95 results
Holidays short stories resources for Microsoft OneDrive and for homeschool
Literary Elements of a Short Story PowerPoint
Literary Elements PowerPoint on literary terms and the main short story parts including characters, plot, conflict, setting, theme, resolution, denouement. This digital resource explains the critical elements of a short story and specific knowledge (like plot diagram, types of conflict) that students need to be able to identify when they read, as well as incorporate into their own writing. Short quiz on story elements at the end for assessment. Project on your whiteboard or print out the print f
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Literary Terms - Story Elements BUNDLE
Show Not Tell Writing PowerPoint with Elaboration Practice
Use the Show, Not Tell writing strategy to write descriptions more vividly. This lesson shows how to use the "Show Not Tell" strategy in creative writing. Imagery and sensory language create mental pictures to help the reader visualize. Strong verbs replace dead verbs. This digital resource gives students four different strategies to use to replace 'to be" verbs, including combining sentences, adding strong verbs, details and precise language, using nouns as verbs, and changing the sentence orde
Grades:
5th - 8th
Story Elements of a Fairy Tale PowerPoint and Printable Reading Activity
Fairy Tales PowerPoint will introduce your students to the main characteristics and story elements of fairy tales, such as magic, royalty, characters, lessons and more. Animated slides will engage your students. I use this presentation to introduce a unit on fairy tales. Review slides at the end with answer key. Then have students do the reading activity with my printable Elements of Fairy Tales chart (included on the last page). Have them read several fairy tales (I assign at least 5) and let
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Fairy Tales Resource Bundle
Rikki Tikki Tavi PowerPoint Preview, Vocabulary, Comprehension, and Response
Rikki Tikki Tavi PowerPoint. Preview and respond to the short story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling with this presentation. Introduces vocabulary with definitions, plot diagram, literary elements, anticipation guide, author biography and background information, strategies for reading short stories, comprehension check, and writing responses. Cobra and mongoose facts and photos, a link to the story and a National Geographic video clip of a mongoose encounter with a cobra. This is an engaging
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Rikki Tikki Tavi Bundle with Easel Activities
African Cultures in Black Panther 5-E Lesson | Investigate Wakanda | Microsoft
A STUDENT FAVORITE EVERY YEAR! A GREAT BLACK HISTORY MONTH RESOURCE TOO!This lesson examines “Wakanda” to learn about Africa’s cultural diversity & the real African traits that inspired Marvel's "Black Panther" movie. The activities are engaging for students & the guided, 5-E format is easy for you to use! Fill-in notes accompany the lesson. Begin with a “Sorting Hat” warm-up to clear up common misconceptions about Africa. Next, explore how the filmmaker blended traits of various African
Grades:
5th - 12th
Types:
Creative Writing Short Story Activities Workbook Print and Digital
No planning needed! Digital and print versions make this perfect for digital, in person, or blended learning. Your students will have everything they need to write their own short stories. Ready to use today. This resource guides them step-by-step. What teachers are saying:"I used this with my Honors 12 English class after our semester of reading short stories. The kids really used this resource - it gave them confidence and an actual place to plan their work. I will use it again.""This was
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 10th
Types:
The Fun They Had Short Story Analysis, Reading, and Research Activities
Looking for a relevant short story to share with your students? Isaac Asimov's "The Fun They Had" is perfect for our students grappling with distance learning! Your students will read the story, participate in a mini research project, analyze photos, and write a reflection.This is a great reading and research project for students to learn about education in the past, present, and what is imagined for the future.What teachers are saying about my distance learning resources:"Super easy to use (
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Back to School Planning Bundle Reading, Writing, Research Activities
The Christmas Truce of WWI 6-E Lesson | FUN World War 1 Activities | Microsoft
This fun, World War I lesson connects the Christmas holidays to your history curriculum standards! The activities are engaging for students and the guided, 6-E format is easy for you to use! Begin with a Christmas-themed “Fact or Fiction?” warm-up activity, then explore the battlefields of WWI. Next, investigate the Christmas Truce of 1914 using a modern-day commercial & examine the holiday song, “Snoopy’s Christmas”, to find references to World War 1 in its lyrics. Finally, students love to
Grades:
5th - 12th
