Elegantly Elementary

You can use this differentiated student choice board as a learning center, independent work, or as an enrichment activity. The choices can be adapted to fit the needs and interests of your students. Students use this tic-tac-toe board to choose activities to complete tasks that demonstrate their knowledge of author's purpose. The choice board encompasses GARDNER'S MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES!

Workbook: Brainstorming- Timelines, Pictures, Organizers Brainstorming Blues: If students are having trouble coming up with ideas for their autobiography they can use this checklist of ideas. Drafting Sheets and Picture Boxes Self Editing Checklist Peer Editing Checklist: Includes compliment box and wish for future writing to give suggestions. Teacher Checklist Final Copy: Cover Page Inside sheets and Pic

This fun and savvy nonfiction text features scrapbook can be used as an independent, partner, or enrichment activity. Students have a blast creating their own nonfiction features or can find and glue features from books. magazines, as well as newspapers. This scrapbook covers the meaning of a caption, map, table of contents, index, glossary, diagram, and labels.

This product includes an original story based on a lonely pumpkin in a pumpkin patch that is bullied by the "perfect" pumpkins. In the end students will learn the moral that each pumpkin was perfect in their own unique way. With this activity students can practice being illustrators to match the words in the story. You may wish to keep this activity as a PowerPoint for students to create DIGITAL ILLUSTRATIONS and NARRATE the story. Students can collaborate as a class, groups, or individuall

This packet can be used for morning work, activities, or during free time in October. Math skills including sorting numbers, even/odd, addition problems. The word problem given will help prepare students for the common core by having them break down the problem and explain their work. This packet is very interactive by having students cut, color, and sort their answers.

Fun, interactive biography trifold to use as an organizer or as a student's final biography research project.

Students match synonyms on this sweet worksheet. Great work to display in the hallway! Use the synonyms on the page or make your own. Thanks to www.mycutegraphics.com for the clip art!

Write a word in the cloud. Have students use a thesaurus to find words that are synonyms to write inside the raindrops. These are a great display in the hallway in the SPRING!

Students can complete this Halloween organizer with a read aloud, Halloween Story, independent novel, or classroom text.