Includes a guide for writing expository paragraphs that explains the structure of expository text, several writing prompts, and a writing assignment sheet with illustration box. - HappyEdugator

The short story The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers has many literary elements for students to study. This packet addresses vocabulary, comprehension, character, theme, symbolism, internal conflict and external conflict, author's purpose, and tone. Requires critical thinking and analyzing the text to find evidence to support answers. Graphic organizers included. - HappyEdugator

An analogy shows the relationship between pairs of words. The relationship between the first pair of words is the same as the relationship between the second pair of words. For example, quick is to fast as loud is to noisy. Four practice sheets for students. They must use the words in the box to complete the analogies. - HappyEdugator

Try this fun Getting-to-Know-You activity for Back to School All. It's an All About Me Graphic Organizer. This is a great way to learn your students’ names at the beginning of the year, and your students will love making their special graphic organizer about themselves. Make enough copies for everyone in your class. Card Stock is best. Take photos of your students and attach them to the center of the graphic organizer. Your students can then fill it out with their best attributes, family, friends, interests, etc. There is a Character Traits list included so students can have a reference for their writing. These make a great display, but don’t stop there. You can have students present them to the class, create a writing assignment based on their graphic organizer, use them to create lessons based on their interests. You can do this activity as a whole group, giving an example to the class of your own personal graphic organizer to introduce your students to who you are. You can also have them complete them in groups or use them in centers. - HappyEdugator

This cause and effect chart goes along with the short story of The Legend of Popocatepetl and Ixtaccíhuatl. Students have to fill in the blanks of either the cause or the effect of the event listed on the chart. - HappyEdugator

Vocabulary for study skills...72 slides with essential academic vocabulary needed for developing good study skills and preparing students for standardized tests. Each slide has the word, the part of speech, definition, and synonyms. Animated so you can present the word first, then click to see the rest of the information. - HappyEdugator

Alphabet writing! Students can practice their letter writing skills with these sheets which go through the entire alphabet from a to z. Trace the letter, then practice writing on the lines given. Color the picture that goes with the letter, too. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Use these library signs to make a great back to school display. Signs are places you will go when you read a book. 40 signs to choose from to make your own special display, or you can change them out as the year progresses. Choose which signs you wish to use Print out on card stock Cut out Laminate for durability Attach to a pole for a fun display! - HappyEdugator

Back to school Wanted Poster. Have fun getting to know your students by having everyone in the class make these wanted posters during the first week. They will enjoy sharing and getting to know each other, too. Makes a great back to school wall display. You can also use these posters as an additional activity to go along with a reading, writing or social studies unit relating to an old western theme. Students can choose a character from a book to put on their poster. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Use this sheet on Veterans Day to reinforce your lessons on fact and opinion. Students have to read the eight sentences and then decide if they are facts or opinions. - HappyEdugator

Use this word scramble puzzle in a center for a fun activity around Halloween. Students will love it. Answers are at the bottom, upside- down, but you can remove them if you wish. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Halloween Word Search. Your students will have fun finding the spooky Halloween words hidden in this word search puzzle. They can search up, down, backwards, and diagonally to find them. Includes answer key. - HappyEdugator

nspirational Quotes Posters - Bird Theme. 40 Motivational posters for your classroom decor. BUNDLE Sized 81/2 X 11. Print and laminate, or project on your whiteboard as a daily message for students to see as they walk in the door. These inspirational quotes can also be used as daily writing prompts. Have students reflect on the meaning of the poster and the image. This is a bundle of 4 sets. Save $ and buy the bundle. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator THIS BUNDLE INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING SETS: Inspirational Posters - Bird Theme SET 1 Inspirational Posters - Bird Theme SET 2 Inspirational Posters - Bird Theme SET 3 Inspirational Posters - Bird Theme SET 4 You may also like these beach themed posters: Inspirational Posters - Beach Theme ©2015HappyEdugator.

Phonics PowerPoint Bundle. Includes 8 PowerPoints to help students with decoding and sounding out words: Letter Sounds PowerPoint. Short a Sounding Out Words PowerPoint Short e Sounding Out Words PowerPoint Short i Sounding Out Words PowerPoint Short o Sounding Out Words PowerPoint Short u Sounding Out words PowerPoint. Word Families PowerPoint. Word Families. - HappyEdugator

