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This project covers a wide range of concepts and is customizable for your class and individual students. Students will have fun designing a store, thinking up products, creating artwork, putting their math skills to work, and playing a game at the end. The activities can be used separately or all together. Depending on which pieces you use, students will get practice with area and perimeter, addition and subtraction (of whole numbers, fractions, decimals, or percents), and quick calculation. You

In this activity, students learn how to use imagery to make richer descriptions and make their writing more interesting. This is a great lesson to use before a poetry unit. You can simply have the students complete the activity or make it more interactive by making a list of scenes and putting them on separate strips of paper. You could also have each student submit a scene for the activity. Then, have each student pull a strip of paper from a bowl and their challenge is to write about that scen

This guide helps students to do basic spelling, punctuation, and capitalization corrections on their own work, or the work of peers. This is a great tool for writers who are just beginning to edit and revise. I would have each student keep this in a page protector and pull it out each time they are going to edit. The second page gives examples of how to use common proofreading symbols and also encourages students to color code. This helps to provide a clear visual of not only where each kind of