Reading Thematic Unit Plans (by price, high to low)

Welcome to the Mega Massive Grade 6 Bundle—your ultimate resource for an entire year's worth of curriculum! This extraordinary bundle includes 131 documents and a staggering 4,000+ pages of content, covering every aspect of Grade 6 Math, French Language Arts, Science, "Transdisciplinary" Units, Cross-Curricular Units, and Project-Based Learning.

Here's what you'll find packed into this 131 document crypt:

Language Arts:

• Complete Genre Studies: Detailed lessons and activities for all genres.
• Mini-Lessons and Workshops: Comprehensive tools for reading and writing instruction.
• Reading and Writing Prompts: Engaging activities to boost literacy skills.
• Excerpts and Writing Pieces: Diverse texts for comprehension and writing practice.
• Modelled Examples and Lesson Plans: Clear guides to support effective teaching.
• Verb and Grammar Units: Thorough resources for mastering French language skills.
• Task and Flash Cards: Interactive tools for grammar and vocabulary practice.
• Posters and Anchor Charts: Essential visual aids for classroom support.

Math:

• Paperless Teaching Slides: Digital slides for all math outcomes, ideal for projection.
• Assessments with Answer Keys: Complete evaluation tools to track student progress.
• Activities and Games: Fun, interactive ways to reinforce math concepts.
• Printable and Digital Games: Versatile resources for various teaching styles.
• Enrichment Material: Advanced content to challenge high-achieving students.
• No-Prep Lessons: Ready-to-go activities that require minimal preparation.

Project-Based Learning:

• Science and Social Studies Projects: Inquiry-based units including Dragons' Den, Sustainable Future projects, Endangered Species studies, Political Platform creation, Haunted House design, and Space Food exploration.
• Health Documents: Comprehensive materials on sexuality, puberty, and other health topics.
• Themed Day Content: Engaging projects for Orange Shirt Day, Pink Shirt Day, Remembrance Day, Earth Day, and a project on O Canada.

Why You'll Love It:

• Massive Content Collection: Over 4,000 pages and 131 documents covering every subject.
• No-Prep, Ready-to-Go: Perfect for busy teachers and easy to leave with a substitute.
• Engaging and Comprehensive: Promotes student independence with project-based and inquiry learning.
• Constantly Growing: New materials added regularly to keep your curriculum up-to-date.
• Versatile and Easy to Use: Printable and digital formats for flexible teaching options.

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Shakespeare Ultimate Bundle. Includes resources for the following plays: Hamlet, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, and The Twelfth Night. Great for covering Shakespeare at multiple grade levels or multiple plays. Includes different activities, study guides, games, and more. Works great as a school resource.

Unlock a full year of teaching excellence with our comprehensive bundle! Perfect for both new and seasoned teachers, this collection of 68 documents provides an entire year's worth of math games, activities, worksheets, assessments and teachables. Designed for practicality, it caters to diverse teaching needs, offering a valuable resource that saves time and money. Elevate your classroom experience with easy-to-navigate, no-prep materials, ensuring dynamic and engaging lessons throughout the year. Transform your teaching game with this economical and extensive toolkit!

This bundle includes absolutely every (68!) math document you would find in my store!

Why you need this?

• These activities are built for grade six students and their all-over-the-place attitudes and personalities!
• Whether you need documents to teach content, have students show their understanding, get them up and moving, to leave with a substitute teacher or as centre-based activities, this bundle has you COVERED!
• I teach with a Workshop format and use mini-lessons. Revolutionize your teaching with our paperless resources, ideal for classrooms embracing a textbook-free approach! Streamline lessons seamlessly, fostering an interactive and digital learning environment. Upgrade your classroom experience effortlessly!
• As I build new content, games and activities, I'll add them here and update you! This is an ever-growing bundle (20 were added in 2024, alone!) (Get it sooner rather than later!)

1. 18-Day Disabilities & Equity Unit Grades 6+ | Project, Essay, Assessments, Seminar

Description:
Explore the theme of equity and disabilities in schools and society with this 18-day unit designed for grades 6+. Students will engage with informational texts, videos, and case studies, leading to a STAAR-aligned extended essay and research project. This resource includes Socratic seminars, assessments, and creative projects to promote critical thinking and empathy. Perfect for SEL, humanities, and cross-curricular classrooms.

