3rd Grade English Language Arts Centers

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

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• 1 Color template
• 1 BW template
• 1 writing template

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BACK TO SCHOOL PHONICS GAMES - CONSONANT DIGRAPHS GAMES is a set of 6 board games with a September Back to School theme. You'll have games for these skills: sh, ch, th, ph, wh and mixed. 6 games in color and 6 in B&W. Print & Go, just add a die.

These gameboards are "closed" gameboards. You can make these work in your favor by setting up the guidelines ahead of time. Students can continue to play round and round the board until the time is up. Put a small pile of tokens such as cubes in the center and they can collect one for each lap they make if you want a way to keep score. Or, you can state that the games are over after a player has made 5 rounds, or however you choose.

✅Literacy Centers

✅Small Groups

✅Tutoring/Parent Helpers

✅Send home B&W games

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This resource serves as a great way to teach speech language therapy students or English language learners to answer WHERE questions with pictures and visual aids. The explicit instruction of locations, including places at school can be essential for children to be able to answer certain WHERE questions, while also providing opportunity for vocabulary development. These visual aids, task cards, sentence model strips, sorting worksheets, coloring worksheets, and reading comprehension worksheets will walk you through the instruction of beginner WHERE questions step-by-step to help students comprehend wh-questions.

Included in this resource:

• Task Cards/Flash Cards can be used to drill WHERE questions that elicit responses containing Places at School. They can also be used as memory games or paired with motivating board games. These task Cards include:

  • 12 Places at Home Task Cards (classroom, cafeteria, playground, bathroom, library, music room, art room, hallway, office, nurse's office, gym, audtitorium)
  • 12 Places at School Receptive Task Cards
  • 11 Places at School with Child Task Cards
  • 11 Places at School with Animals Task Cards
  • 48 Places at Home Where Question Prompts
  • 12 Places at School Sentences - Literal Questions Task Cards
  • 12 Places at School Sentences - Inferential Questions Task Cards

• Sentence Frames for sentence structures.

  • 24 Sentence Frames for 2 different sentence structures

• NO PREP worksheets for skill carryover.

  • 1 Coloring Sorting Page (Classroom + Cafeteria)
  • 1 Sorting Objects by Location
  • 1 Cut and Paste Sorting Actions by Location
  • 1 Short Stories Comprehension Worksheet

• Teaching Materials:

  • 1-page teachable explanation of different ways to answer when questions
  • 1-page teaching script to explain Places at School

Excellent Resource for Mixed Groups

MLU: Naturally increase MLU

Vocabulary: Practice labeling daily activities of living, everyday places, objects

Wh- questions: Ask who, what, where, when, why questions about daily school routines.

Sequencing: Sequence daily school routines.

Sentence production: Elicit full sentences with details using task cards and sentence visuals.

Categorization: Categorize by location.

Following directions: Follow directions containing spatial concept "in"

** Perfect resource for Teacher Observation or Speech Therapy Observation**

Featuring 135 colorful pictures, each verb is accompanied by a simple sentence, making learning fun and effective. Children are encouraged to identify and choose the appropriate verb based on the vibrant images provided. This worksheet is perfect for young learners, helping them to enhance their vocabulary and understanding of verbs in an enjoyable way.

The colorful pictures keep kids interested, and the variety of verbs ensures comprehensive learning. Whether you're a parent or a teacher, this worksheet is an excellent tool for reinforcing grammar skills. Great for both classroom and home use, it supports the development of language and cognitive skills. Boost your child’s learning experience with our Verb Worksheet and watch their confidence with language grow!

What's included:

- 27 pages pdf featuring 135 verbs. (ref to thumbnail for complete verb list)

- An option to use Easel by TeachShare as digital tool

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Have your students practice writing Haikus about some of their favorite jobs. They can choose a job or pick from a list of jobs. They then get to brainstorm and create their own Haikus about the job. A fun way to incorporate poetry and Haikus.

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Inspire creativity and imagination with the Roll a Story Bundle! This versatile collection offers a variety of themed story prompts for endless writing adventures.

Contents:
The Roll a Story Bundle includes multiple themed Roll a Story worksheets, each featuring:

• Character, Problem, and Setting Chart: Each chart has 6 unique characters, 6 story problems, and 6 settings, with numbers beside each option to correspond with a dice roll. Themes include Wild West, Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Fall, Under the Sea, and more!
• 3 Lined Story Pages: Select from three different lined pages to help students organize their ideas, plan their story, and begin writing. Each page provides ample space for brainstorming and storytelling.