Thanksgiving Activities. Thanksgiving activities bundle of my most popular Thanksgiving activities. Best for grades 4 - 6, but these Thanksgiiving activities can also be adapted and used for 3 - 8. 126 pages. Includes: Thanksgiving ABC Word Wall List Thanksgiving Acrostic Poems Thanksgiving Bookmarks Set of 6 Thanksgiving Food Word Scramble Thanksgiving Maze Thanksgiving Hunting Homophones Thanksgiving Quiz Thanksgiving Reader's Theater - Gobble it Up Thanksgiving Day Song Thanksgiving - First Thanksgiving Fill-in Thanksgiving Word Scramble Thanksgiving Word Search Thanksgiving Word Wall Cards Thanksgiving Writing Thanksgiving Writing Fun - Pilgrim Comics Thanksgiving Writing - I am Thankful Sheets Thanksgiving Skit - A Joyful Harvest These activities are all available separately in my store for $28.25, but purchase the bundle and save $! :) - HappyEdugator

PowerPoint Game Templates BUNDLE. Make your own PowerPoint games kids will love! All six of my PowerPoint Game Templates! Buy the bundle and save! Includes: Danger PowerPoint Game Template 59 pages Wheel of Wealth PowerPoint Game Template 24 pages Race to the Finish PowerPoint Game Template 35 pages The Strongest Link PowerPoint Game Template 24 pages Squares PowerPoint Game Template 22 pages Who Wants to Be Rich PowerPoint Game Template 35 pages ©2014 HappyEdugator.

Christmas BUNDLE - Christmas activities for grades 4 - 8. Fun! Includes 26 of my best selling Christmas products in one bundle to save you money. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator Includes these products: Christmas Homophones Handout Christmas Activity - Teaching Vocabulary with Lyrics from Jingle Bells Christmas Analogies PowerPoint Christmas Adjective Clause Worksheet Christmas Coded Words Activity Sheet Christmas Alliterations Activity Christmas Similes Activity Christmas Adverb Clauses Christmas Holiday Sensory Writing Practice Christmas - Holiday Word Scramble Christmas Luminaries Christmas Craft Christmas Pictionary and Charades Game Christmas - Holiday Word Search Christmas Puzzle Christmas Story Starters Christmas Story Starters on Decorative Lined Paper Poinsettias - Christmas Symbol PowerPoint Christmas Writing Activity - Revising the Lyrics of Christmas Songs SMARTBOARD - Figurative Language in Christmas Songs Activity The Gift of the Magi PowerPoint The Gift of the Magi Vocabulary Matching TEST The Christmas Coin Reader's Theater The Velveteen Rabbit PowerPoint Christmas Activities Christmas Activity - Writing Letters From Santa Christmas Activity - Writing Letters to Santa The Twelve Days of Christmas Gift Coupon Sheet Christmas Gift Coupons and Bookmarks Christmas Trivia Sheet Christmas - Bookmarks All of these items are available separately in my TPT store. Just click on the links above, where you can see thumbnails and preview the items. Buy the bundle of my most popular Christmas resources and save! If you bought all of these items separately, you would pay more than $51.00. Buy the bundle and pay only $20.00. Save over half off! - HappyEdugator

Literary Terms Bundle - Grades 4 - 8. I have bundled several of my best selling literary terms products so you can save! This bundle includes: Literary Elements PowerPoint Literary Terms for Fiction Handout. LiteraryTerms for Fiction TEST Literature Terms - How Authors Engage the Reader PowerPoint Literary Terms Interactive PowerPoint Literary Terms 2 Interactive PowerPoint Blank Plot Diagram Story Plot Map Story Elements Think Tac Toe All of thes items are available separately for $15.25, but if you buy the bundle, you will save $3.25! It will also be half price for the first 48 hours! Buy the bundle for your best deal! - HappyEdugator

Bell Ringers Bundle - Full Year - Common Core! This is a bundled set of my ELA Common Core Daily Warm Ups on Sentence Editing, Figurative Language, Sentence Structure (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences), Expository Writing Prompts, Context Clues, and Conventions. Engaging slides with colorful photographs will keep your students learning all year long! Each set has several slides which review the skill. These provide great mini lessons on core standards! Includes the following sets: Bell Ringers - Common Core - Context Clues Bell Ringers - Common Core - Figurative Language Bell Ringers - Common Core - Expository Writing Prompts Bell Ringers - Common Core - Conventions Bell Ringers - Common Core - Sentence Structure Bell Ringers - Common Core - Grammar and Usage These sets of thirty Language Arts skills practice activities are available in my store separately for $21.00, but if you buy the full year bundle you only pay $15! - HappyEdugator

Bell Ringers - Common Core - Conventions. ELA Test Prep. Thirty ways to practice spelling, punctuation and capitalization. Quick 5-7 minutes of practice that will help students build writing skill using conventions. Some of the words on the spelling slides are deliberately spelled incorrectly for students to distinguish between correct and incorrect spelling. Includes a couple of slides with information on what conventions are and why they are important. Each slide has an activity and an answer slide so they can quickly check themselves. These can also be printed out on index cards and turned into fun task cards. Supports Common Core. - HappyEdugator