Informational Text Features - Teacher Resources

Grab your informational text feature anchor charts HERE  and catch some compliments on your teaching bulletin board.

                                 

Informational Text Features Anchor Charts

These anchor charts for informational texts help the reader make sense of the information they are reading. They are building blocks for text structure.  

When reading fiction, readers notice the different story elements (i.e. title, characters, setting, main idea etc.). When reading non-fiction, they use informational text features.  

Post these bright, colorful and informative anchor charts to learn reading strategies when reading non-fiction. Your students will learn these important text features and will gain knowledge on what they are and how they are used to help reading comprehension.   

These anchor charts will make an eye-catching interactive bulletin board that you can keep up for months.  Each text feature is explained in detail and includes an illustration.  Start putting them up in your classroom or writing corner as you discuss and learn each feature.  There are 17 informational text features that collectively make your bulletin board that can be interactive and used as a reference when your students read informational texts. 

The 17 Anchor Charts on informational text features are:

• Titles
• Headings
• Subheadings
• Table of Contents
• Photographs
• Illustrations
• Diagrams
• Captions
• Types of Print
• Timelines
• Graphs
• Maps
• Index
• Glossary
• Labels
• Lists
• Icons

Here are some close ups of some of the anchor charts:

Students can reference these each time they read informational text.    

Each anchor chart shows an informational text feature with description of the feature and an illustration. Bright borders of blue and orange. 

Each anchor chart measures approximately 8" x 10.5".  No-Prep for teacher. 

Yes, I want these anchor charts for Informational Text Features

Find these informational text feature anchor charts HERE  and catch some compliments on your teaching bulletin board. 

Text features improve comprehension of the information read.   Authors use maps, diagrams and photographs to help the reader understand more easily what they are reading.  The reader can visualize and understand more fully by studying the informational text features provided within the text.  Text features also help the reader navigate the reading material with the use of a table of contents, an index and a glossary.  Viewing a photograph that has been labeled gives the reader the support he needs to understand the text. 

Yes, I want these anchor charts for my classroom

Text features such as a table of contents or index provides the reader with easy access to the information he is seeking.  Special print can draw attention and enhance specific parts of the text and to key words and phrases. 

Beginning readers can use photographs, headings, subheadings and diagrams to help them read new words and text.  They are able to make predictions by using prior knowledge and text features.  

To illustrate the importance of these text features to the reading, type up only the text eliminating all the text features.  Have your students read the text.  Talk about the reading.  Next, read the complete text WITH the text features.  Discuss the reasons why the text features were important to understanding and clarity.  

Find these Informational Text Feature Anchor Charts HERE. 

There are 17 anchor charts which make an interactive teaching bulletin board.

Refer to them often when teaching informational text. 

Yes, I want these anchor charts for Informational Text Features

Post a reference board on Informational Text Features in your classroom with these colorful and bold anchor charts. Borders are blue and orange. Each anchor chart measures approximately 8” x 10.5”. These will easily be printed out on standard size paper and you will have a bit of room to trim to the borders.

Preview of all 17 Anchor Charts HERE

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Check Out the Library | Teaching Library Etiquette | Resources for Elementary Teachers

Check Out the Library

Teach Library Etiquette... visit the library and improve reading achievement. Introduce the library to beginning readers. Read more books. Learn new words. Create a bulletin board.  This teaching resource includes pages to improve reading skills and learn all about the library. The pages adapt easily to differentiated instruction as this resource includes introduction pages, easy pages, just right and challenging pages. Choose the pages that are best for your students.

Research consistently shows that when children have access to good libraries with plenty of good books and with adequate support and direction, they read more and thus do better in reading.

This resource will allow you to individualize instruction within your library lesson. This will provide each student with the challenge or support they need on their learning journey.   Some phonics, decoding and word work is also included.

Role model library etiquette on your visit to the library.

• using a quiet voice
• being considerate of others studying or reading
• showing respect and responsibility for handling books
• waiting quietly at check out
• whispering when talking
• 
  

The library can become a favorite destination and a good resource for supporting reading once your students learn the rules.  Find this teaching resource HERE

Yes ! to lifelong learners! Check It Out!

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Improve Student Behavior and Academic Achievements | Elementary Grades

Award Cards for Your Students

Award Cards to Improve Academics & Citizenship

Catch your students' attention with award cards; and begin a meaningful classroom discussion about academics, citizenship, and learning achievements.