How It Works:
Students will roll a dice to select a character, problem, and setting based on the numbers they roll. After the story elements are chosen, they’ll use one of the included lined pages to plan and write their story, adding an imaginative twist to each theme. With familiar, seasonal, and adventurous themes, students can develop storytelling skills while engaging in a fun, interactive writing activity.

Why You’ll Love This Product:
The Roll a Story Bundle is a fantastic way to support creative writing development in a fun, game-like format! Each theme offers new, exciting characters and situations to encourage students to think outside the box and expand their storytelling abilities. Teachers and parents will appreciate the easy setup and flexible options, while students enjoy creating unique stories based on the roll of a dice.

Features:

• A wide range of fun and engaging themes, with new additions as they’re created
• Clear, easy-to-follow charts with characters, problems, and settings
• Three types of lined story pages to support storytelling and organization
• Perfect for encouraging creativity, critical thinking, and organization in writing

Who This Product Is For:

1. Elementary Classrooms: Perfect for writing centers, literacy blocks, and creative writing exercises.
2. Homeschoolers: Great for flexible, hands-on storytelling activities.
3. After-School Programs: An engaging and educational activity for students.
4. Seasonal Writing Activities: Teachers can match the theme to the season, such as Halloween, Christmas, or Fall.
5. Tutoring Sessions: Helps students develop story-planning skills and enhance creative expression.

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Engage your students with these Water Cycle Reading Comprehension Boom Learning Cards/Decks. These no-prep and self-grading task cards are designed for students in grades 1, 2, and 3 to provide them with a comprehensive understanding of the water cycle's key processes, making learning both fun and educational.

Topics Covered

• Evaporation: Discover how water transforms from liquid to gas and rises into the atmosphere.
• Condensation: Learn about the process that forms clouds as water vapor cools and changes back into liquid droplets.
• Precipitation: Understand how water falls from the sky in various forms like rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
• Collection/Accumulation: Follow the journey of water as it gathers in rivers, lakes, oceans, and other bodies of water.

Interactive Questions

• Multiple Choice Questions: Test comprehension with carefully crafted questions that challenge students to recall key details.
• Matching: Strengthen connections between terms and their definitions or processes with interactive matching activities.
• Drag and Drop: Enhance understanding through engaging drag-and-drop exercises that visualize the water cycle.
• True or False: Assess knowledge and clarify misconceptions with true or false questions.

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Color Word Unit daily practice sheets to reinforce HFW/sight word colors. Perfect for a "Color of the Day" activity as you introduce color words to your young learners. A variety of skills included such as:

• Recognize the color word and circle
• Color the word
• Trace the word (D'Nealian font)
• Read the word in easy, decodable CVC words
• Draw a picture to represent the color word
• Trace a color word sentence

This activity is easy to pair with my Color Word Poems and Color Word Craft to round out your perfect intro to teaching color words to your kindergarten or first grade class.

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Beginning & Ending Digraph Print & go, boom cards & Task cards - (sh, ch, th, ck, wh)

The "Digraph - Beginning/Ending (sh, ch, th, ck, wh) Printables & Activities" resource is designed to provide students with extra practice on recognizing and using digraphs at the beginning and end of words. Digraphs are two letters that make a single sound, and in this case, the digraphs included are "sh", "ch", "th", "ck", and "wh".

The resource includes printables and activities that students can complete to reinforce their understanding of these digraphs. These print and go activities include coloring, identification, and sorting exercises that allow students to practice recognizing the digraphs and identifying them in different words.

In addition, the resource also includes boom cards, which are digital task cards that can be accessed on any device with an internet connection. These boom cards provide an interactive way for students to engage with the material and practice their skills in a fun and engaging way.

Task cards that can be printed and laminated for use in daily stations are also included in this resource. These task cards provide another hands-on way for students to practice identifying and using digraphs.

❤️Looking for engaging, cultural activities to help students express creativity, while celebrating Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and Latin American traditions? Your students will love using these differentiated English and Spanish vocabulary coloring / writing pages to learn how Day of the Dead is celebrated!

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✏️Practice fine motor, handwriting, and art skills with these printable, clean, coloring book pages (85 unique pages per set - English/Spanish)!

✏️Each vocabulary word (28 words) comes with 3 differentiated pages to help your learner practice vocabulary, while writing, tracing, and coloring!

✏️Perfect for your Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade or ELL/ESL students!

