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This is a fun activity to warm up those writing skills in Spanish!! Each student can use it as a writing center or independent work. You only need some dice and a pencil!

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A fun way to introduce and write Haikus. Students get to draft a Haiku about each of the four seasons and then transfer them onto a Haiku Cube which they can color and decorate. Then they get to cut and glue to have their own cute Haiku Cube. A fun and easy way to add poetry into your classroom.

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Spark creativity this fall with the Apple Orchard Roll a Story! Students will roll a dice to determine the character, problem, and setting for their unique apple orchard-themed story. With 6 different characters, 6 problems, and 6 settings, every story is a new adventure! Students will organize their ideas on the provided lined paper, helping them map out their story and bring it to life.

Contents:

• 6 Apple Orchard-themed characters (like a farmer or apple-picking kid)
• 6 Fun-filled problems (like worms in the apples or a runaway apple cart)
• 6 Unique settings (like a barn or a haystack maze)
• Multiple lined paper options for story planning and writing

How It’s Used: Students will roll the dice three times to decide their character, problem, and setting—taking the guesswork out of story creation and adding excitement to every roll. After planning their story using the graphic organizer, they can write their creative tale on the lined paper provided.

Why You’ll Love It: This engaging activity takes the stress out of story writing and turns it into a fun, interactive experience. Teachers will love how it encourages creative thinking, narrative structure, and problem-solving. Kids will love the element of surprise in every roll, making story time a fun and dynamic part of the day.

Features:

• Apple orchard-themed characters, problems, and settings for a cozy fall feel
• Encourages creativity and narrative planning in a hands-on, interactive way
• Lined paper options to help students map out and organize their ideas
• Ideal for centers, literacy stations, or seasonal writing activities

Who This is For:

• Preschool and kindergarten teachers wanting to introduce early story writing
• 1st and 2nd grade teachers looking for a fall-themed creative writing activity
• Homeschoolers incorporating narrative writing into their fall curriculum
• After-school programs that encourage group storytelling and writing practice
• Literacy centers seeking a hands-on, engaging writing activity with seasonal flair

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This hands-on fun pack of Leprechaun Writing Craft is great for St. Patricks Day Writing Activity. This How to catch a Leprechaun Writing Activity also includes four more Leprechaun Writing Prompts to compliment the festive season.

Just print, color, cut and write. This simple yet engaging Leprechaun craftivity gets ready in minutes!!

Includes:

5 Writing Prompts

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Boost Writing Skills with Engaging Independent Informal Letter Lessons – Ready to Go!

Help students in Grades 2-5 master the art of informal letter writing with this comprehensive, print-and-go resource. Designed for independent learning, this packet provides a structured framework that empowers students to write confidently about their favorite activities. With clear guidance and engaging tasks, it’s perfect for teachers seeking a low-prep, curriculum-aligned solution.

What’s Included?
✏️ Print Materials: Worksheets (PDF format), Answer Key

What’s Inside?

✔️ Teacher & Student Directions
✔️ Features of an Informal Letter

✔️ Informal Letter Features Exercise

✔️ Step 1: Favorite Activity Framework

✔️ Step 2: Favorite Hobbies Framework

✔️ Step 3: Letter Writing Template

✔️ Step 4: Review & Self-Reflection
✔️ 3 Letter Writing Templates

✔️ 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

What Do You Need?

✏️ Pencils

Skills Focused:

✔️ Informal letter structure

✔️ Idea organization
✔️ Vocabulary development
✔️ Sentence fluency
✔️ Editing and self-assessment
✔️ Creative expression
✔️ Independent writing skills

Curriculum Alignment
Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

• W.2.3-W.5.3: Write narratives with descriptive details and clear sequences.
• W.2.4-W.5.4: Produce clear, coherent writing for task, purpose, and audience.
• L.2.5-W.5.5: Use synonyms, antonyms, and nuanced word meanings to enhance writing.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

• §110.4-§110.7 (Grades 2-5):
  • (b)(11)(A): Organize ideas with a clear purpose and audience.
  • (b)(12)(B): Apply proper capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
  • (b)(13)(A-B): Edit drafts to improve grammar, mechanics, and clarity.

UK National Curriculum (Years 2-5)

• Writing Composition: Plan, draft, and write for specific purposes and audiences.
• Grammar and Punctuation: Use appropriate punctuation and sentence structures.
• Reading Comprehension: Evaluate vocabulary choices and their effect on tone.

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Give your students the tools to write meaningful, well-structured letters. Add this engaging resource to your teaching toolkit today!

