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Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa close reading Common Core W.3.5 resources
First Day Jitters Activities | First Day Jitters Book Activities
First Day Jitters Activities-Do you love using the book “First Day Jitters” at back to school time? Then, you and your students will love this engaging and fun First Day Jitters book activities unit! This week-long unit is packed with an emoji writing craft, responding to literature activities, vocabulary, quick prints, and soooo much more!INCLUDES DIGITAL STUDENT ACTIVITIES! _____________________________________________________________✊ Buy the bundle and SAVE BIG!!! ✊Ready to have your student
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Reading Activities Beyond the Text All Year Bundle
National Parks Reading Research Project End of Year Summer School Fun Activities
End of the year project made simple! Save time planning about National Parks and the beauty of the United States with these high-interest nonfiction reading and writing activities!This set includes 7 close reading passages and a step-by-step approach to writing research pieces to help you scaffold and differentiate to meet your students' needs. This writing pack will help your students complete a National Park research project. Directions are clear and easy to understand and come in two layouts
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3rd - 5th
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Letter To Santa Craftivity Christmas Writing Craft
Your students will LOVE these cute letters to Santa! This Santa letter craft is great for wall displays and bulletin boards in December and at Christmas time. Are you looking for a cute Christmas craft or Christmas writing prompts? Look no further! Best of all, this writing prompt and craft is NO PREP! Simply print and go for your literacy or writing lessons. This resource features:Christmas craft (3 types of writing lines and a Santa head in color and black and white)3 planning pages (in varyin
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K - 3rd
Also included in:Â Christmas Writing Crafts and Christmas Math Crafts Bundle
Christmas Writing - Persuasive Letter Writing and Elf Application Project
Christmas Writing, Christmas Creative Writing, Elf ApplicationHO HO HO! 'Tis the season Santa needs extra ELVES on staff!Help Wanted at the North Pole! is a festive writing project, encouraging students to exercise their creativity and practice the "art" of writing a letter of interest. Students will begin by listening to How Santa Got His Job by Stephen Krensky (not included) and completing a corresponding graphic organizer. Next, students will receive a Help Wanted at the North Pole! advertise
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Decodable Passages w/ Reading Comprehension Questions & Activities
Want to get your students excited about reading and writing? In this resource, reading comprehension is paired with decodable phonics passages and writing. Help your students pair phonics w/ vocabulary, reading comprehension, & writing as they write their own ending...the ultimate science of reading approach!30 decodable passages:follow a systematic scope and sequence of the most common phonics skillsStudents read the decodable passage and use their comprehension of the story to answer quest
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1st - 3rd
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Olive the Other Reindeer Activities Beyond the Text
Olive the Other Reindeer Reading Activities Beyond the Text Unit Do you love sharing the misguided tale of, "Olive the Other Reindeer" with your kiddos during the holiday season? Then, they'll love this fun Olive the Other Reindeer Reading Unit! and you'll adore the academic focus this unit has! This unit is packed with a week's worth (or more!) of Olive the Other Reindeer activities that are perfect for sprinkling in the fun while building your students' reading comprehension this holiday seaso
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Reading Activities Beyond the Text All Year Bundle
Reading Activities Beyond the Text All Year Bundle
Beyond the Text All Year: The Growing Bundle If you LOVE my Beyond the Text Reading Packs then, you’ll love this year-long growing bundle! Close reading in the 2nd and 3rd grade classroom can be challenging. From what stories to pull, to what skills to teach week after week, creating a reading routine that is engaging and full of learning can be difficult. Streamline your planning process with this YEAR LONG GROWING BUNDLE! Save 40% off when you purchase this bundle! ____________________________
