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Critical thinking library skills Common Core W.2.3 resources
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READ ALOUD STEM Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle #1 STEM Club, STEM Centers
Integrate STEM and Literacy in your classroom all year with READ ALOUD STEM Volume One! Everything you need to be the master STEM Teacher at your school! Awaken imagination and creativity all year. Students learn coding, engineering, explore real-world problems, learn about STEM role models, pioneers, inventors, and more!Amazing resource for STEM clubs, STEM Teachers, STEM Stations, STEM Centers, parents who love hands-on learning, and elementary teachers who want to create a hands-on educationa
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1st - 5th
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Fairy Tales 2nd Grade Fairytales, Folktales, & Fables Unit Lessons & Activities
A fairy tale (fairytale), folk tale, and fable close reading unit can make writing lesson plans a breeze and ensure a deeper exploration into understanding stories while students provide text evidence from specified Mentor Texts (a list is included!). This interactive reading unit uses three different genres to teach deeper thinking about the main characters, the moral of the story, text structure, point of view, and comparing and contrasting stories. Graphic organizers are included and can be u
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2nd - 3rd
150 Daily Bell Work Writing Prompts (Grade 1-3 Language)
Be prepared to teach your Grade 1-3 Language class with a year's worth of bell work writing prompts for Google Slides™! This resource is perfect for a soft start to the Language block and for creating a daily routine for your students to follow. This resource includes 150 writing prompts themed for each day of the week to spark student interest and promote engagement. Every prompt comes with an example of how students should organize their journals, including partial sentences to get students st
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1st - 3rd
Also included in: Grade 2 Ontario 2023 Language Bundle (FULL YEAR)
Book Report Foldable Project: Pop-Up Picture Book with Editable Rubrics
Are you tired of the same extension projects for independent novel studies or literature circles? Then look no further! This 3D Pop-Up Picture Book Report comes with everything your students will need to create this foldable project. Even the not-so crafty teacher will love making this project! You will only need plain white paper, scissors, glue and coloring tools to create this engaging project. That’s all! Included in this resource:Step by step instructions that will be easy enough for your s
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3rd - 7th
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READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges #2 Real World Science Engineering
Bundle and get 50% off! Integrate STEM and Literacy in your classroom all year with READ ALOUD STEM Volume 2! Awaken imagination and creativity all year. Students learn coding, engineering, explore real world problems, learn about STEM role models, pioneers, inventors, and more! Perfect for librarians, STEM Club, K-5 Teachers, and any teach who loves to integrate hands-on learning activities with their students!This collection of STEM Projects focuses on connecting ELA and STEM. Each challenge c
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-PS3-1
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 4-PS3-4
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Groundhog Gets a Say READ ALOUD STEM Activity
Create a Groundhog Burrow in this amazing Groundhog Day READ ALOUD STEM™ Challenge for Groundhog Gets a Say by Pamela Swallow! In this STEM Lesson, students design a Groundhog Burrow. They learn about how magnets work and use them to help their groundhog navigate the burrow!The Engineering Design Process:Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't. They follow the six step Engineering De
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: February READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Winter Story Sequencing | Sequence of Events Worksheets
This engaging no-prep resource helps students learn how to sequence events after reading a story, comprehend sentences, and improve critical thinking skills using fall and winter season original stories. *Answer key included!*This packet includes 25 original stories with sequenced pictures.*They are easily identified to the student as “First, Next, Then, and Last” to teach the student the sequencing of pictures. *The sentences below the pictures are mixed up and need to be cut out and glued in
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Winter Speech and Language BUNDLE
Finish the Drawing Halloween STEAM Challenge Pumpkin No Prep Activities Doodle
This Halloween STEAM challenge targets the Art in STEAM. Students will think outside the box to finish the drawing & disguise a pumpkin. Students will turn the pumpkin into something new! This is a great activity for October!These activities will get students to think in a unique way. Use this as a warm-up or entire lesson. Incorporate creative writing to create a full lesson. Looking for more Halloween challenges? Save 30% and receive ALL activities! CLICK HERE for the full Halloween bundle
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K - 3rd
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Story Retell Summarizing and Sequencing Elementary Print and Go
This Print and Go resource focuses on retelling a story, summarizing, main idea, details, sequencing, reading comprehension and context clues-all in one! Summarizing a paragraph can be a difficult concept for beginning readers and students who have difficulty with receptive and expressive language skills. Their comprehension of the story can be missing or mixed up. They may often have difficulty putting the story in order due to the inability to sequence. This 23 useable page (print and go)
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Critical Thinking Skills for Beginners Bundle
Transition Words PowerPoint Lesson Plan
Make teaching transition word use easy with this no-prep PowerPoint lesson. This user-ready lesson will relieve stressful planning while freeing you up with more time. Find a complete gradual release lesson including standards and a writing prompt. This quick and easy setup feels like having a friend in the classroom who will guide you in teaching a lesson great for teacher evaluations. The lesson plan follows standards with modeling, group teacher instruction, partner work, and individual pract
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2nd - 4th
Also included in: Writing Lessons for the Year in PowerPoint and Worksheets Bundle
Opinion Writing Prompts Narrative Expository Writing Prompts & Friendly Letters
Grab all 7 of my writing prompt collections in one money-saving bundle! Includes 63 writing prompts to take you all the way from the very beginning of the school year through the spring. Includes practice on expository writing, narrative writing, persuasive writing, and friendly letters. Each prompt has a checklist for student accountability and this product comes with both Handwriting without Tears style paper and regular lined paper so all you need to do is print and copy!This product also
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1st - 3rd
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100th Day of School Activity Booklet | 100th Day of School Activities
Looking for a fun activity for students to do during the 100th day of school celebration? This 100th day activity booklet has a variety of activities to keep your students engaged and involved in critical thinking. This 100th day activity booklet includes creative writing prompts, a coloring page, an I Spy activity, and is fun and easy for students to assemble.Click on the PREVIEW above to get a closer look at the contents of this resource.This high-interest resource includes the following activ
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1st - 3rd
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Grace for President READ ALOUD STEM™ Challenge
Create a Ballot Box and conduct your own classroom election in this amazing Presidents Day READ ALOUD STEM™ Challenge for Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio! In this STEM Lesson, students design a Ballot Box for their own classroom election. They learn about how elections work and how to tally votes and graph results.The Engineering Design Process:Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and wha
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: February READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Critical Thinking Skills for Beginners Bundle
Teaching the main idea, critical thinking skills, details, and summarizing paragraphs to young students? Need it aligned to Common Core? This is the bundle for you! You get 114 useable pages, and you save 20%! Included in this bundle;Critical Thinking Skills for Beginners FreebieCritical Thinking Skills for BeginnersSummarizing Paragraphs for Beginners Print and Go!Main Idea for Beginners
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K - 3rd
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Writing & Math Graphic Organizers
Writing isn't just for ELA time! Bring writing into your math block using this graphic organizer pack. Created for grades 2-6, these graphic organizers will help students articulate complex mathematical terms and synthesize concepts. This leads to an overall better understanding of the mathematical ideas, and students will be practicing writing skills! It's a Win-Win situation.
