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Download This Worksheet (PDF) Interesting character quirks are responsible for some of the most memorable characters in fiction, but I think new writers sometimes forget that a quirk doesn’t make a character. It’s a good place to start though! The first page of this worksheet gives you some questions to develop character from quirk. If your…
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Controlling their volume and using an appropriate voice in any situation is a great self regulation strategy for kids. Check this game!
I am new to teaching Writing in sixth grade. It was a subject previously taught by one of my team members, but now I am on my own. I really wanted to use something simple for my kids to use for revising and editing and it seemed like the C.U.P.S. and A.R.M.S. revising and editing was a simple enough place to start. I also wanted to make something that they could glue into their notebooks for a quick reference. Of course, I quickly hopped over to PicMonkey to create something fast and cute. So far, I am still getting my feet wet when it comes to teaching writing, but the kids liked this and seemed to catch on quickly. Thought I would share my little poster with you. UPDATE WITH FREEBIE!!! Turns out, this little poster has become very popular on Pinterest and has received quite a few hits here on my blog. So, for those of you that would like a free, printable version, I have it linked here on my Teachers Pay Teachers store. Enjoy!
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Writing Journal Worksheet – The Prequel & The Sequel (PDF) Writing a prequel or sequel story for NaNoWriMo? Here’s a Preptober worksheet that asks the BIGGER questions. On the surface, this is just a worksheet about writing prequels and sequels, but it’s also about challenging yourself to up the game, while still learning from the…
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I must admit the very first time I ever attempted a STEM lesson I was a bit nervous...but once I saw how hooked my students were I knew it was something I needed to implement more of! If you haven't heard too much about STEM, here is a quick rundown: STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics STEM lessons provide hands-on experiences for your students that involve real world problems and students LOVE to get working right away! STEM lessons are guided by the engineering design process. (see below) STEM lessons incorporate 21st thinking skills such a communication, collaboration, and critical thinking. STEM lessons allow for multiple right answers and provide an environment for students to generate creative solutions. Click here to get your copy of this poster in my TpT store! One thing you must know is that sometimes students projects will fail, and their design might not work. Students may experience some disappointment but that is also when we gain those teachable moments. When using the engineering design process in a STEM lesson, students can learn from what went wrong and make improvements to try again! So if you ready to try a STEM lesson in your classroom or looking for more STEM lessons to add to your collection I have one just in time for Earth Day (April 22nd)! This lesson focuses on the real world problem of littering. In this lesson students design mechanical grabbers to help their community become a cleaner, litter free place! Stop by my TpT Store to get your copy of this lesson. It includes a lesson plan, teacher prep instructions and and activity lab book for your students to use throughout the challenge. I hope your students love the project, just as much as my students did! They definitely were excited about Earth Day so that they could use their grabbers to help clean up our school and teach other students about recycling!
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Students are finished with their rough drafts and what do they want to do? Immediately write a final copy. NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! This post will provide ideas for your writer's workshop when teaching your students how to REVISE a narrrative essay. It is also a part of a series of writing mini
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Here’s a fun science experiment that will definitely get a “wow” from the kids. Combine baking soda and vinegar to make sodium acetate, or hot ice! It crystalizes instantly when you pour it, allowing you to create a tower of crystals. Since the process of crystallization is exothermic, the “ice” that forms will be hot […]
It’s been a while since I’ve done a “Teaching Tuesday” post, but I’ve gotten some emails lately asking how I teach vocabulary, so I thought I’d share a little bit about that today. Quick and easy. Here we go… In truth, I’m a total vocab newbie. In the past, I have fallen in the camp...Read More »
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To fill our stories with characters who feel as real as the people around us, we must delve deeper than classic archetypes and easy characterizations. This work begins with developing richly complex personalities for our characters that lend to their most vibrant portrayals. Discover my favorite per