A terrific, no prep activity for your blossoming K-4 French writers who may be struggling to take risks with their writing skills. The students absolutely LOVE this activity and have been asking me for days when we get to do ‘le gateau et la crème glacée’. I gradually give students autonomy by giving them the freedom to talk about what they think the Food Pairs have in common.

What to do:

Make a class set of copies of one of the cutie pairs.

Students colour, write, and cut out the writing strip.

Finally, students cut and paste the ends of the writing strip to the back of each item in the pair (ie. One on toast and the other end on butter. Fold in the middle and students can show the big reveal!

Pairs included:

Each set is available in Colour format followed by Black and White

-le pain et le beurre

-les hamburgers et les frites

-le gateau et la crème glacée

-les croustilles et la guacamole

-le chocolat chaud et les guimauve

-les macaronis et le fromage

-1 exemplar version at the end to demonstrate how students may choose to describe their pair

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What grade level:

I personally use these texts with Grade 1 and Grade 2 students in French Immersion. I feel confident that students from K-3 will find these most useful and teachers can come back to the texts with any students who may be experiencing challenges in their French reading skills. Core French teachers will be sure to add the resource to their repertoire for Grades 4 to 6 as they learn to read and write at the Junior level.

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Some of the Benefits of this resource:

1. Students use hands on materials
2. Boost confidence in French language acquisition with whole group, small group, independent work, and one-to-one instruction using the same resource
3. Easy common food theme that students love
4. Students grow in independence at their own pace
5. Reinforce encoding and writing skills
6. Social wellness and personal autonomy in using French in the classroom
7. Scaffold and support language acquisition, oral communication, and writing skills
8. Pair sets are ideal for putting up on a sweet bulletin board display

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Are you in need of a St. Patrick's Day writing activity? This adorable March craft will get your students thinking about why they are lucky to be themselves! Bonus Bulletin Board letters included!

It includes:

-3 different sentence stems

I am lucky because…

I am lucky to be me because…

The world is lucky to have me because…

- Prewriting worksheet for each sentence stem

-Cuttable sentences

-Two different bordered papers. Each paper has 3 different options; no words, traceable words, and colored words.

-Craft for the top of the writing

-Lucky Lads and Lassies words for your bulletin board

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Make your own Potato Crafts fun with this engaging, hands-on Build a Mr. or Mrs. Potato Person Kids craft making activity! This includes 2 low-prep Build a Mr. or Mrs. Potato Person kids crafts templates perfect for having fun with potatoes or cooking. Quick and easy setup plus clear student directions make this activity perfect for centers or substitute days, too!

Lead your students in fun craft making with 2 Build a Mr. or Mrs. Potato Person by cutting out the pieces, coloring, gluing the parts together and decorating. Students will love putting together their Build a Mr. or Mrs. Potato Person activities together by using their problem solving skills through these fun activities, and won't even realize how much they're having fun! Use it after reading a story about potatoes or sing a song about potatoes. Print in black and white to color or in color for assembly.

Here's what you'll get:

• Mr. Potato person printable

• Mrs. Potato person printable

• easy to follow directions

Your students will be crafting Build a Mr. or Mrs. Potato Person crafts with a variety of common classroom materials. They'll be engaged and having a great time together!

These activities use materials readily available in most classrooms and homes and includes printable templates to create each activity.

Prep is quick and easy... Just print the Build a Mr. or Mrs. Potato Person pages, cut everything out, color, decorate, gather the materials listed, and you're ready for a fun and engaging class! Print in black and white for coloring/painting and in color for easy assembly. You can make these into puppets, dance around the room with them while listening to winter music, or use to decorate your room with. You can even create a story about your potato person.

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Bring Thanksgiving fun to your classroom with these easy, step-by-step directed drawings! Students can follow along to draw seasonal favorites like an acorn, piece of pie, turkey, turkey leg, squash, and a festive place setting. Designed to inspire creativity and enhance writing time, this pack makes it easy for students to add their drawings to writing projects, keeping them excited and engaged.

What's Included:

• 6 Thanksgiving/Fall-Themed Directed Drawings (Acorn, Pie, Turkey, Turkey Leg, Squash, Place Setting)
• Choice of Line Styles: Standard, Primary, or Drawing
• Large Cards
• Journal Strips for Easy Use in Notebooks or on Rings

Engage your students this Thanksgiving season with easy, step-by-step directed drawing pages! This Thanksgiving pack includes guided drawing sheets for creating holiday images like an acorn, piece of pie, turkey, turkey leg, squash, and a place setting. Students can use these drawings to spark ideas for writing and storytelling, making it a perfect addition to writing centers or independent activities.

