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Looking for a meaningful and engaging way to introduce dystopian literature to your students? This ready-to-use resource offers a perfect balance of critical thinking and creative expression!

✅ What’s Included:

• 3 thought-provoking reflection questions that encourage students to analyze real-world issues and connect them to dystopian themes
• A creative writing activity that guides students in designing their own dystopian society, complete with internal logic and a cautionary message
• A detailed answer key to support discussion, assessment, or independent student review

Ideal for middle and high school English Language Arts classes, this activity is a great entry point into novels such as The Hunger Games, Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, The Marrow Thieves or 1984.

Students will:

• Explore current technologies and societal trends
• Reflect on the popularity of dystopian fiction
• Create original stories with rich themes and warnings

✨ Perfect for individual work, small group discussion, or as a pre-reading activity to spark interest in your next dystopian novel study.

**This product includes: **

- A 6-page study guide with an irregular past/present verb tense chart

- A 34-question test with optional bonus points and containing the following types of questions: 

- Fill in the blank

- Sort answer

- Circle/Underline

- Label

- Draw an arrow to the word being modified

- Capitalize

- Choose & Sort

**The following topics are included: **

1. Complete Sentences vs Fragments
2. Subjects & Predicates
3. Conjunctions
4. Compound Sentences
5. Subordinating Conjunctions
6. Dependent & Independent Clauses
7. Complex Sentences
8. Run-on Sentences
9. Common, Proper, Singular, & Plural Nouns
10. Irregular Plural Nouns
11. Possessive Nouns
12. Capitalization Rules
13. Progressive Tenses
14. Modal Auxiliaries
15. Linking Verbs
16. Predicate Adjectives & Nouns
17. Possessive, Reflexive, Subject & Object Pronouns
18. Adjectives
19. Comparative vs Superlative
20. Adverbs & Relative Adverbs
21. Articles
22. Double Negatives
23. Combining Sentences
24. Adverb & Adjective Prepositional Phrases, Prepositions, Object of the Prepositions
25. Irregular Past & Present Tense Verbs

Football is the globe's most favored ball sport in terms of participants and viewers. Basic in its main rules and necessary gear, the game can be played nearly anywhere, including official football fields, gyms, streets, schoolyards, parks, or beaches. Football's regulatory organization, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), projected that around 250 million football players and more than 1.3 billion individuals were "interested" in football at the dawn of the 21st century; in 2010, an overall television viewership exceeding 26 billion tuned in to watch football's top event, the every-four-years monthlong World Cup finals.

The figures by themselves are sufficient to persuade you that football is an excellent motivator for your students. This convenient ebook will enable you to instruct them on fundamental football vocabulary, explore various football-related idioms more thoroughly, and engage in practice exercises to reinforce that understanding. The solutions to the tasks are given at the conclusion.

Christmas writing template | Letter to Santa Template

Bring the magic of the holiday season into your classroom with this Letter to Santa Template resource, designed to make letter-writing fun, educational, and memorable for students in grades 2-3! This resource combines creativity with structured learning, helping your students develop writing skills while thoughtfully expressing their holiday wishes and ideas.

• 17 Letter to Santa Templates: Multiple designs to cater to different student levels and preferences, making the activity engaging for all.
• Letter Planning Template: A structured tool to guide students in brainstorming and organizing their thoughts before drafting their letters.
• 10 Envelope Templates: Includes templates for creating foldable, personalized envelopes to add an extra layer of excitement to the activity.
• Bulletin Board Idea: A creative suggestion to set up a "Letters to Santa" bulletin board where envelopes can be opened to reveal students' heartfelt letters, creating a visually stunning and interactive display.

This Dot Marker Printable Alphabet Letters | Q Tip Painting resource perfectly combines fun and learning. It is designed to help young students develop fine motor skills while mastering letter recognition and formation. Ideal for preschool and kindergarten learners, this hands-on activity encourages creativity and builds foundational literacy skills.

What’s Included:

• Full Alphabet Set: Each letter is featured on its page, offering focused and engaging practice for every student.
• Three-Dot Designs per Letter: Every letter has three unique designs across separate pages, allowing students to explore letters through varied patterns and approaches, from plain bold letters to small or larger dots.
• Versatile Use: Students can decorate their letters using dot markers, Q-tip painting, crayons, stickers, playdough, or even fingerprints, providing multiple ways to engage with the activity.

Key Benefits:

• Enhances fine motor skills through precise dot placement and painting.
• Reinforces letter recognition, preparing students for early literacy success.
• Promotes creativity as students personalize each letter with their unique touch.

Perfect for classroom centers, early finishers, or at-home learning, this Dot Marker Printable Alphabet Letters | Q Tip Painting resource makes learning interactive, enjoyable, and memorable. It’s an essential addition to any early learning curriculum!

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Engage Your Students with Our Christmas Writing Template | Letter to Santa Template!

Bring the magic of the holiday season into your classroom with this Letter to Santa Template resource, designed to make letter-writing fun, educational, and memorable for elementary students! This resource combines creativity with structured learning, helping your students develop writing skills while thoughtfully expressing their holiday wishes and ideas.

