Featured Seller: Rachel Lynette

1.   How long have you been on Teachers Pay Teachers?  What made you decide to be a part of it?

I have been selling on TpT almost from the beginning of the site back in 1996. I found out about the site from a Craig's list Ad and immediately saw the potential. Since I have always enjoyed creating activities for my students, I decided to give it a try.

2.   When did you know that you wanted to be in education?

Very early actually. I remember painting a juice can in preschool (seriously!) and thinking, I want to be a teacher when I grow up. I never really swerved from the idea.

3.   How are you currently involved in education?

I no longer have a classroom of my own. After my first child was born, I did teach part time for awhile, but once my writing career took off, I realized that I wanted to write full time. Currently, I write nonfiction children's books for the school and library market as well as teacher resources. I have over 100 published books.

4.   What would be your advice to people who are considering joining Teachers Pay Teachers?

I think it is totally worth doing IF you are willing to put in the time to create quality products. It takes a fair amount of work to make something you have used in the classroom useful for other teachers and worth paying for.

5.   What has been a highlight, thus far, about being on Teachers Pay Teachers?

It is hard to find one specific one...

-when I get a really great comment from someone who has found value in what I have created

-A year or two after I joined, Paul featured my First Week product at the start of the school year and I made $1000 in just a few days, that was amazing (before the weekly newsletters).

-Hitting 20K is pretty cool.

6.   What is something fun about you that other teachers don’t know?

I have, in my adult life, made several macrame owls (circa 1975). 

7.   Do you participate in education outside of the classroom?  In what type of role?

Not beyond my writing and helping my own kids navigate through high school.

8.   What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?

I would love to be an artist or to write a best-selling work of fiction.

9.   What profession would you not like to do?

Anything boring/repetitive or that requires me to be outside in cold weather for extended periods of time.

10.                Who is your favorite author?  Favorite educational author?  And why?

         Not sure how to pick a favorite. Lately I am into memoirs, so Elizabeth Gilbert is a favorite. Also I really enjoyed Janna Cawrse's Motion of the Ocean.

Don't read much professionally these days. I do read middle grade and young adult fiction from time to time. I thought the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins was brilliant.

Please tell us about two of your unique educational creations that you are proud of.  (Please limit responses to four sentences for each).  Please include a link

- Literature Worksheets is one of my favorites because it is the first product I created for TpT. It held the number 1 Most Sold slot for a couple years and is currently at number 4. I am proud of it because it is a highly useful and versatile resource for teachers and because it facilitates creative and critical thinking about literature.

Literature Worksheets

- Cooking Projects for Kids - Yummy Single Serving Recipes in Pictures!  This is one of my favorites because it was fun to create and I know from experience and from the feedback I have gotten that kids love cooking with this kind of recipe. I developed and tested each recipe myself. This my only real resource for younger kids. 

Cooking Project for Kids

Thursday Round Up #7

Welcome to this week's Thursday Round Up! More great deals to be found with these terrific teaching resources - all on sale till Saturday night! As always, these selections span the grade levels and subjects, so there is something for everyone. There are some great St. Patrick's Day Activities as well as some super resources for math, science, and literature.

If you haven't checked out Monday's article on Teacher Communication, be sure to scroll down. It is worth a read!

Find it First! St. Patrick's Day gameboards for ANY class!  grades 1-12  
Find it First!" game boards can truly be used by ANY grade level & ANY content area to help students review!  Just fill in the images with whatever you need to review and the game boards are ready to go!  Check it out! 
LaProfesora

Fairy Tales grades 2-5
All fairy tale units and lessons are on sale.  Cinderella, Yen-Shen, Rapunzel, Goldilocks, Little Red Riding Hood, all are part of this week's round up. 
Rosshalde Pak 

22 Graphic Organizers for Any Book grades 3-8
Graphic organizers are great tools for analyzing literature. In addition, they are highly motivating for students. With that in mind, I designed these with inviting shapes and easy-to-understand formats. Each graphic organizer is ready-to-use and includes student directions.
Rachel Lynette

