Teacher Freebies

Here is an easy way to get character education into your busy week. Each Monday, write a character trait on the board or display it on a special character traits bulletin board. Incorporate the word into your week as much as you can.

Brain Breaks are not only fun, but essential for focus and learning. Your students will love each of these quick and challenging Brain Breaks and enjoy the novelty of rolling a die to select which one to do. Just display them with your document camera, add a die, and you are set to go - no extra materials are needed and each activity is clearly explained. These would be great to use with a sub or anytime you want to try something a little different. Two formats are included, color and black line.

Some kids make friends naturally, but for others, making and keeping friends is not so easy. Studies have shown that having even one friend significantly improves a child's emotional health and school performance. Some children may struggle to make and keep friends because they do not intuitively know how to be a good friend. Teaching these children friendship strategies may help. Use these friendship cards individually as writing prompts or in groups for discussion.

Whether you are wondering about using task cards in your classroom or have been using them for years, this free ebook is for you! This book will tell you: Why task cards are such amazing teaching tools The many ways they can be used How to use Task Cards for Distance Learning How to store prep and store them And much, much more! In addition to tons of tips and ideas, there are links to supporting resources and freebies.

Discover how you can facilitate remote learning using regular resources & basic technology.

TpT has a new tool that allows you to use many of the resources you already own in a new and digital way. TpT's Digital Activities allows you to layer a pdf file with digital annotations. This makes it possible to use paper-based resources in Google Classroom. Whether it's a worksheet or a set of task cards, you can now use the resource with distance learning, blended learning, or just to incorporate technology into your day.

Your students will love these Reading Bookmarks! Here are some suggestions on how to use them: Print on white cardstock or print on regular white printing paper and laminate after students have colored. Coloring can be a calming activity for many children (and adults). Allow a few minutes of coloring after stressful activities, during indoor recess, or free time. Keep a supply available for whenever students want to color. Give bookmarks out as rewards. Give bookmarks out at the start of the year, after testing, before school vacations, or on Read Across America Day. Hide bookmarks in books in your classroom library as a fun surprise. Encourage students to color and trade bookmarks with each other.

Here are two fun poems to use with your students. Each page gives a detailed explanation of the poem form and room to practice. Great way to get your kids writing and loving poems!

Close reading is a big part of the Common Core and an important skill to master. This freebie includes a close reading poster, 3 graphic organizers (one for each read), and a set of 6 "Talk Time" discussion prompt cards. 

Theme is such a challenging skill to master! Here is a freebie that you can use with any story to help your students do just that. The first printable requires students to answer questions about how the character thinks and acts to find clues about the theme. The second one requires students to find evidence from the text to support the theme they select. There is also a poster to use for reference.

Use this set of 24 free reading strategy task cards to help your students practice these important skills. Students can answer on notebook paper and use the included recording sheet to keep track of the cards they have completed. Another option is to use these orally in small groups. A suggested answer key is included (answers for most of these cards are subjective, so the answer key is only offered as a guide). A challenge card that can be used with any other card in the set is also included to extend the learning.

Use these 32 multiple choice task cards to reinforce antonyms. A student answer sheet for students to record their answers is included along with an answer key for self-checking. There is also a Challenge Card that can be used in conjunction with any other card to extend the activity. These task cards are perfect for test prep and will work well at literacy centers, stations, for partner work, or with the whole class using a game like Scoot.

Use these 32 multiple choice task cards to reinforce antonyms. A student answer sheet for students to record their answers is included along with an answer key for self-checking. There is also a Challenge Card that can be used in conjunction with any other card to extend the activity. These task cards are perfect for test prep and will work well at literacy centers, stations, for partner work, or with the whole class using a game like Scoot.

Try using task cards on your computers and mobile devices! Now you can use this set of Fact and Opinion Task Cards in digital format on Boom Learning℠ with your students for free! No printing, cutting, or laminating, just assign the decks to your students and you are ready to go. Students get immediate feedback on their progress and you get a suite of teacher reporting tools. Fun, effective, and easy to use. Perfect for the paperless classroom.

Use these 5 free worksheets for practicing affix use and introducing roots to your students. These worksheets will work fine as stand alone activities, but they are all part of a larger, 40 page (plus answer keys and Common Core Charts) prefix, suffix and root word product:

These 8 Word-O-Rama (similar to Boggle) card not only fun, but will also help students improve letter pattern recognition skills, spelling, and vocabulary. These cards can be used in so many ways: At a literacy center For fast finishers With partners or small groups (use the same card, score only unique words) As morning work (display for the whole class) Or any time you have a few spare minutes

These 3 engaging, no-prep Text Time comprehension passages (written by a published children's author) are the "just right" way to help your students learn to support their thinking with evidence from the text. Each passage is presented at 3 reading levels so you can differentiate as needed!

One big challenge students often have with math story problems is that they do not read the problem carefully enough. These longer story problems were designed to help students learn to read carefully and pick out the relevant details. Each of these 8 half-page cards features a story with a lot of information and numbers. There are also four problems for each story. Students must read carefully to successfully select the information they need to solve each problem. Cards 1-4 are the beginner cards. Many of the problems can be solved mentally once the student has determined which information is relevant. Cards 5-8 are advanced. The problems on these cards are all multi-step and may be fairly complicated.

