Compare and contrast pets with a Venn Diagram, create a lost pet poster, create and write a post card, and solve two animal puzzles after reading the delightful picture storybook Children Make Terrible Pets by Peter Brown. These printables make it easy to add to some meaning, fun and creative activities to your story time. Created Mar 2016

A step by step, scaffolded approach to teaching your students a descriptive paragraph about an animal with a topic sentence, supporting sentences and closing sentences. There are two writing models; Snow Monkeys and Puffins. Each model has a graphic organiser to aid students in deconstructing the paragraph. This process helps students to intuit the structure of a descriptive paragraph. It draws special attention to a six-step writing process; brainstorm, draft, share, edit, revise and publish. There is a checklist to aid students in monitoring their progress through a writing process. The workbook is printed on loose leaf notebook style paper. Two versions of some pages are provided to account for US/UK spelling variations.

Compare and contrast pets with a Venn Diagram, create a lost pet poster, create and write a post card, and solve two animal puzzles after reading the delightful picture storybook Children Make Terrible Pets by Peter Brown. These printables make it easy to add to some meaning, fun and creative activities to your story time.

Common core aligned worksheets and activities for Houghton Mifflin 2.1 Theme One stories; Dragon Gets By, Julius and Mrs. Brown Went to Town. This a discounted bundle of five separate resources. The regular prices for all resources is $21. 1. Dragon Gets By Student Workbook has two vocabulary activities (6 words each) which focus on using a combination of dictionary skills and context clues, a story map, ten comprehension questions/activities with a focus on Bloom's Taxonomy, a sequencing activity, a summarizing activity (2 versions), a vocabulary puzzle, an informational reading extension about Healthy Eating and a healthy meal activity. (12 pages total) Included in this purchase is a BONUS: Dragon Gets By Sequence and Summarize sentence strips activity and poster. 2. Julius Student Workbook has two vocabulary activities (6 words each) which focus on using a combination of dictionary skills and context clues, a story map, ten comprehension questions/activities with a focus on Bloom's Taxonomy, a sequencing activity, a reality vs. fantasy activity, a vocabulary puzzle, an informational reading extension and a good manners poster activity (12 pages total) 3. Mrs. Brown Went to Town Student Workbook has Common core aligned activities include: two vocabulary activities (6 words each) which focus on using a combination of dictionary skills and context clues, ten comprehension questions/activities with a focus on Bloom's Taxonomy, a sequencing activity, a summarizing activity, a reality vs. fantasy activity, a prediction activity, a vocabulary puzzle, and a create a for sale sign activity. Included in this purchase is a BONUS: Mrs. Brown Went to Town Sequence and Summarize sentence strips activity and poster. The preview provides a good overview of the product including Common Core standards. Sequence and summarize activity is not included in the preview. Answer keys are included. Bundled in Sep 2015.

The Twits Workbook has comic style worksheets and novel study activities for the story by Roald Dahl. There are 20 pages. It includes; cover page with a prediction activity, vocabulary (4 pages), questions (5 pages), alliteration (1 page), diamante poem (1 page), puzzles (2 pages), describe the characters (1 page) and make a comic (1 page). A blank vocabulary template and answer the questions template is included so you can write in your own content. It includes the answers to the two puzzle pages. No other answer keys are provided. The vocabulary pages practice synonyms, antonyms, classifying adjectives and adverbs. Clipart is intentionally absent from this workbook. It is designed so students can add their own artwork. __________ The Twits Comic Style Workbook by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

A step by step, scaffolded approach to teaching your students how to write a five-paragraph biographical essay. There is a writing model from which students complete a graphic organiser to guide them in deconstructing the model essay. This process helps students to intuit the structure of a biography. There are graphic organizers for research, introduction and conclusion. There is an editing symbol guide and a "works cited" guide. It draws special attention to a six-step writing process; research, draft, share, edit, revise and publish. There are check boxes for monitoring students' progress through the writing process. The workbook is printed on loose leaf notebook style paper. This is useful if you live overseas and have trouble locating the loose leaf style notebook paper found in North America. Revised and updated on Mar 2015. NOTE:This workbook contains two copies of some pages to account for the two spellings of organiser/organizer. __________ How to Write a Biography by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Common core aligned worksheets to supplement Julius as published in Houghton Mifflin Reading 2.1. Common core aligned activities include: two vocabulary activities (6 words each) which focus on using a combination of dictionary skills and context clues, a story map, ten comprehension questions/activities with a focus on Bloom's Taxonomy, a sequencing activity, a reality vs. fantasy activity, a vocabulary puzzle, an informational reading extension and a good manners poster activity (12 pages total) The preview provides a good overview of the product including Common Core standards. Created Aug 2015