2. 18-Day Human Migration & Immigration Unit Grades 7+ | Project, Poetry, Assessments

Description:
Dive into the global topic of migration and immigration with this 18-day thematic unit for grades 7+. Through poetry, short stories, and informational texts, students will explore the historical and contemporary experiences of immigrants. Includes project-based assessments, writing tasks, and creative multimedia projects to foster understanding and empathy. A great resource for ELA, social studies, and SEL instruction.

3. 18-Day Multimedia Anti-Bullying Thematic Unit for Grades 5-8 | SEL Humanities

Description:
This 18-day multimedia unit on anti-bullying for grades 5-8 engages students with a range of media—films, political cartoons, short stories, and songs—to understand the impact of bullying in schools and society. Includes two Socratic seminars, a STAAR-aligned extended essay, and a creative capstone project. Ideal for SEL-focused classrooms and humanities teachers.

4. 19-Day Social Identity Unit | Low Prep | Grades 6-8 | Texts, Videos, and Project

Description:
Help students explore their own social identity and the factors that shape it in this 19-day unit for grades 6-8. The unit includes videos, readings, and group projects focused on themes like identity, community, and belonging. A low-prep, high-impact resource that encourages self-reflection and empathy through engaging multimedia activities and a culminating project.

5. 20-Day Social Media Mental Health Unit Grades 7+ | Project, Essay, Assessments

Description:
Explore the intersection of social media and mental health in this 20-day unit for grades 7+. Students will examine the effects of social media on well-being through informational texts, videos, and podcasts. Includes a STAAR-aligned essay, Socratic seminar, and multimedia project, making it an essential resource for teaching critical thinking and digital literacy.

6. 7-Day World Religions Research & Presentation Unit: Interdisciplinary Grades 6-8

Description:
This 7-day research and presentation unit allows students to explore major world religions through research-based learning. Perfect for grades 6-8, students will develop presentations on various religions, fostering understanding and global awareness. Includes guided research templates, presentation rubrics, and cross-curricular connections.

7. Human Rights 5-Day Research and Writing Unit | Middle School Social Essay Project

Description:
Introduce your middle school students to the concept of human rights in this 5-day research and writing unit. Students will engage with informational texts to explore human rights issues globally and locally, culminating in a social justice essay project. This unit is ideal for quick yet impactful lessons that combine research, writing, and advocacy.

Looking for a fun way to incorporate themed vocabulary into your classroom or homeschool? Use these weekly thematic word work units to introduce new words and practice spelling, handwriting, sentence building, and drawing. This bundle includes ALL Weekly Thematic Vocabulary units, including the Winter Holiday unit.

All of the 13 included units contain five weeks of vocabulary work, except for the special Winter Holiday unit which includes six weeks. Each week features a different themed picture or pictures, six vocabulary words to learn, and five days of quick, fun activities using those words. Daily activities are numbered to keep the student on track and are quick enough to be used as morning work or in a literacy center. All units include five weeks of vocabulary work so that in months with four weeks you can choose the themes that best fit your classroom. Also included: black and white versions of all five weeks for easier printing.

This unit is great for a classroom but was developed with homeschoolers in mind. The daily format mimics several homeschool vocabulary programs to make it easy to use alongside older siblings. Pair the themes up with your themed unit studies for added learning! This vocabulary curriculum is geared towards kindergartners or first graders who need some extra vocabulary practice, but can be used by any age that needs to work on handwriting, reading, and sentence building skills.

Each week includes the following:

-Themed Introduction Page - includes a themed picture(s) and the six vocabulary words for the week. Can be laminated for a center to save on ink if using in a classroom!

-Day 1 - match the vocabulary words to their pictures

-Day 2 - trace the vocabulary words

-Day 3 - write the vocabulary words

-Day 4 - finish the sentences with the vocabulary words

-Day 5 Option 1 - copy the sentence and illustrate it

-Day 5 Option 2 - student picks a sentence from Day 4, writes it, and illustrates it

**Note: This bundle contains many of the same units included in the School Year Bundle. If you are looking for just the units for the months September through May, please buy the School Year Bundle instead. **

Buying this bundle saves you 20% off the price of buying the units individually.

