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Middle school The New Year short stories activities
All About Me Selfie + Writing | w/ End of the School Year Reflection Activity!
All About Me "selfie" drawing and writing activity for classroom teachers and art teachers. This activity is a great way to start the year with an introduction and end the year with a reflection! This resource also includes Halloween and New Years selfie activities!This All About Me resource is a teacher favorite. It's a great first week of school / back-to-school activity that is also useful at other times of the year—Back to School, Halloween, New Years, and End of the Year. My student selfie
Grades:
2nd - 9th
Also included in: Back to School ART INTEGRATION ACTIVITIES Bundle for CLASSROOM TEACHERS
Fairly Tales: Grimm, ELA Reading Digital Escape Room: Middle School Escape
⭐IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE A GRIMM FAIRY TALE WITHOUT AN ADVENTURE OR ENCHANTED FOREST. ⭐ This fully immersive 360° Grimm Digital Escape conjures up enchanted forests, villains, and happily-ever-afters. ⭐ Young teen students are invited to escape this Grimm Adventure using clues that practice reading, listening, sequencing, comparisons, logic, and other important skills!Now with two versions! A flat version with self-checking answers is included, no Google form is required. ⭐ Want a printable versio
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: *ELA Middle School/High School 360° ELA Digital Escape Room Bundle
Back to School Goal Setting Activities Students Worksheets First Day of School
Help your students keep a growth mindset and set meaningful goals this back to school as you launch into the new school year. As a new school year begins, it's a great opportunity for students to set goals and create a plan for success. One way to help them stay focused on their goals and motivated throughout the year is by choosing one special word that will guide their actions and decisions. Use this collection of resources to help your students set goals and also choose one word for this tha
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3rd - 6th
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Short Story Unit Plan, 9 Short Stories for High School, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
Looking for a low-prep short story unit that will thrill your high school and advanced middle school students? This four-week short story unit is an excellent way to launch the year, setting the stage for deeper study of novels and plays. I’ve used it successfully with eighth graders and both regular and honors freshmen. It covers the important elements of literature and provides an excellent background in literary devices, analysis, and writing techniques. All student materials are included in
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8th - 11th
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"We Are All Connected" All About Me Tessellation | Community Building Activity
This Art with Jenny K. original tessellation project is the perfect "All About Me" community-building activity for your class. It is a great activity for that first week back to school or for any team-building lessons. Works great for Harmony Day!It connects the individual with the group through tessellations where everyone is connected. It has a ton of "wow factor" and presents a powerful message for your bulletin board, wall, or hallway when complete!It's fun for kids and easy for you as the t
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: Tessellation Bundle | Use one every month!
2024 New Year's Activities - Resolutions Foldables and More! Updated Yearly!
Check out the preview and thumbnails!A new year (or a new school year) is a great time to turn over a new leaf, try new things, and end bad habits. Right around winter break (or at the beginning of a new school year) have a class discussion about resolutions. Brainstorm goals that are attainable and share some of your own. Have students create the foldable and then hang them for others to read.* This activity is great for all students!* Wonderful for goal-setting discussions and character educat
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Back to School Bulletin Board We All Fit Together Jigsaw Puzzle
This is a great bulletin board or door display to use at any grade level and it has a great message behind it to start your year off with a focus on building your classroom community to support and encourage one another. >>>> Grab this in the Back to School BUNDLE here <<<<Introductory PowerPoint Story:There is an accompanying PowerPoint story called 'Our Class is a Puzzle' to delve deeper into the concept and create some great classroom discussions.Display Option 1:There
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PreK - 6th
Also included in: Back to School Activities and Bulletin Board Display
Vision Board Student Workbook, Goal Setting, New Year's Resolutions
This Vision Board Student Workbook starts the year with a great goal setting activity for back to school; with plenty of engagement and creativity! Writing for the end of the year reflection? Teachers will love promoting a growth mindset while completing the workbook pages. It gets exciting because the vision board workbook pages turn into a student poster! Your students will love their vision boards! Visual inspiration to kick off the school year! UPDATED: Now includes 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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New Years 2024 Goals Hats 3D Writing Activity
