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Personal Narrative Writing Unit for First Grade
This personal narrative writer's workshop unit is aligned with the common core standards! It uses small moments to help guide students in writing narratives about their life. This was designed with first grade in mind, but can easily work in kindergarten and second grade classrooms. I needed structure and guidance for my first graders to successfully write their own personal narratives, so I created this packet to do just that! In this unit:Teacher Tips from my classroomDaily lessons in the "I d
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: First Grade Writing Workshop Units for the Year
Emergency Sub Plan - Missing Teacher Substitute Teacher Lesson and Activity
Emergency Sub Plan - Missing Teacher Substitute Teacher Lesson and Activity: This emergency sub plan is ready-to-use for any day off! This lesson and activity will keep your students totally engaged and on-task. The assignment is about your inexplicable absence and puts students in charge (by the principal) of investigating the reason you are not at school. Students will create a Missing Teacher poster and an investigative police case file that has them examine evidence and witness testimonies
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5th - 8th
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Christmas Around the World Scrapbook
A TpT TOP SELLER!!!! Take your students on a magical trip aboard Christmas Airlines to learn about Christmas in other countries! This interactive Christmas Around the World Scrapbook is a creative way to track student learning, and is a wonderful keepsake! This 63 page packet comes with a student scrapbook, Christmas Airlines plane boarding passes, passports and passport stamps for the journey, a teacher's guide with suggestions for books to read on your trip, food ideas, and fun crafts for eac
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K - 5th
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Sub Plans 1st Grade
This emergency sub plan kit has everything you need to ensure your school day runs smoothly while you're gone. Planning for substitutes can be harder than just coming into work sick. However, with this set, you will have no-prep, print and go, reading, writing, math, science, and art activities that make sure your kids are still learning while you get the rest you need. Included in this 175-page download are printables, graphic organizers, and more that cover:Classroom Management and Organizatio
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1st
Also included in: Sub Plans BUNDLE K-5
Kindergarten Teachers Taking Back Weekends BUNDLED
What is the Taking Back Weekends BUNDLE?Thanks so much for showing interest in my Taking Back Weekends packet! This packet was carefully created with kindergarten students in mind. This packet will offer the teacher material to get them through the month of learning. The best part is the Taking Back Weekends packet will lower teacher stress so you can focus on what’s important - - the kids! The packet covers five areas of learning: writing, content, sub plans, math centers, and literacy centers.
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K
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Christmas Activities - 12 Days of Christmas Countdown - 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade
These are the original 12 Days of Christmas Countdown activities for the classroom! These Christmas activities will save your sanity during the weeks leading up to Winter Break. Our TPT best-seller is packed full of Christmas themed reading, writing, and math activities along with themed craftivities. If you are looking for digital activities to compliment this pack, we offer a Digital and Printable 12 Days of Christmas in the Classroom Bundle. Impress your principal, parents, and even yoursel
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: 12 Days of Christmas Countdown - Christmas Activities Print and Digital
Writing Poetry in the Primary Grades
This poetry unit for first and second grade gets students writing both form and free-verse poems as they let their creativity fly!My students love to write poetry as a break from our traditional writing units. They really buy into the "no rules" aspect of free-verse poetry and when I show them different examples of poetry, they tend to take off and make many different writing pieces. I hope you and your students have as much fun as we do with this one!In this unit:Teacher Examples for each type
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: First Grade Writing Workshop Units for the Year
1st Grade Teachers Taking Back Their Weekends BUNDLED
1st Grade Teachers Taking Back Their Weekends BUNDLED View a video preview **HERE** and **HERE**I'm super excited to release these packets for first grade! For the longest time I was completely oblivious that it was not normal to spend every evening and weekend working at school or "on school" at home. These packets are designed to give you back your weekends! They have classroom ideas that require minimal preparation and will get you out of a last minute pinch if you should find yourself in
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K - 1st
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Personal Narrative Essay, Autobiographical Incident Writing, Step-By-Step, CCSS
