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By Beth Hammett
Fall Halloween Bundle
Over 150+ activities included in 9 packets for Fall and Halloween fun!
Descriptions:
Activity Packet 1: Halloween Coloring Sheets
40 pages
Halloween fun with 40 coloring sheets (nothing scary!) of:
pumpkins
scarecrows
friendly ghosts
haunted trees
haunted house
Dracula
Frankenstein
and more...
Non-controversial and with lesson plan ideas to encourage coordination, multi-tasking skills, writing, listening, reading, storytelling, puppet theater, and more. Great for introducing Halloween as a friendly holiday.
Activity Packet 2: Eerie Writing Prompts
21 pages
Eerie story starters to get your students in the mood for writing scary stories! Great visuals with one liner story starters. Colorful and imaginative prompts for creative writing practice and peer workshopping.
Includes:
Perhaps we could become friends...
Two eyes peered back at me...
I've had a very interesting life!
Come closer...
Let me tell you how I ended up here...
C'mon out...there's nothing to be afraid of!
Meet my new friend
The eerie glow of the pumpkin...
I know what you did!
Have a seat and let me tell you my story!
The howl of the wolf scared me.
Something went bump in the night
I started up the winding road...
The blaze lit up the night's sky...
Let me show you my castle!
"Help!" screamed the principal.
We found the shipwrecked boat...
Great Halloween writing prompts for practicing creative writing, storytelling, and peer workshopping skills!
Activity Packet 3: Get Fit Action Story: Frank N. Stein’s Haunted Horse
15 pages
Get students exercising and moving as they follow along with Frank N. Stein's move to a new neighborhood, where he finds new friends to help make his house a home. Action words include:
looked around
moped
juggled
skipped rope
frown
blow
shivered and shook
dropped to the ground
ran
slammed
quiver
danced
stood still
knock
jump
shook hands
waved
stepped to the right
boogied to the Monster Mash
shouted,
“Happy Halloween!”
Practice/assess coordination, comprehension, fitness, following directions, listening, and sight words with Get Fit Action Stories. Use for daily warm-ups, rainy day indoor activities, PE, reading, and learning styles. Fun and enjoyable for all!
Activity Packet 4: Write a Scary Story with Word Banks and Coloring Images
16 pages
16 Halloween coloring images with holiday word banks that include:
Cats
Bats
Dracula
Frankenstein
Ghosts
Pirate
Pumpkins
Trick or Treat
Witches
Zombies
and more...
Includes: Suggestions For Use sheet and template to create your own vocabulary word bank. Upper levels can use for poetry and contest writing. Fun way to assess writing skills in an ELA classroom. Grab a blanket and flashlight, turn on the lighted pumpkin, and have a classroom read-around of Halloween stories.
Activity Packet 5: Wacky Wayne’s Halloween I-Spy
11 pages
10 I-Spy Halloween pictures and items to help students with basic letters, hand-eye coordination, and matching skills. Can be colored and displayed. Includes:
Ghost
Frankenstein (2)
Bat
Haunted House
Mummy
Dracula
Scary Tree
and more...
Fun matching activities for early elementary students.
Activity Packet 6: Wacky Wayne’s Fall I-Spy
11 pages
10 I-Spy handouts with fall themes. Find and match basic letters and shapes. Includes:
Scarecrows
Farm
Farmer
Pumpkins
Squirrels
Leaves
Shapes
Basic Letters
and many more...
Handouts can be colored and displayed.
Activity Packet 7: Halloween Color, Count and Match Activities
22 pages
22 Halloween themed handouts for early learners to practice math skills, such as:
coloring/motor skills
counting
holiday
matching
numbers 1-10
sight words
themes
(No controversial or scary images!)
Find the correct Halloween symbol sheet to match the handout then cut, color, and paste. Practice basic numbers and sight words recognition, as well as matching symbols. Can be used for assessment. Includes extra activities and ideas for use of handouts.
