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Book Club Discussion Questions for Any Chapter Book Reading Comprehension
Let's make literature circles and book clubs easier! Download these 25 printable question strips to use with ANY chapter book. Whether you're a librarian or a classroom teacher, these prompts will get your students thinking deeply about the books they are reading--no matter which book you choose!These questions will spark discussions in your book club or literature circles, they will prompt writing in journals, and they will show the level at which your students are comprehending the book they a
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3rd - 5th
Bell Ringers and Start Ups: Brain Teasers for Young Scholars
This seventy-four page collection of original, challenging, fun brain teasers is designed with the young scholar in mind, but it appeals to adults as well. This material is especially suitable for gifted students.
These activities work well as bell ringers and start up. They are great for substitute folders.
The thirty-two activity sets are 30 to 50 items each. Table of Contents topics include: Connections , Animal Talk, Words to Color, Categories, Velcro Words, Verbal Hors d'oeuvre
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4th - 10th
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Storytelling Japan Student Created Pictures Drama Unit Kamishibai Drawing
IMPROVED! Dive into the world of Kamishibai storytelling with DramaMommaaSpeaks' captivating unit, where students embark on a journey of imagination and creativity, exploring the art of storytelling like never before. This 8 day low prep unit is focused on storytelling using a Japanese form of storytelling called Kamishibai as its springboard for inspiration. This unit is successful with fourth through seventh grade students and classes in language arts, reading, drama, world history, social s
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5th - 7th
Readers Theater Little Girl and Winter Whirlwinds Bulgaria Folktale #catch24
Part of a Bundle Need something for after winter break? Something to celebrate spring? Low prep and easy to read or present! This Bulgarian folktale adapted into a reader's theater script with roles for 25+ students is suitable for upper elementary gifted or middle school students studying fairy tales, L. Arts or Drama class. This piece could be a one or three-day study depending upon how much effort a teacher wants to expend. #catch24Need something for a substitute that lasts several days?
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4th - 7th
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SEL Journal and Reflection Pages
This is a great student reflection tool that provides multiple formats to include:*SEL Journal Reflection pages*SEL CheckIn*Portfolio templates students can attach to work*Reflection forms*Exit tickets*Homework tracker*Behavior tracker*Classroom work reflection form*Interest surveys for Reading, Writing, Math, and Science*Learning Artifact reflection form*Reading Goals template*Conference Form*All About Me template*Student Weekly Self-Assessment*Student Questionnaire
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2nd - 6th
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Drama Reader’s Theater Inca Short Story The Magic Lake Folktale Peru Moral Story
Part of a Readers Theater Bundle The Inca folktale The Magic Lake is a dramatization of a Native American short story with roles for 20+ students and suitable for Social Studies studying indigenous people or South America, a Drama, Language Arts or reading classes. Students have fun while they strengthen their reading (fluency), speaking (diction) and listening skills (restating) while learning to work cooperatively. This product was created specifically for the classroom. This folk tale is ver
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Folk and Fairy Tales Readers Theater Scripts and Units Grades 4 to 7
THANKSGIVING BUNDLE | Read Write STEM Art Games Research Activity Worksheets
SAVE OVER 50%!...Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, 163-page (+4 PowerPoints) Thanksgiving Mega Kit for Middle Grades (Grades 4-8) Unit! It includes everything you need to celebrate Thanksgiving and Fall with your students! 3 reading passages, CCSS-aligned questions with Answer Key to go with each passage, 12 writing prompts (4 narrative, 4 informative, 4 opinion) with 18 writing papers, Revising & editing checklists for each writ
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3rd - 12th
Stop, Collaborate, & Listen: Speaking & Listening Like Rock Stars!
Speaking and Listening skills are becoming increasingly more important inside of school and in the workplace. I believe that it is so important to lay the foundation in elementary school, to teach accountable talk, and to give my students plenty of opportunities to collaborate, share, and integrate technology! This packet is packed with 173 pages of activities that foster discussion, critical thinking, debate, and more! Check out the description below for an overview!
