This is an awesome packet of ten slides to help students with writing skills specifically linking words and phrases in their writing. This is the perfect resource for the language arts classroom when teaching the writing process. This resource can be placed above the white board as a reference tool or on a bulletin board.

This is a packet of six mini-posters which presents six comprehension strategies for readers. These mini-posters can serve as a great bulletin board or placed above the white board for easy reference. Strategies include: making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, synthesizing, and determining importance.

This simple comprehension strategy is sure to help each of your students answer open-ended questions. This is a set of three mini-posters each with a component of the comprehension strategy ~~ ANSWER ~~ CITE ~~ EXTEND. Use these mini-posters as references when students are working at constructing answers to comprehension questions with clarity as they make sure that they answer the questions being asked, cite evidence in how they derived their answer, and then finally how they extend their answer to include examples from their prior knowledge and personal experiences! Use these reference mini-posters, they are sure to ACE an awesome response!

In this set of mini-posters, you will find four posters for each of the basic operations– addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. On each mini-poster, there are key words that serve as cues for the students when trying to persevere and solve math word problems and develop habits of mind for the Standards for Mathematical Practice. These posters are the perfect size for a bulletin board or placement right above the white board to reference to as one is teaching! The posters are designed to be eye-catching and definitely engage the students!

This resource is a great icebreaker for welcoming each child back to school and it will also help to establish a community of learners in your classroom. Students will enjoy decorating these t-shirts with unique personality characteristics about them, illustrate, color, and then attach them to a clothesline already hung in the classroom. Get some really colorful clothespins to attach them to the cord serving as the clothesline! There are three different types of reproducible t-shirts included for the students to have a choice. One of the t-shirt patterns has established lines for those students who choose to write about themselves instead of draw, color, and illustrate important things about them! Kids will have a blast!

This is a packet of mini-posters for the “rules of the rug!” Young children in preschool, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and even first grade will delight in learning the “rules of the rug!” Teach them the rules and procedures and they will not forget them all year! You will find seven mini posters with eye-catching borders that are sure to grab the attention of the learners!

This resource is perfect for the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Enclosed you will find five pages of a short narrative story that has a certain rhyme and rhythm to it that students will enjoy! It is a story told from a young girl’s point of view about how she wishes for a horse for Christmas. She is reminded in the story that she will still have a great Christmas even if she doesn’t get a horse; however, she is convinced that one secretly hides in the barn for her. Her mom reminds her about many other children whose parents might very well be away for Christmas. This is a very old Christmas story and was published through Scholastic in 1968. Again, the students will love many teaching and learning activities associated with the story! This story lends itself to several teaching and learning endeavors such as: (1) the use of personification; (2) great vocabulary instruction; (3) sequencing; (4) point of view; (5) Descriptive Writing; (6) research and investigation of several different states discussed in the story; (7) the use of similes to make comparisons; and (8) making predictions about what will happen next in the story based on the context clues provided! Have a great time with your students! And… Merry Christmas!

This resource is perfect for the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Enclosed you will find five pages of a short narrative story that has a certain rhyme and rhythm to it that students will enjoy! It is a story told from a young girl’s point of view about how she wishes for a horse for Christmas. She is reminded in the story that she will still have a great Christmas even if she doesn’t get a horse; however, she is convinced that one secretly hides in the barn for her. Her mom reminds her about many other children whose parents might very well be away for Christmas. This is a very old Christmas story and was published through Scholastic in 1968. Again, the students will love many teaching and learning activities associated with the story! This story lends itself to several teaching and learning endeavors such as: (1) the use of personification; (2) great vocabulary instruction; (3) sequencing; (4) point of view; (5) Descriptive Writing; (6) research and investigation of several different states discussed in the story; (7) the use of similes to make comparisons; and (8) making predictions about what will happen next in the story based on the context clues provided!

