This creative ESCAPE ROOM adventure is a well-organized breakout that has a fun sci-fi twist! Your students are visiting relatives on the planet Nonsensica, but their only map home to Earth has been torn to shreds. They'll have to stay forever...unless they can work in teams to solve a series of FUN
Word analogies are one of the most effective ways to build vocabulary while simultaneously developing critical thinking skills. Unlike vocabulary activities that require students to memorize word definitions, word analogies develop a deep understanding of a word meaning by exploring the relationship
Looking for No PREP Thanksgiving Activities? Students will love this Doodle, Define, Draw and Decipher Thanksgiving workshop! Check out the set of activities that include Fall figurative language fun, Thanksgiving riddles and word search, as well as an engaging and fun-to-share Thanksgiving craftivi
the Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt grabs the reader from the very beginning. Both boys and girls are riveted by this story. It's great to teach a novel that students complain when it's time to put the book down. This 51 page 4 week unit includes detailed daily Lesson Plans, 9 documents to release to
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Need a way to directly teach academic vocabulary? If you’re anything like me, I was looking for something that would be fun, engaging and yet rigorous. I didn’t want a multiple-choice-memorize-this-definition laundry list of worksheets. So, I created this… a YEAR-LONG Vocabulary Study created for
In an effort to create task cards that contain reading strategies to enhance comprehension, I created these station task cards to push my students to a higher-level of learning. I require my students to complete a summary graphic organizer before taking their book back to the library, but I also use
Songs lyrics are such an awesome way to bring light to critical literacy skills in the classroom. Imagine Dragons' music offers such powerful messages that will help motivate and inspire your students. This set of unit studies empowers your students through the critical analysis of "Natural" and "W
My students love 4 Corners games in the classroom! Get your students up and moving around with this game designed to add to your ELA vocabulary resources and word work activities!
This can be a great way to encourage your students to find words, sentences, or punctuation signals around a new or unf
This product includes 48 discussion question cards for the book Saving Winslow by Sharon Creech. The questions are great for classroom discussion, literature circles, book clubs, novel studies, or student writing prompts. An answer key is not included as most of the questions are open to interpretat
Today's busy classrooms must use lessons that must teach and provide practice for many skills, standards, and concepts. This fun engaging unit begins with students learning about the function of the parts of speech. Additionally, students learn about the impact on language and how parts of speech c
This product includes 127 discussion question/task cards novel study writing prompts for the book, The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle by Christina Uss. This is a heartwarming, fun, whimsical, cross-curricular adventure story full of humor, literary elements, life lessons and important themes. I