How do you get your students enjoy writing? This is a question that I asked myself for years! After being in the classroom for 8 years, I had the idea of giving my students a say in what they would be writing. This idea changed it all!PLEASE TAKE TIME TO VISIT MY DETAILED PREVIEW ABOVE!By offering a variety of topics that they could choose to learn and write about, I found that my students weren't just writing, they were asking to write! I filled my bulletin board with a "writing menu." It allow

This is the companion to my Interactive Writing Notebooks, picking up where it leaves off with more advanced writing assignments. Just like my other products, all of these lessons are differentiated and scaffolded to meet ALL of your students' needs. This product includes 5 very detailed writing units that will likely take between 1-2 weeks to complete each one. These units can be done in any order but do increase in difficulty with each one. You do not have to have my Interactive Writing Note

Thanksgiving Activities for Reading and Writing, Grades 4-8 Forget your old Thanksgiving lesson plans! Your students do NOT want to hear about the first Thanksgiving, and they DEFINITELY do NOT want to write dull paragraphs about the things they are thankful for. Seriously. They DON’T! Spice up your lesson plans with this DIFFERENT differentiated unit for Thanksgiving! Your students will: • View and analyze a video clip about innovative humane practices at turkey farms and processing plants

Argument, narrative, and informative essays are fun and easy to teach when you use strong mentor texts and a step-by-step process. These highly-rated writing units include everything you need, all in one place.Each writing resource is comprehensive and easy to use. The lessons at a glance pages are also included in an editable format for easy insertion into a digital plan-book.This is what awesome teachers like you have said about this resource: "Tons of resources that I go back to again and ag

Are you looking for ways to strengthen your students' writing skills? These 15 writing prompts will give your students the practice they need to write narrative, opinion, and informative stories and essays while focusing on organization, evidence, sentence structure, and grammar. Just print and go or assign digitally through Google. These prompts are perfect for writing practice any time during the year!Through a variety of writing prompts, students will learn how to focus on the prompt given wh

This Greek Mythology Unit contains over 200 pages and it is the perfect addition to an Ancient Greece Interactive Notebook or Ancient Greece unit. These Greek mythology projects and activities include full text versions of a variety of Ancient Greek myths, telling the tales of the Olympians and other Greek Gods and Goddesses. It contains all of the resources, foldable activities, graphic organizers, and mythology worksheets you need to teach your students about the gods, goddesses, heroes, and m

Argument essay writing is easier to teach when you have an EDITABLE unit with well-written mentor texts and a step-by-step process. Students will LOVE this argument essay writing unit, as well as the real-life application and mentor texts included here.Update 1: I included 40 editable pages, a Google Drive link to the entire argumentative essay unit, and an extra rubric! As of January 2021, the digital file is even more interactive.Update 2: Buyers have been asking for at-a-glance lesson plans j

This resource includes everything you need to teach and assess the book Holes by Louis Sachar. Engage your students with these fun and challenging activities - and simplify your lesson planning with this no prep resource that includes both print and digital activities for your students.This 80-page resource includes:Holes novel study cover pageTracking My Progress (student accountability sheet)Chapter Activities (one-page comprehension activities for every three chapters)Dictionary Detective (fo

Want to get started using digital resources in your classroom? Help your students gain the background technology skills they need to learn and complete online assignments with this Introduction to Google. Students work to earn their "Google Driver's License". Students will learn and practice over 80 skills with step by step instructions, screenshots, and tutorial gifs (short moving pictures). Updated July, 2020 This is updated regularly. See details below.If you are nervous about moving to usi

OUTSIDERS: This Outsiders Novel Study Unit now includes both a print and digital version! Engage your students with standards-based literacy activities as they read S.E. Hinton's classic novel. The Chapter-by-Chapter Response Pages challenge students to dig deep into the text to analyze and make inferences. Perfect for partner work, small groups, or independent study! The Free-Writes topics facilitate great discussions, and students enjoy choice on the essay and creative writing tasks. The DIGIT

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During this project, students will first learn about growth mindset by reading an informational article about Carol Dweck’s work. Then, they’ll select a famous person in history with a growth mindset. They’ll choose from 14 famous leaders and pioneers in their fields for the basis of their research. Students will research their famous person as they respond to targeted research questions. While researching, they’ll be on the lookout for ways that the famous person had a growth mindset. Next

