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Personal Narrative Checklist ***Best Seller!
Product Description Personal Narrative Checklist cards for students to use while they draft personal narratives. Easy to add to writer's notebooks for a reference.
3rd Grade-10 Weeks of Making Words
Ten weeks of spelling pattern activities for your third graders. In this activity, students build words using known spelling patterns in order to figure out the mystery word. There are three steps to making words: Build, sort by pattern, and transfer to other words. This will help students look for letter patterns and build vocabulary.2nd Grade-10 Weeks of Making Words
Ten weeks of spelling pattern activities for your second graders. In this activity, students build words using known spelling patterns in order to figure out the mystery word. There are three steps to making words: Build, sort by pattern, and transfer to other words. This will help students look for letter patterns and build vocabulary. TEKS 2.2C, CCSS L2.2Reciprocal Teaching Cards
This strategy has students going through the thinking process and then teaching their team about their thinking. It can be used in any content area! This strategy is great for students to reinforce their own learning and allow for deeper understanding of a concept taught. John Hattie identifies reciprocal teaching as having a .74 effect size on student growth!Reciprocal Teaching Role Cards
Reciprocal teaching is a strategy for scaffolding meta-cognition for the reading process. Use these role cards for small group instruction. Have students predict, read, clarify, question, and summarize while the teacher coaches and assesses. This is an excellent strategy for Tier 2 and 3 intervention for comprehension.
Good News Postcards
Good News Postcards are a way to send positive vibes home to your students through out the year! For more info on how to use them with your class, visit @TaplinsTeaching
First Day Reflections
A cute way for students to reflect on their first day of school!
Plus Delta Chart
This is a printable for students to record their Plus + (things they are doing well at) and Deltas (things they want to do better at).
Student Reflections on Weekly Progress
This is a printable that is a quick assessment to see what students have learned and what they want to learn more about.
Reader's Notebook
How can the Reader's Notebook be used for assessment purposes? Here is a rubric describing the key evidence (data) that can be collected from students' written responses to reading.Categories
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