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Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa Common Core W.7.1 resources
Christmas Writing Activities Middle School Prompts Persuasive Letter to Santa
Are your students on Santa's naughty list? This writing activity will keep your students engaged during the pre-holiday excitement as they write a persuasive friendly letter to Santa convincing him that they really don't belong on the naughty list! Creative and fun!What teachers are saying about this resource:"THE BEST UNIT I HAVE PURCHASED! So comprehensive, works students through editing, examples and just sets them up for a perfect end product if they try their best the whole way through th
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Also included in: Christmas No Prep Persuasive and Descriptive Writing Bundle
Argument Analysis: Regifting for Distance Learning
Argument Analysis: Regifting - a winter holiday activity now updated with a shareable Google Slides version for distance learning!A complete mini-unit for analyzing nonfiction text, practicing speaking and listening skills, and writing an argument essay complete with original data graphs. Students will analyze both sides of the regifting argument, then write their own arguments for or against regifting. Includes an anticipatory activity, articles, comprehension and critical-thinking questions (d
Grades:
6th - 11th, Staff
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Also included in: All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
Ugly Sweater Pitch using Ethos Pathos and Logos - Rhetorical Appeals - Holiday
Get ready to infuse your classroom with the holiday spirit and ignite your students' understanding of the three rhetorical appeals in a festive, memorable way! It's the perfect activity for that exciting week before winter break or during the holiday season.This resource is more than just a lesson; it's a chance to combine learning and holiday cheer for an unforgettable classroom experience. Picture your students presenting their 'ugly sweater pitches' after the lesson. It's a also great opportu
Grades:
6th - 9th
ELA Holiday Activities Bundle : Writing with the RACE Strategy and More!
Need holiday ELA activities? These 10 no-prep activities will be great for the holiday season. Keep your kids focused and engaged while the year comes to an end. All activities have clear instructions and an answer key is provided. Mix and match the activities to use for multiple days.This packet does not specifically mention Christmas or any other holidays by name. It does mention "holidays" and the things people do to celebrate during the season. I made sure the images and content were all as
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4th - 7th
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Holiday ELA Activities RACE Writing Strategy Prompts for Google and Print
These ELA Holiday Writing Activities will engage your students while building paragraph writing skills. The RACE Writing Strategy is a structure to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and evidence from the text, and to provide concluding statements.This Download Contains:Student resource introducing the RACE strategyExample passage and RACE response10 passages and short response questionsPossible answers to each passageThis pac
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Also included in: ELA Holiday Activities Bundle : Writing with the RACE Strategy and More!
Holiday Resources Bundle for Secondary ELA - Poetry, Writing Activities + more!
Get ready for a bundle of secondary ELA holiday resources that's not only quick and stress-free but also budget-friendly! Here’s a week’s worth of resources filled with engaging, memorable activities for the crazy time before winter break!What’s included in this bundle?⭐️ Holiday Poetry StationsDive into the festive spirit as students craft 7 different types of holiday or winter-themed poetry, creating a keepsake mini book for memories that last!⭐️ Figurative Language in Christmas Songs Treasure
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6th - 10th
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FIVE Holiday Persuasive Writing Lessons Using REAL-LIFE Court Cases
We all know the holidays bring drama. And who loves drama more than teenagers?Don't Be a Grinch offers FIVE Persuasive writing activities that are perfect for keeping students engaged all the way up to the start of the holiday break!.Students analyze real world lawsuits-A couple is sued by the city over their extensive holiday lights display-A teen boy unknowingly receives a counterfeit hoverboard as a holiday gift and it burns down his house!-A Sheriff replaces TV time in a prison with 10 hours
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6th - 8th
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Christmas Persuasive Writing Holiday Assignment - Save the Gingerbread Man
Christmas Persuasive Writing Holiday Assignment - Save the Gingerbread Man : Use this creative holiday activity to improve your students' persuasive writing with a Christmas twist. Students will adopt the role of a gingerbread man and write a letter convincing someone not to eat him after Christmas dinner! The lesson includes a detailed procedure for writing a persuasive letter, with examples. Students will enjoy the holiday theme of this assignment, and their arguments are always so funny to
