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Writing-essays Common Core RL.2.3 resources
Elf Activities - Elf Application
Are you looking for a fun Christmas writing activity that gets your students engaged AND still meets standards? This Elf Application is just what you need for your holiday writing! This Christmas writing resource is aligned to the CCSS! This activity gives a short lesson to go along with the book How Santa Got His Job, but the book is not necessary and you can easily complete the application without the book.Included in the Resource:Teacher instructions for before, during and after reading str
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1st - 4th
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Also included in:Â December Activities BUNDLE
2nd Grade Lucy Calkins writing unit: WRITING ABOUT READING -unit 3
This huge document includes slides that go along with every lesson in the 2nd Grade book: Writing about Reading. Each slide has catchy pictures, anchor charts, and teaching points named so you can keep yourself on track through each lesson!These work out nicely for those teachers who ALREADY OWN and use the Lucy curriculum. I use these with a power point clicker to keep my pace through the lessons and make sure I don't forget any parts!
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1st - 3rd
Also included in:Â 2nd Grade Lucy units: Writers Workshop SLIDES - BUNDLED
Common Core Assessment Bundle for all Literature Standards 1-9
This is a great deal! You get one assessment for all Literature Common Core Standards. You get one 2.RL.1assessment Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? One assessment for 2.RL.2 Recounting stories, fables and folktales, One 2.RL.3 assessment How Characters respond to major events and sequencing, One 2.RL. 4 assessment Poetry and figurative language, One 2.RL.5 assessment addressing how the beginning of the story introduces and the ending concludes and how the character solves their problem, One 2.
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2nd - 5th
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Who Was? Themed Famous Person Biography Research Project BUNDLE
Use this BUNDLE as a starter for Social Studies Standard 2.5: Students understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others’ lives (e.g., from biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur, Sitting Bull, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride). 95 Famous Faces included! Students can use these items to help them navigate through their own rese
Grades:
2nd
Story Starter Roll and Write Dice Activity
Are students struggling to come up with new writing topics? Getting tired of the same old routine? Use this fun Roll & Write Dice Activity to spice things up! Roll the dice and jot down your character, setting, and plot. Then create a wacky new story with your elements. It's fun and fresh and your students will love it! Keep this set in your writing center for something new. It's just the thing you need to motivate bored writers. Students will giggle as they discover their story elements an
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2nd - 5th
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Regards to the Man on the Moon by Ezra Jack Keats Reading and Writing Activities
Regards to the Man on the Moon by Ezra Jack Keats is a lovely book of childhood imagination with space travel. This PRINT AND GO reading unit for Regards to the Man on the Moon focuses on the theme of imagination and space travel and comprehension. Activities are organized in a before-during-after set up. WHAT ACTIVITIES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT FOR REGARDS TO THE MAN ON THE MOON?schema builder about the moonvocabulary organizer and word cardscause/effect relationships anchor chart and organiz
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in:Â Ezra Jack Keats Author Study, Reading Activities in Digital and PDF
Small Wild Cats 2nd Grade Nonfiction Reading & Writing Unit W.2.2 & RI.2.9
Learn all about small wild cats in this 2nd grade nonfiction reading and writing unit. Work on comparing with RI.2.9 and writing informative essays W.2.2.. Cats covered are the Arabian Sand Cat, Asian Leopard Cat, Pallas’s Cat, and Geoffroy’s Cat. With over 30 total different worksheets and activities, this wild cat unit covers the lesser-known relatives of lions and tigers. 31 Unique pages 140 total pages Documents are available in full color, ink-saving color, black and white, and ink-saving b
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PreK - 5th
NGSS:
2-LS4-1
Also included in:Â Comprehensive Nonfiction Cat 2nd Grade Reading Writing Language Unit Bundle
Who Was? Themed Famous People Biography & Speech Template
These items can be used with this Social Studies standard: 2.5 Students understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others’ lives (e.g., from biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur, Sitting Bull, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride). 94 Famous Faces included! Items Included:Historical Figures & Cultural Icons Student Packet Co
Grades:
2nd
Also included in:Â Who Was? Themed Famous Person Biography Research Project BUNDLE
Journeys- Luke Goes to Bat Supplemental Unit {Unit 4: Lesson 17}
If you use the Journeys 2014 Reading Series in your classroom, this is a must-have for supplementary material!
In this unit you will find:
-vocabulary practice including sketch a picture and vocabulary in sentences practice
- sequencing activities
- antonyms practice
-long I find a word
-formal and informal language practice
-summarizing review
-comprehension questions, graphic organizer, and 5 W's questions
-connect to the text writing prompt for complimentary text
-a writing prompt and themed
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2nd
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Elephants 2nd Grade Nonfiction Reading Writing Unit Prepositions W.2.2 & RI.2.7
Learn all about elephants and practice prepositions in this 2nd grade nonfiction reading and writing unit. Work on main idea with RI.2.2 and writing informative essays W.2.2. There is a diagram of elephant body parts included RI.2.7 with trunks and tusks clearly visible. There are also vocabulary cards RI.2.4 and a text feature worksheet RI.2.5. With over 26 total different worksheets and activities, this elephant unit covers many facts about elephants. 26 Unique pages 127 total pages Documents
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Grades:
2nd
NGSS:
2-LS4-1
K-2 Beginning, Middle, End - Narrative Writing - Organize, Write, Retell Stories
Includes 4 pages of progressive and adaptive Beginning, Middle, & End boxes for Narrative Writing. Can be used for early writing, story planning, story outlining, summarizing, or retelling.
