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High school Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa short stories centers
Holidays Around the World Agamographs | Unforgettable Christmas Craft Activity!
Christmas Around the World Agamographs. What's an Agamograph?! It's a picture that morphs into another image when you look at it from a different angle. Agamographs are super fun and contemporary activities to easily integrate art into your classroom. There is a huge "wow factor" in this art activity—the students love the surprise. And best of all, they did it themselves!!It's hard to say but easy to do! I strongly recommend this for grades 3 and above.Use this activity for your anticipatory set
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3rd - 9th
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Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi: Complete Differentiated BundleYour upper elementary and middle school students will love reading the classic Christmas story, "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry and you'll love the differentiated options for you and your students!This packet includes 5 different versions of this text ~ See Preview File for samples of each:Original Version - unaltered text, The Gift of the MagiModified Version - The Gift of the Magi re-written in clear, easy-to-understand languageAnnotated V
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Christmas Activities for Middle School Bundle
12 SHORT MYSTERY STORIES & READING COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES: Follow Clues - Fun
Watch reading comprehension skills soar with these captivating short mystery stories and activities! Follow the clues around New York City with Detective Hanlon as he uncovers the truth in each short, high-interest mystery - guaranteed to capture the attention of even the most reluctant readers! Students will LOVE following clues, discovering evidence, making inferences and solving these intriguing mysteries!Meet the DetectiveTravel throughout New York City as you visit famous places and solve
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4th - 9th
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December Christmas Coloring-by-Number, Figurative Language Activities
In this set of five Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and winter-themed coloring sheets, students review standards while coloring!! These activities reflect the diversity and fun of the month of December. These no-prep worksheets are great for literacy centers, bell ringers, brain breaks, review, or substitute plans. All ages love to join in on the fun!Student Experience: Students must identify the parts of speech or figurative language (allusion, alliteration, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, idiom
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6th - 10th
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Christmas Coloring Pages - Parts of Speech Color By Number Worksheets
The Christmas coloring pages are no prep & will help your students learn their parts of speech while keeping them engaged during those weeks leading up to winter break. Better than a typical part of speech worksheet, the differentiated Christmas activities are fun color by number activities and they make great Christmas bulletin boards!Please Click the preview for more details.✏️ The best part? These no prep coloring pages save your valuable time!✏️ Great to use in centers, for early finishe
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Christmas Parts of Speech, Figurative Language, & Vocabulary ELA Bundle
Christmas Math Mystery Picture #5 ~ Multiplication
This is a fun and easy way to work on multiplication facts. Your students will enjoy bringing this picture to life. It also works on prime and composite numbers. Check out the FULL preview. The answer key is included.
Merry Christmas!
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2nd - 12th
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Christmas Activities Video Bundle: Holiday Mystery, Escape Room, & Toy Making
Christmas Activities Video Bundle: Holiday Mystery, Escape Room, & Toy Making: Use these three engaging Christmas activities to keep your students totally focused in December while also covering important ELA skills, incorporating creative thinking, and improving problem-solving skills. These Christmas activities are sure to engage even your most reluctant students! The best part is that each activity comes with a hand-drawn, custom video, created by the talented John Spencer, that introduc
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6th - 9th
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The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe - Interactive Flip Book, 10 Activities
