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Writing-essays Common Core RL.2.1 resources
Elf Activities - Elf Application
Are you looking for a fun Christmas writing activity that gets your students engaged AND still meets standards? This Elf Application is just what you need for your holiday writing! This Christmas writing resource is aligned to the CCSS! This activity gives a short lesson to go along with the book How Santa Got His Job, but the book is not necessary and you can easily complete the application without the book.Included in the Resource:Teacher instructions for before, during and after reading str
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1st - 4th
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Also included in:Â December Activities BUNDLE
2nd Grade Lucy Calkins writing unit: WRITING ABOUT READING -unit 3
This huge document includes slides that go along with every lesson in the 2nd Grade book: Writing about Reading. Each slide has catchy pictures, anchor charts, and teaching points named so you can keep yourself on track through each lesson!These work out nicely for those teachers who ALREADY OWN and use the Lucy curriculum. I use these with a power point clicker to keep my pace through the lessons and make sure I don't forget any parts!
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1st - 3rd
Also included in:Â 2nd Grade Lucy units: Writers Workshop SLIDES - BUNDLED
Common Core Assessment Bundle for all Literature Standards 1-9
This is a great deal! You get one assessment for all Literature Common Core Standards. You get one 2.RL.1assessment Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? One assessment for 2.RL.2 Recounting stories, fables and folktales, One 2.RL.3 assessment How Characters respond to major events and sequencing, One 2.RL. 4 assessment Poetry and figurative language, One 2.RL.5 assessment addressing how the beginning of the story introduces and the ending concludes and how the character solves their problem, One 2.
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2nd - 5th
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Regards to the Man on the Moon by Ezra Jack Keats Reading and Writing Activities
Regards to the Man on the Moon by Ezra Jack Keats is a lovely book of childhood imagination with space travel. This PRINT AND GO reading unit for Regards to the Man on the Moon focuses on the theme of imagination and space travel and comprehension. Activities are organized in a before-during-after set up. WHAT ACTIVITIES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT FOR REGARDS TO THE MAN ON THE MOON?schema builder about the moonvocabulary organizer and word cardscause/effect relationships anchor chart and organiz
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in:Â Ezra Jack Keats Author Study, Reading Activities in Digital and PDF
KWL Chart - What I Know, What I Want to Know, What I Learned - K-W-L
Now that school is in full session, it's time for your students to think! K-W-L charts are a great way to organize your students' prior knowledge and guide them to make inquiries about a specific topic. This worksheet features a topic space and three generous spaces for students to gather information on what they know, what they wonder, and what they have learned. Use this KWL worksheet throughout a lesson; beginning, middle, and end! Enjoy!
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Not Grade Specific
Journeys- Luke Goes to Bat Supplemental Unit {Unit 4: Lesson 17}
If you use the Journeys 2014 Reading Series in your classroom, this is a must-have for supplementary material!
In this unit you will find:
-vocabulary practice including sketch a picture and vocabulary in sentences practice
- sequencing activities
- antonyms practice
-long I find a word
-formal and informal language practice
-summarizing review
-comprehension questions, graphic organizer, and 5 W's questions
-connect to the text writing prompt for complimentary text
-a writing prompt and themed
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2nd
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The Snowy Day a Common Core Literacy Unit
This unit was designed to support your literacy unit with Ezra Jack Keat's The Snowy Day. It has vocabulary, Blooms Questions, sequencing, cause and effect, opinion writing, retell, and TRC style comprehension questions.
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K - 2nd
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Michael Strouth Art Lesson Chicken Folk Art
This lesson introduces Illustration artist Michael Strouth, known for his contributions to Sesame Street. The lesson is perfect for 1st grade through 4th grade with some variations. Students will have the opportunity to explore directed line drawing and working with color, line and pattern. The lesson will invite the students to create a beautiful unique art piece. You can use this lesson in the following ways:a unit on illustration 30-45 minute sub plansa simple design that helps to build a st
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1st - 4th
Reading Street Common Core 2013-Written Response Organizers&Tests-ALL UNITS 2ND
Reading Street Common Core 2013 aligned written responses including best practice organizers. I paired each look back and write about the main selection with room to organize before writing a response.Reading Street Common Core 2013 look back and write about the main selection. Included in this pack is a weekly written response for each story EVERY unit of the 2nd grade edition. I like to have students plan out their writing first before they write. These tests do just that. With each weekly wri
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2nd
5 Ws Graphic Organizer for Writing and Reading
The 5 Ws Graphic Organizer provides students with a format to assist in answering these important questions while reading or to preparing for write a text. This is also helpful when viewing illustrations, such as maps, in textbooks to identify key events. You use it as you see fit for your students and/or class.What's Included:one sheet 5Ws Graphic Organizer (It is the one seen in the picture.)Easel adapted sheet (Students type or use the pen tool to fill out the sheet; there are no changes t
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1st - 3rd
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The Story of Ruby Bridges CCSS ELA Unit
This unit is chunked full of teaching and learning activities that directly correlate to the Common Core State Standards. In this unit, students work on making predictions based on the illustrations, learn more about personification and figurative language, learn to compare and contrast using Ruby's move as a catalyst, sequence the life of Ruby using a storyboard map, write a narrative envisioning a day in the life of Ruby, and then finally writing a business letter to the Ruby Bridges Foundatio
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2nd - 3rd
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Fables and Art: A PBL creative writing unit that deepens descriptive language.
