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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.

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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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!

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!

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• Author's Purpose

• Author's Voice

• Characteristics of Nonfiction Genres

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• Main Idea and Supporting Details

• Making Connections

• Paraphrase and Summarize

• Print & Graphic Features

• Text Structure

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• Warm Up
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• Independent Practice
• Exit Ticket

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• Begin with a warm-up to spark curiosity and introduce the day’s focus.
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• 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.
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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.

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Editable End-of-Year Letter to Students from Teacher Last Day Week Of School Activity Make the last day of school memorable by giving your students a personalized letter. This heartfelt message can be easily edited to fit your style and needs!

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• 9 Colorful Designs Backgrounds
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Make your ESL classroom look different from a regular education room by considering these bilingual English and Arabic vocabulary sight word labels!

Each label takes up 1/15 of a page so they are nice and big, but not too obtrusive. Each card features the word in English and Arabic. To help aid meaning, I've included High-quality pictures and illustrations.

These picture and word vocabulary flashcards are perfect for any student new to English or Arabic language learning!

You'll Get:

• Classroom objects English and Arabic Sight Words

• Body Parts English to Arabic ESL Vocabulary Flashcards

• Jobs & Occupation English and Arabic Sight Words

• Animal's Names English and Arabic Sight Words

• Numbers 0 to 100 in English and Arabic Labels Version 1

• Numbers 0 to 100 in English and Arabic Labels Version 2

• Math Symbols English/Arabic Flash Cards

• Sports in English/Arabic Flash Cards

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Make your ESL classroom look different from a regular education room by Considering these English/Spanish animals' names bilingual flashcards!

Each label takes up 1/12 of a page so they are nice and big, but not too obtrusive. There are 118 flashcards for a total of 10 pages (12 cards per page). Check out the preview to see what it looks like. They each feature the English and the Spanish name of the animal and to help aid meaning, I've included beautiful illustrations.

Supplementary Resources:

• Classroom Objects English-Spanish Flash Cards.
• Jobs & Occupation English-Spanish Flash Cards.
• English / Spanish Math Symbols Flashcards

The bundle:

• English/Spanish Sight Words Vocabulary Flashcards Growing Bundle.

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Make your ESL classroom look different from a regular education room by Considering these English/Arabic animals' names bilingual flashcards!

Each label takes up 1/12 of a page so they are nice and big, but not too obtrusive. There are 118 flashcards for a total of 10 pages (12 cards per page). Check out the preview to see what it looks like. They each feature the English and the Arabic name of the animal and to help aid meaning, I've included beautiful illustrations.

Complementary resources:

• Classroom objects English and Arabic Sight Words
• Body Parts English to Arabic ESL Vocabulary Flashcards
• Jobs & Occupation English and Arabic Sight Words
• Math Symbols English/Arabic Flash Cards
• Numbers 0 to 100 in English and Arabic Labels

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• English/Arabic Sight Words Vocabulary Flashcards

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With this cute crayon box craft, kids can practice their fine motor skills while also learning about colors and color phrases. This kindergarten craft is exactly what you need if you are focusing on teaching colors to young children.

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Step into the world of words and imagine a picture of your student's favorite room! This activity provides 2 engaging graphic organizers to describe their room through descriptive details.

Option 1: Fill-the-House (Ideal for visual learners and those who like a structured approach)
This graphic organizer provides a house outline with designated sections for your favorite room. Here's what your students will explore within each section:

• The Room: Write the name of their favorite room (e.g., bedroom, playroom, etc.).
• Sight: Describe what they see. Specific details like furniture, decorations, or the view outside the window.
• Smell: What unique scents fill the air in this room? Is it the fresh smell of linens, the sweet aroma of books, or a hint of their favorite snacks?
• Feeling: How does this room make them feel? Cozy, calm, energetic, or creative?

Option 2: Cutting, Folding & Designing (Ideal for kinesthetic learners and those who enjoy a hands-on approach)

• Cut and Fold: Cut out and fold along the lines.
• Design Time: Decorate the outside of their folded room to represent its visual elements (furniture, decorations, etc.)
• Sensory Exploration: On the inside flaps of the room, write down details related to their senses:
  • Sight: Describe what they see inside the room.
  • Smell: What scents are present in this space?
  • Feeling: How does being in this room make them feel?

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Journey to the Center of the Earth | Narrative/Descriptive

Trapped in a Snow Globe | Narrative

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Burger Sandwich | Writing Rubric

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The Grade 3 Common Core Language Arts curriculum focuses on developing foundational reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. In Reading, students explore both literature and informational texts, learning to identify main ideas, details, and themes while also recognizing text structures. The Reading Foundations segment emphasizes fluency, helping students read with accuracy and expression.

