230 results
Other (ELA) thematic unit plans $5-10
Patricia Polacco Author Study + Theme + Memoirs | Digital + Print
{HUGE UPDATE: 12/2020 - 15 ADDED ACTIVITIES + 71 PAGES + A DIGITAL VERSION - SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS!} This resource guide has everything you need to engage your students in critical thinking using books by Patricia Polacco! It includes multiple skills-based activities on theme, character, plot, and author analysis, as well as extension activities to help you create an even more in-depth study. EVERYTHING in the resource comes in a printable and digital version (via Google Slides and Google Form
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Rooted in Reading Snowmen at Night for Winter Reading Comprehension Activities
Elevate your classroom experience this winter with a comprehensive resource that pairs with the popular picture book “Snowmen at Night.” This Read Aloud Resource is designed to engage your learners as well as foster a love of reading in your classroom. You’ll dive into the magical world of snowmen while also targeting those crucial and complex language arts standards.PLEASE NOTE: Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner needs to be purchased for this teaching resource.Key Features:Interactive readin
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Radio Theater Unit Drama Class Aligns CCSS 7.7 Audio Storytelling Foley Artists
Part of a Bundle One of my most popular products! Get in on the excitement for your classroom, too! Got reluctant students in your classroom? Did you know that podcasts are the newest home for radio theater? Try radio theater--your students will find a place for themselves to participate in this unit! It is my radio theater unit ONLY. No script is provided. This TEN DAY unit, 43 pages in length, however you can use as little or as much as you like. It is suitable for middle and high school d
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 9th
Broadway Musical Theater Unit Study Guide Wicked Grades 7 to 9 Plot Themes Songs
Part of a Bundle Elfaba and Glenda the Good Witch anyone? This one to five day lesson and study guide concerns the Tony award-winning Broadway musical Wicked! Need something different? Pick up this one. This unit contains enough material for four days. Students learn about the musical's origin, creative team, songs, trivia, plot and end with an enrichment activity or assignment which can be completed individually or with partners. This lesson can stand alone or be combined with one of my Famou
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Halloween Drama Class Units, Scripts and Lessons Bundle!
Broadway Musical Unit Study Guide The Wiz African American Futurism
Part of a Bundle Let's ease on down the Road with the Broadway Tony Award Winner The Wiz a fantastic futuristic African American version of The Wizard of Oz. The Wiz is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of contemporary African-American culture. This two or three day lesson (65 pages) and study guide about this Broadway musical can stand alone or be combined with one of my Famous Artist Biographies (Lin Manuel Miranda) or other musical less
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 10th
Types:
Also included in: Drama Units Broadway Musicals Wicked The Wiz Spongebob Christmas Story
Jurassic Park Themed Transformation ELA Mission Pack
Have you seen safari or Jurassic Park themed transformations on social media? Have you always wanted to do a transformation, but don’t know where to start? This Jurassic Park Themed Transformation ELA Mission Pack is the answer! This pack includes six ELA "missions" that can be used with ANY passages! (I recommend passages from readworks.org, NewsELA.com, or CommonLit.org). You will need 5 reading passages total, two informational, and three literature (two with well developed characters, and on
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Broadway Musical Unit And Study Guide for Dear Evan Hansen Social Anxiety
This is beloved Broadway musical, Dear Evan Hansen is at the forefront of popular musicals with relatable themes for our teens. Through a study guide, give your students an opportunity to research and study the musical, its origin, trip to Broadway, themes, composer and analyze what they learn from the musical in an extension activity. Are you ready to embark on an emotional and musically enriching journey through the award-winning Broadway musical "Dear Evan Hansen"? This specially designed
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 9th
Fractured Fairy Tales
BEST SELLER! Updated October 3/2018 with story element posters, more graphic organizers for differentiation and a list of fractured fairy tales to share.A complete Fractured Fairy Tale Unit. Everything you need to take your students through the process of writing their own Fractured Fairy Tale. Just add your own favourite Fairy Tales and Fractured Fairy Tales.Unit Includes a Variety of Graphic Organizers for:Comparing and Contrasting Traditional and Fractured Fairy Tales, Small Moments throug
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 6th
The Groovy Cat
This pack is filled with book response activities, with options to use as an interactive notebook, and activities you can do for literacy centers.
