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Critical thinking Common Core W.3.1a resources
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READ ALOUD STEM Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle #1 STEM Club, STEM Centers
Integrate STEM and Literacy in your classroom all year with READ ALOUD STEM Volume One! Everything you need to be the master STEM Teacher at your school! Awaken imagination and creativity all year. Students learn coding, engineering, explore real-world problems, learn about STEM role models, pioneers, inventors, and more!Amazing resource for STEM clubs, STEM Teachers, STEM Stations, STEM Centers, parents who love hands-on learning, and elementary teachers who want to create a hands-on educationa
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1st - 5th
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200 Daily Bell Work Writing Prompts (Grades 4-6)
Be prepared to teach your Grade 4-6 Language class with a year's worth of bell work writing prompts for Google Slides™! This resource is perfect for a soft start to the Language block and for creating a daily routine for your students to follow.This resource includes 200 writing prompts themed for each day of the week to spark student interest and promote engagement. Every prompt comes with an example of how students should organize their journals, including partial sentences to get students sta
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4th - 6th
Also included in: Grade 4 Ontario 2023 Language Bundle (FULL YEAR)
Which One Doesn't Belong?
This is a fantastic activity to get your students thinking, categorizing, and making a persuasive argument.Ask students to study the four images and decide which one doesn't belong. Each of these image groupings has been carefully designed so that a valid argument could be made for any one of the four images. Allow students to think critically and make a case. Students enjoy the activity and it serves as important practice in critical-thinking skills. Fantastic brain break for school, homeschool
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1st - 5th
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150 Daily Bell Work Writing Prompts (Grade 1-3 Language)
Be prepared to teach your Grade 1-3 Language class with a year's worth of bell work writing prompts for Google Slides™! This resource is perfect for a soft start to the Language block and for creating a daily routine for your students to follow. This resource includes 150 writing prompts themed for each day of the week to spark student interest and promote engagement. Every prompt comes with an example of how students should organize their journals, including partial sentences to get students st
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1st - 3rd
Also included in: Grade 2 Ontario 2023 Language Bundle (FULL YEAR)
READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges #2 Real World Science Engineering
Bundle and get 50% off! Integrate STEM and Literacy in your classroom all year with READ ALOUD STEM Volume 2! Awaken imagination and creativity all year. Students learn coding, engineering, explore real world problems, learn about STEM role models, pioneers, inventors, and more! Perfect for librarians, STEM Club, K-5 Teachers, and any teach who loves to integrate hands-on learning activities with their students!This collection of STEM Projects focuses on connecting ELA and STEM. Each challenge c
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-PS3-1
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 4-PS3-4
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Research Templates Google Classroom Digital Projects Elementary Activities Comic
Need some engaging digital projects templates for your classroom? This Google Classroom Digital Projects Bundle is a perfect go to for easy to use and ready to use elementary Google Classroom activities that your students will love! Your students will be engaged with these digital project templates as they create comic strips, social media posts, biography reports and SO MUCH MORE! Since these are digital projects they are great for saving paper and can be used across multiple subject areas. ⭐SA
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3rd - 6th
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Fact and Opinion Task Cards & Unit Plan | Perspective & Bias | Digital + Print
This 153 PAGE UNIT provides ENGAGING TASKS, TASK CARDS, LESSONS and RESOURCES to teach students the difference between FACT and OPINION as READERS and WRITERS through proven teaching strategies fostering CRITICAL THINKING and RESEARCH SKILLS. ⭐ AN ESSENTIAL MEDIA LITERACY SKILL FOR THE "MISINFORMATION" ERAWHAT'S INCLUDEDFact & Opinion Mini-Lesson and overviewLink to Google Slides Version for independent/interactive use16 Fact and Opinion Discovery Task cards (Digital + Print)16 Fact & O
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3rd - 9th
Paragraph Writing Prompts - 5 Different Writing Forms (Grades 4-6 Language)
Paragraph writing is a fundamental skill that all students need to develop. These paragraph writing prompts are an effective tool that can be used to help students develop their writing skills. This resource is printable and can be used with Google Slides™ with no printing necessary.The Paragraph Writing Prompts for Grades 4-6 include a wide range of writing forms including explanatory, recount, narrative, persuasive and procedural writing, giving students the opportunity to explore various writ
