Subject: ELA

Skills: Listening & Speaking, Parts of Speech, Writing, Word Choice

Description: Follow this activity to get your students circulating through the room as they identify adjectives, all the while practicing with Listening & Speaking skills.

Skills: Holidays, Writing, Reading, Art

Description: Kids love to play in the snow in the winter! Why not bring the snow inside with this winter themed craft and writing activity? Use your favorite snow or winter themed picture book to kick off this activity and get students excited. This activity gives you the directions needed to make your own paint that will dry puffy and resemble snow! (Grades K-5)

Skills: science, writing, reading

Description: Want to teach your students how polar animals stay warm? This activity will help your students learn how animals that swim in the ocean (such as penguins, seals, whales, sea lions, elephant seals, and walruses) stay warm. Read a book about one or more of these animals to start the conversation about how these animals stay warm in extreme cold conditions. (For Grades K-5)

Skills: Holidays, Creative Writing

Description: Choose a character and setting from mix and match cards to inspire a holiday creative writing piece. Students use a story map template to help them organize their writing. (Grades K-5)

Skills: Holidays, Listening & Speaking, Writing

Description: Children love to share about their lives and things they do with their families. What better way to celebrate the holidays in your classroom, than having your students share their family holiday traditions. Students will discuss traditions with others, write about their own traditions, and illustrate their writing. (Grades K-5)

Skills: Interpret a literary text Classify a character's dialogue, actions, and thoughts. Determine the main events and sequential order of a narrative. Complete an illustration of ...

Description: This fully-scripted Narrative bundle of 4th grade ELA lessons includes 4 independent lessons based around an autobiographical narrative about a girl who is thrilled to get a home phone. Your students will:

• Participate in active close reading and collaborative discussions with the support of sentence frames and text dependent questions
• Explore a character through dialogue, actions, and thoughts
• Determine sequence of events
• Create an illustration and explanation of a main event

CCSS: RL.4.1, RL.4.3, RL.4.4