Themes included in the August unit: Pets at Home, Once Upon a Time (fairy tale, knight, fairy, dragon, etc), Apple Season (life cycle of apple tree), Back to School, Getting to School

Themes included in the September unit: The Apple Orchard, School Supplies, Ahoy Matey (Pirates), In the Classroom, How to Make an Apple Pie

Themes included in the October unit: Raking Leaves, Pumpkin Patch, Carving Pumpkins, Halloween, and Trick-or-Treat

Themes included in the November unit: Community Helper Vehicles, Fall Clothes, Thanksgiving Then, Thanksgiving Now, and Happy Thanksgiving

Themes included in the December unit: Snow Day, Arctic Animals, Hot Chocolate for Sale, How to Bake Gingerbread Cookies, and Christmas is Coming

Themes included in the Winter Holidays unit: Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, At the North Pole, Santa's Workshop, The Nativity, and Christmas Island

Themes included in the January unit: New Year's Eve, Weather, Living Room, Four Seasons, and Snowman Building Contest

Themes included in the February unit: Chinese New Year, Extreme Weather, Valentine's Day, Dining Room, and Winter Sports

Themes included in the March unit: Maple Sugaring, How to Make Pancakes, St. Patrick's Day Party, Leprechaun Village, and Kitchen.

Themes includes in the April unit: Earth Day, Spring Has Sprung, Easter Egg Hunt, Bathroom, and In the Backyard.

Themes included in the May unit: At the Park, Planting Flowers, Laundry Room, On the Farm, and Graduation Day.

Themes included in the June unit: Yard Sale, Things That Go, Going Fishing, A Day at the Beach, and How to Make Lemonade.

Themes included in the July unit: Dressed for Summer, Going Camping, Pool Party, Road Trip, and At the Lake.

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Looking for a fun way to incorporate themed vocabulary into your classroom or homeschool? Use these weekly thematic word work units to introduce new words and practice spelling, handwriting, sentence building, and drawing. This bundle includes the Weekly Thematic Vocabulary units for September - May.

All of the 9 included units contain five weeks of vocabulary work. Each week features a different themed picture or pictures, six vocabulary words to learn, and five days of quick, fun activities using those words. Daily activities are numbered to keep the student on track and are quick enough to be used as morning work or in a literacy center. All units include five weeks of vocabulary work so that in months with four weeks you can choose the themes that best fit your classroom. Also included: black and white versions of all five weeks for easier printing.

This unit is great for a classroom but was developed with homeschoolers in mind. The daily format mimics several homeschool vocabulary programs to make it easy to use alongside older siblings. Pair the themes up with your themed unit studies for added learning! This vocabulary curriculum is geared towards kindergartners or first graders who need some extra vocabulary practice, but can be used by any age that needs to work on handwriting, reading, and sentence building skills.

Each week includes the following:

-Themed Introduction Page - includes a themed picture(s) and the six vocabulary words for the week. Can be laminated for a center to save on ink if using in a classroom!

-Day 1 - match the vocabulary words to their pictures

-Day 2 - trace the vocabulary words

-Day 3 - write the vocabulary words

-Day 4 - finish the sentences with the vocabulary words

-Day 5 Option 1 - copy the sentence and illustrate it

-Day 5 Option 2 - student picks a sentence from Day 4, writes it, and illustrates it

**Note: This bundle contains all of the same units included in the Full Year Bundle. If you have purchased that bundle, do not purchase this one! If you are looking for all vocabulary units for September - August, plus the Winter Holiday unit, please buy the Full Year Bundle instead.**

Buying this bundle saves you 20% off the price of buying the units individually!

