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Ancient Egypt Packet
A themed activity packet introducing elementary students to Ancient Egypt through crafts, writing prompts, and resource/link pages covering hieroglyphs, the Nile, mummies, and the Sphinx.
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Animal Adaptation Adventure
A science-and-writing project where students research animal habitats, ecosystems, and survival adaptations, then invent and write about their own new creature that has transformed from the student.
Story starters & adventuresCharacters, dialogue & viewpoint
Animated Character Challenge
Animated Character Challenge Design, draw and write the story line for a new animated character.
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Awesome Icebreakers S-U: Activities to Bring Out the Best in Your Group
A booklet of icebreaker and team-building group activities (alphabetically arranged, titles beginning S through U) for building group cohesion, problem-solving, and collaborative storytelling.
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Back to school booklet
Build bilingual (English/French) back-to-school vocabulary and literacy skills through a multi-activity booklet.
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Back to School Glyph
This resource is a Back to School Glyph. Students will get to build their own glyph by answering questions on each slide. Tech tips and examples are included to guide students.
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Back to School Icebreaker Activity
A multi-step name-based icebreaker activity for the first days of school.
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Beginning Writer Story Board
The Beginning Writer Story Board: An Innovative Teaching Tool Constructed meticulously with the younger writer's mind in sight, this storyboard set caters specifically to those taking their first steps into narrative story writing.
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Book Companion: Humans of New York
Provide a 12-day high school Language Arts unit of study companion to Brandon Stanton's book 'Humans,' exploring narrative nonfiction, photography-based storytelling, and themes of humanity, struggle, and personal identity.
Editable
Boy Shape Book Activity
This Boy Shape Book Activity is a great way for your students to create quick and simple books about themselves or stories about boy main characters.
Drawing & imaginative design
Bundle of 14 Plays
A bundle of 14 elementary reader's-theater scripts/plays (with accompanying teacher notes and student activity worksheets) designed to build literacy and drama skills through varied genres (folk tales, mysteries, holiday tales, historical fiction).
Answers included
Car Shape Book Activity
This Car Shape Book Activity is perfect for your students to create quick and simple books about themselves or stories about cars or transportation. This is a great activity for developing writing skills, and it's also a lot of fun!
Story starters & adventures
Careers Now and Then | Framing Workers Unit | Ottawa Tribe
Combined, week-long version of the framing-workers unit: pairs a 'Self-Employed Framer' real-world measurement/word-problem scenario with Native American (Ottawa/Chippewa) building history, inductive multiplication/division fact fluency (progressing across the week, e.g. x6 to x7 per the intro), and a culminating art/writing project.
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Christmas Egg Nog Musical Mystery - UK Version
The Christmas Egg Nog Musical Mystery - UK Version This is a festive, engaging and educational tool perfect for end-of-term fun and learning.
Story starters & adventuresCharacters, dialogue & viewpoint
Christmas Endless Creative Writing Prompts
Provide a low-prep, reusable Christmas-themed creative writing unit using the 'Somebody Wants But So Then' (SWBST) story structure with character cards, graphic organizers, and rubrics.
Christmas Movie Lesson: Learning Life Skills from Elf
Bring the magic of Christmas to your English classroom with this fun, movie-based lesson using Elf (2003) ! Designed for grades 3–5 , this 2-hour lesson helps students practice listening, speaking, reading, writing, and vocabulary while…
Story starters & adventuresDrawing & imaginative design
Christmas Pop-Up Cards with Writing Exercises | Christmas Project
Pop-up Christmas card templates paired with creative-writing prompts.
Story starters & adventuresCharacters, dialogue & viewpoint
Christmas Story telling card for kids
Make this Christmas extra magical with our Christmas Storytelling Cards , created especially for children aged 5 to 8 ! Each card is filled with cute images and words at the bottom that spark imagination and laughter.
Drawing & imaginative design
Christmas: Figurative Language Song
Teach figurative language (similes, metaphors, alliteration, vivid verbs, adjectives) by analyzing the lyrics of a Grinch-themed Christmas song, then have students apply the technique in their own creative writing.
Drawing & imaginative design
Cinderella Local Paparazzi News | Editable Reading Activity
Has students role-play as paparazzi reporting on a Cinderella character's whereabouts, practicing descriptive writing tied to the story's characters.
Editable
Cinquain Poem Lesson Plan, Template, Examples & Rubric Poetry Writing
A structured lesson plan teaching students to write a five-line cinquain poem, using an interactive notebook template as scaffolding, ending in a class poetry anthology/display.
Characters, dialogue & viewpointDrawing & imaginative design
Comic Artist, Create Your Own Comic; printable for kids, learn about comic book artist, educational comic ideas, Activity printable
Comic Artist, Create Your Own Comic! Unearth the art of illustrating comics and storytelling with this engaging teaching resource. This printable activity booklet is designed for kids, making it an essential tool for public school…
Characters, dialogue & viewpoint
Comic Strip Activity
A craft-and-writing activity where students cut out and assemble comic panel pieces and speech bubbles to build their own comic strip about a personal funny experience.
Poetry & wordplay
Create & Share Your Own Poem Project — Poetry Independent Work
A multi-part poetry unit combining a presentation on poetry concepts/types with an independent note-taking and poem-writing/sharing project for secondary ELA students.