Foldable, double-sided worksheets for;
1. Akiak,
2. Grandfather's Journey,
3. Finding the Titanic, and
4. By the Shores of Silver Lake.
These are the main selections for theme 1, Journeys, from Houghton Mifflin Reading 4.
There is one double-sided worksheet for each story which can be tri-folded into a pamphlet.
Each pamphlet has a section for students to draw a cover illustration, a vocabulary section (10 words), questions, and a 5-Star Review/Recommendation section.
Other activities vary according to the story. They include;
Akiak: Story Map OR Crossword Puzzle, Synopsis.
Grandfather's Journey: Sequence and Summarize OR Sequence and Draw
Finding the Titanic: Predict and Infer OR Write an Opinion, Synopsis.
By the Shores of Silver Lake: Crossword, Synopsis.
Answer keys and instruction sheets are included.
A double-sided worksheet for The Last Dragon, 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 crossword puzzle or a poetry writing activity (according to teacher choice), comprehension questions (4), and a 5 star review/recommendation section.
An instruction page and answer key are included.
Created Feb 2015
The BFG Workbook has "comic style" worksheets and novel study activities for the story by Roald Dahl.
It includes; cover page with a background knowledge activity, vocabulary (14 pages), questions (6 pages), similes (1 page), creative activities (5 pages), puzzles (2 pages), and word problems (1 page). It also includes the answers to the two puzzle pages. No other answer keys are provided. There are thirty-two pages.
The vocabulary pages include nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjective, synonyms and antonyms.
Each question page has five questions.
Creative activities are;
Cooking with Snozzcumbers
Frobscottle Advertising Poster
Letter to Human Beans
Make a Dream Jar
Giant Menu
Clipart is intentionally absent from this workbook. It is designed so students can add their own artwork.
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The BFG 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 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.
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 workbook is included in the How to Write Essay Bundle (Biography, Comparison & Contrast, Descriptive Essay) at a discounted price.
A set of nine parts of speech posters in landscape with yellow background with fun clipart to demonstrate concepts.
Includes:
▢ a cover page
▢ noun
▢ verb
▢ adjective (2 versions)
▢ adverb
▢ preposition
▢ conjunction
▢ interjection
▢ article
A4 Landscape with yellow background.
A set of nine parts of speech posters in landscape with red background with fun clipart to demonstrate concepts.
Includes:
▢ a cover page
▢ noun
▢ verb
▢ adjective (2 versions)
▢ adverb
▢ preposition
▢ conjunction
▢ interjection
▢ article
A4 Landscape with red background.
A set of nine parts of speech posters in landscape with blue background with fun clipart to demonstrate concepts.
Includes:
▢ a cover page
▢ noun
▢ verb
▢ adjective (2 versions)
▢ adverb
▢ preposition
▢ conjunction
▢ interjection
▢ article
A4 Landscape with blue background
Persuasive, Expository, Comparison and Contrast, Descriptive and Narrative writing are covered by this brightly coloured set of A4 landscape posters.
Nine posters detailing the types of writing. Mentor texts are included with the posters making them great teaching tools.
Poster headings include;
Five Types of Writing
What is an Essay?
Persuasive
Expository
Comparison and Contrast
Descriptive
Narrative
Fictional Narrative
Non-fiction Narrative
These look great when printed on photo quality paper.
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Types of Writing Poster Pack by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Uniquely designed colourful posters defining various story elements. There are fourteen A4 size posters.
Includes;
▢ cover
▢ title
▢ author
▢ illustrator
▢ characters
▢ setting
▢ transformation
▢ plot
▢ conflict or problem
▢ climax
▢ resolution or solution
▢ theme
Landscape with blue background.
Uniquely designed colorful posters defining various story elements. There are fourteen A4 size posters.
Includes;
▢ cover
▢ title
▢ author
▢ illustrator
▢ characters
▢ setting
▢ transformation
▢ plot
▢ conflict or problem
▢ climax
▢ resolution or solution
▢ theme
Landscape with white background and minimal use of colour.
Uniquely designed colourful posters defining various story elements. There are fourteen A4 size posters.
Includes;
▢ cover
▢ title
▢ author
▢ illustrator
▢ characters
▢ setting
▢ transformation
▢ plot
▢ conflict or problem
▢ climax
▢ resolution or solution
▢ theme
Landscape with red background.
