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Critical thinking Common Core W.4.1a resources
READ ALOUD STEM Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle #1 STEM Club, STEM Centers
Integrate STEM and Literacy in your classroom all year with READ ALOUD STEM Volume One! Everything you need to be the master STEM Teacher at your school! Awaken imagination and creativity all year. Students learn coding, engineering, explore real-world problems, learn about STEM role models, pioneers, inventors, and more!Amazing resource for STEM clubs, STEM Teachers, STEM Stations, STEM Centers, parents who love hands-on learning, and elementary teachers who want to create a hands-on educationa
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1st - 5th
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200 Daily Bell Work Writing Prompts (Grades 4-6)
Be prepared to teach your Grade 4-6 Language class with a year's worth of bell work writing prompts for Google Slides™! This resource is perfect for a soft start to the Language block and for creating a daily routine for your students to follow.This resource includes 200 writing prompts themed for each day of the week to spark student interest and promote engagement. Every prompt comes with an example of how students should organize their journals, including partial sentences to get students sta
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4th - 6th
Also included in: Grade 4 Ontario 2023 Language Bundle (FULL YEAR)
READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges #2 Real World Science Engineering
Bundle and get 50% off! Integrate STEM and Literacy in your classroom all year with READ ALOUD STEM Volume 2! Awaken imagination and creativity all year. Students learn coding, engineering, explore real world problems, learn about STEM role models, pioneers, inventors, and more! Perfect for librarians, STEM Club, K-5 Teachers, and any teach who loves to integrate hands-on learning activities with their students!This collection of STEM Projects focuses on connecting ELA and STEM. Each challenge c
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1st - 5th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-PS3-1
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 4-PS3-4
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Fact and Opinion Task Cards & Unit Plan | Perspective & Bias | Digital + Print
This 153 PAGE UNIT provides ENGAGING TASKS, TASK CARDS, LESSONS and RESOURCES to teach students the difference between FACT and OPINION as READERS and WRITERS through proven teaching strategies fostering CRITICAL THINKING and RESEARCH SKILLS. ⭐ AN ESSENTIAL MEDIA LITERACY SKILL FOR THE "MISINFORMATION" ERAWHAT'S INCLUDEDFact & Opinion Mini-Lesson and overviewLink to Google Slides Version for independent/interactive use16 Fact and Opinion Discovery Task cards (Digital + Print)16 Fact & O
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3rd - 9th
Mooseltoe Christmas READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Design a Mooseltoe Christmas Tree in this amazing Christmas READ ALOUD STEM™ Challenge by Carly and Adam! In this Christmas STEM Challenge, students design and build a Mooseltoe Tree! The Engineering Design Process:Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't. They follow the six step Engineering Design Process: Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Experiment, Improve.STREAM Literacy Integration:T
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Christmas READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Paragraph Writing Prompts - 5 Different Writing Forms (Grades 4-6 Language)
Paragraph writing is a fundamental skill that all students need to develop. These paragraph writing prompts are an effective tool that can be used to help students develop their writing skills. This resource is printable and can be used with Google Slides™ with no printing necessary.The Paragraph Writing Prompts for Grades 4-6 include a wide range of writing forms including explanatory, recount, narrative, persuasive and procedural writing, giving students the opportunity to explore various writ
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Grade 4 Ontario 2023 Language Bundle (FULL YEAR)
Snowmen at Night Winter READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Design a Snowman Sled in this amazing Winter READ ALOUD STEM™ Challenge for Snowmen at Night by Carol Buehner! In this Winter STEM Activity, students design and build the fastest sled for their snowmen to race! The challenge helps students think about friction and how to create an object to contain their snowman.The Engineering Design Process:Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is time for reflection on what worked and what didn't.
