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Middle school Martin Luther King Day balanced literacy thematic unit plans
Ocean Animal Lap Book and Research Project
I know your students will love this project as much as mine have!
This project will allow your students to learn about research and report writing in a fun and engaging way that is not overwhelming.
Included you will find all pieces to be included in the lapbook:
Daily step by step plans
Example pictures for all components
Everything you need to create a lap book with:
-Guess My Animal Riddle
-Food Chain Flip Book
-Life Cycle Expandable Book
-Interesting Facts Cards and Pocket
-Research Re
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
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Visual Literacy & The Graphic Novel
Teach visual literacy and introduce the graphic novel. This resource is full of engaging lessons and activities for building visual literacy skills. It will also introduce students to the genre of the graphic novel (you don't need to be reading one).Whether you teach the graphic novel or not, this bundle will give you the opportunity to work on your students’ analytical skills. We spend our days analyzing visual clues and interpreting people’s actions based on those clues. However, when it comes
Grades:
8th - 12th
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February Adapted Books (Valentine's Day, MLK, Black History Month) | Special Ed
9 interactive FEBRUARY thematic books with 2 levels -- perfect for early learners! Includes important lessons about Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, and Abraham Lincoln. Celebrate February holidays like Valentine's Day and Groundhog Day! Each book includes a matching component on each page to keep students engaged and interacting with their work. Perfect for special education, early childhood, ELL, homeschool, and speech therapy. *** You SAVE when you purchase these books inside
Grades:
PreK - 6th
Also included in: Adapted Books Bundle | Year-Long | Seasonal | Special Ed
The City of Ember Novel Study, Comprehension and Graphic Organizers
This novel study is the perfect companion to The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. Students will use the reading response activities to boost understanding, show their comprehension, and engage with the book in different ways. It incorporates different aspects of reading, including comprehending, inferring, making connections, questioning, summarizing, evaluating, and synthesizing. Comprehension questions are included for each couple of chapters of this novel. These can be used as written activiti
Grades:
4th - 8th
Character Traits Unit for Upper Elementary and Middle School
This resource includes a reading unit to teach character traits to upper elementary students. This character traits reading unit includes, reading response examples, mini lessons, interactive notebooks pages, genre reading posters, rubrics, and assessments. This unit part of a Genre, Theme, and Character Traits unit BUNDLE for upper gradesThis unit includes everything you need to teach {and dig deeper!} character traits in middle grades (4th-8th). As an upper grade teacher, I often find that I a
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Theme Unit Character Traits Unit and Genre Unit Bundle for Middle Grades
The Odyssey Unit for pre-AP skills AND authentic literacy!
This unit was written to promote authentic literacy and advance pre-AP skills in the classroom. Included in this new and updated unit are almost 70 pages of totally original handouts and engaging activities that you will not find anywhere else: a “4 Corners” interactive anticipation guide, the “Odyssey Toga Party” to introduce star characters, the Mount Olympus Police Report to file against Odysseus, Life is Like an Epic Simile to help students write their own poems, Annotation in 8 Steps, plus
Grades:
8th - 11th
Wonder Adapted Novel Study for SPED
This is a full adapted unit for the novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio. This unit is perfect for a special education or life skills class and has everything you need for reading and writing for 6-7 weeks. The novel study includes a character reference sheet, character description activity, character foldable, plot activity with three levels of support, and journal writing prompts with three levels of support. Additionally each part in the book has a fill in the blank activity with three levels of supp
Grades:
6th - 12th
The Secret Path - Full Unit
This unit has been built with PEARDECK but it is not necessary to use the extension to be able to use the unit (just an added bonus). The resource will stand alone without the application. There are 124 slides with questions, activites, videos, and learning goals and connected links to be used with each song/video from Gord Downie's The Secret Path. **FYI the lesson for Shin-Chi's Canoe is not included in the full unit as it is prior learning to The Secret Path - you can buy the lesson here**
Grades:
5th - 9th
The Secret Garden Novel Unit Plan and Extension Activities
A complete student journal full of comprehension, student responses, writing activities, research activities, and extension activities for The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Chapter-specific student responses for every chapter!
Create a packet or print individual pages as you need them!
Many extension activities to choose from at the end!
See the preview to see what all is included and get sample pages!
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Personal Narrative Unit (Calkins 3-5)
Packet of student pages to be used with Lucy Calkins' personal narratvies lessons 1-8. Easy brainstorming forms that directly match the mini lessons. Great for grades 3-6. Email me if any edits are needed!
*** Now updated with an outline of mini lessons!
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Grade 5 & 6 Ignited Literacy Reading/Writing - ONTARIO Curriculum OCTOBER
DescriptionEver wondered how to get your students to love reading and writing? Love Genius Hour or need a differentiated approach that gives students more voice and choice in what they read and write. Keep students engaged in writing all year long while meeting curriculum standards. ⭐ Ignited Literacy is your answer ⭐Use research-based strategies for teaching writing including → gradual release of responsibility→ student led inquiry→ teaching spelling and grammar in context→ using mentor texts→
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Grades:
5th - 6th
Black History Month
This Black History Month unit introduces your students to the accomplishments of 28 different African Americans through "biography briefs". They make a fabulous Black History Month bulletin board display and are the perfect place to begin class discussions and/or student research. There are 28 cards included- one for each day in February!
