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Riddle time: What do nouns, commas, and similes all have in common? The answer is they're all things I wish my sixth graders hadn't forgotten over the summer! This summer packet, designed for incoming sixth graders, covers English/Language Arts topics so that I get my students learning and practicing their skills for four weeks before they even enter my classroom for the summer! **NOTE: For an additional FREE WEEK'S worth of content, check out the listing HERE! This would be FIVE WEEKS worth o

**NOTE: Download the full FOUR WEEK summer packet here!**! This is a free extra week for the original packet. :) Download this and the original packet for FIVE WEEKS worth of ELA content to keep students practicing the following ELA concepts: Grammar Punctuation Literary Devices Vocabulary Strategies Critical Thinking Skills If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me! Thank you!

This is a mythology research mini-project designed where students research one of the Ancient Greek gods or goddesses and become an expert about them! By completing thsi project, students will research, record, and present their findings on a Greek god or goddess's Greek name/Roman equivalent, their domain, their abilities/skills, a unique item associated with them, their immediate family, and a myth that features the god or goddess. Students research their findings, record them on a note-catche

Use this easy-to-implement worksheet to learn about Halloween and review punctuation concepts (commas, semi-colons, apostrophes, end of sentence punctuation) at the same time! This is great for learning about the history of Halloween or to use in emergency sub plans. 14 sentences are included and the student worksheet is 2 pages long. Answer key is included in the file and the student worksheet itself is editable for your needs. Differentiation is provided, with the standard version having thre

One of students' favorite projects from my year, the Odyssey Create-A-Cruise project gives students the opportunity to be super fun and creative while they summarize, review, and analyze key aspects of Homer's 'The Odyssey'! Instead of writing an essay or answering questions, students instead think of how to translate key elements of the Odyssey (settings, characters, plot events) into elements of a cruise ship journey for the Olympians. Students use these elements to generate a class presentati

Download this bundle and get access to four easy-to-implement worksheets to review punctuation concepts (commas, colons, semi-colons, apostrophes, end of sentence punctuation) and learn about spring holidays (Earth Day, Cinco de Mayo, St. Patrick's Day, & Memorial Day) at the same time! This bundle includes access to ALL of the following for a 20% discount from the individual worksheets! Earth Day Sentence CorrectionsCinco de Mayo Sentence CorrectionsSt. Patrick's Day Sentence CorrectionsMem

Perfect for interventions, struggling learners, or just as a quick refresher, this cheat sheet and reference covers the basic information of sentence types for students. Topics covered include the four sentence types (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex), clauses (independent and dependent), word phrases, and conjunctions (coordinating and subordinate). Definitions and examples are provided so that students can easily identify the important information and see the differences between the

Use this easy-to-implement worksheet to learn about Earth Day and review punctuation concepts (commas, colons, semi-colons, apostrophes, end of sentence punctuation) at the same time! This is great for learning about the history of Earth day or to use in emergency sub plan. 15 sentences are included and the student worksheet is 2 pages long. Answer key is included in the file, a version without the background graphic is included, and the student worksheet itself is editable for your needs. Feel

Included here is a Bingo game designed for students to review and practice their knowledge of sentence types, clauses, and phrases. The objective of Sentence Type Bingo is to correctly identify enough word groups or sentences to earn a bingo! What can easily be a boring worksheet is made into a fun, engaging game instead. While students play, they review the following concepts: Sentence Types (Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex) Word Groups (Word phrases, Dependent clauses, and Inde

Use this easy-to-implement worksheet to learn about St. Patrick's Day and review punctuation concepts (commas, colons, semi-colons, apostrophes, end of sentence punctuation) at the same time! This is great for learning about the history of St. Patrick's Day or to use in emergency sub plans. 14 sentences are included and the student worksheet is 2 pages long. Answer key is included in the file, the student worksheet itself is editable for your needs, and a version without the background graphic

