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Solve the mystery case files | Problem solving | Group activity for preschool
This Secret Spy Detective mystery case file game is a fun and educational game that challenges students' reasoning skills and builds teamwork. As they work as a team to solve the case, players will develop their critical thinking skills, understand logical reasoning, increase memory recall and improve their reading comprehension. Each of the cases comes with materials for 10 case files, making this ideal for an extended 2 week lesson. Solve a new case every day, or solve them all at once!⭐️This
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PreK - K
Escape Room Break Out Game, Christmas Nativity Preschool/Kinder Edition (Mini)
Get ready to dive into an exciting escape-room style adventure with this break-out game designed to review the Christmas Nativity story with your preschoolers or kindergartners. From the most reluctant to the most advanced, all of your students will be 100% engaged in solving the clues in this interactive lock box game. Student Experience: In this mini escape game with a flexible three-ways-to-play format, students will race against the clock to save the true meaning of Christmas! Throughout
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PreK - 1st
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Touch Blue by Cynthia Lord Novel Guide
Touch Blue by Cynthia Lord for grades 3-5. Tess is coming of age and starting to understand and appreciate her life a lot more once her family home becomes a foster home for Aaron, a 13-year-old boy. As the story develops, both Tess and Aaron learn to make their own luck in a way by letting go of trying to control life and holding on to the idea of what life should be like, and embracing their life while making the best out of it. This novel unit includes:Learning ObjectivesPre-reading activityC
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Also included in: Elementary Novel Guides
Creative Curriculum - Tree Unit Weeks 1 - 7
This product are lesson plans for Creative Curriculum - Tree Unit lessons . The lesson plans includes question of the day, interest areas, story, group discussion information. Most objectives are included in each area. The information is written out to follow. Additional areas on lesson plans includes an area for notes, literacy activities, and some additional ideas that could be used to add more rigor.The lessons are editable so you can adjust as necessary to fit your needs.These are plans t
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PreK
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Be A Community Superhero - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:How can we be heroes in our community?Description:In this project, students practice opinion and persuasive writing as they explore the concept of heroes. Through reading and interviewing, students investigate local and historical heroes and conduct an in-depth study on one specific person. Finally, students vote for and take on a service learning project in order to become community heroes themselves. A community exhibition at the end of the project allows students to practice
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K - 2nd
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Making Inferences Using Picturebooks: Grades K-5
This unit includes 20+ pages of reusable graphic organizers and multiple lessons utilizing quality children's books that will help your students understand the many ways to make inferences while reading.
The unit begins with an anchor lesson teaching the concept of making inferences. The anchor lesson uses the story Two Bad Ants by Chris VanAllsburg. This story beautifully lends itself to making inferences with the help of the author's brilliant ability to use words and illustrations to lead
Grades:
K - 5th
Ocean Biome Activity Kit (Pre-K and K, NGSS & CC)
This product from Explore Science and the Santa Barbara Zoo is a collection of 10 short stories, 5 crafts, 2 experiments, and 12 recommended children's books themed around the world's oceans. All content is organized and written for Pre-K and K, and all activities are aligned to NGSS* and CC at Kindergarten level. Download includes master materials list, activity-specific standards lists, activity procedures, craft templates, activity tips and variations, and online resources.
*Includes Phase II
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PreK - K
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Desert Biome Activity Kit (Pre-K and K, NGSS & CC)
This product from Explore Science and the Santa Barbara Zoo is a collection of 10 short stories, 5 crafts, 2 experiments, and 9 recommended children's books themed around the world's deserts. All content is organized and written for Pre-K and K, and all activities are aligned to NGSS* and CC at Kindergarten level. Download includes master materials list, activity-specific standards lists, activity procedures, craft templates, activity tips and variations, and online resources.
*Includes Phase II
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PreK - K
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Close Reading using the wonder words: Who What When Where Why and How
Use the Wonder Words to teach what questions to ask during a close read.Cover most of the Speaking & Listening Standards by asking and answering questions during collaborative conversations about a literature piece. Cover most of the CC Literature standards by teaching students what questions to ask when identifying key details in a story. Encourage students to write detailed sentences using the Wonder Words. Teach them the purpose and how to spell the wonder words with familiar song tunes
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PreK - 2nd
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Farm Theme | Solve the mystery case file | Critical thinking puzzle | Game
This Farm theme mystery case file game is a fun and educational game that challenges students' reasoning skills and builds teamwork. As they work as a team to solve the case, players will develop their critical thinking skills, understand logical reasoning, increase memory recall and improve their reading comprehension. Each of the cases comes with materials for 10 case files, making this ideal for an extended 2 week lesson. Solve a new case every day, or solve them all at once!⭐️This is a fun a
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PreK - K
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Magic Tree House Activities Pirates Past Noon
Are you looking for help in teaching Pirates Past Noon from The Magic Tree House series? This comprehensive bundle will make teaching the book easy for you and fun for your students. Don't travel a swashbuckling adventure without this colorful literary unit to guide you with questions and activities to go along with Mary Pope Osborne's The Magic Treehouse adventure, Pirates Past Noon. I've even included enough fun transitions to keep attention without losing class time with too much splash. So c
Grades:
K - 2nd
Hansel and Gretel: Retelling The Story
Recalling the classic tale of Hansel & Gretel with sequencing and WH questions
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2nd - 4th
Across the Curriculum with Jack and the Beanstalk - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:What magic learning can we find in beans and beanstalks?Description:In this project, students cover different elements of the curriculum through the theme of Jack and the Beanstalk. They listen to stories and demonstrate understanding of characters, setting, and plot. They write a news report and think about adjectives. In science students hypothesize, investigate and make observations around plant growth. There are also several craft center ideas for students to get creative.Wh
