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Creative writing guided reading books for parents $5-10
ELA First Day: Back to School Stations, Meet the Teacher, Syllabus, Icebreaker
Have the best first day EVER in ELA with this bundle of first day stations, slides, and syllabus templates! Whether you like customizing in Canva, PPT, or Google Slides, these templates will make prepping for your first day total breeze. Not only will you be more efficient with your back to school prep, but you'll also set the tone for the rest of the year. Students will be impressed with your visual syllabus and engaged from day one!What you will get:⭐ A super fun, low pressure ice breaker idea
Grades:
7th - 12th
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Novel Study Unit and Literature Guide
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien is a standards based low prep novel study. Along with reading comprehension and writing activities, the literature guide promotes interesting discussion topics about society and what makes a person (animal) civilized.This is a zipped file with two secure PDF files. The download includes a student PDF with all activity pages that teachers can print as a novel study packet for independent work, reading groups, or book clubs. The second PDF has
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4th - 6th
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Lucky Leprechaun and the Incredible Shrinking Hat Project
This kit includes everything you need to implement the magical shrinking hat project in your classroom or home during the St. Patrick's Day holiday. Lucky the Leprechaun is a game changer for St. Patrick's Day in the classroom. He believes more in magic than mischief.
The directions for this project can be located at my blog:
http://kindergartenmonkeybusiness.blogspot.com/2012/03/legend-of-shrinking-leprechaun-hats.html, but are also included within this kit for you to readily have forever.
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PreK - 3rd
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Student Made Calendar 2024 (Parent Gift) UPDATED YEARLY!!
This version is UPDATED every year!! Super easy with tons of options! Get this and MORE in my Christmas bundle and SAVE!Christmas BUNDLEPrint this packet for each child. It includes a writing activity for each month of the year. I recommend printing the pages so that they are back to back. When you open the calendar, the writing for the month will be above the calendar for that month. The children can decorate and color each month's calendar. They can even add special dates or just leave it blan
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PreK - 6th
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Also included in: Christmas BUNDLE
Monthly Family Projects (August - June)
*My TOP selling unit!! Updated March 2017*
This packet is loved by ALL! It includes teacher information, parent notes, examples, and activities to be completed with the students' families each month. It allows and requires increased parent involvement, thus resulting in higher student achievement! Each month, parents are required to work with their child to complete an activity that their student will bring into school and share with their peers. Projects can be displayed in the hall or classro
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PreK - 1st
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Take Home Book and Activities Bags
Looking for a school to home connection that is meaningful? Want to help the families in your classroom spend quality time together?Take Home Bags can get you there!These 10 Take Home Bags are family tested and family approved! They are fun, and full of learning - yet - not too lengthy to complete or hard to understand.This set of Take Home Bags include:1. Who Is In our Class? (class community building, name building and name writing)2. Down By the Pond (counting forwards and backwards, readin
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Grades:
PreK - K
Wombat Stew Story Pack | Story Stones Printables
Looking to add some amazing oral language experiences, writing opportunities and learning through play to your book units?? This Wombat Stew Story Pack has everything you need to extend the story!In this pack you get- Story Stone templates and instructions- Word Wall (all Australian State Fonts plus Sassoon font included)- Differentiated Writing Templates that can also be used for display- Story Retell TemplateTo make the stones you will need - stones from Bunnings or Grolife Products- mod podge
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K - 2nd
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Possum Magic Story Pack | Story Stones Printables
Looking to add some amazing oral language experiences, writing opportunities and learning through play to your book units?? This Possum Magic Story Pack has everything you need to extend the story! In this pack you get- Story Stone templates and instructions- Word Wall (all Australian State Fonts plus Sassoon font included)- Differentiated Writing Templates with craft that can also be used for display- Story Retell Templates- Australian Map Templates for table or cut and pasteTo make the stones
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K - 2nd
