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New Years 2024 Activities Resolution Goals Growth Mindset Digital
Happy 2024! My New Year's Activities pack is updated yearly and includes creative prompts for resolutions, goals, poems, growth mindset, creative activities, a scavenger hunt, and print-and-go pages as well as interactive notebook activities to promote critical thinking and a growth mindset. This includes DIGITAL versions in Google Slides and in Easel so you can use ALL of the activities for distance learning!Students will enjoy these critical-thinking and creative activities; the activities are
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Writing Our World™ Basic Units 1-8 BUNDLE
The Writing Our World™ Basic Units include:• 8 Units aligned with the scope and sequence of The Writing Revolution®* Chapters 1-8• 15-minute mini-lessons with teacher directions• Student materials to accompany each lesson• Unit-aligned rubrics and directions for progress monitoring through writing sample collection• Recommendations for incorporating tier two vocabulary instruction • Easily adapted to match the content area curriculum your students are currently studyingThe Writing Our World B
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RACES Writing Strategy Graphic Organizer
This student handout is all you will need to help students learn to write the perfect paragraph while citing evidence and responding to a writing prompt or a constructed response question. It includes hints that get your learners writing professionally in no time at all! Eventually, you can remove the hints and let the students write using the RACES strategy from memory.
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RAP Writing Strategy
Getting students to write full complete sentences can be a challenge. So, “Teach em’ How to RAP.” The R.A.P. strategy is used when students are answering short answer responses.
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- White and Black one with arrows and one without
- Black and White
- Shiplap and Black
- Wood and White
- Various Colored letters
- Farmhouse Floral
BONUS: Student size for individual notebooks and/or desks
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Question- How is Goldilocks described in the text?
Answer- In the text, Gold
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Animal Research & Informational Writing - Mini Book Templates
Animal research projects are the way to go when it comes to teaching informational writing. Kids LOVE animals and have so much fun learning and writing about them. But teaching writing is hard!After some trial and error, I’ve developed templates to use with my students to walk them through the informational writing process.WHAT'S INSIDE?This download includes research pages and lined templates to help your students with informational writing about animals. Students can choose from regular lines
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Also included in: Mini Book Writing Template BUNDLE (Target Dollar Spot books)
The MLA Format Activity l MLA format
Let's face it, MLA format can feel like the ogre under the academic bed. Intimidating. Complicated. Not to mention annoying. But with the resources now available to our kids online (like the Purdue writing lab's guide to citation), it doesn't have to be so stressful. All we really need to do is introduce students to the basic system, teach them to cite their favorite sources, and give them a roadmap to the right online source for when they need to cite something wild, like an interview originall
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Editable Brochure Project Template, Google Docs Trifold w/ Student Instructions
An easy-to-use brochure template, editable in Google Docs. Great for student projects, reports, virtual collaboration or group projects, PTO flyers, back to school handouts, and more! Instructions for use are included in the file to support students as they create their brochures!You receive:PDF access link to copy brochure file in Google DocsFully editable, 2 page brochure templateWritten instructions on the templateBrochure templates can be tricky to create. This one is EASY to use with fully
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Veterans Day Smiley Face Craft and Writing | Military Hats | Thank You
Veterans Day Smiley Face Craft and Writing | Military Hats | Thank YouGive your students the opportunity to learn and reflect on the many services and sacrifices that are made by our military members. Write veterans a thank you letter, describe the brave service men who make up the many branches, or draw pictures of the kind acts that they perform. Students can enjoy this meaningful writing opportunity and create a super cute craft!This resource includes:- a black and white smiley craft option-
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Paraphrasing Lesson, Poster, Task Cards, and Steps to Avoid Plagiarism
Paraphrasing Lesson and Steps to Avoid PlagiarismMakes the task of teaching students how to do a research report without plagiarizing easier by teaching how to paraphrase.Give them the five steps and strategies for paraphrasing. Great for learning proper note-taking skills and perfect for students working on informational writing, completing research papers, or writing expository text. I used to struggle years ago with teaching my young elementary students how to paraphrase and put things into
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Because But So Digital Lesson & Worksheets · Sentence Writing Sentence Combining
Help your students use advanced language in speaking and writing with this NO PREP lesson! Sentence combining and sentence completing activities with conjunctions BECAUSE, BUT, and SO.This fun and exciting tool will help your students develop more sophisticated, descriptive sentences and expressive language. INCLUDES:Visuals for each conjunctionSentence completing activities Sentence combining activities Printable worksheets****This product is not affiliated with, but is aligned to and inspired
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Writing Wall Pieces and Resources
This resource contains everything you need to create and build a writing wall in your classroom!With these easy to read posters, student numbers, and anchor charts, your writing wall will be both a beautiful display of hard work AND a reference point for students.Included in this resource:"Work in Progress" and "Amazing Work Coming Soon" signsStudent portfolio covers (four options)Student number circles (three options)Types of writing anchor charts"Currently on Display" postersWriting process an
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Book Review - Website-Themed Book Reviews - Book Review Writing