The Lemonade War Vocabulary Workbook is a vocabulary based novel study supplement to the book by Jacqueline Davies. It focuses on five vocabulary words per chapter for a total of seventy words for the entire novel. A master vocabulary list is included. There are fourteen uniquely designed vocabulary worksheets. To complete the vocabulary activities students find the quote in the story that uses the word and note the page number, then they practice their dictionary skills to find the meaning. They have to use context to determine the part of speech of the vocabulary words. Finally they either write an appropriate definition or a sentence using the word. A blank vocabulary activity sheet (editable pdf) is also included so the teacher can add other words they choose. The workbook has four challenging puzzle activities to help students review the vocabulary words. These are great pair work activities.The puzzles include; Chapters 1 to 4 Crossword Chapters 5 to 8 Word Search Chapters 9 to 12 Word Scramble Double Puzzle Chapters 3 and 14 Sentence Scramble Four quizzes are also included; Chapters 1 to 4 Chapters 5 to 8 Chapters 9 to 12 Chapters 13 and 14 The total number of pages of activities are 24. A complete answer key is also included.

The Lemonade War Vocabulary Workbook is a vocabulary based novel study supplement to the book by Jacqueline Davies. It focuses on five vocabulary words per chapter for a total of seventy words for the entire novel. A master vocabulary list is included. There are fourteen uniquely designed vocabulary worksheets. To complete the vocabulary activities students find the quote in the story that uses the word and note the page number, then they practice their dictionary skills to find the meaning. They have to use context to determine the part of speech of the vocabulary words. Finally they either write an appropriate definition or a sentence using the word. A blank vocabulary activity sheet (editable pdf) is also included so the teacher can add other words they choose. The workbook has four challenging puzzle activities to help students review the vocabulary words. These are great pair work activities.The puzzles include; Chapters 1 to 4 Crossword Chapters 5 to 8 Word Search Chapters 9 to 12 Word Scramble Double Puzzle Chapters 3 and 14 Sentence Scramble Four quizzes are also included; Chapters 1 to 4 Chapters 5 to 8 Chapters 9 to 12 Chapters 13 and 14 The total number of pages of activities are 24. A complete answer key is also included.

Common core aligned worksheets to supplement Brothers and Sisters as published in Houghton Mifflin Reading 2.2. Common core aligned activities include: two vocabulary activities (6 words each) which focus on using a combination of dictionary skills and context clues, ten comprehension questions/activities with a focus on Bloom's Taxonomy, a making generalizations review and activity, a writing an opinion paragraph mini-lesson, a vocabulary puzzle, and a create a family tree activity with multiple templates to reflect different family structures and terminology. (15 pages of activities) The preview provides a good overview so take a look. (^_^) The answer key will be completed and uploaded later. Until then the price is discounted to $4 from the usual $5. Created Mar 2016

Common core aligned worksheets to supplement Carousel as published in Houghton Mifflin Reading 2.2. Common core aligned activities include: two vocabulary activities (6 words each) which focus on using a combination of dictionary skills and context clues, ten comprehension questions/activities with a focus on Bloom's Taxonomy, a sequencing and summarizing activity, a making inferences review and practice activity, a making judgements activity, a vocabulary puzzle, and a create a carousel animal creative activity. (15 pages of activities) Included in this purchase is a BONUS: Carousel Sequence and Summarize sentence strips activity and poster. The answer key will be completed and uploaded later. Until then the price is discounted to $4 from the usual $5. Created Mar 2016

The Magic Finger Workbook has "comic style" worksheets and novel study activities for the story by Roald Dahl. It includes; a cover page with a background knowledge activity, details activities for character and setting, vocabulary (2 pages), idioms (1 page), comprehension questions (3 pages), a comic creating activity and a crossword puzzle (with answer key). Also included is a blank questions and a blank vocabulary page so you can add you own content. Clipart is intentionally absent from this workbook. It is designed so students can add their own artwork. __________ The Magic Finger Comic Style Workbook by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Detail based multiple choice quizzes and a test for the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. Each quiz has ten multiple choice questions and a four question short summary section. The final quiz (test) has 20 multiple choice questions, a sequencing section, and a long answer question. The quizzes are not single answer multiple choice questions. Some of them have more than one answer so they are bit more difficult than usual multiple choice quizzes. The quizzes are for chapters 1 to 4, 5 to 8, 9 to 12, 13 to 16, and 17 to Epilogue. Answer keys are included. ___________________ Hatchet Quiz Time by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

