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8 TIMESAVING LESSONS

Author: Stevan Krajnjan Illustrator: Stevan Krajnjan

Practical lessons and amusing illustrations make this book an ideal year-round, timeless timesaver. Add to the unit pages or keep them as they are as you decide what will work the best for your own classroom needs.

8 Teaching lessons:

► A Bit About Me (day one)

► Time Capsule (first week)

► Mystery Visitor (Language/ Social Science) ► Friendship (Guidance/ Social Science) ► Europe (Geography)

► Create a Fabulous Product (Language) ► Situational Drama (Drama unit)

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Edited by: Stevan Krajnjan

Thank you for purchasing one of the finest, most practical, and visually appealing teacher resource materials available. This book is designed to meet the needs of today’s busy and active teacher.

Enjoy the following exciting features:

VISUALLY APPEALING DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATIONS EASY-TO-READ AND UNDERSTAND FORMAT

RELEVANT, FRESH, USEFUL AND PRACTICAL IDEAS

REPRODUCIBLE TIME SAVING WORKSHEETS FOR YOUR PROGRAM READY-TO-USE WORKSHEETS

SAVES VALUABLE TIME!

Copyright

All rights reserved. No part of this e-Book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without express written permission of Stevan Krajnjan.

The material in this electronic publication can be stored only on one computer at one time and is intended for use by the purchaser and one’s class (or classes) for which one is responsible. You may not forward, copy, or transfer this publication or part thereof, whether in electronic or in printed format, to another person or entity except for instructional purposes for the class(es) for which the purchaser is responsible.

Disclaimer

No responsibility is assumed by the authors/publishers for any injury/and or damage and/or loss sustained to persons or property as a matter of the use of this product’s liability, negligence, or from any use of operation of any products, methods, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein.

Acknowledgement: This book has been created using Microsoft Publisher 2002 and its publication features.

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For additional timesaving teacher resources please contact:

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Time Capsule ………..

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A Bit About Me

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Mystery Visitor ………..

Friendship ...

Europe ...

Create a fabulous Product ...

Situational Drama ...

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This book provides busy teachers with easy-to-use, printable lessons that can be used

in the 4-8classroom quickly, and without additional planning. The 8 lessons were

designed to be short and practical as many teachers, if they had a choice, would likely

prefer spending their busy days (and nights) teaching, marking and preparing for

classes.

HOW TO USE THE BOOK:

1. Print the pages that you plan on handing out to your students.

2. To save paper, it is recommended that you create an overhead sheet that can

be used to explain each lesson to your students. Some schools have more

advanced

technological

classroom

tools

such as computer projectors, which

enable teachers to teach directly from the images of individual book pages.

When deciding which worksheets to hand out, instead of photocopying every

page, you may want to photocopy only those you choose and then instruct the

students how to organize and setup the rest in their notebooks..

3. Use the included evaluation sheets to evaluate student work, or develop your

own that best fits your particular evaluations policies and the curriculum.

4. Placing all photocopied and given handouts in individual file folders may be a

strategy that will help all students remain well organized. It will also make it easier

to collect their work for marking.

5. Have

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This activity needs to be initiated within the first week of a school year. Your students need

to be told that all drawn and written work to follow will be kept permanently sealed for an

agreed length of time. When the capsule is opened will depend on the length of time a

class will spend together. Some classes are together for only one year, but there are others

that may remain as a class for several years. If, for example, you are teaching a grade five

class for a full year, the “official capsule opening day” should take place within the last week

of school. Incorporate this event into your language arts program.

WHAT SHOULD GO INSIDE?

Items that will be a surprise and fun for students to see again after being put away for

extended period of time while attitudes, interests, friends, habits, maturity, and even

physical appearances change. It is up to the teacher do decide what their students should

be placing inside the Time Capsule (several ideas have been provided) but it is strongly

recommended that you instruct your students to brainstorm additional ideas, make a list of

their own (this is always popular and fun) and then present it to others in class. Write all

generated ideas on the blackboard and then narrow down the list to a small list of favorites.

In addition to the provided sheets and writing activities, consider including the following:

• student and family photographs, newspaper or a magazine, digital photos of friends

• sentimental objects, taped/recorded messages and voices, etc.,

• items that document a day, period, era, a particular time with its unique characteristics

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If you could wave a magic wand and instantly have all of your wishes answered…

a) What would your very first wish be?

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b)

If you could, of course, be number one in the world at anything. What would that be?

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c)

What things at home, at school, within your area, or the world, would you change and

why? Explain.

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Use this form to evaluate a selected piece of student writing.

CONTENT

clear main idea? stays on topic? interesting, original, thoughtful content?

supporting detail? does writing make sense?

