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Get ready for winter in your classroom with these high-interest ELA and math print and digital activities! These activities are perfect to use all season and will highly motivate your students.
This bundle includes BOTH a printable and a digital Google Slides™ version.
Kindly Note: This set is a collection of winter resources from my shop. Please check to make sure you do not own these before purchasing. Have a question? Email and I am happy to help! thirdgradegiggles@gmail.com
This bundle includes differentiated reading passages, nonfiction passages about winter topics, a descriptive writing project and bulletin board kit, and differentiated winter-themed math games - all requiring critical thinking from your students.
With a non-holiday winter theme, your students will be engaged and love learning in your classroom this winter!
This resource will help you:
- Save time planning
- Keep student interest and engagement high
- Have high-quality reading activities at your fingertips
CONTENTS of Close Reading: Winter
✓ Link and directions to use the digital version in Google Classroom™
✓Close Reading Anchor Charts in two sizes
✓Close Reading Graphic Organizer
✓3 articles with reader response text-dependent questions:
- Winter Solstice
- Snowflake's Journey
- Adapting to Winter
✓Compare and Contrast Winter Solstice to Spring Equinox
✓The cycle of a Snowflake
✓Visualizing Winter Adaptations
✓Answer Keys
✓Bonus Activities Include:
-Cause and Effect Activity
-Main Idea Activity
-Snowflake Analysis
CONTENTS of Descriptive Writing Project: Snowglobe
✓Digital Directions for Google Classroom
✓Directions for Snow Globe Craft (2 options included)
✓6 Color and BW Anchor Charts
- What is Descriptive Writing?
- What Are Some Descriptive Writing Sentence Starters?
- How is Descriptive Writing Organized?
- Who Is Your Audience?
- What Are Descriptive Writing Tips?
- Show the Reader, Don't Tell the Reader
✓Modeled Descriptive Writing Example and Discussion Questions
✓Student Project Task Directions.
✓Student Descriptive Writing Reference Page
✓Brainstorming and Planning Graphic Organizers
✓Word Dump
✓2 Figurative Language Practice Pages
✓1st Draft Prompt Page
✓Student Editing and Revising Checklist
✓Teacher Rubric
✓Bulletin Board Letters and Final Copy Paper
✓Teacher Suggestions
CONTENTS of Differentiated Tic Tac Snow Math Games
✓Directions and Link for use in Google Classroom™
✓Tic Tac Snow Task Directions for students
✓Student Answer Recording Sheet
✓Winter Game Pieces
✓Tic Tac Snow Student Reflection
✓Tic Tac Snow Estimation Skills Game (3 levels)
- Rounding to the nearest ten and hundred
- Multi-digit number rounding to any place
- Decimal rounding to any place
✓Tic Tac Snow Estimation Problem Solving Game (3 levels)
✓Answer Keys
✓Tic Tac Snow EDITABLE Slide (found in zip file)
✓Teacher Notes
CONTENTS of Differentiated Reading Winter Pack
✓ Link and directions to use the digital version in Google Classroom™
✓ Teacher Suggestions
✓ Links for Digital Version-Both Google Slides and Google Forms are included
✓ 4 Seasonal Passages with Questions two levels of each passage included
- Penguins (NF)
- Blizzards (NF)
- Business Letter About Hot Chocolate Day (Real World Reading)
- Kindness Falls Like Snowflakes (Multi-Stanza Haiku Poem) KINDLY NOTE: the
poem is not differentiated and includes only one level of the poem.
✓ Answer Keys
✓ 4 Note Taking Pages to use with any reading passage
✓ 8 Reading Graphic Organizers to use with any reading passage
Please see the preview for a more detailed look at all these products have to offer.
Recent feedback on the resources in this bundle:
"My students loved this activity and were very engaged. I liked that there were a variety of organizers to choose from which allowed me to tailor it to my students' individual needs."
"A wonderful activity that combined both writing and art. All students were interested and engaged throughout. Looked fantastic and seasonal on the bulletin board."
"My students loved doing this activity for descriptive writing. It was a fun writing resource, and my kids really enjoyed getting to be creative and make their own winter land snowglobe."
"Great for math centers! My students enjoyed them."
"I love Google Forms and the 3 passages WITH 3 differentiation was awesome! All her resources are EXCELLENT! I can't wait for her to make more like this. As we are moving back into the classroom (slowly) I will use these with my reading rotations! I used EVERY Single part of this purchase and all the stories."
"Another great set of multi-level reading passages that are fun and engaging! Think, Grow, Giggle never disappoints! My students love the passages and I love the learning!"
You might also be interested in these reading passage packs:
- Winter Opinion Writing
- December Holidays
- December Writing Activities
- North Pole Close Reading
- ELA Reading Performance Task
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