Help your high school and advanced middle school students get creative with this eight-day Personal Narrative essay writing mini-unit. Featuring models of one professional and three exemplar student-written personal narrative essays, this bundle of step-by-step materials will inspire even reluctant students to put pen to paper. Activities/handouts featuring modern design elements and dynamic lecture materials will guide your students to craft their own meaningful autobiographical incident essays
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8th - 11th
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First Grade Writer's Workshop units
This first grade writing bundle is aligned to the Common Core standards and helps students with personal narratives, opinion writing, and informative writing as they work through the writing process. Students will brainstorm, draw, write, revise, edit and publish their own writing pieces for each genre of writing. This unit covers narrative writing, opinion writing and informative writing for all first grade writing standards!Each unit includes:Daily lessons set up in the "I do, We do, You do" f
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1st
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Friendly Letter Writing Unit - Parts of a Friendly Letter Template Paper
Teaching your students about writing a friendly letter is a valuable and fun activity. This Friendly Letter Unit has everything you need to introduce your students to this writing genre and guide them to independent friendly letter writing. Begin by teaching the parts of a friendly letter to your students and let them practice sorting them into the correct place. Then teach your students the format using the friendly letter templates provided in this resource. They will love the cut and past
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1st - 2nd
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Animal Adaptations l Science, Writing, and Art {Create a Creature Project}
Are you looking for a creative way to check your students' understanding of animal adaptations? In the Create a Creature project, students combine science, writing, and art to create an animal (or adapt an existing one) to survive in the new environment.The Create a Creature resource includes:Lesson plansSmall group activity to review environments and animal adaptationsProject Assignment to engage studentsTwo versions of student planning pagesFour versions of the final project pagesGrading rubri
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Earth and Life Science Project Bundle
Christmas Readers' Theater Activity: 3 Holiday Scripts to Improve Fluency
Christmas Readers' Theater scripts: Are you looking for something fun to do for reading during the week before Winter Break and Christmas? This set of three Readers' Theater scripts will certainly spice things up! A bonus page for teachers includes a page that lists the number of lines by characters and an explanation about how I schedule this to be a weeklong Readers' Theater activity.This BUNDLE contains three separate Christmas Readers' Theater scripts:1. Kris Kringle and the Seven Elves– Th
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Readers' Theater BUNDLE: A set of 32 Scripts
Christmas Unit | Lesson Plans - Activities for Preschool Pre-K
Preschoolers will learn all about the Christmas season in this Christmas thematic unit that has 10 complete Christmas circle time lessons to make planning and teaching a breeze!It includes 10 days of detailed Circle Time Lessons:Introduction - photos, song, and Christmas class pollDecorations - photos and concept of word poemPresents - photos, concentration game, song for ChristmasVisiting Santa - photos, Santa song, class poll about ChristmasElves - “The Lost Present” Christmas carpet game, int
Grades:
PreK - K
Also included in: Play to Learn Preschool - Complete Preschool Pre-K Curriculum
Gingerbread Man Activities, Reading Comprehension, Centers, Crafts & PowerPoint
Delight your students with gingerbread man activities and comparing favorite versions of The Gingerbread Man stories! This unique and creative unit has both printable and digital activities on Google Slides, and is designed to be non-holiday related so you can use it any time of year. This large resource includes 2-3 weeks of detailed lesson plans, 9 reading and ELA lessons with reading comprehension activities, literacy centers, anchor charts, quizzes, and crafts. Many of the activities are no
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1st - 3rd
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Narrative Writing - Graphic Organizers, Rubrics & More For A Personal Narrative
Personal Narrative Writing - An easy package to teach students how to write a well-organized personal narrative. These organizers and worksheets lead students through the writing process, from brainstorming to the finished product. Using examples and extensive peer and self-editing, students can produce a well-written narrative paragraph. It can also be a starting point for a longer essay or writing piece.For a DIGITAL version of this resource, click HERE. Includes the following 15 pages:- Les
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: WRITING - Persuasive, Narrative, Expository & Descriptive Writing Bundle
Gingerbread Unit | Lesson Plans - Activities for Preschool Pre-K