These award cards provide an opportunity to:

1. Enhance Self-Esteem
2. Motivate Students
3. Encourage Complete Assignments and Homework
4. Improve Classroom Behavior

Multiplication Practice for 3rd Graders

STUDENTS PRACTICE  MULTIPLICATION FACTS WHILE LEARNING STATES AND CAPITALS

Multiplication Practice - USA

Spin, name and color USA map. Students become motivated and engaged

in the first 5 minutes!  Students love playing this game, and multiplication fact practice   is part of the game!  This is a spin, name and color USA map. Working with a partner, color in the USA map while knowing your multiplication facts. Tables included for practice are: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12. This is a NO PREP activity.   

Just download, print and hand out. Students use a paper clip-pencil spinner 

to know their facts. Directions are included both for the students and the teacher. 

Check lists included so students can check their answers for both multiplication facts and USA state and capital knowledge.   Cover to make a folder for this activity is also included. This would be appropriate for grades 3 and 4 and homeschoolers or anyone learning multiplication and would like to add USA geography to the fun.  You might use this in a learning center, seat work or morning work.  This can be a perfect time filler with a very positive outcome.

NO PREP printables

multiplication fact practice

USA geography

states and capitals

 

Grab this resource now to engage your students in learning multiplication facts, USA geography, USA States and Capitals with smiles on their faces!

Easy set up, play goes on for many days until their maps are completely colored in.  Play for about 20-30 minutes, set them away and wait for them to ask, "May we play Multiplication-USA again!"

Multiplication Facts & USA - Find Yours HERE

This resource is on sale NOW.  February 17 - February 20

More Multiplication resources that are also on sale are:

Multiplication Facts | Bundle | Strategies and Practice Pages | Math Centers

Multiplication Practice | Math Riddles | 3rd Grade Math

Teaching Resources for February | Elementary Grades

Teaching Resources that engage your students in meaningful learning and save YOU time.   Browse below to see some of the Teaching Resources that will brighten your room and engage your students in reading, writing, speaking and listening.  Find math resources that teach the language of all around numbers and facts that engage thinking.  

See More Book Companions

All the book companions for your favorite read alouds for the first week of school. Set the tone of your classroom with children's literature. 

Find your favorite:

The Day It Rained Hearts 

One and Only You

Big Al

Chrysanthemum

Red, a Crayon's Story

Giraffes Can't Dance

Enemy Pie

A Bad Case of Stripes

Stick and Stone

click book companions to find the entire list.

Teach literacy and life lessons with children's literature and use my book companions for many favorite books from your classroom library.  

There are many more resources to choose from; be sure to follow as all new teaching resources listed are 50% off for the first 24 hours; follow to receive notifications of new listings, sales and updates... Thank You Followers

Abraham Lincoln 

Abraham Lincoln Writing Prompts

Three pages to write about Abraham Lincoln. Easy graphic organizer to write a very short biography, page to write what you know about Lincoln and one page to write some important facts and highlights about AbrahamLincoln. You could use these pages after any book about Abraham Lincoln. 

The biography page includes a space to write his birthplace, birthdate, family, and height. Jot down some important facts about Lincoln's life. Write one question you might have for Lincoln if you met him. Draw a small portrait of Lincoln. Display some of your favorite books about Abraham Lincoln and use these writing pages to create a writing center for February.

The Day It Rained Hearts - Book Companion

The Day It Rained Hearts, by Felicia Bond. This book is a very sweet story about imagination, creativity and friendship. Cornelia Augusta finds herself in a rainstorm of hearts! What fun! 

There are 21 pages here to respond in writing to this cute valentine story. It's a favorite and children love to find out who the valentines are for.... book talk notes and teacher notes included. You can easily assign these pages for distance learning and school-at-home.

This book companion is to be used with the book; The Day It Rained Hearts, by Felicia Bond.

Complete a Reading Interest Survey. Easy to use. Download and print. Find out valuable information to build reading skills in your classroom.  Take a Reading Interest Inventory of your students and learn about their thoughts about reading. This information can help you plan your lessons to reach each student in your classroom and teach them to become lifelong readers.

Reading Survey - Improve Reading Achievement

Once you know your students’ interests, you have an opportunity to find books that they enjoy. If they enjoy reading, they will read more. If they read more, reading achievement will be reaching new heights. Taking time to do Interest Inventories is an investment that will pay dividends later, especially for the struggling readers who might not think they would enjoy reading anything. With the right topic choice based on interest, you might hook every kid onto reading this year!

Classroom Posters

Catch their attention with these bright, colorful and meaningful classroom posters to teach admirable character traits. These posters can be a springboard for important class discussions on building good character. Display them in your classroom and refer to them often. Attitude in your classroom makes a difference.

There are 12 posters:

• Be Brave
• Be Wise
• Be Curious
• Stand Tall
• Be Reliable
• Be Resourceful
• Be Loyal
• Be Honest
• Dream Big
• Be Clean
• Be Kind
• Be Clever

Make your classroom colorful and bright and teach admirable character traits.

