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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.

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

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!

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.

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.

These slides list five parts of speech with the definitions and examples to practice each part of speech. Students can do this independently or it can be used as a lesson.

This product could be used in a reading class to use as a short research project, or in science when teaching about the Sun and moon! The slides include an interactive link to the NASA website for students to research the solar eclipse!

If you are teaching a unit on natural disasters, this is a great activity to introduce some of the natural disasters by having students do a little research of their own. In this activity, they define, sketch, and determine key characteristics for eight natural disasters.

Shape coloring activity with a Valentine's day twist.

This product can be used as guidance and a rubric for a google slide presentation over a planet.