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Have You Seen My Turkey? is a true 2-in-1 descriptive writing activity and Thanksgiving craft that students and teachers love. Engage and refocus your students by giving them a writing activity that's fun AND strengthens their skills. What It's All About:Students use templates to design and decorate their own turkeys in disguise.Clear lesson plans guide excited writers to describe their turkeys in precise detail.Students read their completed descriptions aloud while classmates listen carefully

Your Great Aunt Gertrude: She loves you and means well, but boy, does she give strange gifts! In this one-of-a-kind writer's workshop, students have hilarious fun as they stretch their imaginations and strengthen their writing skills to write a thoughtful and detailed thank-you note to Great Aunt Gertrude, who always manages to give truly terrible gifts. Imagine students' surprise when they "open" a gift from Gertrude to find dried-anchovy earrings or sock suspenders! Maybe even a year-long s

Have You Seen My Snowman? is a true 2-in-1 descriptive writing activity and winter craft that students and teachers love. Engage and refocus your students by giving them a writing activity that's fun AND strengthens their skills. What It's All About:Students use templates to design and decorate their own snowmen.Clear lesson plans guide excited writers to describe their snowmen in precise detail.Students read their completed descriptions aloud while classmates listen carefully to find the match

Your high-quality, ready-to-use, full-day plans are here! Plan in a Can for grades 4-5 saves you precious prep time and includes everything you need to ensure that your students spend their day engaged in meaningful learning. Check out the extensive preview for a look at the 6-plus hours of high-quality lesson plans.Here's what inside: Literacy:Story of Hot Chocolate non-fiction reading passage, 3 pages, high interest!Hot Chocolate comprehension quiz and worksheetPrompts for responses to indepe

Imagine how thrilled your readers will be when they find out they've received a special letter from a mystery animal! Your excited young readers will get to transform themselves into "animal detectives" as they read clues and use critical thinking and inference skills to figure out who has written to them. Letters are written at a level comparable to "Reading A to Z" levels E-G. Take a look at the preview for a free sample letter from Gina Giraffe. What's Inside This Pack: 1. Ten friendly l

"Plan in a Can" returns! Another jam-packed, time-saving, set of emergency sub plans for sick days, emergencies, or times when you find yourself in a pinch! Grab these at-the-ready plans, use simple forms to quickly fill out info for your sub, and your plans are done! Plan in a Can 2 has a fun "wild canines" theme--read about Australian dingos, solve word problems about grey wolves, and practice multiplication while learning cool coyote facts! Plan in a Can:2 for grades 4-5 saves you all of

Sick? Emergency Day? In a jam? Relax. Open a "Plan in a Can" and your sub plans are done! "Plan in a Can!: Kindergarten and First Grade" saves you all of the time you'd spend prepping for a sub and includes everything you need to ensure that your students spend their day engaged in MEANINGFUL learning activities. Everything you need (including CLEARLY WRITTEN SUB PLANS) for a full day of lessons and activities is included in this packet. Print, copy, add a few details. Done. Check out the 1

How many times have you wished you had a knockout set of lesson plans at-the-ready for days when emergencies, an illness, or workshops keep you out of the classroom? The last thing we want to do when we're sick or busy handling emergencies is worry about preparing a full day of plans. "Plan in a Can!: Grade 3" saves you all of the time you'd spend prepping for a sub and includes everything you need to ensure that your students spend their day engaged in MEANINGFUL learning activities. Everythi

How many times have you wished you had a knockout set of lesson plans at-the-ready for days when emergencies, an illness, or workshops keep you out of the classroom? The last thing we want to do when we're sick or busy handling emergencies is worry about preparing a full day of plans. "Plan in a Can!: 2nd Grade" saves you all of the time you'd spend prepping for a sub and includes everything you need to ensure that your students spend their day engaged in MEANINGFUL learning activities. Ever

Give your Geometry lessons a "WOW FACTOR"! Make Math thrilling with the Stained Class Geometry Project Pack! Give your students a learning experience they will never forget when you show them how to create their own Frank Lloyd Wright-style stained glass windows (with tracing paper and watercolors or tissue paper) while learning key Geometry concepts. This extensive pack gives you everything you need to make your job simple. Here's what you'll get: 1. Easy to follow instructions for makin

