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Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa rubrics under $5
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}
Gingerbread House Drawing Art Lesson - 2 Point Perspective Christmas Art Lesson
This Christmas/ holiday themed art drawing lesson will keep your middle school boys and girls ENGAGED during this very exciting time of year. Students will learn how to create a 3D house using 2 point perspective technique. In addition, students will use value and colored pencil techniques to create a 3D form. The PowerPoint and PDF slides include: vocabulary (2 point perspective, vanishing point, value scale, tint, shade and value), objectives, standards, step by step instructions, student refe
Grades:
6th - 12th
Christmas Debates for Middle School ELA - Public Speaking Activity
If Christmas is a crazy time of the school year for your students, make that Christmas frenzy work for you with these fun holiday debate topics for middle school!Because public speaking already carries a great deal of stress for many students, these debates feature both light-hearted and thoughtful holiday debate topics to engage your students and foster a festive atmosphere. These assignment sheets and rubrics keep middle-school kids laughing, thinking, and learning the art of public debate.Th
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Public Speaking 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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A Christmas Carol One Pager Project
Have your students share their understanding of the novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens by imaginatively blending their written ideas with colorful images based on information from the text. With this one-pager reading comprehension project, students will analyze the literature by determining theme, symbolism, characterization, and more. Students' artwork make for unique and creative analyses of the literature and also make great bulletin boards!Included in this purchase is:Student direct
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Also included in: A Christmas Carol Novel Study | Complete Unit Plan
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
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Common Core Connotation Writing Gingerbread House For Sale Ads
Common Core Learning! Common Core Connotation!
Teach your students the power of words choice with this fun freebie!
Get your students to love the thesaurus! Have your students carefully chose their words writing two different for gingerbread house for sale ads.
Students are challenged to write the ads focusing on the intended audience- Gingerbread Digest (someone looking to purchase a gingerbread house to live in it) Readers Digest (to the average person)
CCSS Aligned for grades 4 - 8
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3rd - 12th
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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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It's Christmas, Charlie Brown! Reader's Theatre Script -Rubric & Questions
Included in the It's Christmas, Charlie Brown! Reader's Theatre Unit:17 page script3 major characters + the narrator6 supporting characters45 metacognitive questionsStudent Reader's Theatre Evaluations based on 4 levels and 5 criteria.Student Success CriteriaStudent Friendly GoalsReader's Theatre ChecklistIt's Christmas, Charlie Brown! Synopsis:Snoopy’s dog-house blinks on and off with electric lights.Sally thinks only about the presents she will get.Lucy likes aluminum trees.Is this Christmas?
Grades:
5th - 10th, Adult Education
Persuasive Letter to Santa — Seasonal ELA — Logos, Pathos, Ethos — CCSS Rubric
Have your students write a letter to Santa Claus, a parent, or whomever they hope will bring the goods this holiday season in the service of learning about the modes of persuasion (logos, pathos, and ethos). This short lesson on argument is a perfect activity for the pre-break craziness!Your purchase includes:A 10-slide PowerPoint presentation that defines the concept of persuasion and the three main modes of argumentative rhetoric (logos, pathos, and ethos), provides examples, and introduces th
Grades:
6th - 10th
Also included in: Media Literacy Learning Lessons Bundle — High School ELA
Procedure Writing Christmas Prompts
This download includes 19 procedure writing prompts with a Christmas theme along with 2 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 or display on a screen.Included are:♦ Teacher reference page (1 page)♦ 19 prompts as single sentences (19 pages)♦ 2 procedure template levels (2 pages)♦ 1 rubric (1 pages)SAVE by purchasing the Text Type Type C
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1st - 6th
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Pet-Safe Holiday Food Project 2 options for Agriculture Vet Tech and Science
This holiday focused project asks students to choose a common pet and research the impact of holiday foods on that animal. Then, they must suggest a healthy alternative. Included: Poster Option, Presentation Option, Rubrics, Self-Reflection Sheets, Presentation/Poster audience Note matrix, and a Request Letter for presenting in other classes.1. Poster Project: that can be put up in the hall when they are finished. I didn’t specify the type of animal or foods. That way you can assign them acco
Grades:
7th - 11th
Also included in: Winter Animal Research Activities for Agriculture & Science
Multi-cultural Holiday Research Project
This is perfect for the holiday season. Students are given the opportunity to explore a holiday within another culture. I have provided: the project assignment (with detailed explanation) and a comprehensive scoring rubric. The projects fulfills Depth of Knowledge 3. I have included an annotation component as well as a digital aspect.