We've all asked our students to write a book review at one point or another, but how relevant are we making it for them? These website-themed book reviews were made to help students see that book reviews are not just something that is done in the classroom. It extends out to the "real world." It's also very engaging!There are blank reviews available so that your students can fill one out for ANY book they have read, but there are also partially filled out reviews for specific books. Those books
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Nonfiction Text Structure Posters - Informational Text Structures Poster Bundle
Nonfiction Text Structure Posters – Help your students understand nonfiction text structure with this colorful set of posters. The posters have example graphic organizers that are a great scaffold during student activities! Also these serve as wonderful anchor charts!Each poster comes in 6 different designs, so just choose your favorite style, print and go! ⭐⭐⭐ BUNDLE & SAVE!! GET ALL OF MY NONFICTION TEXT STRUCTURE RESOURCES HERE!! :-) ⭐⭐⭐The Informational Text Structures included are:• Des
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Elaboration Strategies: Poster Set & Student Bookmark
Ever looked at your student written responses and thought that they need to work more on developing and stretching out their responses?! This was me, for the past few weeks! I've noticed if I asked students to go back and add detail, they would either add repetitive details, or insignificant information.Looking at the writing standards, students are expected to a develop a topic in many different ways. This product includes 8 different elaboration strategies in a classroom poster set, and also i
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Would You Rather Opinion Question Writing Task Cards
63 funny and gross would you rather questions for primary school children.This activity helps students learn to form an opinion for persuasive writing. How Can it be Used?The idea of the game is that you ask your students a “Would you rather” question, and each person has to decide and justify their answer. You can run this many ways depending on your class size and reference. For example, you can have students raise their hands for each option, stand up or sit down, move round the room as a bra
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Also included in: Back to School Classroom Decor and Community Building Bundle
MLA Format: Colorful Posters for Easy Reference
MLA citation format can be so tough. Not only is it probably draining your grading flair pens, it's a frustrating distraction sometimes for students who are trying to work on the quality of their writing.By putting these beautiful posters up in your writing center or on your classroom walls, you give students a quick and easy reference point for how to cite their most commonly used sources: novels, poems, podcasts, online videos, and online articles. There are also posters for constructing a cit
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Biography Writing - Research Page and Book Template
Biographies are a fun option for teaching informational writing. Kids enjoy choosing someone they admire to research and write a biography about. But teaching informational writing is hard - I know! After some trial and error, I’ve developed templates to use with my students to walk them through the informational writing process.WHAT'S INSIDE?This download includes research pages and lined templates to help your students with informational write biographies. You can choose from regular lines or
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Also included in: Mini Book Writing Template BUNDLE (Target Dollar Spot books)
Transitional Phrases
Transitional Phrases for Opinion, Informative & Narrative.
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Also included in: Writing Bundle - 3 Genres of Writing Anchor Charts & Graphic Organizers
Editing with CUPS Checklist
Use this checklist with your students to edit written work. There is a large checklist to use as an example or for notes, and smaller checklists for students to use after they write. The larger checklist can also be used as a poster.
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Also included in: Editing with CUPS and Revising with ARMS Bundle
Transition Word Cards- 24 Color Coded Words to Post In Your Writing Center
Transition Word Cards- 24 Color Coded Words to Post In Your Writing Center
Help your students use transition words in their writing with these color coded cards. Green for words to use in the beginning, yellow for in the middle and red for the end. Also included is a 8.5 x 11 traffic light poster with the corresponding green, yellow and red colors as a visual for the students to refer to. These are perfect to post in your writing center or as part of your focus wall or writing bulletin board.
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Capitalization and Punctuation Rules Reference Bookmark: Shurley English
This reference page reminds students to capitalize first words of sentences, pronoun "I", and proper nouns. All have detailed examples. The punctuation rules reminds students to add punctuation to the ends of sentences, periods for abbreviations, and when to use commas and apostrophes. Detailed examples are used. Works perfectly for the Shurley English program but is a great reference for any student. This sheet can be folded, cut, and used as a bookmark if desired.
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Expository Writing Cheat Sheet/Anchor Chart
This product can be used as an anchor chart to display in your classroom or could be used as an insert for your students' writing journals/binders.
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Also included in: Expository Writing Bundle
Research Project Template to Guide Students in Research Process
Do your students need help using the research process to research independently? The Dot Dudes are here to help in this 3 page step-by-step Independent Research Project Template! This organizational guide will provides structure and organization to help scaffold the research process and allow your students to be successful. Use it for enrichment as an Independent Research Project or as a whole class handout to help them move through the research steps. There are 4 versions! Click on the PREVIE
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C.R.U.N.C.H. Report Writing Bundle (Includes 54 Task Cards) ELA-Literacy.W.5.2
Aligned to Common Core Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.2Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.2.aIntroduce a topic clearly, provide a general observation and focus, and group related information logically; include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.2.bDevelop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other inf
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