Finally, self assessment and meaningful reflection for our younger IB PYP learners. Following on from the highly popular write and draw Learner Profile and Thinking Skills resources, this IB PYP write and draw resource will have your students reflecting and assessing their own progress in a fun, engaging and meaningful way as they become adept with the sub skills within the IB PYP Approaches to Learning Skills. Designed for Kindergarten up to Grade 2. •Thinking •Research •Communication •Social •Self Management • Through the concept of REFLECTION and the Learner Profile attribute of BEING reflective, the children are asked to analyse their own application of the sub-skills commonly relating to kindergarten up to grade 2. With editable templates, you can add your own success criteria and even co-create success criteria with the children, adding them to both the 5 Star Rubric format and the Reflect & Draw Score chart. Both formats of rubric will challenge your students to think critically and creatively, encouraging their voice and ownership and ultimately accountability with their own progress of the ATL Skills. The "Read, Draw, Write" style worksheet encourages students to read the words from the simple language within the success criteria, use them to create sentences to describe their drawings and to self-assess using the rubric too. Great to use with: •Focus skills within your units of inquiry •Reflection activities •Evidence of progressive skills development •Student/Peer/Teacher feedback •Self assessment of writing skills •Encouraging student agency •Student led conferences Each page provides space for the children to illustrate their own example and then to write a sentence about how they applied the specific skills. An image related to key words is included to help students generate ideas when writing about their creations. The rubric included on each sheet encourages self-assessment of writing as well! Win-win! An extra lined writing page has also been included at the end of the packet for differentiation, should they wish to write more. Just print this page on the back of any sheet to provide more writing space. If you are looking for more ideas and tools for bringing the PYP into your early years classroom, be sure to follow along with my blog PYPteachingtools.com. And please do browse the early years collection of PYP TEACHING TOOLS in my store. Enjoy! Susan Powers PYPteachingtools.com

Finally, self assessment and meaningful reflection for our younger IB PYP learners. Following on from the highly popular write and draw Learner Profile and Thinking Skills resources, this IB PYP write and draw resource will have your students reflecting and assessing their own progress in a fun, engaging and meaningful way as they become adept with the sub skills within the IB PYP Approaches to Learning Skills. Designed for Kindergarten up to Grade 2. •Thinking •Research •Communication •Social •Self Management • Through the concept of REFLECTION and the Learner Profile attribute of BEING reflective, the children are asked to analyse their own application of the sub-skills commonly relating to kindergarten up to grade 2. With editable templates, you can add your own success criteria and even co-create success criteria with the children, adding them to both the 5 Star Rubric format and the Reflect & Draw Score chart. Both formats of rubric will challenge your students to think critically and creatively, encouraging their voice and ownership and ultimately accountability with their own progress of the ATL Skills. The "Read, Draw, Write" style worksheet encourages students to read the words from the simple language within the success criteria, use them to create sentences to describe their drawings and to self-assess using the rubric too. Great to use with: •Focus skills within your units of inquiry •Reflection activities •Evidence of progressive skills development •Student/Peer/Teacher feedback •Self assessment of writing skills •Encouraging student agency •Student led conferences Each page provides space for the children to illustrate their own example and then to write a sentence about how they applied the specific skills. An image related to key words is included to help students generate ideas when writing about their creations. The rubric included on each sheet encourages self-assessment of writing as well! Win-win! An extra lined writing page has also been included at the end of the packet for differentiation, should they wish to write more. Just print this page on the back of any sheet to provide more writing space. If you are looking for more ideas and tools for bringing the PYP into your early years classroom, be sure to follow along with my blog PYPteachingtools.com. And please do browse the early years collection of PYP TEACHING TOOLS in my store. Enjoy! Susan Powers PYPteachingtools.com