✏️Includes cover pages to create a Day of the Dead booklet!

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⭐️Great for centers (literacy, writing, art), Day of the Dead parties, independent work, morning work, partner work, indoor recess, sub tub, intervention programs and more!

⭐️This resource will save you time! Simply print the pages most appropriate for your students' individual needs and you are ready to go!

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✅Each vocabulary word includes 3 differentiated pages: (84 pgs. in total x 2 sets)

☑ Coloring page with picture and colorable vocabulary word (1 page)

☑ Coloring page with picture and traceable vocabulary word (1 page)

☑ Coloring page with picture and writeable vocabulary word (1 page)

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✅Vocabulary included: (28)

☑ altar / el altar

☑ angel / un ángel

☑ bread of the dead / el pan de muerto

☑ candied pumpkin / la calabaza en tacha

☑ candle / la vela

☑ candy / los dulces

☑ caramel flan / el flan de caramelo

☑ coffin / un ataúd

☑ cross / la cruz

☑ elegant skeleton / la catrina

☑ empanadas / los empanadas

☑ flowers / las flores

☑ gravestone / la lápida

☑ hot corn beverage / el atole

☑ incense / el copal

☑ mask / una careta

☑ Mexico / México

☑ monarch butterfly / una monarca

☑ orange / la naranja

☑ paper banner / el papel picado

☑ portrait / el retrato

☑ sauce / el mole

☑ skeleton / un esqueleto

☑ stew / el pozole

☑ sugar skull / la calavera de azúcar

☑ sweet bread / el pan dulce conchas

☑ sweet rice milk drink / la horchata

☑ tamales / los tamales

✅ Bonus: (10 pages)

☑ Cover pages (2 pages)

☑ Cultural guide (1 page)

☑ Vocabulary definitions (3 pages)

☑ What you need to know (1 page)

☑ Table of contents (3 pages)

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⭐️These coloring pages are perfect for:

• literacy centers
• indoor recess
• end of year activities
• writing / story prompts
• morning work
• fine motor skills work
• early finishers
• Day of the Dead parties
• Latin Heritage parties
• snack time
• coloring book gift
• homework packets
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• substitute teacher folders
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• art centers
• watercolor painting
• story starters
• early morning students

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Escape the Haunted House: A Narrative Writing Adventure.

Spark your students' imaginations with this exciting narrative writing activity -

It's Halloween and they have been trapped in a haunted house!

Why?

• Haunted House Escape! (Writing Prompt): A captivating prompt that transports students to use their creativity to describe their haunted house surroundings, explain how they got trapped, and devise a plan to escape!
• Paragraph Power: A guide to writing strong paragraphs, including clear transitions and a variety of sentence structures. This helps students structure their narratives effectively.
• Haunted House Design: A fun worksheet where students can personalize their haunted house adventure! They can illustrate the scene inside the house.
• Bonus Pages: Extra lined writing pages are included to accommodate longer narratives and encourage students to fully develop their escape plans!

How to use it?

• Independent Writing Activity.
• Partner Up! Pair students to brainstorm ideas and share their escape plans with each other.
• Whole-Class Brainstorm: Have students share their snow globe ideas and escape strategies as a class, sparking creative thinking and storytelling.

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This versatile pack of commas in dates and commas in series worksheets is the perfect resource to reinforce fundamental punctuation skills in young learners! Designed with engaging activities, these worksheets and task cards provide a structured approach to mastering comma usage.

These No-Prep worksheets are great for daily grammar practice on commas. What’s more?? This resource also comes with 16 task cards and a recording sheet that will give a fun learning experience to your students.

Display the anchor chart on your literacy wall, grammar station or glue the smaller ones to your students’ notebooks, so they can refer back to it whenever required.

YOU’LL GET:

▪︎ Commas usage poster (in 2 sizes)

▪︎ 8 Worksheets

▪︎ 16 Task Cards

▪︎ Recording sheet

▪︎ Answer key for task cards

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Super Bowl Word Searches: 49ers vs. Chiefs Edition

Stir up excitement for the Super Bowl with these captivating word searches! This bundle features two dynamic puzzles centered around the star players and iconic elements of the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs, the contenders for football supremacy.
Challenge your students to locate names like "Mahomes," "Kittle," "Kelce," and other key players as they delve into the rich football vocabulary associated with these powerhouse teams. Whether in the classroom, as homework assignments, or for recreational enjoyment, these word searches offer an entertaining avenue to reinforce vocabulary and spelling skills while fostering excitement for the Super Bowl. Suitable for all ages, these puzzles are a winning addition to any lesson plan. Download now and experience the thrill of the game with your students!

