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Middle school Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa balanced literacy thematic unit plans
Advent Booklet - Complete Advent Unit (53 pages)
This 53 page booklet is sure to be an asset to your Advent activities. This booklet explores the themes of Hope, Peace, Joy and Love. The booklet includes an introduction to Advent and provides week long activities for EACH weekly them. It also includes some additional activities including a word search, poems, etc. I was not able to include the whole booklet in the preview - It was too large and it would take a long time to load. I hope that you will consider this unit - it is sure to prov
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Christmas Activities - Reading Passages - Story Elements - Narrative Writing
DIGITAL & PRINTABLE - Upper Elementary December Christmas Passages that are CCSS aligned with the ELA literature and narrative writing standards. We've added a Google Classroom Option to our popular product. The unit focuses on the reading skill of story elements of inferring character traits, Plot Development, and Theme. This unit is great to use for teacher observation because of the included lesson plans and rigorous activities. You will keep your students engaged during this challengi
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Winter Project Based Learning - Design a Gingerbread House For Sale Math
This winter project based learning unit combines gingerbread house math and writing into one fun and engaging gingerbread house for sale activity! Perfect to keep students engaged in learning around the holidays and winter break.Please click on the green PREVIEW button above to see more details of what is included in this resource.This writing and math pbl unit is broken up into 6 sections:1- Design Your House - students research gingerbread house designs, purchase supplies and calculate the tot
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Grades:
4th - 6th
"Dear Santa" Letter - Persuasive Writing Essay for Christmas
This is "Dear Santa - Persuasive Writing Essay" perfect writing project to do with your class during the month of December. It is common core aligned for grades 4-6 and is a great way to teach your persuasive, opinion, and argumentative writing standards. It will help teach students how to write a 5 +1 Paragraph Essay.This topic will be fun for your students and will help them be excited and about writing persuasive essays! In here you will find everything you need to help walk your students thr
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Christmas Comedy Drama Bundle - four Christmas plays
Christmas Comedy Drama Bundle is a collection of four original humorous plays that are suitable for reader's theater, classroom skits, or as a performance for a large audience. In The Christmas Rush, many last-minute shoppers hit their frustration point as they wait in a checkout line at a store behind an easygoing, unhurried shopper, who holds them up with his unintentional delays. In The Truth of the Matter, several characters pass along a story about a man who slipped and fell while out colle
Grades:
5th - 8th
Winter Holidays Around the World
This is a collection of 15 reading passages perfect for close reading. Each passage covers a different holiday celebration from various cultures around the world. Also included are graphic organizers to help with comprehension. The activities hit several informational reading standards as well.Holidays included:MawlidSt. Nicholas DayBodhi DayDhanu SankrantiSanta Lucia DayLas PosadasHanukkahWinter Solstice FestivalsNochebuenaChristmasBoxing DayKwanzaaNew YearEpiphanyLohriGraphic Organizers:Compar
Grades:
5th - 7th
Ocean Animal Lap Book and Research Project
I know your students will love this project as much as mine have!
This project will allow your students to learn about research and report writing in a fun and engaging way that is not overwhelming.
Included you will find all pieces to be included in the lapbook:
Daily step by step plans
Example pictures for all components
Everything you need to create a lap book with:
-Guess My Animal Riddle
-Food Chain Flip Book
-Life Cycle Expandable Book
-Interesting Facts Cards and Pocket
-Research Re
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
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Visual Literacy & The Graphic Novel
Teach visual literacy and introduce the graphic novel. This resource is full of engaging lessons and activities for building visual literacy skills. It will also introduce students to the genre of the graphic novel (you don't need to be reading one).Whether you teach the graphic novel or not, this bundle will give you the opportunity to work on your students’ analytical skills. We spend our days analyzing visual clues and interpreting people’s actions based on those clues. However, when it comes
Grades:
8th - 12th
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The History of Christmas-The Nativity Comprehension Packet
This is the newest addition to my History of Holiday packets. This packet was created to go along with the Christmas Story about the birth of Jesus. It includes: •The History of the Christmas Story: Read the bible passages and/or the kid-friendly translation to your students to teach them about the history behind the First Christmas.•Comprehension Questions: See what your students remember by asking them comprehension questions about the passage. Available with and without picture choices.•Chris
Grades:
1st - 8th
Also included in: The History of Holidays Bundle
The City of Ember Novel Study, Comprehension and Graphic Organizers
This novel study is the perfect companion to The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. Students will use the reading response activities to boost understanding, show their comprehension, and engage with the book in different ways. It incorporates different aspects of reading, including comprehending, inferring, making connections, questioning, summarizing, evaluating, and synthesizing. Comprehension questions are included for each couple of chapters of this novel. These can be used as written activiti
Grades:
4th - 8th
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Novel Study Unit
This exciting and colorful unit includes 60 pages of lesson plans and activities to use with your classroom novel study of Barbara Robinson's The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Activities included are aligned with 4th grade Common Core Standards.
The Herdman children will have your students gasping in shock and rolling with laughter throughout this fun and playful Christmas story. It's a great way to keep your students engaged while counting down the days until winter vacation!
