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Critical thinking Common Core W.3.1b resources
READ ALOUD STEM Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle #1 STEM Club, STEM Centers
Integrate STEM and Literacy in your classroom all year with READ ALOUD STEM Volume One! Everything you need to be the master STEM Teacher at your school! Awaken imagination and creativity all year. Students learn coding, engineering, explore real-world problems, learn about STEM role models, pioneers, inventors, and more!Amazing resource for STEM clubs, STEM Teachers, STEM Stations, STEM Centers, parents who love hands-on learning, and elementary teachers who want to create a hands-on educationa
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1st - 5th
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200 Daily Bell Work Writing Prompts (Grades 4-6)
Be prepared to teach your Grade 4-6 Language class with a year's worth of bell work writing prompts for Google Slides™! This resource is perfect for a soft start to the Language block and for creating a daily routine for your students to follow.This resource includes 200 writing prompts themed for each day of the week to spark student interest and promote engagement. Every prompt comes with an example of how students should organize their journals, including partial sentences to get students sta
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4th - 6th
Also included in: Grade 4 Ontario 2023 Language Bundle (FULL YEAR)
150 Daily Bell Work Writing Prompts (Grade 1-3 Language)
Be prepared to teach your Grade 1-3 Language class with a year's worth of bell work writing prompts for Google Slides™! This resource is perfect for a soft start to the Language block and for creating a daily routine for your students to follow. This resource includes 150 writing prompts themed for each day of the week to spark student interest and promote engagement. Every prompt comes with an example of how students should organize their journals, including partial sentences to get students st
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1st - 3rd
Also included in: Grade 2 Ontario 2023 Language Bundle (FULL YEAR)
READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges #2 Real World Science Engineering
Bundle and get 50% off! Integrate STEM and Literacy in your classroom all year with READ ALOUD STEM Volume 2! Awaken imagination and creativity all year. Students learn coding, engineering, explore real world problems, learn about STEM role models, pioneers, inventors, and more! Perfect for librarians, STEM Club, K-5 Teachers, and any teach who loves to integrate hands-on learning activities with their students!This collection of STEM Projects focuses on connecting ELA and STEM. Each challenge c
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1st - 5th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-PS3-1
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 4-PS3-4
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Fact and Opinion Task Cards & Unit Plan | Perspective & Bias | Digital + Print
This 153 PAGE UNIT provides ENGAGING TASKS, TASK CARDS, LESSONS and RESOURCES to teach students the difference between FACT and OPINION as READERS and WRITERS through proven teaching strategies fostering CRITICAL THINKING and RESEARCH SKILLS. ⭐ AN ESSENTIAL MEDIA LITERACY SKILL FOR THE "MISINFORMATION" ERAWHAT'S INCLUDEDFact & Opinion Mini-Lesson and overviewLink to Google Slides Version for independent/interactive use16 Fact and Opinion Discovery Task cards (Digital + Print)16 Fact & O
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3rd - 9th
Paragraph Writing Prompts - 5 Different Writing Forms (Grades 4-6 Language)
Paragraph writing is a fundamental skill that all students need to develop. These paragraph writing prompts are an effective tool that can be used to help students develop their writing skills. This resource is printable and can be used with Google Slides™ with no printing necessary.The Paragraph Writing Prompts for Grades 4-6 include a wide range of writing forms including explanatory, recount, narrative, persuasive and procedural writing, giving students the opportunity to explore various writ
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Grade 4 Ontario 2023 Language Bundle (FULL YEAR)
A Plump and Perky Turkey Thanksgiving STEAM Activity
Design and Build a Plump and Perky Turkey for a STEM Art Show! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own symmetrical Plump and Perky Turkey that can balance on it's own! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book A Plump and Perky Turkey by Teresa Bateman.Amazing resource for STEM club, STEM teachers, elementary librarians, parents who love hands-on learning, and 1st grade through 5th grade teachers who want to create a hand
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1st - 5th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving Turkey READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities BUNDLE
Growth Mindset Activities | Social Emotional Learning Bell Ringers | Volume 1
These fully-editable growth-mindset bell ringers will get your class thinking and are perfect for social emotional learning as well! With thought-provoking and engaging prompts, they can be used as individual writing prompts or large group discussion topics. Teachers agree that these bell ringers are perfect for daily warm ups or morning meetings. I’m so excited for your students to experience a variety of life-impacting questions to write about individually or discuss within groups.You will rec
