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Reading Common Core W.3.7 thematic unit plans
Camping Themed End of the Year Activities for 3rd & 4th grade - All Subjects
Do you want an engaging end of the year unit? Relate camping to science, social studies, math, and reading in 3rd or 4th grade!! All activities are rigorous, engaging, and upper elementary focused!You can transform your classroom into a campground or just work through a theme, either way these high level activities will keep your students engaged!How will this help the teacher and student?Engagement- Students will be engaged the ENTIRE time you are learning about camping and working with the the
Grades:
3rd - 4th
Also included in: End of the Year BUNDLE Activities, Awards, Writing, Camping, and more
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
Black History | The Harlem Renaissance | Flipbooks | Biographies
These Harlem Renaissance flip books are designed for 2nd and 3rd grade but can be adapted for upper grades. This biography flip books include 5 biographies of influential African Americans who were influential during the Harlem Renaissance. One of the flip books defines the Harlem Renaissance and includes important vocabulary. Each flap book contains4 pagesCover pageBiographyCut and glue pageIllustration and writing pageEach flip book has an optional question and answer sheet.These no prep flap
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: Black History BUNDLE | 5 Resources
Winter Activities ELA 3rd & 4th Grade Standards - Reading, Writing, Grammar
This winter activity pack is filled with ELA activities for 3rd and 4th 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 winter 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:
3rd - 4th
Valentine's Day Activities for ELA 3rd & 4th Grade- Seasonal Standards-Based ELA
This Valentine's Day activity pack is filled with ELA activities for 3rd and 4th 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 Valentine'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 are
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3rd - 4th
All About Apples: Reading and Writing Unit
This is an ELA Thematic Unit about Apples. Students will learn about the history of apples, John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed), Growing Apples, their Life Cycle, and Interesting Facts through Informational Texts, a Biography, Poetry, Apple Tasting, and Writing Activities. All Reading and Writing activities are differentiated at the 2nd and 3rd Grade levels. Lesson plans included. CCSS included in the first few pages.
Table of Contents:
Common Core Standard
Informational Text Note-Taking Graphic Or
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
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
6 Week Money Project - Gifted & Talented
This 6 week long projects includes weekly homework (common core aligned) and budget practice. The work that students complete is at a third grade level and allows kids to take a deep dive into how money really works and how it impacts people's lives, and critically thing about topics like taxes. Each week after completing their "work" they'll get a weekly income that they'll decide how to spend. Keep an eye out for "Uh ohs" like a car repair cost that you'll be required to pay that week, just li
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2nd - 4th
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Penguins: Reading and Writing Activities
This Penguin themed packet is designed to teach students about Penguins through Informative Reading texts, Poetry, and Writing activities. Students will learn about 8 different kinds of penguins, locate where they live on a map, write informative texts, opinion pieces, compare and contrast 2 penguin species, and a Penguin Report. Also included are literacy activities to determine Facts and Opinions, writing Adjectives about Penguins, and Poetry activities. Reading texts are differentiated at the
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Plan a Classroom Aquarium Fish Tank Real World Project Activity
This real world reading, writing, art and math Plan an Aquarium project will have your students so engaged, they won't want the project to end! You can use this project to create a hypothetical tank or use it create a REAL AQUARIUM for your classroom! In this unit, students the have opportunity to build background skills, plan an aquarium, create an art piece, and persuade others to choose their group's tank! If you choose the hypothetical tank, this project is very much Print and Go! Everyth
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Reading & Writing Genre Unit: Mystery & Historical Fiction
This ELA bundle features a book mission, novel study, and narrative writing unit for both mysteries and historical fiction. You will see your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students grow as readers and writers throughout these units. Integrating reading & writing helps you to gain back teaching time and these pre-planned units give you back more planning time. This combined bundle features my Mystery Genre Unit for Reading & Writing and my Historical Fiction Genre Unit for Reading & Writing
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3rd - 5th
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3rd Grade Mr. Popper's Penguins Novel Study, Book Report Teaching Kit and Tools
In upper elementary grades, students need to learn the fundamental skills necessary for report writing.
This report is designed around the classic of Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater.