Midpoint Lesson Plan: Use midpoints to find segment lengths grades 9-12
Students will be engaged in hands-on and minds-on learning with this lesson that develops the concept of the midpoint of a segment.  Included activities help build up the concept slowly, so that students will ultimately be able to set up algebraic equations in order to find lengths of segments.
This lesson integrates several literacy strategies including writing to learn activities and graphic organizers.
Melissa Case

Spanish Food Oral Partner Speaking Listening Activity Comida grades 7-12
Use a real life situation that students could find themselves in in the future where they must follow someone's directions in Spanish. Have the students work in pairs where they must listen to the partner give them directions on where to place food pictures. You can certainly edit the sentences to use specific vocabulary, verbs, and grammar structures you are currently studying in your food unit. Includes directions on how to use this in class. 
Justin-B

Chapter Book Reading Strategies Activities grades 3-8
This product starts off with a welcome video that gives tips for how to use in your classroom! A GREAT way to integrate 12 vital reading strategies, multiple intelligences, and authentic assessment! All 60 activities can be used with ANY chapter book! 
Charity Preston

St. Patrick's Day Sight Word Practice grades PreK-1
This resource allows students to practice 30 sight words! It includes a sight word game with 2 sets of cards for different levels of play and 2 practice sheets where students read the word, cut and glue letters to spell the word, then write it. Best of all, an alphabet set with shamrocks is included for cutting, gluing, and spelling!
Teacher Tam

Holiday and Season Slides to Greet Your Class, 2011-2014 grades K-4
Be prepared with welcoming slides for holidays, special days, and the changing of the seasons for 2011-2014.  All dates are listed on the  slides, most have animation, and all are highly illustrated.
Wise Owl

Black History Bundle Activity Set grades 3-8
Set includes a 40 slide PowerPoint about Black history and those who have changed America, a Black History Wonderful Cut & Paste activity that goes with the PowerPoint, a Black History Word Find, and A Black History Jeopardy Game!!! A great activity set to get your students engaged and learning about Black History!
Tech Girl

St. Patrick's Day Bingo Activity grades 3-5
This is a 9-page document that includes a blank St. Patrick's Day BINGO card, a word list for students, and word lists for the teacher to use when calling out words. It also includes an activity about What is St. Patrick's Day with an answer key.
Wise Guys

MYSTERY numbers & shapes math PUZZLES -GEOMETRY, PLACE VALUE, DECIMALS grades 4-6
Here are 6 (2-sided) sets of fun, challenging ""Who Am I?"" math problems.
Includes 3 sets of mystery number two-sided sheets,  2 two-sided sets of ""Who Am I?"" mystery shape problems, and 1 set of problems with decimals. These products are also sold separately or in other activity collections at my TPT store. 
Patrick Shaffer

Past Tense Irregular Verbs grades 1-3
This colorful and interactive PowerPoint will help your students tackle past tense irregular verbs.  
Dijobaker

St. Patrick's Day Vocabulary and Writing Activity grades 3-8
A fun and unique way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day - students pick "Lucky Charms" with themed words on them to incorporate into a poem or story. All templates and materials included!! 
Addie Williams

Lab: The Effect of Antiseptics and Disinfectants on Bacterial Growth grades 6-10
One of the best things about taking a biology class is growing bacteria. All students love it! In this lab students will grow soil bacteria in a Petri dish.  Various antiseptics and disinfectants will be tested to determine their effectiveness in controlling the growth of bacteria.
Science Stuff

St. Patrick's Day Multiplication Learning Center  grades 3-5
Luck of the Irish takes on multiplication with printable shamrock learning center! The direction sheet, shamrocks with 0-12 (and a few blank shamrocks), multiplication fact family sheet, and a leprechaun hat picture are all included in this learning center download.  
BeverlyTeacher

Figurative Language Resources for Language Arts
This 35 page resource contains various activities for you to use while teaching the literary element of Figurative Language (alliteration, hyperbole, idiom, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, and simile). This resource includes: a set of 7 mini-posters, bookmarks, a full page of activity ideas, a full page of reading response prompts, a page of internet resources, and a book list. It also contains 2 different oral language activities, many different reading and writing graphic organizers, two ready-to-use assignments and rubrics, and a quiz (answers included).
Runde's Room

