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Elementary reading simulations under $5
Project Based Learning Starting a School Newscast
Are you wanting to start a school newscast? How to Start a School Newscast is a guide to help teachers or administrator start a school newscast. Materials lists, steps, hints, and printable guides will help you get started. This project helped get my students engage in learning and increased their communication skills. Students become so excited about finding news stories they don't even realize that they are writing and reading. Their fluency increases while enjoying the project! Students
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning Bundle
ELA Escape Room Challenge Penguin Theme
Looking for something a little challenging, incredibly engaging, and slightly different from an ordinary day? Escape room challenges have all of that and more.In this escape room challenge, the students must escape from being stuck on Penguin Island after disobeying the sign on a magic portal at the zoo's penguin exhibit. They can only get out if they can successfully navigate their way through 5 ELA challenges.This challenge has students apply skills in reading comprehension, sentence vs. fragm
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3rd - 5th
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Reader's Theater: The Pilgrims and the Mayflower (differentiated script)
Students will bring the voyage of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower to life in this whole class reader’s theater that features a fictitious family reliving the historical event ! Students will gain a deeper understanding of the actual events, people, places, and effects of this important piece of our country’s history in an engaging and connected way! This original play contains 20 parts featuring 3 reading levels to ensure whole class participation, fluency development, and differentiation. Studen
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Early United States History Reader's Theater Bundle-Discovering America
Escape room style activity for STAAR review
This activity is a puzzle based, escape room style challenge activity where students receive clues, answer questions from released STAAR tests, get hints, and try to beat the clock to escape an alien ship.
I used a paired text from the 2017 5th grade released reading STAAR, it would be easy to simply delete the questions and have them complete questions from another grade level or even another subject.
They basically get a puzzle, then must answer 3 STAAR questions before you give them a hint
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4th - 6th
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Reading Activity - My Life- Why reading is so important simulation
TEACHER DIRECTIONS
Purpose: A simulation activity that allows students to see the realize the consequences of not trying to become better at reading and writing. This activity puts students into random socioeconomic groups based on a random number on a die. This number will determine how much money they get to spend on six different areas of their life (house, location where they live, food, entertainment, transportation, and college). Students will have to make some difficult choices based
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5th - 10th
Green Screen Book Review - with Do Ink! (EDITABLE)
This PRINT AND GO project includes a COMPLETE project outline from start to finish for creating super hero/super power themed Green Screen recorded Book Reviews.
Included in this SUPER project is:
#1. A graphic organizer for structuring a thorough book review using the elements of plot (exposition, climax, resolution, etc.) The book review encourages a detailed evaluation of the novel.
#2. A step by step tutorial for downloading and using the Do Ink Green Screen App (FOR TEACHERS)
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Tuck Everlasting Escape Room - Can you find the spring?
Step into the future of literature exploration with our digital escape room adventure centered around the timeless classic, "Tuck Everlasting." In this immersive experience designed for students, embark on a thrilling journey through time using the school's latest invention: a state-of-the-art time machine.will assume the roles of intrepid time travelers, venturing into the distant future where the legend of the immortal Tuck family still echoes through the ages. Your mission? To locate the fabl
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5th - 7th
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Persuasive Writing Activity (Trial of the Big Bad Wolf)
This is a persuasive writing activity that is based on The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. For this activity the students are divided into 4 groups: prosecution, defense, witnesses and a jury. The teacher will play the role of the judge who will facilitate the activity.
This activity includes the following pages:
1 prewritten questions for the defense and the prosecution. These questions will be asked to the witnesses. At the end of each paper there is a spot where these groups write a sho
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3rd - 5th
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Thanksgiving: Mayflower Read Aloud
Send your students on a journey back in time with this whole class read aloud where students act as newscasters going back in time interviewing people who were on the Mayflower. Students will deepen their understanding of the events surrounding the Mayflower voyage and the first Thanksgiving as they are placed into the shoes of a person at this time. What a great way to increase engagement and reading fluency.
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2nd - 4th
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City of Ember Role Play Lesson Plan / Resource Pack
This product comes with a google doc lesson plan, google slide instruction to be shared with the class, and google form exit ticket.This lesson is based on the book City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. The recommended age for this book/lesson is 4th-6th grade.Built based on Indiana state standards for fourth grade.
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4th - 7th
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Reader's Theatre: Causes of World War 1
Casting call! Looking for actors and actresses to play the fictionalized role of Germany, Austria-Hungry, France, Great Britain, and the US (just to name a few)! Are you looking for an engaging way to teach the causes of World War 1? This reader's theatre explores the causes of World War 1, specifically imperialism and alliances between neighboring countries in Europe. Students impersonate countries and show how the Central Powers and Allies were formed. There's drama, humor, and vengeance in th
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5th - 11th
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Earth Day Activities : Reading Comprehension, Activities, and Craft Ideas Pack
This Earth Day pack has all you need to celebrate our planet's special day!
Included in this pack:
♦ (2nd - 3rd, maybe 1st with help) Reading Comprehension about Earth Day
♦ Higher Level (4th - 5th) Reading Comprehension about Earth Day
♦ Earth Day Poster Activity for groups or individuals
♦ Facts about Pollution/Trash (Great to use with posters, these facts are like "Each minute one million plastic bags are used!", these are general, but 3 out of 12 specifically name the US)
♦ Earth Day Ple
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2nd - 5th
North American Animals: Mini Matching and Vocabulary Enrichment Cards
North American Animals: Match-up and Vocabulary Enrichment Cards
This is a simple matching lesson that can be used as a follow up lesson for your North America unit. This unit contains a variety of popular North American animals; in realistic clip art form.
