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Free Common Core CCRA.W.4 resources
RACE Strategy Writing Worksheet Activity Grades 4-6 FREE | with Easel Activity
The RACE strategy for writing is a structure to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and evidence from the text, and to provide concluding statements. This free download contains a short passage and short-response question to practice using the RACE Strategy.This Download Contains: PRINT1 passage with short response question to practice using the RACE StrategySuggested answer and grading guideDIGITALReady to use Easel ActivityLi
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4th - 6th
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Assistance Dogs | Reading Comprehension Passage & ELA Tasks
Engaging, FREE 1-page informational text passage hooks readers & tasks get them to hone in on central ideas by filling out a web & following steps to WRITE AN AWESOME SUMMARY! Vocabulary activities too! NO PREP PRINTABLES AND INTERACTIVE DIGITAL VERSION FOR EASY IN-PERSON OR DISTANCE LEARNING! PUTS RELUCTANT READERS AT EASE with its lighthearted (yet highly informative) subject matter of how assistance dogs help people everywhere.Perfect for middle school and older elementary students. A
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4th - 9th
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Forms of Energy Robot Project l Science, Writing, and Art
This fun and engaging robot project is a meaningful way to assess understanding of the different forms of energy. Students will design and draw a robot that produces at least three forms of energy and then write about it! The project starts with a quick review of the different forms of energy. Then students are introduced to the assignment and work on sketching their robot using at least three forms of energy. For the final part of the project, they redraw the robot and color it, labeling the fo
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3rd - 5th
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Social Emotional Learning Journal Free Week of Prompts (Self-Awareness Skills)
Use this free Social Emotional Learning Journal to teach SEL skills! This free resource includes 5 journal prompts focused on self-awareness and helping kids understand their individual strengths and challenges. Note that this is a small sample of my Social Emotional Learning Journal for the Full Year.Digital VersionI've updated this to include a digital version for Google Drive. Students can type their responses for each journal prompt online!Why Teach Social Emotional Learning SkillsSocial emo
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4th - 6th
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Free Narrative Writing Prompt Worksheet
This no prep narrative writing freebie is a must-have for teaching story writing. These narrative writing worksheets are ideal for kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, and fourth grade writing lessons or writing centers.Students look at the space pictures and write a response/short story based on the pictures. The prompt comes in 5 versions (K-4th grade) with varying amounts/types of writing lines. This product is a free sample from my Narrative Writing product line. *NOTE - Thi
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K - 4th
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Free Personal Narrative Writing Prompts First Grade Writer's Workshop Activities
These narrative writing activities are perfect for kindergarten and first grade students. Sentence starters, picture word banks, graphic organizers, rubrics and vocabulary words provide scaffolding so all students can be successful with their personal narrative writing prompts. We learn about sequencing words and how to put events in order.You can use these standards based activities for whole group instruction, small groups, writer's workshop, intervention and more.These free lessons are a pre
Grades:
K - 2nd
USA Regions Activity FREEBIE | States and Capitals Project | Worksheets
This FREE resource is a stand-alone project that can be turned into a FULL WEEK worth of activities. You'll find 5 region activity pages and capitals/abbreviation resource sheets and note pages. Plus, I've included a thorough teacher's guide giving you plenty of suggestions on how to turn this into one awesome mini-unit!These maps are also located in my customized state history projects. You'll find 86 student activities organized in 8 modules for easy lesson planning. This complete notebook uni
Grades:
4th - 8th
FREEBIE PENGUINS Passage for Close Reading with Comprehension Questions
Kids love learning about animals. This non-fiction reading passage on PENGUINS includes vocabulary work, comprehension, notetaking, and expository or informational writing! Use during guided reading or whole class instruction. This could be used for first, second, or third grade. Perfect for a BIRDS unit or WINTER ANIMALS unit. This includes: 1-page passagevocabulary cards vocabulary worksheetcomprehension questionspenguin life cyclemap of penguin habitatswebeat/can/have graphic organizerinforma
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
RACE Strategy Writing Prompts 3rd Grade: Prompts and Passages FREE Preview
The RACE Writing Strategy is a structure to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and evidence from the text, and to provide concluding statements. →Like this resource? Check out the full version for more! This Download Contains:PRINT1 passage and short response questionDIGITALRead-to-use Easel activityWhy use the RACE strategy? This mnemonic device is especially helpful for struggling writers and students with disabilities, but
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Grades:
3rd
Also included in: 3rd Grade ELA Reading and Writing Bundle for Reading and Writing Skills
Informational Writing Sentence Starters/Graphic Organizer
A good way to help those who struggle putting their thoughts together and with writing organization to write a one paragraph informational piece. Includes choice of topic sentence starters, details, and closing sentence starters.
