Ideas for using speaking and listening activities to support the writing of English Language Learners. Also learn about my Speak then Write set of activities.
Graphic organizers are great for school and as an IEP or 504 accommodation. Here are 60 different graphic organizer PDFs to use with your child or student.
Hello Friends. Have you heard about Thinking Maps? A few years ago, my principal sent some of the staff to be trained in using Thinking Maps and I have LOVED using them ever since. If you are unfamiliar with what it is, I can explain.. because I'm your friend and that's what friends do. :) Our brain usually organizes information in 8 different ways. These thinking skills help kids drive their learning and as they move through each grade, it is done with greater complexity. There are 8 different Thinking Maps. These maps are used to help students organize information in what they are learning. What I love about it is that it is easy and simple in the lower grades and can get more complex in the higher grades. I even find myself using them ALL the time to organize my to do lists, reflect on things that I've read, etc. NOW... just to kick it up a notch, I've added Depth and Complexity icons to some of the maps. I've gone to Sandra Kaplan's (creator of Depth and Complexity) seminars and have learned SO much on teaching not only gifted students, but ALL students. I teach a 1/2 combo this year and was a bit worried about integrating Thinking Maps and Depth and Complexity (D&C) into my class. I didn't know how it was going to look like doing it a 2 different levels. Once I began teaching it, my students caught on and now LOVE using Thinking Maps to organize their learning and D&C to dig a little A LOT deeper. I know that I've had a lot of people (some I know, most I don't) pinning my Thinking Maps on Pinterest. I realized that there are many teachers out there just like me looking for ways to improve their teaching while challenging their students. This led me to create my Graphic Organizers with Depth and Complexity unit. I am SO excited for this resource because I use them in my class ALL.THE.TIME! I use these for my interactive notebooks, too. I have students fill out their maps and then fold it in half and glue into their journals. Voila! DONE and EASY! :) Here is a sneak peak at this Print and Go unit...because this time of year... I need "easy". I NEED Print and Go! I need an "All In One" resource. I used the Circle Map and combine it with a D&C icon to kick up their learning a notch. Brace Map. My kids love this activity! I will sometimes give them the whole and they have to list the parts OR I play a game where I list the parts, and they have to guess the whole. :) Bubble Map with D&C icons and text dependent answers. It was AMAZING to see my Firsties doing this!!! :) Flow Map. There are a couple organizers for writing. There's even a sample for you. ;) I LOVE LOVE using these maps for all types of learning. One of the ways I mostly use them for is for my comprehension skills. Here are some: Again, SO many uses for these maps. Here I used them for grammar skills. You can even use 2 maps. This is another way that I use them in my classroom. We do this EVERY week. Circle Map to Tree Map. They brainstorm some phonics sound. Here we were doing Long o and Long u. Now we categorize it into a tree map. Soon, kids do their own tree map from the information on their circle map. It's AH-MAZING to see them take ownership of their learning! Here is it with a grammar skill: Did I tell you that each of the 8 maps come with samples so that you know how to use them??:) I';m a visual learner and sometimes I just need to SEE what it's suppose to look like. Here is the whole resource. Over 100 pages!!! ALL EDITABLE!! Seriously Friends, what are you waiting for??? It really will bring your kids to the next level and in no time at all, they will be filling out these maps on their own! For reals! I'm married to a pastor so I wouldn't lie to you. :) Blessings, Angela
This free focus on close reading resource helps you teach students about how to monitor for meaning as they read.rn
Check out book unit samples and activities to use with your novel study of Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus.
I’ve never been a huge fan of worksheets but there are definitely times when using paper and pencil kinds of stuff is a good idea. There’s really nothing like a good graphic organizer a…
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This CCSS aligned mini-unit from an Early American Literature Unit and my American Literature Bundle(please do not purchase both) provides a quick literary and historical overview of early America and the Americas through Christopher Columbus's and Alvar Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca's journal excerpts. Students read, analyze and complete classroom activities to gain a richer understanding literary technique. Includes: * Two informational public domain reading excerpts (2-3 pages each) * Brief historical/literary terms overview * Analysis questions for readings with teacher notes * Scene Comparison handout (CCSS.R.7) with teacher notes * Concept Comparison handout (CCSS.RI.9) with teacher notes * Text-to-Movie assignment This mini-unit would fit well in an American Literature course, a Humanities course or as a compliment to an American History course.
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4th grade teachers learned more Learning Focused Strategies at a 2-day workshop with Betty Ray at the Coastal Plains RESA in Lenox, GA.
Beneath its simplicity lies an absolute dynamo, a vehicle that can cement learning more firmly than a lot of the other stuff we try, in a lot less time.
