Citing Text Evidence Sentence Starters 

Text Coding  

Comments, Questions, and Concerns 

Here are three student resources students can place in their binders for quick reference.
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Parts of Speech & Punctuation Diagnostic

What can we as educators say about learning the parts of speech and correct punctuation?

Well, we realize that these components are a viable part of the reading and language arts curriculum. We've also realized that students' writing is lacking the correctness it takes to produce a meaningful well-written essay and we've seen how students lack the ability to correctly write complete sentences with correct punctuation. 

What can we say and do about this dilemma?

Should we go back-to-the-basics of teaching the parts of speech and punctuation in isolation? And if so, how do we incorporate these important skills with the many skills we're expected to teach? Well, one thing's for sure, we first need to know where each student's ability level is concerning parts of speech and punctuation. In other words, we need for them to show-what-they-know. A resource that's very capable of determining this is the Parts of Speech and Punctuation Diagnostic. It is very useful as a complete diagnostic or an educator can use it in guided literacy stations/centers as a quick instructional tool. 

Try it! 

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This is my blog for my Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) store, Literacy Art by Iris. I have begun my adventurous TPT journey to create and sell educational products. My blog will be a go-to place where my products can be introduced, viewed, and discussed in a professional development format.

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I'm currently working on a back-to-school product that I plan to use in the classroom. It focuses on vocabulary and is titled, Interactive Vocabulary for Quarter 1. This is vocabulary unit 1 to a four-unit vocabulary packet. Each vocabulary unit covers an instructional quarter of the school year.

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CCSS RL.1.1 & RI.1.1 Citing Text Evidence Scaffold Resource

Reading Literature & Reading Informational Text for Citing Text Evidence 
(CCSS: RL.1.1 & RI.1.1)

Here is a great resource for citing text evidence for those students who have difficulty responding to short written responses. The resource scaffolds the steps for citing text evidence by using the acronym R.A.C.E.S. This is not fresh out of the oven, but it does give students that extra support by scaffolding the steps for citing text evidence. Check out the resource in my TPT store.

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