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Growth Mindset Bell Ringers | 40 SEL Writing Prompts For Any Subject | Volume 2
These fully-editable growth-mindset bell ringers will get your class thinking and are perfect for social emotional learning as well! With thought-provoking and engaging prompts, they can be used as individual writing prompts or large group discussion topics. Teachers agree that these bell ringers are perfect for daily warm ups or morning meetings. I’m so excited for your students to experience a variety of life-impacting questions to write about individually or discuss within groups. You will r
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Thank You Sarah Thanksgiving Unplugged Coding Activity
Help Sarah Hale save Thanksgiving using Unplugged Coding! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving Coding Activity in which students code Sarah Hale to the 5 presidents she wrote letters to in order to make Thanksgiving a national holiday! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Thank you, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving by Laurie Halse Anderson.The Coding Process:In this coding activity, students use directional coding to help Sarah save Thanksgiving. Perfect activit
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1st - 5th
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Also included in: Thanksgiving Turkey READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities BUNDLE
Auntie Claus Christmas READ ALOUD Unplugged Coding Activity
Create a Binary Code Christmas Ornament Unplugged Coding for Hour of Code, STEM Club, and First Grade through 5th Grade Classrooms! Make learning fun with this Christmas Coding Activity where students learn how to code and decode binary codes. They build their own Binary Code Christmas Ornament to give to a friend and write about what the word or letters mean.The Coding Process:In this coding activity, students use binary coding to create their own Christmas Ornament. Perfect activity for a Chri
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1st - 5th
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Also included in: Christmas READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
RACE Writing Strategy for Extended Response + RAP Writing Strategy TEST PREP
These differentiated extended response rubrics list exactly what students need to include in their writing to have complete answers for state test questions. RACE and RAP Posters / Anchor charts are included for a visual reference. ✅ File Includes:4-point rubric (topic sentence, 2 details, closing sentence): Anchor Chart, 2-per-page and 4-per-page for ink saving5-point rubric (topic sentence, 3 details, closing sentence): Anchor Chart, 2-per-page and 4-per-page for ink savingParagraph writing ru
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2nd - 5th
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Opinion Writing Prompts Narrative Expository Writing Prompts & Friendly Letters
Grab all 7 of my writing prompt collections in one money-saving bundle! Includes 63 writing prompts to take you all the way from the very beginning of the school year through the spring. Includes practice on expository writing, narrative writing, persuasive writing, and friendly letters. Each prompt has a checklist for student accountability and this product comes with both Handwriting without Tears style paper and regular lined paper so all you need to do is print and copy!This product also
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1st - 3rd
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Cause & Effect Fairy Tales - Fact or Opinion - Reading Comprehension
This loaded resource is a FUN way for your students to practice CAUSE and EFFECT, FACT and OPINION, and Building Sentences! There are over 150 pages to pick and choose which activities are appropriate for your students to practice cause and effect, fact, and opinion and scrambled sentences (build-a-sentence) with favorite fairy tales. Save MORE THAN 20% when you buy this BUNDLE! This resource is perfect for 1st and 2nd graders, and many of our 3rd graders love it too. Be sure to check the prev
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1st - 2nd
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Groundhog Weather School READ ALOUD SCIENCE™ Activity
Do your students have what it takes to join the Groundhog Weather School?In this Groundhog Day science activity, students learn the basics of weather, create their own rain gauge (if you don't have one), and record weather data over a set period of time. They write a letter with their results to send back to the Groundhog Weather School.The Scientific Method:Students follow the six step scientific method (Purpose, Research, Hypothesis, Experiment, Analysis, Conclusion) to learn about weather and
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-ESS2-1
, 3-ESS2-1
, K-ESS3-2
Also included in: February READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty? Persuasive Writing Unit
Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty? A Persuasive Writing TaskThe truth is now out. Humpty Dumpty was pushed off the wall. Yes pushed! Discover for yourselves, through creating the scenarios, suspect profiles, taking notes as a detective and voting for a mock jury, who the culprit was. A perfect addition to any persuasive writing unit with a story that has been told, arguably not fully, for many years.What's Included?A lesson plan sequence to support teachersBrainstorm templates for creating detective ques
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Persuasive Writing Unit | Collaborative Learning Task
