Give daily stickers or coins to your students for behavior. Use individual behavior charts and star stickers to keep track. Students love to get the stars and it is something the parents know to look for. When they accumulate enough stars, let them choose a reward from the Treasure Box or other Reward Center. 
 Suggested products -

#TCH154 - Caught Being Good Coins

#MST - Multicolored Die Cut Stars

#SCH312 - Stars Award Charts

#TCBS - School Bus Treasure Chest

Time Required: Should be completed in a week upon completion of a class novel or personal book of choice.

Materials Needed:

Large Finger Paint Paper People (CFT97)

Student writing journal

Read aloud or chapter book of choice (Suggestion: The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill)

Key Words for Lesson:

Characterization

Story Structure

Lesson Plans

Students will be able to:

Retell specific aspects of a main character from the story

Present his/her findings using a pre-cut life size paper character

Procedures for Lesson:

1. Begin by reading a short story of choice with vivid characterization. As a class choose one of the characters from the story and create a “character map” of that character to model what items to look for when describing a character in a story.
2. Have each student choose a character from either a class novel already read, or from a story they read themselves.
3. Have the students follow your modeling and create their own “character map” of their chosen character.
4. Provide each student with a life size paper character. Using their written character maps, have them recreate their character using the various art tools.

Follow up Activity:

Have each student create a “nameplate” for their character. Provide them a 3″ x 9″ card that they can write their character’s name and the title of the book from which they came.

Wrap Up:

Hang all of the characters and their nameplates along a wall in the hall or the classroom. Allow the students to describe the individual character straits based on the way the characters are portrayed in the art form. Then have each student tell about their chosen character being sure to share the specific traits they tried to exemplify in their paper figures.

Assessment:

Students will complete a paper figure and nameplate of a chosen book character and be able to retell specific character traits of the individual chosen.

Additional Resources and Activities:

You could also utilize the paper figures by having the students select an author or even a prominent historical figure and recreate their chosen person on their paper figure.

Time required: 1 Lesson; could also be used as “filler” at the beginning or end of a day for review

Materials Needed:

#SCH990 - Write On/Wipe Off Demonstration Clocks

Dry Erase Markers

Cleaning Cloths

#TCH363 - Write On/Wipe Off Dry Erase Locker Boards

Key Words for Lesson:

Telling Time

Reading Time

Students will be able to:

Read a clock in order to tell time.

Write the correct time given on an analog clock.

Procedures for Lesson:

• Begin by listening to the Telling Time song by Jennifer Fixman. The words to this song can be found at www.songsforteaching.com/jennyfixmanedutunes/tellingtime.htm and you can order the “We Love Math” with Miss Jenny CD that includes this song. The children will enjoy its fun pace as they learn to tell time.
• Place students in partnerships throughout the classroom. One partner should have a dry erase marker, cleaning cloth and dry erase board. The second partner should have one of the demonstration clocks, a dry erase marker and a cleaning cloth.
• Instruct partner A to put a time on their demonstration clock. Once the time has been determined by partner A, partner B should look at the clock and write the time on their dry erase board. Partner A will check partner B’s work and if partner B was incorrect, write the correct time on the bottom of their demonstration clock.
• This activity can be timed, partners can be instructed to each practice 4 different times, or each partner practice once, and whichever is most needed within your classroom environment.

Follow up Activity:

You could have students work in pairs and create telling time matching cards. For example, they would take an index card, cut in 1/2, then write a time on one piece and draw a clock with that time on the other piece. Have them create about 15-20 sets, mix them up, place on the desktop and swap with another partnership and try to match correct telling time pairs. Cards could be made over a period of a week for homework.

Wrap-Up:

You could also have bags with predetermined times already included on index cards. Each partnership could be given a bag and they must pull a card and match the demonstration clock to the card drawn.

Additional Activity:

For additional practice on a consistent basis, you could also have one large analog and digital clock in a “Telling Time” station within your classroom. Change the time on both clocks daily and have the students write the correct time(s) on sticky notes using words and/or numbers and place on a poster board nearby. Take a few minutes each day to check answers and discuss elapsed time for each.<–>