This 12 question assessment covers students understanding of setting and characters. There are three separate parts to this assessment that can easily be used for a quiz, test, homework, study guide, independent work or small group work. It starts off with asking for the simple definitions of each key word. It then transitions to written scenarios where students identify the implied or directly stated character(s) and setting and finishes off with two pictures that student analyze for the setting and character. This simple assessment will offer the teacher valuable insight into students' understanding of what a setting is and what the characters are.

Being transparent with students on the standard of assessment and grades is a great way to implement high expectations as well as set them up to be successful. This rubric includes four major components of oral fluency in any regard, whether it be an oral presentation, reading, group work or any other context. These components include expression and volume, phrasing, smoothness, and pace. Each component includes a possibility of four points totaling 16 points total. That number can then be multiplied by 6.25 to place it out of 100. This is a great way to hold your students accountable and document assessment to allow for reflection and improvement and a skill that is highly necessary and often neglected.

Facilitate students exploration of animal adaptations by having them apply their understanding to local animals. This worksheet guides students to generate a list of animals that are local, identify two of them and specify what are the animals’ needs and then their adaptations to meet those needs. This student-centered independent activity can be a great extension, review, or opener for animal adaptations!

For sale is a simple graphic organizer for students to break down the elements of a story. You will find clear areas for student to record the title, setting, characters, problem, beginning, middle and end as wells their favorite part. This simple and streamlined structure will increase comprehension, provide scaffolding and can be used again and again as a structured approach to breaking down literary text, based on text evidence and supporting details.

For sale is a very simple 4 question multiple choice exit tickets for the water cycle. Students will need to match the definitions with the vocabulary words: evaporation, condensation, transpiration and precipitation. These assessments are printed three two a page and an answer key has been included for your convenience.

For sale is a paired bundle with an addition study guide and an aligned addition assessment (can be a quiz or a test). There are four parts to each: finding the sum, finding the missing addend, base ten representations and word problems. The assessment mirrors the study guide but with different problems. This is a great way to ensure students demonstrate mastery of addition as well as to identify academic gaps for interventions and next steps. An answer key has been included for your convenience.

Check out this extremely supportive step by step directions template that supports students understanding of multiplying 2 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers. With clear procedures, highlighted areas, and a sample problem, this template can be used again and again while students refine their skills. A second page is included with solely blank templates that students can plug in their own numbers. This can be laminated so it can be used again and again. This serves as a great differentiating tool for struggling students, or the class as a whole! Be sure to also check out our 2 digit by 2 digit template as well!

Check out this extremely supportive step by step directions template that supports students understanding of multiplying 2 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers. With clear procedures, highlighted areas, and a sample problem, this template can be used again and again while students refine their skills. A second page is included with solely blank templates that students can plug in their own numbers. This can be laminated so it can be used again and again. This serves as a great differentiating tool for struggling students, or the class as a whole! Be sure to also check out our 2 digit by 1 digit template as well!

Check out this awesome packet that includes 10 different worksheets with correlating answer keys. This mental math coaching exercise covers the topics of addition and subtraction and each sheet includes six problems. It is meant to be played one student vs one student in which student 1 coaches student 2 to find the sum. The sixth question on each one has the sum but is missing a box and students need to figure out what is missing. This is a great student-centered activity in which students support, explain, and teach each other while building number fluency, place value understanding and mnetal math skills. Directions are included!

Check out this 5-question multiple choice assessment that covers simple machines. This can easily be used as a quiz, test, exit ticket, or independent work. It will offer valuable insight into students' understanding of their learned content knowledge. Topics and vocabulary included are ramps, pulleys, levers, inclined pages and general overview of simple machines. An answer key has been included for your convenience.

Check out this simple and student-friendly rubric which is meant to be used to evaluate student Social Studies journals. The rubric is broken into four categories, of which students can score between a 1 and a 4. Each score for each section includes explicit description of what you need to obtain that score. A guide on the bottom shows how to calculate up to a percentage grade. This is meant to be provided to the students, so they know what is expected of them with the journals, and then used to grade at the end of the quarter, or semester, or year. Sections included cover topics of Organization, accuracy, elements, and illustrations. Best wishes! Be sure to also check out my other rubrics as well!

This fun and engaging project, clearly lays out the expectations for a simple interactive creation project in which students make a model of the basic human skeleton. Students are expected to include the major seven bones that outline our bodies, as well as include clear labels and answer a few simple questions. There is a rubric at the bottom, with pre-made scoring outlines to simplify assigning a fair and appropriate grade. The students will have a blast with this project, and they will deepen their understandings of the human skeleton!

Check out this differentiated variety pack of three student-friendly T-Charts. Each of them are labelled on the bottom with a different version and either include a blank space, lines, or bullets to meet your students' needs. This can easily be adapted to a multitude of in-class and at-home assignments. Save yourself time and inconvenience by supplementing your lesson with this clear and concise T-chart!

This simple form acts as an ideal data collection template for when you contacted parents. Very simply put, you can track who the student was that you called, the reason for calling, the date, and any notes that came out of it. It serves as great documentation when having conversations with other teachers, administrators, or parents about ongoing communication monitoring. Be sure to check out my "Advanced Parent-Guardian Contact Log Form" if you want a little more organization with your template!

Check out this awesome week long project in which students can explore simple machines in a more interactive way. With clear directions and expectations for each day, this project will push students to research one simple machine. You will need to create a sample for students to see, based on your expectations, but throughout the week, students will create some sort of presentation (ppt, poster, skit, etc.) and will ultimately present to their peers. I would suggest having students record notes on each others' presentations, as they will solely become the master of one. This can easily be adapted though for students to research each simple machine each day as well. A rubric and student-friendly directions are included!

Engage your students in the natural world around them with this fun and engaging activity. Students will identify and "adopt" a tree in which they will fill out an adoption certificate. Students will fill out some basic information about the tree and then can take care of, observe and track the tree throughout the year. It is incredible how excited students will get about thei tree, protective, worried, and attached as well! This is a great way to help students understand and be aware of nature, tree life cycles, symbiosis and more! Directions are invcluded as well as the certificate template!

Check out this differentiated pack of templates that are to be used for acrostic poems. Presented in a fun and student-friendly design, each of the pages comes with a different amount of lines. These allows for different words to be used, implementation with different grades, or simply differentiation. Be creative and take your lesson on poems to a new level!

Check out this awesome assessment that is aligned the EngageNY and Eureka Math curriculum for the 3rd 9 weeks in fifth grade. In this diverse assessment students will come across word problems, short answer, solution-based, simple problems and more. Covered in this topics are addiing and subtracting mixed numbers, using tape diagrams and models to solve fractions of whole numbers, use of rectangular fraction models and more. This can easily be used as a study guide, assessment, workshet and so much more!

Check out this awesome list of various jobs that can be implemented in your classroom starting tomorrow! Transfer the accountability, responsibility, and leadership to your students by delegating various tasks to them. In this product you will find a list of 25 ideas with clear descriptions and job titles including components such as lumber jacks who sharpen the pencils, computer technicians that turn on and off the computers and far more with far great descriptions. Have fun and enjoy!

Presented in a multitude of formats, this extensive lesson packet includes objectives, and interactive questions related to place value, patterns, additions, subtraction, as well as comparing numbers. There is a tiny bit of multiplication and division, but if students aren't there yet, this can be easily omitted. With a strong focus on completing number patters, this packet will challenge students to apply their learned concepts of place value and mental math. This can be used for classwork, homework, internvetions or even an assessment!