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Kindergarten Writing Units Bundle | Writers Workshop
This is a complete Kindergarten Writing Units BUNDLE. The units follow a workshop approach while focusing on taking writing slowly by building the foundational skills of illustrations. What's included:Illustration Unit: writers become confident in their drawing and coloring skills. Kindergarten students will learn how to draw with shapes and people with different facial expressions, hairstyles, and skin tones.Labeling Unit: writers become confident in their labeling and sentence structure skills
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PreK - 1st
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Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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K - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Informational Report Writing Unit THIRD GRADE
My third grade informational report writing unit includes 8 weeks of done-for-you writing lessons about how to write an engaging informational report essay, including research, note-taking, and paraphrasing skills. This unit contains detailed lesson plans, mentor texts, anchor charts, student writing tasks, and rubrics–everything you need to be a capable, confident writing teacher with students who love to write.If teaching writing has ever made you cry, weep, tear out your hair, question your e
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3rd
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Also included in: Writing, Grammar, and Spelling Unit 2 Bundle THIRD GRADE
STEM Challenge Bucket Tower Problem-Solving Learning Activity Upper Elementary
This unique and original STEM Activity features a bucket with the challenge to build a tower that will hold weight. It's an engaging student favorite and you will love the ready-made lab sheets and low prep. Students must also explain why their towers need a bucket. Imaginative answers are one of the high points of this challenge- along with seeing those creative bucket towers!➡️ Click here to save 20% on this STEM resource in a bundle of 3 projects.➡️ Click here for the Easy Supplies 6-Pack bun
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM CHALLENGES ENTIRE YEAR 60 Projects, Planning Guide, and Posters
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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Animal Habitats
This is a unit plan designed to teach young children about animal habitats. The habitats included in this unit are:DesertRainforestOceanArcticForestFreshwater WetlandsGrasslandsMountainsThis unit consists of 4 pdf files in a zip file. There is a file all about habitat information and printable projects. There are also files for writing activities, projectable books and easy printing journals.Science:Habitat Fact Sheets: Colored fact pages and cards with information about each habitats location,
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Animal Science SUPER BUNDLE - Animal Habitats & Animal Classification
How to Writing Unit for Writer's Workshop
This procedural writing unit is perfect for the primary grades! It includes plenty of how to writing paper, prompts, activities, anchor charts and more!Take your students through the writer's workshop process of brainstorming, writing, editing/revising and publishing their very own how-to booklets!Looking for more writing resources?! You can find ALL my writing resources for a fraction of the price here in my FIRST GRADE WRITING - EVERGROWING BUNDLE!In this unit:- How I use this unit in my class
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: First Grade Writing Workshop Units for the Year
STEM Challenge Earthquake Resistant Structures Project- 3 Versions
This STEM activity features an earthquake simulation with students building and shaking! You will love the shake tray instructions and ready-made lab sheets. This engineering project is one of our favorites! Your students will love building the structures and cheering when they remain standing. I include 3 different methods for the challenge.➡️ Click here to save 20% with a bundle including this resource and 2 more Earth challenges.NOTE: This resource contains many ways to complete this challeng
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4th - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, 4-ESS3-2
, 4-ESS3-1
Also included in: Earth Projects STEM Challenge Bundle Featuring Earthquake Structures
1ST GRADE STRUCTURED LITERACY INFORMATIVE WRITING CURRICULUM WITH PROMPTS
Are you ready to get stellar results through an explicit and systematic approach to writing instruction? This structured 1st-grade informational writing unit is filled with all the writing lessons, prompts, and activities you'll need for teaching students how to create nonfiction writing pieces. The best part? It's completely done for you - just click and teachWith this curriculum, we literally take your hand and walk you through, step-by-step, teaching writing every day of the year.Teaching wri
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1st
