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Holidays/seasonal Common Core L.8.6 resources
WHY STUDY HISTORY | Back to School Activity | First Day of School Discussion
Why do we study history anyway? This back to school activity is a must have for any history or social studies class! Start the first day of school (or the first lesson of any history class) with “WHY” because students always want to know why? Why am I learning about history? Why do we have to study this stuff anyway? When am I ever going to use this in life? Isn’t history about a "bunch of old dead people" and things that have already happened? **Major necessary upgrades have been made to ma
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Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
Magazine Project: Creative Writing Templates | Main Idea Summary For All Subject
Your students will love becoming journalists with these fantastic creative writing templates designed to look like magazines and newspapers! Fully editable, and completely customizable, students will get to summarize any content matter all through the creative ease of Google Drive! Keep your students engaged while creating content-rich material with these visually stunning and academically challenging journalism templates! These templates are perfect for distance learning, a trip to the lab, 1:
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TikTok or Video Project | End of Year Activities | Main Idea Summary Any Subject
This Tik Tok template is extremely engaging and a fantastic tool that can be used in the classroom as well! Get your students engaged and learning while presenting content-rich videos using TikTok. Teachers will love the organization of the included graphic organizers, and students will love the video fun!You as the teacher do not need a TikTok account, but can certainly sign up for a free account at any time. It will be helpful if one student in each group has access to a TikTok account. If T
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Christmas Games for Middle & High School Language Arts Challenging & Fun CCSS
❄ Six Christmas-themed, fun, yet challenging, games and puzzles - Charades, "Cattergories" (based on Scattergories), Literary Devices Crossword Puzzle, Genres Bingo, Word Scramble, and Cranberries to Cranberries (based on the popular Apples to Apples wherein students match modifiers to nouns and verbs). This set of fun and engaging activities is also available as part of my Multi-Holiday Growing Games MEGA Bundle. Check it out now!Use these engaging, student-friendly games sporadically throughou
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7th - 11th
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Also included in: St. Patrick's Day Activities & Games | Fun ELA Game HOLIDAY BUNDLE
Parts of Speech (Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs & Prepositions) Review Game
Engage students with this game that reviews nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions while reading about inspiring women from around the world. In each round, students identify a part of speech in the context of a sentence; the sentences increase in difficulty and complexity throughout the game. Whether your students play during Women's History Month or any other time of the year, students learn about amazing women: Rosa Parks, Amelia Earhart, Marie Curie, Margaret Thatcher, Aung S
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5th - 8th
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Christmas/North Pole Career Exploration Activity: Holiday-Themed Project
This is a fun way for students to learn basic skills and requirements for a job or career. This is also a great way to bring the Christmas spirit into the classroom while completing course requirements in a creative way. Students are never too old to have fun with Christmas-themed activities!What's included?• Introduction activity• Assignment instructions• Job reflection sheet• Rubric (editable) Students will learn: • how to complete a job application• how to write a resume• how to write a cover
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5th - 10th
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Primary Documents: Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address
This is a unit covering two of the pivotal moments in the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. The download includes two reading activities (centered around the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address), two multiple choice reading assessments, student response essay questions, guided reading activities, true and false questions, and Common Core questions geared toward middle school reading and social studies objectives. Follow Our Store HereCheck out our Youtube Channel! "The Common Co
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8th - 11th
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Summer Reading Project - Any Book - Creating a Newspaper
Students need to read during the summer to develop leisure-time reading habits, reinforce reading skills, and prepare for instruction in the upcoming school year. To that end, this summer reading project requires all students to read a book and complete a creative and engaging summer reading project to demonstrate their understanding of the book they read.
In this summer reading project, students will read a book and then create a two-page newspaper complete with a main event lead news story
Back to School ELA Escape Room - Pop Culture Edition
If you are looking for the perfect way to start your school year off strong with a rigorous yet engaging beginning of the year activity your students will be talking about all year, look no further than this Back to School Escape Room for ELA - Pop Culture Edition!There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafte
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Back to School ELA Escape Room Bundle
Poetry Analysis: "Stopping By Woods..." by Robert Frost
My standards-based poetry analysis of Robert Frost's beloved poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" includes everything you need for a meaningful activity for your students! They will practice reading, writing, language, and drawing skills as they look at Frost's poem in-depth.In addition, your students can doodle and color all over the pages! Each page has items that can be colored and they are encouraged to draw, as well. It's a great activity for all levels of learning.See my preview to
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for K. Cook
Vocabulary Activities: Word Collector Vocabulary Cards and Worksheets
The Word Collector Vocabulary Activities: Fancy Word of the Week BUNDLEAll the Word Collector Vocabulary Activities in this bundle now include a digital distance learning option in Google Slides™. Please refer to the final 7 pages of each product file for the instructions and links.Word Collector Activities! Are you looking for engaging AND fancy vocabulary words for a wide range of grade levels? This vocabulary product pairs perfectly with the book The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds and
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4th - 9th
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Maya Angelou & Langston Hughes Poetry Lesson Bundle
These three differentiated lesson plans center around the beautifully powerful poems, "Still I Rise," "A Dream Deferred," and "Caged Bird." Each plan is meticulously explained using a format of warm-up, explanation, application, and synthesis with the aim to engage students from beginning to end. Students will analyze the figurative language within the poems and respond to the powerful messages they evoke through independent work, paired activities, and full class discussion. Lesson plans and ac
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8th - 11th
