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This free student glossary template and teacher vocabulary planner has been designed to help teachers plan for explicit, scaffolded vocabulary instruction before reading. The glossary and planning template can be used alongside any text!
This download includes:
A comprehensive teacher planning document designed to help you identify Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary that may present challenges within a complex text, and plan for scaffolded instruction that supports comprehension.
A glossary template (PDF and editable) to guide explicit instruction of essential vocabulary before reading, and to serve as a helpful student reference during and after reading.
Help your students strengthen the flow of their writing with this transition words and phrases reference tool! This free download includes two ‘Transition Words and Phrases’ reference tools.
The first version is an introductory list, which is ideal for younger writers, or learners who may benefit from a more concise list of transitions.
The second version contains a more comprehensive list of transitions.
Each list groups the transition words and phrases into categories and provides sample sentences.
This resource can be used to support explicit instruction of transitions while giving students a tool they can return to as they build independence. Use it during modeling, guided practice, or as a handy reference in student writing folders!
This free download provides a clear, ready-to-use reference page to help you create an effective anchor chart for introducing topic sentences. It includes a detailed breakdown of what to feature on your chart, along with practical ideas for adding a collaborative, interactive element to engage students.
Perfect for including in your teaching and planning documents, this resource supports explicit paragraph writing instruction in the upper elementary classroom and helps you set students up for writing success.
This free download provides a clear, ready-to-use reference page to help you create an effective anchor chart for teaching topic sentences (main idea) and supporting details.
It includes a detailed breakdown of what to feature on your chart, along with a range of differentiation options.
This simple anchor chart supports explicit instruction, is easy to differentiate, and can be used for repeated practice.
These paragraph outline templates are designed to support your students in planning clear, well-structured paragraphs.
Based on the Hochman Method from The Writing Revolution by Judith Hochman and Natalie Wexler, these outlines provide a simple yet powerful framework for bridging thinking and writing. When used as part of explicit instruction, paragraph outlines can significantly improve the coherence and clarity of student writing.
A simple, effective instructional tool to activate and assess students' background knowledge before reading!
An anticipation guide is an instructional tool designed to help you surface what students already know about a topic, set a clear purpose for reading, and encourage meaningful engagement with complex texts.
Whether you're introducing a content-rich topic in science, social studies, or literacy, this flexible template can be used across subjects and adapted to suit any grade level.
I created this reference tool to support upper elementary students during the revising and editing stages of writing.
From my own classroom experience, I have found that when reference pages are too text-heavy, students are less likely to use them! With that in mind, I’ve done my best to include only the most essential text, with helpful visuals and examples to support understanding.
This template has been designed to support explicit instruction of paragraph structure. It can be printed and displayed as an anchor chart or used as a reference tool during writing lessons! This chart breaks down the ‘What’, ‘Why’ and ‘How’ of paragraph structure, and includes a dedicated space to flexibly study a range of mentor paragraphs.
Also included in this download are options for extending your students’ understanding of paragraphs to more complex structures.
This free download includes printable black & white AND Google Slides templates to accompany 7 key morphology instructional routines:
Morphological Word Web; Matrices & Word Sums; Cloze Sentences; Morpheme Scramble; Pronunciation Sort; In or Out of the Family?; Parts Card Strategy.
This one-page reference sheet identifies 7 ways that students may choose to organize their notes during research-based tasks.
A handy guide for both teachers and students!
This reference guide lists abbreviations and symbols that are commonly used during note-taking and has been inspired by ‘The Writing Revolution’ (Hochman & Wexler, 2017). The purpose of this guide is to support students in shortening the text they are reading or hearing into concise, easy-to-understand notes.
Research has shown sentence combining to be one of the most powerful instructional methods for teaching grammar.
This resource includes a student-friendly sentence combining anchor chart, and a template that can be used to guide any sentence combining activity.
Want to know more about sentence combining? Read about it in my blog post here!
Do you feel overwhelmed or confused by sentence-level grammar terms? Would you like to develop a deeper understanding of sentence structure? Or perhaps you’d find it helpful to have a reference guide at your fingertips when planning for sentence-level instruction?
If so, this guide is for you!
Also a great resource for parents, paraprofessionals, university students or even older high school students!
Are you noticing that your students need some support adding descriptive details to their narrative writing?
This brainstorming template is a great way to help students combine adjectives with sensory details, creating a bank of descriptive details that writers can refer to throughout the writing process.
Looking for a way to find out more about your readers?
This 3 page reading inventory is the perfect way to learn more about your students’ reading preferences, habits and experiences!
A great resource to use at the beginning of a new school year.
A versatile and highly effective thinking routine template that can be used for a wide range of topics and across many subject areas!
A color version of the template is included, as well as a black-and-white copy for easy printing.
If you are searching for a simple system to help your students organize their research notes, look no further!
This research portfolio template is a great way to support students as they navigate the research process and learn how to organize their note taking according to research questions.
Included in this resource are activities to support a mini unit focusing on Kandinsky's famous artwork, 'Composition VIII'.
Students will learn about Kandinsky through a reading activity and explore how he used geometric elements in the design of his artwork. Children will create their own piece of artwork inspired by Kandinsky's design!
A simple planning and publishing template to support students in writing their own Haiku about Earth.
The publishing template can be cut out and colored to create a fun bulletin board in your classroom to celebrate our beautiful Earth!
A free sample of my ‘Poetry Unit Bundle’.
In this download you will receive classroom posters for Alliteration and Diamante Poetry with ready-to-go printable activities. Also included are introductory activities that you can use at the beginning of a poetry unit!