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Writing-expository Common Core RL.4.3 resources
Book Report | 3D Book Review Dodecahedron Project
Looking for a NON-TRADITIONAL, YET ENGAGING BOOK REPORT that will have your students using their reading, writing, and art skills? Then this is the book report project for you! This amazing 27-page project, geared towards FICTIONAL STORIES, will have your students turn 12 circles they have completed with different assignments and projects into a geometrical wonder- the Dodecahedron. This resource has everything you need to get your students excited and involved in this hands-on book report adven
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4th - 6th
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The Castle in the Attic Novel Study Digital + Printable Book Unit
Are you looking for an all-in-one unit for The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop? Look no further. This comprehensive digital + printable unit includes vocabulary practice, comprehension quizzes, constructed response writing prompts with organizers for planning, and language arts lessons. Lessons are aligned to the Common Core Standards for grades 5–6.✨ DIGITAL RESOURCESThis novel study includes links to digital resources. Boom Learning is used for multiple-choice, short answer, and f
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5th - 6th
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Book Reports BUNDLE to Use with ANY Book
56 Book Reports to use with ANY Book, both Fiction and Nonfiction! Using this book report BUNDLE in your classroom will benefit your students' reading comprehension skills:Looking for digital book reports for distance learning? Check out my Digital Book Reports Google Drive Edition.FICTION:Story elementsMaking connections to textQuestioning the textAuthor's purposeCompare & contrastProblem & solution / conflict & resolutionBeginning, Middle & EndSummaryCharacterizationSequencin
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1st - 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
Analyzing Character Traits and Biography Writing Bundle (Digital & Printable)
The Analyzing Character Traits Bundle includes two products, Analyzing Character Traits and Character Bio Reports. You can purchase them separately or save over 30% by purchasing them together in this bundle! Analyzing Character Traits includes a variety of lessons and activities for teaching students how to analyze character traits, along with ready-to-use graphic organizers and activity pages. The teacher’s guide includes the printable resources, and the lesson directions include links to Goog
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3rd - 6th
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Novel Study Unit and Literature Guide
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is a favorite novel study for students. Use this Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe fantasy literature unit to cover a wide range of reading skills. My favorite activity in this product is the Narnia map activity. Students use the text to identify 9 key locations. Based on textual evidence, the students map Narnia and the route Lucy, Edmund, Peter, and Susan followed while in Narnia. Students stain a piece of ledger sized paper with tea bags the
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4th - 6th
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Earth Day Opinion Writing Mini-Unit: Lessons, Writing Templates, Writing Rubric
Try out this mini opinion writing unit out this year on Earth Day! Teachers will love the done-for-you lesson plans and students will enjoy reading a variety of high-interest texts that help teach conservation.This writing unit is perfect to tie into the spring season while still addressing critical writing skills like researching, using graphic organizers and templates to help students arrange what they've learned about Earth's conservation into a strong opinion writing piece.Students will exp
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3rd - 5th
Holes: 40 Journal Prompts (Distance Learning)
Holes is a wonderful story of a boy who goes through great lengths to help a friend in a difficult environment.Like this book?***Save 25%!***This product is also available in a power pack containing both journal prompts and quizzes!Holes by Louis Sachar Power Pack ***40 Journal Prompts Description:→ Assess student comprehension→ Requires students to use important skills: summarizing, characterization, cause and effect, figurative language, author's purpose, vocabulary strategies, and personal re
