Unlock the layers of meaning within texts with our versatile SOAPStone Graphic Organizer. Created on Google Slides, this resource offers the perfect blend of digital assignment and traditional printing. It serves as an invaluable tool for students to analyze and interpret texts effectively through the SOAPStone acronym, deciphering Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Significance, and Tone. Key Features: Structured Analysis: The SOAPStone acronym provides a systematic framework for students to follow, guiding them through a comprehensive text analysis. Digital and Printable: Accessible via digital platforms or traditional print, this resource adapts to diverse learning preferences and environments, ensuring accessibility and convenience. Textual Insight: This organizer prompts students to delve deep into texts, fostering a profound understanding of the author's perspective, context, and intent. SOAPStone Breakdown: Speaker: Students will investigate the source's creator, their background, and point of view, considering social status, job, gender, religion, and more, to understand how these factors may affect the source. Occasion: The organizer encourages students to explore the time and place of the source's creation, along with significant events of the era, illuminating the context's impact on the source's meaning. Audience: Students will delve into the intended audience of the source, recognizing how this affects the source's meaning. Purpose: The resource prompts students to analyze the source's purpose, uncovering its intent and objectives. Significance: Students will contemplate why the source is important, considering its broader implications. Tone: The organizer challenges students to discern the author's attitude and emotional sense toward the subject, fostering an understanding of the piece's tone. Why Choose Our SOAPStone Graphic Organizer: Structured Learning: This resource provides a structured framework for students to analyze texts, making it accessible to learners of all levels. Digital and Printable: Designed for both digital and print use, this graphic organizer adapts to various learning environments, enhancing accessibility. Comprehensive Analysis: By guiding students to consider the SOAPStone elements, this organizer fosters a comprehensive understanding of texts and their nuances. Empower your students to become proficient text analysts, uncovering the layers of meaning within documents, speeches, and literary works. The SOAPStone Graphic Organizer is an invaluable tool for promoting critical analysis, interpretation, and deep insight into texts. Elevate your teaching and inspire your students with a resource designed to deepen their text analysis skills and broaden their understanding of complex writings, preparing them for academic excellence. Transform your classroom with the SOAPStone Graphic Organizer from History and Literacy for All! Welcome to History and Literacy for All, your go-to resource for engaging and educational materials designed to enrich the history classroom experience. Our store is dedicated to providing a wide range of resources, including graphic organizers, literacy tools, and history-focused content that empowers both teachers and students. Key Features of Our Shop: Graphic Organizers: Explore our collection of meticulously crafted graphic organizers that are tailored to support students in visualizing and comprehending historical concepts. These visual aids enhance learning and critical thinking in the history classroom. Literacy Enrichment: We understand the importance of literacy in the history classroom. Our materials integrate effective reading and writing strategies, designed to boost students' literacy skills while engaging with historical content. Digital and Printable Resources: Whether you prefer digital teaching tools for a tech-savvy classroom or traditional printables for a hands-on approach, our products are available in both formats. Our Google Slides-compatible materials make online teaching a breeze. Why Choose History and Literacy for All: Our products are created by an experienced educator with a passion for history and literacy in the classroom. We offer an array of resources suitable for various grade levels and teaching styles. Every item in our shop is designed to foster a deep understanding of historical events and inspire a love for learning. Discover how our graphic organizers, literacy tools, and history materials can transform your history classroom. Explore our shop today and equip yourself with the tools you need to engage, educate, and empower your students. Thank you for choosing History and Literacy for All as your trusted resource for history and literacy education. We're committed to helping you make a lasting impact in your classroom.
As you probably know, one of the more popular buzzwords in education right now is “trauma-informed.” Whether it’s used when speaking about classrooms, in particular, or schools as…
This activity is buzzing in humanities classrooms. Now see how it can be adapted for science!
Get your classroom ready for Back to School with our fun and engaging ice breaker activity for students! Designed to help build connections and foster a positive classroom environment, our getting to know you icebreakers are thought-provoking questions, perfect for breaking the ice and getting your students excited to build connections in their group. Download it now and start the school year off right with these fun and effective ice breakers! Whether you're a new teacher or a seasoned pro, our worksheet is a must-have tool for any Back to School toolkit. More interactive than a worksheet, playing a dice game ("Dice Breakers") makes getting to know each other fun! Can be played as a full class or in small groups. Fully customizable, you or your students can make up their own questions. Can be played with existing dice, or students can design their own! This downloadable document includes both UK english and US english.
I share about five things that are easy to do with almost every folk song that help to extend your teaching, expand student knowledge, and make life fun!
Whether they're completed on a piece of paper, a tablet, or a whiteboard, exit tickets are a powerful tool to use in your classroom. Exit tickets are formative assessments that provide a quick snapshot about your students' learning and understanding of a topic faster than any other tool in the classroom.
