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Elementary close reading projects
Holidays Around the World Christmas Research Project - with Digital Resources
❄️ Explore Holidays Around the World with this comprehensive bundle, featuring a lapbook, stunning slides with real photos, and informative research fact sheets. Discover the diverse celebrations and traditions in 20+ countries, including Christmas in the USA, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, England, France, Germany, and many more. ❄️The Holidays Around the World Lapbook Bundle offers: 5 informative slides for each of the 20 countries, featuring real photos Engaging flip books to delve into each country's ho
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2nd - 4th
Also included in: Monthly and Seasonal Crafts & Projects Bundle - Lapbooks All Year
Colonial Days: A Social Studies Unit for Upper Graders
This resource contains everything you need to explore life in the American colonies. It is a great mini-unit or supplement to add in critical thinking and rigor! Fifteen activities cover reading comprehension, collaborative activities, and higher level thinking.Included in this resource:-Close read passage with comprehension questions-Colonial chore list for children with narrative writing activity-Dodecahedron group project and template-4 map-making activities-18 vocabulary cards with definit
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: The Bundle: Colonial America and the Revolution
September 11th - 9/11 Reading, Writing, Art & Printable Text 4th, 5th, 6th grade
Discuss the sensitive events of September 11th, 2001 with elementary children. These integrated lesson plans and 9-11 printable texts are age appropriate and emphasize how Americans unite and serve one another during times of tragedy. Teach about Sept.11th while meeting your reading informational text and writing standards too.These plans are also available for grades 1-3. Click here to view.This resource includes lesson plans for students to:Pose inquiry based questions based on 9/11 photograph
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4th - 6th
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National Parks Reading Research Project End of the Year Yellowstone Passages
End of the year project made simple! Save time planning about National Parks and the beauty of the United States with these high-interest nonfiction reading and writing activities!This set includes 7 close reading passages and a step-by-step approach to writing research pieces to help you scaffold and differentiate to meet your students' needs. This writing pack will help your students complete a National Park research project. Directions are clear and easy to understand and come in two layouts
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3rd - 5th
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Tiny House Design for ANY Character: Reading project for inferences, symbolism
Tap into the popularity of the growing Tiny House Movement by assigning a literary analysis that students will LOVE. This is a hands-on assignment that brings STEM into the English classroom! This Tiny House lesson can be used with ANY character, author, historical figure, or student! You will get: ⭐1 Exemplar tiny house design for Harry Potter's tiny house⭐1 Student planning guide for evidence-based answers ⭐1 set of instructions for using the free website Floorplanner.com ⭐1 Youtube video with
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Animal Habitat Research Project Reports - Differentiated Reading Passages
Animal research for beginners is made easy with these scaffolded animal habitat projects that are just right for beginning readers! Use differentiated reading passages to give students loads of comprehension practice, and flipbook animal reports to practice informational writing.**This bundle gives you a 30% discount on ALL 5 of my Animal Habitat Research Packs plus an "Any Animal" Report Pack!**Click the preview to see it up close! ^^^Help students develop these critical reading skills:Re-readi
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1st - 2nd
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Holidays Around the World Research Fact Sheets & Questions | with Diwali
Teach your students about how other countries celebrate the Christmas season through these Christmas Around the World Research Fact Sheets. Digital and printable fact sheets and question pages are included.IMPORTANT: These fact sheets were designed to accompany a Holidays Around the World Lapbook which is available as a bundle at a discount price.Click here for the Holidays Around the World BundleThe countries/celebrations included in this bundle:-USA-Hanukkah-Kwanzaa-Englad-France-Germany-Rus
Grades:
2nd - 4th
September 11th - 9/11 Reading, Writing, Art & Printable Text 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade
Discuss the sensitive events of September 11th, 2001 with elementary children. These integrated lesson plans and 9-11 printable texts are age appropriate and emphasize how Americans unite and serve one another during times of tragedy. Teach about September 11th while meeting your reading informational text and writing standards too.These plans are also available for grades 4-6. Click here to view. This resource includes:Detailed step-by-step lesson plans (easy to implement) Visual inquiry antic
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1st - 3rd
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The Three Little Pigs vs. Mr. A. Wolf (Three-Week Opinion Writing Unit)
In this three-week writing unit, students will read both sides of the Three Little Pigs tale and analyze the different points of view. They will form their own opinion of who is innocent and defend their argument with evidence from the text. This experience gives them the opportunity to practice these important opinion-writing skills using familiar and entertaining texts.This unit includes detailed lesson plans to guide your teaching, graphic organizers to walk students through the opinion-writi
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3rd - 5th
