Thanksgiving Fun - Pilgrim Riddles. Five Thanksgiving riddles to figure out, written with an element of old fashioned language. It is a fun and quick filler activity for your students! Answer key included at the end. Enjoy!

Five Paragraph Essay PowerPoint - How to write a five paragraph essay. Information for students on the structure of a five paragraph essay. including introductory paragraph, 3 detail paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph.

Reading Informational Text Practice Activity. Includes an informational reading text about standardized texting, a comprehension and vocabulary with context clues worksheet, and a reading response writing prompt. Good practice for standardized tests, or activity to use with a substitute.

Thanksgiving Cootie Catcher. Enjoy this classic game to build a sense of gratitude and thankfulness. Great activity for the last day before Thanksgiving break, or use it on Thanksgiving Day at home with the kids and family. Now includes two different cootie catchers! Activities are fun for all - such as "Describe your favorite Thanksgiving memory." or "If you could invite anyone to Thanksgiving dinner, who would it be?" Great conversation starters to use when everyone is gathered waiting for the Thanksgiving feast. Happy Thanksgiving! - Greg Smith

This resource is a helpful language activity for students with special needs, autism, or English language learners, because it helps build common everyday vocabulary and language with word picture cards. Students use the picture words to fill in the blanks of the story. Includes flash cards of all the picture words used for practice in fluency. - Greg Smith

Reading Genres Posters...posters for your classroom, media center, or school to support your reading program. Includes posters for the following genres: Poetry Non-fiction Fantasy Biography Realistic Fiction Autobiography Traditional Literature Mystery Historical Fiction Science Fiction Education is the pathway to the future. Reading is fun! - Greg Smith

Fire Station Word Search Puzzle. Great for Fire Safety week. Fun word search puzzle all about things you find in a fire station. Color and Black and white ink friendly word search puzzle that your students will love. Includes 32 different words related to Fire Stations. Includes solution. Thanks and enjoy! Terms included are: Alarm Boots Bunker Chief Dalmatian Dispatch Dorms Engine Equipment Extinguisher Firefighter Flashlights Foam Garage Gear Gloves Helmet Hook Hose Jacket Ladder Mask Nozzle Pager Pole Radio Rope Siren Tools Truck Turntable Valves Fire Safety Week| Fire Stations | Fire Fighters | Printables | Worksheets | Word Search | Puzzle

St. Patrick's Day Write the Room. Cards and Recording sheet. 8 words to write for St. Patrick's Day: gold lucky green Irish rainbow shamrock saint Patrick Two recording sheets - one with pictures and one without for differentiation. Recording sheet has primary lined paper (with dashed middle lines). Includes color and black and white versions. - Greg Smith

Author Study: Maia Wojciechowska . Students can read this informational text about the author of the Newbery Award winning book Shadow of a Bull. Includes one sheet of comprehension questions that support higher order thinking and the rigor required by new standards. - Greg Smith

Easter Write the Room. Cards and Recording sheet. 8 words to write for Easter: eggs bunny grass basket candy flowers Easter decorate Two recording sheets - one with pictures and one without for differentiation. Recording sheet has primary lined paper (with dashed middle lines). Includes color and black and white versions. - Greg Smith

Valentines Write the Room. Cards and Recording sheet. 8 words to write for Valentines Day: heart love valentine candy cupid rose letter kiss Two recording sheets - one with pictures and one without for differentiation. Recording sheet has primary lined paper (with dashed middle lines). Includes color and black and white versions. - Greg Smith

Earth Day Write the Room. Cards and Recording sheet. 8 words to write for Earth Day: April Earth clean litter reduce reuse recycle pollution Two recording sheets - one with pictures and one without for differentiation. Recording sheet has primary lined paper (with dashed middle lines). Includes color and black and white versions. - Greg Smith

The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg PowerPoint. Introduce the book by Rodrick Philbrick with this PowerPoint that gives students some background and vocabulary words to know before they read this book set during the Civil War. - Greg Smith

If you are required to post your common core standards in your classroom, just print this out, laminate, and then write on and wipe off with either dry erase or wet erase markers. A colorful way to quickly and easily post your standards. - Greg Smith

This is a short practice test for a Language Arts standardized test. Includes 15 multiple choice practice questions to help students prepare for state tests. Thanks. Greg Smith

Story Map - a simple graphic organizer kids can use to map out the elements of a story. Incudes Title, Author, Main Characters, Setting, Supporting Characters, Problem, Solution. Hope you find it useful. Thanks!

Valentine's Day Word Search Puzzle. 38 lovely words hidden in this fun Valentine's Day wordsearch. Fun Valentine's Day activity! Key included.

Study guide and quiz on Chapters 9 - 16 of the book Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick. - Greg Smith

Thanksgiving Word Search Puzzle. Thanksgiving fun word search puzzle all about the food. Black and white ink friendly worsdearch puzzle that your students will love. Includes solution. Thanks and enjoy!

Birds Word Search Puzzle. Fun word search puzzle all about birds. Black and white ink friendly worsdearch puzzle that your students will love. Inludes 59 different kinds of birds. Includes solution. Thanks and enjoy! Birds | Birds Activities | Types of Birds | Birds Printables | Birds Worksheets | Birds Word Search