Themes included in the September unit: The Apple Orchard, School Supplies, Ahoy Matey (Pirates), In the Classroom, How to Make an Apple Pie

Themes included in the October unit: Raking Leaves, Pumpkin Patch, Carving Pumpkins, Halloween, and Trick-or-Treat

Themes included in the November unit: Community Helper Vehicles, Fall Clothes, Thanksgiving Then, Thanksgiving Now, and Happy Thanksgiving

Themes included in the December unit: Snow Day, Arctic Animals, Hot Chocolate for Sale, How to Bake Gingerbread Cookies, and Christmas is Coming

Themes included in the January unit: New Year's Eve, Weather, Living Room, Four Seasons, and Snowman Building Contest

Themes included in the February unit: Chinese New Year, Extreme Weather, Valentine's Day, Dining Room, and Winter Sports

Themes included in the March unit: Maple Sugaring, How to Make Pancakes, St. Patrick's Day Party, Leprechaun Village, and Kitchen.

Themes included in the April unit: Earth Day, Spring Has Sprung, Easter Egg Hunt, Bathroom, and In the Backyard.

Themes included in the May unit: At the Park, Planting Flowers, Laundry Room, On the Farm, and Graduation Day.

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Covering the Hamlet? Don't know where to get started? This bundle includes everything you need for your students to analyze the text for plot development, characterization, language, and more. Makes learning Shakespeare fun and easy for your students.

Complete Unit.

Covers the entire play of Hamlet !

Includes Graphic Organizers, Video Clips, Quizzes, a Game, Flip books, and MORE!

Great for differentiation.

Includes:

⭐Shakespeare Tragedies (All Plays)

⭐Hamlet Study Guide

⭐Hamlet Characterization Flip book

⭐Hamlet Vocabulary and Quiz

⭐To Be or Not To Be Soliloquy Analysis

⭐Hamlet Escape Room

⭐Hamlet Acts 1-5 Quizzes

⭐Analyzing Song Lyrics for Ophelia

⭐Film Adaptation Wkst (Any Novel)

Introducing the Othello Complete Teacher's Unit - the ultimate tool for teaching Shakespeare's classic tragedy! This comprehensive package contains everything you need to engage and educate your students, including a Shakespearean Tragedies Power Point, Historical and Cultural Context worksheet, Flip Book Study Guide, Characterizations Flip Book, 5 quizzes by act, Escape Room, Vocabulary quiz, and graphic organizers - all totaling a whopping 115 pages!

The Shakespearean Tragedies Power Point provides a detailed analysis of the literary elements and devices used in Shakespeare's tragedies such as irony, iambic pentameter, and more. The Historical and Cultural Context worksheet offers a fascinating insight into the world of Elizabethan England, exploring the cultural and societal influences that shaped Shakespeare's writing. The Flip Book Study Guide provides a handy resource for students to track their progress through the play, with sections for note-taking, analysis, and reflection.

The Characterization Flip Book is a fun and interactive way to help students deepen their understanding of the complex characters in Othello. With sections dedicated to each major character, this tool encourages students to explore and analyze the motivations, relationships, and personalities of each character.

The 5 quizzes by act provide a comprehensive assessment tool, allowing you to gauge your students' understanding of the play as they progress through it. The Escape Room is a fun and engaging activity that challenges students to solve puzzles and clues related to the play, encouraging critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

The Vocabulary quiz tests students' understanding of key words and phrases from the play, while the graphic organizers provide a visual tool for organizing and analyzing key themes and ideas.

With the Othello Complete Teacher's Unit, you have everything you need to create a rich and engaging learning experience for your students. Whether you're teaching the play for the first time or looking to deepen your students' understanding of this classic tragedy, this package is an essential resource for any teacher of Shakespeare.

This is a complete unit on Romeo and Juliet.

In this bundle you will find the following:

- Romeo and Juliet study guide flip book

-Romeo and Juliet Characterization flipbook

- Romeo and Juliet Escape Room

- Romeo and Juliet Jeopardy Powerpoint

- Romeo and Juliet Quizzes for each Act

- Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary quiz

- Shakespeare Tragedies powerpoint

- Romeo and Juliet Graphic Organizers

-Film Adaptation Worksheet

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Covers the entire play! Contains the following

Julius Caesar Interactive flipbook

Julius Caesar Vocabulary

Julius Caesar Interactive Characterization Flipbook

Antony/ Brutus Speeches Compare and Contrast

Julius Caesar Escape Room

Julius Caesar Act 1 Quiz

Julius Caesar Act 2 Quiz

Julius Caesar Act 3 Quiz

Julius Caesar Act 4 Quiz

Julius Caesar Act 5 Quiz

Shakespeare Tragedies

Explore themes of equity, disabilities, and resilience with this dynamic resource bundle designed for grades 5-8!

