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Elementary Back to School reading lessons under $5
First Day of School Investigate the Teacher Activity - Engaging - Print/Digital
Engage your students with this unique first day of school activity where students "investigate" the teacher and make inferences based on what they observe in the classroom. This kinesthetic activity is the perfect way to mix things up on Day 1 and set the tone for an engaging, student-centered year. If you want your students to get MOVING around the room, COLLABORATE with their peers, engage in INQUIRY-BASED learning, and practice INFERENCING + CRITICAL THINKING skills, then the "Investigate the
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4th - 12th
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Feelings Emotions Unit (SEL) for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten
Feelings and Emotions SEL unit is loaded with fun activities to teach and build your student's emotional vocabulary and social skills. It includes posters/cards, a graph, feeling wheels, emotions write the room, and real feeling photographs. These fun feelings and emotion activities will help you build a caring classroom community of learners who will support each other all year long! The activities have a page of teacher tips and/or photographs to help you create the activity easily. You can
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PreK - 1st
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Also included in: Social Skills (SEL) and Character Curriculum Bundle for Little Learners
Titanic! Nonfiction Text Features & Comparing Multiple Accounts 4-8 NO PREP
Spice up your lessons with this Titanic Pack! Students practice identifying and using nonfiction text features in natural context. They'll also compare multiple accounts of survivor stories. Just like all of my other activity packs, these lessons are FUN, extremely high-interest, organized, RIGOROUS, and ready to teach today!*NOTE* - This product is included in my Spring Bundle. Purchase the bundle to receive an exclusive Easter Mini-Pack!Your students will:Construct an 11 page "book" in their i
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4th - 9th
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All About Me Back to School Activities
This All About Me Backpack can be used for back to school, first day of school, or first week of school. These make adorable back to school bulletin board and back to school hallway displays. These could also be used for Open House or Parent Night! Included are over 40 pages that could be used with PreK, Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd, or even 3rd! What's Included:CRAFTS-Backpack craft (black line)-Backpack Cover Template (with zipper)-Backpack Cover Template (without zipper)-Directions on how to
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PreK - 3rd
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Also included in: Back to School Activities Bundle | Back to School Survival Kit
Veterans Day Activities - Fact Hunt, Doodle Infographic and Poetry Writing
Celebrate Veterans Day in a meaningful and engaging way! This resource includes two activities. One activity is a Fact Hunt and Veterans Day Doodle Infographic. The other activity is an acrostic poem. With these activities, students will learn about the history of Veterans Day, interesting facts about the day, and make connections to the holiday. They’ll create a doodle infographic filled with facts and an original poem.About the Fact Hunt & Veterans Day InfographicStudents will learn c
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4th - 7th
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Character Traits PowerPoint Lesson with Word Lists and Practice Passages
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce character traits to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 36-slide PowerPoint is highly interactive. It begins by distinguishing character traits from emotions and physical traits. It then focuses on the skill of inferencing by using feelings, actions, dialogue, and thoughts found in the text. This PowerPoint is designed to build your students' character trait vocab
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3rd - 6th
School Scavenger Hunt: Pigeon HAS to go see the school
Use these cards to complete a school tour while doing a scavenger hunt.This can be used for prek-2nd as cards and a coloring sheet is included with this product.It includes 9 premade cards with clues for students to figure out where Pigeon went in the school:-classroom-library-bathroom-cafeteria-gym-playground-music-office-artAlso, included editable cards to type your own wording for specific places in your school building to go see.The font used is Alleycat ICG which you can download for free h
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PreK - 2nd
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Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases PowerPoint Lesson with Practice Exercises
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce prepositions and prepositional phrases to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 54-slide prepositions PowerPoint is highly engaging! Students will read sentences and identify the prepositional phrases within sentences. It features many practice opportunities! Students also learn to differentiate between "to" as a preposition and "to" as an infinitive.PowerPoints fil
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3rd - 6th
We Don't Eat Our Classmates Craft and Read Aloud | Back to School Activities
