Help children in preschool, pre-k and kindergarten learn to recognize and practice writing letters of the alphabet using this Football Helmets theme ABC scavenger hunt.This set is part of a yearlong series that was inspired by kids' love of scavenger hunts and our desire to weave early learning into...| TPT
Introducing the ultimate tool for students exploring their future in STEM careers - the STEM Career Research Project! This activity has everything needed to guide students in researching the STEM career of their choice. Students will need to discover the qualifications, education, and training requi...| TPT
Learn all about Pulleys and Pulley Systems!Includes instructions on how to do a Pulley STEM Challenge with your students. Plus prompts to do additional research through guided activities and questions. Plus a link to even more activity ideas and builds for students. Explore the PulleyTwo Different ...| TPT
Get ready for a great time with pretend play using these printable Community Helper Hats!Download and print on cardstock, cut out, staple together, and you're ready to be your favorite community helper!The printable hats come in 8 different styles and each style comes in color and black and white. T...| TPT
Teaching Literary Elements/Literary Devices or story elements? These Depth and Complexity Frames for English Language Arts will make your life so easy! You'll get 25 frames about reading and language arts ready to print and go! Yep, they're all done for you! Simply choose the topic you want students...| TPT
Get both Depth and Complexity Ebooks in one bundle at a great price! You'll navigate the Depth & Complexity framework with ease with these two ebooks that put the power of Depth and Complexity at your fingertips.You'll get the Question Stems E-book with a comprehensive list of terrific questions...| TPT
Editable, digital Depth & Complexity frames are here! Now it's simple for you to create Depth & Complexity frames digitally! This Google Slide file has everything you need to be able to create digital Depth & Complexity frames (or have your students create them!).You will find it incredi...| TPT
This Depth and Complexity Back to School low-prep set of activities will make back to school a time of learning and connection. You'll get 7 activities that are all ready to print and go! The activities actively teach Depth & Complexity thinking prompts while providing engaging learning experien...| TPT
These fun, hands-on Fall Position Word Activities help young learners practice words like beside, above, between, in, under, on, in front of, over, and around through engaging games and interactive materials. Many of these games will work well for Small Group learning.What's Included:Bingo Game #1: ...| TPT
Have you ever received an email from a student that was written in a rude tone? Emojis, slang, all caps, incomplete sentences galore? We all have, and it's enough to drive us up the wall! But! What if students have just never been taught how to use professional etiquette when addressing a boss or s...| TPT
Plagiarism...what a "downer" topic! For years, I dreaded teaching it because students thought I was the Wicked Witch who was out to get them for every missing quotation mark in their essays (or at least that's how I felt as I taught them about the rules of citing sources). In an effort to make writi...| TPT
Can your students use AI? Students need a solid understanding of artificial intelligence etiquette and ethics before they start using AI in the classroom. Use this lesson to be clear and explicit about what is acceptable and unacceptable when it comes to AI in the classroom. Best of all, involve stu...| TPT
This huge bundle includes Code Breaker activities that explore the life cycle of 12 different plants, animals and insects. These activities are a fantastic puzzle, brain building activity that helps develop critical thinking and problem skills, while fostering a strong attention to detail.HOW TO USE...| TPT
This unit is designed to be everything you need to teach your first introductory unit in a high school physical science course - but due to its foundational nature, it really can work as the first back to school science unit in ANY high school science course! Content covered includes: lab basics (s...| TPT
This lab activity is a fun way for students to practice dimensional analysis and scientific notation. Often times it is hard for students to understand the big picture and real world application of the content we teach them - especially when it comes to math skills. This lab is an excellent way for...| TPT
Getting students to elaborate in informational writing is a challenge. Unlike narrative writing, where students can simply invent extra details to "stretch" a sentence, informational expansion asks them to add real facts. That added layer of difficulty means a lot of students freeze up, recycle the ...| TPT
Growth Mindset Motivational Coloring Pages and PostersThis set of 43 colouring pages is the perfect opportunity to engage and understand and express the "Growth Mindset" mentality and express it in your classroom. Each poster comes with a powerful growth mindset quote that they display in their work...| TPT
This YEAR-LONG collection of WRITING PROMPTS WITH PICTURES inspires daily creativity! These DAILY QUICK WRITES build writing skills through DESCRIBING and INFERRING 327 Vivid and Engaging Photos. Encourage descriptive storytelling, expanded vocabulary, and critical thinking as students interpret a...| TPT
