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Common Core RL.1.10 cultural activities
Holidays Around the World: Diwali ~ Common Core Aligned
Diwali Lesson Plan: Diwali is the Festival of Lights celebrated in India. Teachers often include Diwali in "Christmas Around the World" or "Holidays Around the World" units because teaching multicultural celebrations can give us a glimpse into a new culture. As teachers we can open our kids' eyes to global holidays AND also instill pride in children as we feature their heritage.
Use the following Diwali activities and crafts to teach your children about a holiday celebrated by millions of India
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PreK - 3rd
Every Student, Every Day- Multicultural Mentor Texts and Class Books
Don’t wait for a special holiday to include the histories, perspectives, values, and contributions of your diverse learners. With these diverse texts, you can provide positive and affirming messages for ALL students every day of the year! Included in this packet are mentor texts that reflect a wide range of cultural, ethnic, religious, linguistic, and socioeconomic identities (just like the ones in our classrooms) for every month. You will also get class book writing prompts, pages, and critica
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PreK - 2nd
Readers' Theater: Iktomi Learns Generosity Character Education
This Reader's Theater Script features the classic Lakota character Iktomi and his friends as they learn a valuable lesson on generosity! Includes a fun and engaging, multi-leveled story, as well as numerous activities to help students demonstrate and understand generosity!FEATURES• Six page script featuring six different characters. • Fun sorting activity - students will separate Iktomi and his friends' actions into generous and not generous piles!• Generosity activity - students will brainstorm
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1st - 3rd
ELA Close Reading - Earth Day Stories - Celebrating Earth
Engage All Learners with Powerful Close Reading Activities!This curriculum pack equips educators with a variety of close reading activities designed to target a broad range of learners, including students with dyslexia, English language learners, and all students who can benefit from structured support.Key Features:Accessible Texts: Thoughtfully designed passages with low graphic content and clear formatting (numbered and highlighted paragraphs) promote reading ease and reduce stress.Differentia
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1st - 3rd
Read Across America School Wide Plan
Read Across America WeekCelebrate the Magic of Reading during the first week of March! This week long plan includes engaging ideas for each day of the week. Also includes:Parent Form Letter you can use to invite parents to be guest readersDiverse Character costume ideas for Character DayDiverse book selection ideas for global school wide read aloud Thank you for your purchase!Follow me on twitter and Leading for Literacy Blog for literacy ideas and coaching tips. Premium subscribers receive invi
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PreK - 5th
Holiday Poems Throughout the Year BUNDLE
Celebrate school holidays with poetry! These Poem of the Week resources are a great way to supplement your curriculum and to acknowledge important holidays without a lot of extra work. This BUNDLE includes some of my most popular Poem of the Week resources. You can use the resources in this bundle to celebrate:ChristmasDiwaliHanukkahKwanzaaNew Year's DayMartin Luther King, Jr. DayGroundhog DayThe 99th Day of School (tie this to your 100th day celebrations)St. Patrick's DayHeritage DayElection Da
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1st - 3rd
Free Halloween Reading Activities-- Eight Fun Halloween Limericks
If you are looking for something fun for your students to read this Halloween, try out these 8 free Halloween limericks! Your students will love these lighthearted and easy-reading limericks with themes such as trick or treaters, witches, ghosts, bats and broomsticks! These poems are great for choral reading and independent reading!What you get:8 Halloween limericks in color and black and whiteIdeas for teaching limericksTeaching suggestions for 1 poemHow to Use:Show the color limericks on you
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K - 3rd
The Garden of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van Allsburg Lesson Plan and Activities
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the mystery mentor text book The Garden of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van Allsburg. This book can also be found in Spanish under the title El jardin de Abdul Gasazi. Activities are in English and Spanish! Lessons and activities focus on:close reading for key details to describe character traitsanalyzing point of viewthemeauthor's purpose The lesson plans include:teacher script with strategic stopping points and questions for students to dis
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2nd - 5th
African-Centered Learning: Empowering Early Reading (Short Stories and Proverbs)
Your scholar will absolutely LOVE this colorfully illustrated collection of Short Stories and African Proverbs. We've included writing activities, Kiswahili practice, and a few Healthy Recipes that the whole family can enjoy. There are also thought provoking writing prompts associated with each ancient african proverb. (70 pages) Sign Up for LIVE, African-Centered, online core classes and electives at wwww.wholelivingacademy.com . Physical copies are available for purchase on Amazon.
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K - 4th
Lulu is a Rhinoceros by Allison Flom & Jason Flom
Everyone thinks Lulu is a bulldog, but she knows that can't be true, because Lulu is a Rhinoceros -- that is what she sees staring back at her when she looks in the mirror. But sometimes, being yourself can be a difficult road to walk. And just when all hope seems lost, Lulu finds a small friend that makes a big difference in her life when she realizes that the courage to be herself has been inside of her all along.The lessons for this book are designed to engage students in imperative discussio
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PreK - 5th
Nursery Rhymes INTERACTIVE BROCHURES and FULL PAGE POSTERS
Bring these traditional rhymes alive with the help of these super fun, interactive tri-fold brochures, targeting multiple skills at the same time!
Included in this unit:
✔ 10 double-side interactive brochures,each with a cut and glue activity, for the following rhymes:
● Hey Diddle Diddle
● Humpty Dumpty
● Hickory Dickory Dock
● Itsy-Bitsy Spider
● Little Miss Muffet
● Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
● Jack and Jill
● Baa Baa, Black Sheep
● Mary Had a
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PreK - 1st
Sweet Tea & Cookies: A Multicultural Family Celebration of the American South
Sweet Tea & Cookies is a multicultural family celebration of the American South. But it’s not about state flags, birds, flowers, and capital cities. Rather, this guide digs deeply into the soul of the South.You’ll hear from all kinds of people because the story of the American South is wrapped up and intermingled with a little bit of this and a little bit of that. There are contributions that have been made by Indigenous peoples, Black folks, white folks, and others who have come together to
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1st - 6th
Art and Poetry for Children
Your students will find that poetry is “a thing of beauty” and “a joy forever” (Keats) when listening to and reading these selections for children. Poetry has numerous benefits for children, such as building literacy skills, creativity, and self-expression, just to name a few. And students can take pleasure from the beautiful works of art that they match to the poems. Learning materials include:· 3 sets (easier to more difficult) of 10 poems each (Wordsworth, Frost, Stevenson, Rossetti, Alcott,
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1st - 4th
Zombie Kid Makes a Friend- Free Classroom Book
In Zombie Kid's small town, zombie culture is all he has ever known. When Werewolf Boy enrolls in his school, Zombie Kid and the rest of the horde struggle with accepting their new classmate. Discover with Zombie Kid the importance of tolerance and acceptance of those who are different from the hoard.
***Free Teacher's Guide*** - Check out the free teacher guide and activities in my store!
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PreK - 2nd
Christmas holiday gift tag FREEBIE
Enjoy this holiday tag freebie for Christmas treats or a student gift!
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K - 3rd, Not Grade Specific
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