2024 New Year's Goals for students is a fun goal-setting activity new year! Students write their goals and decorate the 3-D New Year's Goal Hats! 3-D NEW YEAR'S GOAL HATS...Make goal setting FUN for kidsAre the perfect writing activity for JanuaryCreates the cutest bulletin board for the new yearGets students excited about their goals!WHAT'S INCLUDED?Photo directions for easy use8 different options for the first half of the "Goal Hat"13 different options for the second half of the "Goal Hat"Blan
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2nd - 6th
Also included in: Writing Prompts Writing Crafts Writing Activities 3D Writing Bundle
Edgar Allan Poe Short Story Unit - The Black Cat - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven
Print and go short story annotations activities and projects for your next Edgar Allan Poe unit, Tell Tale Heart unit, Raven unit, or Black Cat unit! These short stories with comprehension questions contain short story annotations activities, graphic organizers, projects, questions, and answer keys. The included activities ask students to think deeply about text while practicing elements of literacy analysis. This Poe unit is a great addition to a short story unit on classic literature.✅While t
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7th - 10th
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New Year's Activities 2024 Goals and Resolutions Balloons & Bulletin Board
Your class can celebrate 2024 with this festive new year's activity! Student set new year's resolutions and goals with this balloon writing craft. Templates are available in both English and Spanish. *This resource will be updated with every new year so that you can use it year after year with each new class.*Students write down their goals for 2024 on their own balloon:2- 2 goals I want to try to work on at school this year0- Something that I want to try and stop doing this year2- 2 ways
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1st - 6th
Happy New Year Resolutions Pack | Activities, Games, Banners, Book Templates
New Year’s Resolutions are the opportune time to promote growth and change in your classroom! Our students can learn a lot about self-discipline and the value of making goals. This resource includes:Teacher tips/suggestions pagesMore/Less 2024 Goals anchor chartMore/Less 2024 Goals student foldableTop 10 reasons glad to be back at schoolTop 5 reasons glad to be back at school(6) Minute to Win It New Year Games to build teamworkNew Year By the Hour Clock Goal Setting Activity (individual/class ve
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2nd - 6th
Snow Globe Goals: 2024 New Year's Goal Setting creative art & writing activity
Snow Globe Goals is a perfect New Year's goal setting winter art and writing activity. It includes printable and editable student snow globe template, key, teacher guide, and Snow Globe Goals lettering to use when displaying finished snow globes. The printable snow globes are divided into sections and students follow the number code to design and set goals and hopes for the 2024 year. For example: 1= name, 2= new year (example 2024), 3= academic goal, 4= personal goal, 5= song or quote for the
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3rd - 8th
Dandelion Wish Craft | New Years and End of the Year Writing
This fun dandelion craft comes with:- Dandelion image with quote- Dandelion image without quoteWriting Prompts include: - "My Wish for This Year is..." - "My Wish for Next Year is..." - "I Wish My Teacher Knew..."- Includes differentiated writing line options- Includes blank writing page options
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PreK - 12th
The Most Dangerous Game Activities - Short Story Unit - Questions - Map Project
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell: Short Story Units with Questions, Vocabulary, and Short Story Annotations! This 90 page short story with comprehension questions resource contains everything you need to teach “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. Perfect for your short story unit or The Most Dangerous Game unit, this short story package contains detailed comprehension questions, teacher friendly answer keys, vocabulary words, character analysis, creative writing activities, pr
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7th - 10th
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New Years 2024 One Word Resolutions Goal Setting Banner Bulletin Board Activity
Easy, printable goal setting writing activity for the new year! This new year's One Word Resolution activity is perfect. Students pick 1 word to describe their goals and resolutions for the new year. This is an engaging and thoughtful writing activity that is perfect for your January bulletin board! I always start the year back with student reflection. **UPDATED FOR 2024**This file contains two different decorative designs and several differentiated templates for each design. Perfect from Pre-K
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3rd - 8th
Lamb to the Slaughter, Roald Dahl, Literary Analysis, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
