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Adult education The New Year creative writing resources for staff
2024 New Year's Activities - Resolutions Foldables and More! Updated Yearly!
Check out the preview and thumbnails!A new year (or a new school year) is a great time to turn over a new leaf, try new things, and end bad habits. Right around winter break (or at the beginning of a new school year) have a class discussion about resolutions. Brainstorm goals that are attainable and share some of your own. Have students create the foldable and then hang them for others to read.* This activity is great for all students!* Wonderful for goal-setting discussions and character educat
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Vision Board Student Workbook, Goal Setting, New Year's Resolutions
This Vision Board Student Workbook starts the year with a great goal setting activity for back to school; with plenty of engagement and creativity! Writing for the end of the year reflection? Teachers will love promoting a growth mindset while completing the workbook pages. It gets exciting because the vision board workbook pages turn into a student poster! Your students will love their vision boards! Visual inspiration to kick off the school year! UPDATED: Now includes 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Elf Yourself Holiday Activity - Christmas Writing & Craft | Craftivity Ornament
Looking for a festive holiday writing activity? Bring some holiday fun to your classroom or school with Elf Yourself! This fun Christmas writing activity takes photos of your students and turns them into holiday elves! Use as a Christmas writing activity or create a holiday themed door or bulletin board display. These personalized elves also make great parent Christmas gifts, tree ornaments or keepsakes. You can even use this resource to secretly "elf" another class. This resource is a fun and e
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PreK - 5th, Staff
Christmas Around the World Coloring Pages: Christmas Coloring Pages
This 15-page coloring book includes a wide variety of holidays around the world including Christmas in different countries, Chinese New Year, Diwali and many more!
Two coloring book covers are included: Holidays Around the World and Christmas Around the World.
Holidays Included (one coloring page for each):
- Hanukkah
- Kwanzaa
- Diwali
- Santa Lucia
- Las Posadas
- Chinese New Year
- Christmas in Russia
- Christmas in Canada
- Christmas in USA
- Christmas in Italy
- Christmas in France
- Chr
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PreK - 4th, Staff
Marshmallow Team Building: A Back to School Activity for First Day of School
Whether you’re headed back to school or starting a new unit, this team building exercise will get kids engaged and excited about being in your classroom. The Marshmallow Team Building exercise helps teachers establish a classroom atmosphere of teamwork and sets the tone for a fun, high energy class!Here's what you need: a whole lotta marshmallows, a box of toothpicks, and some Clorox wipes! :-) Set your classroom up for the first day so that students are working in teams to build eight differ
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5th - 12th, Staff
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Song Lyric Analysis Worksheets for Figurative Language in Songs and More!
Do your students struggle with figurative language and poetic elements because they just don't "get" poetry? Connect it with something they can relate to - music and songs! These engaging song lyric analysis activities will not only give your students a better understanding of figurative language and literary devices, but will also build critical thinking skills through interpretation and creative expression.Topics covered: In the mini-lesson and activities, the following 9 elements of figurativ
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6th - 10th, Adult Education
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Writing & Creating a Children's Book; Complete Project Grades 6 - 9 - 12 - Adult
Creating a Children’s Book – Complete Project Grades 6 - 9 – 12 – University – Adult, is an exceptional journey by which students will research, strategize and use technology, critical thinking and art to make a complete and professional picture book. This project will be fun. It will also be challenging and by the time it is finished, students will definitely understand more about the picture book industry, the types of books that sell, how a book is actually put together, and how many decision
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Explanatory Writing Unit | Explanation Text | Digital & PDF | Essay Lesson Plans
Teach your students to write an ENGAGING EXPLANATORY ESSAY in 2024. Master the HOW and WHY of NONFICTION and EXPOSITORY WRITING with this DIGITAL and PRINT-based unit.THIS COMPLETE UNIT COVERS✅ Writing Sequences ✅ Causal Explanation Texts✅ Consequential Explanation Texts✅ Explaining Cycles✅ Processes (Scientific, Mechanical and Biological events)✅ Tutorials - Including videos✅ Explanation of Historical Events ⭐ NO PREP REQUIRED⭐ FULLY EDITABLEIt will keep your kids EXCITED and ENGAGED for weeks
