Get your little learners excited about opinion writing with this super cute crayon craftivity! Use the suggested texts "Red Is Best" and "The Day the Crayons Quit" with this 10 day unit on constructing an opinion! Each lesson includes all of the necessary materials. Your kiddos are sure to be engaged as you complete this persuasive letter to their favorite color/colour! Both American and English spellings are included. WHAT'S INCLUDED AS OF APRIL 2018: - 10 Day Lesson Plan - Crayon Craft

This All About Me craftivity is so so CUTE! Kids and parents will love it. Great for All About Me Social Studies units, Back to School, or Open House.I like to use this craft at the beginning of the year. It's a fun way to get students excited about writing while allowing them to share about themselves and get to know each other.These are ADORABLE in the hallway during Open House.

Keeping students engaged before and after breaks can sometimes be a challenge. Are you looking for something to captivate your students before or after break? Then look no further! Thousands of teachers have used these mysteries for back to school activities, engaging students before Thanksgiving, Christmas break, Spring Break, adding fun to Halloween, end of the year activities, reading comprehension, critical thinking, morning work, guided reading, and SO much more!  This engaging, fun, and

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee literature novel guide: lessons, tests, and creative activities created and written by Tracee Orman. I've included EDITABLE files (in Microsoft Word) so you can customize the resources to suit the needs of your students.This unit IS included in my To Kill a Mockingbird Teaching Unit and Interactive Notebook Unit Growing BundleThe unit includes:• Introduction activities, including To Kill a Mockingbird KWL Introduction Activity• List of vocabulary words and def

SYSTEMS OF THE HUMAN BODYTHIS TEACHING RESOURCE INCLUDES:• a Smart Art science project• a research template for a Body Part Report• a set of Poems and Songs about the human bodyThe Smart Art activity contains directions, photos, and templates for a creative, hands-on science & art project focusing on six major systems of the human body. Samples can be viewed in the PREVIEW above.- The Nervous System- The Circulatory System- The Respiratory System- The Muscular System- The Skeletal System- Th

Keeping students engaged before and after breaks can sometimes be a challenge. Are you looking for something to captivate your students before or after break? Then look no further! Thousands of teachers have used these mysteries for back to school activities, engaging students before Thanksgiving, Christmas break, Spring Break, adding fun to Halloween, end of the year activities, reading comprehension, critical thinking, morning work, guided reading, and SO much more!  This engaging, fun, and

Sequencing is one of the many skills that students need in order to comprehend what they read. That’s why this Sequencing Mini-Unit is the perfect addition to your English Language Arts instruction. Filled with sequencing passages, engaging worksheets, and graphic organizers for finding the sequence of events, this unit will help students develop strong skills in sequencing.This 3-day mini-unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of finding the sequence of events in a passage.

If you want to try literature circles in your classroom, but aren't sure what steps to take to get your students ready to have engaging, thoughtful conversations about books, then this resource is for you. If your students have never tried literature circles before, it's hard to just jump right in and expect students to know how to have productive conversations with one another. That's why this resource is perfect for laying the foundation for great book conversations between students.This is a

Serial Podcast Season One by Sarah Koenig is a fantastic way to teach literary nonfiction, rhetoric, and bias using real-world examples. This podcast is so engaging that even your most reluctant students will be enthralled with the true crime content! This Serial unit plan will provide you with literary nonfiction activities that help students analyze the production of the podcast, discuss bias from multiple angles, examine rhetoric from a real-world perspective, and so much more. All of these S

Do you have students that are struggling with their social skills? The activities in this resource include a variety of important skills students with social pragmatic impairments need to learn to be successful with social interactions at school and in the community. There are activities to work on perspective taking, interpreting tone of voice, social impressions, conversational skills, "what's missing" from the social situation and lessons to work on social behavior. This is a great resource f

The debate is a staple in the English classroom, as it's a great way to build speaking and listening skills. This resource will help you teach your students how to debate like pros.The file includes:Detailed handouts for your students that explain debating definitions, procedures and ideas for planning.Graphic organizers to help students as they plan and research their debates.Two pre-debating activities you can use to allow your students to practice their debating skills.A list of debate topics

Reading Comprehension SkillsHelp your students master 12 critical reading comprehension skills with this ULTIMATE BUNDLE of Reading Comprehension Mini-Units. Each 3-day mini-unit contains engaging, hands-on learning activities, guided notes, 6+ original reading comprehension passages, and ample opportunities for students to practice these important skills. You’ll love how each mini-unit is ready to print-and-teach. Your students will love practicing these skills in creative and fun ways.Great

