guides

• Places worth stopping and jotting when reading a book
• Short writing exercises (especially useful for English Language Learners) – can be made easier or harder depending on the grade level of your student
• Writing organizers
  • • Helping hand
    • Writing web – example
    • Writing web – blank
    • Writing web – 2 tiered
    • Sandwich chart
    • Opinion brainstorming
    • Organizing my opinion 
    • Opinion writing organizer
• Reading response choices to write about

REFERENCE MATERIALS

High frequency words K-4th grade

• • High frequency words, often also called sight words (or no-excuse words), are commonly used words  that young children are encouraged to memorize as a whole by sight, so that they can automatically recognize these words in print without having to use any strategies to decode.

SLIDES/VIDEOS

• Slide presentation Kim Norgaard, Upper elementary students

websites

• education.com – print up to 10 feee worksheets per month
• ixl.com – comprehensive k-12 curriculum, some students have their own accounts
• khanacademy.org – Khan Academy – their mission is to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
• pinterest.com – for example search for ‘math games for 1st grade”
• pta.org/home/family-resources/Parents-Guides-to-Student-Success – created for grades K-8 and high school English, language arts/literacy and mathematics, the guides provide clear, consistent expectations for what students should be learning at each grade in order to be prepared for college and career.
• quizlet.com – flash cards on all topics