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K - 2nd
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Using Picture Books to Teach Text Interaction
Teaching children to comprehend can be an overwhelming task. I've put together a system that uses quality picture books to introduce and reinforce comprehension strategies! There are 7 all together! Each anchor text was chosen not only for its style and quality, but for how its characters and plot can be tied with one of the core reading strategies. Hopefully by tying the characters and their experiences to a reading strategy this strategy can develop a deep meaning and understanding of the s
Grades:
PreK - 5th
Superhero game | Reading comprehension | Solve it | Mystery Puzzle Activity
Help your preschoolers and kindergarteners learn to decode text while they read with this superhero learning game. This literacy puzzle is beginner level so that you can use it with the entire class or tailor the lesson to your student's reading level. This lesson focuses on building reading comprehension, vocabulary and critical thinking skills. You will discover clues that help you figure out which superhero you saw in the story. 10 case files total.⭐️This is a fun and exciting case file game
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PreK - K
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Superhero mystery game | Boom cards | Problem solving activity | Solve It
⭐️Top secret solve the case files boom cards for superhero & comic book themeThis beginner level game for young kids is going to be a hit in your preschool/kindergarten classroom. Full of fun and exciting clues to solve the case of who the secret super hero is in a group setting. Use problem solving skills and process of elimination to find out the answer. Perfect for comic book/cartoon theme in the class.This activity covers the following standards. You can read more about them at the botto
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PreK - K
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St. Patrick's Day | Solve the mystery game | Find the leprechaun's pot of gold
Can you find the Leprechaun's gold? Find out in this solve the case interactive mystery puzzle game. The clock is ticking, use process of elimination and logical reasoning to solve each clue until you break the case! This game is highly addicting you'll want to solve all 10 cases at once! You will have so much fun solving the mystery of St. Patrick's Day with this group activity.⭐️This is a fun and exciting case file game for St. Patrick's Day theme that your kids will love. Solve the mystery by
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PreK - K
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Solve The Mystery File - Sports Theme logical reasoning game - Class activity
This Sports theme mystery case file game is a fun and educational game that challenges students' reasoning skills and builds teamwork. As they work as a team to solve the case, players will develop their critical thinking skills, understand logical reasoning, increase memory recall and improve their reading comprehension. Each of the cases comes with materials for 10 case files, making this ideal for an extended 2 week lesson. Solve a new case every day, or solve them all at once!⭐️This is a fun
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PreK - K
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Halloween Game | Solve the mystery case file | Problem solving group activity
This Halloween mystery case file game is a fun and educational game that challenges students' reasoning skills and builds teamwork. As they work as a team to solve the case, players will develop their critical thinking skills, understand logical reasoning, increase memory recall and improve their reading comprehension. Each of the cases comes with materials for 10 case files, making this ideal for an extended 2 week lesson. Solve a new case every day, or solve them all at once!⭐️This is a fun an
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Grades:
PreK - K
Christmas Activity | Solve A Mystery Game | Preschool & Kindergarten Detective
This Christmas mystery case file game is a fun and educational game that challenges students' reasoning skills and builds teamwork. As they work as a team to solve the case, players will develop their critical thinking skills, understand logical reasoning, increase memory recall and improve their reading comprehension. Each of the cases comes with materials for 10 case files, making this ideal for an extended 2 week lesson. Solve a new case every day, or solve them all at once!⭐️This is a fun an
Grades:
PreK - K
Go Wordless! Strategies and Resources to Teach Wordless Picture Books
This 59-page e-book describes the value of explicitly teaching visual literacy skills, strategies to "read" wordless pictures books with students, and a list of 101 annotated recommended wordless picture books currently in print. The e-book also contains a subject index to find books that may suit your lessons and units. Written by Michelle McGarry, an elementary library teacher in Massachusetts, who has experience in both school librarianship and publishing. This e-book provides valuable resour
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PreK - 3rd
Across the Curriculum with Pirates - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:ARRR, Matey! How much language treasure can we steal from a pirate?Description:In this theme-based project, students cover different elements of the curriculum through the theme of pirates. They listen to stories and answer comprehension questions, write descriptions, listen to and compose different types of poetry, listen for and use pirate language in conversation, use simple coordinates for battleship type pirate games, and make their own floating pirate ships. Arts and craft
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K - 2nd
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Hanukkah Games for preschool, Solve a mystery, Boomcards interactive lesson
⭐️Top secret solve the case files boom cards for Hanukkah and holiday themeThis beginner level game for young kids is going to be a hit in your preschool/kindergarten classroom. Full of fun and exciting clues to solve and review what you learned about Hanukkah in a group setting. Use problem solving skills and process of elimination to find out what the kids learned during Hanukkah. Perfect for holiday theme in the class.Your kiddos will learn to: ⭐️Use problem solving skills⭐️Visual motor skill
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PreK - K
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Preschool Christmas Boomcards game, Class Party Activity, Holiday Mystery
⭐️Top secret solve the case files boom cards for Christmas and holiday themeThis beginner level game for young kids is going to be a hit in your preschool/kindergarten classroom. Full of fun and exciting clues to solve the mystery of Christmas in a group setting. Use problem solving skills and process of elimination to find out what toy Santa brought for Christmas. Perfect for holiday theme in the class.Your kiddos will learn to: ⭐️Use problem solving skills⭐️Visual motor skills⭐️Teamwork⭐Proces
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PreK - K
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