Check out my other holiday themed lessons:
A Christmas Carol Constructed Responses
A Christmas Carol Literacy Stations
A Christmas Carol 3-D Scene Analysis
Christm
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: Holiday Lesson Plan Bundle of Lessons Distance Learning
Christmas Writing: Dear Santa... A Holiday Persuasive Letter Writing Activity
This Christmas Writing (persuasive) Activity requires students to persuade someone to get them the one gift they just have to have this year by writing a letter to their shopper of choice. Make persuasive writing a fun activity for the holidays. Students will come up with two convincing reasons and support them with details for why they should have this gift.
Included in this set are:
- Student assignment and planning page
- Student rubric that focuses on components of a letter, persuasiv
Grades:
3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Christmas Activity Bundle: Games, Writing and Sticker Charts
Computer Lab Christmas Drawing Project
Students create a Christmas or holiday themed picture using shapes and drawing tools in Microsoft Word. The final drawings can be printed as Christmas cards, or used as art for additional activities. This packet contains directions for the assignment, a handout for students, two grading rubrics, and examples of drawings that students have completed in my class. The rubrics are identical except one requires students to email their work to their instructor. My students love working on this assi
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Not Grade Specific
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The Stranger Christmas Eve script, prompts and more
The Stranger Christmas Eve by Thomas Hardy adapted to play form by Kathy Applebee is a 16 page, 4 scene script for 4 females, 8 males, and as many extras as desired. It can be used as a reader’s theater or performance piece. During Nazi occupation, a Christmas Eve celebration in a remote area is interrupted by three strangers seeking relief from the snow storm. Before the evening ends, pride, mistaken identities and conflict between Nazis and the Norwegians living in an occupied area will occur
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Letter To Santa Character Analysis Activity
Are you looking for a creative Christmas activity to get your students to use textual evidence when analyzing a character? Are you looking for a unique but rigorous Christmas Activity?You should consider incorporating the Letter to Santa assignment into your class, as it offers a multifaceted approach to literary analysis and creative expression. This assignment not only aligns with Common Core State Standards but also fosters critical skills integral to students' holistic development.Reasons to
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8th - 11th
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Unspoken Reader's Theatre Script -Spooky Christmas Mystery -Sentimental
Anna PercineThere were only three days to Christmas. Usually I dread it, but this year, for the first time since I could remember, I hoped there would be no haunting. We had left the ghost behind when we moved from our old house a month ago. Now, at last, we were free of that specter… Or so I thought.Included in the Unspoken Reader's Theatre Unit:36 page script divided among 3 chapters5 characters (2 major characters) + the narratorChapter 1:6 pages with 4 characters + the narratorChapter 2:14 p
Grades:
5th - 10th
Christmas Writing BUNDLE | Differentiated Writing Prompts | Blank Writing Pages
Are you looking for a way to inspire your elementary students to write creatively this December? Do you want to celebrate the festive spirit of Christmas while teaching them the writing process? This resource is a collection of fun and engaging writing prompts for your elementary students to complete at their own pace. Each prompt is related to Christmas and encourages students to use their creativity and imagination. They can write friendly letters to Santa or to someone special, write out how
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PreK - 5th
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Christmas Noel Ontario Core French Listening and Speaking Assessment Activity
In this package you will receive a series of questions based on a Christmas themed picture. Question cards and answer starter cards and included for those students who need extra encouragement. Students can work in groups or one-on-one with the teacher to complete this activity. The picture can be displayed or printed on cardstock. This can be used to assess listening and speaking skills with your students. Rubrics based on Ontario Core French Curriculum are provided for specific and overall exp
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4th - 6th
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Christmas Procedural Writing: How To Decorate a Christmas Tree
It can be tricky to keep students engaged during December and the holiday season. "Holiday Procedural Writing: How To Decorate A Christmas Tree" was created to help keep students learning in a fun way while still developing their sequencing and writing skills. This resource has been updated to include assessment rubrics for grades one to three and with extra sets of "Sequencing Cards" to differentiate for different skill sets. More vocabulary cards and writing papers with prompts have also be
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1st - 3rd
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The Best Christmas Movie EVER - Argumentative Writing Prompt & Rubric
Prompt Explanation:The prompt is designed to encourage students to write an argumentative essay expressing their opinion on their favorite Christmas movie. Students are asked to defend their choice by considering various elements that contribute to a movie's memorability, such as the plot, characters, theme, and overall impact. The prompt also emphasizes the importance of supporting arguments with specific examples and addressing potential counterarguments. The goal is for students to articulate
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Not Grade Specific
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Oh Chemis-tree
Do you get tired of the same old element project? Well here is a good little assignment to get you ready for the Christmas season and help your students learn about the elements. This comes with a template for their Christmas trees and directions for where to put the info to make it easier for you to grade. There is also a rubric provided for you. So have some Christmas fun
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Not Grade Specific
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