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Opinion and Persuasive Writing Unit

By Wise Guys

Do your upper elementary students struggle with opinion and persuasive writing? This persuasive and opinion writing unit will give you the tools necessary to successfully teach this topic in your classroom. Rubrics, planning sheets, and handouts

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Lesson

CCSS:

W.3.1, W.3.2, W.3.4, W.3.5, W.4.1, W.4.2, W.4.4, W.4.5, W.5.1, W.5.1a, W.5.1b...

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Complete Sentences Writing Activity

By Wise Guys

#TOAST23 Do your students struggle with writing complete sentences? This activity is an interactive slideshow that will engage and entertain your students while teaching them the basics of how to write a complete sentence. Included in the activity

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Lesson

$4.25

340

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Christmas Writing Activity - Unemployed Elf

By Wise Guys

Are you looking for a fun and engaging Christmas writing activity for your upper elementary students? In this Christmas writing activity each student is an unemployed elf seeking a job at the North Pole for the Christmas Season. This creative

Subjects:

Writing, Holidays/Seasonal, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Google Apps

CCSS:

W.3.1, W.3.4, W.3.5, W.4.1, W.4.4, W.4.5, W.5.1, W.5.4, W.5.5, W.6.1, W.6.4...

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Topic Sentences Activity Set 1

By Wise Guys

Do your upper elementary students struggle with identifying topic sentences? The purpose of this activity is to help your students understand how to identify the topic sentence of a paragraph through the use of task cards. It’s also intended to help

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Printables

$3.50

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Persuasive Writing Activity Create Amusement Park

By Wise Guys

Persuasive Writing Create Amusement Park Theme. This activity will get your students excited about persuasive writing by having them create a theme for the new amusement park. Download our preview for more details. The overall purpose of this

Subjects:

Other (Specialty), For All Subject Areas, Writing

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Printables

$4.00

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Upper Elementary Poetry Unit - Haiku, Cinquain, Tanka, and More!

By Wise Guys

If you are looking to teach a poetry unit to your upper elementary students then you have come to the right place. Your fourth grade, fifth grade and even middle school students will learn how to write seven different types of poems in this unit!

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Gifted and Talented, Writing

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.L.5, CCRA.L.6

$3.00

170

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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Writing Activity (Circle Story)

By Wise Guys

This is a fun If You Give a Mouse a Cookie writing activity. This creative lesson will have your students writing their own stories based on the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Students will write their own story that circles back around to the

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Short Stories, Writing

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Lesson

$3.25

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Writing Workshop Escape Room Activity

By Wise Guys

The purpose of this Writing Workshop is to engage your students in an Escape Room activity to learn more about the important components for being an effective writer. Watch your students get excited as they try to get accepted into The School of

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Grammar

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Games

$7.00

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Writing Process How to Write a Sentence

By Wise Guys

Do your upper elementary students struggle with using the writing process to write stories or to even write in complete sentences? This resource is a basic 6-page step-by-step teacher lesson plan intended to teach your students how to write a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Lesson

$3.25

277

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Upper Elementary Personal Narrative Writing Unit

By Wise Guys

Are you looking for a comprehensive way to teach personal narrative writing to your third grade, fourth grade, or fifth grade students? This is a very thorough writing unit that will help you effectively teach your students how to write a personal

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

CCSS:

W.3.3, W.3.4, W.3.5, W.4.3, W.4.4, W.4.5, W.5.3, W.5.4, W.5.5

$6.50

121

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Paragraph Structure Activity 20 Task Cards

By Wise Guys

The purpose of this activity is to help your students understand the proper structure and order of sentences in a paragraph through the use of task cards. It’s also intended to help your students understand the importance of the order of sentences

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Printables

$3.50

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Creative Writing Activities 50 Task Cards Teacher Tips and Rubric

By Wise Guys

Do you want your students to be creative? Of course you do! The overall purpose for these task cards is to engage your students in some creative writing. There are 50 choices included in these task cards including writing a play, designing a golf

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Other (Arts), Writing

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Activities, Centers

$14.00

$8.00

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Turkey in Disguise Thanksgiving Writing Activity

By Wise Guys

Watch your students have fun when they disguise a turkey for Thanksgiving! Here are two great Thanksgiving activities that your upper elementary students will enjoy. Students will get to disguise a turkey and write about how their turkey will avoid

