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Free creative writing interactive whiteboards
Short Films FREE LITERARY ELEMENT DEVICES & TECHNIQUES GUIDE
Using shorts or other animated short films to teach literary elements and literary device is hands down the most engaging and effective practice in the ELA classroom! Students absolutely love learning with them! But, it takes forever to sort through thousands of films and figure out which literary elements correlate. This guide lets you bypass all of that and go straight to teaching! ❤ Personal Note: I have viewed and analyzed hundreds of animated short films (I'm kind of obsessed), choosing on
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4th - 8th
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Descriptive Writing Activities & Examples - 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th Grade
This packet contains two unique hands-on descriptive writing activities for 3rd through 6th grade students.
The first activity, Spice It Up, is designed to help students during a quick editing process (such as during a writing assessment) to replace their 'run of the mill' vocabulary with more effective word choices to influence the reader. This activity has students working in teams with the vocabulary cards (templates included) to create a list of synonyms to improve their writing.
The se
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3rd - 6th
Free Back to School Writing Activity for 3rd - 5th Grade
This free writing activity for 3rd, 4th and 5th grade is a fun way for students to create a list of their favorite items to use during writing workshops throughout the school year. Using the templates that I have included your students will create lists of their favorite things from home and from school, as well as conduct an interest survey.
These pages will serve as an excellent resource during daily writing lessons or journal writing sessions. Writers tend to use generic words like place
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3rd - 5th
Order of Adjectives Descriptive Writing Lesson Plan
This FREE resource will help scaffold your students when using adjectives in their descriptive writing.It includes1 Page Lesson Plan (learning intention, success criteria, differentiation, assessment)PowerPoint (project order of adjectives scaffold on whiteboard to use for lesson)Printable Order of Adjectives Template (2 versions)Adjective Cards (to use with Order of Adjectives template)Read more about how to use this HERE!If you love this scaffold, you may also like these writing templates!Desc
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1st - 4th
Also included in: Literacy Centres | Ultimate Resource and Games Bundle
Seven Steps to Writing Success Posters and Board Pieces
A set a bright and catchy posters, which outline 3 key points for each of the Seven Steps to Writing Success writing strategy, by Jen Mcveity.Included are 2 options for the Tightening Tension poster - Option 1 describes the main character as the "hero" and option 2 describes the main character as the "protagonist". This way you can choose which works better for the language in your classroom.Also included are interactive pieces, which can be laminated and used on the whiteboard during teaching t
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K - 10th
Free Paperless Journal Writing Prompts (Think,Draw,Write)
⭐These ready to go journal prompts will save you time and stress in the classroom! ⭐ Simply show one of the prompts on the whiteboard (able to display PDF) and the students will respond in their writing notebooks. ⭐ The "Think, Draw, Write" format allows beginning writers to express their thoughts with pictures as well as words. Students will draw a picture in response to the question, then they will also write a sentence about what they drew. ⭐ The prompts will encourage your students to think
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K - 2nd
Personification, "A Day in the Life" sample story 2nd 3rd 4th grade
A 2-page personification story for 2nd, 3rd or 4th grade. This is a "day in the life" sample story about an electric pencil sharpener's daily experiences in the classroom. For a lesson on personification, my students choose an object in our classroom and write "a day in the life" personification stories from the object's point of view. This works best for 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade.
Thank you for the feedback, if you get a chance! :)
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2nd - 4th
Creative Writing Prompts with Paperless Option and Task Cards FREEBIE
Are you working on creative writing, making inferences, and story structure (beginning, middle and end)? This freebie is perfect for beginning writers! These writing prompts will help your students make inferences and predictions while ensuring a well structured story. Each high-interest prompt will stimulate your students' imagination. Best of all, it's no prep and differentiated! The freebie is from a resource that has 100 reproducible pages with a paperless option and task cards for your lite
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K - 2nd
Writing Prompts For The Year {Sample Set}
Perfect for distance learning. Minimal printing and easy to send to students!These writing prompts will help you get through the month without having scramble for journal topics. With the complete bundle, you will get 24 writing ideas each month! Start by choosing your format. There are several says to use these writing prompts in your class. You can print the task cards and use them in a writing center or for early finishers. The full-page prompts can be displayed on your interactive whiteboard
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K - 2nd
FREE Draw and Write Winter Snowman Activity with Differentiated Sentences
Snowman Draw and Write with Differentiated Sentences for K, First grade or Special Education!FREE Special education or Kindergarten through 1st grade differentiated picture word sentences with SNOWMAN step by step drawing activities. Picture word support and scaffolded and adapted writing. Two directed draw and write activities with 3 levels of differentiated writing.NO PREP! Can put .pdf file up on slides, or print and use with students. Comes with printable handwriting paper (several differe
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K - 1st
Editing Writing C.U.P.S
*Updated 2015*
Using an acronym is a great tool to help students edit independently. We always edit for 'CUPS'- Capitals, Understanding, Punctuation and Spelling.
Download this fun and updated freebie to use with your class.
Grades:
K - 3rd
Figurative Language Terms Handout
This resource briefly defines and exemplifies the six most commonly explored types of figurative language: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and personification.
Included in this resource are a colorful student handout and a teacher rational that includes directions for use. Coupled with great instruction, this handout will serve as an excellent teaching/study aid. It can easily be displayed on a SMART board for a mini-lesson or manipulation.