Writing Workshop Resource K-2 classroom 
Here is a 45+ page resource to be used during writing workshop for the whole year in grades K, 1, and 2.  It includes graphic organizers, planning sheets, lined paper, and celebration sheets.  Many of the pages were developed to support mini-lessons from Teachers College.
Workshop Classroom

Think Tank Questions grades 2-6
Think Tank Questions encourage students to use critical thinking skills such as inquiry and reasoning while urging them to gather information and assess answers based on their experience and/or prior knowledge. This 14 page handout contains 46 sample questions, and most subject areas are included. Answers are provided for those questions which have a specific answer. For most of the questions, the answers will vary based on a student’s experience or prior knowledge.
Scipi

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Sellers, be sure to get your product submitted for next week. Remember, any TpT seller is welcome as long as you put your product on sale for 3 days. Here is the handy-dandy form.

Communication: An Educator’s Greatest Tool for Student Success

Communication is an essential part of our everyday lives. As educators, we understand that communication between school and home can be one of the most powerful tools that we use to ensure student success.

            Educators face the daily challenge of building a community of learners in their classrooms, even though these learners come from a variety of backgrounds. Effective home-school communication is one way that we can level the playing field for our students. By providing equal access to important information, we never have to worry about someone being left out.

            What are some ways that we can communicate between home and school? Our new digital era has provided wonderful tools such as wikis, blogs, Twitter, web pages, and email as ways to share information; however, does everyone have equal access to these forms of technology at home? In some areas, this may certainly be the case, but in others there may be a significant number of families who are out of the loop. This creates a communication gap that provides yet another hurdle to teachers who are trying to keep their students’ families informed.

            So how do we close the communication gap? First, we must know our students and their families. Through the use of surveys and interest inventories, we can find out a tremendous amount about the home life of our students and the access to technology they have. If your school collects email addresses from families at registration, then you can send out an email invitation to complete an online survey. There are many free online survey sites, but I have found Survey Monkey (www.surveymonkey.com) to be an easy site to use and share. Providing online and paper copies of the same survey insures that no one is left out of this information gathering process.

            Our next step in closing the communication gap is providing as much information as we can in as many formats as we can. Many teachers send home paper newsletters each week or month to keep their families informed of school happenings. How about posting that same information on a class wiki or blog? A weekly email blast with the newsletter attached and important information highlighted in the message is another great way to share what is going on in your classroom. I currently have a class wiki and a Teacher Web account (as our digital scrapbook). I also send home weekly newsletters and occasional email blasts to keep my families informed. It’s important to print out any emails you send to your entire class and send them to those families who do not have access. One way to manage this task is to give yourself (and any volunteers or student helpers) a visual guide to which students need paper copies. To do this, you can use a sticker on the folders or “mailboxes” that you use for sending home papers, to show which students need the paper copies.

            Don’t forget that communication goes two ways. Make sure your parents have several ways to contact you. Have you thought about generating a QR Code containing your contact information? You have probably seen these blocky-looking bar codes around. Apps are available for many smart phones which allow the user to scan the code and get the information. When you generate a QR code with contact information, many of the apps will even open up your contacts to allow you to save all of the information quickly. Include your contact phone number at school, your email address, the school’s mailing address, and your blog or web page. This would be a good thing to share at your open house or registration day. Of course, you’ll want to provide this information in regular text as well for those who are not equipped. An easy QR code generator can be found at zxing.appspot.com/generator, and a good basic QR code reader app is Red Laser, which is available for iPhone and Android.

            Lastly, communication is an ongoing process that will only get better as you use it more. You have to stay up-to-date with your district’s communication policies and allowable practices, but don’t be afraid to try out new forms of communication. I just found out about Eye Jot (www.eyejot.com), which is a free video email service. Using your webcam, you can produce a simple video message then send it out to your contacts. Everyone may not have email, but you may be able to produce a similar video and burn it to a DVD to send home with those who don’t. A similar tool, FotoBabble (www.fotobabble.com), allows you to load a photo, or a series of photos, and add audio commentary. You can also tag images with “hotspots” that link to related web pages. Imagine having each child record a sentence or two about a class project, or even capturing a photo of a note passed in class with an audio message to Mom and Dad! Depending on your district’s policies, you may be able to achieve a similar result with text messaging. The non-technology equivalent would be to print a photo with a quick typed message underneath.