Incorporating technology has always been a part of our teaching, but now with distance learning and teaching digitally, we have to incorporate more than ever! Learn about the SAMR model and how it affects online learning and the technology you use in the online classroom!
A simple worksheet to practice present progressive tense. Good for elementary students who are learning to write in English. Introduces basic actions and lets the students match the activity to the picture. - ESL worksheets
data:blog.metaDescription
| Into the Driver's Seat
Do you ever have early finishers? Well, snag Free Time Fun below to keep in your students' desks. They simply pull it out when they have a few free moments! {Right now, I use the BAT Book in my class for early finishers} Fonts: KG Fonts & Cara Carroll Graphics: Pink Cat Studio Can you use this goody? Snag it {here} Slainte!
Now, this is a concept that is new to me. I found out last week that a colleague of mine uses this method with her class of special ed kid...
Go Formative is a tech tool that allows you to make any paper lesson digital. Check out what teachers love about Go Formative here.
PHOTOS: www.coolinarika.com - ESL worksheets
Cooperative learning. Find out what it's all about and get some great resources to help you use this strategy well in your classroom.
Explore ADHD Time Blindness and its impact on classroom behavior. Learn interventions and strategies for managing temporal challenges.
A 'which picture is being described' activity. Then, some questions to get them thinking. I have stuck to the present tense insofar as possible and kept the language fairly easy. - ESL worksheets
Use the verbs given and write what the people are doing right now.
Again- the same text but with a different activity. It practices relative clauses. You may distribute these two text sheets to two groups of students. Or-give them the choice which activity they would prefer to do. The key is included as usual ;) - ESL worksheets
Have you heard about Chat GPT by OpenAI? Have you tried it yet? This is such a hot topic in education right now. Everywhere we look on social media, Twitter,
Now and Then Activities in Kindergarten: Kindergarten teachers need quality and time-saving Now and Then Activities for Kindergarten.
Teach students in upper elementary, middle school, and high school
Padlet is a web app that lets users post notes on a digital wall. The uses for this site in the classroom are virtually endless!There’s a good chance
From now until tonight at 9 p.m. central time, my newest product, "Modeling Chemical Equations" will be free in my Teachers Pay Teachers...
Use these two Boggle templates again and again just by changing the letters. There are two versions, one for the document camera and one for students to use individually. Have fun! Download Boggle Template Rachel Lynette You Might Also Like:Sight Words Uno for Dolch Pre-Primer Words!Create Your Own Escape Room – DIY Escape Room KitFebruary ... Read More about Play Boggle with Your Class!
Happy Sunday! I hope you had a fabulous weekend! I spent my weekend hanging out with my husband and decorating our house for Halloween! My house is now
If the titles of my blog posts are any indication of how well I can focus on one specific task- that doesn't look very good. I never can focus on one thing in these blog posts- hence the extremely long and random combinations in my titles :) My kiddos were WIRED this week! They definitely have spring fever. My. goodness. It probably didn't help that it was Dr. Seuss day on Monday and we had a spirit week the rest of the days. Something about Wacky Wednesday doesn't exactly scream "concentration." :) Don't get me wrong- I love spirit week because I can wear jeans or comfy clothes. Plus the kiddos deserved some fun distractions. BUT. It was a complete battle between spirit/fun and testing/instruction all week. I finally had a "come to jesus" talk with the class on Friday. I actually think it helped. Last year, if I had a talk like that with my firsties, I wasn't always sure it got through, but with third graders this year, it was actually a mutual discussion. We'll see, that might just be my Saturday-induced optimism talking.... :) Speaking of spring fever, I just finished my newest "Spring Fling" and "Happy Snails" clipart sets and posted them to my store! I have used a lot of pastel colors in my spring sets, but I made a new color scheme for these sets (and some other spring sets I plan on making) because I needed some extra energizing sets after this week! Check out these little splashes of spring color.... If you want to check out these sets in my store, you can click on the links below. Happy Snails: $2.00 Spring Fling: $4.00 Onto the other part of my random blog title......If there was one word that would be tattooed across my forehead lately, it would be "EVIDENCE." If I had a dollar for every time I said that word ("Where's your evidence?" "Find evidence to support your claim" "Support your answers with evidence" "Find the evidence in the text" "Do you have evidence for that?" ETC), I could retire. Surprisingly, it doesn't bother my kiddos at all and they FEED off of showing evidence. For this reason, the most precious half piece of paper in my classroom is this little beauty: I made up my own version of a "Showing Evidence" reference sheet because I needed it to include a few more evidence stems than the ones I was finding on TpT or pinterest. In our reading lessons, we are focusing on the kiddos using text AND visual cues, so I wanted some stems specific to each. Also, we have discussed how to talk about poetry, so I wanted one in there with "stanza." My students have been using these little reference strips in pretty much every subject! They even started pulling them out in math and changing some of the wording around to work with their conclusions based on graphs, charts and word problems. God bless them and their evidence-eager hearts! One of my kids suggested that I laminate them for each student so they can "take it to fourth grade with them." I told him that I would make a special "Showing Evidence in Fourth Grade" strip....printed in COLOR....and laminated for everyone in the class if they found evidence to answer every reading comp question on the DCAS (state test). I hope I will be needing to buy lots of color ink soon! If you think your kiddos could use these same strips, you can snatch them up below from google docs. I just print them out and cut them down the middle. And, per my student's suggestion, you could laminate them so they last forever and ever :) {Snatch it HERE} Don't forget to turn your clocks ahead before bed tonight. Nothing like LOSING and hour of sleep- but at least it is more EVIDENCE that spring is on it's way......sorry I couldn't resist :)
