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April - The Benefits of Bees (Informational Text Set)

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June - Sharks Text Set (Try for FREE here!)

July- Hurricanes Text Set (Informational Text Set)

August - Video Games: Harmful or Helpful? (Opinion Text Set)

September - Homework: Harmful or Helpful? (Opinion Text Set)

October- Bats (Informational Text Set)

November - Paid to Play: Should College Athletes be Paid?

December - Polar Bear Problems (Informational Text Set)

Try the free text set here:

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Monthly Text Sets (Bundle) Print + Google Slides/Forms

Mother's Day Booklet {All About My Mom}

$3.00

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Give the gift of writing this Mother’s Day! This is a printable booklet that comes in 5 versions for Mom, Grandmother, Aunt, Auntie, and also a blank one. There are 6 pages for the booklet and 1 page used for students to gather information about their mom (or grandmother, aunt, or auntie through an interview. This page can be given as homework before students actually make their booklet. The pages are in order the way they should be copied back to back, but includes a cheat sheet.

Multiplication Facts and Strategies Task Cards (3rd Grade) Google Slides & Forms

$4.00 $3.50 Save $0.50

GOOGLE SLIDES + FORMS NOW INCLUDED! We have updated the task cards with a digital option in Google Slides AND Google Forms. Be sure to re-download! There are directions and links inside the PDF :)

This resource includes:

36 Task Cards - These task cards are perfect for a math center, small group, review or test prep.
Answer Sheet
Answer Key

This product is also a part of a Growing Bundle >> Math Task Cards for the Year Bundle (3rd Grade)

Math Task Cards for the Year Freebies

5th Grade
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3rd Grade
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Multiplication Facts and Strategies Task Cards (3rd Grade) Google Slides & Forms

Multiplication Flash Cards, Quizzes, Brag Badges

$3.00

This Product Includes:
• Mini Flash Cards for Basic Multiplication Facts through 10’s designed to hang on a binder ring (I suggest copying on card stock OR laminating)
• 11 Multiplication Quizzes for each set of facts through the 10’s (20 facts on each quiz)
• 1 Multiplication Quiz containing all the facts through the 10’s (100 facts)
• 11 Brag Badges for students after mastering a set of facts and also for mastering all the facts. These could be worn on a lanyard, a binder ring on their backpack, or however you choose. These are in color and can be printed and laminated to last longer or printed on card stock.
• Student Progress Checklist to keep track of students’ quizzes

About this Product:
This is a resource I designed for my 4th grade classroom after realizing most of my students had not mastered their basic multiplication facts. According to the Common Core Standards, students should master these facts by the end of 3rd grade. As many teachers know, this is sometimes not reality. We moved on to bigger and better concepts in my 4th grade classroom. Their lack of mastery of these facts hindered their ability to master multi-digit multiplication and division, factors and multiples, and working with fractions. Thus, this product was born.
This product contains materials to help and motivate your students to master their facts as well as quizzes to assess students’ progress.

The 100 basic facts are broken down into quizzes on each fact set: 1s-10s. So, students can start with their 1s. This would be the first quiz they take. As they pass each quiz, they move on until passing all the individual quizzes and finally All the Facts. Students use the personal mini flash cards to practice facts at home or when they have extra time during class. Having these on a binder ring makes it less likely cards will get lost or scattered. Hopefully.

The Brag Badges can be used as a reward when students pass a test. If copies or printing in color is an issue for you, you could use the colored versions for passing all the facts. With the flash card printables, there are also smaller versions of Brag Badges that students can place on the binder ring.
Additionally, there are flash cards for 11s, 12s, and a couple of challenge multiplication problems just for kicks.

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Multiplication Flash Cards, Quizzes, Brag Badges

Multiplication Properties Posters

$3.00 $1.50 Save $1.50

⭐️ All Math Word Walls are HALF OFF until Monday, July 19th. ⭐️

Empower your students with #mathliteracy with the Properties of Multiplication. This resource includes posters for each of the 5 multiplication properties:

*Zero Property
*Identity Property
*Associative Property
*Commutative Property
*Distributive Property

Each poster comes in 6 different color sets:

*Mix and Match Set (Navy, Lime Green, Orange, Teal, Pink)
*Navy
*Lime Green
*Teal
*Orange
*Pink
*Black

Looking for a different color? That's an easy fix! Email me at help@theliteracyloft.com.

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Happy Multiplying!
- Jessica

Multiplication, Division & Fraction Task Cards {Road Trip Theme}

$3.00

This product comes with 24 Road Trip -Themed Task Cards for practicing multiplication, division and fractions.