Let's learn about the human body! This fun and super simple printable anatomy game is a great way to introduce your preschool and kindergarten aged kids to the subject of anatomy. Match the organs to their shadows and labels on the front of the game, then turn it over and read through the anatomy fun facts included with the game (you can print this on a separate page if you'd prefer). Perfect for your science station, as a busy binder activity, or as a great addition to your homeschool curriculum. This game is also a great way to share with your little ones how loved we are by our creator with Psalm 139:13-14 displayed on the front. "For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well." ::: I N S T A N T ♥ D O W N L O A D ::: **This is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. No physical items will be mailed to you.** After purchase you will receive an email receipt from Etsy with a link to download your purchase. You can also download your files from the “Purchases and Reviews” section of your Etsy profile. You will receive a PDF file for printing on regular 8.5”x11” paper. I recommend printing on heavy cardstock and laminating for durability. For a list of recommended products I use to assemble my printables (laminator, glue, Velcro dots, etc.) visit this page: https://arrowsandapplesauce.com/shop/supplies/ ::: Y O U ♥ M I G H T ♥ A L S O ♥ L I K E ::: Solar System Memory Game---> https://www.etsy.com/listing/676770897/solar-system-printable-memory-game :::S A V E ♥ M O N E Y::: Spend $30 or more in my shop ( https://www.etsy.com/shop/ArrowsAndApplesauce ) and get %25 off your total purchase! Use code LEARN at checkout. Subscribe to my blog ( www.arrowsandapplesauce.com ) and get a %10 off coupon code sent to your email to use on any purchase. As a subscriber, you’ll also receive access to my FREE Printables Library and updates on new blog posts. ::: S H O W ♥ O F F ::: I’d love to see you and your little ones enjoying your new learning activity! Be sure to tag me @arrowsandapplesauce and use #applesaucemama. ::: T H E ♥ L E G A L ♥ S T U F F ::: This printable is intended for personal use only. Not for resale. You may not copy, alter, or share these files. Thank you! See my shop policies for more info. ::: C R E D I T S ::: Organs by Cockatoo Designs.
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Logical fallacies are best taught by the discovery method. Students look at examples and develop their own definitions of what they see.
I absolutely love this idea found on Pinterest. I made my own version. What a fab way to get more interesting sentences out of the children.
When I was a teacher, an IEP meeting meant one thing: No conference period. For me, it was just one thing added to my never-ending list of to-do's. I didn't plan for them. In fact, sometimes I forgot about them. There was no class or manual that taught what was to be expected of me. And to be honest, anyone who knew me during my teacher years knows I've broken every rule in the book. Let's just say, I'm glad there are no video tapes in IEP meetings! So, if this is you, just know that you are not alone! I have spent many hours in IEP meetings since becoming a diagnostician, so here's a list of things I would like to have known as a teacher (and things that just drive me crazy!). :) The Do's & Don'ts of IEP Meetings (for Teachers) 1. Attend the meeting on time: I cannot tell you how many minutes I have spent waiting on teachers (or... ahem... administrators) to actually show up to the meeting. I even give day-before reminders on most cases and still have some not show up. So, please don't make someone have to find you, especially if you work in a humongous school where the possibilities are endless as to where we might find you! 2. Recognize that it is a formal, legal, and confidential meeting: Legal and confidential are the words you should take from this. You could be in court one day defending what you said in an IEP meeting, so make sure to choose your words wisely. And remember that the meeting is confidential and the only people who you should speak with about it are those who have educational interest (meaning, if you are a 4th grade teacher, you don't discuss it with a 1st grade teacher over lunch). One more thing... what you decide in a meeting has to be implemented! 3. Tell the parent how the child is doing, but DON'T withhold information because of fear: I once had a teacher come into a meeting before the parent got there and told me about all the problems she was having in her class with this particular student. During the meeting, when it was the teacher's turn to speak, she said, "Oh, he's doing pretty well" and then proceeded to tell about all the (minimal) progress he had made. Please don't do this! If you end up having very serious problems with a child in the future, there is nothing to back up that this has been a consistent problem. In fact, you are basically saying that there were no problems at this time and thus the current problem is a fluke. Be honest (and kind), and don't sugar coat the important information that parents need to know. 4. Bring data and work samples: Nothing says you know what you're talking about like data and work samples! Bring the stuff to back up what you are seeing in the classroom. 5. Share ideas that might work in the classroom (or at home): You are the expert not only of your content area, but of that child. So, don't feel intimidated by all those specialists sitting at the table. Share what is working and what is not working in the classroom, and bring ideas to the table that we can talk about! 