A Perfect Five

Do you need poems to allow time for students to practice interpreting poetry? Look no further! This is a mini poetry unit based on four poems written by Tupac Shakur, a well-known hip hop artist. Students must use critical thinking skills to determine the meaning of the poems.

Do you need a quick lesson on interpreting poetry? Would you like a product of your students' work to display? This poetry unit is perfect! Students must interpret the poetry of an African-American poet using writing and visual arts. The activity is print-ready with practically no prep required. Directions are included.

Do you need a quick lesson on interpreting poetry? Would you like a product of your students' work to display? This poetry unit is perfect! Students must interpret the poetry of an African-American poet using writing and visual arts. The activity is print-ready with practically no prep required. Directions are included.

Looking for a creative project for your students? This project asks your students to design an unique school based on personal interests. The students can choose to design a school for ballerinas, a school for football players, a school for hip hop dancers, and even a zombie school! The students must use creative and critical thinking skills to complete the project. The project contains a rubric for easy grading.

Are you in need of a quick lesson to assess second grade creative writing? The lesson includes a warm-up activity, product activity, and rubric for easy grading. The students play a game, write an adventure story, and illustrate the story. There is no prep needed after printing.

This unit offers activities to assess students’ knowledge of idioms. The unit can be used as guided practice, independent practice, reading intervention documentation, homework, learning center work, or an assessment tool. The pages are print ready. Answers included.

This unit offers activities to assess students’ knowledge of the author’s purpose. The unit can be used as guided practice, independent practice, reading intervention documentation, homework, learning center work, or an assessment tool. The pages are print ready. Answers included.

This independent student activity will ask students to create a new flavor of soda. The students illustrate the soda can on the pages provided. As a bonus, the teacher can provide an soda can for students to decorate. Once students complete the activity, the students could create a commercial to advertise the product! Additionally, it would be a great idea to record each commercial as a podcast activity.

Each think sheet encourages critical and creative thinking skills. Students define and illustrate idioms, provide a written reflective response to a thought provoking quote, solve a mathematical word problem, make a list, and solve a riddle. A quick and easy evaluation rubric is included for teacher use. Ideas for think sheet use:  Morning work before class starts  Icebreaker/warm-up activity  Center work  Exit work/exit sheet  Homework  End of day activity  Extra credit (25 points can b

The students will design an original book cover for a book they have read. The students will write a summary for the book.

This is a simple way to teach, review, or practice author's purpose.

Students will write a letter to parents asking for a cell phone. Students will create a picture of the cell phone.

Students will design a movie poster and write a summary.