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Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa Common Core W.3.5 resources for homeschool
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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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
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
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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Build a Gingerbread House Math PBL | Christmas Project Based Learning
In this project based learning math activity, students begin by designing a gingerbread house. They then add up their costs, including labor. After adding the mark-up, they finalize a price and begin their marketing. They develop creative and compelling language to include in their culminating brochure. Students learn and develop skills in the following areas:DesignAddition and subtraction with decimals (there is an option for whole numbers)Multiplication (solving for area)Descriptive and persua
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3rd - 5th
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Procedural Writing Templates Christmas
Are you struggling to find fun standard-based activities for the holidays? These procedural writing templates and Christmas crafts are just what you are looking for in your ELA classroom. No matter your curriculum, this unit is perfect for teaching how-to writing.⭐️ Bundle & Save for a Discount ⭐️Purchase the Procedural Writing Holiday Bundle to get this resource and save.This procedural writing unit contains everything you need for your students. Inside the zip file, you will find the follo
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1st - 4th
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Also included in: Procedural Text and Writing Growing Bundle
The Christmas Owl Holiday Mentor Text Digital & Print Unit
The Christmas Owl by Gideon Sterer and Ellen Kalish is a sweet story told from the point of view of the famous owl found in the Rockefeller Tree. 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.*****************************************************************************In this pack, you will receive: ★a mentor sentence lesson for the book★an interactive notebook activity to review/teach dialogue★fo
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3rd - 5th
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
CHRISTMAS & HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD December Research Report GOOGLE SLIDES
Celebrate Holidays Around the World & writing a research report. Informational text passages & no prep graphic organizers help students navigate & organize information & provide structure to research. Everything you need to get your students started on a beginning guided research project! (43 Google Slides)There are 9 Holiday Celebrations included: Germany, Australia, United States, Santa Lucia, Kwanzaa, Las Posadas, Hanukkah, Diwali, Italy. Guided Research Process directionsK-W-
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2nd - 4th
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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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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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1st - 4th
Gingerbread House Persuasive Writing Craftivity
Are you looking for a December writing project that will truly engage your students? This persuasive writing project may be just what you are looking for! Very comprehensive and many examples included!Students begin by considering who LIKES gingerbread houses (people who like sweets), and what type of "holiday house" a person who does NOT like sweets might like. The teacher leads students in brainstorming various "audiences" and what type of "holiday house" they might want to eat. (For exam
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2nd - 4th
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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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1st - 3rd
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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December, Christmas Daily Writing Prompts Winter Monthly Journal Primary Paper
Looking for a “Do-now” activity for the beginning of the school day? Do you need a new way to help struggling writers or early finishers come up with things to write about during writing centers or independent writing time?Monthly Journal writing prompts give all students in the class the opportunity to be successful with their creative writing time. Just print these NO PREP Daily December Journal Writing Prompts and you are ready to go! Perfect For The Season Of Winter and Christmas!This resour
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1st - 4th
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Christmas Writing Unit: How to Catch the Gingerbread Man
Are you looking for a fun and engaging informational or how-to writing unit for Christmas or really any time of year? How to Catch the Gingerbread Man is a great informational writing unit to get your students thinking creatively on how to catch that quick and clever Gingerbread Man. Based on the popular book by Adam Wallace, this is a common core aligned informational writing unit that is fun, quick, and easy to plan, print, and write! Students have everything they need to produce a great piece
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Christmas Writing Activity Digital and Print BUNDLE | Gingerbread Man
Christmas Close Reading & Writing Activities Unit for December & Winter Holidays
Want to provide holiday activities for your upper elementary students before Christmas, but also want students to practice important reading, writing, and vocabulary skills? I’ve got you covered! This Christmas Activities Unit includes up to five days of lesson plans for your 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade students. There are multiple ways to use this resource beyond whole group instruction - including with your remedial or extension small groups, in centers or stations, and as an emergency sub resource
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3rd - 5th
Christmas Writing Crafts - How to Catch Santa & If I were Santa 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 Santa ClausHow to Catch Santa ✏️ What you get:brainstorming graphic organizer scaffolded sentence frames graphic organizercoloring picture craftsprim
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Christmas Writing Crafts - How to Catch a Gingerbread Man Bulletin Board Craft
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:What if I lived in a Gingerbread HouseHow to Build a Gingerbread HouseHow to Catch a Gingerbread Man✏️ What you get:brainstorming graphic organizer scaffolded
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K - 4th
Elf Writing Prompt Pack
Elf Writing Pack - This pack explores what we think we know about elves. The tasks help to build on this and extend writing skills with a variety of print and go writing prompts. KWHL – What we know- want to know- how will we know it – new learningFacts – 20 facts in color and 20 facts to print and go – display around the room and use for discussion Sequence an Elf dayWord splash – describe an elfCharacter traits of an elfA day in the life of an elf – INB with instructionsRecount a day in the li
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1st - 4th
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Also included in: Elf Writing Bundle
MY LIFE AS SANTA'S ELF Christmas CREATIVE WRITING PROMPTS Google Slides
What if your students could have a day in the life of one of Santa's Elves? These Google Slides come with pre-set writing prompts, which cover Problem, Beginning, Middle & End, Characters, Setting, Problem & Events so you can easily start building stories with your students. If the story is longer than one slide allows – just duplicate the page to go on! Help your kids unlock their creative storytelling potential this holiday season! (12 slides)" My Elf Life" Includes:“I Want to be an E
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2nd - 3rd
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