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Snowmen at Night Book Companion Writing Craft for Winter Months
Snowmen at Night book companion. What do Snowmen do at Night? I know your students have all sorts of imaginative ideas. This creative winter book companion is a fun way to extend the book Snowmen at Night after reading it with your students. It makes for an adorable winter bulletin board too.⭐Includes writing templates, anchor prediction chart headings, and scarf and hat templates. An easy to cut one piece snowman is also included for younger students.⭐ Do you need more Winter themed resource
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PreK - 3rd
Also included in: Winter Math and Literacy Kindergarten Resources and Centers MEGA BUNDLE
Literary Analysis Collaborative Poster for Novels, Short Stories, Fables
This Literary Analysis Collaborative Poster Activity will have your students working together on analyzing a text. Are you working on short stories or a novel study with your students? Would you like your students to look deeper into the novel, chapter, short story, myth or fable? This is just the resource for you! This worksheet and collaborative poster give your students an opportunity to work together. Each of your students can work on a piece of the collaborative poster-protagonist and a
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: Literature Activities Bundle, Oh My!
Writing Center Activities- BEST SELLING!
This writing center creates student independence and gives them the choice! Great to use during writing, when students finish early, or Daily 5! Great for the ENTIRE YEAR!GRAB A FREE COVER FOR THE ACTIVITIES HERE!Included:5 Display/Set up suggestionsBulletin board posters/headings Writing checklist Labels for displaysExamples of each type of writingTemplates of each type of writingStudents get to choose from: Letters (MORE ADDED!)Poems (MORE ADDED!)Book ReviewsCards (MORE ADDED!)Newspaper Articl
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1st - 5th
Literature: Writing a Literary Essay Unit
Writing doesn't come easily to many students; so to effectively teach literary analysis writing we need to GUIDE students through the process. In this comprehensive literature essay writing pack you will get step-by-step lesson plans, engaging worksheets, helpful handouts and more. ** NOTE: You can now buy this as part of my BUNDLED WRITING PACK and save 20%**OVERVIEW:Think of this as literary analysis boot-camp: over the course of the unit, students will be introduced to the concept of anal
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8th - 11th
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Recount Stories, Fables, Folktales and Myths RL.3.2 Task Cards for 3rd Grade
Are you struggling to find easy-to-read fables, folktales and myths for your 3rd graders? This task card resource was created just for them! Appealing cartoons and fun stories grab your students' interest, which makes meeting RL.3.2 fun and easy.This no-prep resource is perfect for centers and group work. Just print and go! The digital Easel version (which is included) can be used on any electronic device, and is self-checking. Directions are easy, helping students be self-directed.===========
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3rd
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Also included in: 3rd Grade Ultimate Language Arts Year-Long Bundle
Reading Posters: Elements of Fiction Posters {Plot Vocabulary} Set of 23
Reading Posters for Literature: Elements of Fiction Posters {Plot Vocabulary} Set of 23
I created these simple bright and colorful posters for many of the common elements of fiction (I call them "lit terms") that my middle school students learn throughout the year.
{Update! As of March 2015, this set has grown to 23 posters! See updates below.}
All posters are high resolution 8.5X11 and look beautiful when printed.
Here are the posters included:
plot
setting
protagonist
antagonist
suspense
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2nd - 9th
Also included in: Reading & ELA Poster Bundle: 70+ Classroom Posters
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
Syllable Patterns: VCCV worksheets and decodable story
This is a fun and engaging resource to help students learn the VCCV syllable pattern. It can be used by teachers and tutors to help struggling readers divide multisyllabic words into 2 or more syllables. I have used these worksheets with my students with incredible results!Included in this packet:vccv poster - black and white, and colordecodable storyworksheets - more worksheets will be added!!Save money and check out the syllable patterns growing bundle!!!SYLLABLE PATTERNS GROWING BUNDLE
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1st - 4th
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Also included in: Syllable Patterns BUNDLE!!!