Engage your students in a rigorous interactive read aloud with the book We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins. Students will love the read aloud and be able to apply their knowledge in the extension activities and writing prompts centered around the book's theme of making friends.Get all current interactive read alouds H A L F off with the Interactive Read Aloud ENDLESS Bundle! All future IRAs will be added for F R E E ! The We Don't Eat Our Classmates Interactive Read Aloud and Ac
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K - 2nd
Solar Eclipse 2024
Will you and your students be watching an upcoming solar eclipse? If so, this set will be perfect to add to your studies as it introduces young students to the solar eclipse in a fun and meaningful way. Here's what is included:• 6 page interactive booklet (includes boy & girl cover options)• 1 comprehension page to assess student learning• 3 writing activity pages• Write the Room activity: illustrated cards & recording sheet
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K - 2nd
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Hexagonal Thinking | Getting to Know You Activity | GRADES 5-8 | Back to School
⭐ BUILD A POSITIVE CLASSROOM CULTURE! Provide your students in 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades with an engaging and insightful way to connect with one another and learn about hexagonal thinking.**DESIGNED FOR GRADES 5-8**Students will:fill in the sections of a hexagon with information and illustrations about themselvesuse the hexagons as a tool to communicate as they move through the classroom and match up their common interests►As an alternative activity, students can connect their hexagons in sm
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: BUNDLE 25 Interactive Google Apps LANGUAGE ARTS Lessons and Activities
Back to School Art Project : Kandi-Apples : In the Style of Kandinsky
Here is the perfect project for the start of the school year: Kandi-Apples.This project will allow students to create a work of art in the Style of Kadinsky.When they are finished, you can make a colourful collective display. This project requires simple materials, and apple models are also included. A great way to discover a fundamental artist. Level:Kindergarten to Grade 6Technique:DrawingVisual Language:Thick linesThin linesCurved linesMaterials:White sheet or piece of cardboard (8.5 x 8.5 in
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K - 6th
Also included in: Art Lesson Plans Bundle : Grade 1 Visual Art
Bio Poem Template Selfie Drawing Fun ELA Back to School Activity Bulletin Board
Gear up for back to school with this fun bio poem template and selfie-drawing icebreaker activity! It's the perfect back-to-school activity to start the year on a creative note. Students will enjoy expressing themselves through writing and drawing, and you'll love how easily it fits into your first week of school lesson plans. It's a win-win for everyone!Bio Poem Classroom Ideas ✨ Use it as a writing activity to build classroom community to help your students open up about themselves while getti
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
First Day Jitters Book Activities | Jitter Juice Label Poem Recipe
This resource has activities to accompany the books First Day Jitters or First Grade Jitters and is perfect for your first day of school activities. Recipe, poem, graph, craft and writing activities with COMPLETE LESSON PLANS are included. On the first day of school students have lots of different emotions. Some students are excited and happy about coming to school, while others feel nervous or shy. This first day of school activity is sure to take away those jitters with a magical drink, f
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K - 2nd
Also included in: First Day Of School Read Aloud August Books And Activities Jitter Juice
Weekly Lesson Plan Templates | Editable | with Distance Learning Versions
Use these editable Weekly Lesson Plan Templates to type or write your lesson plans and create a template that fits your individual teacher needs. Options you have with these templates:Completely customize the lesson planning tables (add or delete columns and rows, change size of table boxes)Add your own text box on top of the table boxes to keep tables formatted as isUse any fonts you'd like within the lesson planning tables (headers are not editable)Type lesson plans or print your templates and
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K - 5th
Also included in: Lesson Plan Templates | Editable Weekly and Daily Lesson Planning Bundle
First Day of Kindergarten Crown Template First Day of School Hat Preschool Grade
Celebrate the beginning of the school year for any grade level in style with these editable name hats. Personalize each hat for the first day of school with the student names and grade level. Better still, each hat comes with three font options so you can differentiate in your mixed aged classes! Quick and simple to prep - just type in your student names and grade level and generate a set of individual crowns. What a great photo op for parents and the perfect way for you to learn names quick
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PreK - 1st
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Inferencing Activities - Doodle Notes with Inference Reading Passages
Students often struggle with making inferences while reading. That’s because inferencing is a challenging skill! Help students develop their inferring skills with this incredibly fun and engaging reading mini-unit. It combines doodle notes where students sketch notes about how to make inferences AND actual learning activities to help students improve their reading comprehension skills. It’s fun and educational! First, students DOODLE and then they DO activities to help them showcase their l
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4th - 7th
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Point of View PowerPoint Lesson with Practice Passages: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Person