Introduce your students to the FOOD TRUCK CRAZE as they master their math and STEM skills to design and run their own food truck! As they plan their final product in this Project Based Learning unit, students integrate digital learning by investigating various cultures and diversity and learning about foods from different countries. They will have an opportunity to represent a country of their choice, design (STEM) and open a food truck, and plan their own menu as they sharpen their math, entre

Emergency Substitute Plan: We’ve all been there...when real life events get in the way of being able to teach our classes on a particular day. The most challenging part of preparing for a substitute and an absence is when it is unplanned. There’s nothing more difficult than trying to put together comprehensive plans for a substitute teacher when we’re away from our classrooms or dealing with a real-life situation. That’s where this resource comes in. It’s designed specifically for emergenci

Keeping students engaged before and after breaks can sometimes be a challenge. Are you looking for something to captivate your students before or after break? Then look no further! Thousands of teachers have used these mysteries for back to school activities, engaging students before Thanksgiving, Christmas break, Spring Break, adding fun to Halloween, end of the year activities, reading comprehension, critical thinking, morning work, guided reading, and SO much more!  This engaging, fun, and

Promote literacy and build critical thinking skills, for even the most reluctant of readers, with this high-interest novel study to use with Holes by Louis Sachar. This download contains both a printable format as well as a Google Drive™ compatible format for distance and digital learning.This is a complete novel study that includes many individual products bundled together to offer you extensive savings! This comprehensive unit also includes Google Drive™ format files, additional writing activi

EMOTICON CITY – The Emoji Bandit strikes again! It has been two weeks since the last spotting of the Emoji Bandit, but he has resurfaced yet again to steal more emoji expressions! Eye witnesses, “Neutral Face” and “Worried Face” shared their story: “We saw one emoji go into the warehouse, but when he looked back at us, we noticed that he didn’t have any expression!” This is the third event this month and there appears to be no end to this charade…Any clues or tips, please complete the Crime Tip

Integrating Social Students and ELA is an effective strategy for covering important content in an engaging manner. Students will learn first-hand how to be a good United States Citizen and an active member of their community. Students will identify rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizens, 10 different American symbols, work in cooperative groups to act out good/bad citizenship skits, and identify and write about a positive role model in their life.There are four main lessons to this citizen

This career unit consists of 5 complete days of lessons with common core aligned lesson plans! No prep needed! Just print and implement!Students will need internet access.Middle school students will engage in webquest activities to explore careers, their interests, evaluate their strengths and areas to improve, think ahead to set goals, and interact with peer partners. Through basic skills assessments, they will choose careers to research that align with their skills and abilities.This unit m

Order in the court...I mean the classroom! The judge and the jury members turn this lesson into a mock trail! Students are put to the test as they read their persuasive paper in front of the court! This lesson is a creative and unique way to teach your students about persuasive writing...while having a little fun in the process! File includes: detailed directions, colorful anchor charts, common core standards, peer editing checklist, teacher rubric, awards, colorful faces (persuasive paddles!)

Promote literacy and build critical thinking skills, for even the most reluctant of readers, with this high-interest novel study to use with Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis. This download contains both a printable format as well as a Google Drive™ format for distance and digital learning.This is a complete novel study that includes many individual products bundled together to offer you extensive savings! This comprehensive unit also includes Google Drive™ format files, additional writi

This unit is hands-down one of the most motivating and engaging Persuasive Writing units! That's because students get to design a roller coaster and then create a persuasive advertisement for their ride. They learn all about the elements of persuasive writing along with figurative language and propaganda techniques so that they can attempt to persuade others to try out their original roller coaster.In this 10-day Persuasive Writing Unit, students will develop background knowledge on roller coa

This money saving bundle includes 3, 4, 5, and 6 step sequencing stories paired with pictures. There are a total of 80 different stories that come in both color and black & white.These materials are great for targeting a variety of speech and language goals including story retell, sequencing information, answering questions, sentence structure and articulation in conversation.How to Use:Print a page and cut apart the pictures at the bottom of the worksheet. The pictures can be presented i

Promote literacy and build critical thinking skills, for even the most reluctant of readers, with this high-interest novel study to use with Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. This download contains both a printable format as well as a Google Drive™ compatible format for distance and digital learning.This is a complete novel study that includes many individual products bundled together to offer you extensive savings! This comprehensive unit also includes Google Drive™ format files, additional writing acti