            Though it may add a little extra to our already-busy workload, effective communication is a great way for teachers, students, and their families to stay on the same page. It may even save you time in dealing with miscommunications or confused parents! The products below may save you more time in organizing your home-school communication.

John Blake, Ed.S.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/John-Blake-14/Products

Additional TPT Products

• Student Performance Notes     
• What to say, to help your child read
• Parent Handbook Template
• Parent Conference in English & Spanish
• Home & School Communication Book
•  Teacher Conference Notes
•  Family Communication/Contact Log

Thursday Round Up #6

Welcome to Weekly Round up #6. Once again we have a wide variety of teaching resources all on sale for three days only!


St. Patrick's Day Math & Literacy Activities grades 1-2
Have fun learning during the month of March with this St. Patrick’s activity packet. This packet includes 25 pages of math and literacy activities to use with 1st and 2nd grade students.
Teacher Gone Digital

St. Patrick's Day Numbers Game grades K-1
Celebrate St. Patrick's day while playing with these four-leaf clover math puzzles. Each clover represents a number, and students put the clover together by matching numerals with number words and corresponding groups of four-leaf clovers. There are 10 clovers in all, divided into forty cards, and this game can be done in small-groups, as a whole-group activity, or placed in math centers.
FlapJack Lapbooks

St. Patrick's Day - Leprechaun Emergent Reader grades K-2
Kindergarten,first and second grade students can strengthen their emergent reading and writing skills as they celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Great for guided reading or as a literacy station activity.  Two formats are included - a mini-book to print, fold and staple and a larger version in which the students can write their own text. Both versions include the cover and 8 pages.
D Conway

Homophones:  Lessons, Homework, Tests, Writing grades 4-8
This eighty-six page resource covers thirty-one sets of commonly used (and misused!) homophones (sixty-six individual words).   Each lesson is organized in sets of sentences that can function as instructional examples, homework, and a test.  Students will also use the words in original sentences and in compositions.  Comulative tests are included along with full answer keys.
Margaret Whisnant

Math Enrichment Worksheets - 22 Pages with Answer Keys grades 3-6
TpT Top 50 Product! This is a bundle of 22 challenging and fun math activities. These activities reinforce basic skills in fun and interesting ways. Most require some logic or critical thinking. They can be used as supplemental materials with an entire class, with highly capable students, at a math center, or as homework
Rachel Lynette

16 Reading Worksheets to Use with Any Picture Book or Short Story grades 3-8
"This pdf file contains 16 reading worksheets & activities that can be used with and fiction picture book or short story. Most of the worksheets can zbe used with novels as well. You can use them for the whole class or small groups (book clubs).
Lisa Frase

Find it First!  grades 1-12
It's such a simple concept, and SO much fun! I've played this game with elementary students and high schoolers alike, and they just love it! (The high schoolers are pretty funny-- they love to feel like a kid again!)
Here are just a few ideas to try with the gameboards: -Time -Vocabulary Words -Numbers -Conjugated  verbs -Math problems
LaProfesora

Holiday and Season Slides to Greet Your Class, 2011-2014 grades K-4
Be prepared with welcoming slides for holidays, special days, and the changing of the seasons for 2011-2014.  All dates are listed on the  slides, most have animation, and all are highly illustrated.
Wise Owl

Middle Ages - Package of 5 Engaging and Fun Projects grades 4-10
A collection of some of my BEST SELLERS on TpT - Everything you need for 5 great projects to use during a Middle Ages Unit.  Can easily be adapted to different ages ranges / abilities! 
Addie Williams

Let's Make Words! Short Vowel Word Family Literacy Station Activities grades K-2
Working with word families is an effective way to get kids reading and help them learn to decode longer words. This book can be used in a variety of ways, to make learning to read a hands-on experience. This book is packed with 65 different word families to get your students well on their way to becoming awesome readers!
Hilary Lewis