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This set includes:
• 20 picture cards on 4 charts
• 20 picture cards for matching
• One 8.5x11 sheet with all the names of the animals in the mini match-up lesson to be used as a control chart.
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• Print on card
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PreK - K
American Revolution "Decision Based Adventure" Lesson
This “Decision Based Adventure” Activity is designed to teach the American Revolution in an engaging and exciting way. Students will be fully immersed in the American Revolution and will learn about this event as if they were there. Along the way, students will read short passages which end with a choice. Whatever decision students make leads them to a unique passage which will then end with another choice.The best part of this activity is that students can repeat the adventure many different
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4th - 8th
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Dav Pilkey Virtual Field Trip - Encourage Summer Reading - Creative Writing
Let's take a Virtual Field Trip to Meet Dav Pilkey!! This No Wheels Field Trip is just what you need to have some FUN, take a trip, learn about comic writing, your super powers, making reading fun, and more!!Who is Dav Pilkey? He is the author of our favorite books, Captain Underpants and Dogman!On this trip, you will start by meeting up with Dav, the Captain, and Dogman. Decide who you want to explore with first... both characters are fighting battles!You will get to study how to create images
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3rd - 5th
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Rituals & Routines- Back to School - Interactive Story -Contractions - Story Map
Let's take a Back to School STORY Venture.. Don't Do This with our favorite classic books: Don't Take an Alligator to School, Pigeon Goes to School, and If You Take a Mouse to School!! This No Wheels Field Trip is just what you need to have some FUN with an interactive story when school starts back that will encourage rituals and routines!On this Back to School STORY Venture, you will start by visiting the story adventure map! The map will guide you through the Back to School STORY Venture jumpi
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1st - 2nd
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Under My Pillow
An adventure about a five-year-old girl who loses her first tooth. She puts it under her pillow as many children do but discovers that there is no tooth or present the next day. She then goes on a quest to solve the mystery with the help of her mom, the Tooth Fairy, and the Tooth …If you buy this you will get file containing Personal and Commercial Use. Digital Download.>>File Format<< pdf>>How It Works<<You can instantly download the file after your payment is confirmed.
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1st - 5th
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The Syllable Scoop - Learn Syllables through Ice Cream Play!
This product provides all the materials for a low-prep, fun, and engaging ice cream simulation that teaches syllable segmentation and blending!Included:InstructionsThree menus, covering 1, 2, and 3 syllable wordsFive pages of ice-cream cut outs with words segmented by syllables and visual aides to support studentsIce cream dish cut-outsA printable craft activity for students to make "employee hats"An ice cream worksheet, where students color in the amount of syllables in a word. Simply print, la
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PreK - 2nd
Genre Study: "THE GENRE'S COURT"- FUN way to reinforce genres in your classroom!
Check out my blog post describing how I use this in my room!!! :)
The Genre's Court
Welcome to The Genre's Court!
My students absolutely love going to court and defending their genres. We introduce and/or review genres about every 3 weeks with which we culminate the week with a trip to “the genre’s court.” I wear my college graduation gown as the publisher, and we rearrange all the desks to match the map of the courtroom which is included as “the people in the genre court.” *I also found th
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2nd - 6th
QAR
This QAR cheer will get your students up and out of their seats cheering for question answer relationships! My students love chanting this before we begin creating QAR questions. It helps them review each type of question with added excitement. I am very proud of this....I just wish I created it a long time ago!
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K - 6th
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Understanding Technical Text: Can I Follow a Recipe?
What better way to help students understand technical text than to actually follow a recipe? This one-page activity sheet has a delicious dessert recipe and questions for students to answer. All you have to do is print the page and collect a few ingredients!
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3rd - 5th
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Point of View ELA Standard 6 Interactive Highly Engaging Lesson BRAIN COMPATIBLE
This is a foundation lesson teaching the 3 major Points of View. Students create a shutter fold and teachers can add costumes as an option where students act out characters.
Meet Mr. I Me We
Mrs. U Ewe
and Ima Nishent where she uses a cane when she is limited....(use a yard stick) and a wand when she is fully omniscient and has full power to read the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in the story.
Use this shutter fold throughout the year as a check for understanding. Students pull
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2nd - 8th
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The Hobbit byJ.R.R.Tolkien: Character Study and Classroom Culminating Project
Students closely read The Hobbit, focusing on an assigned character, for a Culminating Activity in which students present and interact as their assigned characters at a classroom Hobbit Banquet.This packet includes:Teacher Procedures for this activity -- during the novel, preparing for the Banquet, and during the Banquetand the following Reproducible Materials:Student Project Assignment SheetCharacter List from the Novel (with appearance/trait cheats for the teacher)Student novel note-taking org
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4th - 7th
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Alphabet 3D Digital Models for Smartboards or Whiteboards
Alphabet ( A - Z ) 3D graphics. This is a 3D digital model pdf file, where you can manipulate the letters to move and rotate in 3 dimensions with the touch of a mouse or a finger if you have a touch screen! Completely interactive! Great to put up on a Smartboard, Promethean Board, or touch screen computer.Fun way to learn to the alphabet. Kids will have so much fun moving the letters around. You can open and use the model tree to hide and show the letters. You can also print out the graphics to
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PreK - 2nd
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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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Students learn best when they're engaged! Sprinkle a little fun into your reading lessons by using manipulatives, pairing unusual texts like poems and short films together, or doing an escape room activity.
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