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For decades, children have sent letters to Santa Claus as part of their Christmas celebrations. This beloved tradition serves as more than just a way to list gifts; it’s a way for children to express gratitude, reflect on their actions, and learn the value of communication. Today, with modern resources like Write to Santa: Free Printable Letter Templates for Kids, parents and teachers can make the experience more interactive and meaningful.

Encouraging children to write letters is an excellent way to improve their literacy skills. With free printable Santa letter templates for kids, they can practice handwriting, spelling, and sentence construction in a fun and festive way. Templates such as “This year I have been really Naughty, Nice, or Nice & Naughty” help children articulate their thoughts and feelings, making the activity both educational and enjoyable.

Celebrate Mother’s Day with a meaningful activity designed for elementary students and Sunday school attendees. Our "Christian Mother's Day Wreath Writing Craft - Christian Mother's Day Craft Print" is perfect for classroom or home use. It helps children express their appreciation for their mothers through creative and spiritual writing. This black-and-white file is ideal for students to color in the flowers, adding a personal touch to their craft.

Key Features:

• Faith-Inspired Activities: Includes writing prompts that integrate Bible verses and Christian values.
• Build Emotional and Literacy Skills: Encourages heartfelt messages and prayers, enhancing students' emotional intelligence and writing abilities.
• Engaging and Educational: Each of the segments guides children in creating a beautiful wreath and reflecting on virtues like kindness, love, and patience.

Benefits:

• Spiritual Growth: An excellent opportunity for students to explore Christian teachings while celebrating Mother’s Day.
• Creative Expression: Students can color the wreath’s flowers, making the craft uniquely theirs.
• Ideal for Teachers and Homeschoolers: Adds a faith-based dimension to educational activities, making learning impactful and enjoyable.

Make Mother’s Day special with our Christian Mother's Day Wreath Writing Craft—a gift that cherishes motherly love through the lens of Christian values.

Este recurso para el Día de los Caídos (Memorial Day Activity in Spanish) ayuda a los estudiantes a explorar la historia, las tradiciones y los símbolos de este día tan importante. A través de relatos, líneas de tiempo y actividades que invitan a la reflexión, los niños comprenderán por qué honramos a quienes lo sacrificaron todo por la libertad. Desde la creación de cartas de agradecimiento conmovedoras hasta la elaboración de mapas mentales y la exploración de hitos históricos, este recurso fomenta la reflexión y el pensamiento crítico.

Guía a los estudiantes para reconocer la diferencia entre el Día de los Caídos y el Día de los Veteranos, promoviendo conversaciones significativas sobre el valor, la pérdida y los valores que dan forma a una nación. Ya sea explorando la historia mediante líneas de tiempo s o expresando gratitud a través de la escritura creativa, este recurso hace que el Día de los Caídos sea tanto educativo como profundamente personal. Perfecto para cultivar el respeto y la empatía, empodera a los estudiantes para llevar el mensaje de recuerdo más allá del aula.

**Este recurso incluye: **

• Página 1: Día de los Caídos
• Página 2: Día de los Caídos Datos Principales, Mapa Mental
• Página 3: Día de los Caídos Carta de Agradecimiento
• Página 4: Día de los Caídos Línea de tiempo
• Página 5: Día de los Caídos Banderín
• Página 6: Historia del Día de los Caídos - Part I
• Página 7: Historia del Día de los Caídos - Part II
• Página 8: Historia del Día de los Caídos - Part III
• Página 9: Día de los Caídos Símbolos
• Página 10: Palabras que puedo formar con LIBERTAD - Acróstico
• Página 11: Actividad para clasificar el Día de los Caídos y el Día de los Veteranos
• Página 12: Diagrama de Venn del Día de los Caídos y el Día de los Veteranos
• Página 13: Símbolos del Día de los Caídos - Hoja de Respuestas

Remember & Honor Memorial Day!