Checklist for a Foolproof Field Trip grades PreK-8
Field trips can be a valuable educational experience with some prior planning. This two page checklist helps you think through the critical details while not neglecting the key components that provide an educational and safe experience for both you and your students. The checklist is divided into eight main categories.  Simply place a checkmark in one of the three response columns as you plan – "Yes", "No, but Should Have", and "Not Needed".
scipi

March Reading Writing and Math Ideas grades  grades 3-5
March is full of fun events: Read Across America Celebration, St. Patrick's Day and even the NCAA Basketball Tournament. This 36 page activity packet is full of great ideas for those special events.
Wise Guys

Preschool, Kindergarten, & First Grade Reading & Math Games--
These games are a great way to connect with parents.  I send them home so students get extra skills practice in a fun way while parents get to see what their child is working on at school!  This collection includes 11 math games and 12 reading games.  Check out the "download preview" for a FREE sample reading game! 
Teacher Tam

Viruses and Bacteria Powerpoint with Notes for Teacher and Student grades 7-10
This powerpoint is on “Viruses and Bacteria”. It consists of 58 slides that are colorful, informative and visually stimulating. Pictures and diagrams are included that will greatly enhance your instruction to your students. This product also includes a set of notes for the teacher (10 pages) and a set of notes for the student (12 pages).
Science Stuff

Spanish Conversation Cards - Oral Speaking Activity grades 7-12
Get your beginning Spanish students speaking! Over 168 questions for your students to ask and respond to. Cards to be printed measure 2.75 x 3.8 inches. Divided into 8 topics covered in Spanish I and makes a good review in Spanish II.
Justin-B

Probability PowerPoint grades 1-3
This highly engaging power point will help your students learn the concept of probability in a variety of ways. (One of my best sellers)
dijobaker

EQUIVALENT FRACTIONS Card Game Math practice activity - Fraction Match grades 4-6
This is a 24-card game for practicing identifying pairs of equivalent fractions. Kids spread out the cards and take turns trying to find equivalent pairs. Kids can check the cards' backs to see if they are correct! Afterwards, students can complete the accompanying worksheet, recording all of the pairs they found and writing multiplication and division rules for each pair.
Patrick Shaffer

Plants Reader's Theater Script grades 2-5
Tie fluency and science together with this 4 1/2 page script about plants that is ready to use in your classroom. The script focuses on the parts of a plant, the life cycle of a plant, and what photosynthesis is. The script is set-up for a small group / center, but it can be easily adapted to include more students.
Beverlyteacher

Springtime Math and Literacy Centers: Grades 3 and 4
Catch spring fever with these colorful and engaging springtime math and literacy centers! All centers are "laminate-and-cut" style and can be used year after year in your classroom. Skills include: addition, multiplication, contractions, prefixes, suffixes and more!
Shelley Gray

Spring Making Words Lesson grades 5-8
This is a spring themed making words lesson. All words are derived from the mystery word "precipitation" and are based on certain word families. The resource includes a worksheet for students, an answer key and word cards placed in presentation order.
Terry-Lynn McLeod

That's it for this week. If you submitted a product and it isn't here, it means that you didn't turn in your form soon enough to make this week's Round Up. Look for your product in next week's Round Up. We have several products ready to go for next week, but there is still room for more. If you would like your product to be included, just fill out this super easy, handy-dandy form. All TpT sellers are welcome to participate and new sellers are especially encouraged to submit. 

Special Needs Students

As a Special Education teacher, I struggle every day with how to best accommodate students with learning disabilities in the regular education setting.  With more and more districts pushing for full inclusion, teachers everywhere are being faced with students with reading and/or math skills that are often several grade levels behind their regular education peers.  How to we provide excellent learning opportunities for students of all abilities in the same class?!?

With that in mind, I thought I’d share 1 quick and easy accommodation I use with my students (all of them, regular education and special education) that seems to have the huge returns as far as their performance, understanding, and just plain enjoyment of being in class goes.  

Guided notes

How do you get a student who can’t read on your grade level to complete a homework assignment of reading 5 pages and taking notes on what he read?  How can you get a student who can’t spell (or who writes illegibly!) to answer comprehension questions in a way that is useful to them and readable by you?