Originally develo
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Character Traits Unit for Upper Elementary and Middle School
This resource includes a reading unit to teach character traits to upper elementary students. This character traits reading unit includes, reading response examples, mini lessons, interactive notebooks pages, genre reading posters, rubrics, and assessments. This unit part of a Genre, Theme, and Character Traits unit BUNDLE for upper gradesThis unit includes everything you need to teach {and dig deeper!} character traits in middle grades (4th-8th). As an upper grade teacher, I often find that I a
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Also included in: Theme Unit Character Traits Unit and Genre Unit Bundle for Middle Grades
December Adapted Books (Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Santa) | Special Ed
8 interactive DECEMBER thematic books with 2 levels -- perfect for early learners!Celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa with your students with this set of Holiday Adapted Books! Includes holiday counting books (1-10) and lessons about Santa, dreidels, and holiday vocabulary! Each book includes a matching component on each page to keep students engaged and interacting with their work. Perfect for special education, early childhood, ELL, homeschool, and speech therapy.*** You SAVE when you p
Grades:
PreK - 6th
Also included in: Adapted Books Bundle | Year-Long | Seasonal | Special Ed
The Odyssey Unit for pre-AP skills AND authentic literacy!
This unit was written to promote authentic literacy and advance pre-AP skills in the classroom. Included in this new and updated unit are almost 70 pages of totally original handouts and engaging activities that you will not find anywhere else: a “4 Corners” interactive anticipation guide, the “Odyssey Toga Party” to introduce star characters, the Mount Olympus Police Report to file against Odysseus, Life is Like an Epic Simile to help students write their own poems, Annotation in 8 Steps, plus
Grades:
8th - 11th
Winter Bucket Drumming
This is built from one of my favorite teaching units – bucket drumming karate, and my desire to bring it to a winter concert setting! The students love showing off their skills, and so do I! My favorite thing is to use popular winter and Christmas songs that I already own and have the students play along! Each song features instructions as well as lyrics and suggestions for how to play along from start to finish (and passing actions if appropriate), followed by a practice rhythm slide for stu
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Grades:
K - 8th
Holiday / Christmas Social Skills, Pragmatics, Manners game Speech therapy
After my Thanksgiving version of this activity was fairly popular amongst my students, I decided to make a Christmas / holiday-themed version. This activity is great for students on the Autism spectrum and students with social deficits to practice manners and general social problem solving. To make it more fun for them, I came up with a simple game format (please see below).
This version has 36 different scenarios related to the holidays, present etiquette, and general manners.
CONTENTS (all P
Grades:
K - 8th
Wonder Adapted Novel Study for SPED
This is a full adapted unit for the novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio. This unit is perfect for a special education or life skills class and has everything you need for reading and writing for 6-7 weeks. The novel study includes a character reference sheet, character description activity, character foldable, plot activity with three levels of support, and journal writing prompts with three levels of support. Additionally each part in the book has a fill in the blank activity with three levels of supp
Grades:
6th - 12th
The Secret Path - Full Unit
This unit has been built with PEARDECK but it is not necessary to use the extension to be able to use the unit (just an added bonus). The resource will stand alone without the application. There are 124 slides with questions, activites, videos, and learning goals and connected links to be used with each song/video from Gord Downie's The Secret Path. **FYI the lesson for Shin-Chi's Canoe is not included in the full unit as it is prior learning to The Secret Path - you can buy the lesson here**
Grades:
5th - 9th
The Secret Garden Novel Unit Plan and Extension Activities
A complete student journal full of comprehension, student responses, writing activities, research activities, and extension activities for The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Chapter-specific student responses for every chapter!
Create a packet or print individual pages as you need them!
Many extension activities to choose from at the end!
See the preview to see what all is included and get sample pages!
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Twas the Night Before Christmas Poetry Activity Pack
'Twas the day before Christmas break and you need something else to do.... There are several activities included in this packet that you can use in your study of the famous poem, Twas the Night Before Christmas, also known as A Visit from St. Nicholas, by Clement C. Moore. Included are 2 versions of the poem. The first is written using numbered lines. This could be used for partner reading, fluency, or as a way of directing students to particular lines while choral reading or discussing the po
Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in: Christmas ELA Writing and Short Story Bundle
Personal Narrative Unit (Calkins 3-5)
Packet of student pages to be used with Lucy Calkins' personal narratvies lessons 1-8. Easy brainstorming forms that directly match the mini lessons. Great for grades 3-6. Email me if any edits are needed!
*** Now updated with an outline of mini lessons!
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Holiday Worksheets | Basic Skills | No Prep Pack | Special Education
Holiday worksheets for special education basic skills review. Perfect for those tough weeks right before Christmas break, vacation review homework packs, Home School, Homework, Preschool and Kindergarten review, and more! Includes all must-have, must-practice basic skills. Great for morning work, busy work, or goal work! Just PRINT & GO!SAVE OVER 30% by purchasing this easy to use, low prep printable activity inside the December Activities Bundle!SAVE 30% OFF WHEN YOU ORDER THE YEAR-LONG NO
Grades:
PreK - 6th
Also included in: December Activities Bundle | Special Education
Holidays Roll Say and Color Articulation
Kids LOVE my roll, say, and color articulation resources, and this holiday-themed resource will be just as popular! Students receive 36 opportunities to practice each target sound, and I've created a review worksheet to go along with it! You won't be disappointed with this purchase!
NOTE: This product is included in my Articulation Roll, Say, and Color Bundle. If you have already purchased or plan to purchase the bundle, then do not purchase this product.
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Grades:
K - 6th
Also included in: Holiday Speech Therapy Bundle
Grade 5 & 6 Ignited Literacy Reading/Writing - ONTARIO Curriculum OCTOBER
DescriptionEver wondered how to get your students to love reading and writing? Love Genius Hour or need a differentiated approach that gives students more voice and choice in what they read and write. Keep students engaged in writing all year long while meeting curriculum standards. ⭐ Ignited Literacy is your answer ⭐Use research-based strategies for teaching writing including → gradual release of responsibility→ student led inquiry→ teaching spelling and grammar in context→ using mentor texts→
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Grades:
5th - 6th
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