This booklet includes tracing and coloring activities to learn the colors along with popular elements of the season. The colors included in this product are:

• Red
• Yellow
• Brown
• Orange

Writing Prompts for December! Draw, Write, Color pages!

Are you ready for 3 full weeks of writing, no prep, print & go! You'll have 15 pages of December Christmas themed Writing Prompt worksheets. Each page has children draw a prompted picture, label the picture (optional), write about their drawing, self edit with a checklist included and lastly color their pictures.

2 versions included; one set of 15 with "labeling pictures" and one set of 15 without "labeling" directions.

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All pages have a SELF EDITING checklist for students to check their own work looking for capitals, punctuation, spacing and neatness. You can also opt for a peer to edit their work and sign off.

There are 33 coloring worksheets which focus on letter recognition and phonics, with a focus on beginning sounds. Pictures are simple to encourage students to color in the lines. Each page focuses on using and recognizing primary and secondary colors (red, blue, yellow, orange, green, purple, brown, and black). You can ask the child to trace the letter and word on the top of the page.

hese journal pages are designed to promote creative writing with an "under the sea"/ "ocean" theme. This packet contains 10 writing prompts which can be used with beginning writers as well as students who are more accomplished writers. Blank lined writing pages are included for students who need more space for their stories.

TeachShare A1-FREE SIGHT WORD WORKSHEET

Come in 2 versions. full color and black white version and an option to use Easel by TeachShare as digital tool to practice.

Improve your child's literacy skills by practicing identifying high frequency words by sight. Use these free sight words worksheets to accelerate your child's learning of these basic words.

Practice high-frequency word THE MY I with this action pack printable worksheet. Your child will find, trace, color and write the words.

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If you are interested in this resource, you can go here to purchase the complete set which focus in the below 57 words:

They are:

I, like, my, see, can, the, a, go, to, we, you, is, look, me, big, with, for, he, she, read, at, all, little, and, have, here, are, play, said, put, come, they, this, help, in, girl, walk, up, down, away, jump, do, or, of, where, it, his, her, on, went, boy, has, no, but, how, am, into

You may purchase the complete 57 works worksheet below @very affordable price.

Sight word practice by READ, WRITE, CLAP, COLOR, TRACE, SPELL, FIND, TELL

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It's time to debate emotions! Ignite thoughtful discussions and sharpen opinion-writing skills with this captivating resource, Do Animals Have Feelings? This comprehensive writing piece is designed to encourage 3rd-grade students to explore the intriguing question of whether animals experience emotions, making it an ideal addition to your language arts curriculum. It is great to do with Valentine's Day as the theme is love, but can be use all throughout the year.

Key Features

1. Critical Thinking: Challenge your students to think critically about the emotions of animals. Have your students examine evidence, consider different perspectives and form well-supported opinions.
2. Develop Argumentative Writing Skills: Students will develop persuasive writing skills as they support their stance on whether animals have feelings.
3. Research Opportunities: Depending on your students skill, encourage independent research skills and strengthen their ability to gather and evaluate information.
4. Writing Process Support: Two different graphic organizers are included with this writing prompt. Help them organize their thoughts before they start writing.
5. Real-World Relevance: Connect the writing piece to real-world examples and current events. Foster a sense of empathy as students discuss the ethical treatment of animals.

Versatile Use:

• Make this work for your classroom! Make it as challenging or easy as you need.

Younger Classrooms: Have students discuss and debate the topic
before writing their essay. Students will use their knowledge or
experiences with animals to write their essay.

Older Classrooms: Have students research the topic to present
evidence within their essay. Use animals behaviors as evidence based
off what they have researched.

What's Included?

2 different graphic organizers where students can formulate their thoughts. One graphic organizer is more generic and tailored for the lower level classroom. The second graphic organizer would help students with their research and organizing their evidence. Also included is 4 different writing pages to have students write their final essay on. 2 of the writing pages include a place for students to add a drawing with their essay.