Are you looking for lessons and activities to go along with the book Snowmen at Night? SUPER CHARGE your read-aloud lesson plans with these print and teach activities for Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner! These interactive reading lesson plans will guide you through your daily instruction in rea...| TPT
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This set of Depth and Complexity Back to School Activities for Kindergarten through 3rd grade will make back to school a time of learning and connection. You'll get 10 activities that are all ready to print and go! The activities actively teach three Depth & Complexity thinking prompts while pro...| TPT
Spark curiosity, foster critical thinking skills, and save time with this digital, printable, gamified & editable no-prep quiz & episode guide designed for use with the Ted-Ed video Is This the Most Successful Creature Ever?Key concepts covered: Trilobites, exoskeleton, Cambrian Explosion, compound eyes, fossil, extinction, arthropod. Resource Features: Spark curiosity, foster critical thinking skills, and save time with this digital, printable, gamified & editable no-prep quiz & episode gui...| Robyn Carter Writer Educator Storyteller
Teach techniques for sharpening similes with this figurative language writing anchor chart, poster, set of explainer videos & set of Quizizz games.Digital, printable & editable figurative language anchor charts, explainer videos, and practice games on Quizizz power this Simile Success Kit designed to teach approaches to descriptive writing and show-don’t-tell strategies that render sensory details with vivid clarity.Resource Features Teach techniques for sharpening similes with this figurat...| Robyn Carter Writer Educator Storyteller
Let There Be Light: A Descriptive Writing Mentor Sentence Study Featuring a Set of Narrative Writing Anchor Charts, Word Banks & Descriptive Writing Graphic OrganizersMentor sentences from Gloria Whelan’s Goodbye, Vietnam, Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out & Back Again, Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time & Hope Larson’s graphic adaptation shine in this editable, gamified, differentiated, digital & printable narrative/creative/descriptive writing,revising & editing practice toolkit for t...| Robyn Carter Writer Educator Storyteller
Writing the Wright Way: Imagery-driven Haiku Writing Template & Workshop Featuring Mentor Poet Richard Wright Included tools: a Descriptive Writing Anchor Chart & Set of Scaffolded Descriptive Writing Graphic OrganizersAbout This ResourceMentor poems by Richard Wright shine in this editable, gamified, differentiated, digital & printable descriptive writing toolkit for teaching approaches to writing haiku.Do you struggle to find engaging scaffolds that actually improve student writing? Give ...| Robyn Carter Writer Educator Storyteller
Integrate this telegraph, telegram & morse code STEM Side Trip into a social studies unit or pair it with a work of historical fiction to stretch the cross-curricular reach of your novel study. Students fluent in today’s instant messaging options are often unfamiliar with communication technology that predates iPhones, TikTok and texts. Use this resource to provide context to deepen their understanding.This editable slideshow features:• Explainer sequences• Diagrams and images of telegr...| Robyn Carter Writer Educator Storyteller
FINDING FILTERS One way to transform sentences that "tell" into descriptions that "show," is to weed out sensory filters – e.g., I saw, she heard, he noticed, they felt. Words like these block readers from experiencing the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and tactile sensations of the real or imagined worlds our students write about.Ideal for STAR and/or SBAC test prep, use this resource to teach students how to transform "telling" sentences like She sees birds in the alley to sensory detail...| Robyn Carter Writer Educator Storyteller
Mentor sentences from Christopher Paul Curtis’ The Watsons Go to Birmingham –– 1963 and Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming star in this editable simile writing, revising & editing practice toolkit for teaching approaches to incorporating this literary device into writing workshop projects in progress and familiarizing students with this example of figurative language.With explainer videos, figurative language anchor charts, mentor sentences, student examples, descriptive writin...| Robyn Carter Writer Educator Storyteller
Teach flashback “anatomy” and the role this literary device plays in storytelling with this editable, digital, printable & gamified flashback writing/plot-building intensive featuring mentor sentences from Cornelia Funke’s The Thief Lord, Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret, and Christopher Paul Curtis’ The Watsons Go to Birmingham –– 1963. Incorporate into a revision workshop or leverage as a stand-alone skill-builder.Watch the video preview to see the entire resource...| Robyn Carter Writer Educator Storyteller