Digital Book Reports Distance Learning Google Drive
Your students will love these Digital Book Reports for Google Drive. Easily use these book reports and responses for distance learning. You'll receive 39 engaging digital book report forms that work with any book to improve reading comprehension. You will receive 26 fiction and 13 nonfiction digital book reports. They can be used over and over again as students read more books.Looking for additional distance learning resources? Making Inferences to Pictures Google DriveDigital Book Response
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2nd - 5th
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Opinion Writing Prompts Informational Narrative Writing Prompts End of Year
Students get so excited about the spring, so why not try this resource with opinion writing prompts, narrative, informational, expository and friendly letter writing prompts? It includes spring, March, April and May writing prompts to get students engaged? These creative prompts are super fun! Also they are no prep so just print and go!It also includes checklists for student accountability which really helped my second graders check over their own work.Take a look at the money saving writing pr
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1st - 3rd
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Book Review, Book Report Templates based on Bloom's Taxonomy
How could one find so many book report forms that transform children into the books they read and into a love of literature? Blooming Book Report Forms began as a few book report forms created to teach third grade students. Over the years new forms were created for multiple abilities.These forms were used with Bloom’s Taxonomy as a focus to ensure student success. As a third grade teacher I was tired of finding book report forms that didn’t really engage the students. These forms help students t
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K - 5th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Strategies Bundle
Once Upon a TiM by Gibbs Novel Study Comprehension, Composition, Enrichment
This resource in PDF and Google Slides formats™ includes comprehension questions, discussion prompts, enrichment activities, and composition prompts for the book Once Upon a TiM by Stuart Gibbs. This is a whimsical, cross-curricular adventure story full of adventure, humor, literary elements, vocabulary, life lessons, and important themes. Stuart Gibbs is the New York Times bestselling author of the Spy School series, numerous books, screenplays, animated films, and TV shows. This first book in
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3rd - 5th
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The One Thing You'd Save Park novel study comprehension composition enrichment
This resource includes comprehension questions with composition prompts and enrichment/project activities for the book The One Thing You'd Save by award-winning author, Linda Sue Park. The resource is provided as a printable PDF and as Google Slides™ for use in Google Classroom™. This is a unique and timely book that promotes critical thinking, encourages cooperation and inspires appreciation for different viewpoints and individuality. The book is written in the Korean Sijo poetic style and insp
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3rd - 6th
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TIME Magazine's Person of the Year - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:How do the people in your life inspire you?Description:In this project, students think about TIME Magazine's Person of the Year and what makes a person inspirational. Then, they come up with their own person of the year and conduct an interview and write an article about their Person of the Year. The students will critique, edit, and revise their articles before publishing a final version with optional other magazine features.This project is ideal for Mother's Day or Father's Da
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: PBL Bundle (Grade 5) - In Collaboration with A.J. Juliani - 26 Projects!
Literacy and STEAM: MyView Grade 3 Year-Long Bundle
A whole year of Literacy and STEAM!THIRTY amazing hands-on STEAM activities and writing lessons in which students plan, design, build, test and reflect on their own creations.This is a bundle of THIRTY Literacy and STEAM units for MyView Literacy Grade 3 and the perfect companion to the following stories:Unit 1:Grandma and the Great GourdWhy the Sky is Far AwayCocolisoLiving in DesertsThe Golden FlowerA Safe Place to PlayUnit 2:Patterns in NatureWeird FriendsWolf IslandWelcome Back, Wolves!Wolv
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2nd - 5th
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3-ESS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-LS2-1
, 3-PS2-2
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Fact or Opinion: A Language Arts Concept Sort
Are you familiar with concept sorts? Many people use "sorts" with their spelling or word work programs, but sorting and categorizing can be extremely effective learning strategies for MANY areas including language arts!I have found sorts to be particularly effective in my math and science instruction, and I am excited to begin offering some of these sorts to you! If you are unfamiliar with how sorts are used, I have included a full blog post with photos to help get you started! So...what's inclu
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4th - 6th
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