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By Beth Hammett
Homographs can be confusing, so try this interactive 26 slide presentation that comes with:
Introduction to homographs
Definition
Examples
32 homograph sentences with visuals for group learning activities
30 Homograph Bingo sheets with Definitions sheet and Sentences
Homograph passage practice
Writing activity
Peer Workshopping component
Media Resources
Meets ELA CCSS and state guidelines. Great fun for ELL/ESL, introduction or assessment, mini-lesson, flipped classrooms, and active learning, project based classes.
Reflex Math Fact Fluency Green Light Student Data Monthly Tracker REFLEX Chart
By Epsilon Math Craft & Special Education
This resource is a student data tracker designed to complement the Reflex Math Fact Fluency program. It's perfect for helping students monitor their weekly progress toward achieving the GREEN LIGHT! Now they can easily track the green lights they earn a weekly or monthly log using this resource.
Every time they get a green light they color in the circle to make sure they meet their goal. I added a ready to use September 2024 sheet.
Disclaimer: This resource is independently created and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Reflex Math or any associated companies. Reflex Math is a registered trademark of its respective owner. This tracker is intended for personal or educational use only.
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By Beth Hammett
Every April, students can celebrate Tell-a-Story Day, which occurs at the end of the month. This 16 page handout will help students with organizing and telling fact-based stories. Great for building oral communication, evidence/proof, and re-telling memories. Includes: Finding storytelling topics Graphic Organizers for planning stories in chronological order Setting up a storytelling event Designing advertisements/invitations Peer workshopping stories Links to multicultural, professional, international/national storytelling centers, storytelling videos and websites Can be used any time of the year! Students will enjoy sharing stories while learning how to use fact-based information. Fun and educational!
Iready data tracking Math and reading Free lesson passed student tracker Chart
By Epsilon Math Craft & Special Education
These I Ready Data Tracking Graph and Data Checker Form for Reading and Math are so nice and convenient for students to check their growth on iReady each time. This student data tracker designed to complement the I-ready Math and Reading program. It's perfect for helping students monitor their progress toward achieving goals!
You may like: 100 chart Lessons Tracker+ Growth monitoring+ Diagnostics
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Edutainer Professional Development for Teachers
By Beth Hammett
Do you feel like part educator and part entertainer? Try this 32 slide, training presentation to encourage and empower first-year teachers, to revive veteran teachers, or to help students understand brain based learning. Activities include: Templates for active learning based classroom lectures Lecture vs. Active Learning Active vs. Passive Learning Speech Rates of Teachers Left/Right Brain Quiz Comprehension Postcards Connectors/Icebreakers Multigenre Connector Activitiy Find Someone Who Connector Finding Patterns Learning to Chunk Research Extensive Resources section Fun learning facts Excellent for professional development, implementing active learning strategies, and enhancing active learning libraries. Easy, fun, and educational!
Iready data tracking Math and reading lesson passed student tracker Graph sheet
By Epsilon Math Craft & Special Education
These I Ready Data Tracking Graph and Data Checker Form for Reading and Math are so nice and convenient for students to check their growth on iReady each time. This student data tracker designed to complement the I-ready Math and Reading program. It's perfect for helping students monitor their weekly progress toward achieving goals!
Please see the preview as it is exactly what you will receive in your download.
Disclaimer: This resource is independently created and is not affiliated with or endorsed by I-ready or any associated companies. I-ready is a registered trademark of its respective owner. This tracker is intended for personal or educational use only.
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Topic Sentences Writing Activities
By Beth Hammett
Help students identify topic sentences with this engaging activity. Students use a Topic Sentence Bank to choose correct answers for paragraphs for the article "The Flood". Can also be used to teach: paragraphing supporting details organization. Meets CCSS.
REFLEX math tracker Reflex Math Fact Fluency Student Tracker Reflex Green Light
By Epsilon Math Craft & Special Education
This resource is a student data tracker designed to complement the Reflex Math Fact Fluency program. It's perfect for helping students monitor their progress in each month during the school year! Print this at the begining of the year, it will be useful.
You will need this monthly Reflex green light tracker.
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By Beth Hammett
Using journal writing in the classroom takes know-how. This 41-page booklet takes teachers through the basics and introduces a model for successful journal writing. The how-to journal writing guide includes seven chapters: Just the Facts, How to Start Writing, Prompts, Student Examples, Assessing and Grading, What if..., and Resources. It makes journal writing enjoyable and easy for teachers and students. A great resource with student examples for teachers who want to use journal writing but are not sure where to begin or what to do. Beth Hammett's other works include: Natalie: Diary of a Senior Year, Developmental Writing Workshop, and educational articles for NADE, TCTELA, NCTE, and more. Join Beth at: www.bethhammett.blogspot.com
By Beth Hammett
Students learn to write a thesis statement with this interactive presentation. Comes with: Handouts Examples Individual and group writing activities Peer Workshopping Answer Key Supplemental Resources Easy to understand, implement, and use as introduction, reinforcement, or assessment. Meets CCSS.
Earth Day Poems and Tales: Books to Make and Write
By Beth Hammett
Celebrate Earth Day with 40 pages of Earth Day related images for writing fact-based poems and prose.
Includes:
5 title pages
Directions with optional activities
30 Earth Day graphics (earth, recycle, alternative energy, pollution, and more!)
5 The End pages
Great for Civics, Government, Social Studies, and meets ELA standards.