In this bundle you will find 3 quizzes and two unit tests (unit test #2 is a little harder which is good for differentiation) for the epic Beowulf. There are answer keys included for all of the assessments in this bundle. The assessment bundle is comprised of 23 MS Word pages that are fully editable. Quiz Lines 1-1250 10 Questions: Matching and True/False Quiz Lines 1251-2199 12 Questions: Fill-In Quiz Lines 2200-3182 15 Questions: Sequence of Events and Fill-In Unit Test #1 45 Questions and a Choice of 3 Essay Questions: Matching and Multiple-Choice Unit Test #2 40 Questions and a Choice of 3 Essay Questions: Character Identification, Multiple-Choice, and Short Answer. *There are answer keys for all of the assessments. **All of the assessments are editable so that you can modify them if need be. Please download the preview and if you have any questions feel free to ask.

Have you ever given your students the opportunity to record and listen to themselves read? As teachers, we frequently observe and conference with our students about their oral reading fluency. However, it can be much more meaningful for students to actually hear and evaluate themselves. Last year I started doing fluency self-evaluations as a center and was very pleased with the ownership my students began to take toward achieving their reading goals. My second graders used the free workflow app Showbie to complete their fluency self-evaluations. After practicing their passage several times, they recorded themselves reading it aloud. Once they played back their recording they filled out the rubric, along with their goals for next time, and sent it to me via Showbie. If you don’t have a class set of iPads, you may want to try one of the many free voice recording apps by doing a search in the app store. One of the best and most user-friendly apps I’ve found is Voice Recorder by Tap Media (free). Students simply press the “Record” button and then “Stop” when they are finished. Then they press the “Play” button to hear their recording. There’s even the option to save recordings in folders if you want to keep a record of your students’ progress. You can grab my rubric for free by clicking HERE or on the image below.

Wouldn’t you like to be the first person to know if your lesson was a flop or your students misinterpreted your words or intentions? Whether you like it or not, your students are continually evaluating your teaching materials and instructional style. Their opinions travel quickly to peers, parents, tutors, advisors, and school administrators. Frequently, the last person to hear this feedback is often the actual teacher. In fact, this negative chatter, and exaggerations can turn a minor incident or criticism into a big ordeal. What’s more, the spread of negative gossip can create lasting misconceptions. Listen to Your Students Ideas and Opinions: Allowing your students to evaluate your classroom materials, assignments and approaches can provide the needed feedback right to the source – you, the teacher. You will be surprised at the value of your students’ critiques. My students have inspired some of my best materials. How Can Teachers Gather This Information? Utilizing a questionnaire with a Likert Scale can allow you to assess your students’ feedback quantitatively. This can be done for assignments, projects, lessons and more. Offer a suggestion box, where students can anonymously submit their feedback. Weekly, you can review the comments, and if needed, discuss the advice with the class. Allocate 10 minutes a week for students to discuss their ideas, favorite lessons and materials as well as critiques and concerns. How Can Teachers and Students Benefit from The Teacher Assessment Cycle? Students know what is “cool” for their generation, and they can help keep you abreast of the motivating fads. Students can discover how to be mindful of what they are learning and to generate and share their creative ideas. Students will learn the value of accepting feedback. Students can be empowered participants in the design of the curriculum. In fact, if your students feel that they have a voice in your approach, they will be more motivated to complete the work. Students come to your class with a wealth of experience and knowledge, and they are their own best experts. Students can develop their critical reasoning skills. Students learn through example, and they will often imitate the behaviors of their teachers. Therefore, if you listen to your students, they will be more apt to listen to you. Students can learn communication skills. If inappropriate or hurtful words are expressed during an evaluation, you can use this as a lesson tool. Teach your students how to turn negative criticism into positive advice. The class can practice how to communicate their feelings in a way that gets their message across without hurting the recipient’s feelings and also achieving their desired outcome. Students might make you aware of issues that you innocently overlooked. For example, just yesterday when I was working with a student, Maddy. She had to complete a portfolio assignment for her math class, and one of the requirements was to make the presentation as colorful as possible. Maddy was troubled, as she did not have access to a color printer, while many of her peers did. She was afraid that she would be graded down for this and spent a lot of time hand coloring the images, knowing that her attempt to mimic a color printout was second rate. At the end of the assignment, the teacher allowed Maddy to rate this project and make recommendations for the future. Maddy was pleased to communicate her concerns and shared that some students in the class could not afford a color printer. In another instance, I learned that, “some Native American Tribes consider it to be taboo to show students animals such as snakes or owls.” This was valuable feedback, because I often use images of animals in my lessons and was innocently unaware of this offensive behavior. Clearly, accepting student evaluations will help you to be a life-long learner, an expert on your students’ needs as well as better, kinder, teacher. I would love to hear your feedback. If you would like a free copy of Dr. Warren's printable assessments, CLICK HERE Cheers, Dr. Erica Warren Dr. Erica Warren is the author, illustrator, and publisher of multisensory educational materials at Good Sensory Learning. She is also the director of Learning to Learn and Learning Specialist Courses.· Blog: https://learningspecialistmaterials.blogspot.com/· YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/warrenerica1· Podcast: https://godyslexia.com/· Store: http://www.Goodsensorylearning.com/· Courses: http://www.learningspecialistcourses.com/· Newsletter Sign-up: https://app.convertkit.com/landing_pages/69400 · Private Practice: Learning to Learn