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Not Grade Specific
End of the Year Activities Cootie Catcher Great for Last Day of School
Here is a no prep, end of the year activity that will provide hours of fun review. Kids love cootie catchers (fortune tellers) and this one will let them celebrate the end of a school year.Students can even use cootie catchers (also known as fortune tellers) as writing prompts to tell fun stories about their school memories. This is a free sample that includes one cootie catcher with 8 end of the year questions.See the full set of End of the Year Cootie Catchers which includes several cootie cat
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2nd - 5th
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Argumentative Essay Writing Resources: Persuasive Essay Graphic Organizer
This activity is designed to help scaffold the argumentative or persuasive essay. Graphic organizers with writing checklists help students organize a five paragraph essay, with reminders to introduce a thesis statement, provide facts and examples, and introduce a counterclaim. De-mystify the argumentative essay once and for all!Check out the full product here:Argumentative Essay Writing Resources : Graphic Organizer and Sample Essay This Download Contains graphic organizer for five-paragraph ess
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6th - 9th
How to Make a Gingerbread House | Free Winter Writing Craftivity
This is a free sample of my Winter Writing Craftivities. This freebie comes with an adorable gingerbread house topper and writing pages with boy and girl gingerbread options. Each writing page comes with a choice of 3 different styles of writing lines. So that you can pick the writing lines that work best for your writers. These are perfect to display in the halls, on the walls or on bulletin boards. For more ideas on how I use this activity, you can check out my website www.literacywiththe
Grades:
K - 5th
Pumpkin Craft and Writing Activity FREEBIE
This Pumpkin Craft and Writing Resource is a fun way for your students to display their writing skills. The are differentiated writing pages for you to choose what is suitable for your students.Pairing this pumpkin craft with a writing task is a multi-step project. Students will be excited to display their writing and knowledge about pumpkins. This Craft and Writing resource is a great way for your students to build skills such as following directions, hand eye coordination, fine motor skills, a
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PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Halloween Craft Writing Center Anchor Chart Activity BUNDLE
Social Emotional Learning Choice Boards - Free SEL Activities
Use these free social emotional learning choice boards to encourage kids to practice a variety of SEL skills. Activities include journaling, responding to prompts, discussing topics with others, drawing, and more. This is the perfect way to integrate social emotional learning in a fun way!Note that these are a sample of the full yearlong set of SEL choice boards. This free sample is perfect to cover at least four weeks of social emotional instruction and send home with parents and families. It i
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4th - 6th
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Any Time NEW DAY Resolutions | Social Emotional Learning | Reading Comprehension
You don't have to wait until the New Year to make resolutions. Use these Any Time "NEW DAY" Resolutions to re-engage students! Your Middle School and High School students will laugh at the funny reading comprehension passage.There are three parts to this Social Emotional Learning Skills / Life Skills resource:1) The Goal Setting worksheets are for everybody (4 pages)Help students develop SELF AWARENESS and adjust to a changing world. Reflect on the challenges and successes from the past.Brainsto
Grades:
7th - 10th
Writing a Paragraph FREEBIE
This FREEBIE can be easily paired with the FREE Writing a Paragraph video. While watching and teaching how to write a paragraph, use the included checklist, graphic organizers, and writing paper. A preview of paragraph writing supports is included in this product. The review page of the free resource can be paired with the Writing a Paragraph video to check your students’ understanding of this skill. Find extension activities in the complete Foundations of Paragraph Writing print AND digital res
Grades:
2nd - 5th
FREE Hexagonal Thinking Activity Templates for Novel Study