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce point of view to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 47-slide PowerPoint is highly engaging, and it focuses on first person, second person, and third person point of view. Students are taught to follow these three steps to identify which point of view was used by the author:Read the passage.Cross out the dialogue.Focus on the pronouns.If they consistently do these
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3rd - 5th
Also included in: Point of View Bundle of Activities: Worksheets, Task Cards, Craftivity
Turkey Trouble! Literacy Activities
After reading the children's book Turkey Trouble, by Wendi Silvano your kiddos can do these fun worksheets to respond to the book. Activities included in this packet: -Sequencing and character cards in color to help teach your kiddos sequencing. These cards can be used in a pocket chart, to create an anchor chart, or can be put in a center. -Sequencing cut and paste-Character drawing-Character traits activity-Story Plot-Setting-Favorite part of the story!-Design a disguise for Turkey-Writing act
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: Turkey Book Bundle- Wendi Silvano's Turkey Books {Turkey Trouble}
Author's Purpose PowerPoint Lesson with Practice Passages- PIE'ED
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce the topic of author's purpose to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 53-slide PowerPoint features 5 types of author's purpose: persuade, inform, entertain, explain, and describe. After providing definitions and examples, students are given the opportunity to read many practice passages and determine the author's purpose for writing the passage. This author's purpo
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4th - 6th
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TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE 2024 ACTIVITIES & ANNULAR ECLIPSE READER ⚫ 2 READING BOOKS
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE 2024 READER FOR KINDERGARTEN AND BEYOND (+ BONUS ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE VERSION) ⚫ 2 MINI READING BOOKS CONTAINING 9 & 11 PAGES + BOOK COVERSKids will surely enjoy reading these cute and informative solar eclipse books! This resource contains 2 simple readers about the total and annular solar eclipses in black and white. Simply print and go! Children can also color the pictures of the books while learning about solar eclipses. The books also explain the total and solar
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K - 3rd
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Giraffes Cant Dance Activities | End of Year | Sequencing Stories with Pictures
Start the school year off by engaging your little learners in consistent and meaningful core comprehension and story sequencing practice with this activity pack featuring: story maps, core story element visuals, craft, response sheets and four related vocabulary cards.*April 2024: this resource was modified and received an update Included in this Resource:4 Vocabulary Cards + Matching Response PagesStory Element Visuals (Traits, Retell Hand, Characters, Setting, Problem/Solution, Plot Events and
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K - 1st
Back to School Activities | ALL ARE WELCOME Activity | All About Me
Get ready to show your students that they are welcome and belong with this back-to-school resource that supports the amazing, best seller All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold & Susanne Kaufman. This K-1 book companion will provide you with different support activities that align with the text to help celebrate differences/similarities, talk about what it means to feel welcome/included and how to make others feel welcome in the classroom. A great SEL topic!* ^ This will be supported by: text
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K - 1st
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Also included in: Back to School Activities | First Day of School Activities
Themes in Reading PowerPoint Lesson with Practice Passages
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce themes in literature to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 41-slide PowerPoint teaches students how to determine a theme within a literary work. Use this theme PowerPoint to create an engaging lesson. **You will need the book Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo for reference.** PowerPoints filled with visuals are ideal for teaching new content to students b
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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Interactive Phonics Activities
Use hands-on activities such as sorting, matching, or building words with manipulatives to help students recognize phonics patterns and learn word families.
Word Hunts
Encourage students to find specific words either in a text or around the classroom to help reinforce sight word recognition.
Reader's Theater
Bring short stories, books, poems, or plays you’re reading in class to life by assigning roles to students and having them act out scenes. This can help enhance fluency and comprehension.
Interactive Read-Alouds
Engage the class by pausing during read-alouds to discuss the story’s theme, reflect on a character’s motivations or actions, or to ask students questions.
Comparative Analysis
Explore different adaptations of the same story (book versus movie, classic version versus a modern retelling) to encourage analysis of interpretation and presentation. You can also pair texts that are similar in theme, like poems and songs.
By incorporating these (and other!) reading activities into your lesson plans, you can nurture a love for reading while enhancing comprehension, critical thinking, and communication skills.
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