In response to all of the attention given to the flipped classroom, I proposed The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture and The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture for Higher Education in which the …
This is a vocabulary worksheet for ESOL beginners that sheds light on words linked to shopping. The learners first understand the meaning of the words in the box on the left and then apply them to complete the sentences on the right. - ESL worksheets
In this engaging activity, students make inferences and draw conclusions by analyzing a variety of text message conversations. Students are required to cite evidence for each answer. Digital & Printable Options: This product now includes a Google Slides option as well as a printable PDF. This product also includes a page that has two blank […]
Amazing poster for teaching perimeter! *Now available in color AND black and white!!* Terms of use: You may use this in your classroom or digitally with your students. You may NOT resell these products as your own or use these products for commercial use. Backgrounds from: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Alina-V-Design-And-Resources and https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Lovin-Lit Fonts from: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Amy-Groesbeck
The young middle school singers who arrive in my choral classroom each August are incredibly diverse. In my room, I have children whose native languages are Dari (the Persian language of Afghanistan), Mandarin, Hindi, German, Spanish, Swahili and many more. I've taught singing to children in my classroom who, believe it or not, are almost completely deaf, some who have trouble matching pitch, some who can barely articulate due to cerebral palsy, children with severe intellectual limitations, extreme cases of Autism, and children who are legally blind. ...And almost all of them come to me utterly unable to read music. My room is a true public school classroom in America, and I absolutely love that fact. There are many resources in marketplace for helping break through language barriers. Smartling, for example, is a translation software company that helps us break through language barriers by translating mobile apps and websites for companies. My feeling is that if children want to sing, they should sing, and it's up to me to find ways to communicate in a way everyone can understand so they can learn. I don't test their voices. Middle school children are so afraid to be put on the spot and forced to sing alone, so I stopped testing their voices years ago. I can hear what I need to hear in the group setting, discretely work on the issues that need addressing, and avoid causing them the extra stress. To be in my chorus class, the only requirement I have of them is that they have a true desire to learn to sing. Each year, there are over 300 children who walk through my doors each day electing to take choir, and I am honored they make that choice. To help them become musically literate, I had to learn to teach using all three learning modalities each day: Kinesthetic, Visual and Aural. When I began developing my Sight Singing Program, S-Cubed, the main goal I had was to help my beginning students, regardless of whether they speak English or whatever their individual challenges may be, truly learn how to take the dots, curves, stems and lines off of the page and successfully and accurately turn them into sound. I wanted to help them understand the language of reading music better, and I wanted them to have fun in the process of learning it. To reach them, I knew that I had to incorporate every possible learning modality. One of the most important parts of my sight singing method is the use of the Kodaly Hand Signs. The hand signs help to connect pitch to the physical movements of the hands. The use of the vowel sounds in the words of the Kodaly scale helps intonation and blend tremendously because teachers can teach students how to use tall vowels when they sing. In the Sight Singing approach I developed, I took the Kodaly Hand Sign movements and added more layers to help my beginners experience more success. When you see my students tackling a new piece of music for the first time, you see them pulsing their hands to keep the steady beat, and you see them lifting and lowering their hands to match the changing pitch. Click here to see an example. I carefully and deliberately teach those skill sets to my students and slowly build the coordinations required to successfully execute them one step at a time. It is all outlined in the descriptions of the individual lessons in my program. ...But the single most important element of my program is "fun". To begin building the skills I've described above, I play a game with the children called Forbidden Pattern. Click here to see a description of the game. Click here to see me playing the game with my students. This is really the "hook" of the program I've developed and it works with all of the children I've described in the first paragraph of this post. Regardless of what language they speak or what other challenges they face, when we turn the learning process into a game, our middle school children listen, laugh, thrive, and best of all, in the end, we all learn to speak the common language of music. Check out my blog!
My kiddos love this game and BEG to play it again and again. The beauty of it, well.. it's also a great informal assessment! I use this with my Junior Kindergarten (ages 4 and 5) up through first grade. This is based on a similar one in Gameplan. The song and graphics are my own and so I am not stepping on Jeff and Randy's toes by sharing it with you but will give them all the credit for the game!! :)