1. 18-Day Disabilities & Equity Unit (Grades 6+): This comprehensive unit includes engaging projects, thought-provoking essays, rigorous assessments, and Socratic seminars to help students explore visible and invisible disabilities, equity in schools, and societal challenges. Perfect for deepening understanding and fostering empathy in your classroom.
2. Out of My Mind Movie Guide and Activities (Grades 5+): Dive deeper into Sharon Draper’s Out of My Mind with this movie guide and activity pack! Students will analyze characters, themes, and key scenes while practicing critical thinking and reflection skills.

This bundle is ideal for educators looking to combine standards-aligned instruction with meaningful, real-world themes. Save time and inspire your students with these ready-to-use resources!

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Total of 247 pages of Literacy Book Companion Units with Comprehension & Fun Activities, based on each book listed.

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Engage your students in a powerful and comprehensive 18-day thematic unit on bullying designed for grades 5-8. This multimedia-rich resource explores the critical issue of bullying through a variety of formats, ensuring student engagement and fostering social-emotional learning (SEL) skills. Perfect for humanities teachers, long-term substitute teachers, and SEL specialists, this unit is adaptable, rigorous, and impactful.

What's Inside:

• Day-by-Day Lesson Plans: Detailed and easy-to-follow, these plans guide students through an exploration of bullying using films, short stories, political cartoons, informational texts, and poetry.

• Multimedia Integration: Your students will analyze media such as:

• Short films on bullying for visual storytelling.

• Fiction texts like Pumpkin Head to explore bullying in literature.

• Political cartoons to understand the societal impact of bullying.

• Popular films like Matilda to discuss character responses to bullying.

• Songs that discuss themes of bullying and resilience.

• Socratic Seminars: Two thought-provoking Socratic seminars that allow students to dive deeper into themes of bullying, fostering critical thinking, discourse, and empathy.

• Assessments: Include graded one-pager projects, Socratic seminar rubrics, and a STAAR-aligned extended constructive response essay on bullying prevention, ensuring students develop strong reading, writing, and analytical skills.

• Capstone Project: Students will culminate their learning by creating an infographic on bullying, highlighting key facts such as types of bullying, its effects, and prevention strategies. This capstone promotes research, creativity, and advocacy.

Why You'll Love It:

• Flexible Use: Perfect for SEL lessons, English Language Arts, and humanities classes. This unit can also be used by long-term substitutes for a fully developed curriculum that's ready to go.
• Multimedia and Interdisciplinary: Engage students with a range of media, ensuring both visual and auditory learners are captivated. From analyzing cartoons to films, this unit provides cross-curricular opportunities.
• Builds SEL Skills: Through various activities, students learn empathy, kindness, and strategies to combat bullying. It’s not just an academic unit, but a character-building experience.
• Fully Scaffolds Learning: Differentiated activities, visual aids, and pre-made assessments make this unit accessible to a wide range of student abilities, including ELLs and students with IEPs.

Who It's For:

• Humanities Teachers: Add depth to your curriculum with an SEL-focused unit that fits seamlessly into English, history, or social studies classes.
• SEL Coordinators: This unit emphasizes empathy, communication, and kindness, key components of any social-emotional learning program.
• Long-Term Substitutes: Take the guesswork out of planning with a ready-to-use, high-quality unit that ensures continuity in learning while building essential skills.

Make bullying prevention and social-emotional learning an integral part of your classroom with this well-rounded, 18-day multimedia unit. Equip your students with the tools to recognize, stand up against, and prevent bullying in their school community.

Add to your cart now and inspire positive change in your students' lives!

Engage your middle and high school students with this 18-Day Multimedia Thematic Unit on Disabilities in Schools and Society! Designed for Grades 6 and up, this comprehensive unit explores both visible and invisible disabilities through a variety of media, hands-on projects, and critical assessments. Perfect for ELA, social studies, or humanities classes, this unit provides students with opportunities to develop empathy, research skills, and a deeper understanding of accessibility and inclusivity.

