Amazing poster for teaching volume! *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
Informative Education for EFL/ESL Grammar is the system of a language. People sometimes describe grammar as the "rules" of a language, but in fact, no language has rules*. If we use the word "rules", we suggest that somebody created the rules first and then spoke the language, like a
Long VowelsLong Vowels Reading Passage FREEBIE is a free sample of "ALL-IN-ONE READING PASSAGES."This no prep long vowel reading passage is the perfect addition to any primary classroom. It can be used for skill practice, reading comprehension, fluency, cold reads, assessment, homework and more!Thi...
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
Print, cut and laminate these gorgeous cupcakes and use them in your literacy rotations to reinforce contractions! Cut the top half off and make a fun matching game out of them. This activity can also be used as an independent activity. Includes 18 cupcakes (6 different varieties) with different co...
If you are looking for FREE activities to use with your elementary students, I got you covered! Unfortunately, thousands of schools across the nation are closing ( or are preparing to close) due to COVID-19.
These two passages cover the basic and most important information about the Famous Americans George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Five comprehension questions are included. Answer keys included! If you are in interested in more, check out my: Famous American Reading Passages Pack *************************************************************************** Follow Me so you can be notified about my latest products! (Click the star near The Techie Teacher icon) You can also follow me on: FACEBOOK Pinterest Instagram Twitter YouTube The Techie Teacher®
Punctuation and when to use it. AND Punctuation examples. Backgrounds from: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Alina-V-Design-And-Resources Fonts from: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Amy-Groesbeck
Educate and decorate your classroom with the Earth color style FANBOYS Poster! Explaining coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS) through providing an example of each. PAPER SIZE: TABLOID size paper however can be printed on A3 paper. Did you know you can gain TpT credits by leaving a review on our product! We would be so grateful if you could spare a minute of your time to leave us a review. If you have any questions regarding our product please don't hesitate to ask. We are based in Australia, so there may be a little time difference with regards to a reply. If you like the resources we offer, we would love you to FOLLOW us. We post new resources every week! Thank you! Jules and Jam : )
Help your students become more confident readers with this fun and interactive passage!⭐ It is perfect for helping students build fluency, use context clues, and improve reading comprehension.⭐ This is one complete passage from my Text Evidence Pack. ❤️If you enjoy it, you may like the Text Eviden...
This packet includes 25 short passages each followed by 5 comprehension questions. Questions are written as circle the answer multiple choice and cover: *Simple who, what, when, where, and how *yes or no *fill in the blank Questions also cover topics such as: *feelings *seasons *weather *number words This is a great format for students who are pre-writers. Each passage is 4 sentences long and is accompanied by a picture. All short passages are high interest topics for children and follow a simple, repetitive format. I have found these simple comprehension packets great for my special education classroom. Please take the time to download a preview for a free sample! Check out my products like this one: Seasonal Bundle Winter Themed Packet Spring Themed Packet Fall Themed Packet Summer Themed Packet Check out my blog for more ideas and resources for teaching children with special needs: Growing Special Seeds
These effective de-escalation strategies help parents, or caregivers, defuse meltdowns & outbursts in children. These de-escalation strategies will....
Unleash the power of visual representation with this Contingency Behavior Maps packet, an indispensable tool for guiding students toward appropriate behaviors. Featuring 15 pre-made behavior maps for common classroom situations, this resource empowers educators and parents alike. What sets this pack...