This interactive resource contains everything you need to engage students with Edgar Allan Poe's creepy classic, "The Tell Tale Heart." Perfect in October (or any time of year!) this resource can be used alone, with Interactive Notebooks, or with Interactive File Folders.THIS "TELL-TALE HEART" RESOURCE INCLUDES:full text of “The Tell-Tale Heart” in easy-to-read font, with especially difficult vocabulary terms definedlesson plananticipation guidetext-dependent questions10 activities9 writing prom
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7th - 9th
Hot Cocoa Science - Middle School December STEM Activity - Christmas Science
Who doesn't love hot cocoa?! Engage your middle school scientists while exploring the effect of temperature (thermal energy) on marshmallows and candy canes in hot cocoa. Students will practice their science and engineering practices skills by making predictions, planning investigations, making observations, analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and they'll love every minute of it! Students will also be exposed to crosscutting concepts by looking for patterns when comparing melting marshmallows
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6th - 10th
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Spanish story: Tener expressions | el verbo tener | irregular verb in Spanish
This is a silly TPRS story, written entirely in the Spanish present tense, about a family who goes hiking and complains about everything - being cold, hot, tired, hungry and scared. Students will receive repetition and high quality input of the tener expressions in Spanish.This story is action packed and most fun when acted out, but the new interactive, choose-your-own-ending picture book also makes it comprehensible for independent reading as well. I use it after I have pre-taught the "tener"
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5th - 10th
A Christmas Carol Literature Guide, Reading, Writing, Pop Up Flip Book
The timely and relevant themes of A Christmas Carol are greed, charity, guilt, kindness, generosity, and goodwill. Your students will love this Christmas activity -great story for the winter holidays that does not stress religion. The story focuses on one of the most famous dynamic characters, Ebenezer Scrooge. Written by author, Charles Dickens. There are several versions of the tale. This resource provides you with links to the play version, the full text, a free audio book, and a YouTube sear
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6th - 10th
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Christmas Activities Elf the Movie for Inference Skills, Schema, Video Clips
Students in middle school and high school will love this fun holiday activity perfect for your busy December lessons! Elf The Movie, English Language Arts Inference Skills Activities, Video Clips, Notes, and Answer Key will get them to laugh. December 5, 2021: ALL THE LINKS WORK. IF, you are having trouble accessing the Youtube links, the issue is on your end, within your school's firewall settings. The links and videos all work. Please work with your tech admin to get the links approved to use
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Home School Bundle
MEGA (85) Decodable Passages Bundle: Morphology Stories Included!
UPDATED 4/8/24:This product is 85 different decodable stories to support phonics and morphology instruction. Comprehension questions are included for each story.This product is GROWING, and I'll periodically add stories and prompt you to re-download.I created this product to reflect phonics, reading, and spelling lessons focusing on the following phonics/spelling rules:1. Digraph –ck story 2. Glued/welded sound(s) story: -ing, -ang, -ank, etc.3. FLSZ Rule Story4. Digraph ch story 5. Digraph sh
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K - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Orton-Gillingham: Complete Bundle, 700+ Pages! ($200 value)
Short Story Listening Comprehension Scaffolded with Visuals for Speech Therapy 2
Listening comprehension is a vital skill for all children. Providing visuals is the perfect way to scaffold the task, while gradually increasing the difficulty. This resource contains 3 different levels of difficulty: 1, 2, & 3 sentence mini-stories. Each story comes with a visual support to assist in answering the questions. Use these visuals as needed and fade them when possible.This resource is perfect for targeting listening comprehension, reading comprehension, and Wh- questions - maki
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PreK - 9th
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Christmas / Winter Holiday Tangram Set - 29 Different Tangrams! - {ZisforZebra}
Here are 29 different Christmas/Holiday/Winter themed Tangram puzzles for you to cut out and use in your classroom! Each tangram is on a 3.7" x 4.9" card and there are 4 cards per page. The color tangrams show the individual shapes while the black tangrams only show the whole figure as a sold color. The colored tangrams are filled in with green, red, white, blue and grey colors.