Story structure with problem and solution
Summarizing Stories
Describing Characters
Inferring (using Rocking School Shoes as an model)
Alternate ending
Evaluating
Comparing and Contrasting books
Sequencing activities
Groovy Sentence Scramble
Pete’s Problem – Cause and Effect
Using adjectives
Class Book
Text to Self Connection
Build a Cat – following
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Scary Radio Drama Script The Monkey's Paw Horror Acting Script Interpretation
Part of a Bundle Want to "scare" up some fun learning? Here's a twenty-five minute radio drama script for students is adapted from W.W. Jacob's classic, gothic story, The Monkey's Paw. Through this 45 page resource, teach your students about plot, characterization, foreshadowing, horror while strengthening eading, speaking, listening and acting skills, too! This script has 23 +roles (including crew) and was adapted especially for the classroom. Strengthen your students' listening, speaking, an
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in: Halloween Drama Class Units, Scripts and Lessons Bundle!
Writing Lists - 150+ List Templates for Writing Stations - Writing a List
Teaching students the art of writing lists is a fun one, and a skill you can incorporate all year round. 150+ printable lists will give you so many options for ways to practice list writing. Teach your students how to write lists all year round with this product that includes 150+ lists for K-2 students! Due to the number of options, you can offer your students a different list option every day of school!Print these lists to have on hand all year to use:In your writing centerAs a 5-minute "in-be
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 2nd
Broadway Musical Unit And Study Guide For Hairspray Social Change Integration
Part of a Bundle This musical theater lesson and study guide focuses on the Tony award winning musical Hairspray. Hairspray tells the story of Tracy Turnblad who advocates for racial integration and succeeds in her social change mission to integrate The Corny Collins Show. Students have an opportunity to study its journey to Broadway, composers, plot, trivia, etc. The lesson can stand alone or be combined with one of my Famous Artist Biographies (Lin Manuel Miranda or Sarah Bareilles for example
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 9th
Change-maker Research Project
This activity is a research project for students to research change-makers in both the past and present. It can be used in conjunction with a unit on change and changing for the better to help people. It could also be used as a stand alone, as a project in conjunction with social issues book clubs, and much more. This bundle includes:Teacher instructions/overview (includes notes, modification ideas, alternative assessment ideas, font list, etc.) (PDF)Change-maker assignment sheet (PDF and editab
Grades:
6th - 9th
Radio Drama Play Script Edgar Allen Poe Cask of Amontillado Revenge
Part of a Bundle Here's a fifteen minute dramatic radio play adapted from Edgar Allen Poe's classic, gothic story, The Cask of Amontillado. This script has 15 + roles (plus crew) and was written especially for the classroom! Strengthen your students' listening, speaking, and reading skills all at once. It's a one stop shop!BONUS: I've included a sample of my new book, "We're Live! Radio Theater #101"! This teacher's guidebook gives you all the advice, tips and guidance you'd need to teach with
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 10th
Types:
Also included in: Halloween Drama Class Units, Scripts and Lessons Bundle!
Music Unit: Carnival of the Animals Saint-Saens Unit
This is a full unit of Saint-Saens' The Carnival of the Animals, for use in K-6 music classrooms OR in a classroom for a teacher that loves music!
INCLUDED:
-17 page Teacher's guide to this unit, full of activities that include movement, singing, writing rhythms and creating melodies, playing instruments, creating art, suggestions for literature connections and core connections, and much more!
-25 slide colorful Powerpoint for use with your students!
This carefully designed unit examines ni
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 6th
Types:
Broadway Musical Unit Study Guide In the Heights Hip Hop Lin Manuel Miranda
Part of a Bundle Looking for something to use for Hispanic Heritage Month? This one to four day lesson and study guide focuses on the Tony award winning, Lin Manuel Miranda In the Heights musical. In the Heights tells the story of a vibrant Hispanic community in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood. Students have an opportunity to study its plot, journey to Broadway, its creative staff, trivia about Broadway and In the Heights, view video clips, study the Tony awards and finish learning th
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 11th
Types:
The Three Little Fish and The Big Bad Shark Book Companion for Language
Are you afraid of the big bad shark? This book companion will allow you to teach and practice a ton of great language skills including: vocabulary, sequencing, story retell, answering comprehension questions, understanding plural nouns and past tense verbs, inferencing, comparing and contrasting, describing and more!