Perfect For:

• Writer's Workshop & Creative Writing
• Independent Work & Centers
• Early Finishers & Homework
• Journal or Ring-Bound Use
• Sub Plans

With primary and standard-lined pages as well as journal strips, this pack provides versatile options for every classroom setup. Use it to boost students' creativity while encouraging them to express themselves through both drawing and writing!

Keywords: Thanksgiving directed drawing, step-by-step Thanksgiving drawing, Thanksgiving drawing activities, primary lined drawing pages, Thanksgiving writing prompts, drawing and writing centers, Thanksgiving journal strips

Ignite creativity and improve writing skills with our Writing Prompts with Pictures! This educational resource features 15 engaging writing prompts designed to inspire young minds. Each prompt is accompanied by a colorful illustration, making the writing experience more enjoyable and visually appealing for children.

Features:

• Variety of Prompts: Each page includes a different prompt, such as “My favorite season is…” or “In the future, I want to be a…”, encouraging kids to express their thoughts and ideas.
• Visual Stimulation: Each prompt is paired with an attractive image, helping to spark inspiration and guide students in their writing.
• User-Friendly Format: Each sheet includes sections for the student's name, teacher, class, and date, promoting organization in classroom settings.
• Versatile Use: Ideal for classroom activities, homework assignments, or creative writing exercises, this resource is perfect for educators and parents alike.

Encourage students to develop their writing skills in a fun and interactive way with this delightful set of writing prompts!

Enhance your Halloween literacy centres with this exciting and educational Halloween Writing Resource! Perfect for adding a spooky twist to your classroom activities, this resource is designed to inspire creativity and strengthen students' descriptive writing skills.

Students will choose from a set of Halloween-themed image cards and craft detailed descriptions—without mentioning the object or creature by name! This adds an extra layer of challenge and fun to your Halloween writing lessons.

What’s included:

• Halloween-themed image cards: A variety of spooky images to spark students’ imaginations.
• Writing paper: Engaging writing templates that make it easy for students to organize their thoughts.
• Poster of Halloween descriptive words: A helpful guide filled with Halloween related vocabulary to boost students' vocabulary and inspire their writing.

Benefits for your classroom:

• Enhances descriptive writing skills: By encouraging students to describe without naming, they’ll practice using vivid language, sensory details, and creative expressions.
• Boosts vocabulary: The included poster of descriptive words gives students a rich bank of Halloween-themed vocabulary to draw from, expanding their word choices.
• Encourages critical thinking: The challenge of writing without naming the object or creature forces students to think critically about how to convey meaning through description alone.
• Supports differentiated learning: This resource is flexible and adaptable to different ability levels. Whether students need more structured guidance or are ready for a challenge, this activity can be adjusted to meet their needs.
• Perfect for collaborative or individual work: Use this resource in your Halloween literacy centres, as a group activity, or as an independent writing task.
• Easy to prepare and use: Simply print the cards, writing templates, and poster, and you're ready to go. It's a low prep, high engagement resource that saves you time while delivering meaningful learning experiences.
• Halloween display: Use this to create a Halloween display area in your classroom.

This Halloween Writing Resource is a fantastic addition to your classroom, providing an engaging, seasonal activity that helps students develop key literacy skills while having fun. Suitable for grades 3-6, it’s a perfect fit for your Halloween writing plans and Halloween literacy centres.

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SEL worksheets for students to explore their emotions and regulate their emotional responses are a valuable tool for promoting social and emotional learning in children. These engaging and interactive activities help young learners understand and manage their feelings effectively. Dive into a wide variety of SEL worksheets designed to empower kids with essential emotional intelligence skills. 

From identifying different emotions to practicing self-regulation techniques, these resources provide an opportunity for children to develop a deeper understanding of their own emotions and how to express and handle them. With expertly crafted materials that cater to different age groups and learning styles, these SEL worksheets will support children in building resilience, fostering healthy relationships, and promoting overall emotional well-being. 

Explore these transformative resources today and equip children with the emotional skills they need to thrive in school and beyond!

Make winter writing exciting with this interactive Roll-a-Story Prompts set! Students roll a die to choose a character, problem, and setting from three winter-themed sheets, then use the provided paper to draft and write their stories. This resource combines creativity, critical thinking, and writing practice into a fun and engaging activity perfect for classrooms or at home.

What’s Included:

• 3 Roll-a-Story Prompt Sheets: Winter-themed characters, problems, and settings to inspire endless combinations.
• Drafting Paper: Help students organize their ideas and plan their stories.
• Final Story Paper: Specially designed for students to write their completed stories.

Perfect For:

• Creative writing activities in the classroom or homeschool.
• Early finishers, writing centers, or winter-themed lessons.
• Encouraging reluctant writers with a fun, game-based approach.