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Readers Theater scripts: African American scientists & inventors
Nine African-American scientists/inventors (Benjamin Banneker, Mae Jemison, Patricia Bath, George Washington Carver, Dr. Mary Chinn, Lewis Latimer, Yvonne Cagle and Elijah McCoy, Patricia Bath) are featured in this collection of reader's theaters. They may be used in language arts, science or history class, adapted for a school wide program or even memorized and done, royalty free, as a stage play or video.Each interview is self-contained so students can be divided into groups to read and rehea
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Black History Month bundle (in person and remote)
Frequently Misspelled Words (6th grade - 8th grade)
40 printable or digital pages to help your students with 400 Frequently Misspelled Words: amateur, leisure, brilliance, fictitious, foreign, twelfth, courageous, tyranny, embarrass, hierarchy, niece, restaurant, courteous, maneuver, achieve, height, rhyme, whether, and many more. Twenty weeks of spelling activities:Write a question,Write a quotation, Write an exclamation,What is the shortest word?What is the longest word?Which seven words are most interesting?Which two words are easiest?Which
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Middle School BUNDLE
PRESIDENTS DAY PROJECT: Summarize the Life and Biography of a President
Students will create a slide presentation, video, or any project format about a President of their choice. This project explains what students must research and includes a grading rubric for the teacher. Students will research both personal and executive events of their chosen Commander in Chief. It's great for a President's Day activity, a substitute teacher, or for any unit that studies the United States Presidents. Helpful websites are even included to help students find appropriate informati
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Classroom Community Building Activities and Tools - Back to School Icebreakers
Develop a strong classroom culture with these community-building activities and tools! This bundle includes icebreakers, brain breaks, get-to-know-you forms, mindfulness activities, growth mindset calendars, and classroom agenda slides. Suitable for middle school and high school students. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Save over 30% with the Bundled Discount! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Included with these Classroom Community Building Activities and Tools:✏️ 30 unique, engaging, and age-appropriate Icebreaker Questions for Teens - Color
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7th - 10th
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Still I Rise (Angelou) Lesson Plan & Materials
Celebrate Black History Month with this thoughtful, engaging lesson on overcoming obstacles in Maya Angelou's renowned poem, "Still I Rise."This lesson plan on Angelou's poem can be used in a variety of ways throughout the school year. For instance, the lesson is the perfect jumpstart for your unit on slavery, Civil Rights, poetry, or Women's Rights in America. It can also be used as a stand-alone lesson to get your students to reflect upon and discuss overcoming their own personal obstacles. Gi
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Maya Angelou & Langston Hughes Poetry Lesson Bundle
Grammar Interactive Notebook Eighth Grade with Scaffolded Notes + Google Slides
Interactive Grammar Notebook for Eighth Grade - 424 pages - answer keys included! Great for distance learning!This huge bundle has everything you need for a full year of teaching 8th grade grammar and English language arts:A 170-page hands-on interactive grammar notebook including answer keys105 pages of scaffolded notes including answer keys107 pages of interactive printables including answer keys42 Google Slides of the interactive printables for online teaching or distance learningInstructions
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7th - 9th
Bell Ringers Middle School High School Editable Morning Meeting Slides
Are you ready to turn your morning meeting into the best part of your daily routine for your intermediate and high school students? Unlock the power of morning meetings with these Interactive Bell Ringers Middle School High School Editable Morning Meeting Slides designed for 7-12th grade. These NO PREP INTERACTIVE EDITABLE bell ringer 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 bui
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7th - 12th
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My Perspectives 9th Grade Unit 3: Literature of Civil Rights BUNDLE
This LOADED resource facilitates students to discover how the writings and speeches of the Civil Rights movement inspired social change and demonstrates how words inspire change. Students will interact with a series of speeches, writings, poems, and videos to better understand and create their own change-inspiring speech at the end of the unit. This concise resource includes do-now's, vocabulary, comprehension check questions and answers, discussion questions, debate topics, assessments, and eng
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8th - 12th
Making Inferences Lesson - Solving a Mystery Game - Case of the Lost Manuscript
Transform your lesson on making inferences into a thrilling adventure with this solving a mystery game! Students will explore "The Case of the Lost Manuscript" to make inferences and solve the mystery. Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.Included with this Making Inferences Lesson:✏️ Investigation Briefing Overview Slideshow - Microsoft PowerPoint®, Google Slides® & PDF✏️ Investigation Briefing Overview Handout - Digital & Print✏️ Investigation Clu
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6th - 12th
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Parent Teacher Communication Bundle - Back to School Logs, Handouts, and Forms
Communicating with parents is easy with this parent-teacher communication bundle! Includes editable forms, parent surveys, parent communication log, and Google Sheets® tracking tools to collect and record important parent information, student information, and parent correspondence.⚡⚡⚡ Save over 25% with the bundled discount! ⚡⚡⚡Included with these Parent-Teacher Communication Tools:✏️ Parent Contact Information Form - Digital & Print✏️ Parent-Teacher Conference Forms - Digital & Print
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7th - 10th
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Winter Vocabulary Coloring Pages: Seasonal Language Activity
Do your students feel a bit cooped up during the winter months? Create a calm classroom atmosphere with these regulating coloring pages for key seasonal vocabulary words.Let's just face it...while winter can be amazing (hot chocolate, snowmen, gift exchanges, and warm fires), it can also be a challenging season in the classroom. Students may be feeling...restlessboredtireduninspired...so here's what to do! Print out these winter vocabulary coloring pages. Turn on some instrumental holiday tunes,
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7th - 10th
Summer Vocabulary Coloring Pages: Seasonal Language Activity
Are your students losing focus as summer draws near? Harness their attention and energy by embracing the season of SUMMER with these regulating coloring pages for key seasonal vocabulary words.Middle and high school students can enjoy the SEL and academic learning benefits of coloring, doodling, connections, categorizing, and more with this flexible vocabulary activity that combines the soothing element of coloring with the critical thinking tasks inherent in graphic organizers.Simply print them
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7th - 10th
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