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Social studies Common Core L.4.1e resources
American Revolution Mentor Sentences & Interactive Activities Mini-Unit (4-6)
Mentor sentences are the perfect way to teach grammar and author's craft through examples of excellent sentences from your favorite read-aloud books! This unit will be a great way to integrate Social Studies in with your mentor sentences during your American Revolution Unit! It does not include explicit directions of how to implement mentor sentences in your room- these directions are in the Volume 1, FIRST Ten Weeks: Mentor Sentence Unit, Volume 2, FIRST Ten Weeks: Mentor Sentence Unit, or Volu
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4th - 6th
Westward Expansion Mentor Sentences & Interactive Activities Mini-Unit (4-6)
Mentor sentences are the perfect way to teach grammar and author's craft through examples of excellent sentences from your favorite read-aloud books! This unit will be a great way to integrate Social Studies in with your mentor sentences during your Westward Expansion Unit! It does not include explicit directions of how to implement mentor sentences in your room- these directions are in the Volume 1, FIRST Ten Weeks: Mentor Sentence Unit, Volume 2, FIRST Ten Weeks: Mentor Sentence Unit, or Volum
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4th - 6th
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Morning Work Bundle (4th, 5th, 6th Grade)
Morning Work Bundle (4th, 5th, 6th Grade) - 532 Worksheets & Printables. A morning work bundle for upper elementary. Use the many art illustrations as a springboard into writing prompts.• Worksheets travel nicely between grade levels. • Meets 65-82% of Common Core Writing Literacy Standards for grades 3-7. Click links for full previews. You get the following:1. Editing - 12 Printable Prompts• Labor Day• Haunted House• Winter Solstice• Sled Racing• White House Easter Egg Roll• Valentine's Day
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4th - 7th
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Construct A Sentence Game | Sentence Building Cards | MYTHS & LEGENDS BUNDLE!
These myths and legends themed parts of speech classroom games are the perfect complements to your studies of ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS. They offer a great way to make your studies interdisciplinary! Engage your Third Grade, Fourth Grade, Fifth Grade, and Sixth Grade students in a fun way to show off their knowledge of parts of speech. Help students write engaging sentences that correctly use nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, AND conjunctions, prepositions, or interjections. Students will demonstra
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3rd - 6th
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Novel Study: Ranger in Time: Escape from the Great Earthquake
An excellent 16 chapter historical fiction book about the San Francisco Earthquake as seen through the eyes of a young Chinese refugee. I have divided the book into 4 sections and created 4 worksheets for each section: vocabulary, multi-choice questions, written response questions, and elements of literature. Within these pages are exercises for sequence, point of view, characterization, fact or opinion, fill in the blank, setting and mood, similes and metaphors, and characterization.
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3rd - 6th
Prepositional Phrases - Grammar In Context Writing Lessons for 4th / 5th Grade
Teach 4th- and 5th-grade students how to write with prepositional phrases, not just memorize the grammar rules about them!With Jivey's Write On! Grammar Integration Resources, you'll be teaching grammar in context during your writing time through exploration, revision, and application. This print-and-teach resource, aligned with best-practices, provides lessons and activities on the use of prepositional phrases and should be incorporated into your writing lessons. The lessons and activities in t
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4th - 5th
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Also included in:Â Grammar In Context Writing Lessons GROWING BUNDLE for 4th / 5th Grade
Platypus PowerPoint with Activity and Study Guide
Get ready to explore the world of the Duck-billed platypus, one of the most bizarre and mysterious mammals in the world from eastern Australia and Tasmania. Platypus facts include that they sport a tail like a beaver, bill and feet like a duck, and lay eggs like a bird! Platypuses give birth to furless babies called puggles. What's Included:One Quick Start GuideOne 23-slide animated PowerPoint (both PPTX and PDF file types)One 20-page fillable student activity and study guideOne 26-page EDITABLE
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3rd - 8th
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4-LS1-1
, MS-LS1-4
, 4-LS1-2
FREE - Grammar | Oregon Trail Worksheet (Gr. 3-7)
FREE - Grammar Bundle - Editing - Language Skills | Oregon Trail Worksheet (Grade 3-7). In this grammar freebees printables: 3 Oregon Trail paragraphs (answers will vary). + + + + + + + + Oregon Trail is part of Editing & Grammar Bundle: 91 Worksheets, which includes the following... Click links for full previews. A) Language Skills: 44 WorksheetsBasic• Sentences• Paragraphs• Nouns• Verbs• Adjectives• Adverbs• PrepositionsIntermediate• Apostrophes• Commas I• Commas II• Quotation Ma
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in:Â US History Bundle
LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR Parts of Speech Game | Sentence Building Cards
This sentence building activity is a great way to extend your Third Grade, Fourth Grade, Fifth Grade, or Sixth Grade study of the LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR in an interdisciplinary way. Use this parts of speech game to reinforce King Arthur related vocabulary (a great compliment to your study of the medieval period!) while encouraging your upper elementary and middle school students to practice using nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections correctly to build a
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3rd - 6th
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AMERICAN LEGENDS Parts of Speech Game | Sentence Building Cards
This sentence building activity is a great way to extend your Third Grade, Fourth Grade, Fifth Grade, or Sixth Grade study of AMERICAN LEGENDS in an interdisciplinary way. Use this parts of speech game to reinforce American legends related vocabulary (think Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Annie Oakley, Molly Pitcher, John Henry, etc.!) while encouraging your upper elementary and middle school students to practice using nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections cor
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3rd - 6th
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MESOAMERICAN MYTHS Parts of Speech Game | Sentence Building Activity
This sentence building activity is a great way to extend your Third Grade, Fourth Grade, Fifth Grade, or Sixth Grade study of MESOAMERICAN MYTHS in an interdisciplinary way. Use this parts of speech game to reinforce Mesoamerican myths vocabulary while encouraging your upper elementary and middle school students to practice using nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections correctly to build a sentence. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the dif
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3rd - 6th
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EGYPTIAN MYTHS Parts of Speech Game | Sentence Building | Construct A Sentence