This set of FREE Winter Holiday Math Word Problem Task Cards includes ten cards for Christmas, five for Hanukkah, and five for Kwanzaa. The cards are focused on cultural traditions and so will work fine in a public school setting. Most of the cards require two or more steps to solve. All four operations are used and the cards include money, elapsed time, and measurement.

Here are 16 fun measurement cards to use with your students. Each card requires students to make an estimate before measuring. Students will need a ruler to complete these cards. A yardstick and tape measure would also be helpful. Students can work in standard and/or metric measurements. A student answer sheet is included.

Here are 16 measurement story problem cards to use with your students. These cards focus primarily on length, volume, weight, and temperature. They will require a combination of basic operations, conversions, and logic to solve. Students can record their answers on the included answer sheet and check their work with the answer key. These cards will look best in color, but will also print out fine in grayscale. Simply print and cut along the guidelines. Laminate and use them again and again. Alternatively, you could print on cardstock. It works well to keep them in a baggie. Another option is to hole-punch a corner of each card and put them all on a ring.

5 PRINTABLE or DIGITAL spiraled math worksheets for your students! Every single skill that is practiced includes a VIDEO TUTORIAL that can support students when they need a little extra help! Lotsa Math pages can be used for classwork, homework, flipped learning, blended learning, distance learning, remediation, or acceleration. Although the 4th grade standards are the standards focused on, this product is great for advanced 3rd graders or 5th graders that may need a little review.

Here is a self-checking digital "Number of the Day" practice activity! It was created in Google Forms so that it could be self-checking. You can assign it in Google Classroom or with a link. It's great for distance learning but could be used in the classroom as well

Mental math is a great way for kids to stretch their brains by solving math problems without pencils, paper, or calculators. Here are 12 engaging task cards (plus 3 challenge cards) for plenty of mental math practice! Student response sheet and answer key also included.

These Google Slides replace old fashioned multiplication flashcards! This set of flashcards covers the "Hard Facts," which are the ones most students have a hard time learning. They can easily be assigned in Google Classroom.

This quick and easy-to-use resource is perfect for introducing your students to area and perimeter. This FREE Google Slides resource includes a teaching video, audio instructions, and three practice activities.

This digital Google Slides FREE activity is perfect for incorporating into your distance learning plan. It's a quick and simple game that allows students to practice creating area and perimeter models. Plus, there's a quick video that explains the game to the students.

This game will help students learn their 6 times family! It's great for at-home learning, homework, math stations and centers, or even indoor recess! It gives students the chance to practice their multiplication facts in a fun way! But best of all, it doesn't take a teacher's guidance or help to play.

These worksheets are great for quickly assessing your students' understanding of specific 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade math skills. This product includes a printable version and a Google Slides digital version that you can use with your distance teaching!

In this Google Slides activity, students will practice relating fractions to decimals and vice versa while playing a board game. No materials required! Students will flip a coin (a digital coin flip is even included!) and move along the game board. They will relate the problem from a fraction to a decimal or a decimal to a fraction on the square they land on. This activity is self-checking! When students drag away the problem on the square, the answer is revealed, making it the perfect activity for students to work collaboratively on

This set of Halloween paragraph prompts includes six prompts, two each for opinion, informative, and narrative writing. These prompts will work perfectly with I Heart Paragraph Writing - Paragraph of the Week as a seasonal prompts. They could also be used with whatever paragraph program you are using, or you could simply use them as a jumping off point and use notebook paper for organizing, first draft, editing, and final drafts. They could also be expanded into 3-5 paragraph essays.

Here are 12 word problems based around the Twelve Days of Christmas song. These multipstep story problems are fun and challenging! Great for seatwork, homework, or a center. There is also an extra creative thinking activity at the very end.

Here are 20 autumn-themed task cards that will work perfectly at a center or for any student who finishes his or her work early. Each card features a different fall-related, open-ended challenge; perfect for working on those creative and critical thinking skills!

Please enjoy these 24 free End of the School Year task cards. The first twenty cards each feature a reflection question about the school year. These would work well as either discussion or writing prompts. The final four cards (yellow titles) each require student to write a letter pertaining to the school year. These are longer activities and would be great at a center or as a whole class assignment.

This back to school Google Slides freebie will give you a fun way to integrate math into your "get-to-know-yous" this year! What's Included? Editable Google Slides for the teacher to use to introduce herself to the class (Then share a copy with your students so that they can create their own!) Printable worksheet for students to create their own version

Here is a set of 20 Would you Rather Questions about Halloween. Great for discussion starters, class polls and journal prompts. What's Included: - Print copy (Can be used as a TpT Digital Activity) - Google Slides digital activity

Here is a set of 20 Would you Rather Questions about the end of the year and summer. Kids LOVE these! Great for discussion starters, class polls and writing prompts.

This free activity will help kids that are learning to add and subtract number values with and without decimal points. It teaches them that every number has a decimal point, even when it is invisible. Students will practice lining up the decimal points and adding place holder zeros to find the correct sums and differences.