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Make students a Writing Journal to do independent writing during a mini lesson or add to your Writing station.This is great practice for skills that are needed on standardized testing. The Writing Prompt Journal will help keep students' writing skills crisp all year long. Writing Journal Includes: 6 Writing Plans (Graphic Organizers) 6 Writing Prompts 6 Writing Draft Sheets Writing Checklist (Copy for each draft) Transition Word Bank (Graphic Organizer) Transition Word List 6 Different Writing Genres included: Informative, Creative, Personal Narrative, Persuasive, Descriptive, and Fictional Writing. Students will enjoy sharing their writing with one another and teachers have a quick daily formative writing assessment. Please comment and rate. Thank You! If you like this item please check out my Figurative Language Bundle

Looking for a fun Father's Day handwriting activity? These sentence-building worksheets include writing paper with picture boxes and will help your child or student build sentences and write sentences independently. Further, students can use the finger-spacing tool (in three different skin tones) to assist them in perfect word spacing. Students can also color Father's Day-themed pictures that illustrate the sentence they are practicing writing.

NOTE: You can use the finger-spacing buddy as is, laminate it, and/or attach it to a popsicle stick for further support of little hands. It’s recommended to print the finger-spacing buddy on thicker paper, such as cardstock.

This resource includes:

   ✏ 10 Father’s Day themed sentence-building worksheets

   ✏ 3 diverse pointer-finger hands

   ✏ No prep! Simply print and distribute with scissors and glue

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Looking for some fun seasonally-themed handwriting activities for the year? This bundle includes all seasons and 14 holiday-themed worksheets. These sentence practice worksheets will help your child or student build sentences and write sentences independently while connecting the image with the sentence's meaning.

Students can use the finger-spacing tool (in three different skin tones) to assist them in perfect word spacing. Students can also color the seasonally-themed pictures that illustrate the sentence they are practicing writing.

✏️ This bundle will save you 20% on all enclosed products!

✏️ NOTE: You can use the finger-spacing buddy as is, laminate it, and/or attach it to a popsicle stick for further support of little hands. It’s recommended to print the finger-spacing buddy on thicker paper, such as cardstock.

✏️ This resource includes:

   ✏ 140 seasonally-themed sentence-building worksheets

   ✏ 3 diverse skin-toned pointer-finger hands

   ✏ No prep! Simply print and distribute with scissors and glue

✏️ Seasons and Holidays included:

   ✏ Christmas

   ✏ Chinese New Year

   ✏ Valentine’s Day

   ✏ St. Patrick’s Day

   ✏ Easter

   ✏ Father’s Day

   ✏ Mother’s Day

   ✏ Back to School

   ✏ Thanksgiving

   ✏ Halloween

   ✏ Winter

   ✏ Spring

   ✏ Summer

   ✏ Fall

✏️ Please download the preview to view a sample of the included pages.

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Looking for some fun seasonally-themed handwriting activities for the summer? This bundle includes 20 holiday-themed worksheets for summer and Father's Day. These sentence practice worksheets will help your child or student build sentences and write sentences independently while connecting the image with the sentence's meaning.

Students can use the finger-spacing tool (in three different skin tones) to assist them in perfect word spacing. Students can also color the seasonally-themed pictures that illustrate the sentence they are practicing writing.

✏️ This bundle will save you 20% on all enclosed products!

✏️ NOTE: You can use the finger-spacing buddy as is, laminate it, and/or attach it to a popsicle stick for further support of little hands. It’s recommended to print the finger-spacing buddy on thicker paper, such as cardstock.

✏️ This resource includes:

   ✏ 20 seasonally-themed sentence-building worksheets

   ✏ 3 diverse skin-toned pointer-finger hands

   ✏ No prep! Simply print and distribute with scissors and glue

✏️ Seasons and Holidays included:

   ✏ Father’s Day

   ✏ Summer

✏️ Please download the preview to view a sample of the included pages.

✏️ I’m so glad you stopped by my store and checked out this resource! Follow my store to be updated about new products and sales. Don’t forget to leave feedback to earn credits toward future purchases by heading to MY PURCHASES in your TeachShare account. 

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Cursive Handwriting Workbook for Grades 5+

Help your students develop beautiful cursive handwriting with this engaging and effective workbook!

Designed for students in grades 5 and above, this comprehensive resource provides ample practice to master the art of cursive writing. With over 130 pages of exercises, students will gradually improve their letter formation, word spacing, and overall penmanship.

What's included:

• Step-by-step guidance for tracing lowercase and uppercase letters
• Extensive practice with words, phrases, and sentences
• Opportunities for independent writing to reinforce learning

This workbook is perfect for:

• Building handwriting confidence
• Improving legibility
• Enhancing writing fluency

Use this resource to:

• Supplement handwriting instruction
• Provide targeted practice for struggling students
• Challenge advanced learners

Grab this resource today and watch your students' handwriting transform!

