Valentine's Day Depth and Complexity Print and Go Activities No-Prep ELA

❤️Looking for a way to celebrate Valentine's Day with quality, standards-based language arts activities for your students in grades 4 & up? This set of Valentine's Day Print-and-Go Activities is just what you're looking for! You'll find Valentine's Day writing prompts (short and long), a Valentine's Day short story to read and analyze, an original non-fiction piece to read and analyze, and a Depth & Complexity frame about Valentine's Day. All of it uses the Depth and Complexity model. Of course there is a digital version included for use with Google Classroom™! ❤️

If you like celebrating holidays with quality activities and not filler fluff, you're going to love this. Students will celebrate Valentine's Day while they grow critical thinking skills.

What you get:

❤️ Four short-answer writing prompts in color and black and white (rubric included)
❤️ A longer writing prompt with a graphic organizer, a checklist, and a rubric

❤️ A short story about Valentine's day
❤️ Analysis questions about the short story in list and task-card formats
❤️ An original non-fiction article about Valentine's Day in color and black and white
❤️ A Depth and Complexity disciplinarian activity where students "think like a candy maker"

❤️ A Depth and Complexity frame about Valentine's Day with history and more!
❤️ Links to audio files of both reading pieces
❤️ A link to copy all appropriate activities into your own Google Drive!

You may use any or all of the activities. Mix and match!

You will have everything you need to offer students a great opportunity to explore Valentine's Day themes while addressing many of the standards you need to teach.

You will find it incredibly easy to have students engage in high-level thinking activities and practice critical skills using well-designed resources with fun graphics to celebrate Valentine's Day.

There are two pages of special helps for using the resource in Google Classroom™. Not all of the pages are in the Google Slides version because they're teacher resources or black and white versions.

If you've been looking for a quality Valentine's Day activity to use with your ELA students, this is the answer!

What Teachers Just Like You are Saying about this Valentine Activity Pack

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I love anything that has to do with Depth and Complexity, and this resource did not disappoint at all. It was very engaging, and my students had a great time with it! — Jessica B.

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The kids thoroughly enjoyed the facts that they learned about Valentine's Day. I loved the Depth and Complexity used to up the rigor on their thinking. Thank you. — Gifted 365

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If you make it, I buy it. I know whenever I buy one of your products, they will align with the depth and complexity that my students require in order to grow as learners. I love that even though this is a Valentines activity, they were able to have fun while doing it and hardly noticed they were learning :) — Gifted in Room 104


Ideas for using the Valentine's Day Depth and Complexity Activity Pack

✨ Centers or learning stations
✨ Whole group class experiences
✨ Small group instruction or activities
✨ In-person or virtual learning (especially perfect for blended learning classrooms)

NOTES:

❤️ This product assumes familiarity with the Depth & Complexity framework, however, if your students are not familiar with it, they can simply ignore the Depth & Complexity prompts, as they are small. No problem!
❤️ The audio files are hosted on SoundCloud and school district access to the site cannot be guaranteed.

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