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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

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

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

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

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

Christmas learning...Christmas fun! This project uses Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory to offer students a variety of activities to complete a holiday research project. Student choice in both topic and activities makes this a highly motivating project. Unit Includes: Intelligence Theory Tic-Tac-Toe board assignment Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Handout Project Handout Tic-Tac-Toe Project Board Requirements/Homework Schedule

Synchronous Learning in a fun and engaging way! Great Zooming activity for distance learning!!! Reading, Point of View Writing, Listening and Visualizing. Use this unit to have fun with celebrations all year long, while maintaining content focus. 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: Seven original stories of evil impostors who are trying to ruin holid

It's Back to School time - plan ahead for a great school year! Multiple Intelligence activities offer students choice of a variety of assignments to complete a Greek Mythology project. Student choice in both topic and activities makes this a highly motivating project. CCSS Aligned Grades 4-8 Unit Includes: Multiple Intelligence Theory Tic-Tac-Toe board assignment Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Handout Project Handout Tic-Tac-Toe Project Board

The Hundredth Day of School Learning Fun! Reading, Point of View Writing, Listening and Visualizing. Use this unit to have fun with the 100th day of school, 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. Absolutely NO prep! Buy it today - use it today! This unit includes: An original story- In this case, a

Back to School bonanza for Distance Learning! All about Me in a fun new way!!! Fabulous Synchronous and Asynchronous activities for effective distance learning! Summer is over, but the fun has just begun! Start your students out researching and creating on the first day of school! This project uses Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory to offer students a variety of activities to complete a back to school research project about their summer. Student choice in both topic and activities make

It's Back to School time - Plan ahead for a great school year filled with authentic research and informative reading. Common Core Learning! Common Core Fun! Students Research and write about... State History Natural Landmarks and National Parks Map of State within the US – State Capital State Government State Symbols – including state flag Natural Resources Farming and Manufacturing Products These banners are a great way to immerse students into Common Core research, yet maintain a fun and

It's Back to School time - Plan ahead for a great school year filled with informative text reading and research in a fun and engaging project! Common Core Learning - Common Core Fun! Students Research and write about... Country History Natural Landmarks and National Parks Tourist Attractions Map of Country within the continent – equator – Country Capital Country Government Country Symbols – including Country flag Natural Resources Farming and Manufacturing Products These banners are a great w

Next Generation Science Standards in a fun and engaging project! Students Research and write about... The Sun Earth and its Moon The Planets Orbiting the Sun Meteors and Comets Satellites and Exploring Space Focus on a Planet Includes a graphic organizer for each topic Grading Rubric Step by Step Instructions Common Core Standards Addressed These banners are a great way to immerse students into Common Core research, yet maintain a fun and creative environment. Unit includes graphic org

Next Generation Science standards combined with Multiple Intelligence activities that offer students a choice of of assignments to complete a solar system research project. Student choice in both topic and activities makes this a highly motivating project. CCSS Aligned Unit Includes: Intelligence Theory Tic-Tac-Toe board assignment Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Handout Project Handout Tic-Tac-Toe Project Board Requirements/Homework Sch