Halloween Smart Board Activities - Four different Halloween ELA activities for your Smartboard. Sort the Halloween vocabulary into Parts of Speech, complete a fill-in the blank or cloze story, put together some Halloween antonyms, and solve the Halloween crossword puzzle. All interactive activities. Answers can be checked right away for immediate feedback. - HappyEdugator

Common Core Standards for ELA Writing PowerPoint Posters. Common core standards for ELA Writing grades 6, 7, and 8 summarized. Use as WE CAN posters or as a slide show. You can go over the standards with your students, and afterwards you can print out the slides and laminate them to use as a poster in your classroom. Kid friendly language with colorful graphics. The CCSS ( common core state standards ) are the same for 6th and 8th grade, only the level of complexity changes, so feel free to use them for all three levels. - HappyEdugator

Writing to An Audience Project. How To Project. A writing assignment or writing project that teaches author's purpose and writing for different audiences. Student (and partner) will draw an audience from the basket. They are to choose their own how-to topic amd create a brochure for their audience. The purpose of this brochure is to tell a specific audience how to do something. Here are some examples: First graders - How to Convince Your Parents to Make Your Bedtime Later Parents - How to Get Along With Your Seventh-Grade Son or Daughter Teachers - How to Win Respect from Students Students will use creativity and their imagination to complete this writing activity. Complete project rubric included. - HappyEdugator

February Famous Author Birthdays PowerPoint. To engage your readers and inspire your writers, show them the slides on these famous authors who had birthdays in February such as Langston Hughes, Jerry Spinelli, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Charles Dickens, to name a few. Each slide tells a little about the classic author and their most famous works. This winter, engage them in reading and writing! Have them choose from three writing assignments about these authors and their works on the last slide. - HappyEdugator

Thanksgiving Word Wall Vocabulary Words. 30 Thanksgiving word wall words for the holiday and a blank template you can use to add your own Thanksgiving words. Promotes Thanksgiving writing! Decorated with pumpkins, apples, and fall leaves. Print out on cardstock and laminate for durability. Use them as flash cards or as discussion starters. Kids can use these words in their Thanksgiving writing, too. Some of the words included are: thanks pumpkin family Autumn cider pilgrims feast turkey Fall November cornucopia Mayflower Massachussetts and more! Happy Thanksgiving!

Research Process & Expository Writing Formative Assessment. This test or CRCT study guide is a 14 page multiple choice formative assessment on the research process and expository writing, aligned to the Georgia Performance Standards. Created as a study guide for 7th Grade English Language Arts CRCT, but may be used for grades 6 - 8 for practice. (standards are the same, just level of complexity changes) Includes 30 questions on reading charts and tables, writing paragraphs with correct topic sentences, staying on topic, persuasive arguments, note cards, etc. Good for preparing for any state tests and other standardized tests like the Georgia CRCT. Answer key included. GPS, and also supports common core. - HappyEdugator

Back to School Labels and Tags - Fish Theme. Fun printable labels and tags for your classroom with a fish or ocean theme. Includes: Beginning of the year activity and bulletin board - five different fish coloring sheets for students to color and decorate for a special bulletin board - We May Be Different Fish, But We All Swim Together. Students write three things that make them special on index cards and attach their colored fish to the cards for a bulletin board display. Gift tags - Attach with ribbon to a small bag of “Goldfish” crackers or Swedish fish, and pass out as welcome back to school gifts. Name tags - these can also serve as desk name plates. Water bottle labels - these can be personalized and put around water bottles for a cute Open House gift idea. These can also be used for book marks or wrist bands. Fish cards - useful cards to write names, letters, numbers, sight words, spelling words, etc. to make flash cards or games like "Go Fish" Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Billy Budd Final Test - Essay Examination. This is a final essay test or examination for the novel Billy Budd by Herman Melville. There are five questions that are based on theme, symbolism, characterization, and relationships in this classic book. This can be used as a take-home open book examination. Also included is a grading form and a key of possible essay answers.You can use this for backwards design, and use the teacher's guide/answer key to drive your class discussions. Test is editable for your specific needs. -HappyEdugator

Infinitives and Infinitive phrases - includes a Graphic Organizer to aid comprehension, and a handout where infinitives and infinitive phrases oar defined and examples are given (which can also be used as an overhead transparency, or projected on a whiteboard), Also includes a very short worksheet on infinitives for practice, where students have to identify infinitive phrases in sentences, fill in the blanks about infinitives from the notes, and create their own infinitive phrases to complete sentences. (higher level thinking) Also includes a quiz on infinitives and infinitives phrases. Key included.

