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The Mini-Syllabus
The Mini-Syllabus provides a brief overview of both your course and your expectations for students. using the Canva template, you can customize the mini to make it suit your needs, download it and then upload it to your course page. It’s an easy and colorful way to share information with students and parents.
Anchor Charts & Infographics
These can be posterized, laminated and hung on the walls of your classroom. Or, more simply, you can upload them to your course website for students to have access to.
This tool maps out the 5 steps of conducting academic research. Students can use this as a guide and make their own foldable research guides.
This helps students understand how to introduce the ideas of other writers and speakers. By doing this, students can avoid confusion and plagiarism. This file includes a second page with information on how to punctuate quoted material.
This PowerPoint is fully customizable and emphasizes engaging openers, focus, clarity, support and the flow of ideas.
Worksheets & Graphic Organizers
Fully customizable, these Word files can be uploaded to your course website or printed and distributed to students.
This graphic organizer helps students to analyze literature by asking them to identify the speaker, the occasion, audience, purpose, subject and tone.
These sentence starters are designed to help students elevate the style of their writing and use sophisticated language to discuss the pieces they read.
(Fiction & Nonfiction sentence starters included)
Two-page, customizable document that presents the do’s and don’ts of writing effective research questions. The second page has lines for students to draft some of their own research questions.
Rubrics & Assessment Tools
These can be posterized, laminated and hung on the walls of your classroom. Or, more simply, you can upload them to your course website for students to have access to.
This is an abbreviated version of my standard rubric and it allows students to see what’s required to earn the grade they’d like.
This rubric can be used for a broad range of Language Arts assignment types.
This is an abbreviated version of my standard grading skill. It allows students to see what’s required to earn the grade they’d like.
This tool encourages students to revise their writing for clarity and depth; their responses should always restate the question, answer it correctly, cite the most appropriate text evidence and then elaborate to demonstrate familiarity with the topic.
Unit Plans & Projects
Fully customizable, these Word files can be uploaded to your course website or printed and distributed to students.
This set of lessons focuses on thematic messages in the “coming-of-age” genre. The unit plan includes discussion questions, written response questions, journal activities, a partnered activity and a writing activity.