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1st - 3rd
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How to Make Hot Chocolate-A Writing Craftivity
How to Make Hot Chocolate Expository Writing Activity and CraftProcedural writing can be challenging for students. Use this writing activity to authentically engage your students to write about how to complete the process of making hot chocolate. This writing goes great with reading or watching the movie, “Polar Express”! Use this fun writing craftivity to add flare to a favorite writing "how to"! This Pack Includes: Brainstorming sheets in regular and primary writing lines. Each sheet also has
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1st - 5th
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Also included in:Â Writing All Year BUNDLE
Christmas Narrative Writing Center Prompts and Activities for December
Do you have reluctant writers in your classroom? Don’t despair! This Christmas and Hanukkah writing activity will motivate even your most challenged writers. These creative writing prompts provide choice and include the tools needed to plan and write great Christmas and Hanukkah narratives. Your students will love getting to select the setting, problem/plot, and character cards for their story and creating their own unique Holiday themed narrative. These Christmas writing prompts generate fun a
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Fun Writing Activities Yearlong Narrative Writing Prompts and Centers Bundle
Winter Holiday Activities - Ugly Sweater Creative Writing for January & December
Want to provide holiday activities for your upper elementary students before winter break while also practicing multiple writing skills? This Ugly Sweater Christmas Writing resource gives students short, engaging writing tasks before the holiday break. The holiday writing prompts are interconnected and follow a similar set-up so they’re engaging for students and simple for you. What’s Inside:✔ 5 days of interconnected short writing prompts✔ Graphic organizers to plan writing✔ Pages for writte
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3rd - 5th
The Legend of the Poinsettia FULL Day of Lesson Plans for Upper Elementary
This product is everything the busy classroom has been looking for! You'll receive a FULL day of lesson plans based on The Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie dePaola (a lesson for reading, writing, math, science, social studies, plus a hallway display!).Update November 2020: This product can now be used digitally with Google Slides™! You must have a Google Classroom™ account to use this feature. You will download a PDF with links and directions for assigning this to your class.How does this work?
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3rd - 5th
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Grade 3 | Amplify Core Knowledge (CKLA) ALIGNED | Skills Slideshows UNIT 4
PLEASE NOTE:**These materials are not designed to replace lessons or materials provided within Amplify/Core Knowledge (CKLA); they are meant to supplement the existing materials provided by Amplify Education Inc. and The Core Knowledge® Foundation.These interactive Slideshows are aligned to Amplify Core Knowledge's (CKLA) Grade 3 Skills Strand, Unit 4, Lessons 1-20 1st edition, and Lessons 1-15 2nd edition. These are aligned to both the 1st and 2nd editions! These slideshows are very colorful, i
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3rd
Also included in:Â Grade 3 Skills Supplemental Slideshows BUNDLE! (ALIGNED to Amplify/CKLA)
Holidays Around the World Suitcase & Passport: Close Reading & Opinion Writing
Take your class on a holiday journey around the world, all while focusing on reading comprehension and opinion writing skills for Common Core. Students get their own suitcase, passport, map, and travel guide book as they "travel" to learn about how holidays are celebrated around the world. They can do a Close Reading of up to 10 different countries/continents, and then complete an opinion writing assignment to this prompt: “In your opinion, in which part of the world would you most like to visit
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1st - 3rd
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Open Court 3rd Grade Unit 1 BUNDLE
All of the resources I have created for each lesson of unit 1 in Open Court Reading for third grade. Each of these lessons dives into the vocabulary, spelling, overarching goal of the unit, comparing and contrasting, main idea, and opinion writing as well as identifying information from the text and answering open ended questions. By bundling these items you get one lesson FOR FREE!