Be on the lookout for some very cute creatures (and enthusiastic writers!) 2-in-1 descriptive writing activity and craft. Everything you need is included! While it may be easy to find holiday and seasonal crafts, most of us have minimum time and maximum pressure to meet standards and help our students master important skills. "Have You Seen My Creature?" is a kid-thrilling activity that's as much thorough writing lesson as it is easy-to-teach, clever craft project. Here's How It Works:

Looking to breathe new life into your writing curriculum? Using comic book pages as a writing platform is a fantastic way to get your students "animated" about writing. Comic book pages are a wonderful way to get students interested in writing and are a useful assessment tool. They can be used in almost any discipline--have your children write from the perspective of a water droplet moving through the water cycle, or a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. This comic book pack includes five unique p

Want to help your students build their decoding skills? Wiggle Words is an effective, unique, and fun way to boost many important literacy skills in early readers. Created by a Kindergarten/first-grade teacher, Wiggle Words features playful caterpillars on which readers build, decode, and read words. Word segments are color-coded by beginning consonants, blends and digraphs, and suffixes, to help early readers create words and recognize patterns. This activity can be played as a part of small gr

Be on the lookout for an escaped leprechaun! (And some very enthusiastic writers.) A true 2-in-1 descriptive writing activity and St. Patrick's Day craft. Everything you need is included! While it may be easy to find holiday crafts, most of us have minimum time and maximum pressure to meet standards and help our students master important skills. "Have You Seen My Leprechaun?" is a kid-thrilling activity that's as much thorough writing lesson as it is easy-to-teach, beautiful craft project. He

A new pack for your more sophisticated readers! Created in response to the popularity of "Letters From a Mystery Animal", I'm thrilled to introduce "Letters From a Mystery Animal 2!" I developed this packet as a "next step" from the original pack, for young readers who have begun to develop more sophisticated reading skills. Letters are written at a level comparable to "Reading A to Z" levels H-L. Take a look at the preview for a free sample letter from Polly the Possum. Imagine how thrilled

Write, write, write, as fast as you can. It's time to make your own gingerbread man! Have You Seen My Gingerbread Kid? is a true 2-in-1 descriptive writing activity and winter craft that students and teachers love. Engage and refocus your students by giving them a writing activity that's fun AND strengthens their skills. What It's All About:Students use templates to design and decorate their own gingerbread kids.Clear lesson plans guide excited writers to describe their gingerbread kids in preci

ABC's aren't just for younger grades! Help your students commemorate the school year with this fun one-of-a-kind ABC Memory Book Kit. These books make an amazing keepsake for children to treasure, and all students can access the work independently. (These books are great for when you're extra busy tying up end-of-year odds and ends.) Lots of extras! With this no prep, print-and-teach kit, your students will: 1. Create a memory book, using each letter of the alphabet to represent a special me

I wish I had ten arms to hug you, Ten arms to squeeze you tight To thank you for reading me stories And for tucking me in at night.... What are you doing for Father's Day? Helping your students celebrate Father's Day can be tricky: There are fewer crafts for dads and not all children are able to celebrate the day with their own fathers. "Kid-er-Pillars" Card, Craft, and Poem is a wonderful way to celebrate fathers and father-figures while remaining sensitive to different family structures.

A kit that gives you everything you need for engaging and meaningful literacy instruction. The Incredible Hummingbirds! Literacy Kit includes seven learning activities about a high-interest topic your readers will love while meeting over 23 Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts. This kit provides UP TO 8 DAYS OF LITERACY ACTIVITIES! Here's what's inside: 1. "Incredible Hummingbirds!", an original non-fiction guided reading book. Lots of crisp, beautiful photos, illustrations, an

Help your students express an attitude of gratitude this season! This fun and simple activity combines a Language Arts mini-lesson and Thanksgiving-themed keepsake craft. The included lesson plan guides students through writing a brief but memorable note to someone for whom they are grateful. After students complete their note, the illustrated instructions in the kit (in PDF form for easy viewing on Smart Boards and projection screens) clearly guide students through an easy process of assemb