Are you teaching the French Revolution and the Palace of Versailles? Included here is a digital, distance learning friendly resource designed to enrich lessons about Versailles. Students will research the Google Arts & Culture page for Versailles and use Google Docs OR Google Slides to search for and catalogue information. This lesson can be used to enrich a classroom lesson about Versailles or it can be assigned for students to complete independently in a distance learning environment. Studen

Have some spooky Halloween fun with this witchy themed part of speech review activity! In this activity, students solve the mystery of the witch's potion by using their knowledge of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs to solve several puzzles. Included are the following activities: 1) Students identify nouns in sentences in order to solve a word scramble puzzle. 2) Students identify adjectives/adverbs and identify which correctly fits the sentence to solve a potion "mixing" puzzle. 3) Student

Use this easy-to-implement worksheet to learn about Memorial Day and review punctuation concepts (commas, colons, semi-colons, apostrophes, end of sentence punctuation) at the same time! This is great for learning about the history of Memorial Day or to use in emergency sub plans. 14 sentences are included and the student worksheet is 2 pages long. Answer key is included in the file, the student worksheet itself is editable for your needs, and a version without the background graphic is provid

This is a science resource designed for students to gain an understanding of Earth's biomes! Through questions and answers, students will learn about the following biomes: desert, grasslands, savanna, tundra, tropical rainforest, temperate forest, taiga, marine (saltwater), coral reef, and freshwater. For each biome, there are two slides - one slide with 4 custom questions (no identical repeats!) tailored to ensure comprehension of important aspects of each biome and a slide for students to inse

Use this easy-to-implement worksheet to learn about Cinco de Mayo and review punctuation concepts (commas, colons, semi-colons, apostrophes, end of sentence punctuation) at the same time! This is great for learning about the history of Cinco de Mayo or to use in emergency sub plans. 14 sentences are included and the student worksheet is 2 pages long. Answer key is included in the file, the student worksheet itself is editable for your needs, and a version without the background graphic is prov

Teach and reinforce comma rules with these canine-themed worksheets! Students stay engaged with corgi art and stories while practicing specific comma concepts in scaffolded tasks. Easy to print and pass out to students, these are great for reinforcement and practice comma rule instruction, a rainy day resource for ELA sub plans, or as review for comma concepts. The worksheet is broken down into three tasks. In the first task, students practice implementation of the rules given by inserting comma

Teach and reinforce comma rules with these canine-themed worksheets! Students stay engaged with corgi art and stories while practicing specific comma concepts in scaffolded tasks. Easy to print and pass out to students, these are great for reinforcement and practice comma rule instruction, a rainy day resource for ELA sub plans, or as review for comma concepts. The worksheet is broken down into three tasks. In the first task, students practice implementation of the rules given by inserting comm

Great for Social Studies, English, and Art classes! This graphic organizer allows students use critical thinking skills when looking at a piece of art. Guiding questions encourage students to think about specific aspects of an artwork in order to answer the question of the creator's main purpose in creating the image. This is a versatile resource that I use ALL the time because it engages the students' critical thinking skills and allows them to look at art with a purpose in mind and not just to

This sheet is designed to supplement a geography curriculum. Specifically, this worksheet reviews how to: 1) Identify a map title 2) Use the information from a map’s legend 3) Read symbols on the map 4) Differentiate between points on a map 5) Classify points of interests due to their labels 6) Use symbols to answer questions Using this worksheet is as easy as opening the file and printing it out! Provided in the pdf are two copies; one with a background graphic and one without. Answer key is in

This is a practice sheet for students to work with basic information about nouns. In this camping themed-sheet, students will identify nouns and whether they are a person, place, or thing; fill in the blanks in sentences with the appropriate noun type, and differentiate when a word is being used specifically as a noun instead of other parts of speech. Included here is a two page worksheet that should take approximately 20-50 minutes depending on students' mastery of the concept. This is a great