WRITING CENTER STARTER KIT "4th-5th Grade CC"

By Barnett's School House
4th-5th Grades

Need help organizing your WRITING CENTER to ensure that you are covering all the parts of the Common Core? This writing center starter kit focuses on opinion, informative and narrative writing for the 4th and 5th grade Common Core standards. It comes in a neon theme as well as a printer friendly black and white version. I've also included various formats of writing prompts to place in front of your board/center. I've included 20 writing prompt task cards, 20 Christmas Themed writing prompts (black and white and color) and a Fall Writing Prompt pack!! This kit is jam packed with tons of supplies to get your writing center running smoothly!!! This can be used with 3rd and 6th grades as well!!!!! Simply print, laminate and paste/velcro to a black science board. 

What's Included:
*Opinion, Informative and Narrative Writing Template pages (3 total)
*Opinion Common Core posters: 2 posters (student friendly)
*Opinion Writing Sentence starter cards with title card (6 word cards)
*Informative Writing Common Core Posters: 2 posters (student friendly)
*Informative Writing Sentence Starter cards with title card (4 word cards)
*Narrative Writing Common Core Posters: 2 posters (student friendly)
*Narrative Writing Sentence Starter cards with title card (4 word cards)
*Transition Words: First detail (3 word cards), Middle details (5 word cards), Last Detail (3 word cards), and concluding sentence (3 word cards)
*Blank coordinating cards for you to add your own touch!! They're EDITABLE with Microsoft Power Point
*20 Writing Prompts/Task Cards (black and white)
*Fall Writing Prompts Pack
*Holiday Themed Writing Prompts Pack (20 prompts)
*Black and White Printer Friendly version included

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Language Arts - "13 Vowel Digraph/Diphthong Booklets"

Grades 1-3
by Amanda Trump

This packet includes 13 Digraph/Diphthong Booklets— A vowel digraph is two vowels that spell one of the vowel sounds in the team such as /ea/ spells the –e sound in ‘eat’. A diphthong is one vowel sound formed by the combination of two vowels. Thus, creating its own unique sound.   These are booklets the students can cut apart, staple, color, and spell the words to match the pictures. The booklets target:

• digraph ai—rain, tail, snail, paint, mail, air, sailboat, rainbow
• digraph ay—hay, gray, pray, May, birthday, tray, say, pay
• digraph long ea—peace, peanut, eat, treat, tea, read, teacher, feast
• digraph short ea—bread, weather, sweater, breakfast
• digraph ee—bee, cheese, tree, three
• digraph igh—goodnight, light, bright, right
• digraph oa—coat, boat, toad, soap
• digraph ow—shadow, pillow, elbow, snow
• digraph long oo—balloon, broom, igloo, mushroom, pool, root, school, zoo
• digraph short oo—cookie, looking, book, football
• diphthong ou—cloud, mouse, out, groundhog
• diphthong ow—towel, clown, frown, shower
• diphthong oy—cowboy, ahoy, toys, joy

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English Language Arts Lessons – "FEBRUARY FLAIR Acrostic: Letter L"

By: Connie Casserly
Grades 6-12
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Today, February 11th is L day on the English Language Arts Lessons – FEBRUARY FLAIR Acrostic list. The L in this post stands for

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•  Literature Task Cards (Comprehension, Writing and Critical Thinking Lessons)  https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Comprehension-Literature-Task-Cards-1131263 

     

This product offers teachers a set of Elements of Literature Task Cards when they want their students to reinforce, review and develop their understanding of a text, or any time that their students need to work on expanding their comprehension/higher thinking skills and /or writing aptitudes. These cards are beneficial for individual, small group or whole class study and discussion, for in-class writing and for homework.

• Lesson Ideas – Journalism Whole Course  Year Overview and Lesson Ideas (Journalism Lessons)  https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Journalism-Whole-Course-Year-Overview-and-Lesson-Ideas-45173

This 14 page posting offers a chronological order of lessons, by quarter, to teach beginning journalism students the basic concepts of journalistic writing such as What is News?, the various structures and genres of journalistic writing,interviewing, learning layout and design and studying media ethics. It offers lessons and activities that reinforces these concepts and prepares students to write and publish a quality high school newspaper.

• Literature Super Bowl - Score With the Literature Super Bowl (Reviewing a Book Lessons) *  https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Comprehension-Activity-Score-With-the-Literature-Super-Bowl-1058494

     

This FREEBIE literature review product, Score With the Literature Super Bowl, ties together all of the elements of literature and how they form the structure of any literary text, while preparing students for the assessment. It energizes students to review the novel or narrative nonfiction book that they have been studying prior to an assessment or anytime comprehension reinforcement is needed. This activity not only checks students’ understanding of facts, ideas and details, but it also assesses their analytic and interpretive comprehension, ergo, it develops their higher level thinking skills. A football-themed literature review activity motivates students any time of the year.

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This L lessons and activities trio will Lure your students to Learn  during February's Lethargic days.

     Stay warm, stay stress-free and stay lesson-planned.

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Language Arts Lesson - "How to Focus an Essay Topic"

Created by Dianne Mason
Grades 9-12

Using numerous examples, this lesson enables students to achieve the important goal of narrowing a broad subject into a more focused topic and lays the groundwork for a discussion of thesis statements. A Power Point Presentation of an extended example on insects guides students through the focusing process to arrive at a manageable topic. Included is a suggested activity so students can practice what they've learned. 

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English Language Arts - LOVE NOTES 6 Activities to show, “I love you,” or “I love you not”

by: Constance Casserly

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Grades 6-12

In this 5-page packet, LOVE NOTES - 6 Activities to show, “I love you,” or “I love you not," Middle and High School students have the opportunity to explore and reveal their feelings about this holiday as well as those of characters from their  required and independent reading.

In the activity, A Character Love Song, students choose any character from a story that they are currently studying or that they have read in class this school year and create lyrics for a Valentine’s Day love song from the point of view of this person that he/she writes to another character in the story.  

For the next activity, Is Valentine’s Day a Save or a Delete?, students are to pretend that voters will choose whether this day should be kept on the state calendar or deleted. They must write a persuasive opinion piece for the school and/or the local newspaper where they present and support their opinion on the topic.

The final activity, A Quartet of Valentine’s Day Warm-Ups, presents four Valentine’s Day-related Warm-Up topics. One concerns story characters and a box of assorted chocolates, the second one has students creating a perfect romantic partner relationship, the third topic asks students to choose two characters from the same story where each one shares opposite feelings about Valentine’s Day, and in the fourth Warm-Up, students use their Perfect Pair from Topic # 2 for a social media writing.

Teachers, choose only one activity, or all six- A Character Love Song, Is Valentine’s Day a Save or a Delete? and each of the four ideas in A Quartet of Valentine’s Day Warm-Ups – whatever fits your agendas and needs to keep students hooked on their academic objectives as Valentine’s Day approaches. 

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Matchmaker, Matchmaker Make Me a Match

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Valentine's Day Comprehension Activity: You Sent What??? Cards

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