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Reading Common Core W.2.7 thematic unit plans
Spider Science Unit - Fall Reading & Writing Activities - Facts, Project & Craft
Do you need engaging lesson ideas and activities to teach your students all about spiders? Make learning about spiders fun with these hands-on non-fiction ELA and science mini-lessons and activities! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading comprehension while they learn interesting facts about different types of spiders. ⭐ Create anchor charts to lead your lessons and use the low-prep
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Whale Life Science Unit Lessons, Activities, Craft, Project - Orca & Beluga
Engage and excite kids as they learn all about whales with life science, reading, and writing activities! This nonfiction and spring or summer science unit makes learning about baleen whales and toothed whales fun. It includes a whale craft, reading comprehension passages, vocabulary, directed drawing, and more! This resource will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text, and improve their reading comprehension while they le
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Penguin Activities Winter Craft, Writing, Drawing, Bulletin Board, Science Unit
Make learning all about penguins and the penguin life cycle engaging with this non-fiction ELA and science unit of mini-lessons and activities! This low-prep resource includes fun penguin writing, a hands-on penguin craft, directed drawing, and more activities for a classroom penguin theme. These activities will help your first grade, second grade, or third grade students build writing skills, understand informational text and build reading comprehension while they learn interesting facts abou
Grades:
1st - 3rd
NGSS:
2-LS4-1
, 3-LS4-2
, 1-LS3-1
Winter Literacy - Bundle - Literacy All Year
Do you want your students to learn to read and write like a scientist/ historian? This exemplary unit by Katie Knight contains everything you need to accomplish and address: The Common Core Informational Reading Standards and all 3 Text Types of Writing! Plus, you get a coordinating weekly art project for each unit!Reading:The reading can be done as whole-group shared reading, fluency, or as homework. After several reads of the passages, students have the vocabulary and strong foundation they n
The Best Ocean Activities - Marine Biology Unit Study for Kids
This amazing ocean unit includes:
Marine Biology and Life in the Ocean Fact Sheets
Oceanic Zones Coloring Sheet and Fact Cards
Maze
Dot-to-Dot
Tracing Lines (for preschoolers)
Writing Sheets (for note taking, journals or writing prompts)
Grades:
PreK - 6th
Fairy Tale Book Report Template, Organizer, & File Folder Lapbook- EASY
Are you looking for an easy, differentiated book report project for beginners? If your students have never written a book report, this is just what you need! This set includes everything you need to teach your students to write a fairy tale themed book report Lapbook. A Lapbook is a fun file folder report organizer with interactive flaps, etc., to showcase the book report, and it is perfect for displaying student work on a parent night, etc. This product was created and used with children in
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Insect Book Report Template, Graphic Organizer, File Folder Lapbook EASY
Do your first or second graders need to write a report? Here is everything you need to teach your students to write an easy insect report and make a file folder Lapbook, including templates, foldables, photos, and a nine-day lesson plan. It also includes instructions to make seven different insect crafts, plus a spider for a total of eight "creepy crawlies!" This report is easy to write because it is scaffolded from beginning to end. We have also differentiated certain elements to ensure suc
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Cratering the Moon, an Interdisciplinary Activity Packet
Many of these activities can be teacher-led as a class OR student-led individually or with a partner. Completion of one section is not necessary to be able to do an activity in another section....it will simply give the students a more well rounded knowledge of the subject. Total duration for all activities is 8-10 class periods. Section 1 - MoonEstimated Duration: 3 classesIncludes: 4 worksheets & 1 book report worksheet Section 2 - CratersEstimated Duration: 1 class Includes: 2 information
1st and 2nd Grade Book Companion Unit and Easy Sub Plans, Verdi
A full day (or even two!) of print & go plans to use in a first or second grade classroom, or for an easy to prep sub day.These plans require little teacher preparation, and include activities for reading, writing, language arts, math, and science. There are typed up explanations of each activity that are easy to highlight and leave for a substitute teacher in a pinch. You can leave this pack and copies with a sub, knowing that the day is fully planned and the students will be engaged in t