Use the dark humor of Roald Dahl’s well-known short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter," to teach your students the elements of literary analysis. This one-day lesson plan includes links to the full text of the story, detailed instructions, a 9-question deep-thinking handout (with detailed answer key, of course), and a writing activity that creatively uses an official-looking police report for students to summarize the elements of the story. The lesson also includes a police sketch portion (my high s
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7th - 10th
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Marshmallow Team Building: A Back to School Activity for First Day of School
Whether you’re headed back to school or starting a new unit, this team building exercise will get kids engaged and excited about being in your classroom. The Marshmallow Team Building exercise helps teachers establish a classroom atmosphere of teamwork and sets the tone for a fun, high energy class!Here's what you need: a whole lotta marshmallows, a box of toothpicks, and some Clorox wipes! :-) Set your classroom up for the first day so that students are working in teams to build eight differ
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5th - 12th, Staff
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New Year's Resolution Activities and Writing with Growth Mindset + Sticky Notes
Kickstart the new year in your classroom with engaging growth mindset activities using sticky notes. These activities prompt students to reflect on their experiences in 2023 and set meaningful goals for 2024. The activities in this growth mindset New Year resource provide an excellent way to help students kick off the new school year with a positive mindset after the winter break!This Growth Mindset New Year's Activity set for 2024 includes:A Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset Student HandoutNew Y
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Ultimate Growth Mindset Bundle for Secondary
2024 Vision Board and Activities (Paper or Digital)
Updated for 2024!What is a Vision Board One PagerVision Board-Now Portrait OR Landscape Versions after request ;)Rainbow of Possibilities WritingNo Homework PassGoals Graphic OrganizersBookmarksPoem Activities for the 1st Week Backand more!Ease into the first day back with some close reading. FUN and Academic!!!Contents Included:History of New Year's Informational Passage!Students will read and learn about the history of resolutions with an informational close reading passage and text dependent
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3rd - 6th
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"Goal Blocks" Student Goal-Setting, New Year's Resolutions
Goal Blocks is a meaningful and memorable goal-setting activity for students (with eye-popping display options!), perfect for setting New Year's resolutions or for a back to school activity at the beginning of the year. Students use the letters of the word "GOAL" to break down the goal-setting process: G represents the Guts of the goal, which includes writing a goal statement, setting a standard for success, and setting a time frame.O represents the Obstacles that stand in the way of reaching th
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3rd - 8th
New Years Resolution 2024: Happy New Year Activities & 2024 Goal Setting
Perfect for the first day back from winter break, celebrate new years 2024 with your middle school and high school students with this EDITABLE, NO PREP, GOOGLE SLIDES reflection and goal setting one pager activity! This fun, creative, and engaging new year's resolution activity encourages students to reflect on the people, experiences, and accomplishments that made this year GREAT while setting goals for the new year. ***This New Year's activity is fully editable, so you can edit the years on th
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6th - 12th
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Short Story Unit Reading Comprehension Passages | Activities & Projects
This resource includes activities for 33 short stories and poems. The goal of this reading literature journal is prepare students to recall, understand, apply, analyze, and evaluate a variety of texts while also using creative mini-projects to help encourage deeper thinking! This resource has everything you'll need to teach a short story or poem once a week for the ENTIRE school year. ZERO prep necessary! Answer keys for the short stories ARE INCLUDED in this resource. NOTE 2: This resource ha
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5th - 9th
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2024 New Year's Activity and Bulletin Board - Sunglasses Writing Craft
Your class can celebrate and set resolutions with this 2024 new year's activity! It's a sunglasses writing craft that also comes with letters for a new year's bulletin board. *This resource will now be updated annually so that you can use it year after year with each new class.**Please note: this resource was previously a "2020 Vision" writing craft for the year 2020, and it has been re-vamped to be able to used again for 2024! If you already purchased the 2020 version, you can re-download this
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Grades:
K - 6th
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