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Help your students to think critically, develop good character traits, improve our world, and create heartfelt persuasive writing using the 8 components of this project: Inspirational Quotes Random Acts of Kindness Kids Improving Our World Research Project STEAM Project - Identifying a Real World Problem and working on a Solution Online Giving Challenge Oral Presentation Carousel Presentations & Scavenger Hunt Comparing Themes with "A Dolphin's Tale Want to see what this unit includes? I've c

Teach Listening Skills in a fun and interactive way! Reading, Point of View Writing, Listening and Visualizing. Use this unit to have fun with Christmas, while maintaining content focus. This product meets so many of the Common Core standards in a fun and engaging way! CCSS Aligned for Reading/Writing/Listening for Grades 5-8. Download the preview for the full list of standards. This unit includes: An original story of an eight year old girl, Sandy, was sitting on Santa’s lap, telling h

Teach Listening Skills! Reading, Point of View Writing, Listening and Visualizing. Use this unit to have fun with Valentine's Day, while maintaining content focus. This product meets so many of the Common Core standards in a fun and engaging way! CCSS Aligned for Reading/Writing/Listening for Grades 5-8. Download the preview for the full list of standards. No prep required! Buy it today - use it today! This unit includes: An original story of an evil cupid impostor who is trying to

It's Back to School time - Plan ahead for a great school year! Critical Thinking and Service Learning are Common Core! Great for the beginning of the year, Open House, or use it anytime throughout the year. Help your students to think critically, develop good character traits, improve our world, and create heartfelt persuasive writing. Teach them to Pay it Forward! This service learning project incorporates critical thinking, research, and problem solving. This unit includes: Teacher U

Teach Listening Skills in a fun and engaging way! Reading, Point of View Writing, Listening and Visualizing. Use this unit to have fun with Easter, while maintaining content focus. This product meets so many of the Common Core standards in a fun and engaging way! CCSS Aligned for Reading/Writing/Listening for Grades 5-8. Download the preview for the full list of standards. This unit includes: An original story of a little boy who spotted a Bernard the Bunny stealing all of the Easter e

Teach Listening Skills in a fun and interactive way! Reading, Point of View Writing, Listening and Visualizing. Use this unit to have fun with Halloween, while maintaining content focus. This product meets so many of the Common Core standards in a fun and engaging way!  CCSS Aligned for Reading/Writing/Listening for Grades 5-8. Download the preview for the full list of standards, as well as a look at the assignment. This unit includes: An original story of a witch who used a spell to shut

Pi Day is March 14 - You know 3.14! It's also my favorite day of the year! Geometry is an important math concept for middle school students. Pi Day is a fun and memorable way to kick off your geometry unit. I have designed this project to include activities that address many of Gardner’s Learning Styles. Students will not only compute math, but they will also read, draw, run, use measurement, interact with their peers, and of course eat pie! This unit includes: Teacher Tips for a great Pi

Teach Listening Skills! Reading, Point of View Writing, Listening and Visualizing. Use this unit to have fun with St. Patricks Day, while maintaining content focus. This product meets so many of the Common Core standards in a fun and engaging way! CCSS Aligned for Reading/Writing/Listening for Grades 5-8. Download the preview for the full list of standards. This unit includes: An original story of a helpful Leprechaun- who threatens the the end of St. Patrick's Day with his helpful way

Common Core Learning! Common Core Connotation! Teach your students the power of words choice with this fun freebie! Get your students to love the thesaurus! Have your students carefully chose their words writing two different for gingerbread house for sale ads. Students are challenged to write the ads focusing on the intended audience- Gingerbread Digest (someone looking to purchase a gingerbread house to live in it) Readers Digest (to the average person) CCSS Aligned for grades 4 - 8