Activity Packet 8: Fabulous Fall Activities
26 pages
25 fall themed creative writing handouts, poetry sheets, coloring activities, and more for elementary grades:
Includes:
Fall Scavenger Hunt
Classmate Scarecrow (Facebook page with Scarecrow)
"F is for"
My Pumpkin Poem (writing & craft activity)
Fall Acrostic Poem
What I love about fall
Create a Fall Feast party invitation
Write a Fall Story (with fall vocabulary word bank)
Write a tongue twister (with fall vocabulary word bank)
Draw a fall scene in the camera's lens
How many words can you make from "corn and oats"
Quack! Quack! If I were a duck...
Design a sign to sell your veggies/photos
My Fall Message for You
My Favorite thing to do in Fall
Fall interview
Fall newspaper
Fabulous Fall Recipe
Fall word search
& more...
Lots of creative and engaging handouts and activities for fall fun!
Activity Packet 9: Falling Leaf Spelling Activities
18 pages
15 Fall themed scenes that provide sight word/consonant and vowel practice. Falling leaves contain letters which can be written on the lines to make as many words as possible using consonants and vowels. Color the scenes, put together letters to make words, compare answers, small team game included.
Includes:
Fall scenes: trees, scarecrows, farm, farmer, pumpkins, squirrels, and more...
Basic alphabet letters: vowels and consonants
Directions with Optional Play and Use
Great for consonants, vowels, spelling, vocabulary, and writing practice, as well as assessments.
Fall Halloween Bundle includes over 150+ fun activities!
Classroom Decoration Pastel colors and Donkey Pinata
By ARIANA PEREZ
Want to decorate your classroom with a unique and cute theme?
This kit includes: 2 different sets of numbers, 2 banners, unique letters, classroom role cards and more... + a PPT for you to personalize the material.
A pre-made design has been made as well!
6th 7th 8th Grade ELA Common Core State Standards DIGITAL Checklist
By Christina Bush
This Google Sheets resource is a detailed tool to help you keep track of 6th, 7th, AND 8th grade ELA Common Core State Standards you cover throughout the school year!
All middle school ELA standards are included!
This BUNDLED resource gives you a digital option with easy-to-use checkboxes and is 100% editable! It is organized by months, weeks, and there is a spot to add your units! It is based off of a mid-August to mid-May school year, however, you may edit this resource to fit your needs.
Just for fun, it is color-coded! 6th grade is turquoise, 7th grade is purple, and 8th grade is green!
If you only need ONE grade level, check out my other products below:
6th Grade ELA Common Core State Standards DIGITAL Checklist
7th Grade ELA Common Core State Standards DIGITAL Checklist
8th Grade ELA Common Core State Standards DIGITAL Checklist
*NEW* 5th Grade is now also available here!
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Reflex Math Fact Fluency Green Light Student Data Monthly Tracker REFLEX Chart
By Epsilon Math Craft & Special Education
This resource is a student data tracker designed to complement the Reflex Math Fact Fluency program. It's perfect for helping students monitor their weekly progress toward achieving the GREEN LIGHT! Now they can easily track the green lights they earn a weekly or monthly log using this resource.
Every time they get a green light they color in the circle to make sure they meet their goal. I added a ready to use September 2024 sheet.
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By Beth Hammett
Every April, students can celebrate Tell-a-Story Day, which occurs at the end of the month. This 16 page handout will help students with organizing and telling fact-based stories. Great for building oral communication, evidence/proof, and re-telling memories. Includes: Finding storytelling topics Graphic Organizers for planning stories in chronological order Setting up a storytelling event Designing advertisements/invitations Peer workshopping stories Links to multicultural, professional, international/national storytelling centers, storytelling videos and websites Can be used any time of the year! Students will enjoy sharing stories while learning how to use fact-based information. Fun and educational!
REFLEX math tracker Reflex Math Fact Fluency Student Tracker Reflex Green Light
By Epsilon Math Craft & Special Education
This resource is a student data tracker designed to complement the Reflex Math Fact Fluency program. It's perfect for helping students monitor their progress in each month during the school year! Print this at the begining of the year, it will be useful.
You will need this monthly Reflex green light tracker.
