Essay Writing Focus | Interactive Centers for Middle School
Teach middle school students to keep writing focused on purpose, audience, and task through a narrative-anchored mini-lesson and four hands-on interactive centers.
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Teach middle school students to keep writing focused on purpose, audience, and task through a narrative-anchored mini-lesson and four hands-on interactive centers.
Beginning-sounds and handwriting literacy-center resource using photographs of P-words for letter recognition, tracing, sound sorting, and matching.
A beginning-of-year preschool/kindergarten writing center kit that helps students learn about themselves and each other while building writing skills and vocabulary.
A multi-file writing center starter kit for grades 3-5 covering Opinion, Informative, and Narrative writing aligned to Common Core writing standards, meant to supplement (not replace) a writing curriculum.
Give middle school students hands-on practice with grammar conventions (complete sentences, capitalization, punctuation) through three interactive, hands-on learning centers.
A kindergarten writing-center resource that combines handwriting practice with number and color vocabulary through sentence tracing.
Provide a multi-activity letter-F phonics and writing center pack using real photographs of F-words for beginning-sound recognition, tracing, sorting, and matching.
A 5-senses-themed preschool/kindergarten writing center kit that supports observation and descriptive vocabulary alongside writing skill building; usable with a 5-senses unit or an observation-based science unit (e.g. fall, pumpkins, apples, dinosaurs, leaves).
This hands-on, interactive World Holidays Mini-Unit will bring cultural understanding, global awareness, and meaningful collaboration into your classroom.
A set of four learning-center activities that teach students how to organize the paragraphs of informative and argumentative essays.
A multi-part literacy center resource for letter recognition, beginning sounds, and handwriting practice for the letter I.
November Thanksgiving in America : An Educational Resource November Thanksgiving in America is an educational teaching resource designed to enhance a student's understanding and appreciation of the historical and cultural significance of Thanksgiving. This supplemental material is targeted at educators teaching kindergarten to 3rd-grade…
Provide a single, reusable partner game for practicing high-frequency words, suited to interventions, small groups, or literacy stations.
Teach the writing process (prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, publishing) and support informative, narrative, and opinion writing aligned to Common Core writing standards for grades 3-5.
A dice roll supplies a character, setting and story idea, leaving students to work out how those elements fit together. Three general grids and five seasonal versions provide different combinations, with ruled title pages for drafting and a separate illustration page. Model one unexpected combination together, then invite learners to develop and illustrate their own stories from the prompts.
A 'My Body' science/writing center kit that helps preschool and kindergarten students identify parts of the body through reference materials and hands-on activities.
This resource is a set of Choice Board Alphabet Letter Mats. Your students will love getting to choose from 6 different options as they build each letter. This is ideal for morning work, early finishers, intervention and so much more.
An editable, multi-station lab activity where students rotate through six stations to explore biodiversity and invasive species through writing, research, opinion, reading comprehension, and knowledge-check tasks.
Dramatic-play (pretend play) center kit built around a birthday party theme, used to build oral language, social-emotional skills, math, and early literacy through role play.
A dramatic play center kit that turns a classroom into a pretend flower shop so kindergarten/grade 1 students practice early math, language, and social skills through role play.
Thanksgiving ABC Match: A Unique Educational Resource Thanksgiving ABC Match is a comprehensive teaching set designed to elevate language arts skills among early learners in preschool, kindergarten, and first grade.
Practice matching adjectives and nouns to form phrases and use them in sentences, for a literacy/grammar center.
A set of learning-center activities where student teams gather textual evidence to build and present an argument about the purpose of Stonehenge, then debate their conclusions.
Letter K phonics and handwriting center using real photographs of K words for alphabet recognition, tracing, and beginning-sound practice.