Teach similes and metaphors in a FUN way! This figurative language pack contains a collection of worksheets and a booklet that will ask the students to identify similes and metaphors and distinguish between them. Included you'll find: 2 similes and metaphors worksheets: color the box with the correct figure of speech 2 similes and metaphors sorts: cut and paste the sentences under the correct figure of speech an assessment page a similes and metaphors interactive booklet answer keys THANK YOU! I really appreciate you purchasing my teaching resources and I hope you'll enjoy using them with your students. I value your feedback, so please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any concerns. Please follow me if you'd like to receive notifications every time I upload a new resource or freebie. Happy teaching! Dana's Wonderland

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THESE ARE EDITABLE!! A Word (editable) and PDF document are included for each group of lessons. Are you looking for a way to split the domains into smaller portions? Something to send home for the parents to be aware of the stories and skills being taught in class? I split the domains into smaller groups. The guides are sent home so the parents know what to practice/review at home. (Tests will be made to go along with these lesson groups to formally assess students more frequently by the end of the summer 2022) These guides include: Lesson Numbers Story Name Vocabulary Word for each story Objectives Skill (ex. Rhyming Words, Sayings/Phrases) I hope these guides make your year easier! Sincerely, Skye Cajun Classroom Creations Domain 1 is split into the following groups: Lessons 1-2 Lessons 3-4 Lessons 5-6 Lessons 7-8 Lessons 9-12 Domain 2 is split into the following groups: Lessons 1-4 Lessons 5-8 Domain 3 is split into the following groups: Lessons 1-3 Lessons 4-6 Lessons 7-10 Domain 4 is split into the following groups: Lessons 1-4 Lessons 5-7 Lessons 8-11 Domain 5 is split into the following groups: Lessons 1-3 Lessons 4-6 Lessons 7-9 Domain 6 is split into the following groups: Lessons 1-4 Lessons 5-8 ***LOOK FOR TESTS AND KNOWLEDGE BOOKLETS TO MATCH THESE GUIDES BY THE END OF THE SUMMER OF 2022*** Here are links to my other CKLA products: 1st Grade CKLA Skills: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Cajun-Classroom-Creations/Category/CKLA-Skills-1st-Grade-388579 1st Grade CKLA Knowledge: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Cajun-Classroom-Creations/Category/CKLA-Knowledge-1st-Grade-568408 2nd Grade CKLA Skills: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Cajun-Classroom-Creations/Category/CKLA-Skills-2nd-Grade-578062

L.2.1a This is a short 14-sentence assessment that can be used after teaching collective nouns using my PowerPoint with the same name. The students will bubble the sentence if there is a collective noun in it. Then the students will circle the collective noun in each bubbled sentence. ...

