%! Starts TOMORROW!!!

I like using Gerald McDermott's Native American folktales to teach the Common Core literature standards. The trickster tales are always a delight!

Our fabulous new teacher, Mrs. Wheeler, is acclimating herself to the 3rd grade team beautifully! She is part of the 2-teacher team of Jackson & Wheeler. Mrs. Jackson is in charge of all things science and math, while Mrs. Wheeler covers all things literacy and integrated social studies. Here's Mrs.Wheeler with her hubby. For the past few weeks, 3rd grade has been studying the difference in the genres of fairy tales, fables, and trickster tales. (as per the Common Core standards and units we are following) Mrs. Wheeler showed off her artistic and literary skills by making these fabulous anchor charts to help anchor student learning. Ummm... can we say "Wicked cute?" When I saw them, I knew I had to share! And here's another anchor chart for Accountable Talk during carpet time. Wonderful job, Mrs. Wheeler! Keep up the good work!

These 4th grade anchor charts reinforce concepts for reading, science, math, behavior management, environmentalism, and more!

A blog full of tips, lessons, and ideas to use in the upper elementary classroom.

come on over to grab the graphic organizer my mini-locos are using as we work our way through comparing/contrasting fractured fairy tales.

So in science we are starting ecosystems this week. I took the suggested beginning discussion (from our curriculum) and turned it into a quick worksheet--I need all the grades I can get! I know it's nothing exciting but thought I would share it anyway! :) Download it from one of my shops:

Updated 2/24/15 I have to brag on my kiddos they are really doing GREAT with division! We begin by creating a multiplication t-chart. This is helpful for all students, but especially for those students who do not fluently know their multiplication facts. (see t-chart example in picture below) Click the Picture to Checkout this Resource! At this point in the year my kiddos have had a lot of practice with multiples of 10 and 100. After modeling and many examples, most of my kiddos understand 30 x 6 is a ten times bigger than 3x6 and 300 x 6 is a hundred times bigger than 3x6. Some students are able to justify this by repeated addition. We use the partial quotients method or repeated subtraction method to teach division. (see examples in picture below) I LOVE this method of division for 4th graders because it helps them retain their place value understanding. In a short amount of time, they are even completing some division problems mentally. Click the Picture to Checkout this Resource! When I introduce division, I put into a story. I tell them I baked 298 cookies for the bake sale. I tell them I want to buy some fancy boxes in which to put the cookies. I explain to them that these boxes are really expensive so I just want to buy enough boxes for the cookies. I tell them I am going to put 5 cookies in each box. At the fancy box store, they sell boxes, in packs of multiples of 100, multiples of 10, and 1-9. I ask the students if I need 100 boxes. They discuss this at their groups. This question usually has a good discussion the first couple of times. Once they decide that I do not need 100 boxes, I ask them if I need 10 boxes. They decide I do need 10 boxes. I tell them that the fancy box store sell packs of boxes in multiples of 10. (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 70, 90) Next, we figured out what size pack we should buy from the store. We used our 5s t-chart for visual reference. We decide to put the 50 pack of boxes in our shopping cart. I ask them how many cookies will I be able to box if I buy 50 boxes. They tell me 250. I baked 286 cookies and I have enough boxes for 250 cookies. How can we figure out how many cookies I still need to get boxes for? (Subtraction) We have 36 cookies that do not have a box. If we buy a box of 10, I will have left over boxes. So we look at buying a 1-9 pack. Using the t-chart again, they decided that a 7 pack would get us the closest without going over. Boxing 35 of my cookies. We put 285 cookies into the 57 boxes. There was one cookie remaining. A friend of mine introduced me to this partial quotient website, The Quotient Cafe. My kiddos loved it! I also have a division set of practice problems. These problems increase with difficulty as you progress through the set. This makes differentiating easy. The problems are on a "Big 7" as I call it, so that students' work can be neat and organize when they are first learning. Select a page from this set and you have a quick assessment. Answer keys are completely worked out, so you can quickly see in which step your students made their errors. Click here to checkout this set!

Teaching The Canterbury Tales can be fun for both you and your students when you discover ways to bring the Medieval text into the modern age!

Color in the big boss man, Odin, and read a story or two about him when you're finished.

Fairy tales are old stories told and retold again, but do they deserve a place in a modern language arts curriculum? Besides the fact that the Common Core standards require exposure to fairy tales, there

A blog about teaching 4th grade reading and writing in a dual language classroom.