Uniquely designed colourful posters defining various story elements. There are fourteen A4 size posters.
Includes;
▢ cover
▢ title
▢ author
▢ illustrator
▢ characters
▢ setting
▢ transformation
▢ plot
▢ conflict or problem
▢ climax
▢ resolution or solution
▢ theme
Landscape with yellow background.
D'nealian style animal themed ABC posters designed for all elementary grade levels.
The posters have both a print and cursive example.
Photographs, rather than clip art, add a bit of realism so these are especially nice for slightly older English language learners.
Best of all there are no chevrons, polka dots, stripes nor bubble headed stick figures anywhere on these posters. (Not that there is anything wrong with that) (^_^)
Designed in A4 size but can be printed half or a quarter that by adjusting your printer settings.
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ABC Animal Posters by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Zaner Bloser style animal themed ABC posters designed for all elementary grade levels.
The posters have both a print and cursive example.
Photographs, rather than clip art, add a bit of realism so these are especially nice for slightly older English language learners.
Best of all there are no chevrons, polka dots, stripes nor bubble headed stick figures anywhere on these posters. (Not that there is anything wrong with that) (^_^)
Designed in A4 size but can be printed half or a quarter that by adjusting your printer settings.
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ABC Animal Posters by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
A set of square, flower-themed mini-posters based on Bloom's Taxonomy Revised;
Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate & Create.
There is a title poster, summary poster, and 6 posters (one for each level). I keep this hanging in my classroom as a reminder to myself when I'm working on language arts units for my classes.
Green, Blue, and Yellow ersions are included. The PDF file can be printed on A4, B4, or A3 size paper.
The original version is also included but the design and content are slightly different.
Revised in May 2017.
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Bloom's Taxonomy Flower Posters by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
What do good writers do?
These seven colourful posters detail a six-step writer's process for your students.
They tell them a good writer; Pre-writes, Drafts, Shares, Revises, Edits and Publishes their work.
Each step in the writer's process is described with key words and phrases highlighted to help students focus on the key ideas.
These will look good prominently displayed in your writing workshop.
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The Writer's Process Posters by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
Whatever you do...don't download these Super Scary Writing Sheets. (^_^)
These uniquely designed Super Scary Writing Sheets are useful all year long and especially for Halloween but they are not for the faint of heart. Like I said, they are super scary.
There are four Halloween themed cover sheets for students to illustrate and a fifth blank cover sheet for students' creativity.
The design of the writing sheets is not quite right but don't take my word for it. Download it and see for yourself. Nonetheless, you have been warned.
Notable features are:
1. Portrait and landscape designs.
2. Four styles of cover pages.
3. Additional blank cover page for student created designs.
4. Two versions of most writing sheets with regular and penmanship lines for younger writers.
5. A page number box for multiple page writing.
6. Four styles of comic strip templates for those students who love to draw comics.
7. Full colour and low ink versions are provided.
8. Minimal use of clipart leading to more student creativity and usefulness year round.
9. A complete absence of chevrons, polka dots and bubble headed clipart. (Because those are way too scary even for me!!)
The number of unique pages is 31. Including the low ink versions there are 62 sheets total.
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Super Scary Halloween Writing Sheets by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
Crossword puzzles for the novel No Talking by Andrew Clements.
There are four crossword puzzles:
Chapters 1 to 5
Chapters 6 to 10
Chapters 11 to 15
Chapters 16 to 20
Each puzzle has fifteen (15) questions. The questions have single and multiple word answers.
A uniquely designed set of ten reader responses for short fiction.
This is great to have in your reading center or to use as individual worksheets for short fiction.
The booklet includes;
▢ Choose your Activity Checklist
▢ Design a Book Cover
▢ Create a Character Sketch
▢ Draw and Describe the Setting
▢ Map the Story
▢ Sequence the Story
▢ Summarise the Story
▢ Email the Author
▢ Create What Happens Next
▢ Write an Alternate Ending
▢ Review the Story
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Common Core aligned worksheets and activities to supplement the story Cliff Hanger 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, an adventure narrative story map, three cause and effect activities to help students understand and apply this particular skill, an adverb activity, an adverb crossword, an adverb word search, a vocabulary practice and an informational reading extension about free solo climbing. (13 pages).
An answer key is included.
Included in this purchase is a BONUS: "Cliff Hanger Sequencing and Summarizing" sentence strips activity and poster.