This is a great opinion writing piece as students will argue why or why not students can feel love or emotions. They need to have an opening statement, three reasons, and then a closing statement.

What are teachers saying about this Opinion Writing?

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ To Serve With Love says, "This is such a cute writing activity for February! I appreciate the addition of the writing paper, too. This can be used in many ways!"

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Encourage your students to express their opinions, delve into the world of animal emotions, and sharpen their writing skills with' Do Animals Have Feelings?" Download now and witness your students' perspectives unfold in a well-crafted and thought-provoking essay!

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This Dot Marker Printable Alphabet Figures | Q tip painting resource is an engaging way to help young learners practice letter recognition and fine motor skills while having fun! Each alphabet letter is paired with a figure or object that starts with the same letter, creating a meaningful and interactive learning experience for preschool and kindergarten students.

What’s Included:

• Full Alphabet Set: Each letter features a corresponding figure or object filled with dots for students to complete.
• Creative Designs: Every page includes fun, themed figures that connect with the letter, helping students associate letters with sounds and objects.
• Versatile Use: Children can use dot markers, Q-tips with paint, crayons, stickers, playdough, or fingerprints to fill in the dots, offering plenty of ways to engage.

Key Benefits:

• Supports fine motor skill development through dot-filling activities.
• Reinforces letter-sound connections with visual representations of each letter’s figure.
• Encourages creativity as students decorate the figures in their own unique style.

This Dot Marker Printable Alphabet Figures resource is perfect for classroom centers, letter-of-the-week activities, early finishers, or at-home practice. By combining hands-on learning with creative expression, it provides a fun and effective way to teach the alphabet while keeping young learners engaged!

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Is coloring loved in your classroom and homeschool? What could make it even better? Using coloring pages as a way to learn the letters of the alphabet and learning about a word of a food that starts with that letter. Each coloring page has the uppercase and lowercase letters to color in with the image of a food that starts with that letter and the word that goes with that food to trace. Helping them with creativity and fine motor skills.

Great ways to use these are during your homeschool day to give them a chance to be creative and learn their letters and how to write letters. In the classroom this is a great way to give students something to do when they have finished their assignment, indoor recess fun and even great for when you have a sub in your classroom.

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What is included:

26 Coloring pages, each one devoted to a letter

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These summer Reading Passages with comprehension multiple choice questions and answer keys are designed to help students in grades 3 and 4 retain their reading abilities and foster a love for learning. They are also suitable for 5th-grade students.

The passages, accompanied by thought-provoking questions, offer a valuable learning tool for both teachers and students during the summer holidays.

Engaging in reading comprehension activities during the summer will help students retain and strengthen their reading skills. It will also prevent the "summer slide" and allow them to confidently enter the next grade level.

Download this product to keep your students engaged during the summer holiday.

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Perfect for Kindergarten and First Grade Students!

Unlock the Magic of Reading with Simple CVC Sentences!

Our Reading Simple CVC Sentences Packet is expertly designed to help young learners master reading through engaging and accessible practice. Ideal for kindergarten and first grade students, this resource focuses on building confidence with CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words and sentences.

Features:

Simple CVC Sentences: Practice reading straightforward sentences that reinforce CVC word families, making reading a breeze.

Word Families: Emphasize key CVC word families to help students recognize patterns and build their vocabulary.

Repetition and Reinforcement: Multiple opportunities to read similar sentences, improving fluency and comprehension.

Varied Practice: Includes a mix of sentence structures to challenge students and enhance their reading skills.

❤️Looking for a creative and culturally appropriate way to celebrate Native American Heritage or Indigenous Peoples' Day in your classroom? Your students will love learning about the meaning of bears in Native American cultures, while making a beautiful Pacific Northwest-inspired craft and writing projects!

*This is a sample of the full resource. Get all 27 Indigenous animal crafts HERE!