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Edutainer Professional Development for Teachers
By Beth Hammett
Do you feel like part educator and part entertainer? Try this 32 slide, training presentation to encourage and empower first-year teachers, to revive veteran teachers, or to help students understand brain based learning. Activities include: Templates for active learning based classroom lectures Lecture vs. Active Learning Active vs. Passive Learning Speech Rates of Teachers Left/Right Brain Quiz Comprehension Postcards Connectors/Icebreakers Multigenre Connector Activitiy Find Someone Who Connector Finding Patterns Learning to Chunk Research Extensive Resources section Fun learning facts Excellent for professional development, implementing active learning strategies, and enhancing active learning libraries. Easy, fun, and educational!
Iready data tracking Math and reading Free lesson passed student tracker Chart
By Epsilon Math Craft & Special Education
These I Ready Data Tracking Graph and Data Checker Form for Reading and Math are so nice and convenient for students to check their growth on iReady each time. This student data tracker designed to complement the I-ready Math and Reading program. It's perfect for helping students monitor their progress toward achieving goals!
You may like: 100 chart Lessons Tracker+ Growth monitoring+ Diagnostics
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Writing S.O.A.P: Aristotles 5+ Paragraph Persuasive Essay
By Beth Hammett
Based on Ray Salazaar's Article, "If You Teach the 5-Paragraph Essay--Stop It", uses College Board and Common Core Standards to guide students through building a well-written persuasive essay. Whether 5-paragraphs or 50-pages,the format works for fact or research based papers. Includes Chart Checklist Definitions Writing Guides Examples Peer workshopping component Extra Resources: Links to Sample Essays... 16 interactive slides to guide students through the research writing process: thesis writing, working with and using background information, evidence supported facts/research, writing an effective conclusion. Helps build critical thinking and writing skills. Can be used with G/T, Pre-AP, AP, developmental/entry college level courses. Everything needed to produce a well-written, researched essay.
Iready data tracking Math and reading lesson passed student tracker Graph sheet
By Epsilon Math Craft & Special Education
These I Ready Data Tracking Graph and Data Checker Form for Reading and Math are so nice and convenient for students to check their growth on iReady each time. This student data tracker designed to complement the I-ready Math and Reading program. It's perfect for helping students monitor their weekly progress toward achieving goals!
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Topic Sentences Writing Activities
By Beth Hammett
Help students identify topic sentences with this engaging activity. Students use a Topic Sentence Bank to choose correct answers for paragraphs for the article "The Flood". Can also be used to teach: paragraphing supporting details organization. Meets CCSS.
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Using journal writing in the classroom takes know-how. This 41-page booklet takes teachers through the basics and introduces a model for successful journal writing. The how-to journal writing guide includes seven chapters: Just the Facts, How to Start Writing, Prompts, Student Examples, Assessing and Grading, What if..., and Resources. It makes journal writing enjoyable and easy for teachers and students. A great resource with student examples for teachers who want to use journal writing but are not sure where to begin or what to do. Beth Hammett's other works include: Natalie: Diary of a Senior Year, Developmental Writing Workshop, and educational articles for NADE, TCTELA, NCTE, and more. Join Beth at: www.bethhammett.blogspot.com
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Students learn to write a thesis statement with this interactive presentation. Comes with: Handouts Examples Individual and group writing activities Peer Workshopping Answer Key Supplemental Resources Easy to understand, implement, and use as introduction, reinforcement, or assessment. Meets CCSS.
Earth Day Poems and Tales: Books to Make and Write
By Beth Hammett
Celebrate Earth Day with 40 pages of Earth Day related images for writing fact-based poems and prose.
Includes:
5 title pages
Directions with optional activities
30 Earth Day graphics (earth, recycle, alternative energy, pollution, and more!)
5 The End pages
Great for Civics, Government, Social Studies, and meets ELA standards.
