This complete, hands-on science unit for teaching about the life cycle of plants centers around an engaging 9-lesson teaching Power Point using “real life” pictures your students will love. Ideal for first, second and third grade, students learning the stages of the life cycle, parts of a plant and

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Whether you need print or digital, these ready-to-use pages (and slides) are an effective way to provide your students with regular paragraph writing practice. They can be used with teacher support while your students are learning how to write paragraphs and independently once they have mastered the

First Day Jitters: Close Reading Unit for Traditional and Distance Learning Do you love using the book, “First Day Jitters” at back to school time? Then, you and your students will love this engaging and fun First Day Jitters Close Reading unit! This week-long unit is packed with crafts, responding

Are you ready to teach poetry? This easy to use second grade unit has everything you need to make poetry exciting any time of the year. ***Now updated for Distance Learning with a Google Slide Student Handbook, Digital Poetry Vocabulary Book, and a Digital Poetry Portfolio to easily upload to Googl

Are you looking to do Genius Hour in elementary? This packet has all of the teaching materials and plans, student worksheets, and parent letters to make sure that your Genius Hour is one of the best things you do all year in second, third, or fourth grade. Genius Hour in the lower grades can be a l

76 PARAGRAPH WRITING PROMPTS and ACTIVITIES (informative, narrative & persuasive / opinion) FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR with a DIGITAL VERSION INCLUDED for FREE!Paragraph of the Week is a proven, step-by-step, scaffolded system. It makes teaching kids how to improve sentence structure and write a parag

Integrating social studies and language arts is a great way to reinforce the standards while teaching history. This unit can be used to teach history while practicing reading and writing skills. About this unit:This unit includes a variety of materials that can be used to teach your students about

Are you looking for something to help assess all of the 2nd grade Common Core Language Arts standards? This comprehensive assessment packet is for you. Having an assessment for every standard all in one place is a huge time saver. What does this product include?This assessment packet includes at

Second Grade reading comprehension TestsLooking for assessments to be used as reading formatives or summatives in your 2nd grade classroom? These reading comprehension passages and questions are perfect for spot checking your student's reading throughout the year. is designed to progress monitor se

Crankenstein Activities: Digital Classroom and In Print Are your kids obsessed with "Crankenstein" by Samantha Berger? Then, they'll love this Beyond the Text reading unit! You'll love the academic focus this Crankenstein unit has! This Crankenstein unit has everything done for you and follows a cla

This freebie features information pages about these penguin species: Emperor, King, Gentoo, Adelie, Macaroni and Little. The pages are written in an easy-to-read format making it easier for young students to study these birds and write reports. They can read the information page, record key facts

This CCSS aligned informative writing unit contains lesson plans, student printables, rubrics, anchor papers, and other materials needed to teach the information gathering process for research-based writing. Specifically, this pack includes:--Detailed day by day lesson plans broken into 3 categories

This resource is a reader's notebook book study for Frog and Toad Are Friends, a classic early chapter book by Arnold Lobel, commonly used in first and second grade classrooms.Kids love having their own little notebooks. Teachers love having kids think deeply about text. And who doesn’t love Frog an

Never scramble for writing topics again! Writing is a crucial skill that requires consistent practice. With over 300 journal prompts for the whole year, your students will be writing every day.Build independent and creative writing skills with these engaging questions and sentence starters. Stud

Teach growth mindset with these Most Magnificent Things Read-Aloud lesson plans. This printable or digital Most Magnificent Thing read-aloud lesson plan pack includes rigorous text dependent questions, differentiated graphic organizers, response to text writing activities including a craftivity, and

This resource is a complete science unit with engaging lessons and experiments to introduce second, third, and even fourth grade students to science, the scientific method, and other processes scientists use. Students learn about different areas of science, types of scientists and the jobs they do,

Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! INCLUDES DIGITAL VERSION FOR DISTANCE LEARNING!Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadwa

Standards-based grading for second-grade has never been easier than with this Fairytales, Folktales, and Fables Cose Reading Unit of Study. Six weeks of teacher-tested close reading lesson plans cover asking and answering questions, central themes, character work, vocabulary, text structure, point-o

Get to know your students with tons of fun Back to School activities, Icebreakers and ready-to-go worksheets and digital activities for Google Slides™! Many of the activities come with multiple differentiated options to make for a resource that can work across many grade levels. Take a peek at the p

Writing ALL YEARWant to have your writing activities all planned out for the ENTIRE YEAR? From Expository, How To or procedural writing, to persuasive or narrative this huge pack has everything you need to teach writing for the year! Here's the pack for you!This chunky download includes ALL my writi

Everything you need to teach and write biographies for first grade (upper Kindergarten and simple second grade) Resources including graphic organizers, writing prompts, class books, posters (can also be used with data projector), and interview pages to write biographies about famous people and cl

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