Riddles for Math - Multiplication

  Students engage in solving catchy and fun  riddles  and LEARN their multiplication facts, too! Each page starts out with a riddle to read and think about... students then complete the multiplication facts and match the number and letters to solve the riddle.

This multiplication practice resource

for school or at home includes:

• 20 riddle pages with multiplication facts 
• and fun pictures to color
• multiplication facts from 0 - 12, mixed on each page
• answers for riddles page

This math activity engages children in learning their multiplication facts. Students can complete the multiplication pages independently, with a partner, in a small group or with the entire class. Also works great for distance learning and school at home. Great for small group math station while teacher time is with another small group. These pages are appropriate for 3rd graders and homeschoolers who are learning their multiplication facts.

100 Days of School Interactive Booklets

 One Hundred Days of School  - What's the Count?

Celebrate the 100th day with these bright and colorful interactive booklets!

Grab Your Booklet Here

Easy to make! Only 2 pages and you will have created an eight page booklet. Students interact to read, spell, solve and draw with the number 100 in mind.

• Read 100 sight words
• Spell 100 words
• Solve 100 math facts
• Draw 100 geometric shapes

Your students will love making it to 100 on each of these pages.

Print in colors to add to the celebration.

Also included are more pages to make your 100th day a bit special.

• A 100th day Coloring Page
• A 100 circle chart
• 100 buttons in a jar [page] to count and color
• Number Grid from 1-100
• Fill in the missing numbers from 1-100 chart
• 100 Days Smarter coloring page

How will you celebrate the 100th day of school without any sugar?  Here are five ways you can do that and your students will be smarter and healthier. 

Grab Your Interactive Booklet Right Here

 #1.  Make an Interactive Booklet where students read 100 sight words, spell 100 words, solve 100 math facts, and draw 100 geometric shapes.  They love making this booklet and especially love making it to 100 for each of the tasks included

Read 100 Sight Words -  Spell 100 words - 

Solve 100 Math Facts - Draw 100 geometric shapes

#2.   Many teachers like to graph food items.  If you are inclined to make a 100's graph, let's make a healthy list of food items you might use instead of those sugary ones

Reading Fluency and Sight Word Practice

Reading Fluency and Learning Sight Words ...Practice your fluency in reading and learn sight words with these pages.

There are 30 pages to practice reading fluency and learning sight words in this teaching resource.

Sight words are: 

the, of, and, a, to in, is, you, that, it, he, for, was, on, are, as, with, his, they, at, be, this, from, I, have, or, by, one, had, not.

The sight words are from Rebecca Sitton sight work list 1.

Each page illustrates a short reading passage to read including the sight word. Student reads sentences for fluency in a structured manner, answers a short comprehension question and writes the sight word.

Focus skills:

• reading fluency
• introduction to answering comprehension questions for beginning readers
• handwriting practice
• recognizing and reading sight words
• color a picture that matches the sentence

These pages are perfect for small group instruction or independent seat work for beginning readers.

See more  here. 

Santa's Elves | TEACH WORK ETHIC | Teaching Resources for Christmas

Santa's Elves | Work Ethic

These academic practice pages will teach the importance of a good work ethic with a Christmas  theme.  These seventeen pages give practice and review for literacy.  You will build a vocabulary around the keywords 'work ethic'. 

 Children smile when thinking about the hard work all the elves do to help Santa.  These pages help motivate excited children about this joyous holiday.  It provides an opportunity to teach giving to others, helping others and  that work is a virtue.  Work enables the person to carry out a purposeful activity that provides an inner purpose, and helps the person integrate his mind, body and soul.  

Work is important and meaningful. 

Keywords for this lesson:  

dedication, discipline, cooperation, productivity,

 integrity and reliability.  

Parent | Teacher Conferences | Forms and Handouts | Reporting Student Progress

Teacher -Parent Conference Forms and Handouts

Everything You Need for Your Parent Conferences! 

Parent Conference Forms to take notes at your parent-teacher conference, reminder notes to send home, 3 handouts to give out at your conference. 

Easy PRINTABLES and they are in both color and black & white. Separate EDITABLE file too so you can edit the text on the conference forms if you wish. Simply click on red text and type in your own specific information. 

Pages Include:

• Parent Conference form for Fall
• Parent Conference form for Winter
• Parent Conference form for Spring
• Parent Conference form for Anytime
• Parent Conference Reminder Notes to send home
• Editable file of All the forms

3 Handouts for Your Parents

• How Can I Help My Child Be Successful at School?
• How Can I Help My Child Read?
• How Can I Help My Child Write?

Also included are 2 signs to put on your door at conference time. Signs read:

"Please KNOCK if it is your scheduled time to help us keep on schedule" 

and of course, I added art and color to the signs.