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Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa Common Core W.3.4 resources
Christmas Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Activities
This comprehensive activities resource includes a variety of Christmas activities including nonfiction reading, poetry, writing, speaking and listening, and math activities. Download Preview FileThis is aligned with 3rd grade common core, but may stretch to other grades depending on writing and reading proficiency. Download the preview file for a comprehensive look at this resource. Ensure that it is appropriate for your grade level prior to purchasing.Related Christmas ActivitiesPrimary Chris
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3rd - 5th
Christmas Writing Prompts with Pictures (Opinion, Explanatory, Narrative)
This Christmas writing prompts resource includes 15 Christmas themed prompts to get students thinking and writing about Christmas and the associated experiences and activities. There are 5 writing prompts for each of the following categories: opinion writing, informative/explanatory writing, and narrative writing. We have also included mini versions of each writing prompt that can easily be pasted into an interactive notebook or writing journal and completed therein. Additionally, there is a c
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2nd - 5th
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Christmas Writing - Persuasive Letter Writing and Elf Application Project
Christmas Writing, Christmas Creative Writing, Elf ApplicationHO HO HO! 'Tis the season Santa needs extra ELVES on staff!Help Wanted at the North Pole! is a festive writing project, encouraging students to exercise their creativity and practice the "art" of writing a letter of interest. Students will begin by listening to How Santa Got His Job by Stephen Krensky (not included) and completing a corresponding graphic organizer. Next, students will receive a Help Wanted at the North Pole! advertise
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3rd - 6th
Olive the Other Reindeer Activities Beyond the Text
Olive the Other Reindeer Reading Activities Beyond the Text Unit Do you love sharing the misguided tale of, "Olive the Other Reindeer" with your kiddos during the holiday season? Then, they'll love this fun Olive the Other Reindeer Reading Unit! and you'll adore the academic focus this unit has! This unit is packed with a week's worth (or more!) of Olive the Other Reindeer activities that are perfect for sprinkling in the fun while building your students' reading comprehension this holiday seaso
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: Reading Activities Beyond the Text All Year Bundle
How to Make Hot Chocolate-A Writing Craftivity
How to Make Hot Chocolate Expository Writing Activity and CraftProcedural writing can be challenging for students. Use this writing activity to authentically engage your students to write about how to complete the process of making hot chocolate. This writing goes great with reading or watching the movie, “Polar Express”! Use this fun writing craftivity to add flare to a favorite writing "how to"! This Pack Includes: Brainstorming sheets in regular and primary writing lines. Each sheet also has
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1st - 5th
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Also included in: Writing All Year BUNDLE
Christmas Narrative Writing Center Prompts and Activities for December
Do you have reluctant writers in your classroom? Don’t despair! This Christmas and Hanukkah writing activity will motivate even your most challenged writers. These creative writing prompts provide choice and include the tools needed to plan and write great Christmas and Hanukkah narratives. Your students will love getting to select the setting, problem/plot, and character cards for their story and creating their own unique Holiday themed narrative. These Christmas writing prompts generate fun a
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2nd - 5th
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Winter Holiday Activities - Ugly Sweater Creative Writing for January & December
Want to provide holiday activities for your upper elementary students before winter break while also practicing multiple writing skills? This Ugly Sweater Christmas Writing resource gives students short, engaging writing tasks before the holiday break. The holiday writing prompts are interconnected and follow a similar set-up so they’re engaging for students and simple for you. What’s Inside:✔ 5 days of interconnected short writing prompts✔ Graphic organizers to plan writing✔ Pages for writte
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3rd - 5th
The Legend of the Poinsettia FULL Day of Lesson Plans for Upper Elementary
This product is everything the busy classroom has been looking for! You'll receive a FULL day of lesson plans based on The Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie dePaola (a lesson for reading, writing, math, science, social studies, plus a hallway display!).Update November 2020: This product can now be used digitally with Google Slides™! You must have a Google Classroom™ account to use this feature. You will download a PDF with links and directions for assigning this to your class.How does this work?