A vocabulary presentation that introduces and reinforces the meaning and usage of twenty vocabulary words from the story The Ballad of Mulan retold by Song Nan Zhang as published in Houghton and Mifflin Reading 3.1. The twenty (20) vocabulary words covered include; armor, bridle, draft, farewell, frail, invaders, scroll, sigh, sorrowful, troops, bestow, comrade, dusk, endure, harsh, ravage, summoned, swift, triumphant and victorious. This is a useful supplement to "The Ballad of Mulan Student Workbook". Apple Keynote, Microsoft Powerpoint and PDF versions of the vocabulary show are included. Revised Aug 2015

A vocabulary presentation that introduces and reinforces the meaning and usage of twenty vocabulary words from the story Cliff Hanger by Jean Craighead George as published in Houghton and Mifflin Reading 3.1. The twenty (20) vocabulary words covered include; avalanche, belay, carabiner, descent, free climb, gear, harness, ledge, rappel, trek, brace, cathedral, climbing nut, foresee, handhold, plunge, registration book, ridge, splats and void. Apple Keynote, Microsoft Powerpoint and PDF versions of the vocabulary show are included. This is a useful companion to Cliff Hanger Student Workbook. Revised Aug 2015

A step by step, scaffolded approach to teaching your students how to write a biography, a comparison and contrast and a descriptive essay. All have two writing models with graphic organizers to aid students in deconstructing the writing. This process helps students intuit the structure of the writing. All three draw special attention to a six-step writing process; brainstorm, draft, share, edit, revise and publish. There is a checklist to aid students in monitoring their progress through a writing process. The workbooks have a loose leaf notebook paper style background. This is a discounted bundle of three resources; How to Write a Biography How to Write a Comparison and Contrast How to Write a Descriptive Essay HOW TO WRITE A BIOGRAPHY A step by step, scaffolded approach to teaching your students how to write a five-paragraph biographical essay. There is a writing model from which students complete a graphic organiser to guide them in deconstructing the model essay. This process helps students to intuit the structure of a biography. There are graphic organisers for research, introduction and conclusion. There is an editing symbol guide and a works cited guide. HOW TO WRITE A COMPARISON AND CONTRAST A step by step, scaffolded approach for teaching your students how to write a four-paragraph comparison and contrast essay. There is a writing model from which students complete a graphic organiser to guide them in deconstructing the model essay. This process helps students to intuit the structure of a comparison and contrast essay. There are graphic organisers for compare and contrast words and phrases, research, Venn Diagram, introduction and conclusion. There is also an editing symbol guide and a works cited guide. HOW TO WRITE A DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY A step by step, scaffolded approach to teaching your students how to write a five-paragraph descriptive essay about an animal. There is a writing model from which students complete a graphic organiser to guide them in deconstructing the model essay. This process helps students to intuit the structure of an essay. There are graphic organisers for research, introduction and conclusion. There is an editing symbol guide and a works cited guide.

A double-sided worksheet for Akiak A Tale from the Iditarod, as published in Houghton and Mifflin Reading 4, that tri-folds into a pamphlet. It includes an illustration section, a vocabulary practice (10 words), a story map or a crossword puzzle (according to teacher preference), comprehension questions (3), a write a synopsis and 5 star review/recommendation section. An instruction page and answer key are included.

Common Core aligned worksheets to supplement The Ballad of Mulan as published in Houghton Mifflin Reading 3.1. Included are: two vocabulary activities which focus on using a combination of dictionary skills and context clues, ten comprehension questions with a focus on higher order thinking skills, a sequencing activity, three making inferences activities, two vocabulary puzzles and an informational reading extension about China. (12 pages of activities) An answer key is included.

A double-sided worksheet for My Name is Maria Isabel, as published in Houghton and Mifflin Reading 4, that tri-folds into a pamphlet. It includes an illustration section, a vocabulary practice (10 words), making inferences activity or winter traditions writing activity (according to teacher choice), comprehension questions (5), and 5 star review/recommendation section. An instruction page and answer key are included. Created Feb 2015