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How To Make a Paper Airplane: Functional Writing & Transition Word Activity

By 3rd Grade Thoughts

When the Spring weather arrives and it gets harder and harder to keep your students motivated in writing, this engaging and interactive writing activity will save the day! Making your own paper airplane from a piece of copy paper is a blast! This

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Spring

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

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Activities, Graphic Organizers, Lesson

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Practicing Multiplication, Arrays & Fact Triangles: Multiplication Monsters

By 3rd Grade Thoughts

This math activity is the perfect way to engage students, get them moving, and practice different ways to show multiplication: through problems, products, arrays, and fact triangles. The Multiplication Monsters packet includes 24 cards, 5 student

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Math, Basic Operations, Numbers

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

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Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

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Hamburger Paragraph Planning Packet

By 3rd Grade Thoughts

**HUGE UPDATE: Be sure to redownload to take advantage of all of the new additions! Do your students struggle with creating strong, complete, and concise paragraphs? This Hamburger Paragraph Planning Packet is perfect for you and your students!

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Writing

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

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Graphic Organizers, Lesson

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$Ways to Write a Number: Monster Math$

Ways to Write a Number: Monster Math

By 3rd Grade Thoughts

This math activity is the perfect way to engage students, get them moving, and practice different ways to write numbers in standard form, word form, expanded form, and using place value blocks. The Monster Math packet includes 24 cards, 5 student

Subjects:

Math, Numbers

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

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Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

$2.95

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Past, Present & Future: Verb Tense Monsters

By 3rd Grade Thoughts

This language activity is the perfect way to engage students, get them moving, and practice the past, present and future tense of both regular and irregular verbs. The Verb Tense Monsters packet includes 24 cards, 5 student work pages and a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

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Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

L.3.1d, L.3.1e

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How To Make a Snowflake: Functional Writing & Transition/Linking Word Activity

By 3rd Grade Thoughts

Making your own snowflake from square pieces of paper are my students' favorite thing to do in the wintertime. This activity capitalizes on that interest and sneaks in some functional writing practice and use of transition/linking words. Included

Subjects:

Writing, Winter

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

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Activities, Graphic Organizers, Lesson

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227

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Story Cards: Halloween Onomatopoeia

By 3rd Grade Thoughts

This activity is a perfect way to introduce, practice, or quickly refresh the concept of onomatopoeia (sound words). And what better time to talk all about sound words than Halloween? This packet includes four sets of 8 cards that include: -

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Halloween

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson, Centers

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262

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The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups Writing Unit

By 3rd Grade Thoughts

This writing unit uses the highly-engaging book from David Wisniewski (The Secret Knowledge of Grown Ups) as a mentor text for students to write their own "truths". This is a wonderful unit for students who struggle to get interested in writing!

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English Language Arts, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Graphic Organizers, Lesson

$3.75

127

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Planning Your Writing {BUNDLE}

By 3rd Grade Thoughts

This folder includes the four planning & writing units I sell in my store. For more information on each, click their title below:1. Hamburger Paragraph Planning Packet (Updated with both "support" and "detail" in the center)2. Extra! Extra!

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Graphic Organizers, Lesson

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Don't Tell. Show! {A Revising Mini-Unit for Writing}

By 3rd Grade Thoughts

I always found it challenging to concretely teach my students what it meant to "show, don't tell". This unit will turn your students into directors and will explicitly teach "cutting" a telling sentence from their written piece and replacing with an

Subjects:

Writing

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Graphic Organizers, Lesson

$3.50

351

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$Math Rotations Planning Sheets {Editable PPT}$

Math Rotations Planning Sheets {Editable PPT}

By 3rd Grade Thoughts

If you're a fan of Math Rotations, this packet is for you! Two files are a part of this product: - The *free* PREVIEW file is a PDF that will show you most of the forms available in this file. Use this as much as you'd like and enjoy! - If you're

Subjects:

Math, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Unit Plans, Lesson, Centers

$2.25

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Descriptive Writing: Sensory Web Planning Packet

By 3rd Grade Thoughts

Do your kids struggle writing descriptive pieces? This can be especially challenging for struggling or reluctant writers, but this packet can help! Use these "spider webs" to help your students brainstorm details that relate to all five senses

Subjects:

Writing

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Graphic Organizers, Lesson

$2.95

123

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Valentine's Day Idiom & Build-A-Story Cards

By 3rd Grade Thoughts

This activity is a perfect way to introduce, practice, or quickly refresh the concept of idioms. And what better time to talk all about idioms than Valentine's Day? This packet includes three sets of cards that include: - 3 character choices + 1

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing, Valentine's Day

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson, Centers

$2.25

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Star Plan for Retelling Paragraphs

By 3rd Grade Thoughts

Use this packet to help your students in both reading and writing! Retelling a story or an informational piece can be very overwhelming- this Star Plan can help! We use these sheets with our weekly Scholastic News magazine as well as with short

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Graphic Organizers, Lesson

$2.95

128

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Practicing Rounding, Even/Odd, Number Lines & More: Number Sense Monsters

By 3rd Grade Thoughts

This math activity is the perfect way to engage students, get them moving, and practice different number sense activities such as even/odd, rounding to the nearest tens and hundreds, placing a number on a number line, and telling the value of the

Subjects:

Math, Basic Operations, Numbers

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Lesson

$2.95

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Practicing Contractions: Contraction Critters

By 3rd Grade Thoughts

This language activity is the perfect way to engage students, get them moving, and practice different ways to make and deconstruct contractions. The Contraction Critters packet includes 24 cards, 5 student work pages and a corresponding answer

Subjects:

Grammar

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

$2.95

124

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FREE Story Starters with Doodles

By 3rd Grade Thoughts

These six doodles are great to use with an anchor chart about how to start a story that hooks the reader. The last page goes into detail about each doodle and what they mean. Also included is a worksheet for kids to practice each type of

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Printables, Lesson

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May the "Fours" Be With You: Planning a Story or Summary

By 3rd Grade Thoughts

Do you have students who struggle with writing complete stories with characters, a setting, a conflict and solution? Do kids in your reading group have trouble writing a summary that includes these four main parts of the story? Are you and your

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Writing

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Graphic Organizers, Lesson

$2.95

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Plural and Possessive Monsters

By 3rd Grade Thoughts

This language activity is the perfect way to engage students, get them moving, and practice the difference between plural and possessive in sentence writing. The Monsters packet includes 24 cards, 5 student work pages and a corresponding answer

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

$2.95

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FREE Writing Conclusions with Doodles

By 3rd Grade Thoughts

These six doodles are great to use with an anchor chart about how to end a story that "ties it all up" for the reader. The last page goes into detail about each doodle and what they mean. Also included is a worksheet for kids to practice each type

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Printables, Lesson

FREE

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