They can be printed in color or as grayscale black and white. I suggest laminating the cards and printing on card stock so they will last longer. However, I did not do this and printed on regular 8.5 x 11 and then laminated. This worked perfectly fine if you do not have card stock handy.

After laminating, you can use a book/binder ring to attach the cards. They can then become part of your Math Center as a rotation, small group, tutoring, or for review. Another suggestion for using this is to not expect students to complete all of the cards, especially your struggling students. A blank Answer Sheet is included that students can just write the number for each problem. This is wonderful to use as an early finisher task. If you decided to print, these problems could also be glued in students’ math journal.

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I hope you enjoy this product as much as we did!

Multiplication, Division & Fraction Task Cards {Road Trip Theme}

My 100th Day Book-a printable booklet (Math, Science, Literacy)

$3.00

This is a printable booklet full of Math, Science, and Literacy activities designed for the 100th day of school. The pages are not numbered so that you can pick and choose which activities you would like to use with your students. Also, there is a supply list of things you will need for some of the activities.

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*My Life is A Story {A Personal Narrative Writing Unit}

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My 100th Day Book-a printable booklet (Math, Science, Literacy)

Narrative & Informational Bundle

$24.80

*This bundle has been updated as of 10/9/2016 to include Full Page Writing Anchor Charts to be used in a Writing Binder instead of or in addition to a Writer's Notebook.**

This bundle contains our Narrative & Informational Writing Units. Click the links below or inside the preview to check out the individual units.

*I'm the Expert! {Informational Writing Unit}

Each unit contains ...

*Writing Notebook Anchor Charts

*Anchor Charts for the Classroom or Writing Center

*Rubrics

*Checklists

*Writing Planners

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*My Life is A Story {A Personal Narrative Writing Unit}

Narrative & Opinion Writing Bundle

$24.80

This bundle includes our Narrative & Opinion Writing Units. Click the links below or inside the preview to check out the individual units.

*The Opinion Unit has been updated as of April 26, 2018 to include unit lesson plans and so much more!*

*Opinion Writing Unit

Each unit contains ...

*Writing Notebook Anchor Charts

*Full Size Anchor Chart Pages (for a writing binder)

*Anchor Charts for the Classroom or Writing Center

*Rubrics

*Checklists

*Writing Planners

*Unit Lesson Plans

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Narrative, Opinion, & Informational Writing Bundle

$43.00

***This bundle has been updated as of 1/11/2016 with the new Opinion Writing Charts***

This bundle contains our Narrative, Opinion, & Informational Writing Units. Click the links below or inside the preview to check out the individual units.

Each unit includes:

Writing Mini Lessons
Notebook Anchor Charts + Full Page Anchor Charts
Google Slides/PowerPoint
Writing Activities

Are you looking for something else?

If these units do not include something particular you are looking for, please email us. We are always looking for ways to improve the quality of our products!

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My Life is A Story {A Personal Narrative Writing Unit}

Narrative, Opinion, & Informational Writing Bundle

Narrative, Opinion, & Informational Writing Bundle-JUST the Notebook Charts

$11.00

This bundle contains JUST the Notebook Charts for the Narrative, Opinion, & Informational Writing Unit Notebook Charts. Click the links below to see the full units.

If you are interested in the FULL Writing Bundle click HERE!!!

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Reading and Writing Bundle #1

This bundle includes:

*Informational Writing
*Opinion Writing
*Narrative Writing
*Poetry Reading and Writing
*Reading Notebook Anchor Charts

My Opinion Matters! {An Opinion Writing Unit}

I'm the Expert! {Informational Writing Unit}

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Narrative, Opinion, & Informational Writing Bundle-JUST the Notebook Charts

Newspaper Article Writing Unit {Here's the Scoop!}

$7.00

*A DIGITAL OPTION HAS BEEN INCLUDED FOR GOOGLE SLIDES/GOOGLE CLASSROOM* Be sure to re-download! There are directions and links inside the ZIP File.

This is one of my favorite Writing Units! Writing a Newspaper Article about the community, school, or class is a fun way for students to develop their writing skills, as well as connect with the world around them. The resources in this unit could be used to teach as a class Writing Unit, to create a class newspaper, a school newspaper, or in an after school club. Students will develop informational writing skills which support the Common Core Writing Anchor Standard 2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

This unit is fun for end of the year after testing is all over to remind students that writing is not just test prep and writing essays! Also, you might use this to create a Class Newspaper or Anthology to help preserve the year’s memories. Though this is a unit on writing a Newspaper Article, it could be extended to writing a blog, website article, magazine article, or other type of article. Writing about the news is not as simple as writing for a Newspaper anymore. This is why throughout the resources you may see varying terms such as Newspaper Article, Journalist, Reporter, Feature Article, etc.

