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Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa Common Core W.3.5 printables
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
Grades:
K - 3rd
Also included in: Christmas Writing Crafts and Christmas Math Crafts Bundle
Olive the Other Reindeer Activities Beyond the Text
Olive the Other Reindeer Reading Activities Beyond the Text Unit Do you love sharing the misguided tale of, "Olive the Other Reindeer" with your kiddos during the holiday season? Then, they'll love this fun Olive the Other Reindeer Reading Unit! and you'll adore the academic focus this unit has! This unit is packed with a week's worth (or more!) of Olive the Other Reindeer activities that are perfect for sprinkling in the fun while building your students' reading comprehension this holiday seaso
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Reading Activities Beyond the Text All Year Bundle
Christmas Story Starters & Craftivity
❅ Christmas Story Starters & Craft: It’s fun to write funny narratives. Here’s a set of narrative prompts with a familiar theme--Santa Claus gets stuck in a chimney.There are many variations of the same theme out there...and of the accompanying craft. I’ve included my original hand drawn patterns for Santa's boots and a chimney (which can also be turned into a fireplace). The patterns are not clip art, but can be used to print, trace, and cut out. Directions are included. Once kids complete
Grades:
1st - 4th
Also included in: Christmas Literacy Bundle
How to Make Hot Chocolate-A Writing Craftivity
How to Make Hot Chocolate Expository Writing Activity and CraftProcedural writing can be challenging for students. Use this writing activity to authentically engage your students to write about how to complete the process of making hot chocolate. This writing goes great with reading or watching the movie, “Polar Express”! Use this fun writing craftivity to add flare to a favorite writing "how to"! This Pack Includes: Brainstorming sheets in regular and primary writing lines. Each sheet also has
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1st - 5th
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Also included in: Writing All Year BUNDLE
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
Holidays Around the World Suitcase & Passport: Close Reading & Opinion Writing
Take your class on a holiday journey around the world, all while focusing on reading comprehension and opinion writing skills for Common Core. Students get their own suitcase, passport, map, and travel guide book as they "travel" to learn about how holidays are celebrated around the world. They can do a Close Reading of up to 10 different countries/continents, and then complete an opinion writing assignment to this prompt: “In your opinion, in which part of the world would you most like to visit
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1st - 3rd
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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
CHRISTMAS & HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD December Activities Research Project
Gain a deeper understanding of different holiday celebrations with Christmas and Holidays Around the World! This informative resource includes comprehensive activities plus reading passages that allow students to explore nine of the major holiday celebrations, including Diwali, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, St. Lucia Day, Las Posadas & Christmas in the United States, Germany, Australia, and Italy. With the help of no-prep graphic organizers and easy-to-understand reading passages, students can enhance
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2nd - 4th
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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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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
Snowman Writing How to Expository Writing
Snowman Writing Activity Snowman How to Expository Writing Craft-Oh the weather outside is frightful! That means it’s time to have fun in the snow! Whether your students are pros at building snowmen or can only dream about building a buddy in the wintertime, this writing unit will engage your students as you guide them through this snowman expository “How to” writing! ************************************************************************** Check Out These Other Seasonal Units:Santa Letter Writ
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: 2nd Grade Winter Activities Bundle
Oskar and the Eight Blessings Mentor Text Unit - Grades 3-5
Oskar and the Eight Blessings by Richard & Tanya Simon is a heartwarming seasonal book to show how small acts of kindness can make such a difference. If you don't own a copy of the book, check your local library or you might even find an online read-aloud of the text with a simple Google search!Using mentor texts is one of the best ways to maximize your teaching time. You are able to teach multiple skills, subjects, and topics with just one book!WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT?a week of plans
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: MENTOR TEXT CLUB by Jivey 1ST EDITION for Grades 3-5
Letter Writing Mini Unit (Christmas Themed)
Spread the holiday cheer in your classroom, and excite your students about letter writing that is fun and engaging Christmas themed mini unit! This letter writing unit is common core aligned and includes a friendly letter power point, 10 day lesson plans, list of books that will pair nicely with this unit, editing rubric, grading rubric, many paper choices, and more. The unit ends with writing a letter to Santa! Make this month fun for the kids in your classroom, and hit some common core standa
Grades:
1st - 3rd
DECEMBER JOURNAL PROMPTS winter writing activities seasonal writing packet
This December journal writing prompts resource includes ten different genres of writing: Creative, informative, opinion, narrative, procedural, descriptive, review, persuasive, poetry, and letter writing. It offers fun and engaging writing activities that will motivate your students to practice their writing skills and inspire a love of writing. It's part of our monthly writing prompts bundle. Learn about what's included and why teachers love it below!Use this writing resource for◼️ writing proj