This packet is designed to give your students an overview of the impact that African Americans have made in the areas of politics, civil rights, music, spor
Grades:
K - 10th
Also included in: Black History Month Biography BUNDLE
APPLE ORCHARD Dramatic Play Center
Need help creating an engaging dramatic play center that incorporates learning through play? This APPLE ORCHARD dramatic play center is just what you need to pretend to visit an apple orchard, pick apples, buy from the farmer's market, or learn how apples grow. No more boring learning centers, having to justify play, or just using the same things in your center all year. This product includes a dramatic play sign, labels for the center, supplies, and word wall. Printable props to enhance the
Grades:
PreK - 7th
BUNDLE: Guided Reading High Interest Passages & CCSS Aligned Activities
This BUNDLE includes the very popular HIGH INTEREST READING PASSAGES for Famous Failures, Extreme Sports, Amazing Animals, Amazing Attractions, and Extreme Jobs. THIS BUNDLE IS COMPLETE WITH THESE 5 EDITIONS!These are available for individual purchase or save 27% with the bundle.Vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, grammar, spelling, and sequencing activities for each passage. These HIGH INTEREST reading passages are geared toward grade level students and older students reading at a lower leve
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Endangered Species Unit: Primate Lesson Plan
HUGE endangered species unit with science, readings, math, geography, masks, power points, take action posters, info chart, and more!
Through extensive interdisciplinary activities, students raise their awareness of environmental issues and what they can do to spread awareness about endangered species. Using science, balanced literacy, math, geography, art, oral and written communication skills, students learn about real world problems involving endangered species—and how to find creative solut
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Novel Study
This unofficial novel study booklet is designed to be used with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, written by J.K. Rowling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.Perfectly designed for your classroom or at home learning, this comprehensive novel study includes:1) Chapter Questions for each chapter, including questions on Main Idea, Recalling Facts, Making Inferences, and Vocabulary.2) Student Tracker page 3) Bonus activities to use throughout the novel4) Final Project5) Answer Key
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Martin Luther King Jr Speech Therapy | MLK Day Speech Therapty Printable Pack
►MLK Day in speech and language therapy ! MLK Speech Therapy is fun when you learn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and history while addressing multiple IEP goals and objectives.►This differentiated pack provides for learning at multiple levels while incorporating fun facts and information that can be carried over into functional conversations.►Five games can be printed in color and laminated for years of use. I have printed these worksheets on a high speed printer for use with my own students
Grades:
K - 12th, Not Grade Specific
Also included in: January Speech Therapy Articulation and Language Bundle
Constitution of the United States - Readers' Theater
This two-part readers' theater script teaches students about the importance and history of the United States Constitution. Students will have fun while they are learning about this important historical document. A set of task cards are included that require students to use higher-level thinking skills. There is also an internet research activity included.
Get this script , Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence all for $5.00 in my Important Documents Readers' Theater
Scripts
If
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Mental Health: The Impact of Social Media
this is a 3 day unit that deals with the impact of social media on mental health with a specific focus on teenagers. The unit deals with:- The pros and cons of social media- Algorithms and marketing from social media companies- The Neuroscience behind what social media can do to our brains- Critical thinking and strategies we can use to limit and control our social media use. With regards to material, there are several videos, discussions, debates, and articles that pertain to the above topics,
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Grades:
5th - 12th
Narrative Writing with Story Elements
Incorporating story elements into narrative writing is a great way to reinforce character, setting, plot, conflict. Students will draw slips to get their character and setting and then write the plot of their narrative and identify the conflict.
What's Included in the Unit?
-Character Slips
-Setting Slips
-SBWST(Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then) plot sheets
- Pre-Writing graphic organizers
-The Writing Process posters (colored and a b/w version)
Grades:
4th - 8th
Reading Genre Posters
This download contains 8 reading genre posters:
~Realistic Fiction
~Non-Fiction
~Biography
~Autobiography
~Fantasy
~Science Fiction
~Historical Fiction
~Poetry
The posters contain colorful designs and feature actual book covers to engage readers!
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
50 States Project - an upper-elementary research project
a 5-6 week reserach project your students will actually WANT to do. Great for high fourth grade-6th grade classrooms. Covers standards RI.7, RI.9, W.2, W.4, W.6, W.7, W.8, W.9 and SL4Includes 14 different projects that come together to create a large poster showcasing student work. Also included: editable parent letter, and editable luncheon invite to encourage parent participation and involvement when the projects are over.STANDARDS BASED RUBRICS included for easy grading.Projects involve VERY
Grades:
4th - 6th
Lightning Thief Literature Study - Common Core Aligned
This is a literature study for Rick Riordin's The Lightning Thief. It contains a teacher guide and student notebook.
The teacher guide includes teaching notes for each chapter as well as an answer guide for the student notebook.
Activities in the student notebook directly align with Common Core ELA standards. 4th grade standards are listed with each task, but these can easily be adapted to 5th or 6th grade standards. Both Literature and Informational standards are addressed.
The student g
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4th - 6th
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January Speech Therapy Upper Elementary Vocab & Grammar Worksheets
This packet was created for your older elementary clients working on synonyms, antonyms, multiple meanings, analogies, plurals , and subject verb agreement. This January packet that includes New Years, Martin Luther King Jr Day, Penguins, Snowmen, and Inventors. There are 6 worksheets per theme. Each targeting one of the areas mentioned above.Word banks are provided but "extra" answers help to ensure that students learn the targeted vocabulary terms. A MONEY SAVING year long bundle of these up
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Grades:
4th - 7th
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