Test Taking Skills For Essay Tests PowerPoint. Test taking strategies for acing essay tests. Animated PowerPoint gives students strategies they can use to prepare for and take writing tests and essay exams. How to study and what to study to make a great grade when writing an essay test. 18 slides. - HappyEdugator

Antonyms Task Cards - 50 Multiple Choice Cards - Grades 4 - 6. Students can work on finding antonyms and using a dictionary or a thesaurus with these task cards that develop higher level vocabulary. Will also work with middle grades. Print out slides. You can set up your printer to print different sizes. 4 x 6 index cards work well. Print out the Task Card Recording Sheet. Copy as many as you need for students. Laminate cards if you desire. Store in plastic zip close bag. You may use in centers, small groups, or as a whole class game. You can also project from your computer on a whiteboard if you don’t wish to print. Will work with older students as well. Emoticons give clues to the meanings. - HappyEdugator

St. Patrick's Day Riddles and Jokes PowerPoint. Fun! Animated graphics will make your kids laugh! Have them guess the answers to the fun riddles, and then check to see what the answers really are! A fun way to celebrate the holiday! Silly fun for all ages. Happy St. Patrick's Day! Updated March 2015. - HappyEdugator

Martin Luther King Jr. MLK Reading Activity. Informational text on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the creation of the Martin Luther King Day holiday. Use as a supplemental resource to your unit for enrichment or fluency. One page reading sheet about Dr. King and his belief in nonviolence, one page with open ended questions, one page reading about the creation of the holiday, a timeline of the events that led up to the creation of the holiday, and a writing journal prompt. Print and go. NO PREP. - HappyEdugator

Halloween Counting Pumpkins math and literacy sheet. Numbers 11 - 20. Students have to count the pumpkins, draw a line to match them to the number word, then write the number in the box provided. Use pumpkin shaped candy have your kids count them out as they complete the sheet. Fun math activity for Halloween, Fall, and even Thanksgiving. Supports math, reading, and writing skills. Supports common core state standards! Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Pirates Hidden Treasure Game. PowerPoint review game can be used with any set of questions in any subject! Good vocabulary review game for Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies and even Foreign Language. Your kids will love it! Travel the islands of the ocean with these pirate themed gameboards. Students pick a gameboard and then answer your questions. Each time they get an answer correct, they can pick a square. They continue to answer questions and choose until they find they treasure! (We just go around the room, but it can be done with teams as well.) Ten different gameboards to choose from, that include ten different exotic ports of call. Loads of fun for all ages in any subject area. Enjoy! -HappyEdugator

Science Journal Prompts and Writing Activities. Discovery learning and inquiry. A variety of writing ideas to involve kids in writing, researching, and investigating. Writing prompts and activities that inspire students to find out more! You can give these as assignments, use for differentiated instruction, make journal notebooks, add to interactive notebooks, or use in learning centers, etc. Enjoy!

Awards - Printable Rewards - 30 Bookmarks or Wristbands. Print out and give to students as fun rewards! Fun to use at end of year. A variety for holidays, such as Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and St. Patrick's Day! Includes rewards for being honest, respectful, trustworthy, and caring. Also includes celebrations such as star student, 100th day, happy birthday, and more. Great for all seasons - Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter! Print out at the beginning of the year and have them on hand. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Math Journal Prompts and Writing Activities - Write On! Students can write in math class, too! 21 math journal prompts. Each slide is a different writing activity that will spark creativity and imagination, as well as hone those skills. You can choose to display on your whiteboard or print out the slides on index cards and use in a math center. These writing prompts can also be used to add to interactive notebooks. However you use them, you will be giving your students the opportunity to write about math. The new common core standards require more writing in content areas. Here are some ideas that will help you get started.

