In this Paraphrasing PowerPoint, students will learn the difference between writing a summary, paraphrase, and quotation, and the six basic steps to paraphrasing. Includes a practice slide for students to paraphrase, a partner checklist, and a 5 question quick check up on their understanding of paraphrasing, summarizing, and using quotations in their own writing. - Greg Smith

Fact or Opinion PowerPoint Game (20 question slides). Fact and opinion is easy to review when you play this interactive PowerPoint Game! Read about penguins and identify facts or opinions (read each sentence and choose the answer by clicking the correct button). The slides are self correcting and the illustrations are bright and beautiful! Please remember to view the PPT in slide show mode for the animation and sound to work. Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)

Fact or Opinion (PowerPoint and worksheets) - This is a highly visual, interactive and fun introduction to fact or opinion! Students often struggle to distinguish between fact or opinion. This PowerPoint introduces and explains fact or opinion with 52 farm themed slides. Students work through the interactive slides to practice identifying facts and opinions. It's easy to use, you just click and teach! Also included are four worksheets (including a flip flap book) to further reinforce and consolidate fact or opinion. The worksheets are perfect for literacy centers or to send home for extra review. This product is linked to CCSS (W.1.1; W.1.2; W.2.1; W.2.2). Students have to understand fact and opinion before they can write opinion pieces or informative texts. Included: 55 Fact or opinion PowerPoint slides 4 Fact or opinion worksheets (including a flip flap booklet) Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teach)

WHERE AM I IN RELATION TO THE CHEESE? This colorful “Prepositions” poster identifies 10 commonly used English language prepositions that are typically used by a teacher and a student during a typical school day. The poster includes corresponding “action-based” MOUSE AND CHEESE images that compliment the each preposition (picturing the relationship of each mouse to the cheese) which will help students easily relate. The Poster Pack includes 4 different frame colors to match your style. The posters are in a Zip folder with 2 Formats- PDF and JPEG (originally set for 8 ½ by 11 sheets) but they can easily be copied on a school or store Poster-Maker to convert to a large sized poster. You can then place it inside your classroom for your students to see and for you to reference while you teach your daily classes. This Classroom Fun Poster is designed for all ages but is best suited for students from Kindergarten through 5th Grade

Printable Writing Rubrics: -Literary Essay -Narrative -Summary -Report of Information Created for Grades 3-5, these blackline masters are formatted to print two rubrics/page for class sets. Rubrics allow teachers to grade fluency in expression of ideas, editing/revising skills, written conventions, and spelling. A section for teacher comments is included at the bottom.

Calendar Classroom Decor (Retro) - You are going to adore this bright and bold retro style calendar decor! Contents: Today / Tomorrow / Yesterday Days of the week Months of the year Weather chart (including temperature clip card) Seasons Calendar numbers 1 - 31 Calendar numbers 1 - 31 (even numbers in orange) Tally the date (laminate and use whiteboard marker) 100 days smarter (laminate and use whiteboard marker) Countdown poster (laminate and use whiteboard marker) Created by Lindy du Plessis (store: Lindy loves to teacch)

Dinosaurs - Non Fiction Resources Dinosaur Bundle: Tyrannosaurs, Raptors, Sauropods, Ankylosaurs, Ceratopsians, Hadrosaurs, Ornithomimids, Stegosaurs, Feathered Dinosaurs, and the comprehensive Dinosaurs . This bundle comes with… - all 10 dinosaur interactive PowerPoint presentations - a short presentation on the geologic time scale - numerous higher level thinking activities - a PDF file with links to suggestions for further learning that a class or individual could do on their own. Websites, videos, non-fiction books, fiction books, and even some cool links to some neat real and replica fossils for your classroom and/or home. These products are valued at a little over $43. SAVE about 40% with this bundle and only pay $25.99. I am available at r_nyg@yahoo.com for any assistance. If you have already purchased one of the products, please be aware that you will be receiving the exact same items for that product. The cover photo's attribution link can be found by Pavel Riha here - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beipiaosaurus.jpg