This sentence building activity is a great way to extend your Third Grade, Fourth Grade, Fifth Grade, or Sixth Grade study of EGYPTIAN MYTHS in an interdisciplinary way. Use this parts of speech game to reinforce EGYPTIAN Myths vocabulary while encouraging your upper elementary and middle school students to practice using nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections correctly to build a sentence. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the different p
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3rd - 6th
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NORSE MYTHS Parts of Speech Game | Sentence Building | Construct A Sentence
This sentence building activity is a great way to extend your Third Grade, Fourth Grade, Fifth Grade, or Sixth Grade study of NORSE MYTHS in an interdisciplinary way. Use this parts of speech game to reinforce Norse Myths vocabulary while encouraging your upper elementary and middle school students to practice using nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections correctly to build a sentence. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the different parts o
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3rd - 6th
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HINDU MYTHS Parts of Speech Game | Sentence Building | Construct A Sentence
This sentence building activity is a great way to extend your Third Grade, Fourth Grade, Fifth Grade, or Sixth Grade study of HINDU MYTHS in an interdisciplinary way. Use this parts of speech game to reinforce Hindu myths vocabulary (a great compliment to your study of the Indus River Valley civilization!) while encouraging your upper elementary and middle school students to practice using nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections correctly to build a sente
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3rd - 6th
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ROMAN MYTHS Parts of Speech Game | Sentence Building | Construct A Sentence
This sentence building activity is a great way to extend your Third Grade, Fourth Grade, Fifth Grade, or Sixth Grade study of ROMAN MYTHS in an interdisciplinary way. Use this parts of speech game to reinforce Roman Myths vocabulary while encouraging your upper elementary and middle school students to practice using nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections correctly to build a sentence. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the different parts o
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3rd - 6th
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GREEK MYTHS Parts of Speech Game | Sentence Building | Construct A Sentence
This sentence building activity is a great way to extend your Third Grade, Fourth Grade, Fifth Grade, or Sixth Grade study of GREEK MYTHS in an interdisciplinary way. Use this parts of speech game to reinforce Greek Myths vocabulary while encouraging your upper elementary and middle school students to practice using nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections correctly to build a sentence. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the different parts o
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3rd - 6th
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War Horse by Micheal Morpurgo Novel Study
War HorseBy Micheal Morpurgo29 page Novel Study including:-Vocabulary-Critical Thinking questions-Geography-Map work-Letter Template-Ven Diagram-Newspaper Article Template-Word Search-Answer KeyThis novel study contains everything you need for your students to have a deep understanding of the book. It includes two critical thinking questions per chapter with a teachers answer key. The questions can be short answer or full paragraphs. There is an activity for every three chapters, totaling si
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3rd - 12th
Ancient Egypt Unit Plan: Great Pyramid of Giza Golden Ratio PowerPoint
NatureGlo's eScience Ancient Egypt Unit Plan: Great Pyramid of Giza Golden Ratio PowerPoint is a mini bundle featuring a unique math in the real world exploration. Few of the world's wonders hold more fascination than the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still mostly intact. The Great Pyramid is shrouded in mysteries. The modern world is still trying to unravel them. There is a continued debate among archaeologists, Egyptologists, and mathematicians regarding
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4th - 10th
Also included in:Â Math With Art
Lesson Plans For Acts of Courage by Pamela Horner
If your success in life depends upon harboring a secret, then what do you do when you must either finally confront it, or lose the game of survival?  Fen has been busy. He took an unexpected trip, hung around some important people – who are also dead – all the while keeping a deep secret.Fenmore Jacks does things on a grand scale. His personality is huge. His wit is enviable, especially among the other fourth graders. And his school career? It is a colossal – failure. He has to hide the fact tha
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4th - 6th
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Beginning of Year Writing | Sentence Structures | Interactive Notebook
This beginning-of-year mini writing unit is loaded with engaging lessons, activities, and games to teach your students about constructing and editing/revising sentences as well as a quick mini-lesson to prepare them for the types of writing they will be participating in this school year.Many of the lessons also tie in nicely to Texas History topics.You will find:Teacher lessons and copies in PDF (including anchor charts)Student copies in PDF (including interactive notebook pages & mini ancho
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Miners Here/There Chant with Pictures
This is a Here/There Chant I created that goes with connects with the Gold Rush. It is a GLAD strategy and is a great way to teach vocabulary.
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4th
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Editing Tasks: People of the American Revolution
This product helps students practice their editing skills while also learning (or reviewing) about famous people of the American Revolution. There are 10 historical people included. Each person has a short passage about them and 6 multiple choice editing questions. These tasks are geared for 4th graders. They would be great extension lessons for 3rd graders and wonderful reviews for 5th and 6th graders. These would be great in literacy stations, used as whole group lessons, or great activities s
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3rd - 6th
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Reading Comprehension Passage - Leveled Text - The First Americans
Are you looking for a leveled text that teaches students important vocabulary and increases comprehension of non-fiction text? This differentiated text does all that!This 4-page text introduces students to the first people who migrated across the land bridge and spread throughout North and South America. The text gives students information about different climates in North America and focuses on the ways different cultures have adapted to survive in each climate.You get the same article at thr
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4th - 6th
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Also included in:Â Leveled text with Reading Comprehension Questions - STEM - First Americans
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