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3rd - 7th, Adult Education
Happy New Year Clip Art Set {Educlips Clipart}
A set of New Year clip art images. Images included are: fireworks, streamers, blowers, champagne bottle and glasses, balloons, kids celebrating, New Year baby & word art.(The New Year baby was given away as a freebie but is added to this set for your convenience.)67 images (43 in color and 24 in B&W)This set contains all of the images shownThis set has been completely updated on 12/27/21The older version (2015) is also included in this download.Images saved at 300dpi in PNG files.For per
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PreK - 5th, Staff
Procedural Text Writing Unit | Organizers | Prompts | Lessons | Digital & Print
Teach your students to write procedures, instructions, manuals, recipes, and science experiments with the correct structure, vocabulary skills, structure and language features.⭐"HOW TO" WRITING⭐is as easy as 1-2-3 in 2024 With our PERFECT PROCEDURAL WRITING UNIT. THIS ENGAGING 115-PAGE UNIT COVERS:✅ Recipes✅ Instructions for games ✅ Directions✅ Science Experiments✅ Walk-Throughs✅ Tutorials - Including videos✅ Life Hack's ✅ Self-Help Guides⭐ And much more NO PREP REQUIRED.This HUGE UNIT offers a
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4th - 6th, Adult Education
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Holiday Backgrounds Bundle: Valentine Clipart Background Clipart
**NO EXTENDED LICENSE REQUIRED! You do not need an Extended License to use these simple backgrounds in your Boom Cards, Seesaw activities, Google slides, etc. Backgrounds are not considered "moveable images" so you can you use in digital or PDF materials without purchasing my Extended License for Digital Products with Moveable Images. ENJOY!This HUGE bundle is a must-have if you are creating digital products and want colorful, simple backgrounds to complement your activities and lesson content
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PreK - 8th, Staff
Scattergories Kids Version
Our favorite classroom game is SCATTERGORIES! This classic game has kid friendly topics such as "items in your backpack", "games played in P.E.", "lunch choices", and "famous book characters". Scattergories is the perfect team building activity to help students work on social-emotional group work skills such as listening to others ideas, cooperating, compromising, communicating with others, and showing good sportsmanship during class games. This game is also great for small groups in a social
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K - 8th, Staff
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Writing Prompts | Word Work Activities | Creative Writing Activities
You will never have to scramble for another writing prompt again with this year long bundle of engaging writing topics. Your students will respond to a variety of writing genres including: personal narratives, opinion writing prompts, explanatory writing prompts, and informative writing prompts. Each month's set of writing prompts were designed with a specific border that aligns with that month's holiday or seasonal theme making it easy to track and measure your students' growth throughout th
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K - 4th, Staff
Pieces and Symbols of Christmas Clip Art
This Pieces and Symbols of Christmas clip art is packed with traditional Christmas symbols of the holiday and is great for centers, math and ELA activities, sorting and more. You will receive 70 high-quality clip art image files, which includes 42 color and 28 black & white in 300dpi png.This set includes:Bow (2 color options, 1 b/w)Candy cane (4 color options, 1 b/w)Christmas bellsBell with a cute faceBoy elf (2 options)Girl elf (2 options)Gift (2 color, 1 b/w)Blank gift (2 color, 1 b/w)Cut
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PreK - 5th, Staff
Descriptive Writing Task Cards - Adding Details to Stretch Sentences
It can be difficult to get students to write descriptive sentences, but these task cards can help spice up their writing! They will stretch a sentence by starting with one that is short and simple and adding descriptive words and specific details to make it more interesting and more precise. Also very helpful for ESL Students! For even more fun activities to spice up writing, try this Descriptive Writing Activity Bundle.⭐️ What you get with this resource:40 printable ask cards2 paperless options
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4th - 8th, Adult Education
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Poetry Bundle Writing, Reading, & Understanding Poetry
Poetry Resources for Reading, Writing, and Understanding Poetry, Volume 1
This (and ALL of my poetry resources) IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my POETRY RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
Poetry Resources Bundle, Volume 2 is also available; it includes my newer resources that are aligned with the Common Core State Standards.
