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Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides Activities Digital Resources Morning Work
Are you ready to turn your morning meeting into the best part of your daily routine? Unlock the power of morning meetings with this Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides & Activity Pages Yearlong Set, designed for K-6 grade. These NO PREP INTERACTIVE EDITABLE morning meeting slides will revive your morning routine in a fun and engaging way. These Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides are an easy-to-use, time-saving way for you to build a consistent morning routine and a strong classroom co
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K - 6th
Create a Board Game! Project Based Learning Unit - Templates + Rubrics + Slides
Unleash creativity with our Board Game Project Based Learning Unit! Ideal for 1st grade and up! Make learning fun by creating a board game. Includes templates, rubrics, and more! PDF & Powerpoint Slides to introduce the project to students.KEY FEATURES:64 PAGES OF VALUE: Includes 464 pages of resources to support the entire project lifecycle from planning and crafting to reflecting.TEMPLATES FOR EVERYTHING: Comes with a variety of templates including warm up activities, planning, game design
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2nd - 8th
Narrative Writing Kindergarten - First Grade Personal Narrative Writing Prompts
This comprehensive narrative writing unit is perfect for teaching the kindergarten and first grade writing standards. Teachers and students love using the personal narrative writing journals, picture word banks, sentence starters, writing prompts, anchor charts, graphic organizers, and so much more! You can use these lessons for writer's workshop, to supplement your district's writing curriculum, to enhance your writing and literacy centers, or for independent writing practice.These lessons and
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K - 2nd
Animal Reports | A Lapbook & Animal Research Project | Informational Writing
If you’re one of the thousands who made the BIOGRAPHY LAPBOOK a best-selling item, you’ll love this one, too! Designed with third and fourth graders in mind, this animals resource includes materials for students to use while conducting research using nonfiction texts, as well as materials for the presentation of their final informational writing piece, in an Animals Lapbook. To complete this project, students:• read nonfiction texts,• use a graphic organizer as a prewriting tool to organize t
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2nd - 5th
Opinion Expository Writing Graphic Organizers Personal Narrative Paragraph HowTo
Grow your writers with this set of Writing Graphic Organizers for use with Expository Writing, Narrative Writing, Persuasive Writing, and more. This set of Graphic Organizers are ready for you to print and go! They are perfect for your students Interactive Notebooks, Anchor Charts, Planning, and so much more.INCLUDED:40 Writing Graphic Organizers Print & Digital Google Slides options (digital link on page 3-4).Expository Narrative How- ToBook ReviewOpinion WritingArgument WritingEssay Writin
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2nd - 5th
Would You Rather Sampler - Fun Questions for Discussion, Writing Prompts, & More
Dive into writing prompts, classroom discussion, and more with our exclusive sampler from Would You Rather Questions!!These 18 digital or print Would You Rather questions are great for discussion, class polls, writing prompts, language building, facilitating higher-level thinking, brain breaks, building community, and more! This sampler gives you a taste of our comprehensive Would You Rather resource that promises to make learning engaging and effective.Try before you buy!Purchase this sampler f
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2nd - 9th
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15 Working Memory Brain Games: Improve executive function in 5 minutes a day!