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Love That Dog Novel Study and Poetry Unit
This literature resource for Love That Dog by Sharon Creech is a low prep novel study and includes both reading comprehension activities as well as creative poetry writing activities related to the figures of speech used in the story. The other great feature of this book is the famous poems that are integrated throughout the story. This is the perfect supplement to a poetry unit of study and really gets kids motivated to write poems and use figures of speech-- just like Jack (the main character
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4th - 6th
Also included in: Poetry and Figures of Speech Bundle
Monsters I Need my Monster Where the Wild Things Are Book Companion Activities
Included in this packet you will find fun activities to go with There was an Old Monster, Big Scary Monster, Where the Wild Things Are, I Need my Monster, and Laura Numeroff's 10 Step Guide to Living with your Monster. There are comprehension strategies, loads of writing ideas, and some fun word work activities. This unit can be used for distance learning and google classroom with the new TpT digital tool.There was an Old Monster by Rebecca, Adrian, Camp; Ed EmberleyComprehensionRhymingAlphabeti
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K - 2nd
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear: Book Study
Are you looking for a sweet story? The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear is one of my favorites. Your kiddos will love this fun tale and totally get a kick out of wondering where the bear is. With this file, your students will work on before, during, and after reading response activities and will disguise their own strawberry from The Big Hungry Bear!You will also find ELA & Science extensions to hit lots of skills. Be sure to check out the photographs of my da
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K - 1st
Halloween Activities and Crafts for Narrative Writing | Fall Writing Activities
Engage your students during narrative writing with these festive, NO-PREP Halloween Narrative Writing Books! Students will practice their writing skills throughout the writing process with themed word banks, brainstorming pages, and writing paper with or without story starters.This resource includes pre-writing activities and books for two different Halloween-themed narrative writing books: a haunted house story and a ghost story. The haunted house story has a haunted house background, with a
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K - 1st
How to Write a Play Writing Unit | Create Your Own Reader's Theater!
Teach your students how to write a play from start to finish. The slides include vocabulary, examples, and a step-by-step breakdown of creating characters, a storyboard, script, practice and performance. Students follow along and create their own play with the included worksheets. This bundle also includes narrative and informational reading passages with comprehension questions about the life and work of a playwright. I have also included a How to Write a Play wordsearch for fast finishers! Thi
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2nd - 8th
Giggle Giggle Quack Activities Book Companion Pig Nonfiction Informational Text
Duck is back with the pigs, hens, and and cows and they are full of tricks in this fun story, Giggle, Giggle, Quack. Farmer Brown is on vacation and they are taking full advantage of the situation. This unit includes loads of multi-level reading comprehension strategies to go along with the story. It has writing extensions, some word work activities, a few math games, and three different pig crafts to go along with the story. This has been recently updated and I did include the old resource as
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Doreen Cronin Book Companion Activities Reading Comprehension Bundle
Sequencing, Sequencing Stories, speech therapy, autism, retelling stories,BOOK 1
46 AMAZING SEQUENCING STORIES INCLUDED IN THIS SET:CONTENTSA broken vaseLost umbrella Brushing your teeth A good dogPet groomingMaking a sandwich Building a scooter A field mouseBreakfast surpriseAlphabet Balloon stuck in a tree Planting a treeCleaning your roomCats love fish bones Doll’s laundry Catching a burglarHelping a catEating ice-creamBalloon pops Hot sunA boy and his kiteWashing dishes Going fishing in a pondA poor bird! Building blocks Feeding the birdsSandcastle A bird and a foxWashin
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PreK - 5th
Topic Sentence, Closing Sentence, and Transitions Bundle Pack
Note: Many of my products have some “out there” ideas. Make sure to look at the preview before purchasing anything. Just because these type of ideas work within my classroom, that may not be the case in another’s room.
Many teachers or parents can sympathize with the following comment by their students or child when it comes to writing a paper: "I don't know how to start it" or, "How do I end my paper?" In my experiences, my students can give me plenty of evidence and reasoning details to suppo
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3rd - 8th
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Gooseberry Park Guided Reading Packet, CC-Aligned!
