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Interactive Notebook for 3rd Grade
This STEP-BY-STEP WRITING® PROGRAM IS A COMPLETE WRITER’S WORKSHOP PROGRAM with engaging lessons (scripted), anchor charts, modeling, mentor text, interactive notebook pages, practice and all the tools necessary to teach and... Read More
Ideas for Writing
Click HERE for an updated post! Related Post Writing Mini Lesson #35 on Punctuation Martin Luther King Jr. Activity Writing Mini Lesson #29- Variety of Sentences 10 Steps to Prepare... Read More
Paragraph Writing
Click here for an updated post on PARAGRAPH WRITING! Related Post Writing Mini Lesson #34- Usage Writing Mini Lesson #17- Writing the Body Section ... Writing Mini Lesson #40- Narrative... Read More
Graphic Organizer
Click here for an updated post on GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS! Related Post Writing Mini Lesson #28- Million Dollar Words- WOR... THE BEST WAY TO SET UP INTERACTIVE WRITING NOTEBOO... Step-by-Step Writing... Read More
Reading Bulletin Boards for the Year
Hello! I am still here! I had to take a little hiatus and have a big ole shindig for my daughter graduating from high school! I know I know, I... Read More
Weekly Teaching Idea- Prefix, Suffix, Stem
I have been working on a unit because I want to reteach prefixes, suffixes, and stem words next week before our state exam. I introduce them throughout the year and... Read More
Guide Words
Do your students struggle with the concept of finding words on the same page as the guide words? When I have my students write a list of words in ABC... Read More
Poetry Portfolio with Adorable Templates!
New Item:To go along with my popular Poetry Slam product, I created student templates to use for the final copy. I have several ideas for this cute little booklet. It... Read More
Common Core Reading Log for 3rd Quarter
Do you need a new reading log? Half-way through last quarter I got tired (or worn slap out as they say in the south) of my sameo sameo reading log.... Read More
Santa's Similes
I can’t believe Christmas is right around the corner! It is the most exciting time of the year for my little elves and for me! I love the ho ho... Read More
Mystery Book Report- 5 Steps
My kids love mysteries! After my fourth graders picked a good mystery book and read it from cover to cover, we created Mystery Book Reports. Although this is included in... Read More
Nursery Rhyme Mysteries
These were so stinkin fun! I started off by telling my fourth graders they were going to read some Nursery Rhymes and they all looked at me like I was... Read More
Acrostic and BioPoems
I like to start off the year with Acrostic Poems. Then we work on Biopoems. These are so precious! I put these in the front of their writing portfolios. I... Read More
Haiku Poetry
We had so much fun writing Haikus! We read Grandfather’s Journey which is a wonderful biography about a Japanese man who travels back and forth from the US to Japan.... Read More
Poetry Month Ideas!!!!
Since I am on spring break right now, I am not in the classroom. However, I am always searching through amazing ideas from teachers all over the world. EVEN WITH... Read More