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8th grade Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa Common Core W.6.4 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 Reading and Writing Bundle: Holiday Activities, Assignments, Slides
Christmas Reading and Writing Bundle: Holiday Activities, Assignments, Slides: Use this bundle of high-interest Christmas activities to engage your ELA students in reading and writing in December leading up to the break. With ready-to-use activities, assignments, slideshows, and more, you will be totally prepared to improve your students' ELA skills with a holiday twist! What Teachers Are Saying About These Christmas Reading and Writing Activities: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was the BEST Christmas resource
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6th - 9th
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Ugly Christmas Sweater: Décor and Party Invitation Writing and Design Activity
Imagine this: You or a character of your choosing, have just been invited to attend an ugly sweater Christmas party. You will now have the opportunity to evaluate and carefully select the décor for this festive Christmas event. There are four activities included in this file. They can be used as individual Christmas writing activities or as a complete unit, as they all go hand in hand, yet offer something different in each activity.
Four Christmas writing options to choose from:
• Ugly Christma
Grades:
5th - 10th
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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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CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD RESEARCH PROJECT | Winter December Report Writing
Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, print-and-go, 15-page Christmas Around the World Online Research Project for Middle Grades (Grades 4-8) Unit. In this Christmas Around the World Project, students will be assigned a country. They will research how that country celebrates Christmas using a variety of provided internet sources. They will use the information to complete an outline. They will also compare and contrast how that country ce
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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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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
It's a Wonderful Life - Literary Essay Writing (Christmas Activity)
This 10 page, Christmas themed assignment offers students the opportunity to practice the Literary Essay based on their response to the critically acclaimed film, "It's a wonderful Life". This assignment requires no prep and is a fantastic student led assignment which, after initial class discussion, should require very little prompting from teacher.
Assignment includes:
1. A brief introduction to the movie
2. A note-taking form to use while watching the movie
3. Instruction about literary th
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Christmas Reading Comprehension Assignments, Short Stories, & Creative Writing
Christmas Reading Comprehension Assignments, Short Stories, & Creative Writing is a fun and creative way to improve your students’ comprehension and writing skills with a holiday twist. Students will read three short, fictional Christmas stories that are highly engaging. Then, they will complete three short reading comprehension assignments, including multiple-choice and short-answer questions. Finally, students will complete three high-interest creative writing assignments related to the re
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5th - 8th
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STEM Christmas Craftivity - Imagine It...Design It...Create It...The North Pole
STEM Project Based Learning! Common Core Learning with holiday fun!
Geometry, Measurement, Graphing, Design - so many math skills!
Reading, Visualizing, Persuasive Writing - so many ELA skills!
Project Based Learning Unit Designed and Ready to Go!
There has been an earthquake at the north pole which has destroyed Santa's Workshop and entire North Pole Community.
Students are enlisted to design and create their own north pole while following the requirements laid out by Santa, the Elves
Grades:
4th - 12th
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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
CHRISTMAS WRITING PROMPTS | Winter Bulletin Board Narrative Informative Opinion
Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, 25-page Christmas and Winter Holidays Writing Prompts! It includes everything you need to celebrate Christmas and Winter holidays with your students! Students will read about American Christmas traditions, and write responses to what they’ve read, Revising and editing checklists and 13 holiday-themed writing papers are also included. All CCSS writing standards are addressed. The following resources a
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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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December 2023 SEL Morning Meeting Slides featuring Steve Hartman's Kindness 101
Fully interactive and editable Google Slides with Morning Meeting activities and Steve Hartman Kindness 101 videos.No prepCCSS aligned.Daily Fun fact of the Day for each school day from December 1-31, 2023Would you rather activities for each day of the monthWriting prompts that are SEL- basedGrades 4-8 & SPEDSteve Hartman's video lessons on compassion, empathy, and several other topics*These slides line up to the dates for the 2023-2024 school year.**
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4th - 8th
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Christmas Holiday Reading Comprehension & Written Response RACES Strategy- SEL
Reading Comprehension and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or any other winter holidays!Handling Holiday Stress Social and Emotional Learning Activity to Support Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, Classroom Discussions, and more!Great for Special Education and General Education Students with Modified Lesson & Activity!⭐️ Check out some more Holiday SEL lessons here! ⭐️Handling Holiday Stress: Social and Emotional Learning ActivityThe story "Handling Holiday S
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5th - 12th
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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
Christmas Holiday Reading Comprehension & Written Response RACES Strategy- SEL
Christmas Around The World Reading Comprehension and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) for Secondary Students!Social and Emotional Learning Activity to Support Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, Extended Written Responses Classroom Discussions, and more!Great for Special Education and General Education Students with Modified Lesson & Activity!⭐️ Check out some more Holiday SEL lessons here! ⭐️Christmas Around The World: Social and Emotional Learning ActivityThe story "Christmas Around The Worl
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5th - 12th
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Winter Activities P Short Films Google Slides
Have a blast this with this fun winter bundle on Google Slides. This bundles covers a full month (and more) of highly engaging activities such as Pixar short film workshops, writing greeting cards, writing prompts, and a full analysis of A Christmas Carol. Your students will NOT be bored! ❤ Included:A Pixar short film narrative writing unit: Hey Deer!A Christmas Carol literary analysis workshop (short film video included)Digital holiday greeting cards for classmates to share2 weeks of winter-the
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6th - 10th
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Christmas Reading Comprehension Assignments, Stories, and Writing - Digital
Christmas Digital Reading Comprehension Assignments, Short Stories, & Creative Writing is a fun and creative way to improve your students’ comprehension and writing skills with a holiday twist. Students will read three short, fictional Christmas stories that are highly engaging. Then, students will complete three short digital reading comprehension assignments, including multiple-choice and short-answer questions. Finally, they will complete three high-interest creative digital writing assig
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5th - 8th
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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
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 Greeting Card Writing in Google Slides
Surprise your family or loved ones this Christmas with a Christmas Greeting Card! Students will have an opportunity to create a copyright-free printable or digital e-card and learn how to save as a PDF where they will be able to share it with any loved one with an e-mail.This writing/technology lesson is as easy as copy and pasting our directions into your very own Google Classroom! *NEW!! Get our FULL Middle and High School Technology Curriculum Here!41+ LESSONS | 20 BREAKOUTS | TOOLKIT | 400 H
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4th - 12th
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Narrative Writing with Songs and Poems (Christmas and Every-day Themes)
Here is a creative way to incorporate Christmas Carols or other songs and poems into your Language Arts class! With a focus on text evidence and writing about reading, this is an excellent project for students to use what they know about narrative text to create an original work.In this activity, students read an analyze a carol or poem for poetic elements and content. Then, they use the carol or poem as a jumping off point to write an original narrative. The students will make inferences as
Grades:
4th - 8th
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