All-in-one slope notes page is intended to be used as a reference and reminder sheet for students to refer back to throughout a unit. Concepts can be added to the organizer as they are introduced throughout the unit. Includes space to record how to find slope from tables, points & an equation. Slope tells us about rate of change, the direction, and steepness of a graph. Relates types of lines, types of equations & types of slope. Happy solving from the miss jude math! shop :)
In behavior support classrooms, teachers must work to provide a prime environment for learning. In multi-age classrooms, teachers have to address a wide array of learning needs-- not to mention juggling multiple curricula. This makes it all the more challenging to ensure that students are actually learning. So how do we meet the needs of our learners while setting up situations that elicit deep learning? First, we need to understand the difference between learning and regurgitation. In college, my favorite professor announced that we would be having a pop quiz. She handed out a quiz on drills and saws. Now, we were education majors. Not many of us had the background knowledge to pass a quiz like that. "You might not know a lot about the topic," she told us, "but you do know how to take a test. Off you go!" To our surprise, we all got a 100% on the quiz. I still can't remember what it was about, and I didn't understand any of it-- but I passed it with flying colors. Our teacher congratulated all of us for demonstrating that we learned a lot about drills and saws, and when we all looked at her with puzzled expressions, she let us know that we had simply "regurgitated" information but hadn't learned it. Learning Vs. Regurgitation I created a similar quiz, using all nonsense words. Try it out for yourself. Sure, you were able to comprehend the text at a surface level and spit back answers. You probably gathered that a schmigglefiggin is some type of creature in the dopplehopper category. They live in the rainforest and have poisonous bites. There are four types of schmigglefiggins. Blah blah blah. But could you make a presentation about schmigglefiggins without just retelling the passage? Could you apply the information learned to a new situation? Do you think you would be able to teach someone else about schmigglefiggins? How are schmigglefiggins, or at least learning about schmigglefiggins, important to your life? Will you ever use this information? Why is it worth learning? How will it serve you? Do you have any emotional connection to it? Nope! Our students with behavioral needs don't always feel successful in school. We focus so much on getting them to complete tasks that our focus shifts from learning to reinforcing task completion. I could complete tasks all day long, but how does that serve me? What is it teaching me for my life? It's so important to start small, with task completion goals, for our students with severe behaviors. It's even more important, though, to make it worth their while. My professor explained to us that the best form of classroom management is an engaging lesson. But realistically, in a multi-age classroom, it's very time-consuming to create elaborately exciting lessons for everything. In a behavior support classroom, sometimes more elaborate lessons can be overstimulating. How do we win? Emotion-Evoking Questioning Emotions play a great role in learning. Think about the feeling of guilt. It's such a strong, awful feeling that keeps us from repeating behaviors. Strong, negative feelings can stick with us for a while. That's why we can remember sad childhood incidents like they happened yesterday. Same thing goes for our happiest memories. Ask me what I had for breakfast last Tuesday, though, and I might have to stop and think. The human brain is programmed to hold onto things that are relevant to us. Such things are usually tied to strong feelings of emotion. That's why it's so important for teachers to work to evoke emotion in the classroom. Emotions leave a much stronger impression than facts for regurgitation. I studied World War II by reading a factual textbook. It was this-side versus that-side, and they were fighting over this and that, and it happened from this year to this year, and there were however-many casualties. Then, I was asked to interview a man who served in the war. My great-grandfather told me stories with emotion, and they stuck with me forever. I had a teacher who told us how history wasn't just something we learned about in social studies; it was real life for real people who had families, fears, desires, and everything just like us. Imagine how they must have felt. As the teacher taught about September 11, 2001, the student yawned and said, "I'm bored. How much longer til recess?" When I was a student observer, I watched a student say this to his teacher. I was completely and utterly shocked, but then I remembered... this is ancient history to these kids. I currently teach in an elementary school, and a colleague mentioned to me that not a single student in our K-5 school was alive when 9/11 happened. I was, though. I was actually in history class. My teacher, who was the one who taught with such emotion, turned to us as we watched the news and said, "You are living history right now. This will be in a social studies book one day that eighth graders like you will read." That stuck with me forever. That's how I teach now. Teach with emotion-- happy, sad, scared, excited, amused, laughing hysterically, the list is endless. Take students into events, and have them explore. Challenge their thinking, and have them challenge the author and even events in history. You can bring alive a boring text by connecting it to the student and letting them see how it serves them. Use Bloom's Taxonomy verbs to help. Students won't regurgitate facts on a test when they learn this way. Their answers will contain evidence of higher-order thinking. I made a list of emotion-evoking questions that can be used with just about any reading. You can grab that freebie here! Do you use emotion in your teaching? What kinds of results do you find with this technique? How do you feel about learning and regurgitation? Please share in the comments below! A Peach for the Teach