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Grades:
1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Snowman READ ALOUD STEM™ Challenges and Winter Activities BUNDLE
A Plump and Perky Turkey Thanksgiving STEAM Activity
Design and Build a Plump and Perky Turkey for a STEM Art Show! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own symmetrical Plump and Perky Turkey that can balance on it's own! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book A Plump and Perky Turkey by Teresa Bateman.Amazing resource for STEM club, STEM teachers, elementary librarians, parents who love hands-on learning, and 1st grade through 5th grade teachers who want to create a hand
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving Turkey READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities BUNDLE
Thank You Sarah Thanksgiving Unplugged Coding Activity
Help Sarah Hale save Thanksgiving using Unplugged Coding! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving Coding Activity in which students code Sarah Hale to the 5 presidents she wrote letters to in order to make Thanksgiving a national holiday! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Thank you, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving by Laurie Halse Anderson.The Coding Process:In this coding activity, students use directional coding to help Sarah save Thanksgiving. Perfect activit
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1st - 5th
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Also included in: Thanksgiving Turkey READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities BUNDLE
Auntie Claus Christmas READ ALOUD Unplugged Coding Activity
Create a Binary Code Christmas Ornament Unplugged Coding for Hour of Code, STEM Club, and First Grade through 5th Grade Classrooms! Make learning fun with this Christmas Coding Activity where students learn how to code and decode binary codes. They build their own Binary Code Christmas Ornament to give to a friend and write about what the word or letters mean.The Coding Process:In this coding activity, students use binary coding to create their own Christmas Ornament. Perfect activity for a Chri
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1st - 5th
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Also included in: Christmas READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
RACE Writing Strategy for Extended Response + RAP Writing Strategy TEST PREP
These differentiated extended response rubrics list exactly what students need to include in their writing to have complete answers for state test questions. RACE and RAP Posters / Anchor charts are included for a visual reference. ✅ File Includes:4-point rubric (topic sentence, 2 details, closing sentence): Anchor Chart, 2-per-page and 4-per-page for ink saving5-point rubric (topic sentence, 3 details, closing sentence): Anchor Chart, 2-per-page and 4-per-page for ink savingParagraph writing ru
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2nd - 5th
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Comprehensive Opinion Writing Unit-Grades 4, 5, 6
Guide your students through the opinion writing process with this comprehensive unit plan! Includes lesson plans, hands-on sorts, opinion essay examples, posters, a review game, a debate, and more! Everything you need to assess, instruct, and engage your students is included in this bundle of 7 opinion writing content lessons.This bundle includes the following lessons: Lesson 1: Formative Assessment• Lesson 1a (Formative Assessment) Overview• Prewriting Activities Forms• Formative Assessment Dra
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4th - 6th
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Goldilocks vs. The Three Bears: A Mock Trial
How can your students learn about the judicial system? Stage a mock trial! This packet contains everything you need to get started: a story, definitions, information character cards, and trial preparation, as well as a quiz and creative writing assignments. Your students will have so much fun putting Goldilocks on trial that they won't even realize how much they're learning.If you're interested in other mock trial materials, check out my 'The Third Little Pig vs. The Big, Bad Wolf: A Studen
Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in: Stage Your Own Mock Trial Activity Bundle - Print
Groundhog Weather School READ ALOUD SCIENCE™ Activity
Do your students have what it takes to join the Groundhog Weather School?In this Groundhog Day science activity, students learn the basics of weather, create their own rain gauge (if you don't have one), and record weather data over a set period of time. They write a letter with their results to send back to the Groundhog Weather School.The Scientific Method:Students follow the six step scientific method (Purpose, Research, Hypothesis, Experiment, Analysis, Conclusion) to learn about weather and
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-ESS2-1
, 3-ESS2-1
, K-ESS3-2
Also included in: February READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty? Persuasive Writing Unit
Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty? A Persuasive Writing TaskThe truth is now out. Humpty Dumpty was pushed off the wall. Yes pushed! Discover for yourselves, through creating the scenarios, suspect profiles, taking notes as a detective and voting for a mock jury, who the culprit was. A perfect addition to any persuasive writing unit with a story that has been told, arguably not fully, for many years.What's Included?A lesson plan sequence to support teachersBrainstorm templates for creating detective ques
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Persuasive Writing Unit | Collaborative Learning Task
Digital Book Reports Distance Learning Google Drive