Use as:
Individual poems/prose writings
On-demand writing
Practice concepts/skills from mini-lessons
Practice peer workshopping strategies
Publishing opportunities
Celebration of Earth Day
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Free weekly handout at www.bethhammett.blogspot.com
Presidents Day and Presidents Fact-Based Writing Activities
By Beth Hammett
Get students thinking about presidential elections and political campaign promises with 16 handouts that generate higher level learning.The journal-like prompts include historical facts that will have students wondering, "What if.I was president..?" Social issues to write about include:
family issues
government growth
importing goods
internet issues
laws and rules
leadership style
national debt
national security
social security
space exploration
succession
transportation problems
war
world peace
There are sixteen famous presidents, with their greatest accomplishments. Included are: Adams, Bush, Clinton, Cleveland, Coolidge, Eisenhower, Jackson, Johnson, Kennedy, Lincoln, Nixon, Reagan, Roosevelt,Washington
Includes Extra Resources (videos, web-links) and Ideas for Use in the classroom.
Can be used with English, Government, History classes.
Analyzing Images Writing Activities
By Beth Hammett
Do your students need help with analysis? Use these ten graphic organizers with images for analysis practice and writing a thesis. These exercises and graphic organizers help students springboard to analyzing more complex illustrations and essays for future coursework.
This easy to implement, step-by-step analysis guide for individual, small/whole group practice includes:
Full picture slides for whole group discussion and preview
10 Analysis Graphic Organizers with images
One Blank Analysis Graphic Organizer
Analysis categories include: Assumptions/Inferences, Year, Time, Season, Setting, Stereotypes, Characterization, Genre, Emotions, and Others
Writing a Thesis Statement
This step-by-step guide is simple to follow, great for test prep, and helps students uncover the process of analysis.
Valentine's Day Figurative Language Fun
By Beth Hammett
13 colorful Valentine's Day themed slides that introduce and help students to use and master figurative language. Includes: Directions with optional activities Alliteration Hyperbole Idioms Imagery Internal Rhyme Metaphor Onomatopoeia Personification Simile Symbolism Valentine's Day Images Writing Activities Each slide includes definition, example(s), and writing practice. Presentation can be used for assessment, flipped classrooms, and all differentiated levels of students. Can also be used for individual reviews of specific terminologies.
Presidents Dinner Party Writing Activity
By Beth Hammett
What better way to introduce and teach research skills than with a historical based dinner party with United States Presidents? This 28 page handout focuses on research skills, such as citations, details, dialogue/text evidence, main idea, sources, paraphrasing, summarizing, topic/theme. It includes: Scoring Rubric Directions Party Invitations to make 22 Caricature Presidents Speech Bubbles Tables Sources and Citations sheets Extra Optional Projects Resources Supplemental Resources Have fun researching historical documents then creating dinner party conversations with this complete introduction to research unit.
By Beth Hammett
Are commas alien to your students? Are there not enough or too many commas? This 31 slide presentation uses a color-coded approach combined with peer workshopping and comprehension checks. The mini-lesson presentation addresses and includes: Research slide Extra Resources with practices Comma Comprehension Checks Commas in a List and Series FANBOYS Appositives Directly Speaking to a Person Dependent Clauses Adverbs and Transitions Parenthetical Expressions Adjectives Dates Cities/States Can be used as individual mini-lessons or as review. Provides peer workshopping component and comprehension checks to increase comma skills and usage. Interactive approach is easy to follow and is self-explanatory. Meets Common Core Standards.
By Beth Hammett
What is multigenre writing, and how can you use it in your classroom? This Common Core, across-curriculum, interactive presentation includes: Fact-based/non-fiction or fictional Defining: "Multi" and "Genre" Student examples of multigenre projects Interactive small group activity for introducing multigenre Research and extra resources on multigenres 2 levels of assignments: lower and upper Brainstorming Topics chart Find Your Topic graphic organizer Multigenre list for choosing types of writings Peer Workshopping guide Supplemental Resources Works Cited Ready to use with students, and a great way to re-visit an old topic or to revive research essays, whether using non-fiction or fiction. Can be used to introduce topics or as assessment for unit or research for any discipline.. Multigenre activities are engaging, educational, meaningful, and fun.
Writing a Rough Draft (Grades 3-8)
By Beth Hammett
What is a rough draft? How do you find a topic? How do you get started? How does it work as part of the writing process? All this and more answered as students work through the easy-to-follow guide for the rough draft process of writing. Includes: Rough drafts are bad caption/image Writers compose in different ways Writing process and overview Reflection activity Methods for starting: Chunk writing,Cluster/Map, Free writing, Outline Let's Practice activity Taking a risk with rough drafts Tips: Using your writing toolbox, taking a break between drafts, and Can you read this? Rough draft strategy slide and begin your rough draft Reminder of writing process for peer workshopping Everything needed to help students understand and begin their first rough drafts! Excellent for flipped classrooms and writing centers!
End Punctuation Marks and Writing Activities
By Beth Hammett
Make end mark punctuation easy to use for students! 13 slide pdf has student examples, peer workshopping activities, tips for writer as reader, reading with emotion, clarity, and meaning, as well as dangling and misplaced modifiers.Includes "Dear Jack" letter as a fun punctuation piece and "That Is" to get students to think about how punctuation affects meaning.Also, comes with Peer Workshopping End Punctuation Mark Check List handout.Great for introducing basic skills for emergent writers or for reviewing basic skills for test prep. Meets CCSS ELA.
Semi-Colons, Colons, Dashes, Hyphens (Writing)
By Beth Hammett
Introduce Semi-Colons, Colons, Dashes, and Hyphens with this 14 slide presentation. Includes: definitions examples practice sentences peer workshopping component comprehension checkpoint & answers extra resources This PowerPoint gives students everything they need to successfully use each of the "Other Punctuation Marks" within their essays! Easy to read and follow with color-coded examples. Can be used for ELL/GT/AP and flipped classrooms. Meets CCSS guidelines.