2024-2025 HARD COPIES OF MATERIALS: Class Sets of 25 Advanced ELAR & Writing and 11" x 17" Folders & Graphic Organizers

2023-2024 HARD COPIES OF MATERIALS: Class Sets of 25 Advanced ELAR & Writing AND 11" x 17" Folders & Graphic Organizers
Dual Language Reading and Writing Folders Class Set are Now Included at No Extra Charge with this purchase.  This special rate for all 3 products at $30 including shipping is good until the end of this calendar year!!!!

Once you order, these items will be sent to you by USPS within 24 to 48 hours 

SEVERAL OF YOU HAVE EMAILED OR MESSAGED ME THAT YOU REALLY LIKE THE MATERIALS I USE WHEN I MODEL LESSONS AND VIDEOS, BUT YOU'RE EITHER ON A LIMITED BUDGET, HAVING TO PAY FOR THINGS USING YOUR OWN FUNDS, OR BOTH!

NOTE: SPANISH CLASSROOM SETS ARE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.  SIMPLY LET ME KNOW IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO THIS.  WHEN YOU CLICK ON ADD TO CART, YOU WILL SEE A BOX THAT SAYS SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO SELLER.  WRITE SPANISH MATERIALS THERE, OR IF YOU WANT THEM IN BOTH LANGUAGES, JUST SELECT A QUANTITY OF TWO AND WRITE ENGLISH AND SPANISH IN THE INSTRUCTIONS BOX.

25 CLASS SETS OF 11" X 17" ELAR & WRITING FOLDERS, 25 CLASS SETS OF 11" X 17" GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS FOR REGULAR MULTIPLE CHOICE READING, EDITING, REVISING, CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE, SHORT ANSWER, EXTENDED ESSAY RESPONSE QUESTIONS WITH STRATEGIES FOR EVERY POSSIBLE TYPE OF QUESTION AND PROMPT YOUR STUDENTS CAN GET ON THE TEST IN ELAR/WRITING FROM 3RD-10TH GRADE!!!

 THESE FOLDERS HAVE BEEN UPDATED TO PREPARE STUDENTS IN GRADES  3-10 TO BE ABLE TO RESPOND TO QUESTIONS THAT WILL BE REGULAR MULTIPLE CHOICE, NON-MULTIPLE CHOICE, SHORT CONSTRUCTED, OPEN ENDED SHORT ANSWERED, AND EXTENDED/ESSAY RESPONSES IN FORMAT. 

1.  ONE AND TWO POINT NON-MULTIPLE CHOICE & SHORT CONSTRUCTED RESPONSES:

Checklist of ALL possible New Question One or Two Point Constructed Response Items in all the possible online formats your students can receive on field tested and actual test items starting next school year. (2022-2023)

2.  SHORT ANSWER OPEN ENDED TWO POINT RESPONSES:

One section is dedicated to a simple strategy for short answer questions that require a complete sentence as a response for the first point and a reminder to show where there is evidence in the text for why your answer is correct using the actual text as evidence  to receive the second point.

3.  EXTENDED ESSAY 5/10 POINT RESPONSES

PLANS AND OUTLINES FOR THE ENTIRE WRITING PROCESSS FOR BOTH THE OPINION ARGUMENTATIVE AND INFORMATIVE EXPOSITORY ESSAYS  THAT WILL HELP YOU IMPROVE FROM THE MORE THAN 50% OF THE SCORES GETTING A TOTAL COMBINED SCORE OF LESS THAN 5 OUT OF A POSSIBLE TEN POINTS THIS PAST SPRING.

4.  An Editing section to help students remember what to look for when they are editing their own essays or trying to edit passages.  The focus is on capitalization, usage, punctuation, sentence boundaries-run-ons & fragments, and spelling with different visual strategies to help your students remember important concepts and skills.   The Editing/Conventions skills on the extend/essay response are worth up to TWO points each from TWO different readers based on the last bullet AND the draft rubric that has been released. That means that the Conventions skills in the response are 40% of the total possible points.