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4th - 7th
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The Bread Winner by Arvella Whitmore Novel Study Unit
This is a zipped file with two secure PDF files for The Bread Winner by Arvella Whitmore. The resource is a low prep novel unit and includes a student PDF with all student activity pages that teachers can print as a novel study packet for reading groups. The second PDF has all student pages with teacher notes, answer keys, and student samples.The Bread Winner is a high interest novel study for upper elementary students. After gathering background information about the Depression, students identi
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4th - 6th
Also included in: Depression Era Novel Study Literature Bundle
Let It Begin Here! | American Revolution | Lexington and Concord
Teach your students about the Shot Heard Round the World and the start of the American Revolution while working on reading and writing standards. This print and go resource is a perfect addition to your Colonial America or Revolutionary War unit or as a stand alone unit of instruction.Let It Begin Here!: This story takes readers through the first hours of the Revolutionary War starting with Paul Revere's Ride, through the next day with the Battles of Lexington and Concord, to the British limping
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: American Revolutionary War Stories BUNDLE | Distance Learning Printables
THE LEMONADE CLUB by Patricia Polacco: DETAILED LESSON PLAN WITH ACTIVITIES
The Lemonade Club by Patricia Polacco is a heartwarming story that follows the friendship between two young girls, Traci and Marilyn, who are faced with a challenging situation when Traci is diagnosed with cancer. Despite the difficulties they encounter, they decide to start a lemonade stand to raise money for Traci's medical expenses. The story beautifully illustrates the power of friendship, resilience, and community support as they navigate through tough times together. Through engaging illus
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3rd - 5th
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THE OLD MAN WHO LOVED CHEESE: READING LESSONS WITH EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
Reading lessons for The Old Man Who Loved Cheese by Amy Wilsdorf can be engaging and educational. Start by introducing the book, exploring its themes of aging and passion for cheese, and discussing the characters and their motivations. To extend the learning, students can participate in various activities, such as learning the origin of different cheeses, researching the history of cheese, or even organizing a cheese recipe book. Additionally, creative assignments like writing newspaper articles
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2nd - 4th
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Among the Hidden Paired Writing Prompts | Digital Google Slides
This digital Google Slides formatted resource includes 10 writing prompts that align with chapters in the novel Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix. I've created one writing prompt for every three chapters, making this perfect to pair along side your Among the Hidden novel study - plus a bonus EDITABLE Editing & Revising Checklist for students to use! These writing prompts take reader response questions to the next level. They cover many genres of writing and get students thinking d
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3rd - 6th
"Shaking Things Up #1" Google Slides- Bookworms Supplement
Bookworms Curriculum: 4th grade ELA: Module 2- Unit 2: Tracking Relationships (Lessons 29-30). These lessons correlate with the book "Shaking Things Up" by Susan Hood. This resource is completely editable through Google Slides. This resource includes modeling slides, timers when appropriate, discussion questions, "I can" statements, success criteria, rubrics, checklists, storybook photos, turn and talks, and anchor chart guides. Please know that these are for the Bookworms Curriculum and the sli
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4th
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Also included in: "Grade 4 ELA Module 2 BUNDLE" Google Slides- Bookworms Supplement
Workbooks for Readers and Writers: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
This workbook accompanies the book *Sadako and the Thousand Cranes* by Eleanor Coerr. Although the book can be read quickly, this workbook requires intensive study of the text. The Common Core Standards listed here on TPT are for 4th grade, but the workbook has been used effectively in a 4th/5th combination classroom.
