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Poetry Bundle: Lessons PowerPoints and Activities for Reading and Writing Poetry

By Deb Hanson

Are you searching for poetry activities that can be used to introduce poetry terms and elements and poetry writing to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This bundle includes two poetry PowerPoints,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Poetry

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Printables, Google Apps, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.3.5, RL.4.5, RL.5.5

$9.99

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Test Prep Activities: Two Reading Passages and Test Taking Strategies Craftivity

By Deb Hanson

It’s that time of year…. time to think about those major assessments coming up! Are you looking for a creative way to engage your students while preparing them for the genre of test-taking? This bundle includes a fiction practice passage, a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Projects, Activities

CCSS:

RL.3.1, RL.4.1, RL.5.1, RI.3.1, RI.4.1, RI.5.1

$5.00

467

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Main Idea and Supporting Details Foldable Activity featuring the Earth

By Deb Hanson

Here is a hands-on, creative way to practice identifying main idea and detail sentences! Your students will match three supporting details to each of the five main idea sentences. This activity is ideal for Earth Day because of its Earth-friendly

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Earth Day, Informational Text

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Projects, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.3.2, RI.4.2, RI.5.2, RI.6.2, CCRA.R.2

$3.00

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Main Idea and Supporting Details: 11 Monthly Worksheets in Print and Digital

By Deb Hanson

This set of engaging reading passages focuses on having students identify the main idea and supporting details within a reading passage. Identifying the main idea is a difficult skill for many students to master. Furthermore, main idea questions

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Reading Strategies

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Printables

CCSS:

RI.2.2, RI.3.2

$3.50

358

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Fact and Opinion Worksheets and Sorting Activity: Basketball Craftivity

By Deb Hanson

This engaging activity puts a fun spin on identifying facts and opinions! With this print-and-go worksheet and craftivity packet, students color and cut out 18 basketballs, two hoops, a scoreboard, and jerseys. They read the statements on each

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Projects, Activities, Printables

$3.00

408

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Main Idea and Best Title Worksheets for Test Prep for 4th and 5th Grade

By Deb Hanson

These five main idea practice worksheets are designed to prepare your students for multiple-choice questions that they will encounter on standardized tests. Your students will read five main idea passages related to reading in America. Topics

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Reading Strategies

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Printables, Google Apps

CCSS:

RI.4.2, RI.5.2, RI.6.2

$3.00

209

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Plural Nouns Worksheet and Craftivity: Practice Spelling Patterns

By Deb Hanson

Keep your student engaged as they learn the rules of plural nouns with this plural nouns worksheet and craftivity! Students will practice using common spelling rules for forming plural nouns. It also makes a creative bulletin board or school hallway

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Spelling

Grades:

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

Types:

Projects, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

L.2.1b, L.3.1b

$3.00

613

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Figurative Language: Three Worksheets with Flower Craftivity Option

By Deb Hanson

This engaging activity is a fun way to review figurative language! The core of this resource is its worksheets. Literary devices are embedded into sentences, and students must identify the literary device(s) used in each sentence. These worksheets

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

L.4.5, L.4.5a, L.5.5, L.5.5a, L.6.5, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.L.5

$3.00

300

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Earth Day Readers' Theater Script and Follow-up Worksheet Activity

By Deb Hanson

This Earth Day script has parts for 13 readers. (A smaller group could easily perform this, however, by simply assigning students multiple parts.)The script is six pages. The script begins with students talking with their teacher about Earth Day.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Earth Day

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Scripts

CCSS:

RF.3.4, RF.4.4, RF.5.4

$3.50

140

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Idioms Worksheets and Craftivity: A Saint Patrick's Day Activity

By Deb Hanson

Here's a hands-on, creative way to practice defining idioms, and it's just in time for Saint Patrick's Day! This is an engaging activity where your students complete a worksheet where they must read several sentences and use context clues to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, St. Patrick's Day

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Projects, Activities

CCSS:

L.3.5a, L.4.5b, L.5.5b, CCRA.L.4, CCRA.L.5

$3.00

348

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Greek and Latin Roots: Five Worksheets and a Vocabulary Craftivity

By Deb Hanson

Keep your students engaged as they practice identifying and defining words with Greek and Latin roots. Best of all, it provides a visual connection to the meaning of word "roots"! Your students complete five worksheets where they identify words with

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Projects, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

L.4.4b, L.5.4b, L.6.4b

$3.50

370

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Parts of Speech Sorting Activity: A Spring Craftivity and Bulletin Board

By Deb Hanson

Are your students needing to review their parts of speech before upcoming spring assessments? Or maybe you've "saved" teaching parts of speech until this point in the year. Either way, this is an engaging activity for reviewing the parts of speech.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Spring

Grades:

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

Types:

Projects, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

L.3.1, L.4.1, L.5.1

$3.00

249

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Saint Patrick's Day Readers' Theater Script (5-10 parts) | PDF and Digital |

