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Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa Common Core W.8.3d resources
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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Halloween, Thanksgiving, & Christmas Keyboarding Games
Halloween, Thanksgiving, & Christmas!These are fun keyboarding games to play when students are getting restless. Students are keyboarding and having fun . . . a winner! Includes two Halloween Games: Halloween Monster Mash – combines keyboarding and an English lesson; and a Halloween Trick or Treat Team Game – students are grouped into teams to see if they earn tricks or treats in this timed game. “My Thanksgiving” Game – A timed writing activity in which students write about their Thanksgivi
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4th - 9th
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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
Winter Writing Activity | Middle School Narrative Holiday Writing Activity
This winter writing activity has students write a narrative about a winter OR holiday experience. Students will create a keepsake for years to come with this writing lesson. If you need a ready-to-teach activity in December or January, this narrative writing activity will help you have fun with students. This winter writing activity includes:❄️ Detailed lesson plans with conversation starters and differentiation ideas—completely editable.❄️ An outline of the writing process and terms dealing wit
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Narrative Writing Bundle Middle School Narrative Writing Activities
A Day as a Thanksgiving Turkey | Planning and Narrative Writing | Point of View
Disguise a turkey alternative! Construct a Christmas or Thanksgiving narrative with your students by spending a day in the life of a Christmas goose or a Thanksgiving turkey! Does the bird escape to freedom, or end up on the table? This resource includes separate materials for BOTH seasonal tasks! Students plan and write a narrative from the point of view of a turkey or goose destined for the oven. Fun, thoughtful and differentiated in multiple formats: Compact two-sided worksheet versions, 4-pa
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6th - 9th
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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Holiday This or That | Writing Prompts | Christmas | Brain Break | SEL | Party
December writing assignments just got easier. This activity provides Christmas This or That? or Would You Rather? Writing Prompts. 24 Slides can be used for Do Nows, Writing Prompts, Journal Prompts, Creative Writing Lessons, Classroom Game, Ice Breaker, Brain Break, and Indoor Recess. Leave for Substitute Plans.Each activity includes two photos and a corresponding writing prompt. Perfect for a Holiday Party activity or writing assignments for upper elementary, middle, or high school English les
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5th - 12th
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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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Letter to Santa Character Voice Activity for ANY Story- Digital and Printable
This letter to Santa is a creative writing assignment to teach students about character voice with diction and syntax. This digital and printable activity can be used with any story or novel character. This creative assignment is a fun and engaging way to incorporate the holidays while still working on standards-based lessons. There is no prep. Everything is ready to print and go or assign in Google Classroom. This Letter to Santa Character Voice activity includes1. Teacher Guide2. letter planni
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: English Language Arts Holiday Activity Bundle - Digital and Printable
18 PAGES: Winter Break Activity Book and Journal with Mental Wellness Check-Ins
As teachers, we know that not all of our students are safe, well-fed, or happy at home. This packet should give teachers a little peace of mind that our students will have a bit of entertainment and an outlet for their feelings over Winter Break.This product includes:A cover page and title page18 daily pages with an activity (word search, coloring, art, etc.) and a wellness check-in (gratitude, mental check, stretch, etc.)Similar productsSnowman prefix/suffix and winter bulletin board decor BUND
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Not Grade Specific
Winter Time Snow Globe Sensory Details Snowglobe Middle School ELA Lesson Plan
This fully editable lesson plan, worksheet and template for a winter-themed activity where students learn about sensory details and then create and describe their own snow globe! Use this activity to teach and practice sensory details with a fun activity that invites students to use descriptive and wintery sensory details to describe and illustrate a snowglobe!The product includes:Sensory Details Lesson Plan: Complete lesson plan for teaching students the definition of sensory details, look at e
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5th - 8th
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Christmas Writing Lesson Holiday Scene Descriptive Writing Activity
Looking for an engaging Christmas and or winter holiday writing activity leading up to the break? This zero-prep Christmas season descriptive writing lesson and activity is sure to be a hit with your middle school students! This resource walks students through what descriptive writing is, its importance and gives them an opportunity to practice using it through the use of imagery by creating a "snapshot" of a given Christmas/holiday season scene. In this descriptive writing activity students a
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Middle School ELA Christmas Winter Activities Holiday Bundle
Christmas Writing Prompts | Journal Prompts | Task Cards for Creative Writing
December writing activities just got easier. This resource provides a month's worth of assignments with these Digital and Print Christmas Photo Writing Prompts. Use as Task Cards for Do Now, Writing Prompt, Journal Prompt, or Creative Writing Lesson. Google Slides allows for a whole-class presentation. Download individual images to assign as a "Question" in Google Classroom or print task cards for activity stations.Each activity includes a photo and a corresponding writing prompt. Prompts focus
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5th - 12th
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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
Gremlins Holiday Movie Packet
This is a packet for the movie Gremlins (1984).Packet discussion question topics include: elements of Christmas and horror films, tropes in stories, the timelessness of films, characterization of characters, heroes and the Hero's Journey. Discussion questions range across varying levels of depth of knowledge.There is a chart for students to characterize the Christmas and horror elements of the film, as well as a blank Hero Cycle chart for students to fill in with the Hero's Journey as it relates
Grades:
9th - 12th
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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Holiday Quick Write Prompts for ELA Bell Ringers and Task Cards
Try using these 30 holiday-inspired photos & story starters as quick writes to support writing in your classroom this winter.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 This product includes:3
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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
Christmas Collaborative Writing Activity
Celebrate the Christmas season with this engaging communal story-telling activity!"Christmas Collaborative Story Time" is a communal story-telling activity in which students practice using Freytag's Pyramid plot structure in their own narrative writing. In this activity, each student begins a story inspired by a unique Christmas picture or photograph. They are prompted to write the exposition of the tale by introducing the setting and main characters. After the allotted amount of time, the stor
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Christmas ELA Resource Bundle
ELA Winter Activity Bundle- Character Analysis and Voice- Winter Game
Do you need ELA activities to hold your students' attention before winter break? This ELA winter activity bundle is just what you need. This bundle has creative literary analysis activities and a winter game. It includes a letter to Santa character voice activity, an ugly holiday sweater character analysis activity, and a winter break four corners game. There is no prep for you. Everything is ready to print and go or assign online.This ELA Winter Activity Bundle includesLetter to Santa Character
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7th - 10th
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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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6th - 8th
Kwanzaa Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers, Rubrics, Quizzes
Introducing essay writing for Kwanzaa 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, p
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6th - 8th
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Visual Writing Prompts Practice Narrative Writing Christmas Themed Mini Set
Visual Writing Prompts Practice Narrative Writing Christmas Themed Mini SetDevelop your students narrative writing skills by including these engaging visual writing prompt cards, worksheets and/or slides into lessons. Students will complete a series of worksheets using the one visual writing prompt as inspiration. Once completed, students select another visual writing prompt card and start the process again. Alternatively, slides can be displayed on the IWB as a whole class/small group activity
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5th - 8th, Higher Education
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Christmas - Dark folklore Comprehension & Storytelling Lessons (No-Prep)
This no-prep and no-marking two lesson resource will take learners on an adventure into creepy Christmas folklore from around the world. Over 2 hour-long lessons, students will climb the levels of Bloom's taxonomy understanding, applying, creating, and reflecting while enjoying weird and wonderful stories that will get ideas flowing.This lesson is ready to project, allowing ease for the teacher, while engaging students, and meeting expectations.
Grades:
5th - 8th
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