This bundle contains my resources for teaching poetry, which includes teaching poetic devices and figurative language, reading/interpreting poetry, and writing original po
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
New Years Clipart {Creative Clips Clipart}
This 56-image set has everything you need to kick off the New Year! Included are 32 vibrant, colored images and 14 black and white versions.
Images include:
- firework bursts
- firecrackers
- party hats
- clocks
- curly ribbons
- New Year's Boy, Girl and Baby
- champagne glasses
- noise maker
- horns
- balloons
(Many of the decorations come in additional colors which are not all shown in the preview image due to space)
The images will have high resolution, so you can enlarge them and they w
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PreK - 12th, Staff
What Does Our Principal Assistant Principal Dean Director Headmaster Do All Day?
What Does Our Principal, Assistant Principal, Dean, Director, Headmaster Do All Day? Student Written BookWhat is this resource?This activity is perfect for Teacher Appreciation Week, Principals or Administrators Appreciation Days, or the perfect retirement gift for an outgoing principal or administrator.What is included in this resource?Principal VersionAssistant Principal VersionDean VersionDirector VersionHeadmaster VersionThree different levels are included for all grades: -Drawing Version (P
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PreK - 12th, Staff
Fractured Fairy Tale Narrative Writing Unit: Middle and High School
This is a bundle of all the products I created to use with my students for our narrative writing Fractured Fairy Tale Unit! My suggested use of the products is as follows: 1. Use the "Fractured Fairy Tale Writing Project" to introduce the narrative unit (directions included in product) 2. Use the Elements of a Fairy Tale with the presentation and guided notes. 3. Use the "Writing Project" file to read 6 classic fairy tales adapted from Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm while guiding
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Dolly Parton's America Podcast Unit Plan : Podcast Lesson Plans for High School
When I first heard the Dolly Parton's America podcast, I knew it was special. Since its release, it's won a Peabody award, topped the podcast charts, and captivated listeners from all over the world. As an advocate for using podcasts in the classroom, I knew this literary production would make a fabulous unit for the ELA classroom.If you have never listened to Dolly Parton's America, please do so BEFORE considering this podcast unit for your classroom. There are some mature topics best suited fo
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Mother's Day Questionnaire - UPDATED - Fill in the Blank for many mom figures
****UPDATE TO INCLUDE 7 PAGES, as opposed to ONE.******I have been searching and searching for something like this since about March. But have yet to find one that I really liked, so I made my own! This is a Mother's Day questionnaire for kids to fill out about their moms. There are 22 questions/fill in the blanks.I will be using this in my Kindergarten classroom and cannot WAIT to see some of the hilarious and precious answers that they give. :)If you are looking for more questionnaires like t
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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First Day of Second Semester - Second Semester Goals and Reflection
Perfect for the end of the year or the first day of second semester or as an end of semester reflection activity - use this EDITABLE, NO PREP, GOOGLE SLIDES activity to help your middle school or high school students reflect on their growth and set goals for the new semester! This fun, creative, and engaging one pager activity encourages students to reflect on the semester's accomplishments, growth, and highlights before setting goals for the semester to come! This resource includes everything
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Creative Writing Prompts with Pictures - Journal Writing or Discussion Topics
This set of 140 high-interest prompts with pictures for discussion and writing includes a wide variety of topics and tasks to practice speaking and/or writing skills and also encourage creativity and higher-order thinking. ⭐️ What you'll get with these picture prompts (Click the PREVIEW link for a closer look!)140 high-interest prompts covering a wide variety of topics and tasksPrintable option 1: task cardsPrintable option2 : individual writing prompts on lined paper. Just distribute the prompt
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Six Word Memoir Project
Students love the six word memoir project and are inspired by the PowerPoint slides and 2 video links or QR codes (printable & digital)! Need a distance learning activity? Share the handouts or copy and share the Google Drive link (on first slide of PowerPoint) with students!Display the five sample six word memoirs (on handout or PowerPoint) or load the video links or QR code videos ahead of time or engage students by having them access the video in class using their smartphone devices!Stude
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5th - 12th, Staff
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