Create a Holiday Children's Book! — Seasonal ELA or Art — Writing — CCSS
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Description
You've found the perfect Christmas or winter holiday project! This no-prep art and writing project provides your students with everything they need to create their own holiday narrative storybook! The two-week unit starts with an introductory presentation, continues with straightforward and fun planning activities, and culminates with the creation of an original holiday children's book!
Best of all, this project can also serve as a holiday present for your students to give to their family and friends. Designed for both English or art classrooms, this product connects 8 ELA Common Core Standards and 2 Common Core Arts standards to a creative experience your students will love!
Included in this resource (See PREVIEWS):
- A project introduction presentation ( (with note-taking activity and answer key provided as both a PDF and self-checking Easel Activity!) that addresses the project’s rationale, significant elements of children’s narratives, student examples, and a break down of all 5 project tasks
- TASK 1: Children’s narrative planning activities that assists students on selecting their story’s setting, protagonist, antagonist, and theme before mapping out their plot and outlining their entire narrative
- TASK 2: A children’s narrative writing handout that includes assignment requirements, due date calendar, narrative writing tips, a peer edit checklist, and standards-based grading rubric
- TASK 3: An in-depth peer editing worksheet with teacher-assessment rubric
- TASK 4: A story-boarding activity designed to guide students from their completed narrative to their holiday storybook final project
- TASK 5: A holiday children’s storybook project handout that includes project requirements, due date calendar, storybook writing tips, a peer edit checklist, and standards-based grading rubric (90-point rubric ties to 6 ELA Standards and 2 Arts Standards
- Links to TWO editable rubrics that allow for grading customization and seamless integration into Google Classroom and many other Learning Management Systems (LMS's)
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Student assignments for this resource are available as EASEL by TpT activities, which create a seamless link between our content and your learning management system (LMS). Additionally, all of our EASEL activities are immediately ready for student use; no prep work is required on your end! Simply grab the link and go. NOTE: to access other resource files for this product (presentations, rubrics, Google Forms, answer keys, terms of use, or teacher notes) be sure to also download the product PDF.
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