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3rd - 4th
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Holiday BUNDLE Choice Boards and Activities- 3rd - 5th Grade
Are you looking for your enrichment or exemplary tasks to be done for the year? These Holiday choice boards are perfect for your early finishers or students that need a challenge.You can use this by telling students to complete 3 boxes or as a tic-tac-toe challenge. Each box comes with a matching work page.Print at the beginning of the unit and give to each student so they can work on it throughout the unit.Units included:Back To SchoolHalloweenThanksgivingVeterans DayChristmasHanukkahNew YearsV
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3rd - 5th
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CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES BUNDLE | Christmas Around the World Craft STEM Winter
SAVE 10%!...Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, 97-page Christmas & Winter Holidays Activities Mega Kit for Middle Grades (Grades 4-8) Unit It includes everything you need to celebrate Christmas and Winter holidays with your students! Students will read and answer questions about American Christmas traditions, write responses to what they’ve read, compare/contrast holiday traditions from different countries, complete a Christmas Ar
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3rd - 12th
READ & RESEARCH PROJECT BUNDLE Choice Board Independent Project PBL Genius Hour
30% OFF WITH THE BUNDLE...This easy-to-follow, NO PREP, FULLY-EDITABLE resource gives you everything you need to provide your students with a READ & RESEARCH INDEPENDENT PROJECT CHOICE BOARD! Students can complete projects using the provided Choice Board, or you separate the activities so that you have 4 units with this resource! Simply print out or post the Student Directions, Student Answer Sheets, and Student Tracker and GO! Students will follow the Design Process/Creative Problem-Solving
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4th - 12th
Bell-Ringers and Start-ups: Back-to-School/September Brain Teasers
Welcome your students back to school with WE'RE BACK, two sets (4 pages) of cross-curricula trivia questions about natural and man-made cycles. When Labor Day rolls around, treat your kids to HELP WANTED, four fun pages about unusual and interesting jobs. Appropriate for many grade levels and abilities, including gifted programs. Full answer keys included. Download the free sample pages for a closer look.
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4th - 10th
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Figurative Language Menu Project
This is a fun project to end a figurative language unit. This engaging activity has students create a restaurant food menu that is full of figurative language! After the project is completed, we passed the menu's around and "visited" one another's restaurants. This resource contains:- Project guideline and planning page- Example of completed menus- Rubric for gradingFigurative language that is included in the project includes:allusionsalliterationidiomsonomatopoeiahyperbolepersonificationmetapho
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3rd - 6th
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Digital Character Change Project - Instagram Template Editable Google Slides
Google Slides editable templates for students to add profile pictures, photos, posts, emojis, change colors, hashtags, likes and "friend" commentsEngaging and current social-media project for students promotes inferential, analytical and creative thinkingUse for students to analyze and show change over time with historical figures, book characters, geographical places, organizations, etc.To ensure deep thinking, students plan Instagram posts using (optional) thinking maps to record evidence that
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4th - 8th
Comedy Radio Theater Play Script It Could Always Be Worse Drama
Looking for something that teaches students that we all be grateful? Here's a fifteen minute comedy radio play script adapted from the Jewish folk tale, It Could Always Be Worse. This script has 20+ roles (plus crew) and was written especially for the classroom! Strengthen your students' listening, speaking, reading skills all at once. It's a one stop shop!In addition, a teacher could use this script with students who are distance learning. #DistanceLearningTPTThe product includes:Warm-up--My v
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5th - 7th
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Sound Effects Drama Lesson Sound Effects Grades 4 and 5 Foley Engineer Ambience
Part of a Bundle This theater component focuses on sound effects! Students learn about the use of sound effects in a theatrical production, Foley engineers, use sound effects and work cooperatively in small groups to produce a sound scene for their classmates. Many people say they know how to teach about technical theater, but you want to purchase from a trusted, award-winning educator. The product includes:letter to teacherteacher's script--what I say and how I say it!procedure and exercisesu
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4th - 6th
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Reader’s Theater The Boy of the Red Twilight Sky Canadian Indigenous People
The Boy of the Red Twilight Sky is a dramatization of a Canadian Indigenous Peoples creation myth, a short story, with roles for 20+ students and suitable for any one studying folk tales in a Drama, Language Arts, Social Studies (re: Canada) or reading classes. Students strengthen their reading (fluency), speaking (diction) and listening skills (restating) while learning to work cooperatively. This product was created specifically for the classroom. The Boy of the Red Twilight Sky Long ago
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Theater Arts Native American First People Folk Tales Readers Theater
Thanksgiving Activities
Thanksgiving Activities
Thanksgiving Brain Teaser Stuffed Words
Keep your students focused during those wound-up days before Thanksgiving break with STUFFED WORDS, five sets (35 items each) of vocabulary fun that challenges students to identify a small word "stuffed" inside a larger word--the KEY in turKEY, for example.