Edgar Allan Poe Posters, Classroom Decor, Halloween
These Edgar Allan Poe Posters are the perfect classroom decor for Halloween or if your are teaching ”The Tell-Tale Heart”, ”The Black Cat”, ”The Raven”, and an entire Edgar Allan Poe Unit. Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and poems have become staple literature in the English classroom, from 6th - 12th grade. Many teachers teach Poe around Halloween because Poe’s short stories and poems are haunting, unique, and beautiful. Whether you are doing a unit on Poe, an author study, or a few poems and
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Bundle- The Raven, Posters
Tema-Lección Moral (Material de Instrucción y Evaluación alineado al STAAR)
Tema-Lección Moral (Material de Instrucción y Evaluación alineado al STAAR)
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Tema-Lección Moral es un excelente recurso de 56 páginas, el cual ayudará a tus estudiantes a evaluar el Tema, Lección Moral o Moraleja de una historia corta. Con cada una de las historias, los estudiantes tendrán la oportunidad de analizar el Tema usando un mapa conceptual y una o dos preguntas de selección múltiples (similar a la estructura del STAAR). El recurso está diseñado para que los n
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3rd - 6th
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Writing Journals Through the Year
*UPDATED JULY 2017*
This packet gives you everything you need to make writing journals for your students. These journals are perfect for Work on Writing!
This packet includes:
12 themed journal covers {one for each month}
*August- School themed
*September- Apple themed
*October- Halloween themed
*November- Pumpkin themed
*December-Christmas themed
*January- Snowman themed
*February- Valentine's Day themed
*March- St. Patrick's Day themed
*April- Rain themed
*May- Bug themed
*June- Picnic th
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K - 2nd
The Poppy Lady Veterans Day Activities
Looking for a fun, engaging, and festive packet to discuss Veterans Day with your students? Well, look no further - this packet includes resources to supplement your reading of the book "The Poppy Lady" by Barbara Walsh, the incredible and inspiring life of Moina Michael. The packet is also meant enrich your students' study of Veteran's Day (November 11th).Resource includes:The Poppy Lady*Charting the Story Details: Beginning, Middle, End*Charting the Story Details: Sequencing (Answer Key includ
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3rd - 5th
Narrative Writing - Beginning/Middle/End - Sentence Starters
When students need to create a story from scratch, help them organize their ideas and the content with this mini poster/graphic organizer/mini anchor chart.It is divided into 3 sections for beginning, middle and end. Each section includes a checklist of what should be included in that section, sentence starters to help students begin their paragraph(s) and an example using one of those sentence starters.Hope your students find this as useful as mine did!
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4th - 12th
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi WANTED Poster Final Project
This final project requires students to read and reflect upon the classic short story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," by Rudyard Kipling. The focus of this assignment is CONFLICT and CHARACTERIZATION. It allows students the freedom to "become" whichever character they wish, while analyzing that character's interactions with everyone else in the story.
This assignment is differentiated for all levels of students, and includes a teacher example as well as student examples.
There are several pages to this d
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6th - 8th
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Character Traits
The packet tackles the big question: What is a Character?With the help of this packet, your students will become gurus at describing the outside (appearance) and inside (words, actions, and feelings) of a character. I designed and differentiated this packet so that all students can be successful when completing these activities. In order to help students understand these terms, they will first learn about adjectives through a five senses taste test (lesson plan is included). This concrete activ
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1st - 2nd
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Point of View - Poster Handout - POV 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Limited, Object & Omniscient
It can be difficult for students to read a story and figure out which point of view it is told from. This 2-page notes handout helps students keep track of the difference between the 5 different Points of View.
1st person?
2nd person?
3rd person limited?
3rd person omniscient?
3rd person objective?
Which one is it? How can we tell? Which character is it focused on?
