The ability to analyze story elements aids in reading comprehension, leads to a deeper understanding of literature, and helps students develop and write their own stories. As teachers, we want students to understand a story arc or events that happen in the beginning, middle, and end of a story. Students should understand that authors often begin a story by introducing and developing the characters and setting, introduce a conflict and action to build tension and interest, and conclude a story with a climax that resolves the conflict. The goal of this resource is to help your students practice these skills to identify and analyze different story elements.
This resource helps you teach point of view to your students. There are various stories in which the point of view and narrator’s perspective has a dramatic impact on the story.
This resource is designed to help your students develop strategies to understand the meaning of unfamiliar words including using restatements, synonyms, antonyms, inferences, examples, definitions, and the word’s part of speech to determine its meaning.
The purpose of reading paired literature passages is to provide students with an opportunity to compare and contrast different literary elements. With a set of paired literature passages, students can be prompted to find connections and differences in story/plot elements, topics, genres, themes, details, etc.
My Thanksgiving Logic Games resource is a fun activity to give to your students during Thanksgiving (or anytime for enrichment). The games are Thanksgiving-themed and ask your students to solve some problems that might pop up during the holiday.
I created this real-world math project as a fun way to share this fall-time experience with students and help them practice different skills such as analyzing, problem-solving, and math skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and area). Students will complete the seven steps of this resource to create their own cider mill. Each step is a different activity that they must complete.
This Differentiated AREA Exit Tickets resource contains 15 differentiated exit tickets. There are 5 differentiated exit tickets for each grade level so that you can easily meet the needs of your students.
Halloween Logic Games are a fun activity to give to your students during Halloween (or anytime for enrichment.) The games are Halloween-themed and ask your students to solve some problems that might pop up during the Halloween season. The puzzles include a witch who forgot the recipes to her secret brew, children who mixed up their bags of candy, a spider that has spun math webs, a trick-or-treater with a secret map of his neighborhood, guessing their classmate’s costumes, and monsters who forgot their room assignments in the haunted house.
This resource includes everything you will need to practice characters with your students! I’ve included THREE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF EACH PASSAGE for you to easily differentiate in your classroom!
I created this resource to help students read complex texts independently and for a specific purpose. I’ve researched several strategies for close reading and have developed a process that will make your teaching more effective, and help your students develop skills to read for deeper meaning.
The key to building strong writers is to practice early and often—but the key to building a love of writing is to make it fun! With these back to school writing activities, students respond to narrative and persuasive prompts with the aid of writing graphic organizers while goofy prompts about stinky feet, zoo animals as pets, and time travel will get students invested in the writing process. While the prompts emphasize the first few weeks of the school year, you can pull out this resource all year long to make writing a blast instead of a drag.
Back to School | Beginning of the Year Reader’s Theater Plays, Scripts and Poem This resource contains five different back to school reader’s theater scripts for your students to perform.
I created these logic and brain games as a fun activity to give to your students at the start of the year (or anytime for enrichment.) The games are back-to-school-themed and ask your students to solve real-world, first-week teacher problems. Missing bus assignments, mixed-up seating charts, spilled bag lunches, and disorganized student lines are just some of the back-to-school problems they will solve.
This resource includes everything you will need to practice characters with your students! I’ve included THREE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF EACH PASSAGE for you to easily differentiate in your classroom!
**COMPLETE 3rd Grade English Language Arts I can and We can Statement Posters in Kid Language. All the standards have been broken down into kid language for the “I can” and “We can” statements in this 600+ page document.
The 600+ pages include 3 different versions of the large posters:
-1 set with black font, doodle frame, and teal/white polka dot background
-1 set with black font, doodle frame, and black/white polka dot background
-1 set with black font, doodle frame, and white background
**COMPLETE 3rd Grade Math I can and We can Statement Posters in Kid Language. All the standards have been broken down into kid language for the “I can” and “We can” statements in this 400+ page document.
The 400+ pages include 3 different versions of the large posters:
-1 set with black font, doodle frame, and teal/white polka dot background
-1 set with black font, doodle frame, and black/white polka dot background
-1 set with black font, doodle frame, and white background
Christmas Math Logic Puzzles and Whodunit Bundle | Early Finishers Activities 