Inside Out Movie Worksheets | Movie Day Activities | Social Emotional Learning
Looking to support your student's social-emotional needs?What better way to engage students than with a MOVIE TIME? ... INSIDE, OUT is certainly a fun childhood favorite!Check out these LEARNING ACTIVITIES created just for the movie!Personality Islands Digital PBLPersonality Islands Printable PBLHow to Make Broccoli Pizza - A Fun and Engaging Reading and Math ActivityThis resource includes a printable AND digital version to use with Google Classroom™Looking for more MOVIE GUIDES? Click HERE-Movi
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4th - 7th
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Creativity Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle Finish the Picture, STEM
Need a quick, no prep, creative STEM challenges to get your students to think outside the box?! Creativity challenges can be used as a quick warm up before a STEM challenge to help jumpstart students’ creativity. They can also be used for morning work, brain breaks, and at various other times throughout the school day.This bundle includes 100+ Creativity Challenges and Activities. Featuring Balloons Over Broadway, Snowflake Bentley, Valentine's Day, Groundhog Day, Earth Day, Halloween, Christmas
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K - 5th
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2ND GRADE EXPLICIT INFORMATIVE WRITING CURRICULUM WITH GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Are you ready to get stellar results through an explicit and systematic approach to writing instruction? This structured 2nd-grade informational writing unit is filled with all the writing lessons, prompts, and activities you'll need for teaching students how to create nonfiction writing pieces.The best part? It's completely done for you - just click and teachWith this curriculum, we literally take your hand and walk you through, step-by-step, teaching writing every day of the year.Teaching writ
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2nd
STEM Popcorn Challenge - Problem-Solving & Volume Project - Measurement Activity
It’s the Popcorn STEM Activity! This Easy Prep Challenge is one of my absolute favorites to use as an exploration into volume. This challenge has been tested with 2nd-5th graders and they all enjoy designing those containers to hold the popcorn. Inevitably, there will be gigantic containers. Please note: This challenge is available in money-saving bundles!➡️ Click HERE to save 20 % with STEM Volume Bundle➡️ Click HERE to save 20 % with STEM 6-Pack Math Skills Bundle➡️ Click HERE to save 20 % wit
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Challenges Volume BUNDLE featuring Problem-Solving & Math
The Ultimate Literary Analysis Essay Guide: 20 Mini-lessons for Success
In this bundle, I have compiled 20 mini-lessons that take students through the entire writing process, step-by-step, from reading samples, to brainstorming, to drafting, to editing and revising, and to reflecting. This book bundle of lesson reflects lessons that I've developed throughout my teaching career. I have worked hard to construct a bundle that is practical and easy to follow for both teachers and students. In fact, these lessons are built so that they are reproducible for teachers.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Elementary Writing Workshop Resources Bundle - Teaching Without Frills
This bundle includes all of the K-5 elementary writer's workshop resources I've made to accompany the videos on my Teaching Without Frills YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/c/teachingwithoutfrillsI'm currently in the process of updating many of the products to include new videos, slides, and other resources. Grab the bundle now before the price increases!14 resources are included. See each individual resource listing and previews for more information! :)Recently Updated:Personal Narra
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K - 5th
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READ ALOUD STEM Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle #1 STEM Club, STEM Centers
Integrate STEM and Literacy in your classroom all year with READ ALOUD STEM Volume One! Everything you need to be the master STEM Teacher at your school! Awaken imagination and creativity all year. Students learn coding, engineering, explore real-world problems, learn about STEM role models, pioneers, inventors, and more!Amazing resource for STEM clubs, STEM Teachers, STEM Stations, STEM Centers, parents who love hands-on learning, and elementary teachers who want to create a hands-on educationa
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1st - 5th
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STEM Spaghetti Tower Challenge Problem-Solving Project
Who knew a project using spaghetti could be so engaging and have easy prep for you? Students love this tower-building event with the unlikeliest of materials- spaghetti and one marshmallow. You will enjoy the ready-made lab sheets and the 4 different versions of this resource. ➡️ Click here to save 20% on this STEM resource in a bundle of 3 projects.What is the challenge?Students will use raw spaghetti strands to build a structure that will hold weight at the top. There are 4 variations of this