Grades:
6th - 9th
CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD RESEARCH PROJECT | Winter December Report Writing
Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, print-and-go, 15-page Christmas Around the World Online Research Project for Middle Grades (Grades 4-8) Unit. In this Christmas Around the World Project, students will be assigned a country. They will research how that country celebrates Christmas using a variety of provided internet sources. They will use the information to complete an outline. They will also compare and contrast how that country ce
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Christmas Writing Unit - 4 Essay Activities, Graphic Organizers, Quizzes Rubrics
Introducing essay writing for Christmas has never been easier! This writing unit with 4 complete essay prompt lessons (argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive) guides students through a step-by-step process of writing a 5-paragraph (or more/less) essay. The unit includes: argumentative writing graphic organizer, expository writing graphic organizer, narrative writing graphic organizer, persuasive writing graphic organizer, argumentative rubric, expository rubric, narrative rubric,
Grades:
6th - 8th
It's a Wonderful Life - Literary Essay Writing (Christmas Activity)
This 10 page, Christmas themed assignment offers students the opportunity to practice the Literary Essay based on their response to the critically acclaimed film, "It's a wonderful Life". This assignment requires no prep and is a fantastic student led assignment which, after initial class discussion, should require very little prompting from teacher.
Assignment includes:
1. A brief introduction to the movie
2. A note-taking form to use while watching the movie
3. Instruction about literary th
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5th - 12th
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Letter to Santa (Argumentative Writing Aligns with W.6.1)
This argumentative letter to Santa is a fun way to have students practice the skills needed for argumentative writing. This holiday writing activity contains two scaffolded writing templates that make it easy for teachers and students to write a full five paragraph argumentative essay. In fact, the activity can even be used as an introduction to argumentative writing since the writing templates, with sentence starters, make it easy for students to develop a claim and arguments.Included In This A
Grades:
5th - 8th
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STEM Christmas Craftivity - Imagine It...Design It...Create It...The North Pole
STEM Project Based Learning! Common Core Learning with holiday fun!
Geometry, Measurement, Graphing, Design - so many math skills!
Reading, Visualizing, Persuasive Writing - so many ELA skills!
Project Based Learning Unit Designed and Ready to Go!
There has been an earthquake at the north pole which has destroyed Santa's Workshop and entire North Pole Community.
Students are enlisted to design and create their own north pole while following the requirements laid out by Santa, the Elves
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4th - 12th
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas Movie Companion Pack/ Lesson Plan
This is a companion pack to accompany How the Grinch Stole ChristmasThis is targeted for grades 6-8 in ELA.INCLUDES:9 Total Activities- Figurative Language- Sequencing/Predications - Fillable Plot Diagram - Generating Questions - Short Constructed Response Questions - Extended Constructed Response - Characterization Activity- Heart Map- Making ConnectionsReady to print!Check out my other Christmas related activities:Would You Rather Writing PromptsChristmas AnalogiesFrosty the Snowman Movie
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: The Grinch: BUNDLE
CHRISTMAS WRITING PROMPTS | Winter Bulletin Board Narrative Informative Opinion
Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, 25-page Christmas and Winter Holidays Writing Prompts! It includes everything you need to celebrate Christmas and Winter holidays with your students! Students will read about American Christmas traditions, and write responses to what they’ve read, Revising and editing checklists and 13 holiday-themed writing papers are also included. All CCSS writing standards are addressed. The following resources a
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Gift of the Magi by O. Henry Christmas Activity
Are you looking for a no-prep Christmas comprehension, listening, and writing activity for The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry's classic short story of love and sacrifice? This fun, easy-to-use resource includes links to podcast audio versions of the story, as well as a listening comprehension mystery picture, editable writing prompts, and two versions of the printed story. The Christmas mystery picture and writing activities can be used with the printed story or the podcast audio. Either way, kids w
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6th - 8th
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Christmas Reading Comprehensions (10 Passages) w/ Answer Key (6th,7th,8th,9th)
