FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - “Free Personal Narrative Writing Activity Structural Elements of a Story”

by Teach2Tell
3rd - 5th Grade

Looking to scaffold the structural elements of a personal narrative? This print and digital resource compatible with Easel helps scaffold the elements of a story: Exposition, Inciting Incident, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.

Prior to students writing on an open-ended prompt, they will brainstorm and map out the story events on the given templates.

Items Included

• Pre-writing Planner - students will brainstorm key events of interest on the given prompt. They will then choose one event to narrate.

• Elements of a Plot template - students will map their ideas of the key event chosen

• Writing Template - lined sheets for students to write out their personal narratives

• Self-editing Checklist

• Peer-editing Checklist

• Marking rubric - useful for teacher to pre-assess a student's writing skills at the start of the year or semester.

• written samples

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Why download this resource?

• The templates come with instructions for students to follow and are self-explanatory.

• Students will benefit from a review of the structural elements of a Personal Narrative or short story prior to this writing activity.

• The drafting, writing, self-editing, and peer-editing activities are bound to inform your students on the writing process.

• A fun writing activity to do at the beginning, middle or end of the school year.

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How to Use

• You may download the pdf file and print and distribute to your students.
• You may open the file in Easel and assign digitally to your class. The templates have already been prepared with text boxes and instructions for your students.

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Related Resource

MEGA WRITING (GROWING) BUNDLE: OPINION//NARRATIVE/BIOGRAPHY/INFORMATIONAL

This is a growing bundle and there will be major updates to this bundle to make all the resources digitally compatible. It will also include new writing resources periodically. Purchasing at the current price will save you heaps. The bundle is sure to motivate your students and empower them with writing flair.

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FREE MISC. LESSON - “Free Habit Tracker, Goal Setting Printable, New Year’s Resolution Growth Mindset”

by Laura Randazzo
6th - 12th Grade

Visually track your progress toward a specific goal or habit with this free habit tracker worksheet. Whether you’re trying to establish a daily exercise routine, increase your water intake, or read more books this year, this coloring sheet will help you stay motivated and track your progress.

To use, simply color or doodle in a block for each day that you successfully complete your chosen habit. As you fill in more and more blocks, you’ll see your progress grow!

With space to track up to 365 days of progress, this worksheet is a great tool for anyone – teachers and students, alike – looking to form a new habit or maintain an existing one. It's also a tangible tool to help reinforce students' understanding of SMART goal-setting.

Download includes (PDF):

• Year-at-glance habit tracker on a single printable sheet

• 12 month-at-a-glance habit tracker worksheets (useful if you prefer a larger coloring space or would like to change goals each month)

• Leap year versions of both options

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Looking for more growth mindset materials? Check out this series of Famous Failures bulletin board materials:

• Famous Failures #1 (includes Adele & Stephen King)

• Famous Failures #2 (includes Beyonce & Lionel Messi)

• Famous Failures #3 (includes Tiffany Haddish & Stan Lee)

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FREE MATH LESSON - “Winter Math 2nd Grade Review | Midyear Math Practice and Assessment FREE”

by Reading and Writing Redhead
1st - 3rd Grade

Two pages and answers keys of clock / telling time practice and explaining mathematical thinking. Aligned with Everyday Math Units 1 through 6 and the Common Core.

This is a sample of activities from my larger unit with similar name: Second Grade Mid-Year Math Review Pack. If you think it would be useful , please check it out!

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✅ 🤸‍♀️ FREE ESL YEARLONG PACING GUIDE ✅ 🤸‍♀️

 – a year-long pacing guide!

Planning for the year can be overwhelming. Many of you have been asking me for my ESL/ELD curriculum map so here it is!

This K-5 ESL Curriculum Map, Lesson Plans and Pacing guide is a FREE year-long ELL tool you can use to plan your ESL lessons & activities for all your English language levels.

This free yearlong ESL-ELD curriculum map is broken down by week which will help you plan your year for all three ELL language levels listed below:

• Beginner/Early Intermediate
• Intermediate
• Early Advanced/Advanced

****This K-5 ESL Curriculum, Lesson Plans and Pacing guide free sample is from our ESL yearlong bundle (HERE) with over 2600 pages that will take you through the year – month by month for English Newcomers to Early Advanced speakers.

Firstly, Planning ESL curriculum for the year can be overwhelming. If you are looking for an ESL curriculum map to guide you through the whole year, this is it! Additionally, this freebie includes a blank planner for you to create your own!