What this Product Includes:
There are 3 separate documents included in a zipped file.

*Anchor Charts for the Writer’s Notebook (31 pages) These are half sheets which students can glue in to have the anchor charts at their fingertips.

*Anchor Charts Full Size (same content as above) (20 pages) which can be used:
-as a slide show when teaching the unit
-printed and laminated to post on bulletin board or Writing Center
-printed and put in sheet protectors compiled together on a book/binder rings

I use these charts as a slide show and then also print, put in sheet protectors, then assemble together on a binder/book ring to use when teaching a small group or support writers in working on something specific.

*Unit Lesson Plans- (15 pages) The lessons are brief and to the point to explain how to teach the unit or teaching point for the day. Please know that these lessons are absolutely not the only way the lessons could be taught, but to give teachers an idea if this is a new-to-you unit! They are meant to be in the form of a mini lesson for the Writer’s Workshop model, however are NOT written to those specific guidelines. They are more a general idea of what you would do for that lesson. There is also a page of listed texts and websites that would be useful in teaching this unit. Anything in blue is a clickable link that will take you to that specific website.

The lessons may take longer than one day or less than one day, depending on you and your students. The lessons can be arranged in any way which fits your students. Make these resources your own and most importantly, HAVE FUN!

I hope you have as much fun as we did with this unit!

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Newspaper Article Writing Unit {Here's the Scoop!}

No Prep Packet Bundle 3rd Grade

$60.00 $24.00 Save $36.00

This buncle is ON SALE for $24 (usually $30) through Friday, November 10th.

Each monthly packet contains 60 pages (!!!) of activities that include ELA, Math, Science, & Social Studies. This is a 20 day (4 Weeks) Independent Learning Packet. The packets can be used in the following ways:

sub plans
supplement curriculum
homework
center practice
small group practice
school closings

Please see the table of contents inside the preview for the skills covered. The subjects include ELA (Reading, Grammar, and Writing), Math, Science, Social Studies, and Health.

Answer Keys are in a separate file.
Links and description for digital instructions.

⭐️Please note that there are some overlaps with Science, Social, Studies, Health content for Grades 2-3⭐️

Months that are already inside the bundle:
August - available NOW
September - available NOW
October - available NOW
November - available NOW
December - available NOW
January - available NOW
February- available NOW
March - available NOW
April - available NOW
May - available NOW
June - Summer Learning Packet
July - available NOW

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Nonfiction Reading Tic Tac Toe (Monthly Reading Response)

$3.00

This monthly Reading Tic-Tac-Toe Response is a fun way for students to engage with their nonfiction book while also practicing reading comprehension skills.

Plus, students have a choice. The directions require students to do 3 of the activities per month, but they can earn extra credit by completing additional activities.

Seeing what your students create each month is most of the fun! This is a great way to give your students a way to express their creativity.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions, contacts, or concerns.

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Nonfiction Reading Tic Tac Toe (Monthly Reading Response)

Nouns Task Cards | Distance Learning | Google Slides & Forms

$4.00

This resource is a part of ELA Task Cards Grades 3-5 Bottomless Bundle

This resource includes 36 task cards for Nouns: Plural, Possessive, Common & Proper

36 Task Cards
Answer Sheets
Answer Key
Grades 3-5
Digital Options (Google Slides and Forms)

Standards Addressed:

*This current set of task cards only addresses 3rd Grade standards. However, you may find them useful if you teach 4th and 5th Grade depending on your students' needs.

3rd Grade Standards

L.3.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

L.3.1a Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.

L.3.1b Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.

L.3.1c Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).

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Nouns Task Cards | Distance Learning | Google Slides & Forms

November No Prep Packet 3rd Grade

$5.00

This packet contains 60 pages (!!!) of activities that include ELA, Math, Science, & Social Studies. This is a 20 day (4 Weeks) Independent Learning Packet. This packet can be used in the following ways:

sub plans
supplement curriculum
homework
center practice
small group practice
school closings

Please see the table of contents inside the preview for the skills covered. The subjects include ELA (Reading, Grammar, and Writing), Math, Science, Social Studies, and Health.

Answer Keys are in a separate file.
Links and description for digital instructions.