UPDATE!!! We're so happy to announce that this now includes a really useful flow chart with questions for learners to ask to help
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6th - 10th
Help! I'm Trapped in a Snow Globe - Narrative Writing
My students LOVED writing this narrative. I hope your students have just as much fun! Page 3 — Narrative Introduction and checklistPage 4 — Example Writing of “Help! I'm Trapped in a Snow Globe” Page 5 — Brainstorming Graphic Organizer Pages 6-7 — Lead/Beginning Example and PaperPages 8-9 — Middle Example and PaperPages 10-11 — Ending Example and Paper Page 12 — Narrative Writer’s Checklist (Editing/Revising) Pages 13-21 — Bulletin Board Ideas (clipart and directions) and Publishing Paper
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3rd - 6th
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Realistic Fiction Writing: Writer's Workshop: From Scenes to Series
Over 20 pages of materials for an engaging, creative and differentiated realistic fiction writing unit! Includes the following:1. Tips & Tricks Page2. Realistic Fiction Story Elements Chart3. Realistic Fiction Touch and Tell Planners4.Realistic Fiction Writing Papers5.Realistic Fiction Word Wall6.Title Pages7 All About the Author Pages8.Revising Checklist 9.Editing Checklists10.Character Planning Page11. Character Template & Name Tags *Great supplement for the FROM SCENES TO SERIES TC UN
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Writer's Workshop BUNDLE
We're All Wonders
Engage your students and challenge them to choose kindness with these print-and-go activities to supplement the book We're All Wonders by R.J. Polacio.We're All Wonders is a picture book that accompanies the novel Wonder by RJ Polacio. It tells the story of Auggie, a young boy who has a disease that makes him look different from everyone else. Because of these differences he is often made fun of. But Auggie's mom encourages him and tells him that he's a wonder - or a special, unique boy. Auggie
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1st - 4th
Sneezy the Snowman--Response Journal and Writing Craft for K-2
Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright is a fun winter book. It is about a snowman that wants to keep warm.This unit has a melted snowman craftivity that encourages students to use their creativity and write something Sneezy should not do.*All melted snowman patterns are included. Copy on colored paper or have students color the pieces.Also included in this unit is a response journal. There are 19 possible page choices. You choose the ones that best suit the needs of your students (I usually ch
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K - 2nd
Fiction Genres Posters Set of 12
Fiction Genres Posters Set of 12
Includes: Realistic Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Mystery, Folktale, Tall Tale, Fairy Tale, Legend, Myth, Fable.
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1st - 9th
Also included in: Reading & ELA Poster Bundle: 70+ Classroom Posters
Three Billy Goats Gruff Writing Unit and Craftivity
Your students will ADORE writing with these exciting writing activities to go with the classic fairytale The Three Billy Goats Gruff!
Included in this packet is a gorgeous troll work topper craft activity to create a gorgeous classroom bulletin board!
The following writing prompts are included:
*How to Cheer up a Troll
*How to Cheer up a Troll procedure writing
*Troll Adjectives
*Trolls Are, Can, Have
*Diary of a Troll
*How can the Billy Goats cross the river without disturbing the Troll?
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K - 3rd
Cinderella Writing Unit and Craftivity
This Cinderella writing unit will be sure to engage and excite your students about reading and writing!
Included in this packet are both a Cinderella and Fairy Godmother Craftitity to act as a work topper for the following writing prompts:
* Use adjectives to describe Cinderalla (Fairy Godmother, Prince and step mother also included)
* Compare the fairytales: Cinderella and Snow White
* Who would you rather be? Cinderella or Snow White
* Which story did you like better? Cinderella or Snow White?
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K - 3rd
Finish the Story Writing Activity with Writing Prompts and Checklist
This literacy center is perfect for writer's workshop or as a writing center to practice using the different story elements. Use the checklist, writing pages and story prompts to help students begin successfully writing their own stories. Have your students complete the stories from the prompts. They can check that they are using all the story elements that are needed (characters, setting, problem and solution) by referencing the checklist.What is included:→ 12 story starter cards (color and B&
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PreK - 1st
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