Writing tasks include narratives, informative texts, and opinions, guiding students through the writing process—planning, drafting, revising, and editing. Language standards focus on grammar, punctuation, and vocabulary, with lessons on using verbs, forming plurals, and understanding word meanings and figurative language.

In Speaking and Listening, students engage in discussions and presentations to strengthen communication and active listening skills. Overall, this curriculum builds independence in reading and writing and equips third graders with essential skills for future academic success. It balances skill-building with opportunities for creative expression, preparing students for more complex learning in later grades.

You will find a wealth of activities in this worksheet for your students.

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As students are learning the 41 - 3rd grade sight words in this product, they will be provided with each word, an example of the word used in a sentence, and the opportunity to make up a sentence themselves using the word. I find that with my students who are Deaf/hard of hearing/ELL, when they make up sentences using each newly learned sight word, it helps them to remember how to spell the word, the meaning, and how it is used. My students love booklets of any kind that they can refer back to. Once they have come up with their sentences, they can include pictures that they print and cut out, draw pictures freehand, or find pictures in a magazine that they can add to each page of the 3rd grade sight word booklet that matches each sentence they come up with. This gives students the opportunity to connect what they are learning about in the classroom with their own personal interests. This booklet is perfect for students that are on grade level as well as students who require instructional information to be adapted.

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Pre-Primer – 4th Grade Sight Word List Checklist

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This product includes checklists for the following sight words:

pre-primer sight words - 40 words

primer sight words - 52 words

1st grade sight words - 41 words

2nd grade sight words - 46 words

3rd grade sight words - 41 words

4th grade sight words - 260 words

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• Struggling writers
• review

As students are learning the ULTIMATE 260 - 4th grade sight words in this product, they will be provided with each word, an example of the word used in a sentence, and the opportunity to make up a sentence themselves using the word. I find that with my students who are Deaf/hard of hearing/ELL, when they make up sentences using each newly learned sight word, it helps them to remember how to spell the word, the meaning, and how it is used. My students love booklets of any kind that they can refer back to. Once they have come up with their sentences, they can include pictures that they print and cut out, draw pictures freehand, or find pictures in a magazine that they can add to each page of the 4th grade sight word booklet that matches each sentence they come up with. This gives students the opportunity to connect what they are learning about in the classroom with their own personal interests. This booklet is rather lengthy, so instead of printing it out, you can display it for the entire class to see as well. This booklet is perfect for students that are on grade level as well as students who require instructional information to be adapted.

If you are interested in the product above, the sight word checklist may be of interest to you as well.

Pre-Primer – 4th Grade Sight Word List Checklist

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This product includes checklists for the following sight words:

pre-primer sight words - 40 words

primer sight words - 52 words

1st grade sight words - 41 words

2nd grade sight words - 46 words

3rd grade sight words - 41 words

4th grade sight words - 260 words

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This resource is PERFECT for pairing with a Because of Winn Dixie novel study in your classroom. It includes 4 original Because of Winn Dixie products. Included in this bundle is pre-reading reflection questions, a complete novel study guides, 19 writing prompt pages, and a vocabulary list & assessments. It is everything you need for a successful novel study in your classroom on the book Because of Winn Dixie!

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This product is PERFECT for pairing with a Because of Winn Dixie novel study in your classroom. Each page comes with a study guide that includes 6 vocabulary words and definitions, a comprehension strategy, a comprehension skill, a writing skill, and a grammar skill. It divides the novel in the following way:

Chapters 1-3

Chapters 4-6

Chapters 7-9

Chapters 10-12

Chapters 13-15

Chapters 16-18

Chapters 19-22

Chapters 23-26

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Are your students struggling with the new V9 Australian Curriculum whole class reading language? Look no further than this ever growing vocabulary defined reading poster pack! It is ready to print and use in your classroom today!

What's included in this Reading Poster Pack:

- 23 colour and 23 black and white versions of:

• purpose of information texts
• purpose of narrative texts
• main idea
• authoritative source
• simple sentence
• compound sentence
• complex sentence
• paragraphs
• supported by evidence - in the text
• who would read this text
• language features
• subjective language
• objective language
• literacy devices
• visual features
• salience
• placement
• framing
• contrast
• text features
• layout
• characteristic features

How can you use this Reading Poster Pack:

- print and display in classroom

- print smaller and give to students to glue into a reading book

- copy in to PowerPoints to reinforce learning wall

- print for learning wall or reading corner or desk reference

Why you'll love this Reading Poster Pack:

- no prep - great for busy teachers!

- aligns to the Australian Curriculum V9

- print and go - ready to use (B&W or Colour versions)

- engaging, informative and visually appealing resource

This set of word searches is a great way to remind students of upcoming events. There is an even place for students to put the date for the event.

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