Sensory Detail/Descriptive Writing Word Banks/Word Wall, Part of Speech Anchor Charts: A Set of Editable Show-don’t-tell, Explode the Moment Scaffolds for the Writing & Revision Workshop | Grades 4+GET THIS RESOURCE FREE when you sign up for our newsletter here: https://www.curiositycompass.org/newsletter(Not a link to an e-commerce site. All Curiosity Compass teaching resources are sold exclusively on TpT.)Do you struggle to find editable and engaging scaffolds that actually improve stude...| Robyn Carter Writer Educator Storyteller
Mentor sentences from Jerry Spinelli’s Loser challenge the “said is dead” maxim in this set of dialogue practice/revising & editing practice activities, anchor charts, graphic organizers, and Kahoot & Quizizz games that explore why and how to write dialog and dialogue beats that show far more convincingly and gracefully than awkward dialog tags that tell. With intro explainer videos, dialogue anchor charts, mentor sentences, student examples, graphic organizers, Quizizz & Kahoot games...| Robyn Carter Writer Educator Storyteller
Mentor sentences from Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Jerry Spinelli’s Loser, Tracey Baptiste’s The Jumbies, and Raina Telgemeier’s Ghosts star in this editable dialogue practice/revising & editing practice toolkit for teaching strategies that leverage dialogue’s power to build tension and drive narrative.With five short explainer videos, dialogue anchor charts, mentor sentences, student examples, graphic organizers, writing prompts with sentence starters, Quizizz gam...| Robyn Carter Writer Educator Storyteller
The Watsons Go to Birmingham Civil Rights History Side Trip: The 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing For use with the novel by Christopher Paul Curtis and linked video clips from ABC News and the 2014 film SelmaVideos featuring profiles of survivors, an article summarizing events, and discussion questions that assess comprehension and promote critical thinking launch this editable, gamified, digital & printable deep-dive into the national tragedy at the heart of The Watsons. Use this resource to ...| Robyn Carter Writer Educator Storyteller
Digital, printable, and editable anchor charts, explainer videos, a comic-style slideshow, and practice games on Kahoot and Quizizz power this set of guides to formatting conventions and strategies for writing show-don’t-tell dialogue. Guide students as they practice writing and punctuating dialogue with this editable Dialogue Writing, Editing and Revising Toolkit for grades 4-12.Resource Components & FeaturesEarn Free TPT CreditsHave you used this –– or any other TPT –– resource? W...| Robyn Carter Writer Educator Storyteller
Tap into your students’ fascination with gore and gemstones, and/or all things grim (and Grimm!) with this science-fiction, dystopia, fantasy fiction, and horror writing hyperdoc and set of fictional narrative writing/creative writing/descriptive writing (show-don’t-tell) graphic organizers, anchor charts, slideshows, explainer videos, mentor sentences, and revising and editing practice tools.Watch the video preview to see the entire bundle.Completely customizable, this resource can work ...| Robyn Carter Writer Educator Storyteller
An editable, differentiated, digital & printable bundle of Common Core-aligned literature circle/book club discussion questions, vocabulary activities, mentor sentence studies & family history project for use with the graphic novel When Stars Are Scattered by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson. BONUS FILE: All resources linked in a single, editable Google doc. Find the link in the bonus file PDF.Lit Study Kit: With comprehension & reflection questions for each chapter, illustrated vocabulary ...| Robyn Carter Writer Educator Storyteller
An editable, differentiated, digital & printable Common Core-aligned literature circle/book club, mentor sentence & Black history study BUNDLE for use with the novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis, its film adaptation, and the memoir-in-verse Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson. The focus is on The Watsons, with periodic dips into selected poems from Brown Girl Dreaming that spotlight similar themes or creative writing strategies. The content here spans t...| Robyn Carter Writer Educator Storyteller
Hope Larson's A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel and the film adaptation of the Madeleine L’Engle original star in this editable, digital, printable & differentiated bundle of STEM slideshows, discussion questions & vocabulary resources for use with film studies, book clubs, read-alouds, literature circles, interactive notebooks, or whole class novel studies.Do you struggle to find editable novel study resources that are intuitive to navigate, engaging, differentiated, and designed for le...| Robyn Carter Writer Educator Storyteller
Yoshiko Uchida's Journey to Topaz stars in this editable, digital, printable, differentiated & Common Core-aligned set of discussion questions & vocabulary resources for use with book clubs, read-alouds, literature circles, interactive notebooks, or whole class novel studies.Lit Study & ...| TPT
Want to introduce your Kindergarten, First Grade, or Second Grade students to the Complexity thinking prompts of the Depth and Complexity framework? If you have been wanting to use the Complexity icons with your younger students and just weren't sure where to start, or if you just love Across Discip...| TPT
