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Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa short stories Common Core W.3.5 resources
Fiction Narrative Writing Unit THIRD GRADE
My third grade fiction writing unit includes 8 weeks of done-for-you writing lessons about how to write an engaging fiction essay, with strong characters, an interesting problem and solution, and rich dialogue. This unit contains detailed lesson plans, mentor texts, anchor charts, student writing tasks, and rubrics–everything you need to be a capable, confident writing teacher with students who love to write.If teaching writing has ever made you cry, weep, tear out your hair, question your exist
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3rd
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Also included in: Writing, Grammar, and Spelling Unit 4 Bundle THIRD GRADE
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: Christmas Writing Crafts and Christmas Math Crafts Bundle
The Day the Dog Talked Back - Narrative Writing Prompt- Print / Google Classroom
This pack is meant to be a fun and engaging narrative writing prompt for students in grades 2-5. Students are asked to plan and write a fictional narrative about "The Day the Dog Talked Back." Planning pages, exemplars, full directions, writing paper, and a rubric are all included in this pack.Best part? There are two versions included. 1. PDF print and go packet, which includes all of the pieces mentioned above. 2. A DIGITAL packet for use with Google Slides and Google Classroom. This pack can
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: ULTIMATE Digital Resource Bundle to Use with Google Classroom
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
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3rd - 6th
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: Reading Activities Beyond the Text All Year Bundle
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: 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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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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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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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: Holiday Poetry Mini Lesson Bundle
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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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: 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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Personal Narratives - Graphic Organizers & Rubrics - Personal Narrative Writing
This is the only personal narrative writing resource you need! Teach your students to focus on the special tiny moments in their lives with this personal narrative writing package! It contains everything you need to teach and assess personal narrative writing.⭐ Support your struggling writers as they write their personal narratives with graphic organizers!This personal narrative writing resource is perfect for:✔ 2nd, 3rd, and 4th-grade classrooms✔ writing teachers✔ teachers looking for rich writ
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3rd - 5th
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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Writing Graphic Organizer Printables for Writer's Workshop
This printable writing graphic organizer pack includes EVERYTHING you need to support your elementary students during personal narrative, informational, and persuasive, and how-to writing projects. The organizers help students in the pre-write part of the writing process. They make for a great writing station or writer' workshop in upper elementary. They are also no-prep and printable to save your precious time!Who? The organizers work for any class from 1st to 5th working on becoming strong wri
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1st - 4th
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: Year of Creative Writing Prompts | Bulletin Boards & Activities
Emoji Halloween/Fall Printable Writing Activity- Short Power Paragraph & Art
This short Halloween writing activity engages ALL students, and gets ALL students to LOVE writing! Students are given emoji prompts to arrange in any sequence, and then they construct a narrative, opinion, or informational paragraph based on the representations of the emojis. This allows flexibility, creativity, and cures writer’s block for ALL students! Seriously- I’ve seen students who strongly dislike writing get so completely focused and engaged in this activity that they can’t even put thei
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2nd - 6th
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MEMOIRS OF AN ELF activities READING COMPREHENSION - Book Companion read aloud
Save yourself time and engage your students with these Memoirs of an Elf activities. This jam-packed book companion is quick and easy to use - Just print and go!Read on to learn more about all that is included in this standards-based interactive read aloud packet based on the children’s book, Memoirs of an Elf by Devin Scillian.TO SAVE YOU TIME, WE'VE DONE ALL OF THE WORK FOR YOU!1. We chose vocabulary words & kid-friendly definitions.2. We selected mentor sentences & specific grammar sk
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1st - 3rd
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THE NIGHT TREE activities READING COMPREHENSION - Book Companion read aloud
Save yourself time and engage your students with these The Night Tree activities. This jam-packed book companion is quick and easy to use - Just print and go!Read on to learn more about all that is included in this standards-based interactive read aloud packet based on the children’s book, The Night Tree by Eve Bunting.TO SAVE YOU TIME, WE'VE DONE ALL OF THE WORK FOR YOU!1. We chose vocabulary words & kid-friendly definitions.2. We selected mentor sentences & specific grammar skills for
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1st - 3rd
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Elf Application Christmas Persuasive Writing Christmas Activities 5th grade
Persuasive essays meet Christmas whimsy in this differentiated project that lets you teach essay structure, revision, and creative writing to your older elementary students. They’ll choose from three open positions at the North Pole – Toymaker Elf, Reindeer Caretaker Elf, and Delivery Elf. Each job has very different requirements to appeal to the diverse personalities in your classroom. You’ll decide whether they should write simple one-paragraph essays or more complex five-paragraph essays comp
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3rd - 5th
THE CHRISTMAS OWL activities READING COMPREHENSION - Book Companion read aloud
Save yourself time and engage your students with these The Christmas Owl activities. This jam-packed book companion is quick and easy to use - Just print and go!Read on to learn more about all that is included in this standards-based interactive read aloud packet based on the children’s book, The Christmas Owl by Gideon Sterer.TO SAVE YOU TIME, WE'VE DONE ALL OF THE WORK FOR YOU!1. We chose vocabulary words & kid-friendly definitions.2. We selected mentor sentences & specific grammar ski
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1st - 3rd
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Build a Gingerbread House Math PBL | Christmas Project Based Learning
In this project based learning math activity, students begin by designing a gingerbread house. They then add up their costs, including labor. After adding the mark-up, they finalize a price and begin their marketing. They develop creative and compelling language to include in their culminating brochure. Students learn and develop skills in the following areas:DesignAddition and subtraction with decimals (there is an option for whole numbers)Multiplication (solving for area)Descriptive and persua
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3rd - 5th
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