Spring Has Sprung and Games Are Fun!

Spring has sprung and games are fun! It's springtime which means it's time for some new games. Classroom games can improve thinking skills.

I love games! When I first started teaching, I quickly realized kids LOVE games too! They are more engaged and are involved in an activity when a game is being played. They have fun and they don't even realize they are learning either. Plus, games provide much needed practice on curriculum standards.

I have a ton of games that are educational, engaging, and challenging for your students for a variety of classrooms. 

 

  

Here are more spring resources for you. Click the picture on the left to see all my spring resources.

Here is a blog post on how games boost learning. Click the picture to read more about games.

Have fun playing games.
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6-Traits Writing Posters and Checklist

Do you use the 6-Traits of Writing in the classroom? The 6-Traits of writing can help guide students to have all the components in their writing and improve their overall writing score. I created a few sets of 6-Traits Writing posters.

These 6-Trait Writing Posters can jazz up your writing bulletin board. Each poster displays one of the 6-Traits of Writing. Also included is a checklist for students to make sure they covered all the traits in their writing. Store the checklist in students' writing folders.

 

Here is a FREE 6-Traits Writing Checklist.
Click the picture below to download this checklist.

Get 6-Traits Writing Posters and Checklist right here at Teacher's Take-Out for a discounted price.

6-Traits of Writing Posters in a kid theme! These are bright and colorful posters. They will stand out on your writing wall. They are also perfect to present your writing lesson with. A great visual for students to use with their writing. These also come in a black and white copy. Click the picture on the left to read more about these posters. 


I found a few good resources for your classroom using the 6-Traits of Writing:
Traits of Good Writing Posters
Writing Bulletin Board Set
6 Traits of Writing for 2nd Grade
6 Traits of Writing for 3rd Grade

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Freebie! Grammar - Roll a Sentence

I have a great resource that will help teach grammar, work on writing complete sentences, and practice addition skills! All 3 skills wrapped into one! This resource is great for 1st-3rd graders. But 4th and 5th graders can certainly take advantage and will have some fun doing it. Older students can make some really good sentences. 

Students will roll 2 dice and add them for a sum. They choose the noun, verb, adjective, preposition, and location from the grammar boards according to the sum they rolled. Students create a sentence using the 5 words they rolled. Students must create a complete sentence using correct punctuation and grammar. The students' sentences will turn out to be fun and silly. Students will be giggling and wanting to do more. This pack below has 10 grammar boards. A ton of different words to make a ton of different sentences. 

Here is a FREE Grammar-Roll a Sentence board to try practicing grammar, sentences, and addition. This will be a fun way to get your students writing complete sentences and incorporating some math and grammar too! Students roll 2 dice and find the sum. They look in the 1st column on the game board for the sum rolled and record the word in that column. Students continue to roll for a total of 5 times since there are 5 columns. Then students use the 5 words they recorded and write a complete sentence. All 5 words must be present in the sentence. There must be a capital letter and an end punctuation mark. Students can add other words like articles, conjunctions, and nouns to ensure their sentence makes sense. The verb can also be changed to a different tense. For example, the word play can be changed to played. Or the word ate can be changed to eat. Click the picture above to try a FREE game board.

Do you need more grammar ideas and activities? 

Grammar Hop is a fun game to review nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Students take turns reading the sentences and answering grammar questions. There are 40 cards that can be used for a center or as a 2-player game.

Grammar Posters include 14 posters to hang in the classroom to remind students the meaning of each grammar word. The words include: adjectives, nouns, verbs, plurals, adverbs, pronouns, subject, predicate, proper noun, conjunction, capitalize, preposition, contractions, and possessives.

Here are three examples of what the posters look like. Hang on your Language Arts wall so students can have a quick reference or reminder about our grammar vocabulary.

  

Grinning for Grammar Task Cards is a fun little center that will have your students grinning from ear to ear. It has 40 task cards. Students read the sentence and pick out the correct grammar word. This pack uses the grammar words: noun, verb, adjective, preposition, plural noun, adverb, and pronoun. These task cards are also uploaded into Google Forms creating 8 Self Grading Quizzes. Assign the links to students in your Google Classroom. 

Here are a set of 30 task cards. Each task card has 3 words on them. Students decide which word is the noun, verb, and adjective. Place a set of 10 task cards with the recording sheet at a language art center. These are quick and easy to set up. Students will be learning and reviewing nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Click the picture to read more about it.

Here are some other resources you may need to teach grammar. I linked them to Amazon to make it easy for you to view them:
8 Parts of Speech Poster
Parts of Speech Bulletin Board Set
Silly Sentences Puzzles 
Cooking Up Sentences Game
Parts of Speech Cards
Parts of Speech Bingo
Grammar in a Jar
Sentence Building Dominos

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Free Spring Break Writing

Do you have your students write about their spring break when they return to school? Here is a personal writing freebie idea for you that is ready to go. Just click and print!

Web with the students about some events that happened to them over break so they can get their writing juices flowing. Pick one event from the web and write about it together. Write a topic sentence, three statements in order using first, second, and third, and end it with a closing statement. 

Then let students write about one event that happened to them over the break using the method above. The FREEBIE includes a planning sheet to help students organize their thoughts. Once students have been edited, they can write their final copy in their writing journals or on another writing sheets. 

Click the picture above for your freebie!

Do you need more personal narrative writing prompts? This pack has 30 prompts to inspire students to write about their experiences. Each prompt comes with a graphic organizer to help students organize their writing. Just click the picture on the left to read more about it.

Here is a blog post I wrote about how to write a personal narrative. Click the link below to read more about personal narratives. You will be able to pick up another freebie for writing personal narratives!

Try this Pinterest Board already full of Spring ideas to use in your classroom:

Hope your Spring Break was restful! 

This freebie will help you get back in the groove with ease.

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Book Talk

I have a fun reading resource for you! Book Talk is loaded with ideas to use for retelling stories, comprehending reading, and using books and tools to share some good conversations. Click here for a preview. Students will have plenty to do during reading time. Plus, there are some great homework ideas too! I recently updated this cover and added more graphic organizers and activities to this resource. 

Here are just a few examples of what's included:

Questions to ask partners or questions for parents to ask their child about the book they are reading. It helps start and guide the conversation about books. If you ONLY want the Book Talk Questions, scroll to the bottom of this post. The questions come in a variety of ways. You can get them all on one sheet or on small papers like below. I put a ring on these and students have a ton of questions to ask themselves or with their partner. These are handy and ready to go on a moments notice. You can use these questions for any genre you are reading.  

This pack includes 5 book reports with directions and rubrics! Just copy and send home for homework projects.

 

This pack has graphic organizers to keep the conversation going through writing. Over 40 graphic organizers included!

 

Also some reading activities for students that finish early or need some more enrichment. One sheet is for partners to do together and one sheet is for the individual learner who can work at their own pace.

You will be sure to find some reading logs in this pack too. There is even one for the entire class to keep track of the books you read together as a class.

Plus so much more!!! All activities can be used with any book or any reading program you use in the classroom.

You can find Book Talk here on my blog for a discounted price:

If you ONLY want the Book Talk Questions, click the picture on the left. This pack has 10 pages full of questions students should be answering while reading their story. You can only purchase these questions here on my blog. Click to read more about it.

If you ONLY want the book reports, Click on the picture below. 

Book Reports have 4 book reports with directions and a grading rubric. There are also 3 extra reports to use at anytime! You can ONLY buy this on my blog right now. 

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