Your students will love these Digital Book Reports for Google Drive. Easily use these book reports and responses for distance learning. You'll receive 39 engaging digital book report forms that work with any book to improve reading comprehension. You will receive 26 fiction and 13 nonfiction digital book reports. They can be used over and over again as students read more books.Looking for additional distance learning resources? Making Inferences to Pictures Google DriveDigital Book Response
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2nd - 5th
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Book Review, Book Report Templates based on Bloom's Taxonomy
How could one find so many book report forms that transform children into the books they read and into a love of literature? Blooming Book Report Forms began as a few book report forms created to teach third grade students. Over the years new forms were created for multiple abilities.These forms were used with Bloom’s Taxonomy as a focus to ensure student success. As a third grade teacher I was tired of finding book report forms that didn’t really engage the students. These forms help students t
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K - 5th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Strategies Bundle
Opinion Writing Lesson-How to Write Clear Opinion Statements
Help your students write clear opinion statements and recognize common errors with this opinion writing lesson. Includes a hands-on sort tool to help engage your students with a unique tactile approach. This product is not designed for digital use. This lesson is a part of our Comprehensive Opinion Writing Unit!Click here to save 30% per lesson on all seven lessons in the unit bundle!This lesson includes:• Lesson Overview (2 pages)• Common Errors Analysis Form (1 page)• Common Errors Analysis An
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4th - 6th
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Outstanding Opinion Writing
This "outstanding" free download includes: two anchor chart posters, an opinion writing graphic organizer and 40 unique opinion topics to get your students excited about opinion writing!
I would appreciate your rating and a comment about how these opinion resources worked for your class!
If you liked this product, please follow me and you will be notified when I post new goodies! I am going to upload a persuasive essay organizer next.
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Lori
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3rd - 5th
OPINION WRITING ACTIVITY | THE INTERNET IS GONE! SHOULD WE BRING IT BACK?
OPINION WRITING ACTIVITY | THE INTERNET IS GONE! SHOULD WE BRING IT BACK?This resource is perfect to pair along with an opinion writing unit. This resource has been created to be adapted to different grade levels depending on the amount of detail you expect from your grade level. This resource is very engaging for students. The students have the opportunity to review material and engage their comprehension. The resource has space for students top grow within their character analysis, vocabulary,
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2nd - 6th
Black History Month Biography Research Project
Are you looking for an independent or semi-independent research project that incorporates Bloom's Taxonomy? This African American History Research Project allows students choose an African America Figure and requires students to take a deeper look into this person's accomplishments and contributions to our society. This Biography Project also addresses many Common Core State Standards. I use it as a hybrid type project. We do some in class and students do some at home. I also bind the materia
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3rd - 5th
Fact or Opinion Identifying Statements for Older Students BOOM ™ Cards
Help your upper elementary and middle school students learn the difference between a FACT and an OPINION with this Identifying Fact or Fiction Statements deck of digital self-correcting BOOM™ Cards. With 2 tasks, they'll decide which sentence in a set of 2 related sentences is a fact or which sentence is an opinion. Teach or review the concepts of fact or fiction with the included digital and printable Anchor Charts. Click the PREVIEW button for more details about this resource and a free playa
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4th - 7th
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Fact or Opinion Identifying Statements for Older Students Task Cards
Help your upper elementary and middle school students learn the difference between a FACT and an OPINION with these no-prep Fact or Fiction Statements Task Cards. With 2 tasks, they'll decide which sentence in a set of 2 related sentences is a fact or which sentence is an opinion. Teach or review the concepts of fact or fiction with the included printable Anchor Chart. Click the PREVIEW button for more details about this resource!This resource includes:20 Find the FACT Task Cards:Task 1: identif
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4th - 7th
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NO PREP! Inferencing Author's Message Unit, Diversity, Smartboard & PDF
UPDATED: *Clarity has been fixed on this unit!* I also added name/date headers to handouts and links to each handout on SB lesson page for easy access*
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ABOUT THE UNIT:
Teach and challenge your students to use inferencing skills! This is a reading for meaning unit where students learn the basics of inferencing and are challenged to infer the author’s message of a variety of high interest texts. The commo
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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