Circle Time lessons are completely done for you in this GINGERBREAD PRESCHOOL UNIT! This Gingerbread unit of study is a sweet way to celebrate the winter season with the students in your preschool classroom! It includes 10 complete Circle Time Lessons:Gingerbread - introduction, literacy activity about gingerbreadWhat is Ginger? - photos, song, gingerbread sensory activityThe Gingerbread Man - gingerbread anchor chart, concepts of printGingerbread Houses - gingerbread photos, class poll, math gl
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PreK - K
Also included in: Play to Learn Preschool - Complete Preschool Pre-K Curriculum
Little Social Studies Thinkers UNIT 3: Holidays Around the World (Kindergarten)
This is a complete Holidays Around the World / Christmas Around the World Unit!Little Social Studies Thinkers is a complete curriculum specifically for Kindergarten. It's everything you need to introduce, teach, practice, and assess your kinder friends. It is cross-referenced and aligned to the main topics of Kindergarten Social Studies Standards. -------------------GET THE FULL YEAR-LONG CURRICULUM HERE--------------------Little Social Studies Thinkers FULL YEAR CURRICULUM for KINDERGARTEN--
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PreK - K
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Also included in: Little Social Studies Thinkers CURRICULUM {Kindergarten Social Studies}
Christmas Around the World BUNDLE | 12 Countries | 5 Files
Visit 12 countries at Christmas with this Christmas Around the World unit including research booklets, worksheets, posters craft and more.Teachers are loving the Christmas around the world reading comprehension passages and questions in the huge download. TPT TOP SELLER - 5 FILES IN ONE Christmas around the world is an exciting unit/project to implement at Christmas time. This bundle is full of Christmas activities that will take you on a journey around the world. ★★★ Save more than 45% compar
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K - 2nd, Staff
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Rooted in Reading 2nd Grade | December Read Aloud Comprehension & Activities
Save TIME and ENERGY this December with these Reading Comprehension Lesson Plans and hands-on reading activities, including Winter and Christmas-themed! Enhance the Reading, Comprehension, Vocabulary, and Grammar in your classroom as students learn about asking questions, comparing and contrasting, main idea, story elements, cause and effect, and much more!Calling all 2nd Grade Teachers who are ready to TRANSFORM their ELA block! Rooted in Reading for 2nd Grade gives you everything you need to
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2nd - 3rd
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Opinion Writing Unit
Opinion writing for primary grades! This writing unit is filled with opinion writing graphic organizers and writing prompts that get your kindergarten, first and second grade students excited about writing!Please download the preview to see if you can use it in your classroom!Help your students tackle the opinion writing standard with this easy-to-use writing packet!In This Unit:Anchor charts for: Opinion, Fact, Persuade, OREO WritingTeacher tips from my classroomDaily Lesson Plans in the "I do,
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: First Grade Writing Workshop Units for the Year
Christmas Activities - 12 Days of Christmas Countdown - 4th, 5th, 6th grade
These are the original 12 Days of Christmas Countdown activities for the classroom! These printable and digital activities will save your sanity during the weeks leading up to Christmas Break. Our TPT best-seller is packed full of winter-themed craftivities, reading, writing, and math. Many of these activities can now be accessed or assigned digitally through Google Slides.Impress your principal, parents, and even yourself as students engage in both fun and learning right up until the last bell
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4th - 6th
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Full-Year Writer's Workshop Writing Curriculum Grades 3-5 Interactive Notebook
Grab your full-year curriculum for grades 3-5 (upper elementary)with interactive notebook. This printable writing program is everything you need for writer's workshop. Do you want to transform your reluctant writers into ROCKSTAR WRITERS®? This printable WRITING UNITS BUNDLE for GRADES 3-5 is filled with our signature STEP-BY-STEP WRITING® lessons with INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS. It is a COMPLETE WRITER'S WORKSHOP PROGRAM with all the tools needed for the entire year. You will find simple yet engagin
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3rd - 5th
Christmas around the World Research Project, Holidays around the World Activity
During this Christmas around the World research project students will research a country and its Christmas traditions. Students can select a country from a set of 12 pre-determined countries or they can choose any country that they would like to research. Then, students will research the country as they respond to targeted research questions. While researching, they’ll be on the lookout for basics about the country, holiday traditions, fun facts, food and drink for the holiday and even inform
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4th - 7th
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