Includes 13 words for each team, separate word searches. PDF form with 2 pages. Players last name.

I Have, Who Has Halloween Vocabulary Game - Halloween Classroom Activity and Game

Get your students in the holiday spirit with this fun and engaging I Have, Who Has Halloween Vocabulary Game! This interactive game is perfect for elementary classrooms, making learning new Halloween-themed vocabulary an exciting experience. Designed to build reading fluency and listening skills, this game is ideal for grades 2-5 and can be used in whole-class settings, small groups, or literacy centers.

Topics Covered

• Halloween vocabulary
• Reading fluency
• Listening skills

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Master Present Tense with Low-Prep, Engaging Grammar Lessons – For All Learners!

Perfect for Grades 1-5, this print-and-go resource helps both native English speakers and ESL/EAL learners confidently master Present Simple and Continuous Tenses. With clear explanations and interactive exercises, it’s ideal for teachers seeking a time-saving, curriculum-aligned solution that supports independent learning.

What’s Included?

✏️ Print Materials: Worksheets, Answer Keys

**What’s Inside?
**✔️ Present Simple & Continuous Explanations

✔️ Verb Agreement Exercises

✔️ Fill-in-the-Blanks Activities

✔️ Sentence Reordering Tasks

✔️ Negative & Interrogative Practice

✔️ Present Simple vs. Continuous Comparisons

✔️ Quizzes 
✔️ Answer Keys

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Why Teachers Love It:**

✏️ No Prep

✏️ Classroom-Tested

✏️ Versatile Resource
✏️ Aligned with Common Core, TEKS, and UK National Curriculum

When to Use:

✅ Grammar Lessons
✅ Independent Practice
✅ Literacy Centers
✅ Homework
✅ Early Finishers
✅ Sub Plans

Skills Focused:

✔️ Present Simple & Continuous Usage
✔️ Subject-Verb Agreement
✔️ Sentence Construction
✔️ Negative & Interrogative Forms
✔️ Editing & Self-Assessment
✔️ Independent Grammar Mastery

Curriculum Alignment

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Common Core State Standards (CCSS)**

• L.1.1-L.5.1: Master English grammar and verb tense consistency.
• L.1.3-L.5.3: Use conventions to enhance meaning.
• W.1.5-W.5.5: Revise and edit for clarity and tense accuracy.

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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)**

§110.3-§110.7 (Grades 1-5):

• • Develop and revise drafts with consistent verb tense.
  • Apply proper grammar and verb usage in writing and speech.

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UK National Curriculum (Years 1-5)**

• Writing Composition: Plan and draft using correct present tense.
• Grammar and Punctuation: Use present simple and continuous accurately.
• Reading Comprehension: Analyze how tense affects meaning.

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Ignite critical thinking with these 52 reader-response question cards that can be used for any fiction book or text!

This time-saving resource will provide you with a wide variety of questions with all the main elements of a fictional story to teach and assess the reader’s comprehension of the text.

You will also find two different response sheets for written responses!

Elements and Skills Covered:

•Plot-Climax

•Sequencing Events

•Characterization

•Problem & Solution

•Theme/Author’s Purpose

• Figurative Language

•Setting

•Mood

•Point of View

•Cause and Effect

•Summary

•Dialogue

This is the PERFECT RESOURCE for:

•Centers, Literature Circles, Partner Work-

Students ask each other the questions and form discussions.

•Guided reading, Small Groups-

Give to any teacher, teacher assistant, etc as they work with students during and/or after any text.

•Readers Workshop, Whole Class Instruction

Pull out a specific question as an introduction to a mini lesson. Keep them on hand as you assess understanding during/after a read aloud or novel.

•Independent Reading Time, At Home

Choose a card for the student to respond to during and/or after your classroom independent reading time. They could use the response sheet to write their answer. Send home with parents so they can have a variety of questions to ask their child as they read at home.

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Are you looking for popular learning station activities? Download these student-approved & tested consonant digraph learning station activities!