Thanksgiving Activities Stuffed Words is appropriate for many grade levels and abilities, including gifted programs.
Thanksgiving Activities Stuffed Words comes with full
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5th - 8th
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Tone and mood Activities for Gifted Students AIG Enrichment RL.4.4 RL.5.4
Are you looking for a project on mood and tone for your gifted and AIG students? This choice board is perfect for your high-achieving students who have already mastered tone and mood and need a challenge.What is included?Choice BoardActivities: Rewriting a passage with a different tone/mood, create a teaching poster, write a short story, write multiple ways to say yes/no in different tones, review mood and tone from a current book you are reading, fill in the blank of a passage to have a specifi
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4th - 5th
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Theater Arts Native American First People Folk Tales Readers Theater
BUNDLE Save! Celebrate Native American month with this GROWING bundle includes (6) units concerning Indigenous people--Inca, Zuni, Meti, Innuit and Aboriginal tribes in particular. As a bonus, I've thrown in a Greek myth! Each readers theater unit contains information which would be useful in a Social Studies, Language Arts or Drama class. This is a perfect arts integration project, too!HOW DO I USE THIS IN MY CLASSROOM: This can be used independently of the study of each culture or as a c
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5th - 8th
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Chocolate Chip Rubrics: Making Rubrics Tangible & Delicious!
Introduce your students to rubrics in a tangible and delicious way!
Rubrics are a popular classroom tool. They can be used to lay out expectations for your students, and they can allow for assessment of individual performance. With that said, rubrics are pretty abstract for elementary students. They do not always fully understand how they are being graded or how a rubric actually works. Despite the fact that rubrics are sometimes baffling to our students, many standardized tests and reading s
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1st - 5th
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CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS ELA BUNDLE | Winter Holiday Christmas Around the World
SAVE 20%!...Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep,32-page Christmas and Winter Holiday Reading, Writing, and Research ELA Unit! It includes learning opportunities to understand the history of American Christmas Traditions like the Christmas Tree, Wreath, and Christmas Stockings. Students can then write in response to what they’ve read (narrative, informative, and opinion prompts included), then use online research to compare/contrast the
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3rd - 12th
Reader’s Theater Ukrainian Folk Tale The Cat and the Rooster Short Story
Are you looking for a darling short story about a specific culture? This delightful Ukrainian folk tale I've adapted into a reader's theater script with roles for 17+ students is suitable for elementary or middle school students studying folk tales, integrated into a study Slavik countries, a L. Arts or Drama class. This piece could be a one or three day study depending upon how much effort a teacher wants to expend. HOW DO I USE THIS IN MY CLASSROOM? This piece could be a one or three day s
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Emergency Sub Plans Reader’s Theater Scripts Folk Tales Middle Grades
Digital Media Vocabulary, Create a Billboard Activity, and Rubric
Teaching Digital Media can be fun! My students just completed this activity and LOVED it. I was highly impressed with the creative, final products. I had my students complete this activity during their WORD WORK STATION, but it could be completed during a WRITING STATION or WHOLE TEACH TIME.This download includes the following:** Digital Media Vocabulary Words (can be used for assessment and perfect for student binders, notebooks, or folders). ** "Create a Billboard" Activity (Presented to stud
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3rd - 9th
Also included in: Vocabulary Bundle Task Cards and Activities: SAVE 25%
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