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Middle school Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa creative writing 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
Play Writing and Drama Pack
Teaching Drama can be so BORING! Memorizing terms and reading Drama passages then answering multiple choice questions just isn't how most of our students learn. If you are looking for something more engaging, give this play writing pack a try! Everything you need to turn your student's into mini-playwrights is included! Included are options for brainstorming and planning out dialogue and characters, design Playbill covers and sets, and selecting settings.
After writing plays, students can perfo
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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
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4th - 6th
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College Bound Kids {writing and craftivity pack}
This packet is very versatile and has pages for all students kindergarten through 6th grade. Makes a great thematic unit to work on at the end of the year, or anytime you want to motivate your kids and get them thinking about college now!
Pages include:
* college application
* college research page
* vocational / trade school research page
* College K-W-L
* Create a mascot
* If I were a college student – graphic organizer & writing pages
* I would make a great college student because… - g
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PreK - 6th
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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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
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
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4th - 7th
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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
Teaching Figurative Language with Taylor Swift Songs - Grades 3-6
If there’s one thing I love about Taylor Swift (other than her dance moves!) it is her use of figurative language. If you have ever listened to her songs you know she uses a lot of similes and metaphors in her writing. She is a major pop star today, and I guarantee your students can (and will!) sing along to any one of her songs! With this product you will be able to teach and have your students practice identifying and writing seven types of figurative language using Taylor Swift songs.
Beginn
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3rd - 8th
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Zombie Apocalypse Unit - End of the Year Project or Emergency Sub Lesson Plans
This week-long, self-guided zombie apocalypse project is the PERFECT end of the year unit! It is so versatile and can be used for many different grades and subjects; appropriate for middle school or high school, science or language arts, accelerated or remediation, even upper elementary. It could also be used for a Halloween unit or emergency sub lesson plans. Directions on each page are self explanatory and will keep your students engaged from start to finish.I originally created this activity
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Grades:
4th - 12th
Also included in: Biology Lessons and Curriculum for the ENTIRE YEAR
Fantasy Writing Unit- Short Story Creative writing
A full, comprehensive writing unit for grades 4+ where students will create their own short story. The unit is organized in a step by step, easy to follow manner which allows teachers a simple way to get started. The unit can be combined with other subjects for a cross-curricular approach (such as art, science and social studies). Students complete steps along the way to create the pillars of their story. Once completed they compile all the sections together to craft the best story they have eve
Grades:
4th - 10th
Halloween Activities for Secondary ELA
Halloween often looks different in secondary schools, usually because of the pressure we feel to cover the curriculum. But, doing so does not mean we can’t have any fun around the holiday. The following activities are designed to focus on not only spooky topics, but also the skills we want our students to practice in secondary ELA. There is quite a variety, so you can pick and choose which activities best fit with what you are doing in October.In this package you will find:-A short research a
Grades:
7th - 12th
Tall tales with a modern twist: creative writing unit; Common Core aligned
It was so hot, the flowers pulled themselves up by their roots and crawled under the porch looking for shade...Get the creative juices flowing in your writer's workshop and, with the help of this unit, teach your students how to write an outrageously funny modern tall tale in which the enemy is WICKED WEATHER. The unit consists of:1. very detailed lesson plans that show you how to guide students through the writing process (prewriting, composing, revising, editing, publishing)2. worksheets with
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Grades:
4th - 6th
50% OFF Journalism Unit - Middle School Writing Curriculum Lessons ELA Bundle
Do you want to be the best teacher? Ready to lead your students into the dazzling world of journalism writing? ✍️ Imagine igniting their passion for newsroom adventures, crafting stories that are as thrilling as a rollercoaster ride with this journalism unit for middle school writing! Picture this: an all-inclusive journalism unit course that unfurls like a treasure map. Every twist and turn of news, articles, reviews, headlines, is illuminated with step-by-step guides and mentor texts that pr
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Patriot Day September 11th Bulletin Board Set - 9/11 - SEPTEMBER B.B.
Remember September 11th, 2001 with this patriotic bulletin board set. The set is designed for a square bulletin board, but can be adapted for a rectangular bulletin board. To adapt the design for a rectangular board, have students write thank you letters to first responders in the community using the "Thank you Hero" letter templates included in this product. Then display copies of the student letters to the right of the skyline silhouette. The download will include the following:- "We remembe
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Grades:
4th - 12th
Also included in: Monthly Bulletin Boards for a Year BUNDLE
Teaching Dramas in the Elementary Classroom | Digital + Print
{UPDATED PRODUCT 1/2021 - DIGITAL VERSION NOW INCLUDED + ADDITIONAL RESOURCES!} This guide takes the guess work out of teaching dramas and plays in the elementary classroom! It is very simple to use and perfect for getting your students to think critically about dramas and plays in a creative, unique way! It supports analyzing theme across various texts and genres and includes a wealth of materials to teach important dramatic elements, like stage directions, scene changes, and dialogue. PLUS -
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3rd - 6th
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
Narrative Writing Bundle | 7 Complete Story Writing & Story Elements Units
This bundle comprises SEVEN PRODUCTS designed to cover all aspects of NARRATIVE WRITING and STORYTELLING in 2024. It contains seven high-quality DIGITAL, PRINT and INTERACTIVE units of work, including:Introduction to Narrative Writing Unit ( For younger and developing writers.)Our TpT best-selling Narrative writing Unit ( With hundreds of glowing reviews )Narrative Writing Unit for Established Writers ( For high school students )Introduction to story elements for younger and developing writers.
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2nd - 9th
Mystery -The Adventure of the Speckled Band Comprehension Unit Print & Digital
This classic short story will have your students analyzing details and making inferences. This is a fantastic mystery unit that works well in a class of diverse learners. I teach this to my accelerated class, my resource students, and my ESL group. Distance Learning: The worksheets are in Google Slides to use digitally and to easily assign by Google Classroom. For students without technology print PDFs for send-home packets.Here is what is included:★"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" - full t
Grades:
6th - 10th
Script Writing Unit Plan
This is a detailed unit plan for a Language Arts 7-9 class or a Drama class. This unit focuses on script writing, scaffolding skills from Radio Plays to Reader's Theatre to adapting children's stories into original scripts. This is a great way to expose students to a variety of texts.This product includes: - Detailed lesson plans are included for 12 lessons- Teacher notes- Warm up game options- Comprehension reading with questions and answer key- Rubric, checklists, and peer assessments
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Grades:
7th - 9th
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
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