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This free download includes printable black & white AND Google Slides templates to accompany 7 key morphology instructional routines:
Morphological Word Web; Matrices & Word Sums; Cloze Sentences; Morpheme Scramble; Pronunciation Sort; In or Out of the Family?; Parts Card Strategy.
This one-page reference sheet identifies 7 ways that students may choose to organize their notes during research-based tasks.
A handy guide for both teachers and students!
This reference guide lists abbreviations and symbols that are commonly used during note-taking and has been inspired by ‘The Writing Revolution’ (Hochman & Wexler, 2017). The purpose of this guide is to support students in shortening the text they are reading or hearing into concise, easy-to-understand notes.
Research has shown sentence combining to be one of the most powerful instructional methods for teaching grammar.
This resource includes a student-friendly sentence combining anchor chart, and a template that can be used to guide any sentence combining activity.
Want to know more about sentence combining? Read about it in my blog post here!
Do you feel overwhelmed or confused by sentence-level grammar terms? Would you like to develop a deeper understanding of sentence structure? Or perhaps you’d find it helpful to have a reference guide at your fingertips when planning for sentence-level instruction?
If so, this guide is for you!
Also a great resource for parents, paraprofessionals, university students or even older high school students!
Are you noticing that your students need some support adding descriptive details to their narrative writing?
This brainstorming template is a great way to help students combine adjectives with sensory details, creating a bank of descriptive details that writers can refer to throughout the writing process.
Looking for a way to find out more about your readers?
This 3 page reading inventory is the perfect way to learn more about your students’ reading preferences, habits and experiences!
A great resource to use at the beginning of a new school year.
A versatile and highly effective thinking routine template that can be used for a wide range of topics and across many subject areas!
A color version of the template is included, as well as a black-and-white copy for easy printing.
If you are searching for a simple system to help your students organize their research notes, look no further!
This research portfolio template is a great way to support students as they navigate the research process and learn how to organize their note taking according to research questions.
Included in this resource are activities to support a mini unit focusing on Kandinsky's famous artwork, 'Composition VIII'.
Students will learn about Kandinsky through a reading activity and explore how he used geometric elements in the design of his artwork. Children will create their own piece of artwork inspired by Kandinsky's design!
A simple planning and publishing template to support students in writing their own Haiku about Earth.
The publishing template can be cut out and colored to create a fun bulletin board in your classroom to celebrate our beautiful Earth!
A free sample of my ‘Poetry Unit Bundle’.
In this download you will receive classroom posters for Alliteration and Diamante Poetry with ready-to-go printable activities. Also included are introductory activities that you can use at the beginning of a poetry unit!