I don't have one, but the first place I would check is www.enotes.com They have TONS of teacher's guides.
The Cay, Adam of the Road, Sounder, the above mentioned Hatchet, Number the Stars (yes, its short, but due to context I wouldn't go lower). I also...
I read aloud The Phantom Tollbooth to my 6/7/8 class last year & they loved it. The Westing Game is good too - one year I read it aloud and had a...
The Dear America, Dear Canada & Royal Diaries series (published by Scholastic I think). A large number of the 3-5th grade girls at my school have...
My 6/7/8s this year are eating up The Phatom Tollbooth by Norman Juster. We never seem to have enough time to read and they are always begging for it.
My school starts at the beginning of grade 1. They are not required to write everything in cursive until grade three or four though. In the...
The first grade teacher at my school does bath salts. She buys a big thing of epsom salts and a couple bottles of essential oils. They add the oil...
Why not do both? Teach the diagramming with each unit as you have been doing, but then review at the end of the year. Give them sentences where...
Did you try Learning Links itself? Mind Resources is their Canadian outlet/seller and it is available from there. (At least, according to their...
Where the Red Fern Grows, The Witch of Blackbird Pond (both really popular with my students over the years), Zlata's Diary, The Watson's Go to...
I do have a few students who bring cellphones to school. These are the students that take public transportation to school, and carry them to call...
You can always check out this website: www.evildetentions.co.uk I've never actually used any of the ideas, but I've certainly had a good laugh...
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I had a first frader a few years ago who just could not stay in his seat. I finally moved his desk a bit to the side and taped off (masking tape)...
A teacher I work with makes the students give her "collateral" to borrow a pencil, pen etc. If they need a pencil, she will loan them one, but...
Can you choose a different child each time to do it for you? I'm sure they will get a charge out of being able to tell their classmates what to...
In my 6-8 classroom, I have a fair selection of novels to choose from and here is a list of some that past/present classes have particularly...
What about the book "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"? It lends itself to all sorts of weather activities, as well as some food ones. Also, most...
We also use the 10 min/grade rule as a guideline. Therefore, the average 6th grader, on a night with an average amount of homework should be about...
What about purchasing a photocopiable unit on mapping skills? There are lots out there for the 5-8 level, and map reading is certainly a useful skill.
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