This unit integrates multimedia resources, including documentaries, political cartoons, TED Talks, and informational texts. Students will build critical thinking skills as they analyze real-world challenges faced by individuals with disabilities, assess their school’s ADA compliance, and create projects to promote inclusivity.

What’s Included:

• Pacing Plan for 18 days of engaging, standards-aligned instruction.
• A range of activities including debates, Socratic seminars, evidence-mining, and reflective writing.
• Viewing guides and discussion prompts for multimedia content such as The Miracle Worker and the Zion Clark documentary.
• Informational text analysis with strategies for gathering evidence.
• Projects like the Walk in My Shoes research project, school ADA evaluation, and political cartoon analysis to encourage creative thinking and real-world application.
• Assessment rubrics and graphic organizers to support student learning.

Aligned Standards:

This interdisciplinary unit is aligned with Common Core ELA Standards (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) and encourages cross-curricular learning with a focus on disabilities, social studies, and media literacy. It promotes research, empathy, and accessibility discussions through engaging multimedia and project-based learning.

Why You'll Love This Unit:

• Interactive and Student-Centered: Students actively engage with real-world issues around disability awareness and inclusivity through meaningful activities.
• Multimedia Integration: TED Talks, articles, films, and political cartoons create a dynamic and engaging learning experience.
• Project-Based Learning: Includes hands-on projects like the Walk in My Shoes disability research project, allowing students to take ownership of their learning.
• Critical Thinking and Reflection: Encourages students to reflect on how disabilities affect individuals’ lives and how society can become more inclusive.

Who It’s For:

• Middle and high school teachers (Grades 6-9) looking for an engaging, interdisciplinary unit addressing disabilities and inclusivity.
• Educators seeking a Common Core-aligned unit that integrates multimedia, research, and project-based learning.

Perfect for:

• ELA, social studies, and humanities classrooms.
• Teachers seeking units that focus on empathy, accessibility, and real-world issues.
• Maternity leave or long-term sub plans, with a pacing guide and ready-to-use materials.

This 18-Day Multimedia Unit helps students understand the challenges and strengths of individuals with disabilities while improving essential academic skills. Get ready for insightful discussions, creative projects, and meaningful reflections that resonate with your students’ real-world experiences. Download now and bring relevant, standards-aligned learning to your classroom!

Students are eager to engage in conversation and learning around their identities! This engaging social identity unit explores the 8 Big Social Identities—gender, race, age, religion, orientation, ability, ethnicity, and class—through a blend of activities, texts, videos, music, and projects. Perfect for middle and early high school students, this unit is low prep for teachers, offering print-and-go materials that ensure a seamless teaching experience.

What’s Included:

• 19-Day Unit of 60-Minute Lessons: Each day is planned with detailed agendas and objectives.
• Engaging Slides: Visually appealing and informative slides for each lesson to enhance learning and retention.
• Texts, Videos, Movies, and Music: A variety of multimedia resources to engage students and deepen their understanding.
• Interactive Activities and Projects: Hands-on learning through discourse, writing, reading, annotating, research, data collection, data analysis, presentation building, and peer feedback.

Daily Activities Overview:

Day 1: Understanding Social Identity

• Activities: Do Now prompt, "Cross the Line" activity, discussion, reflection writing.

Day 2: The Big 8 Social Identities

• Activities: Do Now prompt, fill in the Social Wheel, group discussion, reflection writing.

Day 3: Power, Privilege, and Marginalization

• Activities: Do Now prompt, discussion on power and privilege, activity on social identity axis, Turn & Talk, reflection writing.

Day 4: Cultural Heritage and Identity

• Activities: Do Now prompt, whole group reading ("Fish Cheeks" by Amy Tan), independent evidence mining, closing discussion.

Day 5: Family Traditions and Social Identity

• Activities: Do Now prompt, whole group reading ("Taco Head"), independent evidence mining, closing discussion.

Day 6: Seminar Preparation

• Activities: Do Now prompt, review evidence mined from readings, seminar setup, discuss seminar norms.

Day 7: Media Representation and Identity

• Activities: Do Now prompt, watch video and read lyrics, independent evidence mining, group discussion.

Day 8: Cultural Pride and Daily Life

• Activities: Do Now prompt, watch video and read lyrics, independent evidence mining, group discussion.

