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3rd grade short stories resources for Microsoft PowerPoint under $5
Short Story Creative Writing (Roll-a-Story)
Introductory PowerPoint covering the elements of a short story plus silly story starters for creative writing in a "Roll-a-Story" format. These four "Roll-a-Story" cards allow for 864 different story combinations! Students first roll a die to select a character, then roll to select a setting and one more roll to select the conflict. Then let the creative writing fun begin.I suggest laminating the "Roll-a-Story" cards. Students only need to use a card briefly, for three rolls of the die. The
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3rd - 6th
Story Elements of a Fairy Tale PowerPoint and Printable Reading Activity
Fairy Tales PowerPoint will introduce your students to the main characteristics and story elements of fairy tales, such as magic, royalty, characters, lessons and more. Animated slides will engage your students. I use this presentation to introduce a unit on fairy tales. Review slides at the end with answer key. Then have students do the reading activity with my printable Elements of Fairy Tales chart (included on the last page). Have them read several fairy tales (I assign at least 5) and let
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Fairy Tales Resource Bundle
Aesop's Fable: "The Tortoise and the Hare" Reading Comprehension Resource
Over 90 pages, including author's theme, reader's theater, printable mini-book, 20+ vocabulary and comprehension activities, texts at multiple reading levels, word wall cards, and more. Everything you need is available in one set. This resource is Google Classroom compatible, includes Power Point slides, is available in EASEL, and includes an EASEL assessment.Activities include vocabulary practice, context clues, story elements, character web, comparing and contrasting, cause and effect, autho
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Also included in: 3rd Grade Essentials Bundle
Valentine's Day - Mailbox Project & Class List Letter {EDITABLE}
Enjoy this EDITABLE letter to parents asking them to help their children make a valentine mailbox. It also has a place where you can write in the kids' names. Please note that only the letter itself (not the heading) and the kids' names are editable.Looking for other holiday items? Valentine's Day: Sight Word Bingo - EditableColor by Code {DIFFERENTIATED} 2 Digit Addition & Subtraction - Valentine's DayValentine's Day (Color by Comprehension Stories and Questions) - 10 StoriesWinter (Colo
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PreK - 5th
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(Narrative writing) Writer's Workshop mini-lesson for 1st and 2nd grade.
This power point explains what a narrative writing is and has the students go through the processes with an example story.
You will need to download the free fonts on slide 2.
Check out my other writing mini-lessons.
Adding Spaces between words
Complete and Incomplete Sentences
Using Nouns
Proper Nouns
Possessive nouns
Pronouns
Questions and Commands
Statements and Exclamations
Verb Tense
Using Adjectives
Commas in a series
Commas in a date
The Writing Process
Homophones
Conjunctions
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Counseling and Guidance "The Day the Monster Came to School" Rules Unit
This is a story about a monster that comes to school and does not obey school rules. This is a great way to remind students about following directions, staying on task and being respectful of others.
This makes a great Counseling and Guidance Lesson.
You can print this out and make it into a book or you can just read it from your computer. Download it to your tablet and read it as you would a book.
Included is also an easy reader, worksheets and
incentive charts.
Available in black and whi
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PreK - 3rd
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Sizzling Starts - An Introduction (No Prep)
Need a great introduction to narrative writing? Look no further! Inspired by Jen McVeity's Seven Steps to Writing Success program, here is an all inclusive lesson introducing sizzling starts in narrative writing. There's no prep required - just display on your whiteboard or Apple TV and go for gold!Check out the preview for some samples of student work - that's just after this lesson!Enjoy! :)WANT MORE? Check out my new 2 Week Sizzling Start Unit - complete with PowerPoints, interactive activiti
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Tall Tales PowerPoint
What is a Tall Tale? An introduction to tall tales. This PowerPoint explains what a tall tale is, the characteristics of tall tales, and includes a reading assignment for students to read a tall tale. Great addition to any unit on folktales or oral tradition.CCSSRL.3.2 Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.CCSSRL.3.10 By the end of the year, read
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3rd - 6th
Fairy Tale Writing Unit
This product is an entire unit on fairy tales, including what they are, and how to write your own.
In this product:
Fairy tale lesson plans (identifying elements of a fairy tale and writing own fairy tale)
Powerpoint on fairy tales including the story of Princess and the Pea
Posters
Fairy tale book study
Writing planning page
Character description page
Colorful writing page for display
This lesson unit is specifically intended for Grades 2 & 3 but may be adapted to use in Grades 4 &
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Extended Noun Groups- The Power of Adjectives/Describers
This short PowerPoint demonstrates to students the importance of using extended noun groups in their writing. This includes a PowerPoint and a student worksheet.
I use this in a lesson on writing interesting descriptions as part of creative writing.
Please remember to rate my product and leave feedback! I'd love to hear how this worked in your class.
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3rd - 8th
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Intro to Folktales and Folklore Powerpoint
This Powerpoint can be used to identify elements of a folktale. It provides students with the essential elements of a folktale and examples of common American folktales. It is especially useful before reading a short folktale with your class or before a writing unit on folktales.
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3rd - 6th
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Social Story - Good words vs. Bad words
I created this social story for a new friend who was using some...sentence enhancers with his friends and teachers. It touches upon what are some good words to use and how using bad words may make others feel. Parents and teachers feel free to customize what you'd like "bad words" to mean so it fits your needs!The portrait format of this PowerPoint allows for educators to print it out, cut each page in half, and put them on a ring for easy reading with students!