WORKING MEMORY BEST SELLER--UPDATED FOR 2024! These 15 research-based brain games are designed to improve kids' working memory in five minutes of partner game play daily for just 9 weeks! If you've ever complained that students lack the following skills, an executive function of the brain called working memory might be the issue!-staying focused and on-task-following complex and multi-step directions-copying information and taking notes-keeping their place in a text-retelling stories-explaining
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K - 6th
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Fact and Opinion Activities Sort 2nd 3rd Grade Fun Reading Centers Comprehension
Are you looking for a fun, highly engaging, and EFFECTIVE way to teach fact and opinion? This set of activities will teach your students how to distinguish between fact and opinion by becoming observant text detectives. You can even use it as the basis for a room transformation!This resource includes:Fact Detectives Reading CentersFact vs Opinion SortAssessmentDigital ActivitiesSOLVE THE CRIME FACT DETECTIVESThis activity is super engaging for students! They will read each storyline along with t
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Fact and Opinion Activities BUNDLE Text Detective Reading Comprehension
Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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K - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Life-Size Human Body Project Bundle: Human Body Systems w/ Digestive System
This Human Body BUNDLE combines two of my popular human body resources: the Human Body Systems Lapbook and the bestselling Life-Size, Lift-the-Flap, Human Body Model!Please click HERE and HERE for previews, photos, and details on the two resources included, and to read their ★ 2,200+ 4-star reviews ★!••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Several Common Core Standards can be addressed with these projects, including:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2Write infor
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2nd - 6th
First Grade Writing Bundle Kindergarten Writer's Workshop Curriculum Spanish
These comprehensive writing units provide everything you need to successfully teach the kindergarten and first grade writing standards. Nine units are included in this bundle, and I will take you from your very first writing lesson through the end of the school year. All of your writing activities are planned for you! These units can be used as a stand alone writing curriculum, for writer's workshop, year-round writing centers, writing prompts and/or portfolios, or they can supplement your dist
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K - 2nd
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Writing Rubrics - Paragraph Rubrics - Essay Rubrics - 1 Point Rubric
Check out the variety of WRITING RUBRICS to assess your paragraph and essay writing assignments! It comes in PowerPoint and PDF. Included in this resource are different types of writing and versions of rubrics.WHAT TYPES OF WRITING ARE INCLUDED?★ Paragraph Writing★ Narrative Writing★ Personal Narrative Writing (Recount Writing)★ Opinion Writing★ Informative Writing ★ Descriptive Writing★ Persuasive Writing★ How-To WritingWHAT VERSIONS OF POINT SCALES ARE INCLUDED?1. 3 POINT WRITING SCALE- 5-3
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2nd - 6th
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3-D Shapes Activity with Monsters (Geometry Math Craft for Elementary)
This fun elementary craftivity will get kids excited about 3-D geometric shapes while incorporating art into the classroom. This product includes 7 different shape (monster) templates (both in color and as line art for the student to color) and 3 accompanying worksheets. Please open my preview file to view everything that is included. This activity can also foster teamwork when students work together in groups of two to assemble their 3-D shape monsters.Save Money, buy the bundle! Monster Themed
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: 2-D & 3-D Shapes Monster Bundle
Fictional and Personal Narrative Writing Graphic Organizers, Posters, Prompts
This is a must have resource for your narrative writing unit! Differentiated writing posters, narrative writing graphic organizers, and writing supports geared towards Grades 1-3 will provide your students the tools they need to become strong writers.Please take a look at the preview for a closer look!All materials are thoughtfully aligned to the ELA Common Core Standards for Grades 1-3. The grade 1 materials included in this resource focus on writing a beginning, middle, and end with transiti
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1st - 3rd
Opinion Writing - Kindergarten and First Grade Writer's Workshop Writing Centers
Kindergarten and first grade students absolutely love to write about their opinions. This comprehensive writing unit comes complete with writing prompts, picture word banks, sentence starters, anchor charts, graphic organizers, writing paper, an opinion rubric, mini books and so much more! Lessons are sequential and engaging, and this unit can be used as an independent writing curriculum, to teach your writer's workshop lessons, for literacy centers or to supplement your district's writing pro
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K - 2nd
Describing & Inferring Details with Picture of the Day: Reading Photos "Closely"
