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Successful planning for the r-skills assessment {Read 180}

 It took me nearly all of my first year teaching Read 180 before it occurred to me...know your end point BEFORE you begin each workshop. Print out the R-skills assessment and look over the objectives that are to  be taught...a starting from the end approach to lesson planning. It  improved the quality of planning, aided me in determining when to reteach, and the student's R-skills scores and levels of confidence increased immensely!

We are required to display our teaching objectives. I think it is a great idea. It is a nice visual reminder of "where you are going", providing focus to lesson planning. I created a bulletin board displaying all of the objectives that should be mastered before taking the R-skills test. It proved to be road map to our learning.

Knowing that the year will quickly get busy, I thought it would be wonderful to have the objectives and bulletin board materials right at my finger tips.

So I did. I created 100 + posters to complement the Read 180 {stage A} classroom.   They are ready to go! I am sharing them on my TpT store. (Well, you know...I have to raise a couple of bucks. The linoleum in my kitchen has to go. It's avocado, blue and gold. I hope you understand!)

 



Feel free to click around and explore the store. The posters are available in pink, blue, light green and white with green lettering. There are posters to display objectives as well as a colorful workshop # and title poster set.

 

 It's going to be a great school year!

Getting Ready...and I can't wait!

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{Freebie} For your Read 180 Classroom

I LOVE teaching Read 180! Keeping the students organized can be a challenge, especially the various writing pieces. Ultimately I found that it was easiest to keep all of the writing in a journal organized by workshop. I use the following journal pages to create journals of 10-15 double sided pages. 

Why not just any notebook?
Once you create the journal for the student to write in, they can be stored right in the R—book for the duration of the workshop. Anytime the student needs more space for a written answer, it is handy! It also provides a nice place for  the student to begin workshop writing projects. I noticed it is easy for students to refer back to their previous written pieces when using the journals. Now grading time… well it is so much easier to carry home a stack of journals vs. a mountain of composition notebooks!

The titles of workshops appear on each cover page. No other materials from the Read 180 program appear within this document.
All clip art is subject to copyright and belongs to the designer listed in the end pages.

Enjoy!  ~ Shannon @ Classy Gal Designs and Publishing
Free~ Just visit my TpT store.

Guided Writing Journal

 Here's the latest addition to my shop:

 

 

 

This Guided Writing Journal touches on the following areas of the common core, while making writing FUN!
 
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.1 Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point  view with reasons and information.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.1a Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which related ideas are grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.1b Provide reasons that are supported by facts and details.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.1c Link opinion and reasons using words and phrases (e.g., for instance, in order to, in addition)."How to" / informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.3c Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events.

The 20 page reflective journal gives students a space to write about what matters to them!

$5 TpT

I hope you are having  a GREAT summer!

Sincerely,

A Fun Math Activity ...Candy Math for Grades 3-5 Fractions Percentages and Decimals OH MY !

 

Chocolate Candy Math...Discovering Fractions, Decimals and Percentages!

 Dear Teachers,
This is a quick and fun activity that is sure to engage students. Using multi-colored candy ask students to sort them by color and find out the fraction, decimal, and percent for each group of red, green, yellow, brown, blue and orange candies. Results can be recorded on this worksheet. Math should be fun!

Bonus activities include:

**Worksheet to Graph results of candy sort
** Candy Opinion Poll {What is your favorite candy?} with tally data collection and
**Worksheet to allow students to graph their results

Sincerely,
Shannon Henderson
Classy Gal Designs and Publishing


Chocolate Candy Math by Classy Gal Designs and Publishing is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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Creating A Blog Button {EASY PEASY}

Creating a blog button...I always manage to miss one > , & or / that messes the whole thing up! Ugh!

I was very happy when I realized all it takes is these few easy steps, thanks to this website:

http://www.mycoolrealm.com/sandbox/gbgen/

This is what you do:

1. Choose an image for your button. I created mine in Microsoft Publisher, saved as a JPG and then used Picmonkey to resize it.

**Keep your tabs open as you use the websites, just in case.** 

 2. Go to picmonkey.com and click on 'edit a photo'. Select the image that you want. Here you can crop/ resize it to a square image...choose 125 x 125  or 250 x 250. Save this image to your computer.

3. Head over to http://www.photobucket.com/. This is where you will get the URL for you image. I think Photobucket is the easiest one to grab an URL. It appears in a box in the right.

 Copy the direct link.  

4. Get your CODE. Go to the code generator and input your information. http://www.mycoolrealm.com/sandbox/gbgen/

5. Copy this and head over to your BLOG. Go to the template, "add a gadget", choose  the HTML/Java option, paste and save!

I was very pleased with how {easy} it was!

Thanks to

 {SOURCE}

Have a great day!

First Day Of School Activity: All About Me~ Back to School Student Survey

I know, I'm thinking about the first day of school already!

I really want those first days to go smoothly.

Here is the latest addition to my TpT and Teacher's Notebook store:

 

 

 

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/All-About-MeBack-to-School-Student-Survey-761776

 

 

I think that will be a great way to get to know the kids and discover any areas where I can help or  encourage!

 

 



FREE CLIP ART {Borders and Frames}

{Border and Frames} at Classy Gal Designs and Publishing