The ORIGINAL Paragraph of the Week program on TpT! This is NOT a digital resource. If you would like a digital version you can find that here. It is DIFFERENT prompts, but the same scaffolded program...only digital!)This daily, scaffolded approach to paragraph writing is perfect to help get your

After many years of cutting out my rubrics and stapling them on to finished writing samples, I realized I could embed them into my actual writing template which will save lots of time, not to mention trees! I included templates with primary lines as well as regular lines for older students. Pleas

Begin the year with some fun and fresh back to school activities to help your students get to know each other during the first weeks of school! These seven back-to-school activities, geared toward students in grades 3 through 5, are engaging and interactive! Includes all the descriptions, printables

This is a fun way to engage students in a lesson, begin a new unit, or use as an activity for inferencing! It can be used with ANY content area or subject. The Mystery Box is presented to students and students are then encouraged to guess what could be inside - give them as little or as much infor

HAUNTED HOUSE FOR SALE WRITINGDesign a Haunted House craft projects are a great way to engage your 2nd grade, 3rd grade or 4th grade students and get them excited about the October writing prompts in this Haunted House for Sale writing Halloween activity. This resource offers a fun, engaging, and cr

UPDATED: 2021This is a top selling product! Help your students bring in the new year with this cute craftivity. The students can write about what their resolutions are for 2021. There is also a "My Goals" for the New Year writing prompt included. They make the face template to look like themselves.

End of Year Activities: End the school year with some fun and fresh activities! These six end-of-the-year activities, geared toward students in grades 3 through 5, are engaging and interactive! Includes all the descriptions, printables, and instructions you'll need. Check out the preview for a close

This is a week long collection of activities to teach descriptive writing using Pop Rocks candy! There are also opportunities to discuss adjectives and similes, too! It is intended to be used as a supplement to your current ELA curriculum, and would make for great writing focus lessons for Daily 5

This is a list of 174 different Character Traits. So often when I was teaching I wanted a list of traits so that my students could look at the list while describing characters. This also helps students get to know and understand different character traits. Mrs. R.

This no-prep resource includes 37 pages (and google slides) of poetry writing activities. The vast majority of these are ready-to-use printables for 21 different kinds of poems. Each introduction worksheet includes a description of the poem, the poetry pattern, an example, and opportunities for guid

The ORIGINAL Idiom of the Week- A School Year of Idioms! SAVE $$$ WITH THIS BUNDLE:IDIOM AND QUOTE OF THE WEEK BUNDLEDo you need a new twist on teaching idioms? This product (my best seller) is 137 pages! There are 60 Idiom posters (large and smaller versions/4 to a sheet) to choose from in this un

Now includes EDITABLE Google Slides™ Version! End of Year Snapshots is a FUN 18-page memory book for students to complete at the end of the school year. The best thing about this resource is that you can print it or it can be paperless and digital! You get 2 versions in one! My students LOVE complet

You will never have to scramble for another writing prompt again with this year long bundle of engaging writing topics. Your students will respond to a variety of writing genres including: personal narratives, opinion writing prompts, explanatory writing prompts, and informative writing prompts.

Are you ready for your students to stretch their brains? Use these fun creative thinking A-Z task cards to do just that! These cards are perfect for early finishers, morning work, morning meeting, brain breaks, enrichment, or centers. You can even give your students a card for homework (which my

This is a great back to school activity! Have students follow the glyph key to decorate the letters of their name. Several extension activities are included: Student biography models, Cool Kid Trading Card, Glyph key to hang on a bulletin board with the students glyphs, student direction cards to us

Think It Through is 45 weeks of activities to ENGAGE, enrich and extend your students' creative, critical, and reflective thinking.This bundle includes weekly activities for August through June!Each of the 45 sheets begins with a child-friendly quote to interpret. I have found that interpreting quo

Get your third, fourth and fifth grade students independently reading and writing their own poetry and publishing their own poetry collection with this print AND DIGITAL poetry project perfect for distance learning! Even your reluctant learners will enjoy writing poetry with this set! An easy to

This resource is HUGE!! It is the largest freebie that I offer. I hope you enjoy this resource and find its contents useful. Please Come visit my blog at theteachingreef.blogspot.com. Also, check out these links to my units, my Daily Centers Classroom Pack {7 Classroom Centers} and "Editable" Dai

This EDITABLE bell ringer journal is for the entire school year including 275 journal prompts for 4TH, 5TH AND 6TH grade students. This product provides teachers with an entire school year of journal prompts in an organized and focused way. The journal is organized by month with 25 entries per sec

Get your students excited about writing with this fun activity! What this includes:*Link to an introduction video that I use with my kiddos before we brainstorm. The video is a Pixar short titled "Knick Knack".*Brainstorming pages*Rough draft pages*Publishing pages*Student example*Snow globe templat

Get everything you need to teach narrative, opinion, fictional narrative, and informational writing for the entire year! These lessons are broken down to make writing workshop manageable for the teacher and students. Each document is available as a traditional PDF file. I have ALSO included a link f

Dear Santa ... I Can Explain is a fun holiday or Christmas activity that has students writing a persuasive letter to Santa from the point of view of a well-known villain from childrens' stories, movies, fairy tales, etc.Writing in role, students must convince Santa that they don't deserve a spot on

*Digital Version available, scroll down for the link* This writing resource will help your students to improve their beginning, middles and endings. It includes interactive notebook activities that supplements your teaching of the organization trait. Writing with the 6 traits: Do you want to help

When it comes to getting students to write stories that will keep readers or listeners on the edge of their seats, nothing beats a good old-fashioned SCARY STORY. This Halloween Narrative Writing Unit is perfect to help your kiddos write super scary stories! There is even a Google Slides version if