This is a fun, Common Core-aligned, guided reading packet to go with the novel Gooseberry Park by Cynthia Rylant. This packet stretches the entire novel. Each chapter is represented with questions and responses. This packet addresses: comprehension questions, text dependent questions, analysis of brief passages, literary terms including simile and onomatopoeia, inferencing questions, predictions, parts of speech and even a concluding writing assignment prompt. Fun illustrations and graphics,
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3rd - 6th
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If I Built A School Writing
Easy and fun first writing assignment for your students! I read the book If I Built A School and use it as a mentor text for students to think like an engineer and write about what their dream school would look like.Product includes:+ Brainstorm Google Jamboard slides+ Brainstorm thinking map+ 2 different final copies.+ Page to draw dream school*Created on a google slide so you can either assign on google classroom and delete the text box of lines, or print to have them write a paper final copy.
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3rd - 8th
Click Clack Peep Activities Book Companion & Sheep Nonfiction Informational Text
Click, Clack, Peep is a perfect springtime story about chick who gets delivered to Farmer Brown's farm. All the same characters are back and they are trying to get the chick to sleep. Duck comes to the rescue in this adorable story. This unit includes loads of multi-level reading comprehension strategies to go along with the story. It also has writing extensions, some word work activities, a few math games, a chick in a an egg craft and two sheep crafts to go along with the story. This has been
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K - 2nd
Also included in: All Things Chicks & Chickens Spring Activities Bundle
Thundercake: A Book Study!
Bring some literature to your weather unit by reading Thundercake by Particia Polacco. It is a wonderful memoir that recaps how a child learns to overcome her fear of storms by making thundercake.
Included in this file you will find the following:
An About the Author Page
A compare sheet for you and the author
4 mini posters for the definitions of memoir, theme, plot, and character traits
A 5 day plan for using the book in reading.
6 labels for an anchor chart for the book
10 retelling cards
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
Dolphins at Daybreak-A Magic Tree House Activity
**Updated 8/19/14**If you are looking for an packet to accompany your study of the Magic Tree House: Dolphins at Daybreak than this is perfect for differentiated homework or small group instruction activities.Included in this packet:Comprehension questions for each chapter, vocabulary quizzes for each chapter, abc order, fact or opinion, word search, journal writing, graphic organizers, and dolphin fact cards and much MORE!This license is for one classroom distribution only. If you wish to share
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Grades:
K - 4th
Fairy Tales I Can Read and Write About for the Common Core
These Once Upon a Time tales have withstood the test of time!
Your students will be ENGAGED, challenged and supported by reading fairy tales filled with magic and rags to riches themes.
Check out our preview to see the ENCHANTING ACTIVITIES and PROJECTS BASED ON COMMON CORE STANDARDS specific to grades 2 and 3.
Close Reading of Four Favorite Fairy Tales:
Rumpelstiltskin
Cinderella
Jack and the Beanstalk
Hansel and Gretel
*LEXILE ranges from 600 to 900 are provided for each text.
We have crea
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Loser : Novel Study
Loser by Jerry Spinelli is an awesome story with a great anti bullying message for students. This is a great book to use for reading groups especially in the upper elementary grades as they get ready to transition to middle school. This reading comprehension packet is full of chapter by chapter analysis questions and vocabulary words to encourage students to dig deep and have in depth discussions about the text. There is also an answer key for all of the questions in case you don’t have a chance
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3rd - 5th
American Revolution | Timeline Close Reading & Writing Bundle | 3rd & 4th Grade
Three great activities that would span six lessons and a great classroom display about the American Revolutionary War. Perfect for students in third grade or fourth grade studying the American War of Independence and U.S. History.NO PREP needed!⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻Firstly, there is a great classroom display and sorting activity that is perfect for introducing students to some of the key events from the American Revolutionary War. There are 29 posters or task
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3rd - 4th
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