What’s Included in Our Christmas Writing Template Resource:

• 12 Letter to Santa design Templates: Multiple designs to cater to different student levels and preferences, making the activity engaging for all.
• Letter Planning Template: A structured tool to guide students in brainstorming and organizing their thoughts before drafting their letters.
• 3 Envelope Templates: Includes templates for creating foldable, personalized envelopes to add an extra layer of excitement to the activity.
• Bulletin Board Idea: A creative suggestion to set up a "Letters to Santa" bulletin board where envelopes can be opened to reveal students' heartfelt letters, creating a visually stunning and interactive display.

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⭐️Christmas Bulletin Board Kit

⭐️Fun Christmas activity | NO PREP

⭐️Letter to Santa Template | Christmas writing activities second grade

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This Letter to Santa Template resource is perfect for classrooms, homeschool environments, and even holiday-themed events. Inspire your students to write, create, and share their holiday spirit in a meaningful way. Make this holiday season unforgettable with this engaging and fun activity!

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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Bring James and the Giant Peach to life with this creative art resource! Designed to complement your novel study, this resource includes guided illustrations and collaborative activities perfect for an engaging classroom display or bulletin board. Students will explore mixed-media techniques, including watercolor for the background and oil pastels for the foreground, encouraging creativity while reinforcing themes from the story. The set also features James and the Giant Peach collaborative giant peach and bird illustrations, along with a poster to tie your display together. Whether you follow the suggested steps or adapt to your supplies, this activity will make your novel study both memorable and visually stunning!

Everything included:

Collaborative poster decor

11 slides

Poster

3 step-by-step illustrations

4 James and the Giant Peach illustrations

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Fine motor hole punch| Pete the Cat 4 Groovy Buttons Craft

Enhance your classroom with this _Pete the Cat craft: 4 Groovy Buttons-_inspired resource, designed to develop fine motor skills while engaging students in fun, hands-on learning! This 4-lesson unit is perfect for creativity, literacy, and life skills. With a focus on hand-eye coordination, knot-tying, and lacing techniques, students will be captivated by interactive activities that tie into the beloved Pete the Cat story.

This resource is perfect for educators looking to combine storytelling with hands-on activities, using fine motor hole-punch templates to make it easy for students of all abilities to participate. Promote creativity and essential life skills with this engaging Pete the Cat craft

This resource includes:

• Bulletin board displays
• 4 lesson plans + objectives and assessment
• Pete the Cat craft - Fine motor hole punch
• Coloring pages
• Posters
• 38 scripted slideshow with teacher's guide

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⭐️Pete the Cat I love my white shoes craft

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⭐️Pete the Cat rocking in my school shoes craft

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Product Description: Self Portrait Template | Monthly Name Writing Practice

Engage your students in a creative and reflective activity with this Self Portrait Template paired with Monthly Name Writing Practice! This versatile resource is designed to promote artistic expression, develop writing skills, and encourage self-awareness in students, making it an ideal addition to your classroom routine.

Why Teachers Love It:
This Self Portrait Template | Monthly Name Writing Practice resource is perfect for building routines that encourage personal growth and skill development. Students love drawing their portraits and seeing how their handwriting evolves over time, while teachers appreciate the insight into their students' interests and progress.

How to Use:

1. Introduce the activity at the beginning of each month.
2. Encourage students to reflect on their interests, draw their self-portraits, and practice writing their names.
3. Compile the completed worksheets into a portfolio to showcase growth at the end of the school year.
4. Use the worksheets as bulletin board displays or for parent-teacher conferences to highlight student development.

What’s Included:

• 12 monthly self portraits ( 2 options)
• 1 yearly book cover
• 1 flexible-use self-portrait worksheet
• 2 All About Me worksheet options

Whether you’re teaching pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, or early elementary grades, this Self Portrait Template | Monthly Name Writing Practice is a must-have resource for fostering creativity, self-discovery, and skill-building in your students.

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Rainbow Writing for Red Words - Orton Gillingham Aligned!

A fun way to practice spelling and read red words! The words can be written in crayon, colored pens, markers, colored pencils, etc.

There is a practice page for each lesson K-2 - beginning with Concept 3.

A blank template is provided to write in words that your students may need extra practice with.

There is also an optional sentence writing page that can be copied on the back of the rainbow writing.

Birthday Gift Reading Comprehension Package: Engaging Worksheets for Grades 2-3 and Special Education

Boost your students' reading comprehension skills with this versatile, engaging, and easy-to-differentiate resource!

Perfect for grade 2-3 students, as well as special education classrooms, this Birthday Gift Reading Comprehension Package includes a variety of worksheets that target essential skills like answering WH questions, sequencing, and cloze activities, all while accommodating students with varying abilities.

What’s Inside This Comprehensive Package?