It's Back to School Time - Start your class off thinking deeper from day one! Figurative Language with your students on a daily basis! Great morning work! This set includes 50 quotes! All of my quote packs combined in one Mega-Pack! The quotes are categorized to best allow you to pick the best quotes to go along with your current unit. Inspirational Quotes - 11 Martin Luther King Quotes - 7 Proverbs - 4 Maya Angelou - 3 Ghandi - 3 Quotes using metaphors - 10 Similes - 4 Idioms - 8 2 quot

This is a fun freebie! Students do the written portion of the book report on the outside of a large grocery bag, and then place five items inside the bag to symbolize main characters, setting or events from the book. Students love these!! Enjoy, Shari Bithell

A growing bundle! Buy it now, and get August, September, and October immediately. Pay once, and get all of the other months as they are added! What could be better? It's Back to School time, so start the year off right with daily writing and grammar lessons/practice. Use a systematic approach to teach your students to strengthen their writing skills and revise/edit their work. This packet contains review lessons, daily practice, and weekly assessments to get your year off to a good start.

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Novel Study: My complete unit, full of fun and engaging activites that are CCSS aligned for grades 6-8. This is such a great book - yet students think they will be bored when they hear the title and see the cover! I love the surprise on their faces from the very first page!!!! Activities in this unit include: Interactive Journal Prompts The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Blog Prompts Instructions for creating and managing your class blog The True

The City of Ember Novel Study: My complete unit, full of fun and engaging activities. CCSS aligned for grades 6-8. Activities Include: Interactive Journal Prompts City of Ember Blog Prompts Instructions for creating and managing your class blog City of Ember Daily Quotes Socratic Seminar Activity Elements of Literature Review Activity Decipher the Message City of Ember Assessments **How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases:** • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need t

It's Back to School time - teach your students to write a great descriptive paragraph from the very beginning of the school year! This is a great freebie! Watch what amazing writing your students do with these simple paragraph starters! **How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases:** • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating

Back to School Learning! Middle School Common Core Bundle! - This product bundles three of my Interactive Notebook Units: * Figurative Language * Connotative Meaning * Word Relationships/Analogies Not sure you want to try interactive notebooks because of all the prep involved, but you like the way interactive notebooks get right to the heart of Common Core? Here's your solution: Interactive Notebooks that require no prep - just make a few copies! Take a systematic approach to teaching an a

STEM Project Based Learning! Common Core Learning with holiday fun! Geometry, Measurement, Graphing, Design - so many math skills! Reading, Visualizing, Persuasive Writing - so many ELA skills! Project Based Learning Unit Designed and Ready to Go! There has been an earthquake at the north pole which has destroyed Santa's Workshop and entire North Pole Community. Students are enlisted to design and create their own north pole while following the requirements laid out by Santa, the Elves

Back to School Fun! Beginning of the Year Learning! Great synchronous learning activity for Zooming with your class! Reading, Point of View Writing, Listening and Visualizing. Use this unit to have fun at the beginning of the school year, while maintaining content focus. This product meets so many of the Common Core standards in a fun and engaging way! CCSS Aligned for Reading/Writing/Listening for Grades 5-8. Download the preview for the full list of standards. No prep required! Buy it tod

Mapping and Geography! Continent Twister is a fun way to encourage students to delve into geography and map skills. A twist on STEM / STEAM fun! This product directly correlates with the elements of a good STEAM project, 21st Century Skills, Next Generation Science Standards, and Project Based Learning. It’s all here, in one fun, interactive activity. Includes: →Project Break Down: 7 stages, designed to be easy to follow. →Teacher’s Notes: These are my thoughts and hard earned lesson

Greek Mythology with Common Core Fun! Students Research and write about... The Titans The Olympians Zeus, Poseidon, Hades The gods’ significance in every day lives of the Ancient Greeks Choose a myth and show how elements of this story are still found in our literature of today Choose a god/goddess – Roman Counterpoint – Planet or space object named for this god/goddess Includes a graphic organizer for each topic Grading Rubric Step by Step Instructions Common Core Standards Addressed Th