These graphic organizers will have students writing a variety of tasks including reflection, narrative, research repor
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2nd - 6th
Sequencing 3 Steps Determining a Missing Step
Sequencing 3 step directions when a step is missing! This resource helps teach the order of events, determining what is the missing step, and sequential order. Do your students have difficulty following and understanding three step directions or sequences? If so, this is the resource for them! This resource includes 20 problems in black and white. Plus, the same 20 problems in color so that you can make it interactive! Some problems are more difficult than others for different levels of stu
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K - 2nd
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*Bundle* thinkLaw Nursery Rhyme Four Lesson Bundle
What if the same critical thinking strategies taught in law school could be used with students in K-2? thinkLaw uses law school exercises with our youngest students using folk tales, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes because there are some shady characters in children's literature,This bundle includes FOUR thinkLaw Early Elementary LessonsThree Blind MIce: Analysis from Multiple PerspectivesLittle Boy Blue:Settlement and Negotiation StrategyJack and Jill: Making and Evaluating Tough DecisionsA Tis
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K - 2nd
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Digital Book Reports Distance Learning Google Drive
Your students will love these Digital Book Reports for Google Drive. Easily use these book reports and responses for distance learning. You'll receive 39 engaging digital book report forms that work with any book to improve reading comprehension. You will receive 26 fiction and 13 nonfiction digital book reports. They can be used over and over again as students read more books.Looking for additional distance learning resources? Making Inferences to Pictures Google DriveDigital Book Response
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2nd - 5th
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Opinion Writing Prompts Informational Narrative Writing Prompts End of Year
Students get so excited about the spring, so why not try this resource with opinion writing prompts, narrative, informational, expository and friendly letter writing prompts? It includes spring, March, April and May writing prompts to get students engaged? These creative prompts are super fun! Also they are no prep so just print and go!It also includes checklists for student accountability which really helped my second graders check over their own work.Take a look at the money saving writing pr
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1st - 3rd
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Book Review, Book Report Templates based on Bloom's Taxonomy
How could one find so many book report forms that transform children into the books they read and into a love of literature? Blooming Book Report Forms began as a few book report forms created to teach third grade students. Over the years new forms were created for multiple abilities.These forms were used with Bloom’s Taxonomy as a focus to ensure student success. As a third grade teacher I was tired of finding book report forms that didn’t really engage the students. These forms help students t
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K - 5th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Strategies Bundle
Room Transformation Bundle | Theme Days for the Primary Classroom
A collection of theme day activities and/or room transformation plans and activities. These were designed with first and second graders in mind. Theme days and room transformations are such a big hit in my classroom. They are fun and engaging and something to break up the routine and keep excitement for learning at the forefront! These are a great option for review days, once a quarter or seasonally. I will be adding more as I complete them.Here's What You Get:Back to school read aloud (20 socia
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1st - 3rd
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Writing Your Own Greek Myth & Presentation
When I taught Ancient Greece and Greek Myths, I taught it as a thematic unit with our reading groups and writing assignments.
The students brainstormed and created their own creative Greek Myths after we'd spent our unit analyzing the elements of a story and the lessons learned for the Greek Myths we read as a class.
In addition to just creating their own myth, they also got to choose HOW to present it to the class. With audience accountability and them asking questions like "What was the na
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2nd - 7th
Jack and Jill: Making and Evaluating Difficult Decisions
What if the same critical thinking strategies taught in law school could be used with students in K-2? thinkLaw uses law school exercises with our youngest students using folk tales, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes.Jack and Jill: Making and Evaluating Difficult Decisions guides students through the process of analyzing the nursery rhyme and asking critical questions.It says that Jack fell down and broke his crown, but was he really hurt? The next line said he capered home. Caper means to dance
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K - 2nd
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Fill-In-The-Blank Stories - Reading/Writing/Critical Thinking - Grade 1-2 Google
These 4 worksheets are designed to help with early reading and writing skills, as well as critical thinking. Students choose the correct word to fill in the blanks in simple stories to make a complete story, and then draw a picture to illustrate the story. Fun and engaging! These easy-to-use worksheets are a great addition to literacy centers, and useful to have on hand for sub plans! Perfect for both classroom and homeschool!Each of these 4 simple stories has 8 blanks to fill in, with the w
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
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