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Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa Common Core W.6.10 resources
The Gift of the Magi Short Story Unit - Christmas Reading Comprehension Passages
This "The Gift of the Magi" Short Story Unit contains a 50 page close reading unit on “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry. Perfect for a short story interactive notebook, this Gift of the Magi teacher guide contains Gift of the Magi comprehension questions, teacher friendly answer keys, Gift of the Magi activities, vocabulary words, foldables, close reading resources, graphic organizers, creative writing, and essay activities are all included. All activities are classroom tested and include creat
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6th - 9th
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Christmas Writing Activities Middle School Prompts Persuasive Letter to Santa
Are your students on Santa's naughty list? This writing activity will keep your students engaged during the pre-holiday excitement as they write a persuasive friendly letter to Santa convincing him that they really don't belong on the naughty list! Creative and fun!What teachers are saying about this resource:"THE BEST UNIT I HAVE PURCHASED! So comprehensive, works students through editing, examples and just sets them up for a perfect end product if they try their best the whole way through th
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Christmas No Prep Persuasive and Descriptive Writing Bundle
Christmas Writing: Elves on Strike Narrative Unit with Google & Print Version
Engage your students with a fun narrative writing unit! Students will follow each step of the writing process as they develop stories about holiday elves. A unit plan is included to help you guide your students through each step. Now includes differentiated plot diagram maps and a Google version, perfect for distance learning!Included:Digital Links & DirectionsUnit PlanBrainstorming/OrganizerHow to Write an Amazing Elf Story PrintablePeer Editing PrintableStory ChecklistStages of WritingFina
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Christmas Writing Bundle: Narrative, Cause & Effect, and Poetry Units
December ELA Activities Bundle for Middle School
This collection of December and Christmas ELA activities includes the perfect standards-based resources to engage your students during this festive month. Use these print-and-go resources to give your students practice reading to self, reading to someone, listening to reading, word work, and writing—all centered around the seasonal themes of December and the holidays!Included in this ELA Activities Bundle:• Christmas Close Reads for Big Kids• Digital North Pole Job Application• The Show Must Go
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4th - 7th
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December Writing Prompts & Reading - December Activities - Christmas Activities
December & Christmas Reading Passages w/ Christmas emojis! Text Dependent Reading / Text Dependent Writing / Text Evidence / Constructed Response Reading & Writing (4th- 6th) with social media theme ( emojis - hashtags - texting ) - Made to use with Google Drive or pdf printouts. Great for Christmas Writing Prompts for the month of December. SAVE 30% by purchasing the WHOLE YEAR BUNDLE! - Hashtag Bundle - 200 Constructed Response Reading & Writing Passage Check out our December
Grades:
4th - 6th
Digital North Pole Job Application Writing Unit
If you are looking for a high-interest, week-long writing unit to engage your middle school students, this North Pole Job Application Toolkit is the descriptive writing unit for you!Unit overview: Mrs. Claus is asking for help at the North Pole. She has written a letter to you asking for urgent assistance! Students will work to incorporate descriptive writing into the job openings she has shared, apply for a specific job at the North Pole, and complete an application that incorporates extensiv
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: December ELA Activities Bundle for Middle School
Christmas Creative Writing Assignment
Elevate your writing curriculum and infuse festive joy into your classes with this Christmas Creative Writing Assignment. Students step into the shoes of captivating characters such as Santa's Elf, Christmas Turkey, Gingerbread Man, Christmas Tree, or Museum Curator, crafting imaginative written products like brochures, postcards, infographics, and more based on character-specific writing prompts. Using the RAFT format (Role, Audience, Format, Topic), students choose from five distinct writing o
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Creative Writing Full Year Bundle
Christmas Activity | Emoji Pictionary Guessing Game | Holiday Party Edition
Celebrate the holiday and Christmas season with this fun emoji pictionary guessing game! Think of it as Pictionary style riddles using only emojis. This fun activity is perfect for a classroom celebration, staff party, or use it at your family Christmas gathering! Whether you make it an individual race or a group competition, your crew will love having fun with this wintery, holiday activity!⭐️ Get the Full Growing Bundle of Emoji Games and save big! Enjoy holidays & more!What's Included:A P
