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Brooke Khan, M.A.Ed2019-12-12T04:50:53+00:00
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🚨MAJOR resource update!! If you have the Novel Pre-Reading Activity, please redownload it!! I redesigned all of the pages, added a digital version for you to use in your Google Classroom, and I added task cards!! 🎉🎉🎉 I’m really happy with how it turned out. Let me know what you think!! ⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ I know I’ve told you before, but this activity is one of my all-time favorites. You can use it again and again because it will work with all of your class novels. ⠀⁣ ➡EASY to implement and NO PREP!!! ⠀⠀⁣ Students will focus on five different aspects of their new novel:⠀⠀⁣ 📖Preview⠀⠀⁣ 📖Predict⠀⠀⁣ 📖Identify ⠀⠀⁣ 📖Connect⠀⠀⁣ 📖Summarize ⠀⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ Link in Bio ☺ Please message me with any questions!! ⠀⁣ ⠀⠀
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Encourage students to make authentic connections with the text with this FREE template!! 📚✏⠀⠀⁣ ⠀⠀⁣ This Text Connections Notepad Activity has space for students to record text to self, text to text, and text to world connections. It can be used a worksheet or cut out for a fun craft activity! ⠀⠀⁣ ⠀⠀⁣ ➡ Link in Bio. Download it for FREE today!! ⠀⠀⁣ ⠀⠀
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Start 2021 or end 2020 with informational text!! This time of year is always a whirlwind (esp with COVID). Make things easier with this standards aligned close reading unit!! Everything you need is included, and it’s differentiated!! NO PREP!! ⠀⠀⁣ ⠀⠀⁣ The text focuses on several different New Year’s Eve traditions around the world. Students will be surprised by some of the weird things that happen in other countries. ⠀⠀⁣ ⠀⠀⁣ The unit also includes a writing assignment. Your students will record two goals for 2021 and write about each one. ⠀⠀⁣ ⠀⠀⁣ Make it yours today!! The unit includes:⠀⠀⁣ ⠀⠀⁣ 📝 Vocabulary Support⠀⠀⁣ 📝 Leveled Reading Passages⠀⠀⁣ 📝 Writing Assignment⠀⠀⁣ 📝 Assessment⠀⠀⁣ ⠀⠀⁣ 🔗 Link in Bio⠀⠀⁣ ⠀⠀⁣ #teachersofinstagram #closereading #teachersofig #teacherlife #upperelementary #iteachtoo #differentiated
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Look what came in the TpT email today!! Have you downloaded your FREE printable and digital Poe bio yet? ⠀ ⠀ I’m thinking about writing more author biographies. Who would you like to see? Gary Soto? Sandra Cisneros? Let me know in the comments! ⠀ ⠀ #authorstudy #freeprintable #tptfreebie #freebie #edgarallanpoe #authorbio #poe #teachersofig #teachersofinstagram
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Remember the days when we did things on weekends? I can’t say I miss it, but it’s nice to have the option. 😣⠀ ⠀ What are you doing this weekend? ⠀
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Children’s author Katherine Paterson (Bridge to Terabithia) encourages teachers to create “flashlight readers” -kids who want to read under the covers at night because they can’t wait to see what comes next. ⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ What’s the secret to making this happen? -Relevant topics? ⠀⁣ -Challenging texts?⠀⁣ -Read alouds? ⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ What do you think? I’d love to get a good list going. Let’s create more flashlight readers!!⠀⁣ 🔦📚⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ #readingstrategies #readingteacher #lifeofateacher #teachersofig #teachersofinstagram #readingspecialist #iteachreading #ela #teachergram
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Here’s a fun and printer-friendly addition to your state reports! Each bookmark includes the state abbreviation, outline map, capital, flower, bird, tree, and nickname! ⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ Another creative idea is to use the bookmarks with books about each state! ⠀⁣ ⠀
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You will see a dramatic improvement in reading comprehension skills when you incorporate Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes into your curriculum. ✨ It works wonders!!! ⁣ ⁣ Click the link in bio to read more about the three student-centered steps for teaching root words, prefixes, and suffixes. 📚📚📚⁣ ⠀
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Have a brochure project in mind? Need a unique template? ⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ Check out the editable brochure templates! 54 different designs are included! (Link in Bio)⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ Students don’t always love assessments, but they might love this one!! ❤💕❤⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ #editable #trifold #brochureproject #brochures #assessment #diy #teachersofig #teachersofinstagrsm #5th #6th #middleschool
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