IT'S ABOUT TIME for POETRY MONTH

 April is National Poetry Month.  Prepare your classroom for it with these resources:

These 20 posters each describe a type of poetry.  A sample of that poetry form is also included.  Display the posters as anchor charts or compile them in a notebook as a reference for your poets.

All of the poems and the teaching possibilities in this unit pertain to spring weather, holidays, and activities.

This unit provides teaching points, skill lessons, and activities custom designed for each.  Animal Poems masterfully combines language arts with science.

This unit also combines poetry and science as your students learn about states of water, clouds, precipitation, and content vocabulary.

This poetry unit combines poetry and the history of westward expansion.

Take your primary students on an African Safari through poetry.

These poems and their teaching possibilities are all related to feet and footwear.

These task cards are applicable to virtually any poem you may be studying. Skills range from simple identification of high frequency words to homophones; punctuation to personification; and suffixes to cinquains.

IT'S ABOUT TIME for DOLLAR DEALS

 

I've teamed up with a group of awesome intermediate teachers to bring you 2 days of dollar deals.  On March 12 & 13, use #345dollardeals to find great products for your 3rd - 5th grade learners on TPT.  

Here are my offerings:

IT'S ABOUT TIME for EGG-CITING SPRING RESOURCES!

 

It's about time to get your classroom ready for spring with these EGG-citing resources:

FREEBIE

Students will create and illustrate an idiom booklet with up to 15 EGG idioms.  

CRITICAL THINKING

These differentiated, square, logic puzzles must be reconstructed so that the images match on every interior side.  Perfect for problem solving and perseverance.

MATH & LITERACY

This resource provides materials for at least 18 centers.  Included are word work, subitizing, counting, addition, subtraction, patterns, and more!

Word work and computation are combined with friendly competition in this immensely popular activity.  Students readily learn to strategize and employ more complex vocabulary.  They will want to do it again and again.

This math center is EGG-cellent for practicing and mastering basic math facts.  Differentiation is built into the activity.

Made for TPT Easel, Bunny Magic Squares are digital learning only.  That means NO PREP for you.

The spring edition of Vocabulary Fractions is EGGS-actly what you need to challenge your learners' reasoning, flexibility, vocabulary, and fractions.  

Easter Hink Pinks & Hinky Pinkies are riddles that EGGS-ercise vocabulary skills and problem solving.  Your learners will be EGG-cited when you break out these task cards.

To crack these riddles, your learners must practice addition within 100 without regrouping.  The riddles make computation EGG-citing.

ST. PATRICK'S DAY FREEBIES and MORE!

It's about time for St. Patrick's Day, teachers!  I've got FREEBIES and more ready for your learners.

FREEBIES

These Leaping Leprechauns will give your students practice adding 3 numbers within 20.  It is a digital learning product made especially for TPT's Easel platform.

Luck o' the Irish is a FREE sample from Destination: Imagination via Creative Thinking.

CRITICAL THINKING

Square Puzzlers are differentiated, making them great for any elementary classroom.  Your students will beg to do them.

Exercise deductive reasoning, inferencing, drawing conclusion, problem solving, sequencing, and computation with Leprechaun Logic.  This product is also exclusive to TPT Easel.

Outwit the Wee Lads is another digital only, TPT Easel product that exercises critical thinking.

The March Edition of Vocabulary Fractions provides print and digital versions of these task cards that challenge learners to find fractional parts of words.  They combine the fractional parts to create March vocabulary.  Challenging, but oh, so fun!

ELA

Everyone loves Hink Pinks, et al. and your students will, too.  Tons of ELA skills are disguised as fun word riddles.

St. Patrick's Day and more March topics are addressed in these 11 poems.  Each poem has skill lessons and teaching points custom designed for it.  
 

MATH

Create a fresh bulletin board for March that doubles as a math center, fast finishers' challenge, and/or enrichment activity.  It's differentiated to accommodate K-6th grades. 

Leprechaun Riddles provide practice with multiplication facts in print or digitally.  Kiddos will enjoy the riddles!

Primary students will love these March Tangram Puzzles. 

MULTIPLE SUBJECTS

Mad About March is a thematic unit perfect for primary grades.  

SCRATTLE combines word work with computation.  This product is differentiated to accommodate students with varying math abilities. 

 

IT'S ABOUT TIME for IDIOMS!

Idioms are phrases that have meanings quite different from the individual words.  Understanding the figurative meaning of idioms is essential to fluent speaking, reading, and writing.  And, thus, they are particularly problematic to English Language Learners.  Even native speakers may struggle with the non-literal meaning of idioms.  Hence, it's important to include idiom instruction in your curricula.

Research tells us that optimal instruction for students includes these tenets:

• choose a theme
• engage learners in discovery
• reinforce with games
• discuss specific idioms
• combine idioms with pictures

Now you just need teaching materials.  That's a piece of cake with these resources. Thematic and formatted similarly, each offers:

• card sets that illustrate the literal meaning
  and give the figurative meaning
• instructions for 4 games
• Scoot grid master
• digital activity on TPT Easel

The last 5 units are available in a money saving bundle.

All of the above resources are CCSS aligned for grades 3-5.

These 2 units are FREE!  They allow your learners to display their creativity as they make the illustrations of the literal meanings.