Longacre Resources

The following links are intended to provide educational resources for teachers. Please note: Farmington Public Schools is not responsible for the accuracy, views, or content of any links that leave the school site.

WordMasters Challenge
For 3rd grade - 12th grade - WordMasters Challenge is a classroom competition that provides vocabulary-expanding opportunities through the use of analogies.

Looking for ideas for Reading Response Journals? Browse these Literature Response Journal ideas:
Literature Response Set One
Literature Response Set Two
Literature Response Set Three
Literature Response Set Four
Literature Response Set Five
Literature Response Set Six
Literature Response Set Seven

Cubing is a versatile activity to use for differentiating instruction!

• IDEA! Put a different prompt on each side of the cube.
• IDEA! Provide cubes of varying degrees of difficulty.
• IDEA! Create three cubes. CUBE 1: Provide six character ideas.  CUBE 2: Provide six setting alternatives.  CUBE 3: Provide six problem prompts.  Challenge students to roll all three cubes. Create a story using the character, setting, and problem they rolled!
• IDEA! Use two cubes.  On one cube, provide six question words (who, what, why, where, when, how). Use the other cube to provide six verb cues (can't, won't, will, should, can, shouldn't). Challenge students to roll both to create book discussion questions.
• IDEA! Book activities to cut and paste on cubes. 
• IDEA! Create wonderful opportunities for vocabulary enrichment.  Using the beautiful photographs from old calendars, generate questions on cubes. Sample questions: FOR LOWER ELEMENTARY and FOR UPPER ELEMENTARY
• Here are more cubing templates:
  Kindergarten ideas
  K-1st grade ideas
  1st grade ideas
  2nd grade ideas
  3rd-4th grade ideas

Kids will give you a thumbs up with this  SHOW & TELL activity !  Now, you can use this activity to differentiate.  Here's how it works:

• Students will be given two rows of choices. From the first row, students select one way they would like to show what they know. From the second row, students select one way they would like to tell about what they showed! Show and Tell
• Create your own using the verbs from Bloom's Taxonomy. Remember that verbs become more complex and challenging as you move from box 1 to box 6.
• Got the hang of it? Now, you can vary it with these novel Show & Tell templates. (HINT: Make each column progressively more challenging.):
  Level One
  Level Two
  Level Three
  Level Four
• These activities are guaranteed to keep kids smiling!

The following links are intended to provide educational resources for teachers. Please note: Farmington Public Schools is not responsible for the accuracy, views, or content of any links that leave the school site.

Graphic Organizers comes in all shapes and sizes. Graphic organizers can be:

• Rubrics that students use as a checklist to guide their inquiries; and
• Learning "maps" that students use to organize and/or synthesize information
• Learning contracts that you design with or for your students

RUBRICS

This site is an on-line rubric generator that is simple to use.  http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics 

Providing a wealth of information on the how-to of creating rubrics, this site also has specific sample rubrics.  Once on this site, be sure to scroll down to the section entitled "Rubrics to use with Gifted Students." http://www.adifferentplace.org/rubrics.htm

LEARNING CONTRACTS 
This site is an on-line learning contract generator that is simple to use. http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/contract

Create a learning contract with a student(s) by pre testing a unit or chapter.   If the student shows 90% proficiency, create an alternative opportunity through the use of a learning contract.  Be sure the student  re-joins the class for the lessons dealing with that 10% of the material that was not proficient on the pretest. 

GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

MORE! MORE! MORE!  Here's more printable graphic organizers for those visual learners. You will be asked to register on this site to print these graphic organizers, but it is free.

THIS SITE IS A CHAMPION!  This includes  directions for use and a huge variety of printable graphic organizers that are  unique.   Click on "Strategies" in the left-hand menu.  Then, allow yourself ample time to use the new left-hand menu to browse.  Don't miss "ABC Brainstorm" and "Clock Buddies."

DUMP YOUR BRAIN!   This is a fantastic, fun-filled activity to use as an end-of-unit assessment or review.  This can be adapted for any grade-level and used for any subject area.  To find out more:

3-2-1 EXIT or ENTRANCE SLIPS!  Quickly discover what your students have learned with this handy strategy! You'll want to use this over and over and over! 
Template
Sample

TOPIC BIO!  Use this as an assessment or just for fun! Your students will need to stretch their thinking for this one!

FAST FACTS!  Similar in format to an acrostic poem, this fun strategy is perfect for differentiating! Challenge your students to think "out of the box."

The following links are intended to provide educational resources for teachers. Please note: Farmington Public Schools is not responsible for the accuracy, views, or content of any links that leave the school site.

Differentiate with RAFT papers

RAFT Papers are simply a way to think about the four main things that all writers have to consider:

• Role of the Writer
  Who are you as the writer? Are you Abraham Lincoln? A warrior? A homeless person? 
  An auto mechanic?
• Audience
  To whom are you writing? Is your audience the American people? A friend? Your teacher? Readers of a newspaper?
• Format
  What form will the writing take? Is it a letter? A classified ad? A speech? A poem?
• Topic 
  What's the subject or the point of this piece? Is it to persuade a goddess to spare your life? To plead for a re-test? To call for stricter regulations on logging? 

Learning Style Surveys

We all learn in our own best learning style.  Whether you're a kinesthetic, oral, written, or visual learner, find out yours and your students! 

For an on-line survey of learning styles: Go to ldpride.net