Also included in: All PBL, Research, and Writing Units! (Benchmark Advance)
Antarctic Animal Research Nonfiction Reading Passages, Comprehension, & Report
Do your students love learning about animals? Do they get excited when they hear about new and interesting animals? If so, they'll love these Antarctic Animal Research Reading Passages, Comprehension, & Report Activities.Animals in this Antarctic Reading Passages include:AlbatrossBlue WhaleElephant sealEmperor PenguinLeopard SealOrcaThese six informational animal articles are perfect for students who want to learn about animals that live in the Antarctic. The articles are full of interesting
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Informational Text Structure Activity
Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to teach text structures in upper elementary? THIS is the activity that you need! Engage your students in practicing the five text structures with a brochure activity that is fun and rigorous for them and SO easy to prep for you! The Activity: Your students will become the newest “employees” of the coolest brochure designer in town. After reading informational text passages (two per location) about one of five locations, they will create a new brochure
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Informational Text Structures Activity Bundle
Novel Reflection *One Pager*
If you are looking for a nontraditional way to assess your students on a recent class or independent novel, try a “one-pager”. A ”one pager” is a nontraditional way to assess your students on traditional learning standards such as theme, character, etc. I recently gave this activity as an assessment instead of the traditional test. My students were SO creative and didn’t even realize they were being assessed – my favorite kind of assessment. In this Powerpoint file you will find the exact rubric
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4th - 6th
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One-Pager Text Analysis Project with Rubric - Creative Literary Study Lesson
Use this project to conclude the study of any text. I have had students do this assignment for short stories, but it could be used with literally ANY text! If you would like to make changes to the rubric or assignment, you can edit your copy of this resource!This resource includes:1. A teacher's guide2. Directions3. Student Examples4. A rubric If you are looking for a project for non-fiction texts, check out my other resource by following the link below!https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Prod
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Benchmark Advance 2nd Grade Project Bundle (incl Unit 5 & 6) California Edition
Spice up your basic 2nd Grade Benchmark Advance worksheets with this project bundle! They are fun way to wrap up your units. Students will use their texts for close reading to complete each project. Unit 1, 2, 3 and 4 has now been added!*Aligned to the California Edition* although many of these projects may fit the other editions, please refer to your own text and individual product listings to see if they will work for you. This product currently includes:Unit 1 Smoke Jumper ProjectUnit 2 Char
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2nd
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Independent Book Project Bloom Ball Editable Template - Choice Reading Activity
Say goodbye to traditional boring old reading logs that most students fake anyway - have students create a Bloom ball instead!Each panel has a different element for students to consider - and the headings are completely editable!Here are the included panels:✅ Title and Author Information✅ Plot Elements✅ Setting✅ Important Characters✅ Theme✅ Conflict✅ Meaningful Quote #1✅ Meaningful Quote #2✅ Meaningful Quote #3✅ Figurative Language #1✅ Figurative Language #2✅ RecommendationSee Preview for more!T
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4th - 12th
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4th Grade Math Review Activity Geometry and Measurement Project Based Learning
Students will love designing their own amusement park with this 4th grade math review packet. This is a fun and engaging math review project that will allow your students to review geometry, measurement and data and fraction skills. In this project based learning activity, students will read a comprehension passage, design an amusement park and complete math review activities. This is the perfect unit to use before end-of-year testing, since it is a great way to review all of the fourth grade
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4th - 6th
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Research Project - Influential Person with Optional Wax Museum
Your students will love researching an influential person and becoming that person through a Wax Museum! This resource can be printed or used digitally, giving you flexibility for use in your classroom. With clear directions on each page, your students will be able to work on this independently, making this a fun and creative project to use year after year!Engage your curious learners in a fun and exciting research project all about influential people and their special accomplishments!Students w
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3rd - 5th
Wishtree by Katherine Applegate - Wishtree Novel Study Questions - Activities
This Wishtree Novel Study unit contains a complete unit for Wishtree by Newberry Award winner Katherine Applegate. These Wishtree activities are perfect for an interactive notebook and contain graphic organizers, Wishtree questions, and printable assignments. These Wishtree questions focus on reading comprehension and encourage students to think critically and engage with text. All activities include lots of opportunities for differentiated instruction and reading strategy practice - creative
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Novel Study Bundle | Freak the Mighty | Maniac Magee | Wishtree | Units
Bloom Ball Book Report, Full Size - Editable
Here is a full size Bloom Ball completely editable.
