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2nd grade short stories projects
Tacky the Penguin Craft | Helen Lester
Here is a fun and easy craft to go with the book Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester. You and your students will love the end results!
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PreK - 5th
How The Turkey Got Away | A Turkey Escape Narrative Writing Book Project
With all the terrific turkey books that I read to my class each year, I decided that it would be EXTRA fun to have my students write their own turkey stories! I LOVE how creative and clever their stories can be! And, they get to practice using their transition words... first, next, then, last! For a better look at what's included, just click on PREVIEW!Graphic Organizers: There are 3 graphic organizers to help your students plan out the sequences of their story (one for drawing pictures, one wit
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K - 3rd
Personal Narratives Made Easy!
*INCLUDES BONUS PACK
This download helps students understand and create personal narratives. It includes:
~introduction to personal narratives
~example personal narrative
~blank personal narrative templates
~personal narrative checklist
The Bonus Pack will allow your students to create books about their families, which include personal narratives. It includes:
~graphic organizer
~blank book page templates
~a complete sample book
*available in a discounted Writing Made Easy bundle!*
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1st - 6th
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Printable & Digital "My Name Story" Writing Project
Using "Alma and How She Got Her Name" as a mentor text, this product contains the resources you need to to help your students tell the stories of their names. This project provides your students an opportunity to share a little bit about their family and culture with the class – such an important step in creating a positive, welcoming classroom environment! Turn your final drafts into a class book that can live in your classroom forever, and you allow your students to see themselves in your clas
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2nd - 4th
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Writing a Reader's Theater Script Project
This project guides students through the process of writing and performing a Reader's Theater scene, based on a short story. The materials can be used with any fiction text, so it can be differentiated for leveled small groups or adapted for any grade level!
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1. Three different graphic organizers for students to record information about the setting, characters, and plot of their text. (These really helped my students focus on the important details from the story that needed to be i
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2nd - 8th
Halloween Writing Pack
This Halloween Writing Unit was designed to create a full month of writing for your classroom. Simply make a copy of each of these pages, staple together (with the cover page provided) and students can work all month on creative, fun, and meaningful writing for the whole month of October.This Writing pack contains two parts – 4 Halloween Writing Assignments and 5 October themed journal pages. Each of the 4 Halloween Writing Assignments have a brainstorm page. These pages have directions for each
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K - 6th
Narrative Writing: BUNDLE
Narrative Writing: BUNDLEUse these no prep graphic organizers to guide your students through the narrative writing process while centering their writing around the elements of a particular genre. These work great as a culminating writing project and are easily differentiated for a variety of student needs and abilities.This Bundle currently includes these packs:Narrative Writing: Create a Fairy TaleNarrative Writing: Create a Super HeroNarrative Writing: Create a Mystery StoryNarrative Writing:
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2nd - 5th
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My Sneaky Snowman's Adventure Narrative Writing Unit | Writing & Art Project
Narrative writing doesn’t have to be limited to just a plain old paragraph! Teach your students how to draft, write, and edit a narrative paragraph AND engage them with an art project at the same time. My Sneaky Snowman’s Adventure is a narrative writing unit and art project that’s just perfect for the winter season! Not only will your students produce a narrative paragraph, but they will flex their creativity and produce a Sneaky Snowman Diorama and Sneaky Snowman flipbook! What You Get In Th
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in:Â December First Year Teacher Bundle | New Teacher Bundle | 2nd - 4th Grade
Narrative Writing Fun - Common Core Aligned - The Story of My Worst Ouch
This is a fun writing project that is aligned with the Common Core. It is designed to align with standard W2.3 for second grade. Students will write a narrative about their worst ouch. We know all little ones love talking about their worst injury or illness, now they can turn it into a narrative! This packet includes:
1 graphic organizer for narrative planning or pre-write
1 rough draft sheet
1 story helper (This page contains a word bank, and tips to help make their writing shine.)
1 cover f
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1st - 3rd
Dr. Seuss Week: Horton Hears a Who! Character Headband Template
This is an ADORABLE craftivity for your little learners that can be done after reading Horton Hears a Who! or Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss! I did this with my first graders during Dr. Seuss week, but it can be done any time!Assembly is simple enough for first graders to complete independently with an effective teacher model.I hope your little learners love it as much as mine did! Enjoy! :)** I do not own any rights to this character or stories written by Dr. Seuss about this character. Th
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PreK - 2nd
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My Pet Reindeer Paper Bag Book
This Pet Reindeer Project is such a fun and engaging way to supplement any winter holiday or caribou activity! Paper bag books make a wonderful keepsake and can be assembled quite easily! These books can even be kept in your students desks as a way for them to reread or to share with other students!Come with:1. A colored version 2. A black & white version3. Easy assembly directions
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1st - 3rd
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Mouse Ears Headband, Costume, Party Hat, Crown Craft, Printable Mask Activity
Do your students enjoy dressing up and acting out fables, folktales or fairy tales? Do they like making up their own stories and bringing them to life? Do you need a quick, easy costume for your students?Children love wearing these cute mouse printable paper hats during reader's theater, dramatic playtime, and pretend play in your magical classroom. These paper headbands are so adorable that kids (and grown ups) smile as they wear them.Keep your students engaged and smiling with these paper crow
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K - 2nd
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Design Your Own Comic Strips: A STEAM Activity
Design Your Own Comic Strips: A STEAM ActivityWriting doesn't have to be boring! Let your kids' creativity go wild with these comic strips. The possibilities are endless- use these comic strips to: • Show steps in a process • Explain conceptual understanding • Retell a story • Illustrate a narrative or non-fiction writing piece • Practice target vocabulary words in context • Practice writing dialogue • Help second language learners explain their thinking • Make learning fun! Three sam
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PreK - 12th
Also included in:Â 3 Activity STEAM Bundle
Snapshots of My Summer
This is a FUN and EASY back-to school project that looks fantastic as a Back-to-School bulletin board and also serves as a quick assessment of your new students’ writing ability!
