June 6, 2016January 12, 2017 susananderson Whether you substitute teach or have your own classes, you can never have too many quick activities and assignments on hand to fill the gaps that sometimes arise. Here are 11 good ones that will fit well with The Giver, but can also be used with any novel, play, or short story. And if you really want to save time and reduce your workload, download this full unit plan for The Giver and enjoy stress-free teaching for weeks. 1. Create a Quiz Students create a quiz for the novel, short story, or play being studied. They can use an online quiz-making site like quizyourfriends.com, or do it the old-fashioned way with pen and paper. 2. Character Horoscope Students write a Read More … April 20, 2016January 12, 2017 susananderson This lesson plan is a great way to really draw students into The Giver as they think about the importance of their own experiences and memories. Start by making a list of emotions – love, fear, anxiety, joy, jealousy, gratitude, etc. Get students to call them out, and make a master list on the board for them to copy into their notes. Ask your students to then create a Memory Book describing their own memories associated with each emotion. They can include written descriptions, photos, and drawings. Students can begin in class by listing the memories they want to include. They can then start writing their descriptions and collecting their photos and other elements at home. When the books are Read More … April 20, 2016January 12, 2017 susananderson When I am teaching The Giver, I usually have my kids read and report on other examples of dystopian literature. There are so many fun books for them to choose from, many of them written in the last five years specifically for young adult readers. I have the notes and instructions all in a nice printable in my unit plan for The Giver, but you can copy and paste them from below to share with your class. Definitions Utopia = a community or society that is perfect, or nearly perfect Dystopia = a society that is undesirable or frightening Intro Dystopian literature often explores the dangers of trying to serve the greater good by repressing the needs of the individual. Read More … April 20, 2016January 12, 2017 susananderson
This is a great lesson plan for The Giver. It gets students to consider the what the objectives and consequences of rules are. You can then get your students to consider the rules of our own society from the perspectives of law makers and citizens. There are lots more lessons like this in my Ultimate Unit Plan for The Giver. You can download the full unit at //englishunitplans.com/thegiver/ Instructions Context In all societies, people must determine what balance to have between rules and freedoms. In The Giver, Jonas’ society values stability, peace, and order over freedom and individuality. Strict rules govern all aspects of human behavior, all in an attempt to minimize the possibility of conflict. They have peace and Read More …
assignment, lesson plans, lois lowry, the giver3 CommentsThe Giver Unit - Interactive Notebook has everything you need to teach this novel: reading guides, collaborative activities, comprehension quizzes, hands-on vocabulary fun, vocabulary quizzes, review game, answer keys, and final test.Remote learning: You may upload these activities to a secure, password-protected online platform. To upload only the student pages, open the PDF, click Print to PDF, and select the pages you need to upload. The pages you select will be saved in a separate PDF file.Q
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20 job labels with a polka dot and chevron theme. Includes: paper passer, line leader, desk checker, messenger, pencil helper, clip helper, lunch helper, calendar helper, book cart helper word of the day helper, door helper, floor checker, basket carriers, iPad helper, mail helper, caboose, library organizer, teacher's helper, plant helper, and on vacation. I tape them to my wall in two columns of 10. I put students' pictures next to the job and rotate their photos.