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3rd
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Christmas Writing: 12 Days of Poetry Booklet with Google & Print Version
These mini-lessons are designed to be a fun, easy way to integrate poetry during the busy holiday season. Six lessons are skill lessons, which means they are on a specific part of the poetry, or a pre-writing exercise. The other six are designed for actually writing a poem. There is also a review and evaluation piece at the end of the booklet. Now includes a Google Slides version, perfect for distance learning! Students will have a chance to learn about imageryrhymingcoupletsconcrete poemssyllab
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Holiday Poetry Mini Lesson Bundle
Turk and Runt Activities Beyond the Text
Turk and Runt ActivitiesIf your students love the book, "Turk and Runt" by Lisa Wheeler, they will love these Turk and Runt activities that are specifically built to complement this fun Thanksgiving story! This unit includes digital Turk and Runt Activities that are perfect for your distance learning classroom. This Turk and Runt Activities unit is designed to save you time while helping you build your students' reading comprehension as they learn to look Beyond the Text (TM) This Turk and Runt
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Reading Activities Beyond the Text All Year Bundle
3rd grade SBAC Test Prep Bundle | Reading Test Prep | SBAC Practice Test
This SBAC ELA Practice Test or Reading Performance Task Bundle, based on SBAC and MSTEP Writing performance tasks (PT), is a great way to practice CCSS with your students!!! These tasks focus on reading, writing, comprehension, and more, but with Nature, Athletic, Science, Submarine, Aquarium, Bowling, and Earth Science themes in which they are asked to write an article about physical and chemical changes, asked to have a class debate about a famous athlete, write an article for a classroom deba
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3rd - 4th
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CHRISTMAS & HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD December Activities Research Project
Gain a deeper understanding of different holiday celebrations with Christmas and Holidays Around the World! This informative resource includes comprehensive activities plus reading passages that allow students to explore nine of the major holiday celebrations, including Diwali, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, St. Lucia Day, Las Posadas & Christmas in the United States, Germany, Australia, and Italy. With the help of no-prep graphic organizers and easy-to-understand reading passages, students can enhance
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2nd - 4th
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Aesop’s Fables Unit & Lesson Plans – Genre Study for 3rd, 4th, 5th Grade
This fables unit offers a complete reading, writing, speaking, and listening experience! It includes lesson plans, 10 stories with comprehension questions, 7 plays, writing, and compare-contrast activities. You’ll have everything you need to teach your third, fourth, or fifth grade students. Open the preview to take a closer look at the components. Lesson PlansThree weeks of ELA lesson plans are ready to go! You may use them to guide your study of fables. (Open the bonus preview to see the plans
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3rd - 5th
Johnny Appleseed Activities Print and Digital Beyond the Text
Johnny Appleseed Activities: Print and DigitalIt's apple time! That means time to learn more about Johnny Appleseed! Ready to engage your students while learning more about Johnny Appleseed and American Folktales? Then, they'll love this engaging and fun Beyond the Text unit about Johnny Appleseed! This unit includes tons of fun Johnny Appleseed Activities. This week-long unit is packed with printable and digital versions of crafts, responding to literature activities, vocabulary, quick prints,
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Reading Activities Beyond the Text All Year Bundle
Christmas Writing Activity - Unemployed Elf
Are you looking for a fun and engaging Christmas writing activity for your upper elementary students? In this Christmas writing activity each student is an unemployed elf seeking a job at the North Pole for the Christmas Season. This creative project will ask students to apply for one of the North Pole job openings (candy maker, barn assistant, toy maker, etc.). Then, students will need to fill out a job application, have someone write a letter of recommendation, write a cover letter, and interv
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in:Â Christmas Writing and Math Bundle
Christmas Santa Writing
A Christmas writing project where students will complete the full writing process to practice persuasive writing. Students till complete a job application to relate this project to their real life! Students will be convincing others why they should be Santa or work at the north pole.This project is a mentor text writing project with the story "How Santa Got His Job" by Stephan Kerensky!Why will these activities help your students grow and make you happy?Engagement- The students will LOVE applyin
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2nd - 4th
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How to Wrap a Present | Christmas Writing Activity | Holiday Paper
This fun how to wrap a present writing prompt activity invites students to write directions for others to follow explaining how to wrap a gift box. This is one of my favorite holiday writing prompts because it is a fun and engaging, real-world situation that students love! The writing resource includes differentiated templates, which makes it accessible to 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students.As a culminating activity, I always enjoy having someone try to follow the students’ written directions
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2nd - 5th
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Dear Santa Persuasive Letter | Christmas Craft | December Opinion Writing Prompt
Writing Letters to Santa has never been so fun! These Dear Santa Letter templates are the perfect addition to your December writing prompts. Students will practice writing a persuasive letter to Santa to let him know how good they have been this year and what they would like for Christmas. These Dear Santa Letter Templates are differentiated for kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade students.What's Inside the Dear Santa Letter Template:Teaching Guide and Photo ExamplesStudent Planning Page3 Differenti
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K - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Year of Creative Writing Prompts | Bulletin Boards & Activities
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