Day 9: Traditional Music and Identity

• Activities: Do Now prompt, review evidence mined from activities, student-led seminar, reflection.

Day 10: Film Connection - "Wonder"

• Activities: Do Now prompt, introduce film and its connection to social identity, film viewing (Part 1), discussion.

Day 11: Continuation of "Wonder"

• Activities: Do Now prompt, preview questions, film viewing (Part 2), discussion.

Day 12: Conclusion of "Wonder"

• Activities: Do Now prompt, preview questions, film viewing (Part 3), discussion.

Day 13: Seminar on "Wonder"

• Activities: Do Now prompt, seminar setup, student-led seminar, reflection.

Day 14: Personal Narrative Writing

• Activities: Do Now prompt, read example narratives, brainstorm, partner sharing, begin writing introduction and body paragraph.

Day 15: Continue Personal Narrative Writing

• Activities: Do Now prompt, review narrative structure, continue writing narrative essay.

Day 16: Peer Feedback on Narratives

• Activities: Do Now prompt, peer feedback, revise essays based on feedback.

Day 17: Identity Mask Project

• Activities: Do Now prompt, introduce identity mask project, sketch ideas, gather materials.

Day 18: Continue Identity Mask Project

• Activities: Do Now prompt, continue crafting masks, wrap up.

Day 19: Finalize Identity Mask Project

• Activities: Do Now prompt, finish crafting and decorating masks, present masks and share reflections.

Key Features:

• Low Prep for Teachers: Print-and-go materials make it easy to implement the unit with minimal preparation.
• Engaging Multimedia Resources: Texts, videos, movies, and music provide diverse perspectives and deepen understanding.
• Explores the 8 Big Social Identities: Gender, race, age, religion, orientation, ability, ethnicity, and class.
• Interactive and Reflective Activities: Encourages critical thinking, self-reflection, and peer collaboration.

Bring social identity to life in your classroom with this dynamic and interactive unit. Equip your students with the knowledge and skills to understand and appreciate the diverse identities that shape our world. Purchase now and make a meaningful impact on your students' understanding of social identity!

FIVE sequencing crafts for five of my favorite Old Lady stories!

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!

Dive deep into Louis Sachar's heartwarming novel "There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom" with this comprehensive 9-week novel study designed for grades 5-6. This unit plan goes beyond traditional comprehension questions to focus on socio-emotional learning and character education, making it perfect for teachers looking to foster empathy, self-awareness, and personal growth in their students.

Key Features:

9-week detailed plan with daily activities and homework assignments

Strong emphasis on socio-emotional learning and character development

Engaging activities that promote self-reflection, empathy, and critical thinking

Variety of learning formats including discussions, role-plays, creative writing, and art projects

Flexible design allowing for adaptation to different class schedules and needs

Weekly Themes:

• First Impressions
• Friendship & Social Connections
• Self-Esteem & Self-Talk
• Bullying & Its Effects
• The Power of Counseling & Support
• Personal Growth & Transformation
• Empathy & Understanding Others
• Making Positive Choices
• Reflection & Application

This novel study encourages students to:

• Analyze character development and motivations
• Reflect on their own experiences and growth
• Practice empathy and perspective-taking
• Develop strategies for building self-esteem and positive relationships
• Apply lessons from the book to real-life situations

Includes:

• Detailed daily lesson plans
• Learning objectives for each week
• Printable worksheets and activity templates
• Discussion prompts and reflection questions
• Ideas for extension activities and final projects

Perfect for:

• English Language Arts classes
• Character education programs
• Social-emotional learning curriculum
• Guidance counselor support materials

Help your students connect deeply with this powerful story while developing crucial life skills. This novel study not only enhances reading comprehension but also nurtures emotional intelligence and personal growth.

Download now and transform your classroom into a space of empathy, self-discovery, and positive change!

What does it mean to be a friend? It's such an important life lesson for kids! Help teach your students about qualities of a good friend and how to make friends with other children.

This project based learning bundle includes:

Let's Be Friends Board Game

How to be a Friend Bingo

Friendship Book Suggestions

Friends are Fun Memory Game

Making Friends book

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