Check out this clearly detailed top ten tip reference guide to boost writing skills with your students. These ten hints have elaborations and are put in place to assist students in their timed writing activities. It can easily be presented to the whole class and then printed for each student and used as a reference as you transfer the accountability and ownership to the students.

Check out this fun and simple poster that is to be used as a reference guide for various signal words for writing and speaking strategies. The guide includes terminology associated with comparing, contrasting, causing, sequencing, and listing. Under each color-coded topic, there are a variety of words that can boost writing skills as well as oral presentation of thought. This can either be enlarged and posted in the classroom or copied and shared wit students as they take ownership over their own writing.

Tired of hearing the same-old surface level responses!? Check out this simple poster that offers your students multiple ways to say common classroom words with higher level vocabulary. The poster includes 10 alternatives for 15 common words such as: nice, good, bad, sad, pretty, big, like, happy and more. This can easily be used for individual students or super-sized and printed for a large class reference guide! Building vocabulary one step at a time :)

Check out this awesome tracker that students can take home and use throughout the week. Students are to have their parents sign off on their time spent reading as well the page numbers and book title. Each Monday students are to bring their bottom slips in for documentation purposes. This form is simple and user friendly and easily differentiated for students, groups, and grade levels!

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!