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End of Year writing-expository literature circles
Mystery Readers Theater End of Year Reading Activities Holiday Theatre Scripts
This fun and engaging end of the year activity is a perfect reading mystery activity for your students! Who Freed the Fish is a super fun reader's theater script! In this whodunnit mystery reader's theater activity, students will learn to become detectives and then use their sleuthing skills to figure out what happened to the Field Day goldfish! With lots of suspects and circumstantial evidence, the students will have to take good notes, make lots of inferences, and think like a real detectives
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4th - 6th
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Solar Eclipse 2024 Kindergarten Activities, Craft Headbands Worksheets & Writing
Celebrate the 2024 Solar Eclipse with this updated, easy-to-use, and high-interest unit! This engaging unit includes exciting activities, writing prompts, adorable crafts, viewer instructions, party ideas, and so much more! You will even receive a bonus file with directed drawing and a foldable!This resource is jam-packed with everything you need to celebrate a solar eclipse near you or conduct an in-depth study about them. Due to the scientific nature of this product, the activities will work f
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PreK - 1st
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1-ESS1-1
Book Clubs Discussion Cards Literature Circles 2nd 3rd 4th Grade Activities F/NF
Enjoy Book Clubs MADE EASY with Book Club discussion cards for any text, fiction or nonfiction, and Book Club activities that kids love! Like Literature Circles, your 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade students (5th grade, too!) engage in powerful reading conversations around articles, passages, picture books, chapter books, and more!❤️❤️❤️ What are Book Clubs?Like Literature Circles, Book Clubs are simply small groups of students meeting to discuss a shared text. Perfect for building reading comprehension
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2nd - 5th
Reading Comprehension Response Printables & Graphic Organizers for Any Book
This unit contains 30 reading response activities that your students can use during guided reading, whole class activities, or for independent work. Each reading response sheet is 1/2 page to save paper AND so your students can make a little "My Reading Booklet"Here's the reading response activities/graphic organizers included:1. Title Page for student booklet2. Describe a Character3. Cause and Effect4. Compare Two Characters (Venn Diagram)5. Letter to the Author6. What's the Main Idea7.
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1st - 3rd
Informative Writing Prompts & Graphic Organizers - Paragraph of the Week PRINT
Paragraph of the Week Prompts for Informative Writing - This ready-to-use resource includes 10 informative paragraph writing prompts. Use them in a paragraph of the week writing center or for weekly writing homework. Weekly paragraph writing allows your students to practice writing well-organized informative paragraphs on a regular basis, and make them better writers. Students will love the fun and engaging paragraph writing prompts, and you'll love that they are getting meaningful writing pract
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3rd - 5th
Non-Fiction Informational Cereal Box Book Report- 6 Templates to Choose From!
This is a very fun activity for my class. I've made 6 different templates that you can choose from to have students use for their book report. This product includes topics covering the following:1. Animals: Use any animal book (Nat Geo's are great!)2. Who Would Win?: Any WWW book (Animal 1 vs. Animal 2)3. Biography: You could potentially use this for a writing autobiography activity as well4. Sports: Use any book that explains a sport5. Country/State: There are 2 different side covers to use d
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1st - 6th
The Castle in the Attic Novel Study Digital + Printable Book Unit
Are you looking for an all-in-one unit for The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop? Look no further. This comprehensive digital + printable unit includes vocabulary practice, comprehension quizzes, constructed response writing prompts with organizers for planning, and language arts lessons. Lessons are aligned to the Common Core Standards for grades 5–6.✨ DIGITAL RESOURCESThis novel study includes links to digital resources. Boom Learning is used for multiple-choice, short answer, and f