⭐️Please note that there are some overlaps with Science, Social, Studies, Health content for Grades 2-3⭐️

What’s included in this packet:
ELA
Veterans Day
Read A Poem
Prefix Sort
Suffix Sort
Thanksgiving
The Mayflower Compact
Nouns and Adjectives
Verbs
Adverbs
Irregular Plural
Long E
Digraphs
Problem and Solution
Problem and Solution II
Turkey Life Cycle
R-Controlled Vowels
Abstract Nouns
Ending Sentences
Text Features
Constant Blends

Math
Division’s Not So Tricky
Dining With Division
Fact Families
Turkey Time
Turkey Time II
Turkey Time III
Dinner Time
Ordering Turkeys
Comparing Numbers
Missing Addends
Pilgrim Place Value
Turkey Tables
Turkey Tables II
Pie Shop Problems
Pie Shopping
Rounding Turkeys
Turkeys and Tens II
Write The Number
Food Drive
Trotting Turkeys

Social Studies/Science/Health
Voting
Democracy
The President
Volunteering
Eating Healthy
Thanksgiving Food Sort
Allergies
Asthma
Internet Safety
Caring for Pets
Properties of Matter
Solids, Liquids, & Gases
States of Water
Freezing Matter
Changes in Matter
Cooking & Burning
Changing Matter
How Can We Change Matter?
What is Energy?
Heat Energy

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October No Prep Packet 3rd Grade

$5.00

This packet contains 60 pages (!!!) of activities that include ELA, Math, Science, & Social Studies. This is a 20 day (4 Weeks) Independent Learning Packet. This packet can be used in the following ways:

sub plans
supplement curriculum
homework
center practice
small group practice
school closings

Please see the table of contents inside the preview for the skills covered. The subjects include ELA (Reading, Grammar, and Writing), Math, Science, Social Studies, and Health.

Answer Keys are in a separate file.
Links and description for digital instructions.

What’s included in this packet:
ELA
Finding Main Idea: Spiders
Point of View
Plural Nouns
Writing: Candy Ban
Using a Dictionary
Compare and Contrast: Owls
Bats
Verb Tense
Writing: Party Planner!
Multiple-Meaning Words
Sequencing Events
Pronouns
Contractions
Writing: Creepy Creatures
Context Clues
Reading a Recipe
Shades of Meaning
Verb Tense II
Batty Point of View
Possessive Pronouns

Math
Spider Subtraction
Spider Subtraction II
Spider Sums
Spider Sums II
Use a Picture Graph
Make a Bar Graph
Multiplication Word Problems
Missing Digits
Multiplication Mummies
Multiplication Mummies II
Equal Groups
Model with Arrays
Model with Arrays II
Multiply with 2 and 4
Monster Match
Multiply with 5 and 10
Multiply with a Bar Model
Candy Corn Place Value
Multiply with 3 and 6
Multiply with 7

Science/Social Studies/Health
What is Weather?
Water Cycle
Seasons
How does the sun heat Earth?
Thunderstorms
Tornadoes
Hurricanes
Safety During Severe Weather
Studying Storms
Why do people form governments?
Local Government
State Government
Federal Government
American Symbols
American Flag
Skeletal System
Digestive System
Circulatory System
Muscular System
Nervous System

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Open House Toolbox PowerPoint + Checklists & Forms

$5.00

The Open House Toolbox can ease the prep of Open House so you can focus on getting to know your students and families. The Toolbox includes checklists and forms.

✋ This resource is included in the discounted Back to School Bundle!

What is included?

Treat Tag: Welcome to ___ Grade (Grades 2-5)
Open House Invitation
Sign In Sheet
Parent Conference Sign Up Sheet
Volunteer Sign-Up Sheet
Classroom Checklist (activity for students)
Volunteer Survey
We missed you at Open House sheet
Hopes & Dreams (Students write goals, hopes, and dreams for the school year)

Signs for Paperwork

Sign In
Volunteer
Take One
Donate
Sign Up
Fill Out

Fonts Used (free for personal use)

KG One More

KG Eyes Open

KG Blank Space Solid

Century Gothic

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Open House Toolbox PowerPoint + Checklists & Forms

Opinion Text Set (Bats) | Distance Learning | Google Slides

$6.00

What are monthly text sets?

The monthly text sets are two or more texts based on the same topic. Each monthly text set can be used for both reading and writing. The topic of each text set is high-engaging nonfiction topics. Each text set supports opinion or informational based writing in response to reading.

What is included in each text set?

2 (or more) related informational articles
Reading Comprehension Questions
Writing Prompt to be used with the texts in an essay format
Writing Plan Example
Teacher Example Essay (editable)
Differentiated for Grades 3-5

Bats: Benefit or Bother?

