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Donavan's Word Jar - a Complete Novel Study - created by Sharing Sharon This is a great resource for a complete novel study. The questions follow Bloom's Taxonomy of higher thinking. There is often a creative type activity with each chapter, including an autobiography cereal box, an advertising campaign, acting out skits, and drawing. The final task is to write a final chapter for the book. Great for students in Grades 1-4. Challenges younger students and perfect for older students who are s

Autobiography Scrapbook - created by Sharing Sharon This is a great project to evaluate and see what your student's are capable of the first few weeks of school. Students choose 5 "chapters" to write about their own life. They must choose chapter 1 which is called In the Beginning but then they can choose any other 4 chapters from a choice of 11 chapters. It is a very open ended and creative project that students often get very excited about. Students love talking about themselves and sharin

Frindle by Andrew Clements - A complete Novel Study created by Sharing Sharon This package includes full comprehension questions, vocabulary building , critical thinking questions, writing activities as well as 8 culminating centers based on the book. You may use all or some of the activities for your students depending on their needs and abilities. Questions for each chapter and then 8 centers upon the completion of the book with Marking schemes. Perfect for Grades 4-6.

Stink - The Incredible Shrinking Kid complete Novel Study created by Sharing Sharon This complete novel study follows Bloom's Taxonomy of comprehension. The questions are based on the novel and get progressively more involved. The last questions are more open ended and creative. Focuses on reading comprehension, creative writing, language skills like suffixes, similes, figurative language and critical thinking.

Christmas Language Arts Centres created by Sharing Sharon These are a perfect ideas for Christmas Language arts activities leading up to Christmas vacations when students are excited and ready for a break. The package includes 8 different activities with answer key. The skills focus on spelling, grammar, homophones, editing, paragraph writing, and creative writing. These can be used as Centres, folders, independent work or extra work for fast finishers. They can be done individually or in group

Human Bingo is a great ice breaker game for the first week of school. It's a great way for students to meet each other and get to know the other students in their class. They walk around with their bingo card and a pencil. They ask each other if they can sign a square that pertains to them. The goal is to get each square signed by someone different.

Halloween Language Arts Centers created by Sharing Sharon. This package includes 8 Language Arts Activities that can be used as Centers. Fun and creative activities great for a few weeks leading up to Halloween. Students are usually so excited this time of year, it's nice to do something fun while meaningful at the same time. Activities focus on grammar, editing, following directions, writing paragraphs, finding words and creative writing. Perfect for Grades 2-6.

All About Me Newspaper - created by Sharing Sharon This is a perfect get to know you activity for the first week of school. Students love to see their work in a finished "newspaper" format. Students fill in the brainstorming page and then I usually type in the finished product onto the template. You can have students type it in as well. There is a sample of a finished product on the preview page.

This package is designed to help with writing activities. It can be used in any capacity you choose, but the purpose is to allow students some creativity and open ended writing tasks. This package is perfect for enriching your students, used as focus of writing through a daily 5 activity or for your fast finishers. There are 30 different writing activities. Can be used as story prompts, journal writing or in any other regard. Best to cut and laminate for long lasting use. Great for grades 2-6

Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown Novel Study created by Sharing Sharon. This is a perfect resource for a first time novel study. It introduces the students to the concepts of vocabulary building, answering reflective questions using full complete sentences as well as some creative type thinking questions for each chapter. Perfect for your strong Grade 1 readers, average Grade 2 readers and weak Grade 3 readers.

This rule explains what letters to double at the end of a one syllable word with one short vowel. These rules are designed to help students understand why words are spelled the way they are. Great for all students but especially for students with Dyslexia or Language Based Learning Disabilities. Are you sick of your students memorizing pointless lists of words without understanding why words are spelled the way they are? Do you want your students to understand English spelling rules and pattern

Multiplication Tips and Tricks created by Sharing Sharon. This is a great resource for your students who just can't learn or memorize their multiplication facts. These tricks help students understand what each multiplication number means. It works through patterns and a deeper understanding of how to find an answer when memorizing just isn't working. Struggling students love these sheets.

Investigating Long Vowels created by Sharing Sharon This package is designed to help students understand the difference between short vowels and long vowels. This package lets students investigate all the different ways to make each long vowel sound. It's important for students to realize and understand that there are many different acceptable ways to make long vowels. Once students become familiar with the different patterns, it makes reading and spelling much easier. Thanks so much for your

Anxiety and Stress Reducing Techniques created by Sharing Sharon This package is designed to help students reduce and manage their stress. It can be used in any capacity you choose, but the purpose is to bring students through a self reflection about their own stress level, what it means and then to find strategies that will work for them to reduce their stress. This package is designed to help students become calmer, happier students and to learn to manage their own stress and anxiety. Included

Complete Magnet Unit created by Sharing Sharon Science unit with 6 scientific magnet experiments. Can set them up like centers that students rotate through The package includes directions to the 6 centers as well as Magnet Log sheets for students to record their answers. Also includes a magnet art activity as well as Phys Ed magnet games. Includes a multiple choice magnet assessment of the Scientific Method. Perfect for grades 2-6

Here is a 1 Spelling Rule that your students can use in their every day writing and will improve spelling and reading. This teaches when to use and when to use at the end of a one syllable word. This rule is designed to help students understand why words are spelled the way they are. Great for all students but especially for students with Dyslexia or Language Based Learning Disabilities. Are you sick of your students memorizing pointless lists of words without understanding why words are spel

Math About Me created by Sharing Sharon Cute first week of school Math activity to get to know your students. Introduction to place value. Makes a fun game to see how much students are "worth" by numbers.

This rule explains when to use and when to use at the end of a one syllable word. These rules are designed to help students understand why words are spelled the way they are. Great for all students but especially for students with Dyslexia or Language Based Learning Disabilities. Are you sick of your students memorizing pointless lists of words without understanding why words are spelled the way they are? Do you want your students to understand English spelling rules and patterns? If so, thi

These rules teach when a and are soft sounds and when they are hard sounds. These rules are designed to help students understand why words are spelled the way they are. Great for all students but especially for students with Dyslexia or Language Based Learning Disabilities. Are you sick of your students memorizing pointless lists of words without understanding why words are spelled the way they are? Do you want your students to understand English spelling rules and patterns? If so, this is

Book Report Independent Project - created by Sharing Sharon This is an open ended book report that can be done with any book or novel. Perfect project for any grade level. Included are 4 activities with a marking scheme for each. Newspaper article reporter - written and oral Character sketch Plot Development Opinion