Graphic organizers are an essential tool for differentiating and supporting all students in your classroom. This pack includes 100 graphic organizers that can be used with any fiction books or reading passages. If you are looking for a paper and digital version, click here! This resource is packed full of a wide variety graphic organizers to practice skills and strategies needed while reading fiction! These organizers have been thoughtfully aligned to the ELA Common Core for Grades 1-6. Take a peek at some of the fiction graphic organizers in the preview! WHAT'S INCLUDED: *100 Reading Fiction Graphic Organizers Total* Topics (More detail included in Table of Contents in the product preview): • Story Maps • Plot Diagrams • Setting • Character Traits • Analyzing Characters • Character Relationships • Conflict/ Problem & Solution • Sequencing • Theme • Cause & Effect • Compare & Contrast • Summarizing • Using Text Evidence • Using Illustrations • Dialogue • Using Reading Strategies • Vocabulary • Using Context Clues • Point of View • Book Response • Ending Extension • Protagonist vs Antagonist • Round vs Flat Characters • Retelling • Character Perspective • Types of Conflict • Reading Strategies (Recently Added) • Making Predictions (Recently Added) • Visualizing (Recently Added) • Asking Questions (Recently Added) British/Australian spelling also available upon request by e-mail to [email protected]. Just e-mail me with your order number and I will send them along! This product is also discounted as part of these bundles: Fiction Digital and Paper Graphic Organizers Bundle Reading Comprehension Strategies, Nonfiction & Fiction Graphic Organizers Bundle Digital and Paper Reading Comprehension Strategies, Nonfiction & Fiction Graphic Organizers Bundle More Graphic Organizers: Nonfiction Graphic Organizers More Fiction Reading Resources: Fiction Reading Crafts Fiction Word Wall Fiction Posters & Anchor Charts ⓒ Raise the Bar Reading
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If you teach English Language Learners in your classroom, check out these tips for how to teach the standards to students of other languages. Download the free graphic organizer while you read!
Inventors graphic organizers for your little ones to record their information and findings during their Inventors Unit.
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I created this graphic organizer to be used with any fictional story or novel. I also thought it would work well for the days my students e...
My awesome coworker and I made up a trig matching activity. I know it's not a novel idea, but here is another resource for precalculus teachers to solidify angles in standard position. You can find the file HERE. Via our internet math community, I learned that it's easier to leave one of the pages uncut (the pink sheet here), and then the students can place the matching cut up green and gold cards on the page. Before, I used to cut up all three, and then that took up too much space on the student tables. Thank you virtual PD friends for the great tip. My buddy and I also decided to break up the teaching into 2 class periods with degrees one day and the dreaded radians along with their devilish friends, FRACTIONS (duhn DUHN duhhhhhhn) for the next day. Hopefully, this will allow the fraction/radian goodness to seep into their resisting minds more readily. I didn't share the word document because it seems to mess up when you download it via box.net (or maybe I'm wrong). If you want the word document to play around with, send e-mail. Another thing I like about this is that we didn't use all special angles. We also didn't indicate which was up or down on the pink sheet, so that stumped some kids and they had to think and justify the direction. Yay math.
In this trigonometry lesson, students will create their own word problem involving right triangle trigonometry. This is a creative way for students to...
This is the graphic organizer I created to help students learn elements on fiction and non-fiction in text. This organizer is appropriate for emerging readers and for English language learners. One reason it is beneficial is because it includes key vocabulary featured in both kinds of texts (Hill & Flynn 2006). The elements of each genre include specific vocabulary words that students need to know. With some direct instruction students could use this graphic organizer to identify these elements in text. Another benefit to the organizer is its use of visuals and symbols. When students have visuals to use with identification it helps them understand the meaning and make connections (Hill & Flynn 2006). From there students can use language to explain and interpret the symbols as well (Hill & Flynn 2006). I did have students in my classroom use this organizer and I supplied English language learners with sentence starters where they had to fill in a missing word and other students with missing phrase sentence starters. The students were very successful with this guided activity. The challenges they faced were filling in the character box (may not be the best representation for characters) and fitting facts into the ice cream cone shape. I could change the ice cream cone to a train or even make the cone the topic and layer three scoops of ice cream as the facts. Knowing my students and their learning styles and habits will make it manageable to adapt this graphic organizer or others to meet their needs. With more practice and some accommodation they will be able to identify these story features independently.
Word wall bulletin boards are a great way to promote vocabulary growth in middle school classrooms. Find out 10 creative ways to use them!
4th grade teachers learned more Learning Focused Strategies at a 2-day workshop with Betty Ray at the Coastal Plains RESA in Lenox, GA.
This is my second year using my transformation project as an assessment and I love it! See my previous post here, transformation sum...
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