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These great language arts activities about the Oregon Trail include a critical reading activity and an outlining activity. The full version is played as a whole class game. Come and visit my store: Creative Lesson Design.

This Oregon Trail Common Core Language Arts Game is academically rigorous, as well as FUN! Students will remember this unit for years. This common core unit includes 4 critical reading activities, 8 writing activities with graphic organizers, a mapping activity, a diagram activity, a PowerPoint presentation which includes a student outline, and complete instructions for setting up and managing the game. The activities can also be used without the game format.

Ready to use! This is a complete all-in one grammar unit. The unit contains a 10-day pacing guide, PowerPoint presentation, worksheets, interactive notebook pages, a quiz, and two board games. Its objective is to teach students to locate nouns in sentences. This unit reviews the sorting of nouns by person, place, thing, or idea. Just purchase it and start teaching!

Ready to use! This is a complete all-in-one grammar unit. The unit contains a 10-day pacing guide, two PowerPoint presentations for direct instruction, worksheets, interactive notebook pages, a quiz, and a board game. In this unit, students will learn the meanings of the prefixes un-, dis-, re-, and pre-. They will learn how the prefixes change the meaning of a word. Students will practice writing sentences using words that begin with prefixes.

Ready to use! This is a complete all-in one grammar unit. The unit contains a 10-day pacing guide, 2 PowerPoint presentations, worksheets, interactive notebook pages, a quiz, and two board games. Its objective is to teach students to how to form contractions. This unit also provides practice in identifying the words contractions are made of. Just purchase it and start teaching!

Ready to use! This is a complete all-in one unit. The unit contains a 10-day pacing guide, a PowerPoint presentation, worksheets, interactive notebook pages, a quiz, and a board game. Its objective is to teach students to how to correctly spell words that end with –tion and -ture. This unit also includes vocabulary development. Just purchase it and start teaching!

Ready to use! This is a complete all-in one grammar unit. The unit contains a 10-day pacing guide, PowerPoint presentation, worksheets, interactive notebook pages, a quiz, and two board games. Its objective is to teach students to distinguish nouns from other words, as well as sort nouns by person, place, thing, or idea. Just purchase it and start teaching!

Ready to use! This is a complete all-in one grammar unit. The unit contains a 10-day pacing guide, two PowerPoint presentations for direct instruction, worksheets, interactive notebook pages, a quiz, and a board game. In this unit, students will learn the meanings of the suffixes –less, -er and-or, -ful, -able, and –ly. They will learn how each suffix changes the meaning of a word. Students will practice writing sentences using words that end with suffixes.

Ready to use! This is a complete all-in-one writing unit. This hot air balloon-themed unit contains a 13-day pacing guide, 3 PowerPoint presentations, worksheets, interactive notebook pages, a quiz, and a craftivity. Its objective is to teach students to identify and write high-quality similes. Just purchase this unit and start teaching!

Ready to use! This is a complete all-in one grammar unit. The unit contains a 10-day pacing guide, a PowerPoint presentation for direct instruction, worksheets, interactive notebook pages, a quiz, and a board game. Its objective is to teach students to how to identify adjectives in sentences. Students will also practice writing sentences containing adjectives. Just purchase it and start teaching!

Ready to use! This is a complete all-in one grammar unit. The unit contains a 10-day pacing guide, a PowerPoint presentation for direct instruction, worksheets, interactive notebook pages, a quiz, and a board game. Its objective is to teach students to how to identify adjectives. Students will also practice adding adjectives to sentences. Just purchase it and start teaching!

Check out these 19 great writing prompts and pre-writing lessons based on children’s books! Each lesson includes an inspiration step, a brainstorming step that contains a facilitating question and a list of suggestions to get you started, a guided practice step, and a pre-writing worksheet that will enable students to easily write a high-quality rough draft with minimal teacher support. If your students are struggling writers, these lessons will help them find out how fun and easy writing can

This tic-tac-toe activity array provides nine independent activities for identifying and writing similes. Students get to choose from a variety of activities. Students that are given choices are more likely to retain information. Each activity is labeled with its appropriate critical thinking level from Bloom’s Taxonomy. In addition, graphic organizers and cute stationery are included so teachers don’t have to do any prep.

Check out these four great pre-writing activities! They all use a children’s book as a launching point. If your students struggle to produce high-quality writing assignments, these pre-writing activities can be just what you're looking for. This book is a preview of the full version of this book.