These are literacy centers for the entire month! They are easy to print and set up, and cover reading, writing, spelling, vocabulary, grammar, and technology.113 pages included, with 64 centers. These centers provide an entire month of literacy work for September (or whenever your Back to School month begins)! Each center comes with a task card and a corresponding worksheet (with the exception of the "teacher directed center". I leave that task card blank, because as the classroom teacher, you w

•••This resource was updated in January 2021 to include a Google Slides version of this resource that can be used for in-person or distance learning lessons.•••Are you looking for a meaningful Black History Month activity that will not only let your students have fun and show their creativity, but also requires them to conduct research and think critically? Look no further than the Black History Month Banners: Mini Research Project! This project contains over 30 pages on instructional materials

This 130 page complete solar system unit for elementary contains everything you need to complete an engaging space interactive notebook. It contains a variety of solar system activities for your upcoming space unit, including solar system reading comprehension passages and questions, solar system worksheets, planet and solar system projects, and more! It includes information on astronauts, planets, phases of the moon, eclipses, tides, and more.✅Detailed instructions and student examples included

200-page NO-PREP 5-Week Unit BUNDLE of resources for teaching Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick. Everything need for a complete unit plan - freshly updated and Google Classroom-friendly. SAVE over 30% by purchasing the ENTIRE BUNDLE! *BEST-SELLER!* - Classroom-tested by over 3500 teachers - with over 450 5-Star ratings! Over 200 pages of ready-to-go materials for a 5-Week Unit!This resource is well worth the money to have a complete unit ready to go. This is my first time teaching this novel

Students LOVE real-life learning, and this Start a Hot Cocoa Stand PBL unit will have them asking for more activities just like it! Students will plan and design a hot cocoa stand, create a menu, write how to make the world's best hot chocolate, and so much more! What better way to have students use real-life math, reading, and writing skills than with this Hot Chocolate Stand Business Project Based Learning unit? Click HERE to SAVE 25% with the PBL Activities Bundle for the Year!This activity i

Bucket Lists don’t have to be morbid; they can inspire us, give us hope, and force us to change or try new things. Setting goals is a valuable skill made even more priceless when we learn HOW to achieve them!Hook students into doing research in disguise, hiding the work within a topic that they actually care about! In this project, students first make their own bucket lists and are then instructed to go RESEARCH how to actually accomplish at least ONE of those list items in a step-by-step manner

Need to assign your students an animal research report project? These print and digital (google slides) animal research report templates will scaffold the research writing process. This pack features both U.S. Spellings and British English in Flipbook Templates, Rubrics, Checklists, and Vocabulary Flashcards included. Resource OverviewScaffold the writing of an Informational Report on an animal of choice or one from 10 animal groups with this bundled pack both in print and digital format (google

These are COMPLETE 400+ pages of Assessments and Teaching Notes for ALL English Language Arts Standards for 6th Grade. These will cover your entire year! Reading comprehension (literature and informational), writing, language/grammar, speaking and listening are all included.Use them for more than just assessments. They are a perfect supplement to your English Language Arts Curriculum.·These will work with ANY reading program and allow teachers to conduct a thorough assessment of a standard.·The

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This Ancient Egypt Mummification Unit has over 40 pages of Ancient Egypt projects and activities. These Egypt activities are perfect for your upcoming Ancient Egypt unit or mummification unit. These mummification activities contain Egypt reading passages, comprehension questions, and projects about mummification! Student read and answer comprehension questions, and complete an illustrated "mummification wheel" , one pager project, and Top Three Pennant Project to demonstrate their understanding

Expository / Informative Writing: In this 10-day, Common Core - aligned Expository Writing Unit, students will demonstrate a deep understanding of the features, critical elements, and purpose of expository or informative writing. During the unit, students will write an expository news story about a historic event. Through instruction on the news story structure and investigations of sample news stories, students will understand the critical components of a news story so that they can write th

This Hobbit Novel Study Unit will instantly engage your students with thought-provoking learning activities aligned to ELA standards. Now includes both a print and digital version for distance learning! Get students thinking deeply, close reading, acquiring new vocabulary, and discussing important ideas as they read J.R.R. Tolkien's fascinating novel. The DIGITAL version offers colorful, beautifully-designed slides that allow students to type their responses into text boxes. Test and all quizzes