This three part template includes a brainstorming web for students to think through the prompt, narrow their focus to three main ideas, and then start the drafting process with supporting details and explanations of their narrowed focus.

Please enjoy these printable bookmarks. I would suggest printing on card stock, construction paper, or laminating printer paper in order to increase the longevity. Students will love the fact that they can put their names on it, and the bookmark will serve as a constant reminder that students should read EVERY day!

This fun and simple reading log can be sent home with each student in which the student self-records their nightly reading. Once complete the student can turn it in for a prize or simply for teachers to have documentation and record progress.

Finding it hard to keep all students reading within their ZPD? Is Accelerated Reader (AR) being implemented in your classroom? If so, check out these really easy customizable bookmarks where each student has a bookmark with their ZPD, their AR point goal, book level goal and their accuracy goal all in on place. Simply replace the "student" label on each with each students name, print, laminate (optional) and fill in the applicable spaces! The students will love their bookmark and it will take one more thing OFF of YOUR plate!

This awesome project allows students to collaborate as a business team and identify a need in their community. Students will write a business plan that forces the students to think about profits, supply, demand, consumers, markets, advertising and more! The file starts with a brainstorm, and then student think through various components and finishes with their formal write-up of the their plan. Attached is a step by step Lesson Plan for teachers. Also there are three variations of each page to allow for seamless differentiation.