As teaching has shifted to a digital classroom setting, so has the WAY teachers deliver instruction. Mentor sentence lessons are something I have always been a strong believer that doesn’t fit the 1:1 mold: The class discussions drive the lessons. They learn from each other through those discussions. Misconceptions should be corrected right away and […]
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Virtual Learning in the ELA Classroom
Years ago, when schools were closed for snow, flooding, or mass illnesses, the school year was extended to make sure students got in all of their learning days. Virtual learning was like something from The Jetsons! Now, districts can choose to have digital learning days to help make up for that missed learning. In this […]
How to Model Descriptive Writing With a Mentor Text
Descriptive writing, or what many teachers like to call “show, don’t tell writing,” is a skill that needs to be practiced and modeled A LOT for students to truly master it. Check out one of my favorite lessons for modeling writing with a mentor text to help students be as descriptive as possible! This lesson […]
Analyzing primary sources and discussing persuasive language are a couple skills included in just one of the several lessons in the weeklong unit to go along with the NONFICTION mentor text, Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet!
It would be perfect to use next week before the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, and it's on sale through Tuesday!
www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Balloons-Over-Broadway-Mentor-Text-Unit-for-Grades-3-5-Distan...
You'll be able to share the history of the parade with students, and get in a ton of informational standards, too.
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT?
🎈a week of plans that teach text structure, primary sources, analyzing photos, and vivid verbs using the book, Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet (book not included)
🎈detailed explicit lessons, including teacher samples a week-at-a-glance plan
🎈digitally converted activities in Google Slides, when applicable
🎈mentor sentence lesson teaching vivid verbs
🎈reading lessons to teach chronology, compare & contrast, cause & effect, and problem & solution
🎈writing lessons to examine language of primary source advertisements, and then design their own newspaper advertisement
🎈writing lessons to analyze photographs, and then write from the point of view of someone in the photograph
🎈compare & contrast constructed response activity with primary source photographs
🎈two original informational articles about the Macy's Parade (written by me)
🎈printables for skill practice
🎈graphic organizers for skill practice
🎈evidence-based terms list and poster
🎈text structures poster
🎈short assessments
Grab it now and you’ll have all of your ELA lessons done for you (in digital and print formats) for just $4, on sale through Tuesday!
www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Balloons-Over-Broadway-Mentor-Text-Unit-for-Grades-3-5-Distan...
Did you know I have a weeklong unit to go along with the NONFICTION mentor text, Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet?
It would be perfect to use next week before the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, and it's on sale through Tuesday!
www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Balloons-Over-Broadway-Mentor-Text-Unit-for-Grades-3-5-Distan...
You'll be able to share the history of the parade with students, and get in a ton of informational standards, too.
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT?
🎈a week of plans that teach text structure, primary sources, analyzing photos, and vivid verbs using the book, Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet (book not included)
🎈detailed explicit lessons, including teacher samples a week-at-a-glance plan
🎈digitally converted activities in Google Slides, when applicable
🎈mentor sentence lesson teaching vivid verbs
🎈reading lessons to teach chronology, compare & contrast, cause & effect, and problem & solution
🎈writing lessons to examine language of primary source advertisements, and then design their own newspaper advertisement
🎈writing lessons to analyze photographs, and then write from the point of view of someone in the photograph
🎈compare & contrast constructed response activity with primary source photographs
🎈two original informational articles about the Macy's Parade (written by me)
🎈printables for skill practice
🎈graphic organizers for skill practice
🎈evidence-based terms list and poster
🎈text structures poster
🎈short assessments
Grab it now and you’ll have all of your ELA lessons done for you (in digital and print formats) for just $4, on sale through Tuesday!
www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Balloons-Over-Broadway-Mentor-Text-Unit-for-Grades-3-5-Distan...
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Volume 2 ELA Interactive Notebooks (companions to Volume 2 mentor sentences) are now updated!
www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Interactive-Language-Arts-Notebook-Vol-2-Bundle-Grades-3-5-Fo...
If you own them, make sure to re-download from wherever you purchased - whether it's on TPT, if you purchased through the course, or in the shop on my website.
These interactive notebooks have taken a lot longer to update as every activity has had to be completely remade to work digitally. Thank you for your patience!
In case you missed the last announcement, Volume 1 ELA Interactive Notebooks (companions to Volume 1 mentor sentences) have also been updated, and Volume 3 ELA Interactive Notebooks (companions to Volume 3 mentor sentences) will be done by the end of the week! (Just the Basics will also get updated at the end of the week once Volume 3 is completed.)
As most of you know by now, I am pregnant and our baby girl could come any day. If for some reason Volume 3 doesn't get updated this week, that would be the likely reason why. 😉
I will be taking some time away from creation when she is born, so at this point (other than what I've listed above), I've updated as much as I can for you to be digital, and that will be all that happens for a while. I appreciate your understanding!
If you aren't sure if something you own has been updated, before asking in a Q&A, since my replies will likely be delayed, my best advice for you is to RE-DOWNLOAD and then check the table of contents of the new files!! 😘