Students will illustrate and write a brief description about something they did during the summer. Multiple graphic organizers are included so you can help your students organize their thoughts beforehand.
Included in this product: 3 graphic organizers (for various grade-levels), 1 camera cover page (for students to d
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PreK - 6th
There's A Wocket in my Pocket! printables
When you download this product, you are on your way to make your very own class book!! This book will be a companion to Dr. Seuss' "There's A Wocket in my Pocket!". This is such a fun story! My students always LOVE getting to write their own book about different creatures that they create, in our classroom! A title page has already been created for you, just add your name! "There is a Zassboom in our Classroom!" will soon be one of your student's favorite books to read! Have each student make th
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PreK - 4th
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Writing a Folktale
This packet is perfect for having a 2nd, 3rd or 4th grader create their own folktale. it includes graphic organizers of all of the important elements in a folktale and is easy to follow. It does not include a rubric, as I feel that each teacher needs to decide which elements are most omportant to focus on.
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2nd - 5th
Reader's Theater Script Writing 101
Included within this packet you will find everything necessary to implement basic script creation in your classroom. There are several kid-friendly graphic organizers for organizing thoughts around PLOT and Beginning-Middle-End Summarizing, a Types of Sentences chart that includes a practice worksheet, and basic teacher plans for a 6 day reader's theater unit. Rubrics are included for both script creation and presentation. This unit is meant to be versatile, and should be adapted to meet the nee
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2nd - 5th
Fables Unit Close Reading Strategies & Text Structure | Distance Learning
Teach Fables Using a Hybrid of Traditional and Virtual Methods With Your Students!Are you frustrated when trying to find engaging virtual resources aligned with your curriculum and standards?Click here and SAVE by buying ALL of my Fables and Folktale Resources in 1 Bundle!You know you need engaging technology resources that help students achieve learning outcomes, but what does that look like in the classroom and distance learning? I know you are tired of students CONSUMING information when usin
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in:Â Folktales Bundle Fables, Fairy Tales, Tall Tales, & Greek Myths
Create-a-Ghost Short Story
Create-a-Ghost Short Story
By: Heidy Lopez
From: Lights, Camera, Learn!
This is a fun and easy writing activity that can be completed in less than an hour. It is the perfect Halloween decor for any classroom. Your students will have fun creating their own short narrative ghost stories. All they have to do is customize their ghost and then fill-in the blanks in order to write the perfect short ghost story. Finally, their ghost will be ready to hang around the classroom or for decorate a bul
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2nd - 5th
Dear Santa Paper Bag Book
This Dear Santa book is such a fun and engaging way to supplement any Christmas or Santa lessons!
Paper bag books make a wonderful keepsake and can be assembled quite easily! These books can even be kept in your students desks as a way for them to reread or to share with other students!
Come with:
1. A colored version
2. A black & white version
3. Easy assembly directions
I included multiple versions of the child on the "All About Me Page" and also a generic page with a Christmas tree fo
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1st - 3rd
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Mouse Ears Headband, Costume, Party Hat, Crown Coloring Craft, Printable Mask
Do your students enjoy dressing up and acting out fables, folktales or fairy tales? Do they like making up their own stories and bringing them to life? Do you need a quick, easy costume for your students?Children love wearing these cute coloring mouse printable paper hats during reader's theater, dramatic playtime, and pretend play in your magical classroom. These paper headbands are so adorable that kids (and grown ups) smile as they wear them.Keep your students engaged and smiling with these p
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K - 2nd
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THE SMARTEST GIANT IN TOWN
THE SMARTEST GIANT IN TOWN STORY TEACHING and DISPLAY RESOURCESResources included are as follows:50 PDF files for you to print. Story presentation, story sack tag, questions pack for before/during/after the story, display borders, backing paper, character picture flashcards to use as display or props, long banner to head wall display, large decorated lettering, writing pages, describe favourite part of the story, coloured face masks, hand puppets for role play or retelling the story, make a crow
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K - 3rd
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Also included in:Â JULIA DONALDSON STORIES - GRUFFALO ROOM ON BROOM SQUASH AND SQUEEZE ETC
When I Was Young In.....activity book
This activity book is based on the Caldecott Honor Book, When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant, in which a boy and a girl remember all the things they love about growing up in the mountains of West Virginia with their grandparents. Read this charming book to your students, then encourage them to write and illustrate this fill-in-the-blank activity book about the people and places they love. This gets kids to consider all the great things they have in their life and to be proud an
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K - 3rd
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Sometimes I Feel Like a River - Lessons and Book Companion - Indigenous Resource
Supporting Indigenous Resources for Inclusive Learning in Elementary Schools TEN different comprehension activities support the story, Sometimes I Feel Like a River, written by Danielle Daniel and illustrated by Josee Bisaillon.DIFFERENTIATED reading response activities to support grades 1-3 include:Visualization, Connection, Meaning/Infer, Question, Plus... Place-Based Learning Activity, Sensory Writing, and Flip Book ActivityThis unit is developed to support a single read aloud copy. There is
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1st - 3rd
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