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Free Back to School Common Core W.7.4 resources
Fun Book Reports - Paper Bag Book Report
This is a fun freebie! Students do the written portion of the book report on the outside of a large grocery bag, and then place five items inside the bag to symbolize main characters, setting or events from the book. Students love these!!
Enjoy,
Shari Bithell
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3rd - 9th
Descriptive Writing Paragraph Starters
It's Back to School time - teach your students to write a great descriptive paragraph from the very beginning of the school year!
This is a great freebie! Watch what amazing writing your students do with these simple paragraph starters!
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3rd - 9th
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BACK TO SCHOOL ICEBREAKER GAME TEXT ME BACK FREE
Help your students get to know each other and start the school year off with a fun, friendly classroom culture. This back to school icebreaker can also be used for any hands on classroom discussion, or communication. FUN FACT- The topic suggestions in this resource were a collaboration of many teachers in a Facebook group. Special thanks to all who helped! JOIN OUR FACEBOOK GROUP AND GET IN ON THE FUN! INCLUDEDPhone Sheet Topic SuggestionsInstructionsTOPIC SUGGESTIONSI once had a pet that……My be
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4th - 8th
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Create a Dog | Fun Explanatory, Expository, & Descriptive Writing Activity
Puts their informative, explanatory, expository writing to the test and smiles on their faces! Students get to be creative and have fun, yet they must also use their best writing skills. The purpose for their writing becomes so clear during this lesson -- which is to have their partners draw exactly what they've described. Includes lesson plan, sample hybrid dog breed photos, pictures of common dog breeds, a sample drawing and description of a Labrador Raccooner, and a handout for the student th
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4th - 8th
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Back to School Getting to Know You Art and Writing
Art lesson on the art element of lines combined with a writing integration with poetry. Students include their name/nickname within their art. Students tell about themselves in one of two poetry options. Step-by-step instructions are given for the art and final product examples are included.
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4th - 7th
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6Cs Critical Thinking v2.8 (Folder 5 of 5) Individual Lesson Plans
24 Critical Thinking lesson plans (PDF) for the 6Cs CRITICAL THINKING UNIT. A: Lost at Sea. B: Thinking about Thinking. C: Hidden Bias in Online Sources of Information. D: Fake News (traditional news vs social media). E: Critical Thinking videos. F: Vocabulary Builder / Review. See list of lessons in the Google Drive folder below. This is Folder 5 (of 5) for the 6Cs CRITICAL THINKING UNIT.⭐ SEP 26, 2021 Version 2.8 UPDATE: There are a lot of files in this product. It can be confusing.Look at the
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6th - 10th
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"About Me" Essay - A Great Essay to Start the Year
This essay is a great way to get to know your students, personally and as writers. I use this at the beginning of the year in my middle school language arts courses to have students write an essay about a subject they know well - themselves. The students have a guide from start to finish. They know what each paragraph should be about, the editing expectations, and then it is published and we set them out for open house. There are art activities that I usually have them do to go along with it, li
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4th - 7th
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Write an Essay About Summer | Back to School Writing Series
To ease students back into writing, and motivate the most reluctant of writers, this is a step-by-step lesson that guides students through the process of writing a compare-and-contrast informative essay, complete with a choice of two graphic organizers. Everything they need to complete a 4-5 paragraph explanatory, expository essay that compares and contrasts two summers. This is a NO-PREP printable, also available in digital format, that engages ELA students through every step of the writing pro
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4th - 10th
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Get To Know You Acrostic Poem
An acrostic poem using the student's first name. This asks for more complex thought than "A is for amazing." This is a great filler activity to keep students occupied when they finish diagnostic tests sooner than their peers at the beginning of the year. Combines poetry, characterization, and a bit of visual creativity. 10 minutes or so of explanation; an hour or so of student work. End product from student is an illustrated acrostic poem of their name on a half-sheet of paper. Created by Englis
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7th - 10th
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*Free* Mystery Bag Get to Know You Activity
Get to know your students with this beginning of the year activity that will get everyone's brains thinking!
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6th - 8th
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