Students read 2 articles and a poem about the positive and negative impact of bats. Using the texts, they write an opinion essay in which they give their opinion about whether bats are a benefit or a bother.

Standard-based reading comprehension questions help you integrate reading while using the same text you are using in writing.

Try the free text set here:

https://theliteracyloft.co/FREETextSet

Check out the Monthly Text Set Bundle and save up! The bundle includes ALL of the text sets that are currently available.

What topics are included for each month?
The topics included are thematically related to that month. However, the text sets can be used at any time of the year based on your needs.

January - MLK (Opinion Text Set)

February - Equality in Education: Thurgood Marshall & Mary Mcleoud Bethune (Informational Text Set)

April - The Benefits of Bees (Informational Text Set)

June - Sharks Text Set (Try for FREE here!)

July- Hurricanes Text Set (Informational Text Set)

August - Video Games: Harmful or Helpful? (Opinion Text Set)

September - Homework: Harmful or Helpful? (Opinion Text Set)

October- Bats (Informational Text Set)

November - Paid to Play: Should College Athletes be Paid?

December - Polar Bear Problems (Informational Text Set)

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Opinion Text Set (Bats) | Distance Learning | Google Slides

Opinion Text Set {College Athletes Debate} + Digital Option

$6.00

Reading and Writing from 1 text set!

What are monthly text sets?
The monthly text sets are two or more texts based on the same topic. Each monthly text set can be used for both reading and writing. The topic of each text set is high-engaging nonfiction topics. Each text set supports opinion or informational based writing in response to reading.

What is included in each text set?

2 (or more) related informational articles
Reading Comprehension Questions
Writing Prompt to be used with the texts in an essay format
Writing Plan Example
Teacher Example Essay (editable)
Differentiated for Grades 3-5

Paid to Play: Should college athletes be paid?
Students read 2 articles about the positive and negative impact of college athletes being paid to play. Using the texts, they write an opinion essay in which they give their opinion about whether college athletes should be paid.
Standard-based reading comprehension questions help you integrate reading while using the same text you are using in writing.

Try the free text set here:
https://theliteracyloft.co/FREETextSet

These text sets go perfectly with the Informational and Opinion Writing Units:

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Check out the Monthly Text Set Bundle and save up! The bundle includes ALL of the text sets that are currently available.

What topics are included for each month?
The topics included are thematically related to that month. However, the text sets can be used at any time of the year based on your needs.

January - MLK (Opinion Text Set)

February - Equality in Education: Thurgood Marshall & Mary Mcleoud Bethune (Informational Text Set)

April - The Benefits of Bees (Informational Text Set)

https://theliteracyloft.co/FREETextSet

June - Sharks Text Set (Try for FREE here!)

July- Hurricanes Text Set (Informational Text Set)

August - Video Games: Harmful or Helpful? (Opinion Text Set)

September - Homework: Harmful or Helpful? (Opinion Text Set)

October- Bats (Informational Text Set)

November - Paid to Play: Should College Athletes be Paid?

December - Polar Bear Problems (Informational Text Set)

Try the free text set here:

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Opinion Text Set {College Athletes Debate} + Digital Option

Opinion Text Set {Homework} | Distance Learning | Google Slides

$6.00

Reading and Writing from 1 text set!

What are monthly text sets?
The monthly text sets are two or more texts based on the same topic. Each monthly text set can be used for both reading and writing. The topic of each text set is high-engaging nonfiction topics. Each text set supports opinion or informational based writing in response to reading.

What is included in each text set?

2 (or more) related informational articles
Reading Comprehension Questions
Writing Prompt to be used with the texts in an essay format
Writing Plan Example
Teacher Example Essay (editable)
Differentiated for Grades 3-5

Homework: Helpful or Harmful?
Students read 2 articles and a poem about the positive and negative effects of having homework. Using the texts, they write an opinion essay in which they give their opinion about whether having homework are helpful or harmful.
Standard-based reading comprehension questions help you integrate reading while using the same text you are using in writing.

Try the free text set here:

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These text sets go perfectly with the Informational and Opinion Writing Units:

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What topics are included for each month?
The topics included are thematically related to that month. However, the text sets can be used at any time of the year based on your needs.

January - MLK (Opinion Text Set)

February - Equality in Education: Thurgood Marshall & Mary Mcleoud Bethune (Informational Text Set)

April - The Benefits of Bees (Informational Text Set)

June - Sharks Text Set (Try for FREE here!)