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I had previously sold items here on my site. Since I had to manually send items to people, I have just transferred everything to Teachers Pay Teacher (see link tab above). These items here are just free files I have made over the years. If you like these and want more options, please visit my TpT store. LOOKING for my only items? Check TpT! MANY of these have additional items in my TpT store. Thank you! :) SIMPLY click on the image to download the FREE FILES! Check back often! OTHER:

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I think I miiight have heard the Hallelujah Chorus in my head when I finally figured this out! I've seen the Fist to Five check aaaallll over Pinterest, but there is a difference between pinning my life away and actually using these things in my classroom. I began by using the Fist to Five as a quick check during a lesson, I like to try to make it happen before and after when I can, and I've even noticed that it makes my kiddos feel great to go from a 1 to a 5 within the course of the lesson! The BEST part about this - I am now using the same parameters of the fist to five for almost all of my grading. Every Friday, I take home the 2,3, or 5 (eeek! I'm the worst!) assessments that I give the class that day. As I grade, I keep in mind just how much the students can demonstrate their understanding *** what's up Common Core! *** Redos: Students who score 1s or 2s have the opportunity to ReDo their assessment, these must be turned into our INBOX within a week, otherwise their scores will remain the same. Students who score a 1 - are part of my re-teach group (during Daily 5) I'm still working out some kinks here and there - like when to re-teach just Math and when to re-teach ELA, I'm thinking about trying 2 days for each. We make Daily 5 time a priority and are now having at least one round per day - the kids LOVE it. I'm also going to start keeping track of how many ReDos we have for any given assessment for my own planning purposes. Meanwhile, the first Trimester in 5th grade was a hot mess when it came to missing assignments and last minute grading. After some brainstorming, I've come up with a procedure that is not only helping keep my kiddos accountable for their missing work, but is saving me a ton of last minute grading headaches - the eternal procrastinator, grading 33 assessments is bad enough.... waiting a few weeks and letting 99 assessments pile up, no fun. I am now sending home a progress report every Thursday, sounds nuts - but it is keeping me (and my students) accountable. It is keeping my grading on track and is empowering my students to come to me and ask for help waaaay more often! I have a missing work log on the wall - I add names on Monday and give these students the week to both ask about and complete their assignments. I am not lowering grades for late/missing work within this week because I feel that the grade would not be a reflection of student knowledge and isn't that what grades are all about? However, and I've been super clear about this with my class, after a week - I won't accept anything that was missing. The log is erased and the grade remains an M. Grading is a breeze now :) Now the only thing I need to do is focus on grading aaaaallll this writing!

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This week in my classroom it’s been all about SUFFIXES!! We started out with an anchor chart and some fun puzzles! Pinterest My students worked with partners to solve a set of puzzles… Pinterest I used the second set of puzzles as a center/literacy station. I printed on colored paper and laminated. I’m not going […]

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We began learning about arrays in math today! Arrays are a foreign concept for us, they were added to our math curriculum this year due to switching over to the CCSS. For my very first lesson ever teaching arrays, I thought it went great! Here's how our lesson went down. 1. We started off with a great Brain Pop Jr. Video to gain some knowledge of what exactly an array is and what it is used for. (Gotta love Moby and Annie!) 2. Then we made a colorful anchor chart to put on our math wall which will help us remember arrays for the rest of the week. 3. Next, we had some guided practice using white boards and pattern blocks under the Elmo. They had to make an addition equation but they figured out pretty quickly how to make multiplication equations, so I let them do both. They thought they were so cool because they could understand multiplication. 4. Lastly, we had some independent practice using an Array Match-Up center from my End-Of-Year Extravaganza Math pack. My kiddos did great for our first day with arrays and I had very few who completed their independent work incorrectly. The ones who did, only made very minor mistakes, overall I was very impressed with today's math lesson! Hope you find these ideas helpful!