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Grade 4 Ontario 2023 Language Bundle (FULL YEAR)
A Plump and Perky Turkey Thanksgiving STEAM Activity
Design and Build a Plump and Perky Turkey for a STEM Art Show! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own symmetrical Plump and Perky Turkey that can balance on it's own! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book A Plump and Perky Turkey by Teresa Bateman.Amazing resource for STEM club, STEM teachers, elementary librarians, parents who love hands-on learning, and 1st grade through 5th grade teachers who want to create a hand
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving Turkey READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities BUNDLE
Thank You Sarah Thanksgiving Unplugged Coding Activity
Help Sarah Hale save Thanksgiving using Unplugged Coding! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving Coding Activity in which students code Sarah Hale to the 5 presidents she wrote letters to in order to make Thanksgiving a national holiday! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Thank you, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving by Laurie Halse Anderson.The Coding Process:In this coding activity, students use directional coding to help Sarah save Thanksgiving. Perfect activit
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1st - 5th
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Also included in: Thanksgiving Turkey READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities BUNDLE
Auntie Claus Christmas READ ALOUD Unplugged Coding Activity
Create a Binary Code Christmas Ornament Unplugged Coding for Hour of Code, STEM Club, and First Grade through 5th Grade Classrooms! Make learning fun with this Christmas Coding Activity where students learn how to code and decode binary codes. They build their own Binary Code Christmas Ornament to give to a friend and write about what the word or letters mean.The Coding Process:In this coding activity, students use binary coding to create their own Christmas Ornament. Perfect activity for a Chri
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1st - 5th
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Also included in: Christmas READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
RACE Writing Strategy for Extended Response + RAP Writing Strategy TEST PREP
These differentiated extended response rubrics list exactly what students need to include in their writing to have complete answers for state test questions. RACE and RAP Posters / Anchor charts are included for a visual reference. ✅ File Includes:4-point rubric (topic sentence, 2 details, closing sentence): Anchor Chart, 2-per-page and 4-per-page for ink saving5-point rubric (topic sentence, 3 details, closing sentence): Anchor Chart, 2-per-page and 4-per-page for ink savingParagraph writing ru
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2nd - 5th
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Opinion Writing Prompts Narrative Expository Writing Prompts & Friendly Letters
Grab all 7 of my writing prompt collections in one money-saving bundle! Includes 63 writing prompts to take you all the way from the very beginning of the school year through the spring. Includes practice on expository writing, narrative writing, persuasive writing, and friendly letters. Each prompt has a checklist for student accountability and this product comes with both Handwriting without Tears style paper and regular lined paper so all you need to do is print and copy!This product also
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1st - 3rd
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Groundhog Weather School READ ALOUD SCIENCE™ Activity
Do your students have what it takes to join the Groundhog Weather School?In this Groundhog Day science activity, students learn the basics of weather, create their own rain gauge (if you don't have one), and record weather data over a set period of time. They write a letter with their results to send back to the Groundhog Weather School.The Scientific Method:Students follow the six step scientific method (Purpose, Research, Hypothesis, Experiment, Analysis, Conclusion) to learn about weather and
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-ESS2-1
, 3-ESS2-1
, K-ESS3-2
Also included in: February READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty? Persuasive Writing Unit
Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty? A Persuasive Writing TaskThe truth is now out. Humpty Dumpty was pushed off the wall. Yes pushed! Discover for yourselves, through creating the scenarios, suspect profiles, taking notes as a detective and voting for a mock jury, who the culprit was. A perfect addition to any persuasive writing unit with a story that has been told, arguably not fully, for many years.What's Included?A lesson plan sequence to support teachersBrainstorm templates for creating detective ques
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Persuasive Writing Unit | Collaborative Learning Task
Digital Book Reports Distance Learning Google Drive
Your students will love these Digital Book Reports for Google Drive. Easily use these book reports and responses for distance learning. You'll receive 39 engaging digital book report forms that work with any book to improve reading comprehension. You will receive 26 fiction and 13 nonfiction digital book reports. They can be used over and over again as students read more books.Looking for additional distance learning resources? Making Inferences to Pictures Google DriveDigital Book Response
