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Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa Common Core W.4.4 resources
Winter Project Based Learning | Hot Cocoa Stand Business PBL | Hot Chocolate
Students LOVE real-life learning, and this Start a Hot Cocoa Stand PBL unit will have them asking for more activities just like it! Students will plan and design a hot cocoa stand, create a menu, write how to make the world's best hot chocolate, and so much more! What better way to have students use real-life math, reading, and writing skills than with this Hot Chocolate Stand Business Project Based Learning unit? Click HERE to SAVE 25% with the PBL Activities Bundle for the Year!This activity i
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4th - 6th
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Christmas Project Based Learning | Design a Gingerbread House Math Christmas PBL
Christmas activities are fun and academic with this creative, high-interest, NO MESS Design a Gingerbread House Project. What better way to have students use real-life math, reading, and writing skills than with this Christmas Project Based Learning unit? Students will have the opportunity to plan and design a gingerbread house, complete an entry form for a gingerbread house contest, and practice measurement skills in a fun and engaging way.Click HERE to SAVE 25% with the PBL Activities Bundle f
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4th - 6th
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Christmas Reader's Theater and Reading Literature Toolkit for Grades 4-8
The Show Must Go On is a Christmas reader's theater script your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating the holiday season into your language arts instruction. This 13 character PDF script includes comprehension questions and word work activities, making this unit a flexible teaching resource you can use in multiple ways!The Christmas reader's theater resource includes:7-page script with 13 different charactersContext clue worksheet for word work4 read
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle: 12 Engaging Scripts for Big Kids
Persuasive Writing Christmas Theme {Holiday Sweater Contest}
Holiday Sweater Contest: Help your students develop their persuasive writing skills with this creative writing and art project! The task involves designing a holiday sweater for a vintage department store contest. After designing, students will use persuasive writing to convince the judges why their design deserves to win the grand prize.This resource includes:Detailed lesson plans for two days (or stretch it out over several days)Small group warm-up activity to engage students and review persua
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Holiday Persuasive Writing Bundle {Halloween and Christmas}
Christmas Activities - Reading Passages - Story Elements - Narrative Writing
DIGITAL & PRINTABLE - Upper Elementary December Christmas Passages that are CCSS aligned with the ELA literature and narrative writing standards. We've added a Google Classroom Option to our popular product. The unit focuses on the reading skill of story elements of inferring character traits, Plot Development, and Theme. This unit is great to use for teacher observation because of the included lesson plans and rigorous activities. You will keep your students engaged during this challengi
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4th - 6th
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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: 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
December Writing Prompts - Christmas Writing Prompt - Creative Narrative Writing
DIGITAL & PRINTABLE Christmas Writing Prompts! You can use them in multiple ways: December Activities, Daily Writing prompts, photo writing prompts, narrative writing, writing task cards, Writing Center, independent work, literacy stations, and Daily Five's - write to self.Check out our December ELA Reading & Writing ProductsCheck out our Christmas and Winter Math ProductsPurpose of Writing Unit This unit was created to overcome the struggle to get upper elementary and middle school stu
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4th - 5th
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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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Christmas Writing: Elves on Strike Narrative Unit with Google & Print Version
Engage your students with a fun narrative writing unit! Students will follow each step of the writing process as they develop stories about holiday elves. A unit plan is included to help you guide your students through each step. Now includes differentiated plot diagram maps and a Google version, perfect for distance learning!Included:Digital Links & DirectionsUnit PlanBrainstorming/OrganizerHow to Write an Amazing Elf Story PrintablePeer Editing PrintableStory ChecklistStages of WritingFina
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Christmas Writing Bundle: Narrative, Cause & Effect, and Poetry Units
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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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
Winter Project Based Learning - Design a Gingerbread House For Sale Math
This winter project based learning unit combines gingerbread house math and writing into one fun and engaging gingerbread house for sale activity! Perfect to keep students engaged in learning around the holidays and winter break.Please click on the green PREVIEW button above to see more details of what is included in this resource.This writing and math pbl unit is broken up into 6 sections:1- Design Your House - students research gingerbread house designs, purchase supplies and calculate the tot
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4th - 6th
After Winter Break Activities {No Prep ELA Activities to welcome back students}
If your students love to ☺chat☺ as much as mine the day after Winter Break ⛄, leverage that excitement for a meaningful and fun writing activity! With these NO PREP welcome back from Winter Vacation activities, students first share with their classmates about their Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, New Year's Eve, and winter break activities to complete a "Find Someone Who" activity. Next, they discuss their vacation and complete a Venn diagram comparing the events of each partner's break. Finally,
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3rd - 6th
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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
December ELA Activities Bundle for Middle School
This collection of December and Christmas ELA activities includes the perfect standards-based resources to engage your students during this festive month. Use these print-and-go resources to give your students practice reading to self, reading to someone, listening to reading, word work, and writing—all centered around the seasonal themes of December and the holidays!Included in this ELA Activities Bundle:• Christmas Close Reads for Big Kids• Digital North Pole Job Application• The Show Must Go
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4th - 7th
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Christmas Traditions Reading Comprehension Christmas Around World Text Evidence
These Christmas Traditions Around the World Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions require students to use text evidence and the RACES writing strategy to answer constructive response questions. Each reading passage highlights a different country around the world and the Christmas traditions found there. Countries included: America, Mexico, Canada, England, Germany, Italy, Australia, Sweden, France, and Russia.These Christmas themed nonfiction reading passages include one constructive resp
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4th - 6th
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Reindeer Informational Writing and Reading Passages - Christmas Theme
The holiday season is full of fun, but you still need to get some productive work done! Use this no prep Reindeer writing activity with your class to stay in the Christmas spirit! Students can practice main idea and theme while learning about reindeer in both a fiction and nonfiction passage.Questions and writing prompt + rubric were created based on the verbiage of the released items of the AIR test. ⭐CLICK HERE TO SAVE 20% WITH THE YEAR-ROUND TEST PREP BUNDLE!⭐Now with a Google Slides version
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3rd - 6th
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
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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Digital North Pole Job Application Writing Unit
If you are looking for a high-interest, week-long writing unit to engage your middle school students, this North Pole Job Application Toolkit is the descriptive writing unit for you!Unit overview: Mrs. Claus is asking for help at the North Pole. She has written a letter to you asking for urgent assistance! Students will work to incorporate descriptive writing into the job openings she has shared, apply for a specific job at the North Pole, and complete an application that incorporates extensiv
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: December ELA Activities Bundle for Middle School
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
Grades:
3rd - 5th
The Gingerbread Pirates Reader's Theater Toolkit for Grades 3-6
Are you looking for fun ELA activities for the winter holiday season? Based on the book The Gingerbread Pirates by Kristin Kladstrup, this reader's theater script includes several comprehension activities to keep your students engaged and learning while also enjoying some holiday fun.This Gingerbread Pirates Reader's Theater Toolkit resource includes:• 3-page 8-character reader's theater script• context clue word work• reader response questions• post-reading writing prompt• synonym match• summa
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3rd - 6th, Staff
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Also included in: Text-Based Reader's Theater and Read Aloud Activities Bundle
Christmas Around the World - Celebrations Around the World Reading Comprehension
This Celebrations Around the World (or Christmas Around the World) will keep your 3rd, 4th, or even 5th-grade class busy and learning during this hectic season. This resource is both interactive and FUN with 101 pages. There are a multitude of activities and worksheets which allow for differentiation. Holidays around the world are featured to allow students to learn some of the different traditions and customs of 10 different countries. For the awesome DIGITAL version, go HERE!Awesomeness bu
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Also included in: Christmas Around the World Digital AND Printable 3rd 4th 5th
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