The RAFT strategy is a great strategy for being able to differentiate instruction in terms of content, process, and product. It is that time of the year again in terms of reading the famous classic ~ A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. During the reading of or after, the students have read this great classic, allow them to utilize the RAFT strategy where they get to make a choice in each column of the activity. They decide from what perspective they will write from, whom they will write to, in what format they will write, and what will be their topic.

This is a packet of three mini posters. These posters can serve as aids for encouraging students to make connections to the world, to the text itself, and to themselves while reading; henceforth, text-to-world connections, text-to-text connections, and text-to-self connections. These mini-posters are a perfect fit above a whiteboard to make reference too as the class is reading or working on an assignment with literature and informational text!

This is a set of ten mini-posters with a math strategy for students to use as they employ the “Standards for Mathematical Practice” on each poster. These posters are perfect to place in a math classroom above the white board for easy reference. When students are stuck on a step in a math computational problem as well as a word problem, they can utilize these mini-posters with the strategies on bright colored paper for easy reference! A must for any math teacher!

This packet contains a set of nine mini-posters which display each element of literature. Elements include: plot, setting, theme, characterization, conflict, mood, style, tone, and point of view. The mini-posters are the perfect size to display above a whiteboard in a reading/language arts classroom.

Use these simple mini-posters to teach story retelling in a very simple way! These posters cover key concepts while teaching students a simple way to think about retelling a story with these key words and key questions! Utilize these as a teaching tool all year long to reference to daily and weekly in teaching retelling and how to construct a summary of a story!

In this packet, you will find seven great at-a glance reading comprehension strategies mini posters that are a perfect fit above your white board in your classroom. They will also work ideal on a bulletin board. The seven strategies include: predicting, visualizing, questioning, connecting, identifying, inferring, and evaluating. They are all designed with colorful animal print borders!

This is a powerpoint for training and instructional purposes. You will find fourteen slides. Ten of these slides explain homework and study shortcuts that have been proven to be beneficial to upper elementary, middle school, high school, and college students. As well, these strategies have been found to be very helpful with students and adults diagnosed with ADHD. These slides can be used in a focused faculty session, professional development session, or a professional learning community session in working to develop these strategies among teachers to teach students. As well, these slides can be used in working to equip students with these strategies. Finally, these slides can be used in a "Parent University" atmosphere to provide parents with training on the strategies as well.

Show your students there is more than one way to express their words in poetry! In this packet, you will find eight mini posters each featuring a form of poetry to use when teaching each instructional format. Each poster also has an example of the type of poem explained. Students are sure to love writing these forms of poetry about their favorite topics. As well, this could be converted into a fall poetry unit utilizing the awesome fall scenes as springboards for brainstorming. Forms of poetry included are: limericks, diamantes, cinquains, haikus, couplets, acrostics, shapes, and free verse.

This is an awesome list of one hundred fifty January words to use as a springboard for writing in January. These words will aid in narrative, informative, and argumentative writing as well as poetry! This sheet can be given to each student to place in his/her Writer’s Notebook! This is a tool that is sure to improve literacy skills of students! Have fun!

Evidence suggests that children who reverse numbers or letters may have a visual tracking problem that produces dyslexia. Use these “blue bandages” to place under the text or problem that students are working on to help them focus. The “blue bandages” might be placed on a craft stick for more durability or laminated for longer use! This resource packet contains thirty “blue bandages.” Students will be able to focus better on keeping up and tracking as they read with this tool!

In this packet, you will find an awesome classroom management tool for students who are oppositional and refuse to follow directions. Oftentimes, these students fall behind in their academic progress because of challenging behavior. This communication tool is to help increase the chances of these students having a positive response and follow the directions given! The first four pages are the tickets that challenging students can earn for “not wanting to do something but choosing to do it anyway!” The next set of four pages are the tickets that challenging students earn when they “choose to say NO!” This is a great Tier II and/ or Tier III intervention as well!

In this packet, you will find a colorful set of mini-posters to illustrate twenty popular fruits. As young children are learning each fruit, use these mini-posters to illustrate to students what the fruit looks like. This is a great set of mini-posters to post in the classroom above the whiteboard!