“Analogies for Little Kids” is a fun & engaging product designed to provide practice with higher level thinking skills using pictures in addition to print. I chose pictures that most children will be familiar with, and the word relationships are fairly straightforward to ensure success as your students “tackle” their first analogies. As the primary focus in kindergarten and first grade classrooms is usually building reading and writing foundational skills, students seem to spend most of their time on simple, decodable words and phrases, which limits their opportunities to expand their rich language base. It is important to provide opportunities for oral language and critical thinking skill development, which will ultimately strengthen their reading comprehension and this product is material that will do just that! This product contains five sets of six analogies presented in two formats for differentiation. The first five sets provide the first three of the four words represented in the analogy, and students cut and glue the final picture for each set. The second set uses the same pictures and cut and glue format, but writing lines are provided for the students to describe how the words are related. Each activity begins with an example to use as a model. Please take a look at the preview to view sample pages Depending on the grade and skill level of your students, these activities might be used as material for a whole group guided lesson, or they work well in a literacy center for those students who are ready for the independent work. Answer keys are also provided for your convenience. The sentences given as word relationship explanations, of course, are not the only correct answer-accept any reasonable response. If this material fits the needs of your students, you may want to take a look at my store, which features K-5th grade products in a variety of subject areas. Thanks for your interest!! My TpT Store Here are several popular products for emergent and beginning readers you may want to take a look at: First 25 Sight Words Word Wall Activities Informational Text Comprehension Bundle with books by Gail Gibbons End of First Grade- Beginning of Second Grade Common Core State Standards Math Assessment ABC Class Book Writing Template Comprehensive Phonics Assessment Analogies for Emergent and Beginning Literacy Learners by Amy Bratsos is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Do you want to make your Science lessons come to life? Then this is the packet for you. This unit includes 7 hands-on experiments that you could use in your classroom. First graders are expected to make "good" predictions. In the beginning of the year, this is a skill that is difficult for them. However, through practice and hands-on activities such as these, students can make predictions, write out predictions, and also write about the outcomes of experiments. These are all skills that our first graders are expected to be able to do by the end of the year. This packet is different from most that you buy on TpT. Instead of giving you centers and activities to print, cut out, and laminate, this packet is full of hands-on activities that you can use with your students. I completed all of these in my first grade class and my students LOVED them. Not to mention, the parents were so excited that we did “so much Science!” The packet is broken down by picture steps (to help you see what the experiment should look like,) and then I give you a “cheat sheet.” This black and white copy is for you to print out and have on hand when you are completing the experiment in your class. I also include “grocery lists” for all of the activities. {How much do I hate when I get home and realize I forgot ONE item!!} It also includes graphing activities, recording sheets, anchor chart ideas, and more! Experiments Include: Mini Explosions Discovery Bottles Walking Water Fireworks In a Cup Gak Coke and Mentos The Milk Experiment This unit is aligned to the Science TEKS. It is not aligned to the Common Core because at this point there are not any Science standards for first grade. Please download the preview to see some more of what is included in this unit! I truly hope that you enjoy this pack and that you have FUN with these experiments, crafts, and activities!
Are you already tired of doing the same boring vocabulary exercises with your students? Are you looking for something to liven it up or just try to make it fun? Try my FREE “Vocabulary Categories” activity. After they learn the definition of the word, they can try this fun activity to make a connection ... Read More about Creative Vocabulary Activity for Any Content Area
This is something new that I've started in my individual counseling sessions. It serves a few purposes - it helps me gather data on how effective the sessions are, helps students self-reflect, and wor
Pronoun practice thats meaningful for kids. Create a pronoun patch bulletin board as a whole class anchor chart and play fun themed pronoun games.
Teach your students to close read for many purposes, author's purpose, text structure, main ideas, summarizing and persuasive writing.
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
Until mastering what a factors and multiples are, a student is going to struggle to find the Least Common Multiple or the Greatest Common Factor. This realization is what prompted me to make this Working with Factors and Multiples resource The pdf pages included in this pack are 3 matchbook fold up. One of the foldables combines both factor and multiple. The other two foldables do not combine, but are set up to teach the vocabulary one at a time. Also included are practice pages. One 2-sided sheet combines practice on both factor and multiple. A second 2-sided practice sheet has factor only. And a final practice page focuses on multiple only. I also included instructions and pictures on how to assemble the matchbook foldables as well as how to copy the practice pages. In addition, this product is available using Google Slides and the worksheet pages can be accessed in Easel. Bundle Alert! This product is included in a Bundled for Savings Bundle: The BIG Bundle: 40 Math Fold-Up Resources Bundled into ONE! Purchase the bundle and save nearly 40%! ***************************************************************************** You May Also Like: Bundled For Savings - LCM & GCF Fold-Up and More Packs. Flip for Math: Step-By Step, Factors and Finding Greatest Common Factor. Flip for Math: Step-By Step, Multiples and Finding Least Common Multiple. ***************************************************************************** Get to Know Mrs. B! • To receive email updates when new products are added, look for the green star next to my store logo and click it to become a follower. • Like her on Facebook. • Follow her on Twitter. • Follow her on Pinterest. • Follow her on Instagram. Having difficulty with a file? Visit the FAQs section, submit a help ticket, or ask a question on the Q& A tab before leaving feedback. ___________________________________ Copyright © Mrs. B's Best Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.