Feel free to view t
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4th - 8th
Story Structure Graphic Organizer - Hamburger
This graphic organizer allows students to practice "sandwiching" details between topic and concluding sentences, just like a hamburger patty is sandwiched between bread. They will learn that just like a good hamburger, good writing has many elements.
When my students forget their topic or concluding sentence, I say "You forgot your bread!" They giggle and quickly get back to work.
**Includes a color graphic organizer for both the smartboard and powerpoint to act as a fun model.
**Also i
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1st - 5th
FREE BELL RINGERS FOR ENGLISH
BEGIN DAILY BELL RINGERS AND ESTABLISH STRUCTURE AT THE START OF YOUR CLASS BY TRYING OUT TWO WEEKS OF STUDENT WRITING PROMPTS. Just put the overhead of the board for students to complete as they walk into class. These writing prompt journals are designed for the middle and high school English classroom to promote quality unique writing through practice with the writing process, interdisciplinary writing, use of multiple genres, and working through revisions Want mor
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7th - 12th
Executive Functioning Skills Handout, Posters & Flashcard with Visual Cues
This free product is for anyone looking to add a visual to their classroom and help kiddos with executive functioning needs. These visuals will allow your children to identify when they are practicing good executive functioning habits in a more concrete way. This product includes: - A family friendly handout that introduces what executive functioning is- a list of strategies to help children who have troubles with executive functioning -A friendly poster visualizing 7 useful techniques to help y
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PreK - 2nd
Caption This Virtual Brain Break/Fun Friday Game- Writing Prompt -Zoom or Google
These are DIGITAL (Google Slides™) that have picture of silly animals or people! You can use these slides during your Google Meet™/Zoom calls or on your Interactive Whiteboard in your classroom. Project one slide at a time and have your students type, write (on their dry-erase boards), or say what they feel the caption would be for the picture shown.This is great for Fun Friday, wiggle breaks, and writing prompts! You could even send these to Seesaw or post this in a virtual classroom and have s
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PreK - 5th
Y Chart
A great visual Y chart for all learners. This graphic organiser has 3 senses. This is a great way to organise and clarify ideas. In this free PDF you will find a page with the headings- looks like, sounds like, feels like and a page with the headings- I can see, I can hear, I can feel. If you decide to download this resource, I'd appreciate you taking few moments to leave a rating and a short comment. This gives me feedback which helps to improve my resources and know which resources are most us
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PreK - 12th
5 Senses Smartboard
This is a small Notebook file that deals with the 5 Senses. It has a graph, observation chart, silly man (that could be a cut out worksheet if printed off), and a writing prompt.
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PreK - 1st
Pirate Theme- Treasure Map -Writing Activity
Students can use page 4 to create their own pirates map. I have added a sample of the assignment to use on the smart board to introduce the lesson and to get their minds thinking. The example map has a surprise ending, but I would encourage the children to be create as to how they design theirs. Other suggestions you could offer your students would be to include where the starting point is on their map, when the finder should have reached the hidden treasure and what they have found in the treas
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1st - 2nd
Short Films Workshops Virtual Tour Guide Literary Devices Elements & Techniques
Guide For Teachers: Quickly figure out which Pixar short films pair with the standards you are ready to teach, without sorting through hundreds of films and scrambling to find related materials!This virtual tour can be used as reference guide and a library of workshops so that you can pluck a NO PREP workshop on the spot and teach immediately! INCLUDED FOR EACH WORKSHOPCCSS Alignment guideHand-picked selection of the best short films for teaching literary elementsSummary for each film along with
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4th - 8th
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Story Writing with the 5 W's
This is a sequence of lessons that teach students to use the 5 W's-Who, What, Where, When, and Why, when writing to make their stories more interesting. They also will learn to use sentence formula frames to ensure they are using varied sentence structures in their writing. The students start with one picture and one sentence and then build their skills to 4 pictures, which they first put in sequence, and then write 4 sentences.
**Meets both Common Core Language Arts and Arizona English Lang
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1st - 4th
STAAR Writing Personal Narrative Prompt Explained (4th Grade)
Update: This product was designed to help students prepare for the "old" personal narrative writing prompts on Texas' STAAR test. Even though the STAAR format has changed, the product has been left active because interest persists.This Powerpoint slideshow offers an explanation of STAAR basics for the personal narrative prompt. It also provides a detailed study of the confusing Look-Think-Write model that the test uses. The lesson is presented as a "top secret file" that teachers can chose t
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Picture Writing Prompts for Whiteboard
Picture Writing Prompts for Whiteboard
Jazz up your writing curriculum with these engaging visual writing prompts in Power Point format. Your students' creativity will blossom as they write in response to a different comical or puzzling picture each day. These prompts are great for idea development and provide a painless way for your class to practice the writing skills you've taught. The colorful slides are designed for display on a whiteboard or television wired to a computer. I have one
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4th - 6th
St. Patrick's Day Limericks and Fun
Limericks are a fun way to practice writing poetry while celebrating St. Patrick's Day! My students loved coming up with Limericks for weeks after this activity! I used our Mimio and projected this document and worked along with my students. On the last page there are some fun easy independent things to do while you call groups of students over to share their limericks with you! After using this one year you'll go back to it again and again. It's too funny to see what you students come up w
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
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