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2nd grade holidays rubrics
Persuasive Writing Christmas Theme {Holiday Sweater Contest}
Holiday Sweater Contest: Help your students develop their persuasive writing skills with this creative writing and art project! The task involves designing a holiday sweater for a vintage department store contest. After designing, students will use persuasive writing to convince the judges why their design deserves to win the grand prize.This resource includes:Detailed lesson plans for two days (or stretch it out over several days)Small group warm-up activity to engage students and review persua
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Holiday Persuasive Writing Bundle {Halloween and Christmas}
Don't Eat the Turkey Persuasive Writing Project
"Don't Eat the Turkey" is a Thanksgiving-themed persuasive writing project perfect for students in grades 3-5. While you may see many, "Don't Eat the Turkey" products in your search, this product is unique because of the turkey emojis! Students get to choose a turkey emoji from a total of 20 different options. The emoji turkeys will inspire students to come up with reasons as to why they should not be taken home and eaten for Thanksgiving! The finished products make a fantastic bulletin board di
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: Emoji Writing Activities BUNDLE
Christmas Writing (Compare and Contrast)
Christmas Writing! Compare and contrast Santa's Reindeer and wild Caribou. The product contains a Christmas reading passage about Santa’s Reindeer and a reading passage about wild caribou. It also contains two different graphic compare and contrast organizers, two sample templates for writing a comparative essay, reindeer themed paper, student checklist to use during peer editing and a grading rubric for you to use. I have also included a list of children’s books about caribou and books that fe
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2nd - 6th
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Patriotic Art Activity • Op Art Stars & Stripes • Elementary Art Lesson
Create an eye-catching patriotic display that will sure to be a show-stopper. This is a great lesson to do before the 4th of July, Veteran’s Day, President’s Day, Flag Day or anytime you want to show some patriotic spirit. I’ve included a lesson on how to draw a star that gives some unique strategies for spacing the star tips. This will help those students (and adults) that are intimidated by trying to draw a large symmetrical star. Using circles and a ruler and the sheets I’ve included will
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Op Art MEGA Bundle!
Christmas Trees For Sale!- Holiday Opinion Writing
This is a fun, holiday writing activity that is festive, but still teaches Common Core Standards. I have loved doing this with my students at Christmastime!First, each student decorates a tree, using the printable trees and stickers, glitter, markers, pipe cleaners etc. Then, they write a persuasive opinion piece trying to convince others to “buy” their tree! This allows for a lot of creativity and development of opinion writing skills. Everything you need is in this packet (minus the glitter an
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1st - 3rd
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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
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1st - 3rd
Thanksgiving on Thursday Book Study
This is a book study based on the book Thanksgiving on Thursday by Mary Pope Osborne. Includes a one-page comprehension activity for each chapter including: VocabularyText-based questionsSequencingCause and EffectCompare and ContrastMain idea and detailsProblem/SolutionWriting to textAlso included:A common core rubric for student self-assessment and teacher assessment.Bonus: Text Talk cards for discussion groups Be thankful for reading bookmarks(6 of the pages are the answer key)Chec
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1st - 3rd
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Missing Monster Activity | Descriptive Writing Assignment | Includes Rubric
I am always looking for a fun and engaging way to get my students to write. This Halloween favourite will have your kids ASKING for more! Students will use their descriptive writing knowledge to describe their Monster that just went MISSING!! HELP!!This Spooktacular resource includes...- assignment instructions & success criteria- descriptive writing graphic organizer- student writing template- assignment rubricTIP: have students design their Monster in art class to use as an art mark!This r
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1st - 6th
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Halloween Persuasive Writing Project - Halloween Costume Contest
Can't get your students to stop talking about their Halloween costumes? Harness the excitement by developing their persuasive writing skills with a fictional costume contest! This resource includes:2-day lesson plans for the Halloween Costume Contest writing projectSmall group warm-up activity to engage students and review persuasive/opinion writing skills (Halloween costume cards)Project assignment page (explaining the project to students)Student planning and project pagesGrading rubricExample
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Holiday Persuasive Writing Bundle {Halloween and Christmas}
Thanksgiving Turkey Narrative Writing Project
This is a writing activity for my students during Thanksgiving. The students will write a narrative story about the survival of their turkey after putting him in a disguise. This packet includes a narrative story study guide, a graphic organizer, a rubric, and final copy paper.
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2nd - 4th
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Halloween Poetry for Mental Images
Don't be scared of poetry! Have a spooktacular time teaching mental images through fun Halloween poems.
Using the poems: "I'm Dressing Up for Halloween" and "There's a Spider on the Ceiling," you can teach children how to create their mental images from sensory words in the poems.
Use these poems to introduce,
*rhythm, rhyme and repetition in poetry
*stanzas and lines
Rubrics are provided if you wish to use these as assessments.
This is a great activity for the holiday season! Enjoy!!!