The book report contains all the parts necessary for a whole novel study including:
-A Note/Planning sheet to be used as the book is read
-Quizzes for ongoing assessment to measure comprehension
-Book report guidelines and rubric for each paragraph
-Report due dates and manageable weekly assig
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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
"The Relatives Came" Book Unit
"The Relatives Came," by Cynthia Rylant, is an award winning (Caldecott Medal) book that tells of relatives who have traveled to spend the summer with their family in another state. This book study unit provides more than an entire week of activities & printables which include: mapping skills, reading comprehension, retelling, setting, characters, Venn diagram & comparisons, expanding vocabulary, vocabulary/definition matching cards, vocabulary flash cards, writing personal narratives,
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Grades:
1st - 5th
Cesar Chavez Biography Report Flipbook Latinx Leader Hispanic Heritage Month
This Hispanic Heritage month, enjoy a biography report flipbook for Latinx Civil Rights Leader, Cesar Chavez. It includes a short biography written by a teacher for your students to use to write their report. Comprehension questions, an answer key, and rubrics are included in this printable PDF resource.This inspiring story tells how he was inspired to fight for the rights of farm workers using peaceful protests and forming the National Farmworkers Association. The 3 page reading passage covers
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Hispanic Heritage Month Famous Latinx Leaders Biography Flipbook Bundle
Black History Flipbook Bundle | Harlem Renaissance | March on Washington
This Black History Flipbook Bundle Includes two of my best selling products. These flip books are designed for 3rd and 4th grade but can be adapted for upper grades. This biography flip books include 9 biographies of influential African Americans who were in attendance at the March on Washington and Influential African American From the Harlem Renaissance. One of the flip books explains the March on Washington and includes important vocabulary.Each flap book contains:4 pagesCover pageBiographyC
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
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
Trifold Book/Novel Study Lessons for Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie
This is a novel study to accompany the book "Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie" by Peter and Connie Roop.These lessons cover a variety of skills. On the first day, students research lighthouses using a K-W-L chart (included) to activate prior knowledge and build understanding. Next the students read the story and answer the questions for each section. Each section will include a list of vocabulary words as well as a variety of questions to check for understanding and build text-to-self connections.
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: 2nd-3rd Grade Trifold Novel Study Bundle
Talking Zoo Unit
The Talking Zoo is a tried and true unit that my students love! You and your class can learn about different habitats and how animals survive in them. Assign your students an animal, help them research, have them make a costume and poster board at home, and help them write a speech. Invite friends and family to the "zoo" at your school and let your students present their animal research! This packet includes: Directions for execution of the Talking Zoo unitEditable letters to parentsAnimal choic
Literacy Lessons Bundle
This is a bundle of Literacy Lessons, activities, organizers, and rubrics focusing on the common core third grade reading literacy standards. My best selling unit, Fable, Folktales,and Myths is bundled with my Reading Literature: Ask & Answer Questions and Character Units to create a comprehensive set of materials for teaching the literacy standards.
The lessons and materials included can be easily adapted for second and fourth grade as well.
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*Lessons designed for var
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Spring Bundle
Caldecott Book Study Units for: "The Gardener," (by Sarah Stewart), "Tops and Bottoms," by (Janet Stevens), and "The Storm Book," (by Charlotte Zolotow) are all included in this Spring bundle. Three weeks of lesson plans, activities, spelling, writing, reading, seeds, gardening, and much, MUCH MORE is included..."The Gardener," by Sarah Stewart, is an award winning (Caldecott Medal) book that gives a soft introduction to the Great Depression. The book is written strictly with letter corresponden
Louisiana Guidebooks, Cajun Folktales Lesson 9 Flipchart
This is a Google Slides flipchart I have created to spice up the LearnZillion "scripted" lesson. This lesson is for the Unit Cajun Folktales, Lesson 9. I have basically followed the LearnZillion lesson format, adding in things such as modeling, writing, test prep and exit tickets. The format is Google Slides, with an add on for Pear Deck. This Flipchart can be used with or without Pear Deck. I have also included instructor notes on appropriate slides. Please note that this product is included in
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3rd
Also included in: Louisiana Guidebooks, Cajun Folktales Flip charts Unit Bundle
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Interactive Phonics Activities
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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
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