Discover engaging How to Steal a Dog teaching activities for your students. Explore crafts, food, music, and more inspired by the novel.
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Students can hit the hall in style!
When it comes to teaching characterization, picture books are the way to go! Check out this lesson that uses SLANT and The Lorax to teach characterization.
STEAL Characterization Lesson and Activities STEAL is an acronym to help students remember the tools used by author to bring characters to life: speech, thoughts, effect on others, actions, and looks. This resource has everything you need to teach students about indirect characterization…. ★ An engaging (and editable!) presentation uses real-life examples and provides frequent checks-for-understanding. ★ Students follow along using the Cloze notes. ★ Then students practice applying the STEAL method of characterization to excerpts from 8 short stories. ★ Once students have the strategy down, there is a graphic organizer you can use to analyze characters in ANY short story or novel. ***************************************************************************** What’s Included in this resource: ✔ 10-Slide Lesson Presentation (PDF, PPTX, and Google Slides included) ✔ Cloze Notes ✔ STEAL Practice with short story excerpts ✔ Graphic Organizer to use the strategy with ANY text ✔ Answer key included for STEAL practice and Cloze notes ***************************************************************************** Common Core Standards: Reading Literature 3: Analyze characters and how their actions/dialogue move the plot forward ***************************************************************************** You Might Also Like... Article of the Week Templates RACE: Short Written Response Strategy Prove It! Using Text Evidence to Support Claims GRIT: a Growth Mindset Unit for the Upper Grades Digital Literature Circles ***************************************************************************** Customer Tips ~ Get credit toward future TPT purchases by going to your Purchases page and leaving feedback. In addition to getting credit, your feedback helps me know what I'm doing well and what I can improve on (which is greatly appreciated)! ~ Be the first to know about new resources and promotions by clicking the Green Follow Me button next to my store logo. :) ~ Email me if you have any questions, comments, or concerns. I'd love to hear from you!
Students can hit the hall in style!
Ahoy me hearties! Let’s learn quarter notes, quarter rest and joined eighth notes and so, mi, (do). Ye Kinder and First Grade students will love to steal the pirate gold in this here music lesson and game song. The little scallywags will chant, sing, and play instruments in Orff Style to try to steal the treasure in the game. The music lesson unit includes activities to learn and practice MELODY, RHYTHM, BEAT, DYNAMICS, TEMPO, TIMBRE, HARMONY and TEXTURE. This is a complete MUSIC LESSON UNIT of activities for the month of September. Best for Kindergarten and First Grade Elementary Music Classes. You’ll have the teaching materials, steps and activities to teach and practice each of these concepts using the game song “Steal the Pirate Gold”. You’ll also have additional activity ideas to extend learning opportunities. This music lesson unit will help you reach all learners through a variety of teaching strategies and interactive and diverse learning opportunities that is also FUN! CONCEPTS: MELODY (So, mi, do) RHYTHM (Quarter Note, Quarter Rest, Joined Eighth Notes) STEADY BEAT DYNAMICS (Loud/Soft Forte/Piano) (Fast/Slow Allegro/Adagio) TIMBRE (Sing, Speak, Whisper, Shout) TEXTURE (Bass, Ostinato) HARMONY (Bass and Melody parts) RESOURCE INCLUDES: Teaching presentation and materials Mp3 Audio files of each part and all parts together Teaching Steps, I Can’s, Learning Goals, Closure Activity Ideas Game Directions Flashcards Music files for each part, vocal track and karaoke track **This is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. No physical items will be mailed to you.** After purchase you will receive an email receipt with a link to download your purchase. You will receive a text file with the download link. The text file will have a LINK to your resource. You will open the text file and copy paste the LINK in your browser which will start the download. If you have any problems with the download. Please email us and we will get you the resource.Questions? Email sandra [!at] singplaycreate.com
What they don't teach us in education courses is just how freaking much students talk, and how hard it can be to quiet them down. Help is on the way.