Word Pyramid PreWriting Activity. Back to school creative writing using their name! Fun anytime, but also a back to school or good beginning of the year writing activity. Handout will stimulate thinking and may have your students running for the dictionary! Students will have to think of words of various lengths to describe themselves, and then come up with a sentence using one of the words.Fold the flap up over the name and have other students read them and try to guess who wrote it. Later, students can write a personal memoir about themselves, and they have already had a jumpstart on their thinking and writing. - HappyEdugator

Using Dictionaries Practice Sheet. This printable is hands-on practice for using dictionaries. Students are given five different words to look up, and then they must answer the questions about each word regarding either meaning, etymology, usage, part of speech, or syllabication. Many students only think of dictionaries as a place to find definitions. They are surprised to learn that there is so much more information included in a dictionary! Key included. - HappyEdugator

Literary Terms in Context PowerPoint. This interactive PowerPoint has 30 questions about literary terms in context. May be used individually, with a whole group, or with teams. Students must read the quote and answer the question, then click to check. Includes terms for poetry and literature, including figurative language, rhyme scheme, story elements and point of view. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Short o Sound - Sounding Out Words PowerPoint. CVC words. Teach reading with phonics and decoding using word families! Short o Word Family. Slides introduce the sound of short o and have students practice blending short o sound with consonants to form one syllable CVC words. Students read the slides and get rewarded with fun shouts and cheers. This is the next step to reading after students learn consonant sounds and the sound of short a and short e. This animated PowerPoint has 17 slides of practice, with a slide of nonsense words and a slide of real words at the end of the presentation for teacher assessment. Supports common core standards. Great supplement for CVC word work.

The Cremation of Sam McGee SMARTBOARD Activities. Poetry analysis on the smart board and writing activities for the poem by Robert Service. This poem is set at Christmas time in the Arctic in the late 1800's. Includes links to background information on the Klondike Gold Rush, Vocabulary words and definitions, a Vocabulary game, a link to the full text of the poem, Figurative language examples and interactive quiz, Comprehension questions and answers, links to a reading of the poem and a video, and writing activities. Includes a final writing task that supports common core standards. Enjoy!

Grammar Task Cards - Language Detective. Includes 4 sets of 12 task cards. Each card has a sentence with an error. Students must figure out what is wrong with the sentence, and mark it on their answer sheet. Answer keys for each set. Skills covered: Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, and Spelling. Fun way to practice for standardized tests. Teacher Directions and Set Up: Cut out and print the four card sets on cardstock.. You may wish to laminate for durability. Print out the answer strips so that you have enough for each student. You may wish to make them double-sided to save paper. Print out at least one copy each of the answer keys. Cards sets may be used in a variety of ways. You may wish to put them in centers, and switch out the sets for four different days. They can also be distributed to four different groups as a group activity. Answer keys can be used for self- checking. Sets can be rotated to different groups. You can also use these cards for whole class games like Scoot, or Around the World.

Handwriting - How to Write Lower Case Letters Animated PowerPoint. Learn to write manuscript lowercase letters. Teach your students lower-case letter formation and write letters the fun way. This animated PowerPoint shows students how to form the lower case letters of the alphabet. Students can watch how to print and then copy the letters on their own paper. Each letter is associated with an animal as well. Great for homeschool, too! Supports common core.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Plot Diagram Activity. Based on the book by Deborah and Gregg Lewis. In this sequencing activity, students will cut out the sentences and put them in the correct order by making a large plot diagram and gluing the sentences in place. Print out the sentences, and provide students with a large piece of construction paper, a marker, scissors, and glue. Encourage them to put them in order first, and have you check it before they glue everything in place. :) Good cooperative learning activity. Enjoy!

Chemistry Tic Tac Think. A Differentiated Writing Assignment Tic Tac Think Menu. In this activity, students choose a task from each horizontal row. Students have a choice but the first row is related to the history of chemistry, the second to the periodic table and the third to the elements. In some cases the teacher may want to specify certain tasks for individual students. You may challenge some students to complete all the squares for enrichment. Can be used in class or as a homework assignment. Includes a writing checklist. Revised June 2013 to fix a typo and to give more guidelines to the assignments. Enjoy!

Alphabet Cooking Fun - Literacy Activities with Yummy Food. These activities combine cooking and kitchen fun with lessons in beginning sounds, letter sounds, letter recognition, and word recognition. Includes a permission slip for parents, a slide with a variety of fun ideas to get started, an alphabet food list, and 11 super fun activities with full directions, including making butter, fruit salad, and peanut butter! Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Halloween Vocabulary PowerPoint. This Halloween PowerPoint presentation has fifteen spooky vocabulary words, including their part of speech and pronunciation. Challenging and unique words; some have etymologies and interesting facts, along with animations and sounds that make things interesting! When you start the slide show, the words will fly in around the pumpkin. You could play spooky music with this is you want. The last 2 slides set up a writing assignment for students, with additional familiar words to use as story starters for a Halloween story! 18 slides of educational fun.