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
Polar Bear Activities with Winter Craft, Leveled Readers, Worksheets, & Writing
Do you need some engaging nonfiction polar bear activities to use in your classroom? This unit is a perfect science resource for your January or winter activities. The polar bear winter craft is always a class favorite.This fun resource includes vocabulary cards, nonfiction leveled stagger books for reading, writing graphic organizers and writing papers, worksheets, and an adorable polar bear paper-tearing craft.Your kids will read, answer questions, and write about polar bears. The paper-teari
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Small Wild Cats 2nd Grade Nonfiction Reading & Writing Unit W.2.2 & RI.2.9
Learn all about small wild cats in this 2nd grade nonfiction reading and writing unit. Work on comparing with RI.2.9 and writing informative essays W.2.2.. Cats covered are the Arabian Sand Cat, Asian Leopard Cat, Pallas’s Cat, and Geoffroy’s Cat. With over 30 total different worksheets and activities, this wild cat unit covers the lesser-known relatives of lions and tigers. 31 Unique pages 140 total pages Documents are available in full color, ink-saving color, black and white, and ink-saving b
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Grades:
PreK - 5th
NGSS:
2-LS4-1
Penguin Bundle
Your students will LOVE learning about penguins with this bundle. They will create a penguin family scrapbook and a penguin glyph along with being engaged in literacy with Tacky the Penguin as Tackylocks.By purchasing the bundle you save 35% on all of my penguin resources.Click on the preview button to see a closer look at everything included.This bundle contains:Penguin Craft and Writing ActivitiesTacky the Penguin Tackylocks Literacy ActivitiesPenguin GlyphPenguin Craft: This easy to use unit
Spring Activities for ELA 1st and 2nd- Seasonal Standards-Based ELA
This spring activity pack is filled with ELA activities for 1st and 2nd graders. There are themed activities for each of the six Common Core Standards domains (RL, RI, L, SL, RF, and W). Your students will practice their ELA standards while incorporating the spring theme as well. This will take some of the stress off of your plate by providing you with standards-based and Common Core-aligned seasonal activities! Each domain will have 3-4 activities or passages. The domains are Reading Literature
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Swimmy Mini Unit
Here are four lessons based on the book Swimmy by Leo Lionni, as well as language arts extras and pinterest found project ideas. Included are story questions, a story map activity, an informational writing lesson, and a story sequencing lesson.
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Grades:
K - 2nd
St. Patrick's Day Activities for ELA 1st and 2nd- Seasonal Standards-Based ELA
This St. Patrick's Day activity pack is filled with ELA activities for 1st and 2nd graders. There are themed activities for each of the six Common Core Standards domains (RL, RI, L, SL, RF, and W). Your students will practice their ELA standards while incorporating the St. Patrick's Day theme as well. This will take some of the stress off of your plate by providing you with standards-based and Common Core-aligned seasonal activities! Each domain will have 3-4 activities or passages. The domains
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 2nd
PRINT & GO SUB PLANS: Emmanuel's Dream
PRINT AND GO SUB PLANS!!Whether you have a hard copy of the book or find the read aloud on Youtube, Emmanuel's Dream is one of my favorite books to read in 2nd Grade. Take 20 minutes in the copy room to prep these handouts and stick them in your sub tub, or whatever system works for you!This pack includes:A read aloud lesson plan (page numbers begin with the first page of illustration or text in the book)A flip-book activity to follow up the storyA letter-writing activity with differentiated org
Grades:
2nd
Biography Research and STEM Activities
Do your students read about famous people and write biographies in your class? This product will supplement any biography unit that you use in your class. There are 20 different people that your students can research and a related STEM activity that they can complete as well. This is a list of the people included as well as a short description of the STEM activity:Henry Ford – build a carThe Wright Brothers – build an airplaneAmelia Earhart – build an airplaneThomas Edison – make a circuitStan L
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Spinning Spiders Literacy and Math Unit - Common Core Aligned
Please Note:
Some of these activities are appropriate for kindergarten with guidance, but might be too difficult at the beginning of the school year.