Hi everyone! My name is Amna and I blog over at Teach Two Reach: 2nd Grade Happenings This will be my 8th year in second grade! Today I would love to share with you my new Star of the Week pack. I've done Star of the Week on and off for the past 8 years and didn't get to do it last year, which I am totally bummed about. But this year, I am planning to reinstate it and revamp the materials I used when students were Star of the Week. This is because now I own cute clipart and I have no excuse to NOT make things look pretty. I choose a Star of the Week on a Friday. On Friday, I send home the parent letter explaining what their child needs to do/bring in for the following week. I also send home a poster that they should decorate and fill in so we can hang it on the Star of the Week board. In this pack, I've included an editable parent letter. So if a weekday activity doesn't work for you, you can fill in something different. During the week, students get to share their poster and pictures, bring in a show and tell item, bring in a favorite book for me to read, play an estimation game, and get letters written to them by their classmates which I bind into a class book for them to take home. This is the parent letter that is editable! Here is the poster that I will send home. You can send it home as is on regular size paper or print it to ledger size to make it more of a "poster size." You can do that at any office supply store. All the students write a letter to the Star at the end of the week. I tell them they have to write at least three nice things or memories they have with the student. And they can't just say, "You are nice." They have to include a "because," in there too! This is the "girl," cover. These covers are editable too so you can type in the student's name on top and write your class grade/year and your name on the bottom. This is the letter template for kids to write their letter on. It also comes in lower elementary handwriting lines. I included a blank letter template so YOU can also write a letter to the Star. You can also send home this letter for parents to write a letter to their child, send it back in a sealed envelope, and students can open it in class! There are colored and color saving versions of half page boy and girl certificates to give to the Star at the end of the week! There are also pieces included to make a bulletin board in your classroom that looks like this (minus that border). Plus I've included some printable ribbons students can wear during the week. Soooo you can get all this for just $1 for three days!! It is normally $3.50. Now that's a dollar steal if you ask me... ;) Click HERE to check it out!! Make sure to visit my blog and follow me on Bloglovin' to get regular updates! You can follow my TpT store too..:) Thanks for stopping by!!
Students can hit the hall in style!
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I am L.O.V.I.N.G. summer!! I spent the last week here with family: Lets just say it was GLORIOUS ! Ha! Now that I'm back and al...
Steal some hyperdocs, slidebooks, and other lessons I’ve made!
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Use this handy list for report card time!
There are so many positive classroom ideas for high school that high school teachers should steal from the elementary world...
Your students will love this game! Students practice conjugating verbs to collect as much gold as they can, trying to avoid "El Duende" who will steal their coins! Great, engaging way to practice regular verbs in the preterite tense! 8 pages - 4 MB - PDF
If you're on pinterest you've likely seen the french fry sight words or french fry math games popping up everywhere. I decided to steal borrow this fun idea. I of course gave it a speech
Swing your partner with the Green Grass Grew All Around. This is a GREAT song to use with ELL students and perfect for teaching cumulative form.
We all know the importance of reading stories in the the classroom. They can build background knowledge on a topic being discussed. It is a great way to increase vocabulary. Students get excited about learning. Plus, you can increase students reading and listening comprehension. I want to challenge you to go beyond they everyday read ... Read More about Interactive Read Aloud
Kathleen from Growing Kinders just posted a great blog post on her beginning findings/journey into Whole Brain Teaching { WBT }. I d...
Lately I have been talking with my class about how important it is to read with expression and fluency. I’ve read a book to my students like a robot would read. Then, I read the same book with expression. The students were able to hear how much of a difference it makes to pay attention to the punctuation marks while reading. I made these posters to help remind my students how to read a sentence with the different punctuation marks. Click HERE to download the bubble voices for FREE!
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Students can hit the hall in style!
Check out these easy impulse control strategies to help kids impact impulsive behaviors and impulsivity that impacts function.
How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor Assessment / Quiz 25 Questions all Multiple Choice Includes Answer Key...