This singing rubric will help you assess your students' singing in a fair, objective way and will keep everyone feeling good about singing. Many teachers struggle with grading students' singing. We want our students to improve their singing but we don't want them to feel as if their singing voices aren't "good enough." This singing rubric will help all teachers assess their students' singing on factors that are fair, realistic, understandable, and attainable. After using this rubric to assess singing, students will feel a sense of, "I can do that!" rather than the all-too-common, "I'm not good enough." There are two rubrics provided. One rubric contains categories and descriptors for Preschool (Pre-K) through 1st grade, and the second rubric is for 2nd through 6th grade. All of the descriptors in this rubric use student-first language. This means that most sentences start with "I" and put the power in the hands of the student. After reading this rubric, students will realize that good singing is not a mystery or a locked-away prize that some people were lucky enough to be born with; good singing is an attainable and desirable goal for every human being. The descriptors and vocabulary in this rubric are child-friendly. Some of the more advanced concepts, such as breath support and vowel shape, have been simplified. Students will easily understand the rubric with little assistance or explanation from the teacher. Also included in this rubric are helpful ideas for saving time, suggestions for implementing this rubric with all of your students (because many music teachers have hundreds of students), and general tips for evaluating singing. For a printable poster to reinforce techniques for good singing, visit my TPT store: teacherspayteachers.com/Store/MrsMartin. After purchase, please return to rate and review this product. All ratings and reviews help improve the offerings on this site for all teachers. Thank you! © 2014 Mallory Martin

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Practice, review and / or asses renewable and non renewable resources with this quick cut and paste activity! 2 different options given for easy differentiating. Students identify a definition and several examples of each type of resource and sort them under the correct category. NEWLY included: A vocabulary review application project where students use the sort words in a diagram, story or comic strip. Tips for Digital and Distance Learning: Cut and Paste sorting activities are great for interactive learning and application of concepts, but can be tricky to do in distance learning. Here are some ideas on how to use these in this crazy time we are experiencing. If your students have a printer and can get access to the sort documents: •This product comes as one large PDF file. To use it digitally and not have to give all the pages online (with the answers) follow these directions: 1.Open document (PDF) 2.Click Print 3.In Destination (where it typically has your printer listed) choose save as PDF 4.Select the pages you want to share with your class 5.Click SAVE- this will direct you to save the document –name it and save it whatever makes sense for you and Click SAVE 6.Share digitally! •Have students print and then cut out the sections and place them in what they think is the correct spot. •Then either have them send a picture to you on Google classroom, review the sort in a Zoom session or post an answer key for them to check their answers (this works as a formative assignment). If your students do not have access to the documents or a printer try this: •In a Zoom session- give students the categories you are sorting into. •Read each example and have students decide which category it belongs to. Then review the answers. This is another formative assignment. Enjoy! Check out these other natural resource products! Tips for Digital and Distance Learning: Cut and Paste sorting activities are great for interactive learning and application of concepts, but can be tricky to do in distance learning. Here are some ideas on how to use these in this crazy time we are experiencing. If your students have a printer and can get access to the sort documents: •This product comes as one large PDF file. To use it digitally and not have to give all the pages online (with the answers) follow these directions: 1.Open document (PDF) 2.Click Print 3.In Destination (where it typically has your printer listed) choose save as PDF 4.Select the pages you want to share with your class 5.Click SAVE- this will direct you to save the document –name it and save it whatever makes sense for you and Click SAVE 6.Share digitally! •Have students print and then cut out the sections and place them in what they think is the correct spot. •Then either have them send a picture to you on Google classroom, review the sort in a Zoom session or post an answer key for them to check their answers (this works as a formative assignment). If your students do not have access to the documents or a printer try this: •In a Zoom session- give students the categories you are sorting into. •Read each example and have students decide which category it belongs to. Then review the answers. This is another formative assignment. Man Made Resources vs Natural Resources (renewable/ nonrenewable) Sort How are Natural Resources used? (renewable & non-renewable) Sort, Center

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