Penguin Digraph Sort Literacy Center Activity. Fun winter activity with penguins. Students match the pictures on the eggs to the penguin with the correct digraph. Four penguins: TH, CH, SH, and WH. 32 eggs to match. Print out penguins and eggs on cardstock,and cut out and laminate for durability. Have students match the pictures on the eggs to the penguin that has the correct digraph. Some cards have the digraph as an ending sound and some as a beginnig sound. Example – tooth matches the penguin with TH on his tummy Store pieces in a gallon size zipper lock bag. Directions and key included. - HappyEdugator

Common Core Standards for Language ELA PowerPoint Posters. Common core standards for ELA language usage and conventions for grades 6, 7 and 8 summarized. Use as WE CAN posters or as a slide show. You can go over the standards with your students, and afterwards you can print out the slides and laminate them to post in your classroom. Kid friendly language with colorful graphics.

Thanksgiving Writing - Countdown Cards. Fun Thanksgiving writing activity! Print and go quick wirtes or journal prompts forf November. Each card has a different theme for giving thanks. You can print these out and have your students write on them, or project them on a screen if you prefer. They can be used as journal prompts, task cards, literacy centers, or as a choice activity as well. This Thanksgiving, enjoy counting your blessings! Here's another idea: print them out on index cards and stick each one on the cover of a composition book. Then students write in the composition books and rotate them each day, so that each student gets to write in a different book each day. (Just ignore or cut off the dates) This way they also get to see what other students have written. (They can edit other entries, too.) You can also print them out on index cards and have students make a Thanksgiving Blessing Tree. After they write on the cards, punch a hole in them, string a colorful ribbon though, and hang from a tree! Or make a great interactive bulletin board with a tree made out of brown paper and have your students stick their blessings on the tree each day. Make it fun! - HappyEdugator

Word Challenge - A Fun SmartBoard Critical Thinking Game. Students choose a letter with the random letter picker, and then a category with the random category picker, and then set the timer (which is adjustable to set to any amount of time). Good critical thinking time filler! Object is to make as many words as possible beginning with the selected letter that belong in the selected category. (For example, write words that begin with a in the category of fruit) If students don't like the 1st category board, then can choose a category from the second board. This game can be played by the whole class as individuals or groups. They can keep score by counting how many words they created, or play just for fun. Enjoy! Good critical thinking time filler!

Frequently Confused Words Packet - Supports Common Core! Includes a Poster or Handout on how to study commonly confused words, Four sets of frequently confused spelling words for study, four quizzes, and answer keys. The word lists are typed in text boxes, so they can be cut out and put on index cards. Students can then write the words on the other side of the cards. They will have a set of flashcards that they can then use to quiz each other for practice, and a way to self-check. Give out the words at the beginning of the week and have them take a quiz on Friday. These four sets will provide four weeks of practice! If you would like, do one set one week out of the month instead of their regular spelling words. However, you use them, enjoy! - HappyEdugator

St. Patrick's Day Numbers 1 - 20. Counting clovers math and literacy sheet. Students have to count the clovers, draw a line to match them to the number word, then write the number in the box provided. Fun St. Patrick's Day or March math activity. Use Lucky Charms cereal and have your kids count real green clover hats and other lucky charms. Supports math, reading, and writing skills. Supports common core state standards! - HappyEdugator

Common Core Standards for Reading Information PowerPoint Posters. Common core standards for reading information in grade 7 summarized on PowerPoint. Use as I CAN posters or as a slide show. You can go over the standards with your students, and afterwards you can print out the slides and laminate them to post in your classroom. Kid friendly language with colorful graphics. These were made for grade 7, but the standards are the same for grades 6 and 8, only the level of complexity changes, so feel free to use them there. Customizable for your grade level.

Valentine Mythology - Cupid Candy Search. In this engaging Valentine's Day activity, students try to identify the different types of candy names used in the story about Cupid. Can be used individually, in small groups, or as a listening activity. Develop attention and have fun! Includes a handout on puns, for discussion about what a pun is, and a student activity to make a "punny" class joke book. Updated February 2015. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Digital Paper - Background Textures 3. High quality digital papers for your creations. 12 different styles of textured backgrounds.12 X 12, 300 dpi. JPEG file format. Personal or commercial use. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Digital Paper - Background Crystals. High quality digital papers for your creations. 12 different styles of textured backgrounds.12 X 12, 300 dpi. JPEG file format. Personal or commercial use. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Digital Paper - Background Textures 5. High quality digital papers for your creations. 12 different styles of textured backgrounds.12 X 12, 300 dpi. JPEG file format. Personal or commercial use. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator