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Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa Common Core W.8.10 resources
The Gift of the Magi Short Story Unit - Christmas Reading Comprehension Passages
This "The Gift of the Magi" Short Story Unit contains a 50 page close reading unit on “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry. Perfect for a short story interactive notebook, this Gift of the Magi teacher guide contains Gift of the Magi comprehension questions, teacher friendly answer keys, Gift of the Magi activities, vocabulary words, foldables, close reading resources, graphic organizers, creative writing, and essay activities are all included. All activities are classroom tested and include creat
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6th - 9th
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Christmas Writing Activities Middle School Prompts Persuasive Letter to Santa
Are your students on Santa's naughty list? This writing activity will keep your students engaged during the pre-holiday excitement as they write a persuasive friendly letter to Santa convincing him that they really don't belong on the naughty list! Creative and fun!What teachers are saying about this resource:"THE BEST UNIT I HAVE PURCHASED! So comprehensive, works students through editing, examples and just sets them up for a perfect end product if they try their best the whole way through th
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Christmas No Prep Persuasive and Descriptive Writing Bundle
Christmas Creative Writing Assignment
Elevate your writing curriculum and infuse festive joy into your classes with this Christmas Creative Writing Assignment. Students step into the shoes of captivating characters such as Santa's Elf, Christmas Turkey, Gingerbread Man, Christmas Tree, or Museum Curator, crafting imaginative written products like brochures, postcards, infographics, and more based on character-specific writing prompts. Using the RAFT format (Role, Audience, Format, Topic), students choose from five distinct writing o
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Creative Writing Full Year Bundle
Christmas Activity | Emoji Pictionary Guessing Game | Holiday Party Edition
Celebrate the holiday and Christmas season with this fun emoji pictionary guessing game! Think of it as Pictionary style riddles using only emojis. This fun activity is perfect for a classroom celebration, staff party, or use it at your family Christmas gathering! Whether you make it an individual race or a group competition, your crew will love having fun with this wintery, holiday activity!⭐️ Get the Full Growing Bundle of Emoji Games and save big! Enjoy holidays & more!What's Included:A P
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Not Grade Specific
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Christmas Descriptive Writing Activity – Gingerbread House Real Estate Listing
Christmas Descriptive Writing Activity – Gingerbread House Real Estate Listing is a fun and creative way to improve your students' descriptive and persuasive writing with a holiday twist. Students will use imagery and persuasive language to create a real estate listing for a gingerbread house, where they will put their writing skills and creativity on display. Use the included slideshow presentation to teach students about how to write using descriptive and persuasive writing techniques. After u
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7th - 10th
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December Daily Writing Journal Warm Up Bell Ringer Activities
No matter what your year looks like, this is an easy way to keep your students writing! Engage them with daily journal writing with 31 December prompts that focus on quirky holidays, important days in history, funny/inspirational quotes, and research.Print or digital -- You'll get both!Did you know that December 5 is Ninja Day and that December 13 is National Cocoa Day? (Neither did I!!) Those are two of the over thirty prompts you'll find in this resource. Topics include trivia, historical even
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts
Charles Dickens Author Study | Body Biography | Collaborative Poster
Have your students create a collaborative poster and learn about Charles Dickens in a new and engaging way!Your students will create an author biography by researching Charles Dickens and establishing his profile on a poster.Students will learn about Charles Dickens's life and his body of work as a legendary author.This is perfect for any unit on Dickens' novels, to include:A Christmas CarolA Tale of Two CitiesGreat ExpectationsOliver TwistDavid CopperfieldAdditionally, your students will discov
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: A Christmas Carol Novel Study | Complete Unit Plan
Christmas Writing Assignment - Santa Survival Manual Holiday Writing Activity
Christmas Writing Assignment - Santa Survival Manual Holiday Writing Activity: This Christmas writing assignment has students take on a task given to them by the North Pole government: create a survival manual for Santa on his trip around the world! Students must complete a written plan for the manual, which will include 5 different obstacles Santa may encounter: inability to descend a chimney, waking a sleeping child, reindeer injuries, weather conditions, and sleigh malfunctions. This activity
Grades:
6th - 9th
Christmas Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers, Quizzes Rubrics
Introducing essay writing for Christmas has never been easier! This writing unit with 4 complete essay prompt lessons (argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive) guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a 5-paragraph (or more/less) essay. The unit includes: argumentative writing graphic organizer, expository writing graphic organizer, narrative writing graphic organizer, persuasive writing graphic organizer, argumentative rubric, expository rubric, narrative rubric,
Grades:
6th - 8th
Christmas Descriptive Writing Activity – Gingerbread House Real Estate - Digital
Christmas Descriptive Digital Writing Activity – Gingerbread House Real Estate Listing is a fun and creative way to improve your students' descriptive and persuasive writing with a holiday twist. Students will use imagery and persuasive language to create a digital real estate listing for a gingerbread house, where they will put their writing skills and creativity on display. Use the included Google Slides presentation to teach students about how to write using descriptive and persuasive writing
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7th - 10th
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas Movie Companion Pack/ Lesson Plan
This is a companion pack to accompany How the Grinch Stole ChristmasThis is targeted for grades 6-8 in ELA.INCLUDES:9 Total Activities- Figurative Language- Sequencing/Predications - Fillable Plot Diagram - Generating Questions - Short Constructed Response Questions - Extended Constructed Response - Characterization Activity- Heart Map- Making ConnectionsReady to print!Check out my other Christmas related activities:Would You Rather Writing PromptsChristmas AnalogiesFrosty the Snowman Movie
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: The Grinch: BUNDLE
Gift of the Magi by O. Henry Christmas Activity
Are you looking for a no-prep Christmas comprehension, listening, and writing activity for The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry's classic short story of love and sacrifice? This fun, easy-to-use resource includes links to podcast audio versions of the story, as well as a listening comprehension mystery picture, editable writing prompts, and two versions of the printed story. The Christmas mystery picture and writing activities can be used with the printed story or the podcast audio. Either way, kids w
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6th - 8th
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Winter Craft Project & Writing Activity - Ugly Christmas Sweater (Middle School)
An ugly Christmas sweater craft project and writing activity for middle school! This winter project will keep your kids busy with a meaningful activity. Kids will roll the dice and put decorations on their sweaters. The writing activity has a brainstorm to get them focused on a creative writing story. This is a printable activity with digital options. Makes a great bulletin board!Here is what is included:✅Sweater pattern - print on paper or oaktag✅Dice rolling activity - for decorations✅Wri
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5th - 8th
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Christmas ELA December Winter Writing Prompts RACE Writing with passages
Google Slides virtual classroom with digital writing prompts, articles ( informational text ) and videos, using RACE strategy is great for distance learning AND for in-class use! This set is just in time for December and Christmas. Prompts are written to resemble state test prompts. Students are asked to cite evidence, describe, explain, summarize, etc., using the RACE + Transitions strategy. Students can click the article links on their virtual chalkboard to read and watch highly engaging cont
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Digital Writing Prompts with RACE Strategy Full Year
Holiday Writing Bundle for Middle School Language Arts
This bundle includes five fun writing assignments for holidays!Bundle includes:Writing a Valentine's Day Poem - This assignment is a fun and engaging way for students to learn about various elements of poetry while celebrating Valentine’s Day. The packet includes guidelines to help students write a three-stanza poem. Students learn about rhyme scheme and syllabication. They also learn about various elements of poetry such as similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and assonance. Graphic
Grades:
6th - 8th
Winter Holidays Haikus Easy No Prep Wintertime Activity for Middle School ELA
This fully editable lesson plan and worksheet comes with a lesson plan and worksheet for teaching a fun winter-inspired class on haikus! Pass out the winter-time topic cards and have students generate words, phrases and feelings associated with wintertime and winter holidays. Then, teach your students the structure of a haiku and show examples. Let your students bring all their winter words and topics together and practice writing haikus in small groups - and share out for extra winter holiday