July- Hurricanes Text Set (Informational Text Set)

August - Video Games: Harmful or Helpful? (Opinion Text Set)

September - Homework: Harmful or Helpful? (Opinion Text Set)

October- Bats (Informational Text Set)

November - Paid to Play: Should College Athletes be Paid?

December - Polar Bear Problems (Informational Text Set)

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Opinion Text Set {Homework} | Distance Learning | Google Slides

Opinion Text Set {Video Games: Helpful or Harmful?} | Distance Learning | Google Slides

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Reading and Writing from 1 text set!

What are monthly text sets?
The monthly text sets are two or more texts based on the same topic. Each monthly text set can be used for both reading and writing. The topic of each text set is high-engaging nonfiction topics. Each text set supports opinion or informational based writing in response to reading.

What is included in each text set?

2 (or more) related informational articles
Reading Comprehension Questions
Writing Prompt to be used with the texts in an essay format
Writing Plan Example
Teacher Example Essay (editable)
Differentiated for Grades 3-5

Video Games: Helpful or Harmful?
Students read 2 articles and a poem about the positive and negative effects of playing video games. Using the texts, they write an opinion essay in which they give their opinion about whether playing video games are helpful or harmful.
Standard-based reading comprehension questions help you integrate reading while using the same text you are using in writing.

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Check out the Monthly Text Set Bundle and save up! The bundle includes ALL of the text sets that are currently available.

What topics are included for each month?
The topics included are thematically related to that month. However, the text sets can be used at any time of the year based on your needs.

January - MLK (Opinion Text Set)

February - Equality in Education: Thurgood Marshall & Mary Mcleoud Bethune (Informational Text Set)

April - The Benefits of Bees (Informational Text Set)

June - Sharks Text Set (Try for FREE here!)

July- Hurricanes Text Set (Informational Text Set)

August - Video Games: Harmful or Helpful? (Opinion Text Set)

September - Homework: Harmful or Helpful? (Opinion Text Set)

October- Bats (Informational Text Set)

November - Paid to Play: Should College Athletes be Paid?

December - Polar Bear Problems (Informational Text Set)

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Click here for the monthly text sets - the perfect companion to the writing unit.

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Opinion Text Set {Video Games: Helpful or Harmful?} | Distance Learning | Google Slides

Opinion Writing Unit (Grades 3-5)

$20.00

Get your students excited about opinion writing! This complete opinion writing unit includes daily lesson plans, notebook charts, mentor texts and more. This unit takes your students through the whole writing process. Students will begin with getting ideas and end with a published piece of opinion writing. The opinion writing lessons included can be used in two ways:

Students get their own ideas for their essay.
Students write based on a prompt.

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✏️What is included in the opinion writing unit?

Unit Lesson Plans
PowerPoint
Notebook Anchor Charts
Full Size Anchor Charts
Teacher Examples
Rubrics & Checklists
Sorts
Mini Word Wall

✏️ About this Product

This opinion essay unit provides basic opinion writing teaching points and resources based on the Common Core Writing Standards for Grades 3-5. The lesson plans are divided into three parts:

1. Basic Teaching Points: Lessons that can be carried from writing a self-selected opinion piece to writing in response to text. These begin with generating ideas and end with a published piece of opinion writing.

2. Bonus (mini) Mini Lessons: Lessons to be used in small group, conferring, or whole group depending on the needs of your students.

3. Writing in Response to Text: Lessons to be used when writing in response to text or a prompt

This unit provides topic ideas and resources for any opinion piece. You could use a text as a basis for the opinion piece or use this unit to simply kick off opinion writing in your classroom. The writing lessons do not need to be taught in the exact order. Also, some of the teaching points you could use as small group lessons if you find that only some of your students need the lesson.

✏️Writing Minilessons:

The minilessons can be skipped, moved around, modified as needed based on your students' needs.

Study a Mentor Text
Getting Ideas
Collect Entries
Writers rehearse
Reasons and Evidence
Structure of Opinion Writing
Make a Plan Using Boxes & Bullets
Using Transition Words
Hook the Reader (Opinion Statement)
Reason Paragraph (Planner to Paragraph)
Precise Word Choice
Expert Words (Domain-Specific Vocabulary)
Elaboration
Craft a Conclusion
Revise: Eliminate Unnecessary Words
Edit
Polish & Publish

Bonus Minilessons

18. Strong, Bold Thesis Statements

19. Addressing the Audience's Concerns

20. Address Counterclaims

21. When, Why, How to Use Transitional Words and Phrases

22. Choosing Convincing Reasons

23. Endings: Restate Opinion + Call to Action

24. Strong Evidence

25. Color Code the Text to Identify the parts of an essay

26. Using repetition

Writing in Response to Text

27. Unpack the Prompt

28. Close Read a Text to Collect Evidence

29. Use Charts and Text Features as Evidence

30. What Makes Strong Evidence?

31. Citing Text Evidence

✏️ PowerPoint:

For each lesson above, PowerPoint slides are included that can be used to model and teach the lesson.