Keyword cursive handwriting, grades 5+, practice workbook, penmanship, Calligraphy

Delve into over 60 diverse themes, from emotions to furniture and musical instruments, offering a stimulating array of over 700 words to unravel. Whether you're a casual puzzler or a seasoned word aficionado, this 8.2x11 inches book promises hours of entertainment and mental exercise. Discover the satisfaction of unscrambling each word and reveal the answers conveniently located at the end. Embrace the joy of wordplay and embark on a delightful journey of linguistic exploration today!

Here are some benefits of engaging in word scramble activities:

1. Mental Stimulation: Word scrambles provide a mental workout, helping to keep the brain sharp and active.
2. Vocabulary Expansion: By encountering a variety of words in different contexts, word scrambles can introduce new vocabulary and reinforce existing knowledge.
3. Problem-Solving Skills: Figuring out the correct arrangement of letters challenges your problem-solving abilities and encourages creative thinking.
4. Improves Concentration: Focusing on unscrambling words requires concentration and attention to detail, which can enhance overall concentration skills.
5. Enhances Memory: Engaging with words in a scrambled format can improve memory retention as you try to remember and rearrange the letters to form meaningful words.
6. Relaxation and Stress Relief: Solving word scrambles can be a relaxing activity, offering a break from daily stressors while still providing mental stimulation.
7. Language Skills Development: Word scrambles can improve spelling, grammar, and language comprehension skills, making them beneficial for language learners and enthusiasts.
8. Entertainment and Enjoyment: Word scrambles offer a fun and entertaining way to pass the time, whether alone or with friends and family.
9. Self-Esteem Boost: Successfully unscrambling words and completing puzzles can provide a sense of accomplishment and boost self-esteem.
10. Accessible Anywhere: Word scramble activities can be enjoyed almost anywhere, making them a convenient option for on-the-go entertainment or relaxation.

Celebrate Mom with Fun & Creative Activities: 5 Mother's Day Worksheets!

This packet is bursting with engaging worksheets that will help kids show their moms some extra love on Mother's Day! Explore mom's amazing qualities, create a special timeline of her life, connect through shared interests, and even plan a delicious treat or fun activity together.

These worksheets are perfect for grades 6-8 and can be completed independently or as a classroom activity.

Worksheet 1: Mom's Masterpieces

Objective: Students celebrate their mom's talents and contributions.

Worksheet 2: My Mom, the Multitasker

Objective**:** Students appreciate the many roles their mom plays.

Worksheet 3: Through the Decades

Objective: Students explore their mom's life experiences and connect with her history.

Worksheet 4: Mom's Movie Moments

Objective: Students connect with their mom through shared interests and create a fun memory.

Worksheet 5: A Recipe for Mom

Objective: Students plan a special meal or activity for their mom.

An interactive introduction to writing beginnings/endings and conclusions/introductions. The presentation uses a peer workshopping approach to writing beginnings and endings. Includes: Techniques to "hook" readers: Action Description Dialog Emotion Quotation Setting Examples of each Techniques to write successful conclusions. Ambiguous Circular Humor Moral Quote Restate thesis: Examples of all techniques Word Search that includes all terminologies (project and solve as a group or use as individual handouts) Uses peer workshopping and group read-arounds to complete the activites. Easy for students to follow and easy to implement in the classroom.

Become a news reporter and write your own daily column with these 22 inferencing, journalism writing activities. Newspaper format and great graphics are easy for students to work with. Uses writing process and peer workshopping strategies. Comes with two blank templates for creative fun and one lined page for extra writing space. Includes optional media and technology projects for differentiated classrooms. Excellent for use with relationship words, time order, fact vs. opinion, and more...Meets CCSS.

14 non-fiction and 1 fiction scenarios with speech and thought bubbles for students to make inferences, practice point of view, and practice writing dialogue. Non-Fiction Scenes Include: Skiers Musicians Basketball Player Hiking Art Babysitting Mechanics Friends Salesman Accident Garden Skateboarding Science Parking Lot and Aliens (fiction) Can be used individually or with whole groups for journal writing, writing text evidence based on visual clues, on-demand writing prompts, writing reader's theater/plays, practice grammar skills, spelling, vocabulary, and more.

Have fun teaching Hyperboles with this twelve pdfs that defines, illustrates, and explains the concept. Includes: Individual/whole group activities (students illustrate or make videos) Definition Examples Media links with fun Youtubes Images for use with inferencing skills and more... Easy to follow and understand. Engaging and fun way to learn and use hyperboles.

The 20 slide PowerPoint with peer workshopping activities introduces: Sentences: beginnings, dialogues Proper Nouns: people, I, my Specific Places and Dates: General vs. Specific, Days of Week/Month, Holidays Everyday Life: Organizations, Companies, Institutions, Specific Products, Aircrafts, Ships, Spaceships, Ethnic Names, Languages, Nationalizations, Religions Extra Resources Examples are given so students can follow authors' imitations. Easy explanations of color-coded rules and guidelines for using capital letters sentences and essays. Peer workshopping activities help reinforce capital letter rules.