Help children in preschool and kindergarten segment syllables and practice phonological awareness using these yearlong color by code activities.With this no prep activity, students will practice recognizing syllables (1-5) by coloring this seasonal and holiday color by syllable activity. Remember to...| TPT
These nature scavenger hunt printables are unique and so fun to use! Children love the peek through magnifying glass that is conveniently placed right on the printable. No more fumbling around with a magnifying glass, clipboard, printable and pencil, this scavenger hunt has everything you need right...| TPT
This no-prep paper AND digital paperless product is all of the notes, labs, activities, practices, and tests you need to teach your reactions unit in your physical science class. Content covered includes law of conservation of mass, balancing and classifying chemical reactions, energy in reactions,...| TPT
This no-prep paper AND digital paperless product is all of the notes, labs, activities, practices, and tests you need to teach your motion and force unit in your physical science class. Content covered includes describing motion, distance, displacement, speed, velocity, acceleration, graphing motio...| TPT
This no-prep paper AND digital paperless product is all of the notes, labs, activities, practices, and tests you need to teach your matter unit in your physical science class. Content covered includes classification of matter, properties of matter, density calculations, physical and chemical change...| TPT
This unit is designed to be everything you need to teach your first introductory unit in a high school chemistry 1 course. Content covered includes: a review of lab equipment and safety, measurement, dimensional analysis, scientific notation, and the properties and classification of matter. This pro...| TPT
This no-prep paper AND digital paperless product is all of the notes, labs, activities, practices, and tests you need to teach your energy unit in your physical science class. Content covered includes nature of energy, potential and kinetic energy calculations, conservation of energy, energy transf...| TPT
This no-prep paper AND digital paperless product is all of the notes, labs, activities, practices, and tests you need to teach your electricity and magnetism unit in your physical science class. Content covered includes electric charge, transfer of charge, current, voltage, resistance, Ohm's Law ca...| TPT
This no-prep paper AND digital paperless product is all of the notes, labs, activities, practices, and tests you need to teach your bonding unit in your physical science class. Content covered includes stability in forming compounds, electron dot/Lewis dot structures, formation of ionic and covalen...| TPT
This no-prep paper AND digital paperless product is all of the notes, labs, activities, practices, and tests you need to teach your atomic structure unit in your physical science class. Content covered includes atomic theory, structure of the atom, isotopes, Bohr model drawings, and the arrangement...| TPT
Looking for an engaging way to teach phonological and phonemic awareness to your small groups? Check out these Science of Reading small group lessons. This MEGA bundle is packed full of lesson plans and hands-on activities to teach concept of spoken word, syllables, initial sounds, onset and rhyme, ...| TPT
This Summer theme pack includes semi-editable lesson plans and hands-on activities for a week full of math, reading, & science learning activities to explore some fun Summer theme topics. All Preschool Teacher 101 Classroom Lesson Plans Include:1) Recommended Book List2) 1-Page Weekly Lesson Pl...| TPT
This no-prep paper AND digital paperless bundle is a complete chemistry curriculum with all of the notes, labs, activities, practices, projects, quizzes, and tests you need to teach an entire year of chemistry. Every major chemistry unit is covered and listed below. All tests are provided on two l...| TPT
This no-prep paper AND digital paperless bundle is a complete anatomy curriculum with ALL of the notes, labs, activities, practices, projects, quizzes, and tests you need to teach an entire year of human anatomy and physiology. Every major body system is covered and listed in the units below. This ...| TPT
This no-prep paper AND digital paperless bundle is a complete physical science curriculum with ALL of the notes, labs, activities, practices, projects, quizzes, and tests you need to teach an entire year of physical science. Every major physical science unit is covered and listed below. Everything...| TPT
This no-prep paper AND digital paperless bundle is a complete biology curriculum with ALL of the notes, labs, activities, practices, projects, quizzes, and tests you need to teach an entire year of biology. Every major biology unit is covered and listed below. Everything is provided for two levels...| TPT
This St. Patrick's Day theme pack includes semi-editable lesson plans and hands-on activities for a week full of math, reading, & science learning activities to explore some fun St. Patrick's Day topics. All Preschool Teacher 101 Classroom Lesson Plans Include:1) Recommended Book List2) 1-Page W...| TPT
**Follow my store to find out about new freebies and products by clicking here**Print out and laminate these mats for an easy prep small group station that you can use in several different ways!Practice tracing the letters or numbers from 1-20 with dry-erase markersRoll playdough to fill in the lett...| TPT