I have also included 3 different sized tangram squares for you to print out in both color and black. The black tangra
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education
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Real-World Grammar Fails, Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Year Task Cards
This set of real-world grammar mistakes is an excellent engaging activity for middle or high school English students as for bell ringers, grammar practice, review, or just for fun during Thanksgiving, the Christmas holidays, and the New Year! I've collected mistaken-ridden posters, tweets, signs, etc. to keep things interesting - and to provide plenty of examples!Allow students to take ownership of their learning and make connections to the world around them. Students love to spot errors in th
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Real-World Grammar Fails, Journalism/Yearbook Proofreading Task Cards
This set of real-world grammar mistakes is an excellent engaging activity for bell ringers, grammar practice, review or just for fun for your yearbook, newspaper, media, or journalism class! I've collected mistaken-ridden magazine covers, newspaper headlines, yearbook pages, and more to keep things interesting - and to provide plenty of examples!Allow students to take ownership of their learning and make connections to the world around them. Students love to spot errors in the unlikeliest places
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Yearbook Curriculum BUNDLE+ for Student Journalism Publications
Weekly Reading Passage Reading Comprehension Writing ELL Reading Context Clues
Summary of Story:Two friends who never bend the rules try sneaking out of school just once before they graduate eighth grade... Unfortunately, that day happens to go terribly wrong.About this Resource:This is one story that is split into five passages. Each passage has seven questions (5 multiple choice, 1 short answer, and 1 extended response). Questions look at vocabulary, context clues, synonym/antonym, and other aspects of close reading.Whether you use these reading passages as homework, par
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2nd - 10th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Summer Reading Comprehension Context Clues Daily Reading Writing Bundle
"A Christmas Story" the Movie: Point of View, Character, Writing, Video, Notes
"A Christmas Story" The Movie: Point of View, Characterization, Writing Prompts, Video Clips, and NotesStudents like to be entertained while they learn!Introduce students to the concepts of point of view, characterization and questioning. This lesson can be used prior to teaching longer, more complex texts, short stories, poems, viewing films, creative writing, novel studies.PDF File Includes: ★ Presentation for the smart board or projector★ Background notes for the film★ Active links to A Chris
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7th - 12th
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Christmas Coordinate Plane Graphing Picture: Christmas Mega Bundle 8 in 1
This coordinate system graphic art mystery picture would be ideal for students that are just beginning with graphing coordinates or students that need a little extra practice. It is also a great fun activity and engaging worksheets for Grade 4-12 for Christmas, or any time of the year. Prep free! Differentiated! Independent!The picture has two different graphing options to easily provide differentiation in your classroom. - One picture to be graphed in first quadrant with positive whole nu
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4th - 12th
Hero's Journey Writing Prompt
This Hero’s Journey Writing Prompt resource will get your students writing creative and well-planned stories! With over 2 BILLION unique possible combinations, you could use this year after year and never get tired of the outcomes! Students roll a dice to decide the plot points of the twelve parts of a Hero’s Journey with this handy Hero’s Journey writing prompt resource.☸ Example Rolls⚀ Ordinary World ................... A discontent older sibling.⚀ Call to Adventure…............. A stranger ca
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Hero's Journey Presentation, Writing Prompts & Graphic Organizers Bundle
Scale Drawing Math Activity - NO PREP Christmas and Holiday FUN
This NO PREP scale drawing Christmas and Holiday Math Activity is designed for you to print and go! Students will see proportions and equivalent ratios come to life while the work to enlarge a festive image. This can be paired with your lessons or used as an engaging review activity. You could even have students relate this to their science lessons in which drawing accurate models is of the utmost importance. Have fun! Students will begin by choosing their favorite festive, winter image (these c
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4th - 9th
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The Pit & the Pendulum ESCAPE ROOM
This activity features an engaging escape room in which students tackle 5 puzzles covering plot, figurative language, story elements, and quotes from Edgar Allan Poe's chilling tale, The Pit and the Pendulum!There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to cond
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Escape Room MEGA Bundle
Fractured Fairy Tales & Wh Questions for Reading Comprehension Digital Resource
High-Interest, Low Readability Fairy Tales with a Twist! These 40 interactive Google Slides will help students improve reading comprehension skills with short, humorous stories, who, what, when, where, and why questions, and TONS of Cloze Reading practice! Your struggling readers and on-level students will laugh-out-loud at the humorous twist on familiar childhood fairy tales. The stories use clever language to give the stories’ events a more contemporary feel and are presented like newspaper
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2nd - 10th
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