Martin Luther King Jr Civil Rights Movement PowerPoint - MLK Writing Assignment
Martin Luther King Jr PowerPoint presentation and MLK Writing Assignment. An engaging overview of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ‘s life, from birth to his death and legacy. Has many photographs and some audio from his "I have a dream" speech. Students will learn about the life of MLK, his influence, and how he dreamed of a brotherhood of man. Perfect for Martin Luther King Day or Black History month. Use as a supplement to your Civil Rights Movement unit. Photo timeline can be used as a prompt and
Grades:
4th - 7th
Christmas Sing Along Favorites PowerPoint with Music
Christmas Sing-Along. Use this fun animated PowerPoint to sing ten favorite Christmas carols to celebrate the holidays. You need to click through the words as the included music plays through the slides. The music is set to begin automatically on the first slide for each song, then you click to forward slides through the song lyrics. You get an editable PowerPoint, so you can add songs or lyrics as you desire for your classroom use or adjust other aspects you may wish to change. This digital res
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Christmas Activities BUNDLE - Fun ELA Resources Grades 4 - 7
Latin America PowerPoint Fun Facts and Photos with Printable and Digital Review
Latin America includes South America and Central America. Great for Hispanic Heritage Month. Informational slides for independent work or whole group. Teach Spanish or Social Studies? Provide background information on South America and Central America - the land, the people, the history and the culture. Animated digital resource. Also use as an introduction to Spanish in foreign language class. Engaging and entertaining, interesting facts, and lots of photographs, these slides are a good way to
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Geography PowerPoint Bundle with Christmas and New Year Around the World
New Year Around the World PowerPoint
Happy New Year 2024! This is a New Year Around the World presentation is all about New Year’s traditions, which is fun to learn about after winter break. PowerPoint on traditions and customs of the New Year's holiday in 22 different countries: United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Japan, China, Vietnam, Australia, India, Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa. Good for first day back from break and will be one
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Geography PowerPoint Bundle with Christmas and New Year Around the World
Halloween Pumpkin STEM Challenge Low Prep STEAM Activities Fall Build a Pumpkin
Students will love building a jack-o-lantern for this Halloween & October STEM Challenge. Encourage STEM in your classroom with this Halloween STEM Jack-o-Lantern activity. Easy to set up, just use LEGO or blocks or even recycables. Infuse social-emotional learning, math, or literacy with the various differentiation sheets. Includes a DIGITAL VERSION for Google Classroom. This activity is included in the Halloween bundle. Save 30% when you buy all activities at once. CLICK HERE for the full
Grades:
K - 3rd
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
Thanksgiving on Mars 5-E Holiday Lesson | Primary & Secondary Source | Microsoft
This lesson explores Thanksgiving customs and connects the holiday with your Science & Social Studies curriculum standards. The activities are engaging for students & the guided, 5-E format is easy for you to use! Begin with a “Say Something…” warm-up, then review the differences between primary and secondary sources of information. Next, students imagine it is the year 2038 and they live in the first American colony on Mars. Challenge them to identify primary and secondary sources for M
Grades:
4th - 10th
Types:
All Summer in a Day Short Story Activities and Close Reading
Your students won't stop talking about the themes of this story! "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury addresses so many themes that resonate with kids! Your students will want to analyze characters, motive, plot, and the concept of living on another planet. This unsettling story is great for middle school and high school students -- sure to bring up great discussion on bullying, compassion for others, and accepting newcomers. Perfect to teach at the end of the year.This resource includes:p
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 9th
Types:
Also included in: End of the Year Activities Bundle Grade 6 7 8 Reading and Writing
October STEM Activities Witch Cauldron Challenge Halloween Building Low Prep
For this Halloween & October STEM Challenges students will create a table to hold up the witch's brew. Encourage STEM in your classroom with this Halloween STEM Witch activity. Easy to set up with common classroom materials. Includes a DIGITAL version! This activity is included in the Halloween bundle. Save 30% when you buy all activities at once. CLICK HERE for the full Halloween bundle!Students will love creating a table, or other device to hold up the witch's cauldron. Add weight to the c
Grades:
K - 3rd
Types:
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
...