So I am FINALLY posting these photos that I actually planned on posting a while ago! We have made sooooooo many anchor charts in the past few months and I would LOVE to share them with you!! For each chart, the kids have a corresponding page in their math notebook. We made this one after we observed what happened when converting measurements. We made this "Big G" after completing a few capacity activities! Wall full of charts!! Stay tuned for part 2, which includes multiplication and division! :)

We are very excited to share our Must Read Mentor Text with you today! About two weeks ago we were contacted by Vincent Mastro, the author of Vincent asked if we would be willing to review the books for him. Well, you know me, the bookaholic, I said YES PLEASE! But, then I realized he thought we taught younger grades. So, I explained to him we teach 4th, but we'd still be glad to review them for him if he wanted us to. Lucky for us, I totally persuaded him, even though we only had 3 days of school left, but I was totally psyched because I couldn't wait to tell my class!! So, we got super lucky, and I (Amanda) got to review Book 1 in the series and Stacia reviewed Book 2. (AND he's working on Book 3!) So, picture this. 3 days of school left. Yep, you know what that looks like for kids and for teachers. But, I loved that I could totally be honest with my class. Here's how it went: Me- Please come to the carpet, I have some really exciting news! Them- (something close to a groan because the carpet means work) and they sluggishly come to the carpet. Me- So, guess what??? Them- Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat???? (they look totally bored.) Me- This really cool author contacted me and he has asked if you and I would review his book. AND tell him what we think! Them- (sitting up straight and all eyes now.) Me- So, I really want to read you some of his book, and see what you think? Them- How did he find you? Why did he ask YOU? Me- Because he knows I have the best class and because I'm totally famous!!! (ok, not the last part, but I did say the first part! They don't know I have a blog. I just told them I like helping and sharing what we are doing with other teachers, which is why I take so many pictures. It's totally a motivator for them!) So, after all that, we get started. I had already picked a fable that I wanted to share with them (I knew in 3 days I couldn't do all that I wanted with the book, so I wanted to make the lesson really count). The fables in this book are "The Tortoise and the Hare," "The Crow and the Pitcher," and "The Friends and the Bear." I used "The Tortoise and the Hare" as a review of all of the elements of fables since they were all familiar with this fable. Then, I read them the fable "The Crow and the Pitcher" which was totally new to me and all of the students. Short synopsis- Aesop is a character in the book that goes out each day trying to find the answers to his questions. On this day, while he's out, he meets his friend Crow who is thirsty. Aesop tells him to get a drink from a pitcher of water on a table but the Crow can't get down in it to get the water. So, how will he solve this problem??? Ok, not gonna lie here. I was worried of two things. #1 It would be too easy. #2 It was the end of the school year and they were going to totally "check out" on me. Well, I worried for nothing! They were totally hooked! They loved the beautiful illustrations! They kept trying to figure out how the crow was going to get the water! And, we were all shocked when the crow put rocks in the water so he could get a drink! It was great! Here are some things we did with the fable: Sorry the pictures are so small. You can click on any of them to make them bigger! And, of course I have these graphic organizers for you as a freebie!! :O) I love that these fables are so traditional (which is what fables should be, right?) but they were new to my students, which allowed them for deeper thinking. My students and I loved the fables, along with the illustrations. I can definitely see myself using this book next year when we are talking about the different genres and I know my students will be totally engaged! These books are great for teaching theme and for students to make inferences about the characters and the events in the story! It created great discussion, between the students and a lot of analysis of the story! Sorry my part was so long!! You all know I'm wordy!! :O) Amanda Now, onto Book 2 with Stacia! Happy Sunday, Friends! Okay, like Amanda said, I was a little worried doing a language arts lesson the last week of school. BUT, my kids really enjoyed it! I was shocked but I think they just love being read to and hearing a NEW story is always engaging. :) So, I explained that we were reading a fable together. We started by talking about fables and about some that they may have heard before. Then, I jumped right in to the story. The story we read is called "The Goose that Laid Golden Eggs." As we read, we made predictions and inferences and even thought about what the author was trying to teach us. A short summary: Aesop listens to a story about a greedy farmer who has a goose that lays golden eggs. The farmer becomes so greedy that he will do anything to have as many golden eggs as possible...Now, I must say, this story surprised me because I never would have predicted (and my kids didn't either) that the farmer would do what he did (it definitely shocks the reader!). You'll have to read to find out... ;) We used the same graphic organizers as Amanda did, and my kids came up with some great morals and lessons they learned: "Don't be greedy because bad things can happen." "Be patient." "Share with others." I am definitely using this story next year when I teach about fables. :) -Stacia PS- HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO STACIA!!!! Give her some birthday love! ;O) ~Amanda Now, it's your turn! (If you have never linked up before you can check HERE for more information.) For the Linky- Please make yourself a SANDWICH! Please comment on the person who linked up before you and the person that linked up after you. I know everyone puts in a lot of time and effort to these posts and I want everyone to feel the love!!! (Haha, see, you're a sandwich...you know...because you are in the middle of the comments...do you get it?) ;O) Next week's topic- Math

This worksheet includes a grid to help your student determine word meanings.