Responding to literature can be fun and creative. There are many methods for students to use when responding to a piece of literature. This activity will focus on thank you note writing. This will allow students to write from first person point of view. This shows educators what students understand about a text as students reveal their thinking, feelings, and reactions to the literature they have read.

Ease the writing process, turn your students into skilled self-editors, and give yourself a quick grading tool with our easy-to-use, fully-editable writing checklists. *************************************************************************** If you’re teaching narrative and story writing, these checklists and rubrics will give your students direction and clear goals to help them successfully express themselves. Each handout contains a student checklist for independent assessment and a student/teacher rubric for conferencing. With six checklists to a page, you can quickly print and distribute them as they are, or edit them to suit your specific needs. We split this bundle into three age levels: Junior (ages 5-7), Middle (ages 7-11), and Senior (ages 11-15). Additionally, we stylized and worded each level to appeal to each age group. We are currently developing more checklists for other writing styles – if you buy this now, you can get those for free upon release by re-downloading this pack. This is an effective yet simple tool to help your students develop into great writers with great habits, and will undoubtedly become a go-to reference throughout the year, as it has for the teachers who developed it. Like what you see? For more creative ideas and new product updates, be sure to sign up for our email newsletter, and visit us on Facebook to take part in our exclusive giveaways. Other Popular Products From Innovative Teaching Ideas Full Year Visual Writing Prompts Bundle Poetry Power Pack 110 Reading Activities Bundle

This is a simple but popular task for younger students to learn both how to write their name plus the letters and phonetic elements it contains. Students can color and decorate this worksheet as they desire once they have written their name at the top and had it verified by the classroom teacher.

These posters are a collection of teaching posters based upon Britain's famous 'Keep calm an Carry on" campaign during world war II. They are a bit of fun and can be applied to any staff room for some light humor. They include the phrases Keep calm and reboot Keep calm and love teaching Keep calm and stop teaching Keep quite and continue working Keep calm and enjoy learning Keep calm and raise your hand Keep calm and teach on They are all high resolution images that can be printed from tiny to poster size with no loss of quality. Other Popular Products From Innovative Teaching Ideas

This lesson plan is aimed a t teaching students about friction and how it effects the movement of objects. It contains a number of engaging and hands on activities and resources which effectively demonstrate the learning intentions. Learning intentions or Overview Students will examine the effect friction has upon moving objects Why does friction impede the free movement of objects. What is the relationship between force and friction. It is an editable PowerPoint file format

A procedural text is used to explain • How to do something •How to get Somewhere •When a set of rules need to be understood. A procedure is generally quite easy to write as long you know a little bit about your topic. These posters will walk students and teachers through the process of writing an effective procedural text by breaking it down into simple steps. *************************************************************************** Other Popular Products From Innovative Teaching Ideas - Search for these items on TES Year Long Visual Writing Prompts Fable Power Pack Teaching Digital Technologies and STEM ***************************************************************************** YOUR REVIEWS ARE ESSENTIAL IN KEEPING OUR PRODUCTS LOW PRICED AND REGULARLY UPDATED!!! IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO US!!! PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW About Innovative Teaching Ideas Terms Copyright © Innovative Teaching Ideas. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY. See product file for clipart and font credits.

This versatile mock Facebook cube can be applied to any number of activites such as a character profile from books, films, games etc, quick biography task, all about me or plenty of other alternatives. It contains the 6 elements of Facebook most relevant to students. - Photo - About - Status Updates - Friends - Timeline - Share a memory It is completely editable and can be undertaken as a simple pen and paper task or an editable PowerPoint and Google Drive (Slides) task for students who have access to a technology. Simply follow the instructions and away you go... NO PREP REQUIRED!! LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? For more creative ideas and new product updates, be sure to sign up for our EMAIL NEWSLETTER, and visit us on FACEBOOK to take part in our exclusive giveaways.

Capitalize on the Pokémon craze with this fun, engaging icebreaker! This is a no prep required activity - just print, hand it out, and give your kids a great back to school activity to kick off the year. In this task, your students will create a custom Pokémon card that is all about THEM. This will give them the opportunity to tell you about their special talents, goals, and favourite things in life, all while developing their public speaking confidence and creative skills. If you’re familiar with Pokémon, then you know what the cards look like. This activity gives you two options based on these cards: a back-to-back card, or a one page sheet with key details. Full instructions come attached, including instructions on how to download the free 'Pokémon' font. This activity is also bundled as both a PDF and a completely editable version that you can modify to suit any group. Like the sound of this? If you would like more creative ideas and new product updates, be sure to sign up for our email newsletter, and visit us on Facebook to take part in our exclusive giveaways. *************************************************************************** Other Popular Products From Innovative Teaching Ideas - Search for these items on TES Year Long Visual Writing Prompts Fable Power Pack Teaching Digital Technologies and STEM ***************************************************************************** YOUR REVIEWS ARE ESSENTIAL IN KEEPING OUR PRODUCTS LOW PRICED AND REGULARLY UPDATED!!! IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO US!!! PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW

This poster series clearly identifies the difference between mean, median and mode. Be sure to view the thumbnails for further clarity. This poster can also be downloaded as part of our literacy and numeracy poster bundles. Each Bundle contains hundreds of posters grouped around a common theme. They are a very cost effective way to buy multiple posters at once. You can find our posters here Innovative teaching poster collection

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This poster is useful for teaching junior students about our 5 senses Sight Touch Smell Hearing Taste This poster can also be downloaded as part of our literacy and numeracy poster bundles. Each Bundle contains hundreds of posters grouped around a common theme. They are a very cost effective way to buy multiple posters at once. You can find our posters here Innovative teaching poster collection All our posters are professionally designed by graphic designers and are very high resolution of 600 dpi. They can be scaled to suit any paper size and will hold their clarity and sharpness right up to a full poster size.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 3 Way Venn Diagram to compare the movies and book

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This activity will allow students to develop an understanding of dialogue. Dialogue is what is being spoken by characters in a text. Understanding who is speaking allows students to better understand the plot and/or events taking place in a story. A character’s dialogue is also important because it often sets or reflects the mood in the story. This activity will also strengthen background knowledge for word choice in identifying signals for dialogue. (said, shouted, yelled, spoke, etc.)

42 Activities based upon Bloom's Taxonomy and the Multiple Intelligences

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You are purchasing 10 independent tasks for students in grades 2 - 4 which focus on the following elements. - Codes & Cyphers - Understanding Binary - Direction / Navigation - Algorithms - Logic - Technology language and terminology - Computational Thinking - Problem Solving - Critical Thinking These tasks will go a long way in teaching students the key elements of STEM & Digital Technologies.

⭐ Engage your students whilst learning their MULTIPLICATION FACTS 3, 6, 9, 12, with this great game. Print these cards on card and laminate for durability. With heaps of game cards, Multiplication Bingo can be played as an ENTIRE CLASS; or used as a SMALL GROUP MATH GAME during Guided Math. The Bingo calling cards can also be used as basic flashcards for your students. INCLUDED YOU WILL FIND: ~ a directions sheet for students (I usually laminate it to a large envelope and keep the game inside.) ~ 16 BINGO boards in EACH of the following: Arrays Numbers Equations ~ 72 calling cards in EACH of the following: Standard Form (product) Repeated Addition Array

✨Draw upon a classic nursery rhyme to teach younger students the basics of coding and algorithms with these easy to follow worksheets. Or alternately you can create your own path for the spider to follow.