This PBL (Project Based Learning) unit covers Visual Art standards and ELA common core writing standards. It is a unit on fairy tales that uses art projects along the way to increase story structure and descriptive details. It uses 2nd grade common core standards but can easily be translated to any grade level narrative writing unit. It is primarily meant for deepening their descriptive language as a writer and as an artist. This unit also includes Learning Targets and lessons taken from Lucy Ca
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6th
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Reading Street Common Core 2013-Written Response Organizers & Tests Gr. 2-Unit 1
Reading Street Common Core aligned written responses including best practice organizers. I paired each look back and write about the main selection with room to organize before writing a response. Included in this pack is a weekly written response for each story in Unit 1 for the 2nd grade edition. I like to have students plan out their writing first before they write. These tests do just that. With each weekly written response, I want the students to plan out what to write and gather evidence f
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2nd
Reading Street Common Core 2013-Written Response Organizers & Tests Gr. 2-Unit 6
Reading Street Common Core aligned written responses including best practice organizers. I paired each look back and write about the main selection with room to organize before writing a response.Included in this pack is a weekly written response for each story in Unit 6 for the 2nd grade edition. I like to have students plan out their writing first before they write. These tests do just that. With each weekly written response, I want the students to plan out what to write and gather evidence fr
Grades:
2nd
Reading Street Common Core 2013-Written Response Organizers & Tests Gr. 2-Unit 5
Reading Street Common Core aligned written responses including best practice organizers. I paired each look back and write about the main selection with room to organize before writing a response. Included in this pack is a weekly written response for each story in Unit 5 for the 2nd grade edition. I like to have students plan out their writing first before they write. These tests do just that. With each weekly written response, I want the students to plan out what to write and gather evidence f
Grades:
2nd
Reading Street Common Core 2013-Written Response Organizers & Tests Gr. 2-Unit 4
Reading Street Common Core aligned written responses including best practice organizers. I paired each look back and write about the main selection with room to organize before writing a response. Included in this pack is a weekly written response for each story in Unit 4 for the 2nd grade edition. I like to have students plan out their writing first before they write. These tests do just that. With each weekly written response, I want the students to plan out what to write and gather evidence f
Grades:
2nd
Reading Street Common Core 2013-Written Response Organizers & Tests Gr. 2-Unit 2
Reading Street Common Core aligned written responses including best practice organizers. I paired each look back and write about the main selection with room to organize before writing a response. Included in this pack is a weekly written response for each story in Unit 2 for the 2nd grade edition. I like to have students plan out their writing first before they write. These tests do just that. With each weekly written response, I want the students to plan out what to write and gather evidence f
Grades:
2nd
The Shot that Backfired - Lesson Plan
Anti Gun Violence is the theme. Primary level students will be enlightened to the value of life and the grave consequences of firearm abuse. They will also be able to infer, definitions of vocabulary and comprehend the story and its symbolic meanings through questioning. The lesson plan covers 2-3 days of silent reading (hand outs) with class discussion; oral reading of video text followed by deep class discussion through questioning and essay writing. The topic will capture the students' att
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2nd - 3rd, Staff
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My Climb up the Beanstalk Point of View Worksheet: GR2
The packet begins with suggestions for reinforcing and enriching learning related to fairy tales and folktales. It starts with a chart showing the difference between first person and third person point of view. This is followed by a retelling of the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. After, there are three questions about point of view, directions for writing an essay from the princess's perspective, a graphic organizer, a bordered, lined, page for writing, and a bordered page on which to create a
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1st - 3rd
Reading Street Common Core 2013-Written Response Organizers & Tests Gr. 2-Unit 3
Reading Street Common Core aligned written responses including best practice organizers. I paired each look back and write about the main selection with room to organize before writing a response. Included in this pack is a weekly written response for each story in Unit 3 for the 2nd grade edition. I like to have students plan out their writing first before they write. These tests do just that. With each weekly written response, I want the students to plan out what to write and gather evidence f
Grades:
2nd
How To Eat Fried Worms: Short Answer Questions
This "oldie but goodie" is a great book to read aloud anytime--in the depths of winter, or right before or after summer vacation. The book is so much better than the movie! The 41 very short chapters have been divided into eleven chuckle-filled readings that stop at appropriate times in the novel. Each reading should take about 15 minutes of read-aloud fun. All have a one-page, short answer set of questions that involve basic understanding of the text, as well as higher level questioning strateg
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2nd - 5th
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Theme Graphic Organizer
This FREE resource can be used with any text to identify the theme. This theme graphic organizer will help students identify their supporting details to prove the theme. If you download this product, please rate and share!
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2nd - 5th
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Earth Dragon Awakes Letter
The Earth Dragon Awakes letter format
This letter can be used for different activities. I had students write a persuasive book review letter. They had to use text evidence to support the reasons why someone should read the book.
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2nd - 4th
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