This is an assortment of Reading Comprehension worksheets for 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th Grade (but it's great for many Elementary and High School Grades too). It contains ten passages of assorted topics of varied lengths and difficulties.This pack offers ten reading passages, each with multiple choice, open ended response, critical thinking, and fill-in-the-blank questions. It also includes answer keys with example responses.The topics included are:The Origin of Christmas WreathsThe Tradition of Ma
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6th - 9th
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December Literary Analysis and Pi Short Film For Google Classroom Unit 4
Your ENTIRE Middle School Google Classroom, Schoology, Canvas, Seesaw, or any LMS is planned, prepped, stocked and ready to share with your students for the month of DECEMBER! This Google Classroom Middle School UNIT 4 focuses on RACE Writing, Literary Workshop Using A Christmas Carol, and some cool Christmas activities (optional). Scroll To See Full List Of Resources.★ Each digital unit includes: highly engaging CCSS writing resources, standards, digital lesson plans, weekly & monthly calen
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6th - 9th
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Ugly Sweater Pitch Bundle - Print and digital - Holiday Writing Activities
Have students learn or review the three rhetorical appeals with a festive twist! Great for the week before winter break or for the holidays!Rhetorical Appeals Review Sheet is included for a quick reminder, an example, as well as two types of worksheets! Hang on a bulletin board after your class shares their ugly sweater pitches!Check out only the PRINT version here!Or check out the DIGITAL version here!TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Susan T. said, “My students had fun with this, and it really
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6th - 9th
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18 PAGES: Winter Break Activity Book and Journal with Mental Wellness Check-Ins
As teachers, we know that not all of our students are safe, well-fed, or happy at home. This packet should give teachers a little peace of mind that our students will have a bit of entertainment and an outlet for their feelings over Winter Break.This product includes:A cover page and title page18 daily pages with an activity (word search, coloring, art, etc.) and a wellness check-in (gratitude, mental check, stretch, etc.)Similar productsSnowman prefix/suffix and winter bulletin board decor BUND
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Not Grade Specific
"Christmas Lights" A Socratic Seminar Unit of Study Featuring Coldplay
Join your kids in the holiday merriment through this fun, engaging, meaningful unit of study on a unique holiday song, "Christmas Lights" by Coldplay. Students will work to analyze lyrics, build connections, explore figurative language, and engage in a collaborative dialogue through Socratic seminar. Your students will build reading comprehension, language, speaking, listening and writing skills through this unit and build classroom community through collaboration as well!
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Holiday Song Lyric Analysis
Hanukkah (Chanukah) Reading Comprehensions (3rd-8th Grade) w/ Answer Keys
This is a Reading Comprehension worksheet about Judaism and Hanukkah (or Chanukah) for 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade (but it's great for many High School Grades too). Along with the reading, this sheet offers 8 questions of multiple choice, written open ended response, and critical thinking. It also includes answer keys with example responses.In this collection, you'll find the following articles, each varying in topic and difficulty:The Festival of Lights: HanukkahThe Significance
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3rd - 8th
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Santa and the Seriously Selfish Sneak - Small Group Reader's Theater
This reader's theater was written for a small group of 4 students for Christmas. In the script, there is a very selfish and sneaky man who won’t even be good at Christmas and so Santa has decided to teach him a lesson. He offers him a box that has everything in it he needs to be happy for the rest of his life. Santa tells the man that, in order to earn it, for the next two weeks the Sneak must be nice, work hard, take turns, and not play any tricks. When the Selfish Sneak does everything Santa a
Digital Ugly Sweater Pitch using Ethos, Pathos, and Logos - Rhetorical Appeals
Get ready to infuse your classroom with the holiday spirit and ignite your students' understanding of the three rhetorical appeals in a festive, memorable way! It's the perfect activity for that exciting week before winter break or during the holiday season.This resource is more than just a lesson; it's a chance to combine learning and holiday cheer for an unforgettable classroom experience. Picture your students presenting their 'ugly sweater pitches' after the lesson. It's a great opportunity
Grades:
6th - 9th
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