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2nd - 4th
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Perfect Paragraphs One Step at a Time December Edition
This product is designed to help primary students write perfect paragraphs with five main parts: an introduction, three details or reasons, and a closing statement. The students are asked to complete the parts in a step-by-step approach in a logical order that makes sense and is easy for students to grasp. They will also review and discuss their peers’ writing and provide feedback for revising and editing.These activities can be completed as morning work, homework, early finisher activities, pa
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Perfect Paragraphs One Step at a Time THE BUNDLE
Christmas Writing Crafts How to Catch an Elf - If I were an Elf - Bulletin Board
Are you looking to make writing fun?? Your students are going to LOVE this adorable Christmas Writing Activity! It makes the perfect Holiday bulletin board display, too!Even the Not-So-Crafty-Teacher loves these LOW PREP and EASY-to-assemble writing crafts and you will get a kick out of their responses! ❤️ The Writing Prompts included are:If I were an ElfHow to Catch an Elf✏️ What you get:brainstorming graphic organizer scaffolded sentence frames graphic organizercoloring picture craftsprimary a
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Red and Lulu FULL Day of Christmas Lesson Plans for Upper Elementary
This product is everything the busy classroom needs! You'll receive a FULL day of Christmas themed lesson plans based on Red and Lulu by Matt Tavares (a lesson for reading, writing, math, science, and social studies!).How does this work?Your download will come with 4 files: student activity sheets, teacher lesson plans, and a PowerPoint, and a PDF with Google Slide™ links. Simply print, gather your materials, and GO! No need to look for extra activities, or write out your lesson plans.Lessons In
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3rd - 5th
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Christmas Picture Book Companion BUNDLE
Using picture books this holiday season is a great way to continue to teach important concepts while, at the same time, keep all of your students fully engaged. Each of the Christmas picture book companions in this bundle complement delightful stories you will love sharing with your students this holiday season. Each picture book companion comes with a variety of tools to engage your students and help you maximize teachable moments as you explore the text. Picture Book Companions Included in t
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3rd - 5th
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Christmas Prompt & Activities to Improve Writing in 3rd, 4th & 5th Grade
Improve writing with a focused prompt and activities. Third, fourth, or fifth grade students revise a simple Christmas story using eight improvement suggestion cards: varying sentence beginnings, varying sentence types, varying sentence lengths, choosing words for effect, using sensory language, using active verbs, adding details, and using transition terms.Open the preview to take a closer look.Kids start with a short story prompt, “Alex the Elf.”Then they revise it using a series of eight Chri
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3rd - 5th
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Christmas Writing Activity | Gingerbread in Disguise
Are you looking for a fun Christmas writing activity for your students to work on throughout December? In this super fun Gingerbread In Disguise writing activity and craft, your students will be disguising a Gingerbread person so he/she won't be eaten this holiday season! Poor little gingerbread kid doesn't want to be eaten so your students have to get creative and disguise him. Your students will be able to get extra creative as they pick a disguise and then write an adventurous narrative to go
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
December Christmas
This 87-page resource has 31 days of Christmas and winter-themed ELA (English Language Arts) and Math printables that are compatible with selected Grades 2-4 Common Core; click on preview to see CCSS activities alignment. I created this packet for my blended class of high-flying 2nd graders, at level 3rd/4th graders, and above level 4th graders to work on as a countdown to the winter holidays. Due to the multiple grade levels in my classroom, I need to highly differentiate so you'll find that al
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2nd - 4th
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Oh, Christmas Tree! - An Expository Writing Activity
This week long holiday writing activity takes students through the complete writing process to compose an expository paragraph about which type of Christmas tree they prefer. File includes step-by-step instructions, editing and revision checklist, and grading rubric.
Oh, Christmas Tree! - An Expository Writing Activity by Confessions of a Teaching Junkie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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3rd - 5th
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Hire Me, Santa! Differentiated Persuasive Prompts - Argumentative Writing Bundle
Differentiate argumentative writing in your classroom! This bundle includes parallel one- and five-paragraph sequences. That way, all students can successfully and effectively compose persuasive essays. For this Christmas prompt, kids persuade Santa to hire them as elves. Specially designed templates help them organize opinions and reasons, optimize word choice, elaborate, vary sentences, and use transition terms. Open the previews to take a closer look at both sets. Materials are included as a
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3rd - 5th
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