Guided notes can be one solution.  By taking the time to go through the section you want your students to read and giving them guided notes you will be providing your students with an assignment that clearly shows them exactly what you expect them to know.  Struggling readers are able to use the context clues in your notes to help them find the information, advanced students who want to get it all right are assured that they are on the right path, and in the end, you know that if your students have completed the notes – they have an excellent study guide.  It’s an easy way to make note-taking and reading comprehension a bit more accessible for all of your students.

For example, if your goal is to have them read from your text book and then list the 4 main reasons immigrants come to America, what a noun can be, different types of angles, etc.  Then your guided notes might look like a larger version of this:

Name _______________________________________________ Date _____ / _____ / _____ Social Studies Notes:  Chapter 4 Important Vocabulary:  Find the bold words on pp. 33-35.  Add them to the organizer and then complete it with what the word means and what it looks like to you. Vocab Word: What it means: What it looks like to me: Vocab Word: What it means: What it looks like to me: Key Concepts:  Read pp. 33-35, then complete the chart below with the information you learned from your reading. 4 Reasons Why Immigrants Came to America ***************************************************

It might seem overly simple – but some of the best ideas are.  And after years of watching teachers grow frustrated with how long it takes students to copy notes from the board, how students often take notes without knowing what the critical information is, and watching students with learning disabilities struggle with writing legibly, finding the crucial information, and reading the material, I have learned that guided notes can save both teacher and students a lot of grumbling!

I hope that you give guided notes a try if you haven’t yet.  I think you’ll find them helpful.  I know I do!

Meghan Mathis
http:/www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Meghan-Mathis



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Thursday Round Up #5

Welcome to this week's Thursday Round Up! As always you will find a wide variety of terrific TpT teaching resources, all on sale for three days! There is something for everyone, so take a peek!

Patricia Polacco Author Study grades 3-5
This week long author study includes everything you need to teach about Patricia Polacco. The author study includes 5 mini lessons and whole group activities and a Choice Board with 9 different activities that students can complete during their independent reading time on selected Patricia Polacco picture books.
ashleigh

Author's Purpose Mini Lesson for Nonfiction grades 3-8
This ready to go mini lesson (10 page file) includes: (1) a semi scripted mini lesson, (2) nonfiction category cards and examples to use for modeling, and (3) student category cards for reading and sorting (answer key included). All you need to do to prepare is copy & cut (although I recommend laminating the cards for durabilty and future use). Students learn the four types of nonfiction: inform, express, persuade, and instruct.
Lisa Frase

Creative Book Reports grades 3-8
Tired of Book Reports? Here are 15 engaging and fun Book Projects. Each project includes a student handout explaining what to do and a grading rubric.
Rachel Lynette 

President's Day Power Point Lesson and Interactive Quiz grades 1-6
This is a fun 29 slide President's Day Power Point Lesson. It includes information about the history and traditions of President's day as well as information about Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Both February birthdays! Check it out!
PowerPoint Maniac

Poetry Package - 7 Great Assignments to Engage and Involve Students grades 4-10
Some of my best selling items on TpT all bound together into one package of "Poetry Awesomeness".  Seven great poetry assignments that I've had success with in the classroom. Can be adapted to different grades easily - just change the amount of output required from each student.
Addie Williams

Character Tags Literature or History Activity grades 6-12
 If you need a fun way to review characters or historical figures, use this character "tags" activity. Students make comparisons with characters from pop culture and defend their choices. It promotes critical thinking and creativity.
Tracee Orman

Seasons of the Year Lapbook File Folder Fun grades K-3
Explore the seasons of the year with this file folder activity filled with mini books, games, flashcards and more. Use in centers or have students create their own as a portfolio to share with their family and review what they have learned in the classroom. A detailed instruction guide with helpful links and visuals is provided.
FlapJack Lapbooks

March Writing Center grades 2-5
This ready to use writing center includes 24 writing activity cards with topics appropriate for March. Print, cut and put in a basket (or small black leprechaun’s kettle) and allow students to choose a topic to write about. Increase verbal expression by using these cards as oral discussion cards too. Erin Go Bragh!
SunnyDays