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Looking for a fun activity to help your student learn names at the beginning of the year? This is a resource full of fun, engaging name activities for pre-k, kindergarten or first grade. Skills include letter names, letter sounds, phonological awareness, word awareness, reading, math, & more! Includes:Wheels on the Bus craftivityWheels on the Bus Phonemic Awareness song Wheels on the Bus Class BookRainbow Name MosaicsName GraphA My Name is Alice craftivityA My Name is Alice writing templat
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This resource is a complete science unit with engaging lessons and experiments to introduce second, third, and even fourth grade students to science, the scientific method, and other processes scientists use. Students learn about different areas of science, types of scientists and the jobs they do, science tools, science safety, and planning and conducting experiments using the scientific method. Your students will enjoy ten high engagement lessons in a detailed teaching Power Point, science jou
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**HUGE**UPDATED** Visit 15 countries this Christmas as you celebrate holidays around the world with this {HUGE 200 PAGE UNIT}. Learn about Holidays in countries around the world by reading, writing, and making crafts!This unit integrates reading, language arts, writing, social studies, and art. You and your class will have a BLAST doing Holidays around the World this year!• There are 15 countries featured in this unit. USA, Mexico, France, Italy, Greenland, The Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, Ge
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Your kiddos will love completing these interactive activities in independent or small group settings. This pack features 16 centers designed for Kindergarten students which allow them to practice uppercase letters, lower case letters, beginning sounds, short a words, short e words, short i words, short o words, short u words, numbers to 10, numbers to 20, addition to 10, subtraction to 10, 2D + 3D shapes and base ten blocks. There are both color and black & white (ink friendly) versions incl
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Looking for fun activities to teach telling time to the hour, half-hour, quarter-hour, and five minutes? This unit has time games, crafts, review slides, & activities that my students have enjoyed year after year!Telling Time Posters: Second Hand, Minute Hand, Hour Hand, Time to the Hour, Time to the Half Hour, I Can Tell TimeStudent schedule activity: clock template for students to use, schedule cards, and content frame (Example included)Matching Game: 18 clock cards and 18 time cards
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Digraphs This Massive NO PREP Digraph Bundle Packet is FILLED with hands-on, FUN and effective ways to teach, reinforce and master sh, th, ch, ck, ph and wh words! ****************************************************************************** Included in the Bundle SH Digraph Packet: HERE TH Digraph Packet: HERE CH Digraph Packet: HERE CK Digraph Packet: HERE PH Digraph Packet: HERE WH Digraph Packet: HERE The activities in this packet can be used for morning work, homework, group work, center
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⭐ FLASH DEAL ⭐GET THE ULTIMATE ALPHABET BUNDLE FOR JUST 19! ($150 VALUE)Grab The Ultimate Alphabet Bundle for just $19! You can wait, but the time is running out!Your students can practice letter recognition, letter tracing, handwriting, and phonics.Low Prep Required. Simply print and go,Perfect for centers, homework, morning work, and more. Read what other teachers have said:Laura H. “We teach one letter each week and this packet is useful to support that. I like that each packet has the sam
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This collaborative poster project is so much fun. Not only does it involve the participation of everyone in the classroom, but also, in the end, you will have a large, eye-catching poster to display in your classroom, on a bulletin board, door, or hallway to provide inspiration and motivation to your students! The collaborative poster reads, "We are... creative, unique, thinkers, resilient, smart, patient, confident, inclusive, kind, caring, brave and persistent."The message in the poster stands
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Engage your first-grade students with these NO PREP, Printable and Digital Number Of The Day Worksheets, and Number Sense Activities. These 28+ No Prep, Print-and-Go Worksheets are perfect for morning work, homework, math centers, distance, hybrid, or homeschool learning. These are perfect math morning work activities to start the day or your math block. Students will quickly learn the consistent pattern of these number sense worksheets as they develop strong number sense skills all month long.
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In this book companion to go along with The Keeping Quilt, by Patricia Polacco, students will work on vocabulary activities, comprehension skills like sequencing, plot, character analysis, and making connections. Also included are a variety of writing extension activities, and comprehension assessments. This PDF printable and digital set of activities goes along with the beautiful story, The Keeping Quilt, by Patricia Polacco. You will get 30 print student pages plus answer keys and access to 15
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Everything you need to spice up Spanish holidays: Day of the Dead, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Years, Valentine's Day, and Cinco de Mayo. Games, writing, PowerPoints, flashcards, songs, speed dating, videos, decorations, and so much more! Most of these resources are my best-sellers. Varied activities so you can select the perfect activities for each level that you teach.Here's what's included:Day of the Dead BundleThanksgiving BundleDecember, January HolidaysSpanish Valentine's Day
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Engage your third-grade students with these NO PREP, printable Number Of The Day Worksheets with DIGITAL, and Number Sense Activities. These Number Of The Day Worksheets and Number Sense Activities are perfect for morning work, homework, math centers, distance, hybrid, or homeschool learning. **THIRD GRADE NUMBER OF THE DAY-YEAR BUNDLE 50% off July 12-15 ONLY**☝ These are perfect math morning work activities to start the day or your math block. Students will quickly learn the consistent patter
