Hey there! I'm so happy to share a new product with you guys today! I've had a picture of this product in my head for months and could not wait to get the opportunity to sit down and make my idea come to life. Basically, I knew that I loved to use colorful sticky notes to teach with and that my students also loved using them! I was picturing printables to use to teach reading comprehension strategies. I wanted my students to have a place to put the sticky notes, and then not to be done with them, but extend the use of the strategy a little more. For example, I pictured my students writing a connection to the story on a sticky note while reading {or after} and placing it in their book until we were done reading. Then, when we would be finished reading, they would have a printable to put their sticky note on, fill out some basic info {title, author} and then draw a picture about their connection. I wanted something practical, meaningful, and easy to use with any story. Here's what I came up with.... This product has been so much fun to use with my first graders and is everything I hoped it would be! I love that students get to take these home and share with their family, and the sticky note makes sense to the parents since they know what they are writing about! Here are a few of my examples that I made when modeling how to use the printables... You can check out my Sticky Note Reading Strategies pack in my TpT store here. I think it would be perfect for 1st-3rd/4th! AND, now on to my plans for the week... {Click on the picture on the right to download through google docs and click on the links} The cute chick craft was made by Julie, my student teacher. Isn't is cute?!? She only has two more weeks left in my classroom and I'm going to miss her so much! If you'd like to use my visual plans template to start making your own, this editable ppt file is included in my Teacher Planner for sale in my TpT shop. It also includes a printable version for the rest of this school year AND a complete full printable planner for next year {2013-14}. All the dates are already filled in for the printable planner and the editable file has all the essentials and a weekly lesson plan template that you can use to type your lesson plans, email them, or make visual plans. You can grab the planner here! I'm linking up with Deedee, you should too. :)