Teaching Tools
Poetry Reading Response Choice Board
This is a reading response choice board for poetry. These activities are designed to give your students practice with grade level standards related to reading and analyzing poetry. Activities are included for comprehension, analysis of author's craft, and making connections within text and between multiple poems. All TEKS and Common Core standards for poetry are addressed.Author's Craft
Comprehension
Connections
Expository Reading Response Choice Board
Use our Expository Reading Response choice board in your classroom. Use in a center, for homework, or for independent practice time!Narrative Reading Response Choice Board
This is a reading response choice board for fiction texts. These activities are designed to give your students practice with grade level standards related to reading and analyzing fiction. Activities are included for comprehension, analysis of author's craft, and making connections within text and between multiple works of fiction. TEKS and Common Core standards for fiction are addressed.Author's Craft
Comprehension
Connections
3 Minute to Win It Writing Games
This is a game for students to practice their writing skills before writing testing. Students will compete in groups or independently to practice ideas, organization, literary devices, and writing thesis statements. This is a FUN way to prepare for testing! Rigorous practice.Includes all you need to play! All you need is a timer!
Close Reading: Using Songs to Practice Close Reading Packet
Use this week's worth of lessons in your classroom to practice close reading with your students through songs!This product includes lesson plans, Close Reading anchor chart, and suggestions for how to teach the strategy of close reading.
Check out our youtube playlist for songs to use!
Text Structures Anchor Chart
Use this teaching resource to teach your students the way authors organize and plan their writing.Making Inferences Teaching Packet
This product includes all that you need to teach inferences with rigor!Packet Includes:
Anchor Charts
Question Stems
Lessons
Suggested Activities
Mentor Texts
Essential Questions
Key Vocabulary
And Much More!
Making Connections Teaching Packet
Everything you need to teach making connections to the level of rigor needed!This packet includes:
Anchor Charts
Learning Targets
"Look Fors" List
Essential Understandings
Question Stems
and much more!!!
Fluency Lessons Kit
Fluency Lesson Kit (sample)This bundle is meant to be used in a small group setting. RTI, tutoring, interventions, ect. This lesson is a sample from our fluency tutoring kit, which includes the series of lessons.
This kit includes:
Lesson 1
Quick Quotes Game
Game Recording Sheet
Question Stem Cards
Everything you need (besides a timer and your text of choice).
Expository Middle School Writing Rubric
This product is a STAAR ready expository rubric for middle school.Assess on:
The Writing Process
Organizational Progression
Development of Ideas
Use of Language
Use of Conventions
Also has an area for strengths and areas of growth
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