The "H" Siblings (AKA The "H" Brothers) digraphs (ph, ch, sh, th, and wh sounds and words) are a crucial aspect of learning phonics reading. This phonics package is full of 18 pages of digraph learning station activities that will strengthen their reading and decoding skills. It includes reusable (after lamination) worksheets, games, activities, and charts, including:

five nonsense word sorting jars

five monster mazes

one picture sorting charts

one word bank sorting activity

five digraph-hunting stories

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Posters including 17 literary devices which are easy to print and use in your classroom. Add them to your word wall or brighten up a reading area.

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Back to School BINGO Class Game! APPLE - Themed for 30 Students. NO PREP! Just print & go!

(Add your own small pieces to cover the cards; or laminate them and use dry-erase markers!)

Each call out will have a picture & a label.

31 Pages Total Include:

1 Caller’s Card (IN COLOR)

30 different BINGO Cards (IN COLOR)

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Bookmarks | Reading Bookmarks | Inspirational Bookmarks | Bookworm

About This Bundle

**★ **Bookmarks

**★ **PDF File

**★ **Includes 3 products

**★ **49 Pages 49 Bookmarks

**★ **Suitable for ALL Grades!

This resource includes:

★ 15 Growth Mindset Bookmarks

★ 12 Reading Strategies Bookmarks

★ 22 Urban Motivational Bookmarks

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This bundle resource includes three sets of Bookmarks:

❤️ Growth Mindset

❤️ Motivational Bookmarks

❤️ Reading Strategy Bookmarks

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❤️ Growth Mindset Bookmarks

These Growth Mindset Bookmarks are a constant source of inspiration, encouraging students to stay positive, practice mindfulness, and persevere. With 15 unique and vibrant designs tailored to students' interests, these bookmarks are beautifully crafted to promote a growth mindset wherever they go.

❤️ Reading Strategy Bookmarks

Enhance your students’ reading comprehension with Reading Strategy Bookmarks! This set includes 10 attractive bookmarks, each featuring sentence stems aligned with essential reading strategies, such as predicting, visualizing, and summarizing. These bookmarks serve as handy tools to stimulate thinking, increase comprehension, and actively engage students in reading and discussion. The sentence stems can also be used to support students’ writing, making them versatile for various activities. Perfect for any text, these bookmarks help students develop deeper understanding and become more confident readers. Great for use during independent reading, group work, or homework assignments!

Reading Strategies featured in this resource:

☆ Determining Importance

☆ Making Inferences

☆ Questioning

☆ Evaluating

☆ Predicting

☆ Summarizing

☆ Visualizing

☆ Text-to-Self Connections

☆ Text-to-Text Connections

☆ Text-to-World Connections

❤️ Urban Motivational Bookmarks

This AMAZING set of 22 uplifting motivational bookmarks features vibrant, urban-style African American clipart that will captivate your students’ attention. Designed to encourage positive thinking, these bookmarks are perfect for inspiring a love for reading. They make a great addition to school libraries, classroom prizes, or thoughtful gifts for students—just because!

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These bookmarks can be used in classrooms in several impactful ways:

❤️ Promote Reading Engagement:

• Use the bookmarks as tools to motivate students to read more frequently and foster a love for reading.
• Distribute them during book checkout or reading assignments to create excitement around reading.

❤️ Encourage Positive Thinking:

• Highlight the motivational messages on the bookmarks to inspire students to adopt a positive mindset in both academics and daily life.

❤️ Classroom Incentives and Rewards:

• Offer bookmarks as rewards for meeting academic goals, such as completing a book, excelling in a test, or demonstrating good behavior.
• Include them in a prize box for students to choose from when earning classroom rewards.

❤️ Enhance Library Displays:

• Place the bookmarks in the school library as a free resource for students to take, linking positive messages with the joy of reading.

❤️ Celebrate Diversity:

• Use the urban-style African American clipart as a way to celebrate representation and diversity, helping students see themselves reflected in positive and uplifting materials.

❤️ Boost Classroom Morale:

• Give bookmarks to students "just because," reminding them they are valued and appreciated.
• Incorporate them into activities like surprise desk drops or as part of a "Random Acts of Kindness" initiative.

❤️Incorporate into Literacy Activities:

• Pair bookmarks with specific books or themes in literacy lessons, encouraging discussions around the motivational messages they display.
• Use them as part of a book club to signify membership or participation.

❤️ Creative Projects:

• Encourage students to create their own bookmarks inspired by the motivational messages as a creative classroom project.

You may:

• Print and cut each one out (as there are four bookmarks on each sheet)
• For long lasting use, photocopy onto card stock paper, or laminate them.
• For personal touch you can also hole-punch the tops and tie a ribbon through!

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