You can delete and add questions that best fit the needs of your students.
This activity can be done in class, as an individual project and or homework.
I will be posting other Bloom Balls at a later date with questions you can chose at different levels to make it easier to differentiate according to your students' needs.
* The template you are purchasing is for the large Bloom Ball.
Don't forget to give feedback and come back soon. :-)
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3rd - 6th
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Reading Activities for 2nd, 3rd, 4th grade YEAR LONG GROWING BUNDLE
These close reading crafts will help engage your students in their learning. The hands on crafts will check off all the right boxes in your classroom and perfect for observations- engaging, memorable, motor skills, close reading skill, promotes discussions, reinforces topics, perfect seasonal bulletin board displays with a purpose!THIS IS A GROWING BUNDLE... It currently includes 9 out of the total 10 products. As each new product is added the price will increase. The value at completion will be
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2nd - 4th
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Author's Purpose Activity Paper Bag Book Interactive Notebook
Are you looking for an exciting new way to teach author's purpose? This author's purpose activity offers a new hands-on way to learn and practice. Author's purpose is not as easy as it seems. With this resource, you can explain it, help students identify the look-fors, practice with multiple texts, sort examples, and apply learning with real life examples. When the project is complete, students can refer to it with new reading. HOW IS THE AUTHOR'S PURPOSE ACTIVITY ORGANIZED?This paper bag book
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Comprehension Projects Bundle, Paper Bag Books, Test Prep, Intervention
Grand Canyon Project Benchmark Advance 2nd Grade Unit 8 | National Park
This Grand Canyon lap book is a fun project to wrap up Benchmark Advance Unit 8 in your second grade class. This flipbook can also be used with any unit on the Grand Canyon. **Aligned to the California Edition of Benchmark Advance**Students will write a postcard as if they visited the Grand Canyon, write about wind and water erosion, as well as interesting facts they learned after reading about the natural landmark. They will also right quick facts about the location, animals, and plants.You wi
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1st - 4th
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Close Reading Reading Response Posters
Students can use these close reading one pager posters to demonstrate their understanding of and show their thinking through close reading exercises. The one pager poster format is perfect for open ended reading responses, with the questions broken down by the number of "close reads" a student completes. They can be used as an assessment for learning (as a diagnostic activity to see what knowledge your students are bringing to a concept), assessment as learning (as a formative assessment
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Poster Bundle for ANY Texts
Brown Bear Retelling Craftivity: Sequencing Activity
WHAT IS THIS RESOURCE?Brown Bear, Brown Bear is a children's book written by Bill Martin Jr and illustrated by Eric Carle. This book companion activity is meant to be used with the book. Please note that you must obtain your own copy of this book. There are many wonderful video's on Youtube that you can display to your students if you are unable to obtain a copy. It’s one of my favorite stories and perfect for practicing “sequencing and retelling". I designed this quick and easy Brown Bear, Br
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PreK - 1st
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