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For all subjects literature circles for Microsoft Word
Peer Feedback Glow and Grow Sentence Starters
Wanting to have more meaningful conversations regarding feedback between your students? I was used to hearing the same things from my students when they would offer peer feedback.
Use these sentence starters to help students give kind, specific, and helpful feedback in the classroom. A great tip is to laminate these (there are two to a page) and leave them on your students' desks or in a specific center of your room to encourage ongoing feedback!
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Not Grade Specific
Speaking and Listening Rubric
This rubric is great for all classrooms that value student speaking/listening. I introduce this when we first begin collaborative discourse. We refer to it when using turn/talk, Socratic Seminars, Collaborative Discussions, and Active Listening.
This sets high expectations for student participation, meaningful classroom contributions, and active listening skills.
It is student friendly and basic enough for them to memorize their expectations and the skills they need for successful speaking a
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Helping Hands Template - Classroom Jobs
Hi Fellow Teachers :)This is a free editable Microsoft Word doc. of my "Helping Hands" template. I designed and created this template to be used in my classroom as a resource/tool for job allocations on a daily basis. The Helping Hands will be placed onto ring hooks so they can be flipped over daily. Essentially, instead of having a number of different students for a number of different jobs I will have two different students each day who will be responsible for any jobs/duties for that day. Th
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PreK - 6th
Collaborative Discussion Sentence Starters and Prompts
Do your students need some help figuring out what to say in a group discussion? Give them these prompts to give them the language they need to formulate their ideas about the content. These are great scaffolds for multilingual learners, students with disabilities, or really any students that need support during collaborative discussions or partner shares.
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Not Grade Specific
CHAMPS behavior poster for carpet time
CHAMPS behavior poster for carpet time
In a word doc so you can change as you wish.
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PreK - 5th, Staff
Animated Books Display (Slideshow) for School Libraries / Classrooms
Feature your library’s brand new books or a specific genre collection with this Animated Book Covers display. The display is made on Google Slides – yes, Google Slides. It is a slideshow with preset animations on each book cover.This animated books display can be featured on your classroom or school library website to feature new books that you school has purchased or to showcase a specific set / genre or books. After you download the Google Slides file, make sure you have a folder of your book
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Blank SIOP Lesson plan All Day Layout with checklist
For reading teachers that have a centers and literature circles based classroom. This layout helped me organize all my activities and reflect on my SIOP checklist. Editable.UPDATED: Now with clickable checkboxes.
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World Café Editable Forms (editable and fillable resource)
Small group discussion, called World Cafe, allows students to discuss the activity or topic with students in your class with whom they do not typically interact. This resource includes the following forms:-Table Host-Scaffolded-Word Café Notes and reflection -Ticket Out the Door Write ONE comment or idea that you thought was particularly insightful during the World Café activity.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Possessive and Plural Noun Game
This is a great consolidation activity after a study of plural nouns and possessive nouns. It is simple for students to learn. The game also makes a great literacy center activity.
Possessive Noun Game
Option 1 – Whole Group
Teacher shows one card to the class at a time. (The teacher would just need to display the chart on an IWB) The class work in table teams using whiteboards to create a sentence that follows the instructions on the card.
Table teams hold up their whiteboards. Each table t
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3rd - 7th
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Harry Potter Classroom Library
This is a sign-out sheet for a classroom library in a Harry Potter themed classroom. Please check out the preview.
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Finding Free Digital Books (Novels, Textbooks, etc.)
This resource is a collection of seven websites students (and teachers!) can go to access FREE digital books. Each resource has a brief explanation and a link to get you there. A perfect way for getting everyone in your class a copy of the book, even during a pandemic. And if they all want different books, they're just a click away! > Over 100,000 titles to choose from!> Classics & new releases!> Fiction & Non-Fiction (even textbooks)! > Great for whole class texts, reading c
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Also included in:Â THE NON-FICTION ENGLISH BUNDLE
Intermediate Starting a Task with Guiding Questions(edtiable&fillable resource)
I use it to facilitate implementation of Academic Teaming
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4th - 12th
Book Group/ Book Club/ Literature Circle handouts
Allow students to guide their inquiries and understanding of a novel while assessing R1, R2, and SL1 of the Common Core. This document contains weekly worksheets to print for each group including directions, their agenda, a question and discussion tracker, and summary worksheet. Each group should only receive one of each sheet per meeting. Ideal for ELA classes but can be used for other subjects with trade books.
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Not Grade Specific
Accountable Talk Starters Differentiated
Accountable Talk Starters Differentiated. For students that need the "basics" to more advanced.They love it! Laminate them and students use them during any discussion
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3rd - 5th
Sentence Frames
These are Spanish sentence stems that help with academic conversation when students agree, disagree, add on to one another, and need further clarification.
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2nd - 6th
Socratic Seminar Response Form
Student response form for students at the entry level of Socratic Seminar emphasizing the language of the seminar.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Super hero Group Roles
This is an editable word document that can be used in all subject areas during designated group work.
These roles will remind students of their jobs within the group and help your classroom stay focused and working toward their goal.
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2nd - 6th
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Proof of Listening Prompts for Academic Productive Talks
This product includes a list of "prompts" to promote effective, academic productive talk during student discussions. These can be used in whole-, small- group discussions, as well as pairs.
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Not Grade Specific
EDITABLE Weekly Lesson Planner
This is a simple and EDITABLE weekly lesson planner to help keep you organized and on track! A DOC file is included for you to customize.
The fonts I used are Pea Ellie Bellie and Matilde Sketch, both of which are free.
*This is the same weekly planner that is bundled with a PDF, but some people had trouble opening the .zip file, so I'm offering the DOC file separately.*
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Sentence Frames for Socratic Seminars
Socratic Seminars are a great way for students to demonstrate higher order thinking. These frames help all students organize their thinking to have a productive class discussion.
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6th - 12th
Theme Park - Novel Mind Map
Students read a novel then use this task to share in a creative 'theme park' the main characters, and themes. Bonus would be to make a connection to another students book. This has been exceptionally fun, and a great way for students to show what they know about a novel. This handout is the student version, with a checbric.
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6th - 12th
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Independent Reading Guide
This is a concise, two-page guide designed to help readers maintain consistent progress with a book independently and meaningfully.
It's not meant to be super challenging and time consuming--because the purpose is to enjoy reading both fiction and non-fiction--but it is Common Core aligned and can be used across a wide range of text complexities and formats.
Finally, a big reason to get this might be that when you teach students how to do it once, you can get them to do it independently. An
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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A Guide to Student Group-Work Without Nerve-Pills!
This mini-book is a complete guide to transforming your student group work in less than one week. Many teachers struggle to manage their cooperative learning groups so that students are on-task, productive, and engaged in deep academic conversation. Students can be loud, silly and off-task. Student work can be slack or unfinished. Some students can do all the work while others do nothing at all. This guide has a simple to follow and step-by-step plan, complete with pre-made student checklists, p
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4th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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