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Student-led reading groups in an upper elementary classroom. This contains a self-assessment piece (FREEBIE!)
All about doing lit circles using tech- awesome ideas!
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Teaching Pre AP

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Cooperative Learning:  This free PDF packet includes documents for self evaluation, peer evaluation, progress assessment, group checklist, two rubrics, and...
Giving students meaningful work: By paying attention to six important indicators, teachers can design group projects that consolidate and extend learning.

Teaching: Groups

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Stop correcting grammar and punctuation errors over and over, send students here!
Best. Video. Ever. .....Follow for Free "too-neat-not-to-keep" teaching tools & other fun stuff :)
If you are a teacher who loves a good grammar joke, these posters are for you. Not only will these 11 posters make you laugh, but they will also help to brighten up your classroom! My students really get a kick out of these (if they get the joke of course!).

Teaching: Grammar

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I use argument in all of my English teacher lesson plans. Read to find out how and WHY I use argument. Article of the week, pop-up debate, english lesson plans, ELA lessons, teacher lesson plans, writing, reading.
High school English and middle school ELA lesson plans and resources that engage students with pop songs! Perfect for teaching close reading, argument, rhetorical analysis, argument writing, and more!!
RACER - A precise method for defending answers based on evidenced as explained by generalizations/conclusions (2 answers with 2 evidences)

Teaching: Argument

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Theme Anchor chart and ideas for teaching theme
Great observation vs. inference crime activity. Also, complex anchor chart-- can I simplify this?
Fieldcrest - Grade Eight: Own Your Learning Student check-in before saying "I'm done"

Teaching: Anchor Charts

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How to Annotate Text: Moving Beyond the three step swedish method

Teaching: Annotation

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Teacher burnout is real. I know that I’ve experienced it several times and I’m guessing that you have too. None of us are immune to teacher burnout – it doesn’t matter if this is your first or fifteenth year in the classroom – we’re all susceptible.
printable list of 31 things to do to have a better day. LOVE this list! Happiness, how to be happy, happiness quotes #quotes #happy #happiness
Presto Plans Blog: The 30 Day Happy Teacher Challenge

Surviving Teaching

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5 YouTube Videos to use in a Secondary English Classroom - These videos are great supplements to lessons, time fillers, and entertaining ways to break up or shake up your middle school or high school English classroom.
EXCELLENT synopsis of how American Lit was fueled by history. This short video also introduces themes and names the kids will need to know, too. Perfect introductory video for my 11th grade American Lit class.
Purdue OWL: Introduction to Rhetoric

Teaching: Videos

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A Different Approach to Formative Assessment Makes Practice Time Count
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Teaching: Assess

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Use this at the beginning of the year to get to know your students. Way more fun than a regular worksheet with a list of questions.
First Day of School Activity and Meme PowerPoint to Go Over Syllabus, etc.
Guide to Writing a Syllabus for Middle School thumbnail

Teaching: Begin

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Famous Advertising Slogans - when teaching appeals used by the media & rhetoric.
There are four types of questions middle school and high school teachers should ask their students - Preview, Leading, Guiding, and Essential. Read this blog post to learn more about them. {higher order thinking, questioning strategies, question techniques, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th grade}
What is your communication style and how is it affecting your relationships?  Learn more with this informative post and handy free printable!

Teaching: Communication

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Ancient+Greek+Clothing | ancient greek clothing | Evening and wedding dress salon
GREEK CHORUS Costumes
Great source for info on Greek theatre.

Teaching: Content

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Stuttering Mind: WORDS + PUZZLES = WUZZLES
10 Brain Cracking Riddles With Shockingly Simple Answers
“My kids loved the white board messages all week!! Thank you so much to @miss5th and everyone else doing #miss5thswhiteboard for the inspiration!! All…”

Teaching: Daily

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5 Strategies for Reaching Disengaged Students
Accommodate the 12 Ways of Learning with these multisensory strategies! When you use these, maybe they won't even need their fidget spinners...
My Favorite Differentiating Resources . . .

Teaching: Differentiation

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Are you thinking about holding a socratic seminar in your classroom? Or maybe your last whole class discussion didn't work out so well? Read on for why fishbowl discussions are the way to go and how to help students prepare for, participate in, and reflect on class discussions.

Teaching: Discussion

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Students Sitting Around Too Much? Try Chat Stations - Your new favorite teaching strategy: This pared-down version of learning stations keeps the movement, interactivity and variety while minimizing the prep work.

Teaching: Early Finishers

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SSR Game for the end of the year to get your kids to actually read!
Describe Your Classmate Descriptive Writing ActivityThe beginning of a new school year can be especially intimidating for middle school and high school students, but this fun essay helps students to get to know each others' best qualities, leading to a more positive classroom environment.
Growth Mindset Flip Book: Foster a growth mindset in your students with this mini flip book. It includes 6 taps to helps students understand what a growth mindset is and activities to help them create and maintain a growth mindset. Growth mindset class activities.

Teaching: Fun

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Writing Rubric - Six Traits!
Use a cover slip when collecting assignments. Grade the assignment, record the grade on the cover slip, then pass the papers back to students. No alphabetizing papers for the grade book.
16 Things Teachers Should Try in 2016 | www.ShakeUpLearning.com | #edtech #edchat #gafe

Teaching: Grading

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I - Lori Vaughn - use this with my kids! They LOVE irony. And that's not supposed to be sarcastic - it's true.
Cool pics of idioms
Awesome questions to get kids thinking about books! Click to read the full article on close reading strategies.

Teaching: Language

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Learning Styles Survey and 5 things you can do to study/help yourself learn
Learning Styles Questionnaire for high school- beginning of the year.
Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences | Do you Know how to Study?

Teaching: Learning Styles

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Glued: An animated short about a mother and her video game addict son. Non-verbal; great for inference, story elements, conflict, etc.
30 Days to Make (or Break) a Habit
SMART Goal Setting in elementary school. Help students set SMART goals by setting strategic, measurable goals with an action plan that are realistic and timely. Included are data binders, goal setting forms, reflection pages and much, much more.

Teaching: Life Skills

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Classics Meet Current: An Integrated ELA Unit {Walden, Wordsworth & Wall-E} Are strange weather patterns affecting your neck of the woods? Is it hot one day and cold another? Has your town been affected by a recent rash of tornadoes? Is it possible that Thoreau could have been onto something over a century ago? In this unit plan written for an ELA classroom, classic texts meet current modern texts on the same topic and ideas.
Tips for Getting the Work You Want From Students | Secondary Solutions
Character Traits - list of traits and Graphic Organizer

Teaching: Literature

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Interactive Notebook - Left and Right.pdf
Middle School Teacher to Literacy Coach: More Guided Reading Anchor Charts
The Curly Classroom: I {Heart} Notebooks this is an amazing resource- how to incorporate a simple notebook and make LA more hands on

Teaching: Notebooks

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English Curriculum I Student Guidelines for Poetry Analysis I Melbourne High School
This blog post explains how I teach my fifth graders to annotate poetry in order to understand it better. Poetry is SUCH a powerful writing genre to use in the classroom!
Blog Post - 3 Ways to Teach POETRY in a hurry (in 45 minutes or less)! Sometimes the curriculum doesn't allow for an entire poetry unit...

Teaching: Poetry

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FREE labels for Close Reading Highlighters! - Such a motivating way for students to really express their thinking!

Teaching: Printables

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