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
3rd Grade Writing Units BUNDLE Personal Fictional Opinion Informational
Do you want your writing block to be more fun and engaging for your third graders? This bundle includes writing units that are KID-FRIENDLY and make teaching writing a breeze! We’ve got everything you need to get your students writing narratives, informational reports, and opinion pieces! The writing units bundle includes SIX writing units!EACH of our 3rd grade units includes everything you need to teach writing! ✏️Here’s what you get:✏️Mentor Texts that you can teach fromKid-friendly rubrics an
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3rd
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First Grade Writing Workshop Units for the Year
This first grade writer's workshop bundle is where you can find ALL the first grade writing units you will need for the entire year (and then some)!If you are a new teacher or a teacher looking to revamp their writing block, this is the unit for you! You will receive all the lessons you need for a year's worth of writing in first grade for a fraction of the cost.The following units are included already in this bundle:Writing Personal NarrativesOpinion WritingAll About BookWriting Realistic Ficti
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1st
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2nd and 3rd Grade Writing Lessons for Informational and Paragraph Writing
Are you looking to spice up your writing block with fun, engaging, and meaningful activities? This is UNIT FOUR of an 11 unit series. This unit will guide your students in writing three informational writing pieces and includes everything you need to drive your instruction. We have three themes for this writing unit: Writing Informative Paragraphs with Hamburger Paragraphs (in this week students will also inform the reader about their friend), All About Holidays, My Specialty: _____ where stude
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2nd - 3rd
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RACES Writing Strategy Practice | Reading Passages Prompts GR 6-8 Google Slides
⭐ NO PREP DIGITAL WRITING LESSONS: With 10 passages and prompts, students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades learn how to read a text closely and respond with an effective explanatory paragraph using the RACES writing strategy. Students can also use this format to write the body paragraphs of an essay!**DESIGNED FOR GRADES 6-8** This resource is not recommended for grades below 6th.►Except for the acronym, this resource is the same as TIQAC Writing Strategy Practice and Reading Passages. I do not rec
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: BUNDLE 5 Interactive Google Apps LANGUAGE ARTS Lessons and Activities
Fake News Unit | Critical Thinking | Media Literacy | Fact Analysis & Research
Teaching students to navigate news and information on mainstream, traditional and social media as critical thinkers is essential in 2024. It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate FACTS and OPINIONS, SATIRE from LIES, and PERSUASION from PROPAGANDA in the "MISINFORMATION:" eraA well-grounded understanding of MEDIA-LITERACY is crucial in stopping FAKE NEWS and RADICALIZATION. And This PROVEN resource will teach your students the skills to identify, analyze and critique information throug
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5th - 10th
Expository Writing Unit
Writing doesn't come easily to many students; so to effectively teach expository essay writing we need to GUIDE students through the process. In this comprehensive expository writing pack you will get step-by-step lesson plans, engaging worksheets, helpful handouts and more. ** NOTE: You can now buy this as part of my BUNDLED WRITING PACK and save 20%**OVERVIEW:Over the course of these 4 expository writing mini-units, students will master the techniques required to complete well-structured i
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7th - 10th
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STEM Bubble Wand Design Challenge Science Problem-Solving Activity
Bubbles, Bubbles, Everywhere! STEM students love bubbles! This STEM activity has elements of fun, but also a great design and building challenge. After exploring with bubbles students will design and test their own bubble wands! Watch them engineer the ultimate bubble with their bubble wands!➡️ Click here to save 20% on this STEM resource in a bundle of 3 projects.➡️ Click here to save 20% on this STEM resource in a bundle of 6 projects.What is the challenge?This STEM Challenge will have your st
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2nd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Also included in: STEM Fun Challenge Bundle
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