This package features three activity types that target different aspects of reading comprehension, with carefully designed levels of support to help your students progress step-by-step:

1. WH Question Worksheets
   Help your students improve their ability to locate answers to WH questions (who, what, when, where, why, and how) in a text. This activity includes:

• 3 levels of worksheets for each set of questions:

  • Level 1: Highlight prompts and multiple-choice answers
  • Level 2: Highlight prompts with written answers
  • Level 3: No prompts, students provide written answers independently

1. Cloze Worksheets
   Perfect for practicing vocabulary and understanding context clues. These worksheets come in 3 levels:

• Level 1: Highlighted words with a word bank for students to complete
• Level 2: Word bank provided, no highlights
• Level 3: No prompts, students fill in the blanks independently

1. Story Sequencing Worksheets
   Build your students' understanding of story structure and sequencing. This activity includes 4 levels:

• Level 1: Guided with sentence order and highlight prompts
• Level 2: Sentence order given, no highlights
• Level 3: Highlighted text, no sentence order provided
• Level 4: No highlights or sentence order – students complete independently

Why You’ll Love This Resource:

• Differentiated Learning: With 3-4 levels for each activity, you can easily adapt this resource to meet the needs of students at various skill levels. Whether you’re working with advanced readers or students who need extra support, this resource provides the flexibility to ensure every student is engaged and challenged.
• Ideal for Diverse Classrooms: This package is perfect for older struggling readers, special education students, and ESL learners, thanks to the scaffolded support and visually engaging design.
• Builds Confidence Gradually: As students move through the levels of each activity, they will gain the confidence to work independently. The gradual reduction of support helps them develop critical reading and comprehension skills at their own pace.
• Comprehensive Answer Key: Each worksheet includes an answer key to make grading and assessing progress quick and easy.

Perfect for:

• Teachers of Grades 2-3 who need engaging and easy-to-use reading comprehension activities.
• Special Education and ESL Classrooms where students need targeted practice with visual prompts and scaffolding.
• Parents and Tutors seeking fun, educational worksheets to support their child’s reading comprehension development.

Product Features:

• 3 activity types: WH Questions, Cloze Worksheets, and Story Sequencing
• 3-4 levels per activity for easy differentiation
• Scaffolding and support gradually reduce as students progress
• Answer Key for each worksheet
• Perfect for struggling readers, ESL students, and special education classrooms
• Visually engaging and age-appropriate content for older elementary students

Help your students become more confident readers with this thoughtfully designed resource!

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Simplify fiction instruction for 3rd-5th graders with 10 mini-lessons, STAAR practice, passages, activities, 81 small group cards, anchor charts, and models. Topics: Plot, Inference, Summary, Context Clues, Main Idea, Text Structure and more!

➡️ Why You Will Love

⭐A lesson plan that is planned and prepped so you get your planning time back!

⭐Science of reading-aligned strategies for students to apply to their reading.

⭐Real-world connections so that students see how the skill is applied to their everyday lives. 

⭐Flexible Format to integrate into any curriculum.

➡️ What’s 10 Skills are Included

• Author's Purpose

• Author's Voice

• Characteristics of Nonfiction Genres

• Context Clues

• Inference

• Main Idea and Supporting Details

• Making Connections

• Paraphrase and Summarize

• Print & Graphic Features

• Text Structure

➡️ What’s Included

• Warm Up
• Anchor Chart
• Interactive Google Lesson Slides with an Adventure Theme
• Real-world connections
• Model Text
• Guided Notes
• Guided Practice
• Small Group Instruction
• Independent Practice
• Exit Ticket

➡️ How to Use Suggestions

• Begin with a warm-up to spark curiosity and introduce the day’s focus.
• Teach with the anchor chart, lesson slides, model text, guided practice, and guided doodle notes, encouraging students to make connections.
• Engage students with a story-driven adventure activity.
• Provide scaffolded practice using small group instruction and independent activities.
• Wrap up with an exit ticket to assess understanding and inform future lessons.
• Use Google Application to assign or download resources.

Bring Reading to life with this incredible resource today!

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Engage students with vibrant, easy-to-use anchor charts that simplify concepts, spark curiosity, and provide lasting reference tools for classrooms, making learning interactive and memorable!

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➡️ ADDITIONAL SUPPORT

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Engage students with vibrant, easy-to-use anchor charts that simplify concepts, spark curiosity, and provide lasting reference tools for classrooms, making learning interactive and memorable!

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Follow ELA Vibes to get updates on new resources!

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Mini-Lessons

Activity Bundles

Engage students with vibrant, easy-to-use anchor charts that simplify concepts, spark curiosity, and provide lasting reference tools for classrooms, making learning interactive and memorable!

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Engage 3rd-5th graders with a nonfiction characteristics lesson: bell ringer, guided notes, ELA STAAR practice, activities, anchor chart, model passage, and exit ticket—ideal for intervention, stations, STAAR prep, independent reading comprehension, and differentiated supports!

A low-prep lesson designed to help learners understand features of the Nonfiction Genre.

➡️ Why You Will Love

⭐A lesson plan that is planned and prepped so you get your planning time back!

⭐Science of reading-aligned strategies for students to apply to their reading.

⭐Flexible Format to integrate into any curriculum.