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My Antonia: Guided Imagery
Willa Cather's novel My Antonia is full of vivid imagery. Encourage your pupils to visualize and translate images from the text into original writing with this guided imagery activity. Learners listen to an excerpt, take a moment to...
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November Bell Ringers
All things November in a set of 32 bell ringer ideas to get you through the month. From writing about November to writing about colors and feelings in fall, these bell ringers are fun and allow creative writing practice.
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Book Study: The Polar Express
All aboard! Pair a reading of The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg with a set of literacy activities. The packet of worksheets includes task cards, sorting activities, a synonym match, comparing and contrasting activities, writing...
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My Antonia: Prereading Guided Imagery
What makes a place safe? What makes a setting effective? Explore the safe spaces and descriptive language with a prereading activity for Willa Cather's My Antonia. The teacher describes his or her own safe space and then prompts pupils...
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Winter Picture
In this writing prompt worksheet, learners look at a picture with 2 penguins and then write a story about the picture on the lines provided.
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Snowman in Winter Sequence Writing
Students develop a creative snowman using step-by-step stickers. They write a short story about the snowman they have created, explaining the sequence they used to create their snowman. Students present their completed story in front of...
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Snow Story Starter
In this writing learning exercise, students read a story starter about a child who lives where it does not snow. Students generate the rest of the story and illustrate their work.
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Reading Research!
Students investigate the life of an animal and how it responds to winter. The lesson's focus is on reading and research skills using pictures to assist in the understanding of the information presented.
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Tracks along the Trail
Pupils identify animal tracks outdoors. For this animal life lesson, students go outdoors and find several different animal tracks to identify. Pupils also discuss how animals must adapt in the winter months.
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Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf
Learners discuss the differences between a storybook and an information book. Students use various materials found in nature to make a nature collage. Learners make a nature dictionary using pictures and their own definitions from the...
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Encouraging Others in Class, in the Workplace, in the Home
Learners write a letter of encouragement to a classmate to encourage each other and practice writing skills.
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Roberto Clemente
Have your class explore the life of Roberto Clemente using this lesson. After reading the story Roberto Clemente by Jonah Winter, learners answer cause and effect questions, classify ideas, make comparisons, and write a news article.
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Activity Guide for Snow
Create a cross-curricular learning experience around a shared reading of Cynthia Rylant's book Snow. From writing poetry and a singing a song about snow, to creating paper snowflakes and solving math story problems, this resource uses...
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Christmas Day
Celebrary the holiday season fluently with a packet designed for English learners. The resource includes reading comprehension, spelling, scrambled sentences, and writing worksheets focused around Christmas.
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Nose Like a Cherry: Understanding Similes and Metaphors
Clement Moore's "Twas the Night Before Christmas" models the power of descriptive language for middle schoolers. They identify the similes and metaphors in the tale and consider what these descriptions add to the story's emotional...
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Snowy Day Story Starter
In this creative writing worksheet, students study a picture of a child in a snowy scene. Students read the first sentence which is provided, then finish writing the rest of the story.
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Creative Writing Picture Prompt - Winter Scene
In this creative writing worksheet, students examine a black line picture of a winter scene. They write a story about a boy running in the snow and a snowman.
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Winter is All Around Us
Students present what they have learned on Antartica. Students identify deciduous and evergreen trees and plants; identify and study about the habitats of animals that migrate, hibernate, and adapt; study the Aurora and Aurora Borealis...
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Winter Clothing
After listening to a reading of The Snowy Day, by Era Jack Keats, language learners use a SMART board and drag the appropriate vocabulary word to the correct clothing article. They then record and illustrate the new vocabulary words in...
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Kindergarten Writing: Narrative Prompt
What is special about summer (fall, winter, or spring)? Using a bag filled with season-related items (for summer items like sunglasses, a swimming suit, etc.) the class take turns taking out one item. A discussion of how each item might...
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Contractions
Shorten words with contractions. Second graders use apostrophes to shorten words, including harder ones like might not. Next, they write out the longer versions of various contractions. Have them write a story with these contractions for...
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Winter Subtraction
In this subtraction activity, students complete one digit subtraction problems that are represented by winter clothing. Students complete 3 problems.
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Spring Birds
In this story writing worksheet, students write a story about the picture, which contains a mother bird and three babies in a next. The worksheet contains 10 lines for students to write on.
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The Importance of Storytelling
Students examine how African Americans escaping slavery used storytelling to communicate. They listen to and read the lyrics for the song, Follow the Drinking Gourd, view the Reading Rainbow video, and write and illustrate their own story.