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3rd - 5th
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After Winter Break Activities {No Prep ELA Activities to welcome back students}
If your students love to ☺chat☺ as much as mine the day after Winter Break ⛄, leverage that excitement for a meaningful and fun writing activity! With these NO PREP welcome back from Winter Vacation activities, students first share with their classmates about their Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, New Year's Eve, and winter break activities to complete a "Find Someone Who" activity. Next, they discuss their vacation and complete a Venn diagram comparing the events of each partner's break. Finally,
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3rd - 6th
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Holidays Around the World Suitcase & Passport: Close Reading & Opinion Writing
Take your class on a holiday journey around the world, all while focusing on reading comprehension and opinion writing skills for Common Core. Students get their own suitcase, passport, map, and travel guide book as they "travel" to learn about how holidays are celebrated around the world. They can do a Close Reading of up to 10 different countries/continents, and then complete an opinion writing assignment to this prompt: “In your opinion, in which part of the world would you most like to visit
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1st - 3rd
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Christmas Writing: 12 Days of Poetry Booklet with Google & Print Version
These mini-lessons are designed to be a fun, easy way to integrate poetry during the busy holiday season. Six lessons are skill lessons, which means they are on a specific part of the poetry, or a pre-writing exercise. The other six are designed for actually writing a poem. There is also a review and evaluation piece at the end of the booklet. Now includes a Google Slides version, perfect for distance learning! Students will have a chance to learn about imageryrhymingcoupletsconcrete poemssyllab
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Holiday Poetry Mini Lesson Bundle
Christmas Writing Activity - Unemployed Elf
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 project will ask students to apply for one of the North Pole job openings (candy maker, barn assistant, toy maker, etc.). Then, students will need to fill out a job application, have someone write a letter of recommendation, write a cover letter, and interv
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Christmas Writing and Math Bundle
Christmas Santa Writing
A Christmas writing project where students will complete the full writing process to practice persuasive writing. Students till complete a job application to relate this project to their real life! Students will be convincing others why they should be Santa or work at the north pole.This project is a mentor text writing project with the story "How Santa Got His Job" by Stephan Kerensky!Why will these activities help your students grow and make you happy?Engagement- The students will LOVE applyin
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2nd - 4th
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Run a Christmas Store | Holiday Themed | Third Grade Math Game
The holidays are a great time to practice adding up the items on your Christmas list and subtracting money because of sale prices! In this real-world activity, students will run their own toy store. They will use second and third-grade math to practice staying within a budget, solving two and three-step story problems for customers, and graphing their sales. Language Arts standards have been integrated into this holiday activity! Students will use their knowledge of character traits to brainstor
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2nd - 4th
December Writing Center | Paragraph Writing Lesson | 2nd Grade 3rd Grade
Do you need a hands-on approach to writing a paragraph for your students? Or maybe paragraph writing is new to your entire class and you want a scaffolded resource for your teaching in 2nd grade, 3rd grade, or 4th grade! Try my themed paragraph puzzles! This tactile method helps students see exactly how the topic sentence can lead to details.What does this download include?6 different paragraphs, with each sentence in its own box. Cut the boxes out into strips and allow students to piece the par
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Paragraph Writing Hands-On Activity | Writing Center BUNDLE | 2nd Grade
How to Wrap a Present | Christmas Writing Activity | Holiday Paper
This fun how to wrap a present writing prompt activity invites students to write directions for others to follow explaining how to wrap a gift box. This is one of my favorite holiday writing prompts because it is a fun and engaging, real-world situation that students love! The writing resource includes differentiated templates, which makes it accessible to 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students.As a culminating activity, I always enjoy having someone try to follow the students’ written directions
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2nd - 5th
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Christmas Personal Narrative Writing Grades 2-5 {Mooseltoe}