Included in this unit:
Inferring Spider riddle
“Who am I?” and “It’s a Mystery”
3 Spider Poems to work on fluency
10 Spider Fact Cards to build fluency and spider knowledge
Emergent Reader "Little Black Spider" (both teacher copy and student individual copies)
ABC Order Spiders
Syllable Sort
Spider Vocabulary Cards
Label Me Spider
Spider Life Cyc
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
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Elephants 2nd Grade Nonfiction Reading Writing Unit Prepositions W.2.2 & RI.2.7
Learn all about elephants and practice prepositions in this 2nd grade nonfiction reading and writing unit. Work on main idea with RI.2.2 and writing informative essays W.2.2. There is a diagram of elephant body parts included RI.2.7 with trunks and tusks clearly visible. There are also vocabulary cards RI.2.4 and a text feature worksheet RI.2.5. With over 26 total different worksheets and activities, this elephant unit covers many facts about elephants. 26 Unique pages 127 total pages Documents
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Grades:
2nd
NGSS:
2-LS4-1
October ELA Bundle K-2 Halloween Activities
All the best units and activities for October! - spiders, pumpkins, creepy read alouds, crafts, and MORE! Plenty of reading, writing, shared research, and phonics activities to fill your busy month of October. Check out each item in the bundle by clicking on the preview. This collection of activities is sure to bring fun, engaging learning opportunities to your classroom! Designed with 2nd graders in mind! Happy learning! ENJOY!✨Follow me✨ to check out interactive read aloud 2nd grade text sets,
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Literacy Centers (Differentiated and Common-Core Aligned!)
This massive 127-page unit contains seven Safari-themed Reading and Writing activities. Each activity comes in two completely differentiated versions to cater to a variety of students' needs! Both versions and their corresponding activities are aligned to First and Second Grade Common Core Standards, which are clearly identified within each lesson.
Table of Contents:
1. ABC Order
2. Parts of Speech
3. Syllable Sort
4. Synonyms & Antonyms
5. Fact and Opinion
6. Persuasive Writing
7. Inform
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
October Activities Pumpkins
Get into the spirit of fall by teaching reading, writing, science, and math skills using real pumpkins with this Common Core aligned unit. This 30 page product contains everything you need for a 2 week unit on pumpkins! These activities are aligned to the Common Core State Standards for second and third grade.Students will make a pumpkin book that they fill with information throughout the unit. The unit is broken down into sessions with a teacher guide written as I would teach the lesson in my
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Also included in: Fall Activities BUNDLE September, October, and November
Second Grade Reading and Writing Transportation Opinion Unit - Unit 5
This is part of a larger second grade curriculum (see my store for bundle). This is a thorough Opinion/Persuasive reading and writing unit about transportation. The unit is 28 days long. It contains a rationale, common core standards, ESL standards, NYS content standards, objectives, essential questions, vocabulary, resource/material lists, higher order thinking questions, activity lists, rubrics, formative and culminating assessments and daily teaching points.
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Grades:
2nd, Staff
Also included in: Second Grade Reading and Writing Curriculum
Second Grade Informational Reading and Wrt Unit about Rocks/Minerals/Soil-Unit 4
This is part of a larger second grade curriculum (see my store for bundle). This is a thorough informational reading and writing unit about rocks, minerals and soil. The unit is 24 days long. It contains a rationale, common core standards, ESL standards, NYS content standards, objectives, essential questions, vocabulary, resource/material lists, higher order thinking questions, activity lists, rubrics, formative and culminating assessments and daily teaching points.
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Grades:
2nd, Staff
Also included in: Second Grade Reading and Writing Curriculum
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Interactive Phonics Activities
Use hands-on activities such as sorting, matching, or building words with manipulatives to help students recognize phonics patterns and learn word families.
Word Hunts
Encourage students to find specific words either in a text or around the classroom to help reinforce sight word recognition.
Reader's Theater
Bring short stories, books, poems, or plays you’re reading in class to life by assigning roles to students and having them act out scenes. This can help enhance fluency and comprehension.
Interactive Read-Alouds
Engage the class by pausing during read-alouds to discuss the story’s theme, reflect on a character’s motivations or actions, or to ask students questions.
Comparative Analysis
Explore different adaptations of the same story (book versus movie, classic version versus a modern retelling) to encourage analysis of interpretation and presentation. You can also pair texts that are similar in theme, like poems and songs.
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