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✏️Use the teaching materials to educate your students about traditional Pacific Northwest art, and the meaning of bears in Indigenous cultures.

✏️Works great as a social-emotional learning (SEL) activity!

✏️Craft is differentiated! There are several ways to make it including, coloring, drawing, painting, or decorating (cut and paste).

✏️Students can also choose from a variety of writing prompts, and writing project options (dotted vs. single lines etc.)

✏️Use these projects to meaningfully decorate your bulletin board, classroom, or hallway, while displaying your students' creativity!

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⭐️Great for centers (literacy, writing, art, social studies), whole group lessons, independent work, partner work, indoor recess, sub tub, intervention programs, and more!

⭐️This resource is low prep and will save you time! Simply print and go!

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✅ Includes: (22 pages)

Teaching Materials: (3 pages)

☑ Cultural information guide (2 pages)

☑ Bear meaning (1 page)

Craft Projects: (9 pages)

☑ Craft directions (3 pages)

☑ Craft pieces (3 pages)

☑ Craft example (1 page)

☑ Craft body templates (1 page)

☑ Craft body art pieces (1 page)

Writing Projects: (10 pages)

☑ Informative writing - brainstorming sheet (1 page)

☑ "Bear" tracing - dotted lines (1 page)

☑ "Bear" or trait - blank dotted lines (2 pages)

☑ "Bear" or trait - blank solid lines (2 pages)

☑ "My Animal Symbol" - dotted lines & solid lines (2 pages)

☑ Full blank page - dotted lines & solid lines (2 pages)

✅ Bonus: (24 pages)

☑ What you need to know (1 page)

☑ Table of contents (1 page)

☑ Black and white set (22 pages)

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If your students loved reading Kwame Alexander's The Crossover, they need to see the new Disney+ series! As teachers, we want our students to be engaged, even when they are watching a film. With this resource, students will be challenged to think critically about the text and film in a variety of ways including comparing and contrasting, evaluating director decisions, and tracking character development across the series.

This resource includes:

• A double-sided handout for episode 5
• This handout contains:
• One do now question, three discourse questions, compare and contrast section, and two rigorous writing tasks in DOK 3 or 4 and Bloom's Taxonomy Evaluate/Analyze categories.
• This handout contains a teacher-facing answer key with answers students may write about.

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This fun and engaging burger-themed rubric makes writing expectations clear and understandable for students. With four clear levels of achievement, this rubric provides valuable guidance for students to improve their writing skills.

What's Included:

• Four-Level Rubric: Detailed criteria for each level, from "Incomplete Work" to "Above and Beyond," covering essential writing elements.
• Versatile Format: Suitable for both classroom posters and individual student printouts as a guide for each student's binder/writing assignment.

⭐Writing Attempts:

Narrative
Christmas: Trapped in a Snow Globe | My Snowman Came to Life
Thanksgiving: How the Turkey Escaped Thanksgiving Dinner | How the Turkey Escaped Thanksgiving Dinner

Others: Journey to the Center of the Earth | Forms of Energy in my Car - Science, Art & WRITING Project

Easter: Benny the Bunny - Easter's Surprise | NOT Bunny - Eggcelent Easter/Spring Surprise

Halloween: Trapped in a Haunted House

Persuasive | Dear Santa - Villains Edition | Who Will Guide the Sleigh | Halloween: Can I Keep My Witch?

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The hands-on fun pack of Pi Day Activities is great for celebrating Pi Day I our classroom. Perfect for Grades 3 to 5, these Pi Day writing crafts are an engaging way to help your students know more about Pi Day.

Includes:

▪︎All About Pi Day Writing Craft templates (2 options available: Pie slice and whole pie)

▪︎Design a Pi activity sheet

▪︎Pi Craft and Writing template, wherein students have to color, cut and make the Pi symbol and write in the spaces provided.

▪︎Pi Day Cards (Whole pie and pie slice options)

Just print, color, make and write.