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
Grades:
4th - 9th
Types:
Also included in: Bundle Monthly Warm up Bell Ringer Writing Journal Prompts
Figurative Language in Christmas Songs Activity PowerPoint Version
Christmas Activity: Identify figurative language in Christmas songs. Digital resource. Students read through the lyrics of different winter tunes and Christmas songs and identify types of figurative language, such as metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, or idiom. Lyrics have examples highlighted in different colors, so they can try to figure out the color code. Includes a chart they can fill out as they go through the songs. Each song has a snowflake link to a music video of the song. Y
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Christmas Activities BUNDLE - Fun ELA Resources Grades 4 - 7
St. Patrick's Day STEM Challenges March Activity Bundle St Pattys Leprechaun
If you need low prep St. Patrick’s day STEM or STEAM activities to use in your classroom then these St Pattys Day Stem challenges are for you! You will build a leprechaun trap, tool to pick up gold, boat, rainbow maze & more! What’s Included in the March St. Patrick’s Stem Challenges Bundle: 5 fun & simple activities all St. Patrick’s Day themed and LOW PREP for your convenience! St. Patrick’s Day STEM Activity 1: Leprechaun Trap Stem Challenge: Let your students’ imagination of Leprech
Grades:
1st - 4th
Types:
Dead Verbs PowerPoint for Halloween Writing
Dead Verbs PowerPoint. Good Halloween writing activity to teach about dead words in sentence and how to correct them. Bury those verbs that have lost their life and teach kids to use vivacious words in their essays and stories! Have a dead word funeral and give your students some practical strategies to revise their writing and remove dead and overused verbs to create more lively writing. Students can apply these writing strategies to engage the reader. Four useful strategies with examples provi
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Parts of Speech BUNDLE
Earth Day PowerPoint - Reduce Reuse Recycle
Earth Day PowerPoint explains Reduce Reuse Recycle and provides examples of how to do each. Great Earth Day Activity that students will love. Celebrate this important day with these spring activities! Slides have information on Earth Day history, Earth Day flag, Earth Day anthem, Sustainability. Includes actionable activities for students to use and many different ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Teaches the value of conservation and ecology. Includes a printable sheet to hand out for student
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Earth Day Activities Bundle
Christmas Around the World Christmas Craft Lap Book and Digital Activities
This Christmas Around the World bundle with help you teach important informational reading skills and comprehension as well as story, opinion writing, and math. It is full of short information pieces that will guide your students to learn about different cultures around the world and how they celebrate the season.Students can showcase their learning about different countries through research writing, creating a lap book (everything is included), or using the digital version.★DIGITAL★ version of
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Types:
Also included in: Christmas Around the World Bundle
Reading Comprehension Passage Interactive PowerPoint - Dirt Bike Racing
This is a reading comprehension passage and digital resource for your struggling boys who are just not motivated to read. Finish Line is the fiction story of a boy who is trying to find his own special talent in a family of many talents, who finds a dirt bike, fixes it up, and goes on to win at a dirt bike race, making new friends along the way. Each slide is a piece of the motocross story and is followed by a slide of reading comprehension questions requiring thinking, evidence, and inference,
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types:
CCSS:
Thanksgiving Homophones Search PowerPoint and Worksheet
Thanksgiving Hunting Homophones PowerPoint and printable worksheet. A homophones search is a fun November activity; sure to be one of your favorite Thanksgiving activities. It's an interactive holiday story to read. Students look for two incorrect homophones on each slide. There are twenty homophones or homonyms to find in all, two on each slide, and then students check at the end. Fun and engaging, this original Thanksgiving story is about a little boy who travels across the country to visit h
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Thanksgiving Activities Bundle Grades 3 - 6
Showing 1-24 of 95 results
TPT is the largest marketplace for PreK-12 resources, powered by a community of educators.
IXL family of brands