ORGANIZATION

effective introduction and conclusion?

evidence of plan, and sequencing? linking words used? paragraphs used? CONVENTIONS spelling punctuation grammar errors interfere with understanding? revision and corrections needed? VOICE text captures reader’s attention?

is text sincere and convincing? does the reader get emotionally involved? USE OF LANGUAGE chosen words descriptive, imaginative, effective?

variety of words used? literary devices used? Final Mark Comment: Name: ________________________ LEVEL CATEG O R Y CONTENT

clear main idea? stays on topic? interesting, original, thoughtful content?

supporting detail? does writing make sense?

ORGANIZATION

effective introduction and conclusion?

evidence of plan, and sequencing? linking words used? paragraphs used? CONVENTIONS spelling punctuation grammar errors interfere with understanding? revision and corrections needed? VOICE text captures reader’s attention?

is text sincere and convincing? does the reader get emotionally involved? USE OF LANGUAGE chosen words descriptive, imaginative, effective?

variety of words used? literary devices used? Final Mark Comment: Name: ________________________ LEVEL CA TE GORY

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Use this rubric to evaluate the One Minute Speech presentation. Using a felt-tip marker to

color or dab inside boxes that best reflect student achievement for this presentation.

Name: Topic:

CATEGORY Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4

Preparation

No evidence of any kind of preparation. Planning sheet not

used.

Some evidence of preparation. Planning

sheet not used effectively. Adequate preparation was shown, planning sheet used Thorough preparation was shown, planning sheet used Content Presented material does not related to

the topic

Some presented material is related to

the topic

Most presented material is related to

the topic

All material is related to the topic with unique insight

Language

Presentation language is unclear and hard to

understand.

Some of the used language is unclear

and hard to understand

Most language used is clear, easy to

follow and understand

Language is used creatively, words varied and easy

to follow Organization Disorganized, lacks preparation Somewhat organized and prepared

Well organized and

prepared Very well organized and prepared, logical, interesting, and lively Audience Audience not interested or involved, inattentive Audience was somewhat interested, involved and attentive Audience was interested, involved and attentive

Audience was clearly Interested, attentive and involved Final Mark Comment: Delivery, Voice

Words are unclear, difficult to understand, delivered

too fast or too slow.

Voice is soft, words are difficult to follow and understand,

delivery speed somewhat adequate

Voice is clear, words are easy to understand, delivery speed

good

Voice clarity, quality, pitch, strength and

word speed are excellent

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Dear Teacher,

If you like what you have seen in this sample, I invite you to also come and see other helpful resources at

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Several of the books are “interactive” which means that you can actually TYPE the information directly onto the forms and SAVE your work, but to do this you need to have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer (older versions are ok).

The Teacher’s Binder

:

World’s largest collection of often used classroom forms.

Non-interactive version: http://www.timesaversforteachers.com/index_page0006.htm

Interactive version: http://www.timesaversforteachers.com/index_page0006.htm

Report Card and IEP Comments

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1830 ready-to-use comments, logically organized for ease of use.

Direct link: http://www.timesaversforteachers.com/index_page0072.htm

1000 Quick Writing Ideas

:

Motivate students to begin writing by giving them 1000 writing ideas and prompts!

Direct link: http://www.timesaversforteachers.com/index_page0005.htm (language forms included)

Substitute Teacher Instructions Kit

:

Organize substitute teacher instructions effectively and thoroughly!

None-Interactive: http://www.timesaversforteachers.com/index_page0007.htm

Interactive version: http://www.timesaversforteachers.com/index_page0007.htm

The Essay Writing Kit

: Helps make common essay planning and writing tasks simpler and far less frustrating for students.

Printable: http://www.timesaversforteachers.com/index_page0084.htm

Interactive: http://www.timesaversforteachers.com/index_page0084.htm

Spelling Activities for Spelling Lists

: printable, visually attractive spelling activities, ready for use.

Direct link, click here: http://www.timesaversforteachers.com/index_page0074.htm

Classroom Awards, Certificates and Passes:

Printable: http://www.timesaversforteachers.com/index_page0061.htm

Interactive: http://www.timesaversforteachers.com/index_page0061.htm

Math Timesavers

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collection of difficult-to-find, often-used forms, masters and reproducible sheets for a K-8 class.

Direct link: http://www.timesaversforteachers.com/index_page0020.htm

Just Multiply It

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Teach your students the multiplication facts in a fun, quick, organized, and visually appealing way!

Direct link: http://www.timesaversforteachers.com/index_page0031.htm

Just Teach It

:

Fun end-of-the-year language unit - students research, prepare and teach classmates - very popular.

Direct Link: http://www.timesaversforteachers.com/index_page0052.htm