This year-long ESL/ELD curriculum map, broken down by week, will help you plan your year for all 3 language levels.

✅ Beginner/early intermediate
📚 Intermediate
✅ Early Advanced/Advanced

In addition, each month, under each language level there are language components that I teach during that month. You more than likely have your own resources, activities, and curriculum to teach these components.

♥If I have a product that contains all or parts of the language I teach during that month I have listed it. All resource images are clickable links for your convenience. Just click on the image you want to see and it will take you to my TPT store.♥

Furthermore, each month has a combination of ELD units and/or grammar components essential for English learners. Again choose some or all of what I have here. Feel free to mix it up to suit you!

Click Here to download from TPT!

Finally, every classroom is different! Every teacher teaches differently, and I tried to create this year’s curriculum map with many different types of classrooms and teachers in mind. I know you may need to tweak this to the needs of your students, classroom, and administration. That’s OK! For example, March is a testing month for me. If you need to switch months around to meet your testing time, that is just fine. Do what is best for your students in your classroom.

There is even a column for holidays, which you can use or not use, your choice. How awesome is that people? I mean the whole year is planned out for you.

Click here to download!

Happy Teaching!

FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - “Free New Years Themed Worksheets Sight Word Practice”

by Linda McCormick
2nd - 3rd Grade

This is a special New Year Collection of three worksheets providing practice on the following sight words:
again, by, give, him, did, could, into, every, thank, then
There are three activities that include alphabetical order, unscramble the words, writing sentences, and finding the words in a puzzle. An Answer Key is provided.
Please enjoy this New Year Greeting from my classroom to yours. Happy 2014!
Linda McCormick

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Wednesday Weekly 5 under $5 - December 18, 2024

   

Every week I put together a list of 5 great products from members of The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative (TBOTEMC) with the requirement that each product must be less than $5.  With a variety of subjects and a wide range of grades, there just might be something that you can use, so continue to read below and see!

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Measuring Reindeer Shadows- Science and Math Center Primary - $2.00

by Mickey's Place

PreK - 2nd grades

General Science, Measurement, Writing

My Reindeer Shadow Books are great Science Resources for Any Time of the Year.

Students will be highly engaged:  → constructing their Shadow Picture, →collecting data by using different times of the day, → measuring and comparing reindeer shadows. Family Project is included. 

Two Christmas Holiday Crossword Puzzles About Santa and His Reindeer - $2.85

by Scipi
4th - 6th grades
Activities, Printables

This Christmas holiday resource contains two crossword puzzles about Santa and his reindeer. One crossword includes a word bank which makes it easier to solve while the other puzzle does not.  Even though the identical words are used for each puzzle, the grid for each one is laid out in a different pattern. Answer keys for both puzzles are included.

Winter Multiplication Color by Number Color by Code - $3.00

by Believe to Achieve by Anne Rozell

2nd - 5th grades

Basic Operations, Math, Winter

Practicing multiplication facts is so much fun with this set of 11 Winter Color by Number sheets! This resource will delight your students as they solve the multiplication facts and color the Winter pictures based on the code! There are 11 sheets covering a different fact set on each page from x2 to x12! Perfect for differentiation!

Winter Writing Activity | Life in a Snow Globe Writing Prompt & Activities - $4.75

by Two Little Birds

2nd - 5th grades

Holidays/Seasonal, Winter, Writing

What would life be like in a snow globe? Help your students imagine this fun scenario with this imaginative writing prompt. 

Strega Nona Sequencing Cards - $1.49

by Reading Spotlight

K - 3rd grades

Reading Strategies

Unique, effective, and easy-to-use! Kids love this activity because they get to move around the classroom, and it is actually a great way to develop the important reading strategy of sequencing events. It has a physicality that helps children conceptualize events in time. Directions for making a Story Quilt are included.

As always, I encourage comments and any ideas or suggestions by emailing me at reneeheiss@gmail.com

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FREE MISC. LESSON - “2025 New Years Headbands FREEBIE”

by Smart 2 Heart Creations
Pre-Kindergarten - 1st Grade

New Years Headbands FREEBIE (hats/crowns) includes two headband options. Each headband comes in three options: Color in the words, Trace the words, Write a response (2 options for write a response included).

Also included in this set is a printable headband back piece that works for all the included headbands in this set. The set also works great with regular sentence strips as well.

Check out my other Headband Resources HERE.

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