10 days of writing prompts to address goal setting, time/anger/stress management,interpersonal skills. Wonderful visuals will stimulate response from students. Excellent for group discussions and journal sharing.

An easy-to-follow guide to using and writing effective titles: what to capitalize, what to italicize, plus includes examples of effective titles, and discussion slides of famous novels and their alternate titles: 1984 Gone With the Wind The Great Gatsby Treasure Island Vanity Fair Also, includes an activity slide for writing titles with articles, pictures, and essays. There are 12 slides.

A great way to get students journaling is to combine visuals with words to stimulate the mind. The eleven-slide PowerPoint addresses study skills, time management, stress management, interpersonal relationships and goal setting. Great for group discussions and story starters, as well.

Do your students have trouble determining when to use "I" or "Me"? This easy-to-follow PowerPoint includes: Simplified Rules for Using"I" and "Me" Easy to follow Examples Peer Workshopping Activity This to-the-point presentation is for individual, small, or whole group introduction and review.. Make learning to use "I' or "Me" easy!

Fun and interactive activity for students to relate real life writing to the use of comma rules. Have plenty of magazines, brochures, or newspapers on hand for students/small groups to cut out comma examples and paste them under the correct comma rule headings. Group or individual activity is enjoyable to students, who will discuss rules as they work! (Reminder: review the 3 Kinds of Writing PowerPoint and Using Commas in Writing to help students understand the different guidelines for academic, creative, and journalism writing, along with comma rules).

Everything you need to begin a color-coding, peer workshopping approach to writing! 44 slides that take teachers from understanding why visual learning is important in a writing classroom to activities to implement peer workshopping. Includes: How students learn vs. taught Learning styles overview Memory activities Adaptable Weekly Progression of Skills list Daily Class Routine Three Kinds of Writing Multigenre Getting to Know Students activity with examples A Writer's Many Roles Understanding Punctuation (Road) signs/Writer as Reader Author's Style and Finding Patterns Types of Sentences Comma Rules Color-coded, Peer Workshopping student examples Grading and Conferencing Workshopping Guidelines and handouts Scoring Rubric Four resources slides with free audio/visual presentation Extra Handouts Section with grammar activities Visual writing is excellent for adult learners, ESL, and middle to high school students. Simple and easy to implement, and students will be able to find and correct errors easily.

Ready to teach literary elements and concepts combined with historical fiction and social skills? This zip packet contains: Preview file with cover image 3 Readers theater-like scripts of 3-4 pages each 1 Readers' Script Getting Started Packet Readers' Script Critical Thinking handouts: Readers' Script Information Guideline for implementing activities Subject Theme Plot line Mood Tone Character analysis Text evidence Symbolism Genres 6 Project based assignments 2 Fact based, real life connection assignments Fabulous Vocabulary Handout with graphic organizer Differentiated vocabulary list 3 Readers' Scripts Stories: Readers’ Script Overview Script 1 Title: The Great Steamboat Race Genre: Historical Fiction Four Characters: Tom, Abby, Mr. Millborn, Mrs. Millborn Setting: Banks of Mississippi River No. of Acts: 1 (3 pages) Script Overview: Tom and Abby can’t wait for the Mississippi River steamboat race! Both are surprised when Tom’s former classmate is spotted working aboard one of the ships. However, Mr. and Mrs. Millborn are shocked to learn their son’s classmate dropped out of school to work on a river boat. Can two parents persuade their son to continue his education, or will an exciting life on the Mississippi River persuade him to join his classmate? Script 2 Title: The Frozen Fiancés Genre: Historical Fiction Four Characters: Narrator, Richard, Lydia, and Captain Setting: Ship’s Deck, December 22, 1850, Rockland Harbor, Maine No. of Acts: 3 (3 pages) Script Overview: Richard and Lydia are aboard a schooner on their way to Owl’s Head Lighthouse to be married when a winter storm delays them. Can the captain safely guide the ship across the harbor, or will their lives end in Rockland Harbor? This historical fiction script is based upon a true story that resulted in Owl’s Head Lighthouse being named the most famous haunted place in America. Script 3 Title: Terror Aboard the Titanic Genre: Historical Fiction Three Characters: Jane, John, Edward Setting: 1915 local newspaper office No. of Acts: 1 (4 pages) Script Overview: Jane and John, twin sister and brother, survived a horrifying night aboard the unsinkable Titanic. Now, the twins relive the story when Edward, a local reporter, interviews them for a fantastic scoop. But, is the journalist more interested in Jane or the Titanic tale? Historical facts about the Titanic and its fateful voyage make this historical fiction script an interesting read. These 3-4 page scripts are perfect for at-risk, ESL/ELL, homeschool, flipped classrooms, and even for AP. Great for classes with short time frames and students with short attention spans! Use for close readings and critical analysis. Perfect for standardized test prep for analyzing text and meaning. Social topics and historical fiction combined for quick lessons that reinforce reading and writing skills. Great for small group settings and literacy centers.