In this resource, your students will learn how to write a Personal Narrative at Christmas. Students will love to write about their favorite family Christmas tradition in detail after listening to a beloved story called Mooseltoe by Margie Palatini. Students will learn how to focus in on a 'small moment' of their life using lots of detail. In this resource, you will receive the following: -teacher suggested lesson plan for ten days of teaching -several graphic organizers for planning/brainstor
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2nd - 5th
December writing prompts, Daily writing journal, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade
This December writing journal has writing prompts for the month of December. Incorporating monthly writing journals into your classroom routine can help foster a love for learning. As educators, we are always on the lookout for ways to engage our students and foster their love for learning. One such powerful tool that can transform your classroom is the implementation of monthly writing journals. This versatile resource not only helps your students practice writing skills but also promotes creat
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1st - 4th
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Dear Santa Persuasive Letter | Christmas Craft | December Opinion Writing Prompt
Writing Letters to Santa has never been so fun! These Dear Santa Letter templates are the perfect addition to your December writing prompts. Students will practice writing a persuasive letter to Santa to let him know how good they have been this year and what they would like for Christmas. These Dear Santa Letter Templates are differentiated for kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade students.What's Inside the Dear Santa Letter Template:Teaching Guide and Photo ExamplesStudent Planning Page3 Differenti
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Year of Creative Writing Prompts | Bulletin Boards & Activities
MEMOIRS OF AN ELF activities READING COMPREHENSION - Book Companion read aloud
Save yourself time and engage your students with these Memoirs of an Elf activities. This jam-packed book companion is quick and easy to use - Just print and go!Read on to learn more about all that is included in this standards-based interactive read aloud packet based on the children’s book, Memoirs of an Elf by Devin Scillian.TO SAVE YOU TIME, WE'VE DONE ALL OF THE WORK FOR YOU!1. We chose vocabulary words & kid-friendly definitions.2. We selected mentor sentences & specific grammar sk
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1st - 3rd
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THE NIGHT TREE activities READING COMPREHENSION - Book Companion read aloud
Save yourself time and engage your students with these The Night Tree activities. This jam-packed book companion is quick and easy to use - Just print and go!Read on to learn more about all that is included in this standards-based interactive read aloud packet based on the children’s book, The Night Tree by Eve Bunting.TO SAVE YOU TIME, WE'VE DONE ALL OF THE WORK FOR YOU!1. We chose vocabulary words & kid-friendly definitions.2. We selected mentor sentences & specific grammar skills for
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1st - 3rd
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Elf Application Christmas Persuasive Writing Christmas Activities 5th grade
Persuasive essays meet Christmas whimsy in this differentiated project that lets you teach essay structure, revision, and creative writing to your older elementary students. They’ll choose from three open positions at the North Pole – Toymaker Elf, Reindeer Caretaker Elf, and Delivery Elf. Each job has very different requirements to appeal to the diverse personalities in your classroom. You’ll decide whether they should write simple one-paragraph essays or more complex five-paragraph essays comp
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3rd - 5th
The Gingerbread Pirates Reader's Theater Toolkit for Grades 3-6
Are you looking for fun ELA activities for the winter holiday season? Based on the book The Gingerbread Pirates by Kristin Kladstrup, this reader's theater script includes several comprehension activities to keep your students engaged and learning while also enjoying some holiday fun.This Gingerbread Pirates Reader's Theater Toolkit resource includes:• 3-page 8-character reader's theater script• context clue word work• reader response questions• post-reading writing prompt• synonym match• summa
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3rd - 6th, Staff
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Also included in: Text-Based Reader's Theater and Read Aloud Activities Bundle
THE CHRISTMAS OWL activities READING COMPREHENSION - Book Companion read aloud
Save yourself time and engage your students with these The Christmas Owl activities. This jam-packed book companion is quick and easy to use - Just print and go!Read on to learn more about all that is included in this standards-based interactive read aloud packet based on the children’s book, The Christmas Owl by Gideon Sterer.TO SAVE YOU TIME, WE'VE DONE ALL OF THE WORK FOR YOU!1. We chose vocabulary words & kid-friendly definitions.2. We selected mentor sentences & specific grammar ski
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1st - 3rd
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