(All reading students from 3rd-10th grade will receive TWO editing passages using the same key words that are mentioned in the Editing portion of the folder for each  of the 3 question types. Please take notice that the CORRECT acronym for editing is CUPSS with TWO Ss.  Most posters and acronyms leave out this important S:    Sentence Boundary problems such as run-ons and fragments WILL be part of the editing questions your students will receive from 3rd all the way to 10th grade.)  For this year, I've included the word error for the inline choice/drop down questions.

5.  The revising section guides your students in knowing when to add, remove, replace, or move words, phrases, transitions, sentences and/or paragraphs on their  extended/essay responses.  This is known as improving the content, the organization and development of the response.   We've now added the word CREAM in our English Folders and CREMA in Spanish for a more complete revising guide on the folders.  It's stands for Combine, Revise/Remove/Replace, Eliminate, Add, and Move in English and Combinar, Revisar/Eliminar/Reemplazar, Eliminar, Agregar/Añadir y Mover in Spanish.

All reading students in 3rd-10th grade will receive TWO revising passages that can be addressed using the acronym ARM in the Revising portion of the folder.  On all previous editing tests in Texas the word Substitute has rarely if ever been used in a revising question.  I haven't found one in 20 years of helping schools with writing. With this purchase, you will receive a digital copy of all of the key word strands that can be used for any revising question from 3rd-10th grade.  Just let me know if you don't receive this!   There was ONE 1 point text entry revising question in every single grade level that either required your students to revise a sentence by changing the order of the words and phrases to make the most sense OR combine two sentences without changing the meaning or context.  The state was lenient on the quality of the conventions in the grading of these responses, but you would ideally want to have your students try to write their best complete thoughts  with decent grammar on these as well as the two point SCR responses.  You want to make sure the SCR responses are coherent, legible, and decipherable to have enough content be understand to qualify for the one or two points.

6.  A cursive and print alphabet is visible for your students who have trouble with letter formations and/or dyslexia/dysgraphia.  Yes, starting next school year, all Texas tests will be online, BUT you AND your student should continue to use paper, pencil, and pen during the  modeling and learning process.  Writing is an art that takes practice.  Don't completely abandon paper and pencil work in your classroom!  It will NOT be in the best interest of your students!   Typing/keyboarding skills develop over time and repetition, so I do understand the need to transition to more computer driven practice and testing.  I just feel that if the kids don't even know their letter shapes and sizes such as capitalization on paper, you will have a very difficult time transitioning to all online computer responses.  :)

7.  Dozens of figurative language examples (onomatopoeia, similes, metaphors, hyperboles, idioms, and personification) 

8.  The word choices of your students will help with the depth of their response. The back portion of the folder has several hundred word choices that can be used as synonyms that can replace overused worn out words.  It is critical that your grade level work as a team in all subjects to constantly be adding vocabulary that is learned each week to an ever growing "word bank".  Reading questions will be reading TEKS driven, but there will be content and vocabulary from ALL subjects and grade levels up to and including the grade level they are in on the reading genres/passages/selections.

This is a great resource for students to use right at their desks without having to walk around your classroom looking at posters or come to your desk over and over for help.

25 11" X 17" GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS TO GUIDE YOUR STUDENTS IN READING, EDITING, REVISING, CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE, SHORT ANSWER RESPONSE, AND EXTENDED ESSAY RESPONSE QUESTIONS THAT GO RIGHT ALONG WITH THE ADVANCED ELAR & WRITING FOLDERS!

FEEL FREE TO EMAIL US AT WRITING_DOCTOR@YAHOO.COM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR WOULD LIKE INFORMATION ON IN PERSON CAMPUS OR DISTRICT TRAININGS AND EVEN ONE-ON-ONE TRAININGS IN ALL AREAS OF READING AND WRITING AS WELL AS MATH.