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5th - 6th
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Ocean Habitat CCSS Unit
This ocean unit comes with printable student books (facts, note taking pages, common core response questions), printable teacher notes, and follow-up student writing papers (rough draft and final copy)! It’s everything you need to teach about the ocean while meeting common core standards. Please see the list below and our preview for more information!Ocean Unit Includes:(58 Pages Total)Student Book CoverStudent Book:Our Blue PlanetThe Sunlight ZoneCoral ReefsThe Twilight ZoneThe Midnight ZoneKel
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K - 3rd
Bitmoji Bookmarks
These adorable and relatable bookmarks are sure to make your kids smile! Use them as gifts, prizes in your class store, or classroom behavior incentives! A How To Use Guide is included in the resource to help you with making and inserting your Bitmoji Avatar into the editable bookmark template! *NO Bitmojis ARE INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE. This is meant to be personalized with any image of your choice!FIle is an editable PowerPont File_______________________________________________________________
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2nd - 7th
The Very Impatient Caterpillar and The Little Butterfly That Could Read Aloud
This Interactive Read Aloud is perfect for spring or the end of the year. The Very Impatient Caterpillar is a great story about a caterpillar who doesn't want to wait to become a butterfly. In addition to being perfect for any caterpillar and butterfly unit, it is also great for end of the year social emotional learning. Students learn what it means to be patient. The Little Butterfly That Could is perfect for improving a student's growth mindset, while learning about how butterfly's migrate.You
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K - 1st
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May Read Aloud Activities | End of Year Activities | Story Retelling
Looking for a fun and interactive read aloud, matching lessons and engaging activities that meet various core standards within your week of learning? This bundle will have you covered for up to 4 weeks of learning fun during the month of MAY! By grabbing this kit, you're saving BIG!! Each of these 4 read aloud kits will offer targeted lessons that accompany a text, story crafts, and varied literacy activities to last a week using a single mentor text in a kindergarten or first grade classroom.**
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K - 1st
Beach Party - Activities for the Last Days of School
Let's be honest - the last few days of school are HECTIC! At that point in the year, it's crowd control. I had a lot of things I needed to get finished but I also needed to keep my friends busy! So I created this end of the year pack for us to have FUN on the last few days of school! This Beach Party pack contains 10 stations for your friends to visit. It includes:
*a newsletter for parents to know the date of the event and asking for trail mix donations
*a "have you ever been to the beach"
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Independent Reading Project Unit Plans {for Secondary ELA}
Need something to fill in time between units or at the end of the year? Try this independent reading project unit to keep kids engaged and interacting with books they care about. This unit should keep your kids busy (in a GOOD way) for at least four weeks!This project saved me with second semester seniors. Any of your students complaining of "senioritis", the world's most made-up and incurable illness? Maybe you don’t teach seniors, but need an independent reading project to round up some sq
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Second Grade Non-Fiction Writing Paper (Lucy Calkins Inspired)
Here are all the paper choices your students would need to complete a non-fiction booklet (informational /expository writing). Follow the instruction and choose the appropriate papers by writing levels for your students. Full Content:Instruction 4 Cover Sheets (Pre-assessment, post-assessment, label, standard)Table of Contents SheetIntroduction Sheet8 Lines Sheet12 Lines SheetDashed 5 Lines SheetConclusion SheetPicture Glossary SheetGlossary SheetDiagram SheetRevision Strips SheetDifferent Kinds
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2nd
Habitats Bundle {Rainforests, Deserts, Ocean, & Forest}
This bundle includes our Ocean, Desert, Forest and Rainforest units.