Grades:
PreK - 8th
Edward The Emu Art Lesson | Line Effect | Emu Face Template | Directed Drawing
⭐ Looking for an Emu art lesson to compliment any Emu related fiction, non-fiction information text or an animal adaptation or lifecycle science lesson? This directed drawing art lesson works well for books such as Edward the Emu and any non-fiction Emu text. With step-by-step visuals, you can support students in drawing their very own colorful Emu in 3 different art medium styles!Emu face template included!Grade: Years 2-5 (I have used this in Year 2 and Year 5 successfully)Product Includes:⭐ C
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Grades:
1st - 5th
"Balto: The Dog Who Saved Nome" Power Point Anticipation Guide
This is an anticipation guide, which is used to introduce the background information, concepts, and vocabulary for a reading selection. Don't reinvent the wheel; use my hours of research to invigorate your students and make them eager to read this story.
When you download this file, please look at it in slideshow mode. I added a ton of cool formatting things, like pictures overlapped with other pictures and text that flies in, fades, out, or even changes color. The kids get really excited. I al
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2nd - 5th
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Storybook Series - Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater - Nursery Rhyme and Folk Song
Need a way to introduce "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater" to your students? Look no further! This is the perfect resource to engage your students in singing this amazing song!This is a storybook (story book) PowerPoint presentation that can be read/sung to students like a book. Have students read or sing aloud, or present the story to them! This activity also makes great visuals for a favorite folk song or folk song of month activity. Nursery rhymes are so important to bring in your music classr
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PreK - 5th
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Power point: Characterization
This powerpoint lesson talk about character traits, motivations, and dynamics. It is Toy Story themed to help make it relevant and fun to students. It talks about each Toy Story character and what type they are. It is complete with student practice and quiz with a reading passage.
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Cause and Effect in Fiction Reading Unit | Graphic Organizers, Lessons & Tasks
This CAUSE AND EFFECT UNIT incorporates essential ELA SKILLS such as identifying SIGNAL WORDS, CAUSALITY, INFERRING and RELATIONSHIPS into an ENGAGING, NO PREP sequence of READING LESSONS your students can apply to ANY FICTIONAL TEXT in 2024.It is COMPLETELY EDITABLE, and students can READ, LISTEN or WATCH some timeless included tales to reinforce CAUSE AND EFFECT concepts and skills.You are Getting⭐ Lesson Plans to Teach Cause and Effect Reading Skills⭐ Cause and Effect Passages ( Text and Mult
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Mystery Slideshow - solve a mystery with your class!
Solve a kid-friendly mystery with your class and review key mystery story elements with this fun and interactive PowerPoint (Google Slides also included!)Students will learn about Mrs. Kerry, a teacher whose favorite chair mysteriously went missing from her classroom over the weekend. Students will identify...the scene of the crimeevidence/cluessuspectsred herringsand then most importantly, solve the crime!This fun and bright slideshow walks the teacher AND students through solving the crime and
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Also included in: Mystery BUNDLE!
The Story of Noah's Ark - Coloring and Puzzle Pages
This coloring and puzzle packet is a perfect accompaniment to your children's learning of the Noah's Ark Bible Story. In simplistic language that will engage your children with beautiful illustrated clip art, this pack includes :-* Coloring pages with the story as well is non text coloring pages in booklet form.A number of puzzles are included: a word searchjigsaw puzzle drawing the story/sequencestory sequencingbookmarks, What does that Mean pagesColor in the rainbow sheetFind the differences b
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PreK - 3rd
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Reading Comprehension Passage Interactive PowerPoint - Dirt Bike Racing
This is a reading comprehension passage and digital resource for your struggling boys who are just not motivated to read. Finish Line is the fiction story of a boy who is trying to find his own special talent in a family of many talents, who finds a dirt bike, fixes it up, and goes on to win at a dirt bike race, making new friends along the way. Each slide is a piece of the motocross story and is followed by a slide of reading comprehension questions requiring thinking, evidence, and inference,
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3rd - 5th
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Reading Comprehension - Fairy Tales - The Gingerbread Man Powerpoint Game
Engage students with this fun, interactive reading comprehension game. In this mini game, students must answer questions about the book "The Gingerbread Man." Because there are so many different versions of this story, this game is editable so the answers can fit the book version you are reading There are 10 questions and you just click on each question to go to it. The question disappears after you've clicked on it so you know you've answered it. Great for a guided reading groups or a whole c
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Also included in: Reading Comprehension - Fairy Tales Bundle
Figurative Language Passages - Alliteration - 2 Digital and 2 Printable Versions
If you are looking for stories and poems designed to help students identify and practice figurative language, then this resource is for you!!Included in this Figurative Language Set:2 stories with custom illustrations for practicing alliterations.2 poems with custom illustrations and tons of alliterations.A/B multiple-choice questioning.Open-ended evidence-based question.Challenge activity to find evidence in the text.Custom Illustrations from Three Birds Art. IG: Threebirds_art2 Google Drive di
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2nd - 6th
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Magic Tree House #1 Dinosaurs Before Dark Vocabulary Powerpoint
Magic Tree House #1 Dinosaurs Before Dark Vocabulary Powerpoint 39 slides offers vocabulary from all chapters with definitions and pictoral representation. There is also slides with multiple choice vocabulary questions and fill in the blank vocabulary sentences.
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2nd - 4th
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Cinderella Stories Around the World
This information powerpoint was created to compare the Cinderella story with other Cinderella stories around the world. These stories consist of:
Walt Disney's Cinderella
Adelita
Cinderella Story
Domitila; A Cinderella Tale from the Mexican Kongi and Potgi; A Cinderella Story from Korea
The Way Meat Loves Salt; A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition.
Yeh-Shen; A Cinderella Story from China
Cindy Ellen; A Wild Western Cinderella
Anklet for a Princess; A Cinderella Story from India.
Cend
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2nd - 12th
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