By Deb Hanson

This fun Saint Patrick's Day reading activity is perfect for March. Students will enjoy reading this Saint Patrick's Day Readers' Theater script with their classmates. The script has parts for 10 readers, but a smaller group could easily read this

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, St. Patrick's Day

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Scripts

CCSS:

RF.3.4b, RF.4.4b, RF.5.4b

$3.00

130

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Spring Craftivity BUNDLE: Create Student-Centered Bulletin Boards

By Deb Hanson

This ELA craftivity bundle allows your students to practice those essential (and tested) standards in a fun way! This bundle consists of three engaging activities that coincide with the month of March. Students begin each activity by completing a

Subjects:

Reading Strategies, Spring

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Projects, Activities

$9.00

$6.50

129

Bundle

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Prefix and Suffix Worksheets and Sorting Activity: Spring Bulletin Board

By Deb Hanson

Here's a hands-on, creative way for your students to practice defining prefixes and suffixes. After completing the prefix and suffix worksheets, students will assemble a fun Easter egg craftivity. The finished products make a unique spring bulletin

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Easter

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RF.3.3a, RF.3.3b, RF.4.3a, L.2.4b, L.3.4b, L.4.4b, CCRA.L.4

$3.00

130

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March Craftivity BUNDLE: Create Student-Centered Bulletin Boards

By Deb Hanson

Subjects:

Reading Strategies, Spring

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Projects, Activities

$9.00

$6.50

104

Bundle

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Author's Purpose Worksheets and Craftivity: Ideal for Earth Day

By Deb Hanson

This engaging activity puts a fun spin on reviewing the five author's purposes for writing! Author's purpose is a concept that I have to revisit with my students throughout the year, so I created this activity to do with my students at the beginning

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Projects, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.R.6

$3.00

153

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Earth Day Partner Plays: 5 Scripts with a Comprehension Check Worksheet 4th 5th

By Deb Hanson

These five partner plays are intended to be used as fluency-building activities that 4th and 5th grade students can do with a partner. They focus on promoting Earth-friendly activities. It comes with a BONUS worksheet. After reading the scripts,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, For Parents

CCSS:

RF.4.4, RF.4.4b, RF.5.4, RF.5.4b

$3.25

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Homophone Worksheet and Craftivity for April Fool's Day

By Deb Hanson

Don't be fooled by those tricky homophones! This activity allows your students to practice identifying the correct homophone to use in a sentence, AND it allows them to produce their own sentences!Students begin by completing a worksheet containing

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Spelling, Vocabulary

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

FREE

175

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Winter and Spring Holiday Partner Plays: 5 Fun Scripts with a Worksheet

By Deb Hanson

These five partner plays are intended to be used as fluency-building activities that 2nd and 3rd grade students can read with a partner. Topics include Saint Patrick's Day, the 100th Day of School, Read Across America Day, Teacher Appreciation Day,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Martin Luther King Day

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, For Parents

CCSS:

RF.2.4, RF.2.4b, RF.3.4, RF.3.4b

$3.25

Digital Download PDF (2.21 MB)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have 16 years teaching experience. I began my career as a 2nd grade teacher. The majority of my career (13 years), I have worked as an elementary ESL teacher. In that capacity, I worked with students from kindergarten through grade 6 at all language development levels, but I most frequently worked with 3rd, 4th, & 5th grade students. I was an upper elementary Reading Teacher (grades 4-5) for two years, as well. I have also spent some of my summers teaching graduate classes at a local university for teachers seeking an ESL endorsement.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I believe in hands-on activities with lots of visual aids and graphic organizers! Most of my products include picture clues for my ESL students! I am constantly creating and making learning materials that will support the unique needs of my students and engage them so that they can experience success and know that learning can be fun!

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

I have been asked to present half-day professional development seminars at a nearby school district. For my own local school district, I was asked to present two "Teacher Toolkit" seminars for my colleagues, focusing on student engagement and formative assessment. I have served as a mentor teacher to five first year teachers and several teachers new to an ESL position.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I have a B.A. degree in Elementary Education with an endorsement in Early Childhood. I have a Master's Degree in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in English as a Second Language.

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Learn more about me by watching my YouTube video! Email me at deb@crafting-connections.com.

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1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Algebra, Basic Operations, Fractions, Geometry, Graphing, Measurement, Numbers, Order of Operations, Science, Earth Sciences, Environment, Physics, Social Studies, Government, U.S. History, Arts & Music, Visual Arts, Drama, ESL-EFL-ELL, ELA Test Prep, Math Test Prep, Geography, Other (ELA), For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Economics , Character Education, Word Problems, Library Skills, Writing, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Mental Math, Halloween, Winter, The New Year, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents' Day, Decimals, Black History Month, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Spring, Place Value, Earth Day, Informational Text, End of Year