Listening Journal Activities grades 4-8
The listening activities in this 12 page booklet can be used in conjunction with a unit of study into any music style/genre. Music is the universal language, so you will be able to find music to tie in with whatever theme or unit you are presenting to your students. There are activities to suit various age levels.
Aussie Music Teacher

15 Spanish 1 Projects grades 7-12
15 Projects for the Level 1 Spanish Class including Group Projects, Individual Projects, Projects for the Main Themes of all Spanish I textbooks (Expresate, Realidades, Avancemos, etc.) such as food, family, school, clothing, doctor, and more. A Majority of the projects include rubrics for easy grading and clear expectations.
Justin-B

Making Generalizations Smartboard Lesson grades 1-3
This 16-slide Smartboard lesson will help your students understand what generalizing means. It provides an explanation, some practice passages and a link to an online story.
dijobaker

Science Made 4 Middle School (4th-8th)
Includes 11 super fun labs with teacher pages and student lab sheets!!!  All on Sale!!! Check it out!
Tech Girl

Beginning Spanish Reading Comprehension - Cognates! grades 6-12
Students practice their reading comprehension abilities and keep that ""Affective Filter"" (Krashen) open!  Students gain confidence in their reading abilities when they can recognize words and make connections between English and Spanish.
LaProfesora

Kindergarten Sight Word Cut and Glue Sentences grades PreK-1
These cut-and-glue sentences provide sight word practice for students, as well as the opportunity to improve cutting and gluing skills. Such a simple concept, but it's great sight word practice for 30 words!
Teacher Tam

Let's Learn to Use and Build A Dichotomous Classification Key grades 7- 10
In this product students will learn why classification is necessary, the definition of a dichotomous key, and how to use a dichotomous key.  Students will analyze the included pictures of 7 different cone-bearing plants, using the included dichotomous key to classify them.   Finally students will learn to construct a classification key of their own.  Students are given pictures of 12 different primates and asked to make their own classification key.
Science Stuff

Lesson Plan Templates (3) that are Simple and Easy to Use all grade levels
This handout includes three lesson plan templates - a generic lesson plan and two specifically designed for mathematics (elementary or secondary) and reading. Checklists are featured on all three plans; hence, there is little writing for you to do. Example of the various checklists are: Bloom’s Taxonomy, multiple intelligences, lesson types, and cooperative learning structures.  Simply, look at your lesson plan, and then check off what it includes
scipi


Sailing Through Expanded Notation Learning Center  grades 3-5
There are 15 boats with numbers written in either standard notation or expanded form. Students use the recording sheet to write the answer in either standard notation or expanded form. It is simple center that is easy for your students to use independently or in a small group to reinforce this skill. 
Beverlyteacher 

Individualized Spelling Program for Treasures Reading 2nd Grade
After 17 years of teaching spelling to my students, I have finally found the system that works perfectly for my students! I've paired an individualized spelling program with the word lists found in the Treasures Reading Series (2nd grade) to create a dynamic spelling experience for my students; each word list has also been supplemented with a list of challenge words that are in the same word family, thus allowing more advanced spellers a chance to have their own words. This is a 36-week program that will take you through the entire school year!
John Blake


Rocket Lab Report grades 3-6
Students will love cutting, coloring, and assembling this oversized lab report almost as much as you will love having a bright and beautiful display for your bulletin board. Use this lab report for any force and motion lab. It even comes with a rubric for teacher and student self-evaluation.
techedoutteacher

Main Idea and Detail Game - Hey, What's the Big Idea? grades 2-12
Hey, What’s the Big Idea? is a wonderful word game that helps strengthen language processing, word retrieval, and organizational abilities. It develops students’ understanding of main ideas and details – a fundamental of reading and writing! This game can be played individually, cooperatively or competitively.
erica77

EQUIVALENT FRACTIONS Card Game Math practice activity - Fraction Match grades 4-6
This is a 24-card game for practicing identifying pairs of equivalent fractions. Kids spread out the cards and take turns trying to find equivalent pairs. Kids can check the cards' backs to see if they are correct! Afterwards, students can complete the accompanying worksheet, recording all of the pairs they found and writing multiplication and division rules for each pair.
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