This set of lesson plans, resources, and activities is for use with “Martin's Big Words” by Doreen Rappaport. It can be used for whole group, small group, and independent instruction – which makes these resources a smart choice for literacy centers or Reader’s Workshop. Here's What You'll Get and Why: My goal was to make it easy to teach readers how to think about “Martin’s Big Words” using a variety of comprehension strategies. That's why I've included page by page lesson plans, guided practice worksheets, and text specific reader's notebook prompts for the following strategies: - Retelling and Summarizing - Making Inferences - Identifying the Author’s Purpose - Asking Questions - Synthesizing I also created an Extension Activity for early finishers. Next, I find that vocabulary instruction works best when it's done within the context of books that students are already reading. That's why I've included the following vocabulary resources: - Vocabulary Word List - Flash Cards (match words to pictures and match words to definitions) - Interactive Vocabulary Notebook Cards - Vocabulary Word Games Printable - Personal Vocabulary Word Bookmark I've also included a word study lesson plan and set of activities, because, much like vocabulary, I find that word study works best within context. As a result, I have identified word patterns within trade books and have developed lesson plans and resources based on the word study that can be done with specific books. The lesson plan and set of resources for “Martin's Big Words” focuses on Beginning Blends and includes the following: - Lesson Plan - Interactive Activity - Practice Page - Independent Word Work This set of resources also includes the following: - Running Record Assessment - Answer Keys - Common Core State Standard Alignment - Spanish translation of the comprehension strategy practice pages, reader's notebook prompts (complete with Spanish Common Core “I Can” statements), and extension activities for use with “Martin's Big Words” - BONUS: Surprise Sample Resource I hope that you will enjoy using my resources along with your copy or copies of “Martin's Big Words” by Doreen Rappaport. If you have any questions about the resources included in this set please email me at AmyMackenzie@BookPagez.com. It will be my pleasure to reply and help you in any way I can.

This template demonstrates the key areas of competence for a teacher. The teacher has assembled a portfolio of resources demonstrating their skill level for each area of competence. The template includes a sample principals report that showcases a teachers roles and responsibilities at classroom, faculty, school and community level.

Universal Studios is at it again... Your students are going to absolutely love this selection. Use this informational text article to “hook them and hold them” for absolute sure! What a better way to practice metacognitive strategies for close reading. This article can be utilized to practice all of the many close-reading strategies that you have worked all year on with your students, which we all know, are life-long reading skills! The selection includes nonfiction information in regards to the new park opening on April 7, 2016, at Universal Studios, in Hollywood. The selection is approximately 750 words long and proves to provide the rigor needed for the complexity that is required of students’ text! At the conclusion of the article, there is a formative assessment (12 questions) that you might use for a teaching opportunity to go over specific skills and how the answer is derived (implicitly or explicitly stated for example) or of course it might be used independently as a comprehension check. There are many, many ways to utilize this selection to suit the needs of your classroom! I hope your students enjoy!

Here is a checklist I have made to help assess children's writing against the new curriculum's expectations. Also a child friendly resource I use with our children during our writing sessions for them to make sure that they are including the features needed to meet the 'expected standard' in the new curriculum. Can also be used as a peer or self assessment tool or even by teachers to check that their children are writing at the expected standard. Please leave feedback. Hope it helps!

Our school newspaper and puzzle pages. This resource provides an example of a school newspaper and includes some of the puzzles incorporated into its activity pages

Fantastic resource pack of fun, creative ideas and lesson activities to inspire children to take part in the 2015 Summer Reading Challenge - Record Breakers - at a library near you, in the summer holidays. This year's theme is based on the Guinness World Records. Pupils of all ages love it! Partner with your local library for this brilliant reading for pleasure initiative. Inspire and encourage your pupils to take part before the holidays and celebrate and reward your pupils who completed the Challenge after the holidays. Great for end of term lessons and lessons with your new class. Keep them reading in the holidays!

Fun, creative ideas and activities to inspire schools, children and families to take part in Animal Agents, the Summer Reading Challenge 2017. There is no other free reading challenge that involves so many children, introduces families to their library, encourages children to choose books freely and independently and is endorsed by parents, teachers and the Department for Education. Pupils of all ages love it! The Challenge is a brilliant reading initiative for your pupils which is free to your school and helps to keep up all the good work that you and your pupils have done during the academic year. Partner with your local library for this well-loved reading for pleasure programme! Inspire and encourage your pupils to take part before the holidays and celebrate and reward your pupils who completed the Challenge after the holidays. Great for end of term lessons and lessons with your new class. Keep them reading in the holidays! • The Summer Reading Challenge is intrinsically inclusive and can contribute to the achievement of all your pupils, including pupils with special educational needs, disadvantaged pupils and the most able • It enhances and supports your school��s reading policy and your mission for all children to read widely and often • It prevents the tendency for children’s reading to dip over the holidays • The Challenge helps to support the social and cultural development of your pupils in a fun, creative and child-directed way, promoting British values • It encourages comprehension skills such as using imagination and empathy to explore a text beyond the page • It develops a growth mindset for children who take part • The Challenge allows children to become more independent in their reading when choosing books • It allows children to master aspects of reading through using pertinent and specific vocabulary when talking about books • The Challenge can help to close the gap for disadvantaged pupils • It takes place at your local library and is a brilliant opportunity for extra curricular activity within your local community, to foster family literacy and home-school links • The Challenge supports the successful transition between year groups and stages It's fun! It's free! It's local!