Use as:
Individual poems/prose writings
On-demand writing
Practice concepts/skills from mini-lessons
Practice peer workshopping strategies
Publishing opportunities
Celebration of Earth Day
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Free weekly handout at www.bethhammett.blogspot.com
Character Analysis Lifeboat Game
By Beth Hammett
Students create avatars with this 22 page handout is based on character traits and character flaws. Students debate for a seat on a lifeboat to survive a luxury cruise shipwreck. Uses social skills combined with ELA skills to practice compare and contrast, fact-based arguments and persuasion. Includes:
Directions
Character Trait List with Definition
Character Flaw List with Definition
12 Male Avatars
12 Female Avatars
Lifeboat Scenario
Group Chart with Note Taking section
Character Reflection Sheet
Extra Resources
Optional Writing, Project, and Video Assignments
Excellent for small/whole group, whether at-risk/GT/AP, that uses character traits and fact-based evidence/proof to practice decision making processes and expository writings.
Presidents Day and Presidents Fact-Based Writing Activities
By Beth Hammett
Get students thinking about presidential elections and political campaign promises with 16 handouts that generate higher level learning.The journal-like prompts include historical facts that will have students wondering, "What if.I was president..?" Social issues to write about include:
family issues
government growth
importing goods
internet issues
laws and rules
leadership style
national debt
national security
social security
space exploration
succession
transportation problems
war
world peace
There are sixteen famous presidents, with their greatest accomplishments. Included are: Adams, Bush, Clinton, Cleveland, Coolidge, Eisenhower, Jackson, Johnson, Kennedy, Lincoln, Nixon, Reagan, Roosevelt,Washington
Includes Extra Resources (videos, web-links) and Ideas for Use in the classroom.
Can be used with English, Government, History classes.
Great Depression / A U.S. History Comic Coloring Book
By Beth Hammett
Learn about the Great Depression era through 42 pages of coloring and comic book frames with additional blank templates for creative fact-based writing and assessment. Topics Include: Timeline 1929-1941 President Hoover Stock Market Crash Unemployment Rates Food Riots Immigration Bank Failures Domestic Government Programs President Franklin D. Roosevelt (and re-elections) New Deal Dust Bowl and Eyewitness Accounts Dorothea Lange and Migrant Mother photo John Steinbeck and Grapes of Wrath Minimum Wage Pearl Harbor Germany and World War II Fun, engaging way to learn about the Great Depression era of U.S. History with fact-based writing activities for critical thinking and reinforcement. Meets CCSS and TEKS.
Analyzing Images Writing Activities
By Beth Hammett
Do your students need help with analysis? Use these ten graphic organizers with images for analysis practice and writing a thesis. These exercises and graphic organizers help students springboard to analyzing more complex illustrations and essays for future coursework.
This easy to implement, step-by-step analysis guide for individual, small/whole group practice includes:
Full picture slides for whole group discussion and preview
10 Analysis Graphic Organizers with images
One Blank Analysis Graphic Organizer
Analysis categories include: Assumptions/Inferences, Year, Time, Season, Setting, Stereotypes, Characterization, Genre, Emotions, and Others
Writing a Thesis Statement
This step-by-step guide is simple to follow, great for test prep, and helps students uncover the process of analysis.
Valentine's Day Figurative Language Fun
By Beth Hammett
13 colorful Valentine's Day themed slides that introduce and help students to use and master figurative language. Includes: Directions with optional activities Alliteration Hyperbole Idioms Imagery Internal Rhyme Metaphor Onomatopoeia Personification Simile Symbolism Valentine's Day Images Writing Activities Each slide includes definition, example(s), and writing practice. Presentation can be used for assessment, flipped classrooms, and all differentiated levels of students. Can also be used for individual reviews of specific terminologies.
Presidents Dinner Party Writing Activity
By Beth Hammett
What better way to introduce and teach research skills than with a historical based dinner party with United States Presidents? This 28 page handout focuses on research skills, such as citations, details, dialogue/text evidence, main idea, sources, paraphrasing, summarizing, topic/theme. It includes: Scoring Rubric Directions Party Invitations to make 22 Caricature Presidents Speech Bubbles Tables Sources and Citations sheets Extra Optional Projects Resources Supplemental Resources Have fun researching historical documents then creating dinner party conversations with this complete introduction to research unit.