***************************************Picture of the Day now available in Volume 2.Picture of the Day now available in Volume 3 (Google Slides compatible) posted 8/24/2020.***************************************This Picture of the Day product is a great way for students to practice three very important reading skills - observing details by being able to describe them and making inferences about what you notice and observe based on what you see and what you already know. Observing, describing an
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K - 6th
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100th Day of School Activities STEM Activities
Make your 100th day of school celebration STEM-TASTIC with these 6 engaging activities that are STEM challenges. These Smitten with First 100th Day STEM challenges can be used as stations or as activities completed throughout the day. See preview! Challenges Included:Pattern Hats (students build a party hat with 100 pattern blocks)Build 100 (students build the number 100 using 100 building blocks)Hairy Glasses (students build shape glasses using 100 gray hairs/pipe cleaners)100 Wishes (student
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade Year Long STEM Activities Bundle
Paragraph Writing How to Write a Paragraph of the Week for 1st and 2nd grade
Paragraph writing just got easier! Whether you need print or digital, these ready-to-use pages (and slides) are an effective way to help your students learn how to write a paragraph. You'll get everything you need for opinion, informative, and narrative writing. Check out the product preview to see it all!Here's What's Included:Print Versions and Digital Access60 different writing prompts (20 opinion, 20 informative, & 20 narrative)Brainstorming PagesOrganizing and Planning PagesFirst Draft
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1st - 2nd
2D Shape Pattern Block STEM Challenge Cards
The perfect addition to your morning STEM tubs, these challenge cards ask students to make a variety of different 2D shapes from pattern blocks. Ideal for building visual discrimination skills as children have to rotate and flip smaller shapes to create the new shape.Focus shapes included - triangle, square, rectangle, rhombus/diamond, hexagon, trapezoid. Perfect to use as an invitation to play in the Early Years, as math centers or even as a cross-curriculum literacy center for early readers to
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K - 3rd
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Biography Graphic Organizers Research Project Book Report and Writing Templates
Are your students overwhelmed by the thoughts of a research project? Do they struggle with not knowing how to organize their information and thoughts to create a biography report?These Biography Research Project and Writing Templates are designed to help your students easily complete a biographical research paper, and create a fun final project.Use this easy-to-use project to help your students learn how to write a biographical research paper. Choose from 4 different graphic organizers for stude
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2nd - 6th
BUNDLE: Doodle Word Search Puzzles | Early Finishers, Fun Brain Breaks
Doodle Word Search Puzzles - BUNDLE!!These aren't typical word searches, rather they are "doodle" searches! Instead of searching for letters to make words, students are searching for doodle icon patterns throughout the puzzle (just like the normal word search). My students LOVE LOVE LOVE these so much that I created more to use throughout the year for different seasons, holidays, or occasions. It's a great option for early finishers or students who want a challenge!This HUGE BUNDLE includes 48 D
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2nd - 12th
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Compare & Contrast Essay - Compare & Contrast Writing - Template / Organizer
This compare and contrast essay writing resource provides scaffolding so even your struggling students can successfully write a short paper comparing and contrasting a topic of their choice. Differentiated rough drafts and a teacher model make teaching this skill easy! Most of this resource is geared towards helping your students walk through the entire writing process as they write a compare and contrast essay; however, there are a few activities for additional practice included to help your
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2nd - 5th
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Summer Digital Escape Room Game - End of the Year UPDATED-No Google Form!
UPDATED! No Google Form is needed! Breaking Into Summer is a digital escape room loaded with puzzles for students to celebrate heading into summer in an engaging and interactive way. Students must solve 7 summer clues to unlock the codes that will help them 'break into summer'. Can they crack the code? Students love solving the different digital clues to unlock the codes! Teachers love the NO prep assignment for studentsHow does it work? Students start with the scenario and follow the directions
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2nd - 5th
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Math Logic Puzzles: 2nd grade Enrichment - [Digital & Printable PDF]
Math Logic Puzzles for 2nd grade includes 16 higher-order thinking puzzles designed to challenge and engage your high flyers and fast finishers. Your students will utilize critical thinking and problem-solving skills while building a solid understanding of essential math concepts and skills. These puzzles are available as a printable PDF and a paperless version made with Google Slides™ for virtual learning.Every activity is directly aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Math.--------
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2nd - 3rd
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