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Celebrate your student's sight word achievement with these personalized sight word certificates! Simply input your students' names, your name, the date, and the number of sight words they have mastered. Once customized, print out the certificate and capture a memorable photo of your proud student holding it up! Display it in the classroom, share it on a communication app or class website, or send it home to showcase their progress. As their sight word knowledge grows, they can proudly collect more certificates as a testament to their hard work and dedication. Encourage and motivate your students with these charming certificates!

What's included: Sight Words Award Certificates in Boy and Girl Version and with no clip art version in Powerpoint format

It would be best if you had these programs to open up the files:

• Microsoft Office Powerpoint

**Boost Writing Skills with Engaging Independent Informal Letter Lessons – Ready to Go!
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Master Formal Letter Writing with Engaging, Low-Prep Lessons

Empower students in Grades 1-5 to excel at formal letter writing with this comprehensive, print-and-go resource. Tailored for independent learning, this packet offers a clear, step-by-step framework to help students confidently craft polished and professional letters. Ideal for teachers seeking a time-saving, curriculum-aligned solution to enhance writing skills.

**What’s Included?
**✏️ Print Materials: Worksheets, Answer Keys, PDF Slides

What’s Inside?

✔️ Teacher & Student Directions
✔️ Features of an Informal Letter

✔️ Informal Letter Features Exercise

✔️ Step 1: Desired School Trip Framework

✔️ Step 2: Impact of the Trip Framework

✔️ Step 3: Letter Writing Template

✔️ Step 4: Review & Self-Reflection
✔️ 3 Options of Letter Writing Template

✔️ Model Answers

Why You’ll Love This Resource:

✏️ No Prep 

✏️ Print and Go

✏️ Classroom-Tested

✏️ Aligned with Aligned with Common Core, TEKS, and UK National Curriculum.

**When to Use This Resource:
**✅ Literacy Lessons (1-2 hour lessons)

✅ Independent Work

✅ **Literacy Centers
**✅ Sub Plans

✅ Writing Workshops ✅ **Homework Assignments
**✅ Early Finishers

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What Do You Need?**

✏️ Pencils

**Skills Focused:
**✔️ Formal letter structure

✔️ Idea organization

✔️ Sentence fluency

✔️ Editing and self-assessment

✔️ Professional tone and language

✔️ Independent writing skills

Curriculum Alignment

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Common Core State Standards (CCSS)**:

• W.1.2-W.5.2: Write informative/explanatory texts with clear purpose and structure
• W.1.4-W.5.4: Produce clear, coherent writing appropriate to task and audience
• L.1.5-L.5.5: Demonstrate command of word nuances and formal language

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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)**:

§110.3-§110.7 (Grades 1-5):

• • (b)(11)(A): Develop drafts with clear purpose and audience
  • (b)(12)(B): Apply proper capitalization, punctuation, and spelling
  • (b)(13)(A-B): Edit drafts to improve grammar and clarity

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UK National Curriculum (Years 1-5)**:

• Writing Composition: Plan and write for specific purposes and audiences
• Grammar and Punctuation: Use appropriate formal language and punctuation

Bonus Benefits:
✅ Boosts Confidence
✅ Enhances Foundational & Editing Skills
✅ Proven classroom success

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These FREE writing prompts were created to help kids (young believers) share their personal testimony with others. This is just general guide as you teach them how to share their faith.

Provided are 2 "My Testimony" Writing Prompts

•I provided two options: One for Younger Kids & One for Older Kids

•I also provided a few printable “My Testimony” paper options to write it on. You may choose to use this or your own paper.

Ideas for use

•Read aloud “My Testimony” during the young believer’s baptism.

•Give to young believers/kids as a way to teach them how to share their faith with others anytime.

Suggested Instructions:

•They can write completely from their heart, or you can sit with them and guide them through writing their testimony with these prompts.

•Use in children’s ministry or at home.

(Provided in Color & BW)