✏️Notebook Charts/Binder Charts for Students (see full list below):

For each lesson, a notebook chart is included to support student learning.

✏️ More Writing Resources Included:

Rubrics & Checklists
Graphic Organizers
Mini Word Wall
Reasons + Evidence Sort
Teacher Example Essay + Planning
Mentor Text Recommendations
Publishing Paper

✏️ Writing Notebook Anchor Charts

The anchor charts included in this product are meant for students to have anchor charts at their fingertips in their Writer’s Notebooks. I don’t know about you, but wall space is always an issue in my classroom. Not only that but storing and keeping track of large chart paper can sometimes stretch our organizational skills to the limits! I have found one of the best ways to support my students is to treat their notebooks like a tool in which they can find the strategies and skills taught whenever they need it. In this way, what we teach our students is not just a one-day occurrence, but they have a “forever tool.”

Characteristics of Opinion Writing
Writing an Opinion Essay
Topic Ideas for an Opinion Essay
Getting Ideas for an Opinion Essay
Debatable Topics
Opinion Vocabulary
Reasons vs. Evidence Sort
Opinion Writing Structure (2 Reasons)
Opinion Writing Structure (3 Reasons)
Transition Words for Opinion Writing
Transition Words from Pig Parade Mentor Text
The Hook
Paragraphs with Purpose
Color Code Your Text
Word Choice
Opinion Sentence Stems
Writers Use Expert Words
Transitional Phrases for Evidence & Elaboration
Crafting a Conclusion
Instead of Says
Using Text Evidence
Quoting or Paraphrasing the Text
Using Quotations from a Text
Opinion Writers Checklist
Peer Editing
Thesis Statement for an Opinion Essay
Planning a Thesis Statement
Rebuttal, Response, & Counterclaims
Repeat Your Opinion
Close Reading Strategies
Writers Choose Strong Evidence
Consider Your Audience
Language & Tone to Validate Your Argument
Opinion Writing Editing Checklist
Solving Your Spelling Problems
Opinion Writer's Checklist
Sorting My Evidence
4 Square Graphic Organizer
Writers Celebrate 3-2-1 Style

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Parent Conferences

$3.00

The tools you need to handle parent conferences with ease!

✋ This resource is included in the discounted Back to School Bundle!

What is included?

Conference Calendar

Editable Conference Calendar to send home to parents
Confirmation Note/Reminder to send home to parents reminding them about their scheduled conference.

*You might also like to use an electronic form such as www.signup.com

Conference Forms (pdf + editable PowerPoint)

Parent/Teacher Conference Schedule (for you to keep track of scheduled conferences)
Parent/Teacher Conference Notes
Parent/Teacher Conference Form
Phone Conference Notes Form

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Peer & Self Editing Checklist for Writing Narrative

$3.00

This product is a checklist meant for intermediate writers in a Narrative Unit. This form allows students a checklist for what is expected in a quality narrative piece of writing. It is meant to be used at the end of a unit before final publication. I have used this in my 3rd grade classroom and was extremely helpful in identifying expectations for my students, as well as promoting partnership conversations based on their writing. This also assisted in assessing their final piece of writing.

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Perimeter and Area Math Task Cards (3rd Grade) Google Slides and Forms

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GOOGLE SLIDES + FORMS NOW INCLUDED! We have updated the task cards with a digital option in Google Slides AND Google Forms. Be sure to re-download! There are directions and links inside the PDF :)

This set of task Cards includes:

36 Task Cards
Answer Sheet
Answer Key

Standards Addressed

3.MD.C.5 Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement.
3.MD.C.5.A A square with side length 1 unit, called "a unit square," is said to have "one square unit" of area, and can be used to measure area.
3.MD.C.5.B A plane figure which can be covered without gaps or overlaps by n unit squares is said to have an area of n square units.
3.MD.C.6 Measure areas by counting unit squares (square cm, square m, square in, square ft, and improvised units).
3.MD.C.7 Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.
3.MD.C.7.A Find the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths by tiling it, and show that the area is the same as would be found by multiplying the side lengths.
3.MD.C.7.B Multiply side lengths to find areas of rectangles with whole-number side lengths in the context of solving real world and mathematical problems, and represent whole-number products as rectangular areas in mathematical reasoning.
3.MD.C.7.C Use tiling to show in a concrete case that the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths a and b + c is the sum of a × b and a × c. Use area models to represent the distributive property in mathematical reasoning.
3.MD.C.7.D Recognize area as additive. Find areas of rectilinear figures by decomposing them into non-overlapping rectangles and adding the areas of the non-overlapping parts, applying this technique to solve real world problems.
3.MD.D.8 Solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, finding an unknown side length, and exhibiting rectangles with the same perimeter and different areas or with the same area and different perimeters.