When you purchase this book companion you will receive a color version as well as a mostly black and white version (the real pictures are in color due to terms of use from the phot
Subjects:
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Economy Unit
This unit is intended and incorporated third grade Illinois Social Studies Standards as of 2017. However, can be used for grades 2-4. The product has more than 10 days worth of lesson plans. Each lesson has a clear description or expectations, pictures when needed!
DAY 1: Vocabulary
DAY 2: Needs and wants
DAY 3: Applying for a job writing and video activity
DAY 4: Make bank accounts- step by step directions with pictures
DAY 5: Budget
DAY 6: Scenarios of good money habits
DAY 7-10: Cl
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Types:
Water Unit Anchor Charts - Guided Edition - Creative Curriculum - TSG
Do you use Creative Curriculum’s Teaching Strategies Gold in your classroom? After using it for the past 11 years, I have found each year, as I approached a new curriculum, I was scrambling to come up with the materials I would need for each unit. With this set, you won’t have to! Utilizing this set in your classroom, you will have all of the materials necessary to create an Anchor Chart reflecting the "Water:Guided Edition" unitThis downloadable set includes the TSG Anchor Chart topics of:- Wha
Subjects:
Grades:
PreK - 1st
The Listening Walk: Exploring Sounds through Literature (Music, Language Arts)
This series of four lessons is aimed at Kindergarten through Grade 2, with possible adaptation/extension for older grades. Using Paul Showers' book, The Listening Walk, students will explore environmental sounds and think about how music is inspired by nature. Students will create music and graphic scores of their own and perform their music with the help of a student conductor. Read more about it here.This plan addresses several of the new Music Standards (Cr1, Cr2, Re7, Cn11) as well as severa
Subjects:
Grades:
K - 2nd
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Frog: Book Companion
The flowers are blooming, the butterflies are flying, and the frogs are jumping! Join the old lady for some spring fun with “There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Frog: A Book Companion For Language”!
When you purchase “There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Frog: A Book Companion For Language” you will receive both a full color version and a black and white version. You get to decide which one you would rather use.
When you purchase “There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Frog: A Book Companion
Subjects:
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Book Companions for Language: "Old Lady" Bundle
Broadway Musical Unit Study Guide Matilda Grades 7 to 9 Tony Winner Roald Dahll
Are you as afraid of Trunchbull as I am? Matilda the Musical is a very popular production especially with fans of author Roald Dahl's book, Matilda. Students learn through a study guide about its journey to Broadway, plot, characters, songs and even trivia! This one or two-day lesson can stand alone or be combined with one of my Famous Artist biographies or another musical, such as Spongebob Squarepants. Note: I created a digital version of this lesson for you. I split up the teacher's pag
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 9th
Summer Olympics Classroom BINGO Game
A summer Olympics-themed BINGO game designed for students of all ages. 30 unique BINGO cards make this product perfect for homeschoolers and classroom teachers alike. Students practice vocabulary and word recognition. The fun summer Olympic-theme and play aspects keep students engaged.The download includes:30 unique BINGO cards60 call cardsThemed BINGO tokensA blank BINGO card for personalization12 blank call cards for personalizationGame directions and variationsExamples of some BINGO call card
Subjects:
Grades:
PreK - 7th
Broadway Musical Unit Study Guide For Rent HIV AIDS Struggle Poverty La Boehme
Part of a Bundle Rent, winner of the 1996 Pulitzer prize in Letters, Drama & Music demonstrates the consequences of the HIV/Aids epidemic of the 1990's. However, this lesson and study guide focuses on its origin, playwright & composer, songs, history of the Broadway musical and a mini-lesson the Tony Awards. This lesson suitable for an arts integration in an AP language arts or Honors social studies or drama class. Note: This lesson is most appropriate for senior high school. The le
Subjects:
Grades:
10th - 12th
Showing 1-24 of 230 results
TPT is the largest marketplace for PreK-12 resources, powered by a community of educators.
IXL family of brands