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Not Grade Specific
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Christmas Descriptive Writing Activity – Gingerbread House Real Estate Listing
Christmas Descriptive Writing Activity – Gingerbread House Real Estate Listing is a fun and creative way to improve your students' descriptive and persuasive writing with a holiday twist. Students will use imagery and persuasive language to create a real estate listing for a gingerbread house, where they will put their writing skills and creativity on display. Use the included slideshow presentation to teach students about how to write using descriptive and persuasive writing techniques. After u
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7th - 10th
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CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD RESEARCH PROJECT | Winter December Report Writing
Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, print-and-go, 15-page Christmas Around the World Online Research Project for Middle Grades (Grades 4-8) Unit. In this Christmas Around the World Project, students will be assigned a country. They will research how that country celebrates Christmas using a variety of provided internet sources. They will use the information to complete an outline. They will also compare and contrast how that country ce
Grades:
3rd - 12th
December Daily Writing Journal Warm Up Bell Ringer Activities
No matter what your year looks like, this is an easy way to keep your students writing! Engage them with daily journal writing with 31 December prompts that focus on quirky holidays, important days in history, funny/inspirational quotes, and research.Print or digital -- You'll get both!Did you know that December 5 is Ninja Day and that December 13 is National Cocoa Day? (Neither did I!!) Those are two of the over thirty prompts you'll find in this resource. Topics include trivia, historical even
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts
Christmas Writing Assignment - Santa Survival Manual Holiday Writing Activity
Christmas Writing Assignment - Santa Survival Manual Holiday Writing Activity: This Christmas writing assignment has students take on a task given to them by the North Pole government: create a survival manual for Santa on his trip around the world! Students must complete a written plan for the manual, which will include 5 different obstacles Santa may encounter: inability to descend a chimney, waking a sleeping child, reindeer injuries, weather conditions, and sleigh malfunctions. This activity
Grades:
6th - 9th
Christmas Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers, Quizzes Rubrics
Introducing essay writing for Christmas has never been easier! This writing unit with 4 complete essay prompt lessons (argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive) guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a 5-paragraph (or more/less) essay. The unit includes: argumentative writing graphic organizer, expository writing graphic organizer, narrative writing graphic organizer, persuasive writing graphic organizer, argumentative rubric, expository rubric, narrative rubric,
Grades:
6th - 8th
How the Grinch Stole Christmas compare/contrast book and movie with writing.
Can be used in any grade level. Read the book and play any of the two versions of the movie! This can be taught in a week or shorter/longer as you need. A compare and contrast thinking map, pre-write, rough draft, edit, revise, and final draft sheets are provided. A quick time filler needed for those weeks leading up to Christmas break! The color coding on the thinking map and pre-write are useful for any student, particularly those who are EL and struggle understanding how to write. The visu
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4th - 7th
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Writing • Tic Tac Toe Choice Board • Christmas
Choices can be a key motivator and this Christmas Writing Tic Tac Toe offers students many choices of writing genres. Students must pick three prompts in a row to write about. Genres included in the choice board are: Descriptive, poetry, comparative, opinion, persuasive, personal narrative along with letter writing.All student pages are offered in color or black and white.Suggestions for use: Start the activity about 6 days before the Christmas holiday. The first 3 days the students write u
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Writing • Tic Tac Toe Choice Boards • Holiday Bundle
Christmas Descriptive Writing Activity – Gingerbread House Real Estate - Digital
Christmas Descriptive Digital Writing Activity – Gingerbread House Real Estate Listing is a fun and creative way to improve your students' descriptive and persuasive writing with a holiday twist. Students will use imagery and persuasive language to create a digital real estate listing for a gingerbread house, where they will put their writing skills and creativity on display. Use the included Google Slides presentation to teach students about how to write using descriptive and persuasive writing
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7th - 10th
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CHRISTMAS WRITING PROMPTS | Winter Bulletin Board Narrative Informative Opinion
Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, 25-page Christmas and Winter Holidays Writing Prompts! It includes everything you need to celebrate Christmas and Winter holidays with your students! Students will read about American Christmas traditions, and write responses to what they’ve read, Revising and editing checklists and 13 holiday-themed writing papers are also included. All CCSS writing standards are addressed. The following resources a
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Gift of the Magi by O. Henry Christmas Activity
Are you looking for a no-prep Christmas comprehension, listening, and writing activity for The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry's classic short story of love and sacrifice? This fun, easy-to-use resource includes links to podcast audio versions of the story, as well as a listening comprehension mystery picture, editable writing prompts, and two versions of the printed story. The Christmas mystery picture and writing activities can be used with the printed story or the podcast audio. Either way, kids w
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6th - 8th
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Winter Craft Project & Writing Activity - Ugly Christmas Sweater (Middle School)
An ugly Christmas sweater craft project and writing activity for middle school! This winter project will keep your kids busy with a meaningful activity. Kids will roll the dice and put decorations on their sweaters. The writing activity has a brainstorm to get them focused on a creative writing story. This is a printable activity with digital options. Makes a great bulletin board!Here is what is included:✅Sweater pattern - print on paper or oaktag✅Dice rolling activity - for decorations✅Wri
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5th - 8th
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Christmas Holiday Reading Comprehension & Written Response RACES Strategy- SEL
Reading Comprehension and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or any other winter holidays!Handling Holiday Stress Social and Emotional Learning Activity to Support Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, Classroom Discussions, and more!Great for Special Education and General Education Students with Modified Lesson & Activity!⭐️ Check out some more Holiday SEL lessons here! ⭐️Handling Holiday Stress: Social and Emotional Learning ActivityThe story "Handling Holiday S
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5th - 12th
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Christmas Holiday Reading Comprehension & Written Response RACES Strategy- SEL
Christmas Around The World Reading Comprehension and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) for Secondary Students!Social and Emotional Learning Activity to Support Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, Extended Written Responses Classroom Discussions, and more!Great for Special Education and General Education Students with Modified Lesson & Activity!⭐️ Check out some more Holiday SEL lessons here! ⭐️Christmas Around The World: Social and Emotional Learning ActivityThe story "Christmas Around The Worl
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5th - 12th
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Holiday Writing Bundle for Middle School Language Arts
This bundle includes five fun writing assignments for holidays!Bundle includes:Writing a Valentine's Day Poem - This assignment is a fun and engaging way for students to learn about various elements of poetry while celebrating Valentine’s Day. The packet includes guidelines to help students write a three-stanza poem. Students learn about rhyme scheme and syllabication. They also learn about various elements of poetry such as similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and assonance. Graphic
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6th - 8th
Winter Holidays Haikus Easy No Prep Wintertime Activity for Middle School ELA
This fully editable lesson plan and worksheet comes with a lesson plan and worksheet for teaching a fun winter-inspired class on haikus! Pass out the winter-time topic cards and have students generate words, phrases and feelings associated with wintertime and winter holidays. Then, teach your students the structure of a haiku and show examples. Let your students bring all their winter words and topics together and practice writing haikus in small groups - and share out for extra winter holiday
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5th - 8th
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Holiday Essay Organizer | Informative Writing | Holidays Around the World
Looking to bring some holiday cheer to your writing unit? Try this informative essay on a holiday! This can be used for Christmas, Halloween, Hanukah, New Year's Eve, any holiday! I think it's especially fun during the winter holiday season.Students will choose a holiday to research and use the notes organizer which is pre-labeled (History, Traditions, Compare/contrast to another country) to keep them organized through the whole process. There are also guided questions to help focus their resear
Grades:
4th - 8th
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