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Visual Arts, Thanksgiving

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Handouts

$3.25

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Writing Sentences Sentence Structure Activities

By Wise Guys

This is a writing sentences activity where students create a Silly Short Story. This document contains lesson plans that are intended to help students understand the basic structure of a sentence- mainly the subject and the verb (predicate). To

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Handouts, Lesson

$3.00

130

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Creative Writing Resources Bundle

By Wise Guys

This resource is intended to engage your students in the creative writing process. Include in this extensive creative writing bundle are 25 writing/language resources: - Persuasive Writing Activity (Top Seller!) - 20 Persuasive Writing Task

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Poetry

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Unit Plans, Activities, Task Cards

$80.25

$50.00

Bundle

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Writers Workshop Complete Sentences and Grammar Activities

By Wise Guys

Do your students struggle with writing complete sentences and understanding grammar and the different parts of speech? If so, this bundle includes a Writers Workshop Escape Room, complete sentences resources, grammar skills and other activities to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Lesson

$37.75

$27.99

Bundle

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Grammar Worksheets and Activities

By Wise Guys

These activities are intended to provide your students with an understanding of some of the most basic grammar. The worksheets provided will help your students understand topics such as subject, verb (predicate), punctuation, sentence fragments,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Other (ELA)

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.L.1

$5.25

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ELA Easter Egg Hunt Activities - Figurative Language Story Elements and Plot

By Wise Guys

Are you looking for an engaging ELA Easter activity that will test your students' knowledge of figurative language, story elements, and the five elements of plot? This ELA activity will be fun for the whole class. Students will searching the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Reading Strategies

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Games

$3.50

Digital Download PDF (0.68 MB)

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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible No Good Day Very Bad Day Activity!

By Wise Guys

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible No Good Day Very Bad Day Activity! Have your students ever had a bad day like Alexander in the Judith Viorst books? Or have they ever had a great day that they'll never forget? This writing project allows the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, Homeschool

Types:

Projects, Activities

$5.00

$3.25

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Writing Breaking News Stories Examples and Templates Provided

By Wise Guys

Did you know that opening a jar of pizza sauce can be more healthy for you than running on a treadmill for two hours? Well- it's true and it's BREAKING NEWS! It seems today that everything reported is "Breaking News!" or it's a "Top Story!" or it's

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Short Stories

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Printables

$3.25

Digital Download ZIP (3.62 MB)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

With a combined 40 years of teaching experience at the elementary and middle school levels, We, Wise Guys, have tried our very best to be at the forefront of creating engaging and useful resources that incorporate for many subject areas.

MY TEACHING STYLE

We, Wise Guys, believe in teaching to the whole child. We incorporate various teaching styles in the classroom that help all students learn. We try our very best to make our lessons fun and engaging for our students.

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Undergraduates of UW-La Crosse and UW-Eau Claire. Masters Graduates of UW-La Crosse and UW-Eau Claire.

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

We both hold Masters Degrees in Education: Language Arts and Professional Development. Visit our blog below: http://creativecommoncoreclassroom.com/

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Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool, Staff, Not Grade Specific

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English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Algebra, Applied Math, Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Fractions, Geometry, Graphing, Measurement, Numbers, Other (Math), Science, Astronomy, Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment, Other (Science), Social Studies, Ancient History, Civics, Elections - Voting, Government, Native Americans, U.S. History, European History, World History, World Languages, Spanish, Arts & Music, Visual Arts, Graphic Arts, Other (Art), Other (Performing Arts), Computer Science, Drama, Career and Technical Education, Health, Other (Specialty), ELA Test Prep, Math Test Prep, British History, Geography, Other (Social Studies), Other (ELA), Life Skills, Gifted and Talented, Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Professional Development, Statistics, School Counseling, Economics , Character Education, Word Problems, Study Skills, Instructional Technology, General Science, Problem Solving, Short Stories, Writing, Oral Communication, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Mental Math, Halloween, Winter, The New Year, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents' Day, Decimals, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Products For TpT Sellers, Tools for Common Core, Earth Day, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, For Administrators, Test Preparation, Early Intervention, End of Year, Close Reading, Women's History Month, Classroom Community, Hispanic Heritage Month