Introduces students to a selection of easy, intermediate, and advanced character traits. Twenty-six adjectives in each category with a focus on personality traits. This great for an enrichment activity, as a vocabulary building lesson, or even emergency substitute plans. Includes an mini-anchor chart, three leveled list of adjectives, a categorizing activity for each list, a creative activity with a short writing activity, a crossword puzzle, and a word search. Answer keys are provided for the puzzles. Character Traits Activity Pack by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Common Core aligned worksheets and activities for The Little Red Ant and the Great Big Crumb retold by Shirley Climo as published in Scholastic Literacy Place. 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 and creative activities, a story map, a cause and effect activity, a sequencing activity, a summarizing activity, an Ant Fact Sheet, Amazing Ants reading extension with questions and a vocabulary puzzle. (14 pages of activities) Created Aug 2015

Common core aligned worksheets to supplement Thunder Cake 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 story map, a vocabulary puzzle, and a write a sense poem creative activity. (15 pages of activities) Included in this purchase is a BONUS: Thunder Cake 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

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. ___________________ Bloom's Taxonomy Flower Posters by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

A presentation and group practice of adjectives. Includes a brief explanation and some practice. Both Apple Keynote and Microsoft Powerpoint versions are provided. PDFs of the slides are also included.

Common Core aligned worksheets and activities for The Legend of the Persian Carpet by Tomie dePaola as published in Scholastic Literacy Place. 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 and creative activities, a story map, three cause and effect activities, a sequencing activity, a complex sentences activity and a vocabulary crossword puzzle. (12 pages) Created Aug 2015

Common Core aligned worksheets and activities for Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport by Marjorie W. Sharmat as published in Scholastic Literacy Place. Common core aligned activities 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 and creative activities, a story map, a fact versus opinion activity, two vocabulary puzzles and an informational reading extension. (10 pages of activities) Created Aug 2015

Common Core aligned worksheets and activities for Dragon in the Rocks by Marie Day as published in Scholastic Literacy Place. 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 and creative activities, a story map, a sequencing activity, a summarizing activity, a nouns and adjective activity, a creating similes activity, two vocabulary puzzles and a Fossil reading extension with questions. (12 pages of activities) Created Aug 2015

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. __________ ABC Animal Posters by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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 __________

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

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. __________ ABC Animal Posters by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Math Around the World has twenty geography themed multi-step word problems with a focus on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Four of the task cards deal with measurements so two versions are provided; imperial and metric. Each task card references a city and or country which the student locates on the included answer sheet after solving the problem. An A4 size world map is included in the packet. An answer sheet without the world map is also included should you prefer to simplify the expectation. These are perfect for your math center. These double-sided task cards can be easily printed with the task card on one side and a backing card on the other. They can be easily folded, cut and laminated.

Math word problems have never been so scary!! Halloween themed multi-step word problems that give students a chance to practice; ▢ addition ▢ subtraction ▢ multiplication ▢ division ▢ simple fractions ▢ percentage ▢ measurements (two versions imperial, metric) ▢ currency (two measurements dollars, pounds) Three varieties of answer sheets are included depending upon your preference. Two versions of the task cards are included; Full colour and Low Ink. These are perfect for your math center. These 20 double-sided task cards can be easily printed with the task card on one side and a backing card on the other. They can be easily folded, cut and laminated.

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.

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. __________ Types of Writing Poster Pack by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Picture writing prompts are a great way to spark students' creativity. This set includes twenty humorous pictures (four per A4 sheet) that can be printed, cut and laminated for use in your writing workshop or in a center. There are two versions of each picture; one with "starter questions" on the back of the prompt to get students going. The other with a "starter sentence" written on the front of the prompt. Chose (or allow students to choose) which is best for them. A matching set of twenty loose leaf notebook paper style publishing papers with a black and white version of each visual writing prompt is also included. __________ Visual Writing Prompts (Funny) 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 an opinion paragraph with a topic sentence, two supporting sentences with two examples each and a closing sentence. There are two writing models; "Exercise and Eating Healthy" and "Think of Others". Each model has a graphic organizer to aid students in deconstructing the paragraph. This process helps students to intuit the structure of an opinion 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 pages of some pages are provided to account for US/UK spelling variations. __________

Fantastic Mr. Fox Workbook has "comic style" worksheets and novel study activities for the story by Roald Dahl. There is a cover page with a background knowledge activity, vocabulary activities (5 pages), comprehension activities (5 pages) and creative activities (2 pages). There are twenty pages including answer key. The creative activities are; Creating a Newspaper Designing an Underground Home A blank questions page and blank vocabulary page are included so you can write in your own content. An answer key is provided for most pages. Clipart is intentionally absent from this workbook. It is designed so students can add their own artwork. __________ Fantastic Mr. Fox Comic Style Workbook by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.