Each chapter includes a *writing assignment* which asks students to use evidence from the text to support the topic of their paragraphs. For example, this is the writing prompt
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4th - 5th
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HOW TO BABYSIT A GRANDMA- Jean Reagan - READING LESSONS & FUN ACTIVITIES
The teacher's guide for How to Babysit a Grandma by Jean Reagan is a comprehensive resource designed to enhance the reading experience for young students. This guide is meticulously crafted to provide educators with a range of engaging and educational lessons that align with the themes and content of the book. It offers a variety of activities that cater to different learning styles, fostering not only reading comprehension but also critical thinking and creative expression. The guide includes t
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2nd - 4th
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Characterization Writing Template {Paragraph structure, mentor text, ESL}
Teaching characterization can be tricky. Students often understand that writer's describe characters, but struggle to have the vocabulary to identify character traits. This fun read of a mentor text as students chart text evidence of characterization followed by a structured paragraph will have students showing mastery of characterization.DetailsThis lesson consists of students reading about the cheeky weasel Baron from My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George. Using the S.T.E.A.L chara
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4th - 7th
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The Lightning Thief - Lessons 1 - 7 - Supplement to Guidebook 2.0
Are you using Guidebook 2.0 found on LearnZillion? This resource is a perfect supplement! Before beginning the novel, The Lightning Thief, students complete pre-reading activities to learn about myths, mythological characters, vocabulary strategies, and responding to different texts. The activities found in the Guidebook 2.0 Lessons 1 - 7 build a foundation so students can better understand mythological references in the novel and reinforce reading comprehension skills as they prepare to follow
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4th
Also included in: The Lightning Thief - Supplement to Guidebook 2.0 Unit - BUNDLE
African American History Unit - Following The North Star
Study African American history through a series of read-a-louds, and writing assignments. This unit is positive, as it focuses on the perseverance and dedication of both the abolitionist, and civil rights movements. The read-a-louds include historical fiction, non-fiction, and biographies. At the end of this African American history unit students will have studied the slavery period, the abolitionist movement, the civil war, segregation, and the civil rights movement. The unit includes discus
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3rd - 5th
Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen UNIT
This unit contains a unit pacing guide, along with the building background text, George vs. George as an intro to the unit. It also contains instructional slides, student work sheets, and demonstration of learning (DOL) documents for all 19 chapters of the book Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen.The 19 chapters of PowerPoint slides are animated with discussion questions as you read, they contain the text so it can be projected for students to read and follow along, as well as key vocabulary for every
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4th - 6th
Christopher Columbus PBL Activity
The story of Christopher Columbus is full of controversy! In this engaging, interactive, and thought-provoking social studies and ELA PBL activity, the students will become investigative reporters to discover Columbus's voyages' positive (+) and negative (-) effects on those involved. Students will put on their thinking caps as they close read historical fiction accounts in the first person (Columbus) and an interview with a Taino Chief, seeing both perspectives. They will also use math to test
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Christopher Columbus Interactive BUNDLE
TALES OF A 4TH GRADE NOTHING by Judy Blume: READING COMPREHENSION NOVEL STUDY
The teaching guide on "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" by Judy Blume is a reading comprehension novel study aimed at fourth-grade students. This guide provides a comprehensive and structured approach to reading and analyzing the novel, helping students improve their reading comprehension skills. The guide includes a variety of activities, such as comprehension questions, vocabulary exercises, character analysis, and creative writing prompts. The guide aims to help students engage with the story
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3rd - 4th
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The Lightning Thief - Chapters 20 - 22 **Supplement to Guidebook 2.0**
This resource is the perfect supplement for the Guidebook 2.0 Unit - The Lightning Thief from LearnZillion. The exciting conclusion of the novel The Lightning Thief has students cheering for Percy and his friends as they complete the quest to find Zeus's master bolt. In the Guidebook 2.0 novel study, students complete a culminating writing task as they reflect on the end of the novel. This product contains graphic organizers, writing frames, and activities for the final chapters of the novel.-
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4th
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Also included in: The Lightning Thief - Supplement to Guidebook 2.0 Unit - BUNDLE
The Lightning Thief - Ch. 11 - 14 & Extension Task *Supplement to Guidebook 2.0*
This is the perfect supplement to Guidebook 2.0 Unit - The Lightning Thief from LearnZillion. Enhance your instruction of Guidebook Lessons 18 - 24 with the following No-Prep Printables:Two Mentor Sentences plus Louisiana Guidebook Mentor SentenceWriting Frames to Scaffold InstructionEarly Finisher ActivitiesChoice of Format for Quest Logs and Exit Tickets to differentiate and meet needs of each individual student-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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4th
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Also included in: The Lightning Thief - Supplement to Guidebook 2.0 Unit - BUNDLE
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