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2nd - 5th
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Opinion Writing Prompts Informational Narrative Writing Prompts End of Year
Students get so excited about the spring, so why not try this resource with opinion writing prompts, narrative, informational, expository and friendly letter writing prompts? It includes spring, March, April and May writing prompts to get students engaged? These creative prompts are super fun! Also they are no prep so just print and go!It also includes checklists for student accountability which really helped my second graders check over their own work.Take a look at the money saving writing pr
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1st - 3rd
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Literacy and STEAM: MyView Grade 3 Year-Long Bundle
A whole year of Literacy and STEAM!THIRTY amazing hands-on STEAM activities and writing lessons in which students plan, design, build, test and reflect on their own creations.This is a bundle of THIRTY Literacy and STEAM units for MyView Literacy Grade 3 and the perfect companion to the following stories:Unit 1:Grandma and the Great GourdWhy the Sky is Far AwayCocolisoLiving in DesertsThe Golden FlowerA Safe Place to PlayUnit 2:Patterns in NatureWeird FriendsWolf IslandWelcome Back, Wolves!Wolv
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2nd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-ESS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-LS2-1
, 3-PS2-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Outstanding Opinion Writing
This "outstanding" free download includes: two anchor chart posters, an opinion writing graphic organizer and 40 unique opinion topics to get your students excited about opinion writing!
I would appreciate your rating and a comment about how these opinion resources worked for your class!
If you liked this product, please follow me and you will be notified when I post new goodies! I am going to upload a persuasive essay organizer next.
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Lori
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3rd - 5th
OPINION WRITING ACTIVITY | THE INTERNET IS GONE! SHOULD WE BRING IT BACK?
OPINION WRITING ACTIVITY | THE INTERNET IS GONE! SHOULD WE BRING IT BACK?This resource is perfect to pair along with an opinion writing unit. This resource has been created to be adapted to different grade levels depending on the amount of detail you expect from your grade level. This resource is very engaging for students. The students have the opportunity to review material and engage their comprehension. The resource has space for students top grow within their character analysis, vocabulary,
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2nd - 6th
Black History Month Biography Research Project
Are you looking for an independent or semi-independent research project that incorporates Bloom's Taxonomy? This African American History Research Project allows students choose an African America Figure and requires students to take a deeper look into this person's accomplishments and contributions to our society. This Biography Project also addresses many Common Core State Standards. I use it as a hybrid type project. We do some in class and students do some at home. I also bind the materia
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3rd - 5th
ESL English Lesson for Grade 3: 'Hour of the Olympics' - MES series (Lesson 25)
Transform Your Grade 3 ESL Lessons with Dynamic, Conversational MaterialTake your Grade 3 ESL learners on a journey of exploration and discovery with our comprehensive, dialogue-rich lesson plans. Though crafted with Chinese speakers learning English in mind, these lessons are suitable for all ESL learners due to a language-neutral teaching approach.Today's Book: Hour of the Olympics by Mary Pope OsborneThis is the 16th book in the popular kid's series written by Osborne. Jack and Annie are now
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3rd
Also included in: ESL English Lesson BUNDLE for Grade 3 part 3 (Lessons 21-30) MES Series
Fact and Opinion Sentence Strip Sorting Activities - Digital Resources
Are you looking for a fun way to teach fact and opinion? This printable and digital resource consists of fact and opinion task cards, fact and opinion writing graphic organizers and sentence strips for students to sort, cut and paste! This is the perfect reading strategies and writing resource to use in literacy centers, writing centers, early finishers and sub plans too.Save 20% with this bundle!Suitable for:First GradeSecond GradeThird GradeSub PlansThis 32 page resource is available in both p
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2nd - 4th
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Persuasive Writing Unit | Collaborative Learning Task
Opinion Writing BundleCollaborative Simulation LessonsThese two opinion writing mini lessons are the epitome of collaboration through court room stimulations for two very well known stories. Both mini lessons follow an identical sequence, reinforcing persuasive writing techniques in a fun way.Students will work together to prove their "innocence" creating alibi's and answering probing questions. Discover for yourselves, through creating the scenarios, suspect profiles, taking notes as a detectiv
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3rd - 6th
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