Use this reading management binder to plan and organize your reading workshop. Includes a wide variety of pages to make planning easier.

Here is the next installment in my parent handout sheets - Building A Reader At Home: So many parents want to help their child become a better reader but they often want tips and ideas other than "read every night", "ask questions", etc. In an effort to share reading tips with parents, I created this little handout that would be great to hand out at the beginning of the school year, parent nights, or parent conferences. When meeting with parents, you might also want to highlight the areas…

Use a Ketchup Folder to manage missed assignments when students are absent

Calling parents: If you’re a teacher about make a difficult phone call to a parent, there are several things you can do to make sure all goes smoothly. These are suggestions I myself have used as a middle school teacher.

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Looking to implement student data tracking this year? This post provides with an easy process to start tracking data for math and ELA in your classroom. It doesn't matter if you teach upper elementary or lower elementary, your students will track their own data, hold themselves accountable, and make your life easier.

A huge THANK YOU to ALL of my followers!!! Hope I can always provide a lot of wonderful {FREE} resources for you!! I fiddled around with this freebie all day & to my surprise, I noticed I reached just beyond 300 followers upon posting this... Here, I made an EDITABLE binder just in case others out there wanted to use it:) If you have any trouble with editing, I will be happy to help guide you along. Need monthly calendars for your binder? Click here (calendars I made a while back). You can…

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EDITABLE LESSON PLAN TEMPLATES. ORGANIZE YOUR YEAR IN STYLE! CREATE A DIGITAL OR PRINTED LESSON PLAN BOOK USING THESE BEAUTIFULLY FORMATTED LESSON PLAN TEMPLATES. (Four styles and templates available!)

Do you ever feel like you're drowning in paperwork? Do you have stacks of papers as far as the eye can see? Is it a rare occurrence when 100% of your class turns in an assignment? I've been in your shoes and there is a way to tame the paper tiger. Have you ever read the book "The Tipping Point"? The author, Malcolm Gladwell, gives examples of how small things can make big differences. My tipping point with paperwork was when I came up with this form: The form above is a microsoft doc. For…

This is an EDITABLE weekly lesson plan template formatted to include Common Core Standards as well as many of the categories necessary for different types of evaluations like Content and Language Objectives. The Common Core Standards are listed by their numbers on the side so you can circle them ri...

Okay, so I totally expected to blog about something completely different today, but didn’t get my act together in time. My real job took precedence and I am still running to catch up. (This seems like my life story as of late.) The beginning of the year is always crazy, but our school loves to

I think it's very important to make sure students have a daily homework planner. In my class, this planner needs to be filled out each day in class (we do it together), checked and signed off by a parent/guardian each night, then returned for a teacher stamp each morning.This way, everyone's on the same page about what and when homework, projects, and notes are due. I know you can buy fancy student planners, but I prefer to make my own. First, I make a weekly template and include any…

We're going on a field trip tomorrow. I think most of us would agree that field trips are exciting, but somewhat hectic too. In the jumble of getting everything organized, it's easy to forget to thank your chaperones and bus drivers for helping. That's where my newest freebie comes in. I have my students write thank you notes to their group chaperone and bus driver. I bundle the notes together, staple my poem on top, and then add a piece of candy too. So easy! You can get your own set of…