Ocean Unit:
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Student Book Cover
Student Book:
Our Blue Planet
The Sunlight Zone
Coral Reefs
The Twilight Zone
The Midnight Zone
Kelp Forests
Parts of the Kelp Plant
Ocean Animals
Sea Otters
Sea Stars
Sea Urchin
White Sharks
Garibaldi
Sea Anemones
Jellyfish
Kelp Crab
Student Note taking pages (plant and animal adaptations)
Comprehension Questions (student page and answers)
Venn Di
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1st - 3rd
MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU! 40 Writing Prompts for Starwars Day - Ages 7+ NO PREP
May the 4th be with you!Celebrate in style and save on planning time with these time saving and thoughtful writing prompts.Each with individual Starwars borders kids will love. 10 Instructional writing prompts10 creative writing prompts10 persuasive/argument writing prompts10 descriptive writing prompts.A5 Cards ready to go. School appropriate (No references to violence).Celebrate fandom on Star Wars Day, the official Star Wars holiday.NEW - Blend/Digraph resourceYou might like to check out our
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1st - 8th
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Novel Study Unit and Literature Guide
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is a favorite novel study for students. Use this Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe fantasy literature unit to cover a wide range of reading skills. My favorite activity in this product is the Narnia map activity. Students use the text to identify 9 key locations. Based on textual evidence, the students map Narnia and the route Lucy, Edmund, Peter, and Susan followed while in Narnia. Students stain a piece of ledger sized paper with tea bags the
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4th - 6th
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Wonder Movie Viewing Unit, Questions/Activities, Lesson Plan
This pack of activities is an excellent way to add some rigor to your viewing of 2017 Wonder movie. It is not a book to film comparison guide. These activities are tailored specifically for this movie! You may use one or all of the enclosed NO PREP activities to focus your studies, and they would work with the novel as well. Add rigor to your movie-viewing experience with this low-prep, highly-engaging Wonder Movie Viewing Guide!Student Experience: Your students will have a WONDERful selectio
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5th - 9th
Book Cover Activity: Analytical and Evaluative Discussion, Redesign, and Lesson
Looking for a fresh way to have students engage with a book? Book covers are an underutilized resource in the classroom. With this three-part book cover activity, students will learn elements of effective book covers, analyze and evaluate covers of high-interest novels, redesign covers that are ineffective or create them for different audiences, and then write an optional informative essay about book cover marketing.When to use this book cover activity...Use this book cover activity as a hook be
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7th - 10th
Inventor Book Activities K-4 - The Boo Boos that Changed the World
*2019-2020* Texas Bluebonnet Book If you're looking for a hard-hitting piece of literature that supports expository inquiry, showcases persistence, is part of the STEM movement, and can combine your reading and writing instruction, look NO more! This TX award winning book, The Boo Boos that Changed the World by Barry Wittenstein is a wonderful book to bring into your classroom or library that presents factual information about Earle Dickson with a fresh and engaging approach. This resource was
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K - 4th
And Then Comes Summer by Brenner 12 Book Extension Activities NO PREP
Wonderful End of the Year book and activity! This book will have your students (and you!) giddy about summer! The book captures the sights, sounds and feelings of summer. This would also be great as a supplement to studying about seasons. This Product Contains 12 Book Extension Activities:Cover Story Pre-Reading ActivityCompare and Contrast Venn DiagramA,B.C's of SummerMaking Connections Text to SelfMaking Connections Text to TextMaking Connections Text to WorldDrawing Activity - Favorite Summer
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PreK - 2nd
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Informative Writing Prompts for Paragraph Writing Paragraph of the Week DIGITAL
Digital Paragraph of the Week Prompts for Informative Writing for Google Slides - This ready-to-use Google Drive resource includes 10 informative paragraph writing prompts. Use them in a paragraph of the week writing center or for weekly writing homework. Assign to your students using Google Classroom or Google Drive.Weekly paragraph writing allows your students to practice writing well-organized informative paragraphs on a regular basis, and make them better writers. Students will love the fun
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3rd - 5th
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Mentor Text List Aligned with CCSS for Reading, Writing & Genres(Bundled)
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This resource includes a bundle of 5 of my popular mentor text lists. The book titles are organized alphabetically by skill. Lexile levels are listed for you to determine the reading level/grade level that is most appropriate for your class. If a Lexile level is missing, it is because there is no Lexile level listed for that title in the Lexile database.
You can use these books to introduce reading skills as a whole group or in small, guided reading groups. They can also be use
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2nd - 8th
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The Watermelon Seed Interactive Read Aloud
The Watermelon Seed is a silly book for the end of the school year or summer time. The crocodile loves watermelon, until he accidently swallows a seed! He is worried that a plant will grow out of his stomach..untile he spits the seed out!With this Interactive read Aloud unit, you getA crocodile watermelon craft 4 writing promptsWatermelon graphwatermelon life cycle pocket chartwatermelon life cycle cut and pastehow many more to make 10 bookCheck out all of my Interactive Read Alouds
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PreK - K
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