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5th - 8th
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Holiday Essay Organizer | Informative Writing | Holidays Around the World
Looking to bring some holiday cheer to your writing unit? Try this informative essay on a holiday! This can be used for Christmas, Halloween, Hanukah, New Year's Eve, any holiday! I think it's especially fun during the winter holiday season.Students will choose a holiday to research and use the notes organizer which is pre-labeled (History, Traditions, Compare/contrast to another country) to keep them organized through the whole process. There are also guided questions to help focus their resear
Grades:
4th - 8th
Writing About a Snowpal: Short Story Creative Writing Assignment, Middle School
This creative writing project is perfect for engaging middle school students during the winter holidays or on a snowy day. Students will have the opportunity to create a snowpal protagonist, develop a setting, and outline a plot for their stories. The resource includes story writing graphic organizers to assist students in structuring their narratives. An editing and revising checklist for self-assessment encourages students to check their work closely before starting their final drafts. Include
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Holiday Writing Bundle for Middle School Language Arts
Advent Calendar Writing Prompts - EDITABLE
Looking for a mini lesson to engage your students to put pencil to paper? It is highly recommended that daily writing practice improves student writing skills! This is a no-prep, low-impact activity that students at any level can engage with and perfect theme for the holiday season! The first slide contains an advent calendar numbered 1 through 24. The teacher will project this slide to the class and click on the numbers to "open" the prompt for that box. Teachers can choose to go in order or ca
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Not Grade Specific
Middle/High Seasonal Conversation Starters: Growing Bundle
Get your middle/high school students inspired and talking with a collection of all of our seasonal conversation starters/icebreakers! Our conversation starters packages encourage critical thinking and allow students to discuss topics that are both relevant and important to them while simultaneously increasing their vocabulary and ability to effectively express themselves. Our packages are extremely versatile and have been used as bell-ringers, as supplementary material for topics covered in cla
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Elf Factory Writing Bundle for Middle School
This bundle includes 6 fun writing assignments that encourage student creativity! They are great for winter or Christmas activities. Resources include:- Elf Factory Website Content Writer (Informational Writing)- Elf Factory Employee Manual (Functional Writing)- Elf Factory Letter to a Customer (Business Letter)- Elf Factory Letter to an Elf (Personal Letter)- Elf Factory - Elf's Diary (Narrative Writing)- Elf Factory - Toy AdvertisementThese resources are licensed for single classroom use only.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
New Year's Quick Write Prompts for ELA Bell Ringers and Task Cards
Try using these 30 New Year's inspired photos & story starters as quick writes to support writing in your classroom this holiday & winter season.Quick Writes, short bursts of writing, are an excellent tool for getting student's creative juices flowing. These quick writes work well for:Bell ringersWarm-upsNarrative, reflective, descriptive, or persuasive writing brainstormingLiteracy center/station independent workEach page of this product includes:Directions1 photo prompt3 story starters
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Holiday Quick Write Prompt Bundle for ELA Bell Ringers and Task Cards
Poetry Writing BUNDLE 4 Poetry Writing Packs Easter Christmas Thanksgiving
A bundle of 4 printable Poetry Writing Packs for Easter, Valentines, Thanksgiving and Christmas - perfect for creative writing activities and fun leading up to these celebrations.Each set of poems will take at least 4-5 classes to complete, working solidly, and will nicely fill a week leading up to each major celebration, keep your students learning, enjoying learning and getting in the spirit of the holiday :)Included in each Poetry Set are:10 different poems to write for each holidayA 10-page
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6th - 9th
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Winter Door Decor
The holiday season is here! Make decorating your door easy with the “Winter Door Decor Kit.” This kit is great for bulletin board use as well! There are three different writing prompts for student choice, teacher choice, or monthly alternation!
Your download includes:
•4 Signs (4 pages; 2 options – one sign with all the words on one page or three separate signs)
•3 Writing Prompts (3 pages)
•Winter Banner (4 pages)
About Wondering with Mrs. Watto:
Welcome! I am a middle school English teacher
Grades:
5th - 9th
Also included in: Door Decor Bundle
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