Looking for effective paragraph writing lessons? This Bundle combines four of my very popular writing strategy sets: Paragraph Color Coding and Outlining, Topic Sentences, Transitions in Writing, and Conclusion Sentences. Everything you need is here.
Mr. Potato Head Building Variation. Take pictures of Potato Heads with an iPad. Students can scroll through pictures to choose Potato Head. Have the students make matching potato heads. Goals - requesting, WH questions, describing, sentence building
Bloom's Taxonomy / new teacher evaluations require evidence of lesson planning for higher level thinking ~ I like thinking of it as a ladder and not a pyramid. All students can get to the top, with a pyramid it feels like only a few can.