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K - 5th
Living Wax Museum Rubric
This living wax museum project is by far one of my favorite things about teaching 3rd grade. Truth be told this wax museum project can be used from 2nd grade all the way until 6th grade. Students take on the role of someone else, they dress up like an important historical figure and then they put on a show for their families and entire school It is a memory that is worth creating for your students! This is just one piece of the project (the rubric for grading), but you can grab the bundle HERE i
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Living Wax Museum Project
Halloween Music Game for Sol-Mi
Looking for a fun, engaging way to practice melodic concepts with your students (especially during Fall/ Halloween)? This set includes:
*A slideshow with stick notation for sol-mi, including the rhythms ta and ti-ti. You can view the PDF like a slideshow by going to "view," then "full screen." The slideshow comes with a title page with 12 cute Halloween images. Either throw a squishy or koosh ball at your SMART board, or have students tap the picture of their choice, and read that pattern! Each
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1st - 2nd
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Social Studies 2-5: A Thanksgiving Project Based Learning Resource
Do you need ideas for elementary Thanksgiving activities? Have you heard of Problem Based Learning? This product uses activities for elementary grades that are ready for a higher-level Thanksgiving activity.This is a thanksgiving project incorporating social studies standards while using Problem Based Learning. Many of our social studies standards are similar when it comes to Thanksgiving. Even if you are not from AZ, it will be easy to find the standards that this meets. It includes everythin
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2nd - 4th
Disguise the Turkey: A Thanksgiving Project
HELP! It's time for Thanksgiving dinner and Turkey is in a panic! He needs a crafty disguise to survive this Thanksgiving meal! Can you help?
In this file you will receive a family letter to send home explaining the project, a rubric for both the turkey disguise and speech bubble writing as well as the naked turkey template and speech bubble for students to write on.
"We Shall Overcome" Civil Rights Song for Orff & Boomwhackers
Singing and playing this American Civil Rights song by Pete Seger allows students the opportunity to connect to "We Shall Overcome" in a meaningful way. These largely editable Google Slides offer students a change to sing the lyrics, read the sheet music, and play a variety of musical instruments including Orff/ xylophone/metallophone, Boomwhackers, woodblock and hand drum. This would be a great song at any point in the year, but is especially fantastic for MLK Day in January and Black History
Grades:
2nd - 7th
Poetry Writing Christmas Prompts
This download includes 36 poetry writing prompts with a Christmas theme along with 19 templates and a rubric!✩Use the prompts for end of the year revision of procedure writing. Make them discussion topics or use them as brain breaks.✩Each prompt is on an individual page so you can print full size, print multiples to a page for task cards or display on a screen.✩The prompts cover haikus, shape poems, limericks, acrostic poems, cinquains, alphabet poems, simile poems, quatrains, couplets, ballads
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1st - 6th
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February Family Project (Valentine Box)
*UPDATED This file is now editable :)This is a fun little project for the family to work on together! In the end, the child has a valentine box they are proud of to collect ALL of their sweet valentines. This set comes complete with a rubric, letter to parents, extra page to explain how to do the valentines, and 2 blank border pages so you can personalize your own message for your class.
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PreK - 4th
Also included in: February Bundle
Jack-o-Lanterns For Sale- Halloween Persuasive Opinion Writing
This is a fun Halloween writing activity that is festive, but still teaches Common Core Standards. I have loved doing this with my students at Halloween!
First, each student decorates a jack-o-lantern, using the printable pumpkin and colored paper, stickers, glitter, markers, pipe cleaners etc. Then, they write a persuasive opinion piece trying to convince others to “buy” their pumpkin! This allows for a lot of creativity and development of opinion writing skills. Everything you need is in t
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1st - 3rd
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Main Idea & Supp Details Activities, Black History Month Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King was such an important man in our country's history. Identifying Main Idea & Supporting Details can be a challenge for kids, but they love these non-fiction passages about Martin Luther King. Finding the main idea and supporting details is easy & using the graphic organizer makes it fun! This is a NO PREP 30+ page Main Idea & Details practice activity...just PRINT & GO! This packet can work well for Literacy Block time, Morning Work or even Homework.It includes
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2nd - 4th
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Different Types of HOLIDAY Writing BUNDLE
This is a Holiday BUNDLE!! It includes my 4 NEW Holiday Resources that can be used from Grade 3 - 7This bundle includes:Help Wanted at the North Pole - Resume, Application, Persuasive Paragraph & RUBRIC IncludedWriting a Letter to Santa & Friends - Step by Step Powerpoint, Letter Templates & RUBRIC IncludedGingerbread House for SALE - Draw a Gingerbread House, Make a Brochure, Write a Persuasive Paragraph & RUBRIC IncludedDescriptive Writing Elf Exchange - Design an Elf unifor
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2nd - 7th
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Historical Figures Rubric
Looking for a quick and way to grade any type of presentation on historical figures? This is your answer. This rubric contains categories such as required elements, historical facts, questions, roles, and research. It is editable so you can easily take out items that don't apply to your class or add in items that are important to you and your standards. Made for a third grade Focus class but can be altered and applied to any grade level.
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1st - 5th
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Nibi's Water Song Read Aloud: Water, Indigenous, Anishinabe (Print and Digital)
This book, written by Sunshine Tenasco, an Anishinabe clean water activist, tells the tale of Nibi, a little girl who doesn't have clean, drinking water in her town. Find out how she solves her problem.I have included:YouTube linksvocabulary bingo with 9 words3 comprehension questions, in 2 formatsletter writing template to the Prime Minister or President to convince him to provide clean, drinking waterbeginning, middle, end organizer, with picture boxesretell organizer or cut and paste sequenci
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1st - 4th
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Also included in: Indigenous Bundle: 7 Read Alouds + 1
Gingerbread Cookie Survival Kit: Reading and Writing Activities for the Holidays
This Gingerbread Boy Holiday unit has Lesson Plans and Activities that put a new twist on your Christmas Holiday Reading and Writing Plans.
The unit centers around Reading inferences, sequence, compare/contrast and alliteration activities. Students can complete lessons and activities from 3 popular Gingerbread stories: The Gingerbread Boy, The Gingerbread Baby, and the The Gingerbread Girl.
After reading and completing activities, writing lessons include creating a Gingerbread Cookie Surv
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2nd - 7th
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