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Perimeter and Area Math Task Cards (3rd Grade) Google Slides and Forms

Personal Narrative Writing Unit {My Life is a Story}

$11.00

This Personal Narrative Unit is perfect for kicking off Writer’s Workshop at the beginning of the year, while also providing enough content to support the Narrative Writing Common Core Standard at any other point in the school year. The lessons in this unit will build excitement for writing and set foundations for the rest of your academic year. This unit also contains lifelong tools which could supplement other writing units and the overall writing process.

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The content in the unit support 4 basic goals:

Get students excited about writing!
Build a community of writers.
Build confidence in the writers.
Find ways to craft our own life stories

What this Unit Includes

*Writing Unit Calendar with Teaching Points
*Blank Planning Calendar
*Mentor Text Suggestions and Links
*20 Lesson Ideas for the Unit

(The lessons in this unit are NOT always in a specific lesson template or written to precisely tell you what to do. However, there are detailed descriptions and ideas for each teaching point, including how the teacher can model, how students will practice, and what students will do independently. This unit will look different in every classroom as your own personal teaching style, experience, and perspective filters through. I have included a brief explanation for each teaching point and how it would/could look in the classroom. I have also noted when to use the anchor charts for each day as well as included pictures of notebook work that may help also. This unit of resources will hopefully “fill your fist” as Katie Wood Ray would say, with writing strategies to help your writers build a love for writing! You can check out my blog for anchor chart ideas and information on teaching writing.

*20+ Writing Notebook Anchor Charts for the Writer’s Notebook to help support applying the writing strategies into their work by providing anchor charts at your students’ fingertips.

*20 Anchor Charts to be used for: teaching the lesson, laminated as posters, put in sheet protectors and on a binder ring as part of your writing center or any other creative way you find use for them!

*Narrative Writing Checklist and Grading Rubric

*Standards for 3rd-5th grades (to glue in notebook)

*Publishing Paper

Whether you are using this in your classroom to start off the year or as a way to improve your students’ writing process, I hope you and your students enjoy this unit as much as we did! If you have any further questions or needs I would love to hear from you!

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Personal Narrative Writing Unit {My Life is a Story}

Place Value Practice-The Power of 10 (Notebook Charts & Practice)

$3.50

What's included?

Place Value Chart through Hundred Millions- (2 Versions) This half sheet could be used as a reference chart for students in their math journal to help with identifying the value of a number and how our place value system works. This chart labels the Ones Period, Thousands Period, and Millions Period. This could be color coded by using colored pencils to help students identify the different periods. This visual seemed to help students SEE the periods. You can see how we glued the chart in our notebooks to the right. We glued only part of the page and then folded over where the millions period is located. Below this chart, we wrote examples of the 3 different forms of numbers (Word, Standard, & Expanded).

The Power of 10 Notebook Chart (Ones through Hundred Millions)- This chart is a visual for students’ Math Journals to show an example of how our number system works, the idea that when you move through place value each digit is 10 times larger than the digit to the right. Additionally, the chart shows a picture of base ten blocks including a large stack of 10 thousands blocks. This was eye opening for my students to deepen their understanding of the base ten concept. (Included as a Notebook Chart & Full Page in case you wanted to use it in your math center.)

The Power of 10 Chart (Hundredths through Millions)- I teach 4th grade and teach place value at the beginning of the year and decimals later on in the year. I used this chart later on in the year to help build on prior knowledge of the place value system. This chart is similar to the one above, except to include decimals and only goes up through millions. (Included as a Notebook Chart & Full Page in case you wanted to use it in your math center.)

The Power of 10 Place Value Practice- This practice (2 pages front and back) offers varying word problems and scenarios that will allow students to practice working with the charts and apply their knowledge about place value. You could use this page to teach, partner practice, independent work, or all of the above, depending on your students’ needs. The answer key is included.

Place Value Practice Chart- This chart can be used in students’ notebooks to practice working with numbers and finding the value of a digit.

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