Clear, organized, and very easy to use.
Page #1: Boxes labeled "Beginning," "Middle," & "End" allow students to draw pictures. This page can be used for students to draw their own story, or to retell a story in picture format.
Page #2: Boxes labeled "Beginning," "Middle," & "End" allow student
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K - 3rd
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Fairy Tale Anchor Chart - Story - Elements - Poster - Activities
Fairy Tale Anchor ChartElements Of A Fairy Tale Anchor ChartFairy Tale Story Elements / Fairy Tale Features / Fairy Tale PosterThis anchor chart can be used in several ways to help teach the elements of a Fairy Tale in both reading and writing. Easy-to-read graphics that help students to identify major characteristics of Fairy Tales and Folktales.Check Out My Other Resources:Floss Rule Anchor Chart PosterIf I Were President WritingTelling TimeHow To Tell TimeGreater Than Less Than AlligatorValen
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K - 3rd
The Story of Ruby Bridges CCSS ELA Unit
This unit is chunked full of teaching and learning activities that directly correlate to the Common Core State Standards. In this unit, students work on making predictions based on the illustrations, learn more about personification and figurative language, learn to compare and contrast using Ruby's move as a catalyst, sequence the life of Ruby using a storyboard map, write a narrative envisioning a day in the life of Ruby, and then finally writing a business letter to the Ruby Bridges Foundatio
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2nd - 3rd
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Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Character Trait Analysis RL3.3
After reading aloud the foktake, "Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters," the teacher can use this worksheet at a lesson or assessment of CCSS RL3.3. Students are asked to infer the character traits of both daughters as well as find evidence to support their inference. Students are also asked the question, "How did both Nyasha’s and Mayara’s actions affect what happened to them in the story? Be sure to address EACH character in you answer and use evidence from the book to support your answer."
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2nd - 4th
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TDA Theme- Aesop's Fables (The Tortoise and The Hare) TDA included
Are you looking for an engaging text to teach theme, literary elements and/or Text Dependent Analysis Essay writing?This product is perfect for you! It can be used in whole class, small group, writing, reading, and as an independent activity. Your students will love the classic tale of The Tortoise and The Hare. This product includes the text with engaging clipart, literary elements graphic organizer (with and without definitions), theme graphic organizer, and a Text Dependent Analysis prompt.Th
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Opinion Writing Activity | 1st-3rd grade
Want a highly engaging, yet FUN Opinion Writing Activity that is aligned to the Common Core? This is a writing activity that will fit all your needs! Included are teaching slides, opinion graphic organizers, writing paper, editing checklists and MORE! This unit is a opinion writing unit called "Why I Am a GREAT Friend". Students will use character traits to try to share with his/her audience why he/she is a great friend. Use this for a Valentine's Day writing or anytime of year! Included in th
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1st - 3rd
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Fables and Art: A PBL creative writing unit that deepens descriptive language.
This PBL (Project Based Learning) unit covers Visual Art standards and ELA common core writing standards. It is a unit on fairy tales that uses art projects along the way to increase story structure and descriptive details. It uses 2nd grade common core standards but can easily be translated to any grade level narrative writing unit. It is primarily meant for deepening their descriptive language as a writer and as an artist. This unit also includes Learning Targets and lessons taken from Lucy Ca
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6th
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(Editable) Theme Analysis Slideshow [Independent Work, Partners, or Groups]
Use this activity to guide your students through analyzing a fiction text to determine the theme! Can be completed by students as independent work, in partners, or with small groups. Works great for gathering text evidence in preparation for a written response about the theme of the text. Easy to use with mentor texts, anchor texts, guided reading groups, independent reading, and more.This file is editable so that it can be modified to best fit the needs of your students!
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
The Shot that Backfired - Lesson Plan
Anti Gun Violence is the theme. Primary level students will be enlightened to the value of life and the grave consequences of firearm abuse. They will also be able to infer, definitions of vocabulary and comprehend the story and its symbolic meanings through questioning. The lesson plan covers 2-3 days of silent reading (hand outs) with class discussion; oral reading of video text followed by deep class discussion through questioning and essay writing. The topic will capture the students' att
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2nd - 3rd, Staff
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My Climb up the Beanstalk Point of View Worksheet: GR2
The packet begins with suggestions for reinforcing and enriching learning related to fairy tales and folktales. It starts with a chart showing the difference between first person and third person point of view. This is followed by a retelling of the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. After, there are three questions about point of view, directions for writing an essay from the princess's perspective, a graphic organizer, a bordered, lined, page for writing, and a bordered page on which to create a
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
How To Eat Fried Worms: Short Answer Questions
This "oldie but goodie" is a great book to read aloud anytime--in the depths of winter, or right before or after summer vacation. The book is so much better than the movie! The 41 very short chapters have been divided into eleven chuckle-filled readings that stop at appropriate times in the novel. Each reading should take about 15 minutes of read-aloud fun. All have a one-page, short answer set of questions that involve basic understanding of the text, as well as higher level questioning strateg
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2nd - 5th
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Character Trait Organizer / Writing Prompt RL.2.3
This is a 2 page resource to use with any book or read aloud when teaching about character traits & how a character changes from beginning to end.** I used this to go along with the book A Bad Case of StripesPage 1: Graphic Organizer to tell character traits of a character from the beginning and end and also a box to provide text evidence. Page 2: Writing Prompt & Paper: "Describe how the character changes throughout the story. Don't forget to include text evidence".
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1st - 4th
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