6. Take notes: Things change. Maybe it's an accommodation. Maybe the student now has a new medical issue. Whatever the case may be, you are likely the only person who knows the information when you walk out of that meeting, and you have to share it with the other teachers. Don't rely on someone else to send that information everyone else. And... please... I beg you, please don't play on your phone or fall asleep. You're asking, "Would anybody actually do that?". Why yes, yes they would. 7. Put yourself in the parent's shoes: I meet parents a lot who are genuinely concerned about their child, but don't know how to help. Whether it's due to a lack of education, support, or understanding, they are having the same problems you are. Try to understand how difficult it must be to have a child with a disability, and be cautious in how you speak about that child with the parent. 8. Speak up: Nothing makes me more angry than this scenario: Me (to general education teacher): "Would you like to share how little Johnny is doing in your classroom?" General education teacher: "No, she (special education teacher) pretty much covered it!" Oh.My.Gosh! I can't deal with this one. I hate (and I mean, hate) speaking in a public forum. I'm terrified. And I have this really embarrassing issue where my face turns bright red when I'm nervous (or mad... or put on the spot... or for just about any other reason!). So, I completely understand the fear of speaking to a group of professionals. But, seriously, you have to suck it up. By not speaking, you are either telling the parent that you are scared to speak or you just plain don't care, and neither of those are good ways to be viewed. Also, you know this child more than anyone else at that table, other than the parent. Share how she did on a specific activity or assignment or share a funny story. But, please don't pass up on an opportunity to speak about the child. 9. Be a team player: Don't be that person who gets to the IEP meeting and disagrees with everything the committee says. And please don't check that you disagree with the IEP Committee on the signature page unless there is just no other option! You can absolutely disagree, but give your opinions and your concerns during the meeting and work through them with the others. If you check that disagree box, you will have to redo the meeting at another date, and no one wants that! Be kind, open minded, and cooperative and all will go well. 10. Share positives about the student: This should be common sense, I know, but it still needs to be said. You can absolutely share concerns and issues that happen in your classroom, but always... and I mean ALWAYS... give some positives. 11. Listen up and ask questions: Even though you are an expert, you are not the only expert. Parents most often have the most valuable information about your students. Many IEP Committee members also include speech therapists, occupational therapists, school counselors, and school psychologists. These people are full of wonderful information, but they can sometimes forget they are talking to people who don't have degrees in their area of expertise. So, ask questions when you don't understand, because if you don't understand, it's likely the parent doesn't either. 12. Be willing to try new things: If something isn't working in your classroom, be open to new ideas. Sometimes a seemingly odd suggestion will actually work, so be willing to try anything that will help the child to be successful in your classroom. 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It’s the process of inventing, optimizing, and iterating on previous success to make things not only better, but also more familiar to our users. On the Web, we use interaction design principles to make things familiar and to expose our users to new concepts that they already know how to use — before actually using them. Ensuring our users are comfortable and familiar with a product, service, or even UI pattern makes an immense difference in how our work is perceived. Detailed interaction design and research can lead to a much improved user experience, and a more approachable product. When bringing new (even revolutionary) ideas to market, interaction design is critical to ensure these flashy new things are easy to use and feel familiar to our customers. Making our users feel comfortable holding, using, or even thinking about new ideas or products is essential to user experience design. “Asking users to adopt new behaviors or even modify their existing behaviors is very, very hard.” — Khol Vinh of Mixel Interaction design on the Web Interaction design on the Web primarily focuses on user interface and layout. Using emerging user patterns Common use patterns are more or less considered “safe” bets. Most people know what they mean, we know how our users will expect them to function, and their common use tells us it’s something people are comfortable with (or will be quite soon). Discovering patterns that make our users more comfortable, and designate their function more clearly, is something we can all get behind. Interaction design is unique in that it’s largely a collaborative science brought on by our desire to get new ideas into the hands of our users.
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