Valentine's Day Bookmarks. Six Valentine's Day bookmarks: three inspiring and colorful bookmarks to give your students on Valentine's Day to instill a love of reading. Three more bookmarks to tell them you love them. Cute sayings like "Owl love you forever." Editable so you can personalize with student names. Print out on cardstock or tagboard and laminate for a bookmark that will last. Nice gift from teacher to student instead of a card.

Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs - Short Story Unit. Includes Anticipation Guide, Vocabulary, Plot Summary, Use Your Vocabulary sheet with key, About the Author, Comprehension Quiz with key, Essay Questions and Short Answer Questions that require students to use evidence from the text in their answers to support common core.The Monkey's Paw is a great spooky ghost story! A good read for Halloween or anytime. Enjoy!

Reading - Poetry Reading Process Handout. Comprehension strategy for reading poetry: a handy guide on how to read poetry. Promotes close reading. Reading poetry can be difficult for students, but these guidelines will give them a strategy to use when reading poems that will help their poetry comprehension. Supports common core state standards. - HappyEdugator

St. Patrick's Day Adjective Hunt - A St. Patrick's Day Literacy Activity. Fun center and critical thinking activity! Students match the adjectives on the gold coins to the four leaf clovers.Three nouns are listed on each clover. Adjectives are written on each gold coin. Object is to find an adjective that could be used to describe each of the three items on the shamrock and match the gold coin to the correct one. Print out, laminate, and use every year! Updated March 2015 - HappyEdugator

Foldable Book Review. Template and directions. How to make a foldable booklet that will stay together without glue or tape. Includes pages in this order; Title and author Main characters Setting Problem/solution Events of the plot Important words Main Idea or Theme My Opinion Detailed directions, photos, and easy to print, ready to go, no prep template. Students will love making their mini booklets about the books they read. - HappyEdugator

Tabloid Myth Writing Assignment with Rubric. Studying mythology? Fun activity. Students will write a total of three illustrated and imaginative tabloid stories with mythological characters. The stories will have to have varied sentences and specific descriptive words. Final product will be evaluated according to the rubric included. Students will learn about tabloids and how they sensationalize stories to get attention. Assignment handout with student role and rubric included.

Standards Based Grading Scale! A 4 point scale for standards based grading to hold students accountable for learning the standards and mastering the content. Works for all subject areas! Apply the grading scale to the performance standards you are evaluating. In color and black and white for easy printing. - happyEdugator

Thanksgiving Acrostic Poems - For Thanksgiving, Ten Thanksgiving Acrostic Poems. Students can use these festive templates to write an acrostic poem using the letters in several words that are related to Thanksgiving. Lower grades can write one word answers, upper level students can write phrases or sentences. Adjustable for your grade level. Great for differentiation. Enjoy! Happy Thanksgiving!

Martin Luther King Jr. Crossword Puzzle. Cross word based on Dr. Martin Luther King's life. Medium difficulty for your students to solve. Useful as an extension or reinforcement activity for when you study MLK or to support Black History month. Now includes a copy with a word bank for scaffolding and differentiation. Solution included, of course. Updated: January 2015 Enjoy!

Rebus Puzzles - a fun critical thinking activity. Figure out the word puzzles. Great to do with partners, or use as a warm up. Print and go, Works especially well for gifted and talented students who enjoy challenges, but will work with other student populations as well. Enjoy! - Happyedugator

Dolch Sight Words Activities - Week 1. A week of Dolch sight word activities for the first ten words of the Dolch sight words list. Activities include: flash cards/ memory game, color the words, trace the words, match the words, cut and paste the words in alphabetical order, and write the words in letterboxes. Weeks 1 - 10 will cover the first 100 Dolch Sight Words. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Freak the Mighty Noughts and Crosses Board. A fun project or menu board to go with the book Freak the Mighty. UK version.

Main Idea in Writing PowerPoint - How can a piece of writing be strong in ideas? Ideas are the big juicy burger that is the meat of the paper. Short presentation and to the point presentation or mini-lesson that explains how students can score better on a standardized writing test with a paper that is strong in ideas, with several strategies on how to make ideas clearer and stronger. - HappyEdugator

Vocabulary Sentence Assignment and Rubric. This vocabulary assignment has students write vocabulary words in a meaningful sentence and illustrate. First page has space for six vocabulary sentences and drawing boxes. Second page has additional four sentences and a place to write a paragraph and illustrate. Third page is a rubric to use to evaluate sentences. - HappyEdugator

Dolch Sight Words Activities - Week 4. A week of Dolch sight word activities for the fourth set of ten words from the Dolch sight words list. Activities include: flash cards/ memory game, color the words, trace the words, match the words, cut and paste the words in alphabetical order, and write the words in letterboxes. Weeks 1 - 10 will cover the first 100 Dolch Sight Words. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Memorial Day Word Scramble. Fun Memorial Day activity for language, spelling, and vocabulary development. 2 puzzles! Print and go. In the one for upper grades, students have to unscramble 22 words that have to do with Memorial Day. In the other one, there are ten words for primary grades. Some of the words included: Veteran, Freedom, Poppy, Decoration, Military, United States. Keys included. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Owl Bookmarks - Owl Save Your Place! Cute owls will save the place for your lucky readers. Great for an owl theme! 4 different colors and 1 page in black and white that they can color themselves! These also make great gifts for a birthday, Christmas, or other events. - HappyEdugator

Children's Book Writing Project - Immigrants. Writing and research project. Students write a children's book about American immigrants. Students must use imagination and research to create a historical fiction book for children. Includes handout, grading rubric and research links. Enjoy. - HappyEdugator

Rebus Puzzles 2 - a fun critical thinking activity. Figure out the word puzzles. Great to do with partners, or use as a warm up. Print and go, Works especially well for gifted and talented students who enjoy challenges, but will work with other student populations as well. Also includes a blank rebus puzzle sheet for students to create their own. Enjoy! - Happyedugator

Back to School - Welcome to Reading Class PowerPoint. Just add your information and use to welcome students to your reading class at Open House or on the first day of school. - HappyEdugator