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ELA posters for many topics. The themes are mixed... there's a lot of checkered print, disco balls, retro vibes, and smileys! Topics include: -Reading Strategies -Author's Purpose -Point of View -Plot Structure -Summarizing -Nonfiction Text Structure (7 posters) -Figurative Language (7 posters) -Good Readers Do These Things posters (5 posters) -Parts of Speech Posters (8 posters) -Decorative Reading Posters (3 posters)

Rainforest themed research project- create a book with your class with different rainforest related topics! If you are in a district that teaches with the EL curriculum, this could be possibly supplemented in the second module for 5th grade!

The book, Escaping the Giant Wave, is filled with figurative language. This activity is great to have students find and identify the figurative language within the text, determine the figurative and literal meanings, and determine what it helps the reader to understand. This can be used while reading the text, or as a project to be completed after reading the book.

This can be read for a Left and Right gift exchange game! By the end of the game, a gift should end up around 8 students away from the original.

Parts of Speech Poster set Includes: -Noun -Verb -Pronoun -Adjective -Adverb -Preposition -Conjunction -Interjection

Nonfiction Text Structure Poster set that includes: -Text Structure -Description -Chronological -Sequential -Compare/Contrast -Cause/Effect -Problem/Solution

Figurative Language Posters with definitions and examples Includes: -Simile -Metaphor -Idiom -Hyperbole -Personification -Oxymoron -Onomatopoeia

Use this template and prompts to start your morning off right with a community circle discussion! These prompts will get your kiddos thinking and sharing as soon as their morning starts! This product includes example slides, slide templates, and prompts for thirty four weeks so you don't have to do all the thinking!

Good Readers Do These Things Posters Includes: -Make Connections -Make Inferences -Make Predictions -Visualize -Ask Questions

ELA Posters in various themes! Posters include: -Reading Strategies -Author's Purpose -Point of View -Plot Structure -Summarizing

Use this matching game to work on text structure! This product includes six different text structures, definitions, key words, and graphic organizers. This activity can be used independently or in partners/groups. The cards can also be used as flash cards! Text structures included: -Description -Chronological -Sequence -Problem/Solution -Cause/Effect -Compare/Contrast

Use this themed activity as an end of year wrap up! Page 1: Cover Page 2: Top Memories Page 3: Top Achievements Page 4: Words to describe the year Page 5: Top Person (someone who really helped them) Page 6: Top Trends (think words, viral internet trends, clothes...) Page 7: Activity I Loved (something they did in the classroom)

Smiley themed name tags! Great for locker tags!

For all the March Madness fans! Just in time for testing, this set of slides includes task cards to review using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words. This product includes 12 task cards, a recording sheet, and an answer key!

This chart gives ideas for monthly class behavior challenges. Students win a reward at the end of the month for good behavior. Each month can be edited to fit your students. Some months have visuals to help out with an idea that I have used before. My students loved these challenges!

Get to know your students with a Tiktok themed layout.

Activities for any Valentine's themed day! This packet includes bingo, a word scramble, a word creating activity, and a word search! Includes answer keys!

Doing a book review in your classroom? Start here. This resource can be used to be a base for an opinion essay or be used as a quick exit ticket when you finish a book. This could also be used when students finish reading a book independently.

Students will use colors to pick out the different parts of speech. This can be used as a refresher of a bunch of parts of speech!

This packet consists of six writing activities. Four activities go along with descriptive writing and two go along with research writing. These activities can be used in many different ways in your classroom, whether it be a small group activity, a whole group lesson, or a warm up to start your writing class.