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These games and activities are great for centers, intervention, RTI, guided reading, and any phonics based groups you are running. They cover a wide range of skills from alphabetic principle, alphabet order, letter recognition, alphabet fluency, CVC, silent e, vowel teams, and so much more. So easy to differentiate for your wide range of learners! This is such a great deal. You get FIVE of my biggest English Language Arts Bundles from my store for one VERY low price. This mega bundle is
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The toddler learning folder is a pre-school prep folder full of fun, hands-on, interactive activities that will teach children 1-3 years old and special needs children. The activities include shape recognition, color recognition, sorting, language learning, learning numbers and quantity, days of the week, solar system, continents, visual discrimination, vowels, animals, and human body parts. The activities will promote kindergarten readiness while the child has fun! The download will include 24
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The Science Stations Units Bundle includes 13 physical, earth, and life science sets for a total of 117 stations. The topics are: ecosystems, natural resources, erosion, adaptations, space, properties of matter, changes to matter, mixtures, energy, weather and water cycle, force, Earth's spheres, and plants.Updated for 2022! I think you'll love this update-- guided student sheets, an answer key, quicker prep, and improved activities for your class!Looking for stations to review, enrich, and expa
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The 20 multiple choice task cards ask students to show their understanding of weathering, erosion, and deposition and landform formation due to wind, water, and ice. These rigorous questions require students to analyze and interpret information to construct reasonable explanations.Designed with 5th Grade Science STAAR in mind, these versatile test prep task cards are perfect for review games!Landforms Task Cards Includes:• 20 task cards about landform formation due to wind, water, and ice• Recor
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The school year is extremely busy for SLPs! This no print bundle includes 10 language activities with colorful images scenes for teaching vocabulary, describing words, making inferences, making associations, opposites, pronouns, verbs, simple sentences, and storytelling. the activities are easy to download to any digital device such as the iPad, eBook, computer, smart board, etc. for use. These activities are great for teletherapy and mixed groups. ***Click here to follow me for exclusive saving
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Introduce the present tense to your novice Spanish class with the original high frequency verb units focusing on the Super 7 & Sweet 16 high-frequency verbs in Spanish Present tense. This bundle would be great for Spanish 1, exploratory Spanish, middle school Spanish, or as a review in Spanish 2 or Spanish 3. These two full CI units focus on the following Present Tense irregular verbs✅ es, tiene, le gusta, hay, está, va a, quiere✅ le da, le dice, hace, puede, pone, sabe, sale, trae, ve, oye,
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Introduce the present, past, and future tenses to your novice Spanish class with units focusing on high-frequency verbs (Super 7 & Sweet 16) in the present, imperfect, preterite, and future tenses. The differentiated options would make these units work in every level of in-person Spanish class including Spanish 1, Spanish 2, Spanish 3, and Spanish 4 as a review. This Spanish bundle includes my original Super 7 & Sweet 16 resources!✅ 5 Original Units - present (Super 7 & Sweet 16), im
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Grab all the tools and strategies for behavior management that you will need to establish effective classroom management within your classroom. Great for students with disabilities, including autism, ADD, and ADHD, and behavior challenges these printable sheets will allow you to conduct a positive behavior program. Printables include behavior points sheets with goals and incentives, classroom control cards, think sheets, daily behavior reports, and I'm Working for Cards. Continue reading for
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Kindergarten Morning Tubs: The BundleThis is a DISCOUNTED BUNDLE of my morning work tub activity packs! There are eleven packs, each with 20 activities for a total of 220 activities in the bundle. There are packs for Back-to-School, September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May, plus a Summer pack. I designed these packs to help teachers with the planning and preparation of morning work tubs. These activities use materials and manipulatives commonly found in Kin
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Do you have the 4x6 storage photo boxes from Michael's or Walmart? I use them to hold my task cards or mini objects for my speech therapy materials. Stay organized and easily locate exactly what mini box you need. Perfect for grab and go therapy!What's included? Labels + editable forms to make your own list of items you include.Labels fit any 4x6 lid (pictures show the colored ones from Michael's)-ARTICULATION: initial R, R blends, AR, OR, ER, IRE, AIR, EAR, Vocalic R, L, L blends, S, S and Z, S
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Digital and Print - The activities in this No Print Speech Therapy Activities Bundle target multiple language skills: pronouns, verbs, expanding sentences, basic concepts, vocabulary, categorization, associations, descriptions, similarities, differences, opposites, inferences, etc.By buying this bundle, you are saving 30% off of the total price of the 20 individual resources!⭐️The fun easy to use activities in this bundle target the following skills:pronounsverbssimple sentencesbasic conceptsvoc
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Head outside to explore the science in the world around you for scavenger hunts, guided walks, and explorations! Learn about matter, soil, erosion, landforms, the water cycle, natural resources, shadows, ecosystems, plants, seeds, and animals. Out the Door to Explore: Full STEAM Ahead contains 35 science activities that can be done outside or by using natural materials inside.What is Included?35 science activities2 bonus scavenger huntsTEKS alignment informationNGSS alignment informationmaterial