Let your students roll their way to creative and imaginative stories with these winter-themed writing prompts!

Four creative writing prompts with winter coloring pictures. Promotes writing skills, creative thinking, and on-demand prompt writing. Use with mini-lessons to teach basic skills or for assessment of writing skills. Share in small or whole group settings and display students' writings for all to read.

The Writing Activity 3D Snow Globe Craft is perfect for students in elementary and special education programs! This craft provides a fun way to encourage students to practice writing in a winter setting, while also reinforcing key concepts in language arts, ELA, and figurative language. This activity is also a great writing center tool! Students will love easily creating their own personalized snow globe with this craft.

Includes

• Two versions of writing paper (regular lines and primary writing lines with dashes)
• Two "title" pages: "If I were Stuck in a Snow Globe" and "My Day Inside a Snow Globe"
• A blank snow globe page for illustrations
• Ideas for differentiation for students who need extra support AND ideas for students who need an extra challenge

Spring writing is a great way to encourage creativity in the classroom! With these spring writing prompts, designed for kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade, students can explore the spring season in a fun, imaginative way. Whether it's writing about flying a kite, going on an Easter egg hunt, or dreaming up a spring story, these prompts will keep students excited about writing all season long. Students can share what they know and have learned about spring. This packet contains writing prompts that are on kid-friendly primary lined paper or secondary lined paper Choose the paper that best fits the needs of your students. Please download the preview in order to view some of the spring prompts.

You will receive the following prompts:

On a spring day, I like to visit...

If I could fly a kite...

On a rainy day, I like to...

On a lucky day...

What superpower would you like to have?

What would you like to invent?

Have you ever broken something? What happened?

What do you like to do when you are not in school?

How can you cheer up a friend that is sick?

You've been granted three wishes from a genie in a bottle. What would you wish for?

My dream house would have...

If pets could talk to each other, what would they say?

Plan the perfect birthday party for yourself.

If I found a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow...

If I met a leprechaun...

If I met the Easter Bunny...

My family gets ready for spring by...

If I were a butterfly...

How to plant seeds (using First, Next, Then, and Last)

On a sunny spring day, I like to..

Here is my list of the signs of spring...

In the garden...

On my Spring Break...

Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring!

Spring Acrostic Poem

This product also includes a black and white cover page to staple as a booklet to keep all students' spring writing together.

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In this bundle, you will receive the following:

Spring Writing Fun

Umbrella Raindrop Short U Word Family Sort

Peeps Short Vowel Words

Spring Chickens Short Vowel Word Sort

Rainbow Writing, Letters, Numbers & Color Words

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Use this Today in History packet to learn some basic information about the first Leap Year. This activity pack includes penmanship practice (both print and cursive), reading passages with comprehension questions (2 sets with varying difficulty), writing activities, and a time line card to create your own timeline of Today in History events.

What is included:

Page 2 – Today in History Poster

Page 3 – Penmanship page in print with primary lines.

Page 4 – Penmanship page in print with notebook lines

Page 5 – Penmanship page in cursive with primary lines

Page 6 – Penmanship page in cursive with notebook lines.

Page 7 – Reading Page (Harder)

Page 8 – Comprehension Questions

Page 9 – Reading Page (Easier)

Page 10 – Comprehension Questions

Page 11 – What I Learned Writing Page

Page 12 – Creative Writing Page

Page 13 – Time line card (With Picture Included)

Page 14 – Time line card (Student Draws the Picture)

Page 15 – Other Interesting Events

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These NO PREP writing prompts for are perfect for Winter Writing! Use these for independent writing time, creative and story journal writing, writer's workshop, writing centers, small group instruction, homework, and morning work. This set includes 6 different prompts that you can share either as a task card/writing prompt card or on lined paper. Perfect for 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Grades.

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Introducing the May Day Spring Bundle!

This bundle includes 7 beautifully designed May Day themed writing templates, a fun May Day basket paper craft, a lovely May Day floral crown craft, and an engaging May Day themed word search.

These resources are perfect for any lower elementary classroom celebrating May Day and the arrival of spring. With this bundle, your students will have the opportunity to express their creativity, practice their writing skills, and have fun with hands-on activities.

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Need a way to increase student engagement and creative writing skills during the weeks leading up to Christmas? Make writing meaningful and magical this holiday with these no-prep Christmas writing prompts and activities!

What's Included:

Spin a Christmas story

3 finish the story prompts

3 would you rather prompts

Elf recipe prompt

Grinch letter prompt

Gingerbread story ptompt

3 picture story prompts

2 acrostic poems

Letter to Santa

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