These hexagonal thinking templates help you to easily design a student-led activity that emphasizes critical thinking skills, synthesis, discussion, analysis, vocabulary, and more! Hexagonal thinking is a retrieval and connection strategy. The goal is for students to make a generalization about linked ideas or terms. Students are given (or self-generate) several relevant ideas, concepts, feelings, images, terms, etc., make connections, receive quick teacher feedback, and explain why and how.Ther
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Hexagonal Thinking Reading Activities BUNDLE for High School Students
Free Halloween Wordsearch Activity & Writing Prompts
Want a challenging Halloween activity for your middle or high school students? Need ideas for fun activities? Download my free Halloween-themed word search. Includes answer key and several writing prompts and ideas to use in your secondary classroom. Warning: the word find is difficult. It may take your students a long time to complete and drive them insane. This is how I get back at them when they are being difficult. heehee...just kidding.Word Search: Use this activity for enrichment or ext
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6th - 12th
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Outbreak of World War 2 Close Reading Comprehension Activity | 5th & 6th Grade
A close reading passage with comprehension and grammar questions, an extension task, a crossword puzzle and a wordsearch about the events surrounding the outbreak of the Second World War. The NO PREP informational text worksheets are perfect for students in fifth grade or sixth grade. Students will learn about the war whilst developing their comprehension skills.Included in this PDF printable resource:An informational textA comprehension activity with ten questionsTwo grammar questions about the
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5th - 6th
Create an Animal | Fun Explanatory, Expository, & Descriptive Writing Activity
Puts their informative, explanatory, descriptive writing to the test and smiles on their faces! Students get to be creative and have fun, yet they must also use their best expository writing skills. The purpose for their writing becomes so clear during this lesson -- which is to have their partners draw exactly what they've described. Includes lesson plan, sample hybrid animal photos, a sample drawing and description of a "jaccoon" (jaguar and raccoon hybrid), and a handout for the student that
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4th - 8th
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Paired Passages with writing prompt RACE Strategy: FREE Student Guide
Need free paired passages with a writing prompt? Paired texts can be difficult. Give your students this FREE guide to support them as they learn to read and respond to paired texts. Paired texts are becoming more and more common on standardized tests. This Download Contains: PRINT2 passages with a questionan exemplar response to a short response questionguide to the RACE Strategy for paired passagesDIGITALready to use Easel activityLike this resource? Check out the full versions!Paired Passages
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4th - 8th
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September 11th Reading Comprehension and RACE Strategy Writing Activity FREE
This free reading comprehension passage describes September 11 and its aftermath in the United States. Students will read, answer three multiple choice questions, two short response questions, and one extended response question using the RACE Strategy. No-prep, just print and go!This Download Contains: ♦ 1 passage (approximately 8th grade reading level)♦ 2 pages of worksheets♦ Answer keyLooking for a novel to help your students grasp 9/11?Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story--Complete Novel UnitNeed
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6th - 9th
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FREE Brainstorming Personal Narrative Graphic Organizer | Writing Prompts
Brainstorm Personal Narrative Graphic Organizer | Writing Prompts Brainstorming for Personal Narrative Writing Unit BundleDo you need an engaging graphic organizer to help your middle school students brainstorm for their personal narrative writing unit? This FREE Personal Narrative Graphic Organizer uses guided brainstorming writing prompts to help your middle school students organize and brainstorm their narratives with ease. (This graphic organizer worksheet is a free sample from my PERSONAL N
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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