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

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

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. __________ 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. __________ Super Scary Halloween Writing Sheets by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

Common core aligned worksheets to supplement The Great Ball Game 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 (3 pages) with a focus on Bloom's Taxonomy, a sequencing activity, a summarizing activity, three cause and effect activities, a vocabulary puzzle, a bats versus birds informational reading with a Venn Diagram, and a create a comic activity. Two templates are included for use with a suggested collage activity. (13 pages of activities) A suggested resources page is also included. Included in this purchase is a BONUS: The Great Ball Game Sequence and Summarize sentence strips activity and poster.

Animals in Our Lives is a science themed reading activity focused on the topics; Domestic Vs. Wild Animals Domesticating Animals and Plants Animals Helping Us (Service Animals) There are six pages of reading activities, one crossword puzzle and one quiz. A complete answer key is provided. There are thirteen pages. These are science themed reading activities with a focus on using context clues to build vocabulary and to increase comprehension. They make excellent center activities. These were created with English language learners in mind. __________

Stop!! Don't do it!! These writing prompts and story starters are way too scary. Yes! Your students will love them. Yes! These pictures will spark their creativity. But, is it worth the risk? (^_^) If you are sure then keep reading. These picture writing prompts and story starters are great for Halloween but also appropriate any time of year. This set includes twenty super scary pictures (four per A4 sheet) that can be printed, cut and laminated for use in your writing workshop or writing 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 "story starter sentence" written on the front of the prompt. Choose (or allow students to choose) which is best for them. A full colour set of twenty matching publishing papers is included. Also a low ink version of the same twenty publishing papers is included. __________ Visual Writing Prompts (Super Scary) by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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.

Solar system flash fact cards and matching A4 size posters for the planets and other bodies in our solar system. Included are; the Milky Way galaxy, our solar system, the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Earth's moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto (dwarf planet), comets and asteroids. Each card has a short paragraph with facts and details. The paragraphs are written with simple, predictable sentence patterns so these are excellent for ELL environments. Easy to make. It takes only 30 minutes. An instruction sheet is included. The posters are identical to the flash fact cards except for the size. They can be printed double sided using the included backing images. ____________________ Solar System Fact Cards by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Images from: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov

Water Cycle Reading Activity Pack is a ten page science themed reading activity focusing on the water cycle; transpiration, evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection. The first three pages deal with the water cycle as a broad concept without much complexity. They are designed so students can intuit the concepts by matching clues in the diagrams with key words and phrases from the vocabulary and reading sections. The next five pages deal with each of the stages in the water cycle in a bit more detail and complexity. The ninth page is a crossword reviewing the concepts and vocabulary found in the reading pages. The tenth page is a multiple choice and labelling quiz. A complete answer key is provided. BONUS: Foldable book templates pre-labeled for the Water Cycle. These were created for English language learners but work nicely in any learning environment. __________ Water Cycle Activity Pack 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 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.

Microorganisms Reading Activity Pack is a science themed reading activity focused on the topics; Microorganisms and You Five Kinds of Microorganisms (Bacteria, Viruses, Algae, Fungi, Protozoans) There are seven pages of reading activities, one diagram of each of the microorganisms, one crossword puzzle, one microorganisms quiz. A complete answer key is provided. These are science themed reading activities with a focus on using context clues to build vocabulary and to increase comprehension. They would make excellent center activities. These were created with English language learners in mind. __________ Microorganisms Activity Pack by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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.

A step by step, scaffolded approach to teaching your students how to write an adventure story with the elements; motivation, a journey with three challenges, a final challenge and the hero's or heroine's transformation. A lesson guide is included to suggest a method for leading students through a process of deconstructing and understanding a model story as part of creating their own adventure story. By using the workbook, special attention is drawn to a six-step writing process by the headings on the papers. The writing process detailed is: brainstorm, draft, share, edit, revise and publish. There is a checklist to aid students in monitoring their progress through a writing process. The preview gives a good overview of the content of the writing workbook. The workbook is printed on a loose leaf notebook style background. This is useful if you live overseas and have trouble finding the traditional loose leaf paper sold in North America. The final nine pages of the workbook are a larger size version of the model story found at the beginning of the workbook. These give students a good model to follow for proper paragraphing and use of dialogue. __________ How to Write and Adventure Story 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 three paragraph personal narrative with; beginning (problem), middle, end (solution and transformation). There are two writing models. Each of which has a graphic organiser to aid students in deconstructing the structure of the narrative. There is also a matching graphic organiser for brainstorming. This process helps students to intuit the structure of the writing. It draws attention to a six-step writing process; brainstorm, draft, share, edit, revise and publish. There are check boxes to aid students and teacher in monitoring their progress through a writing process. The workbook is printed on loose leaf notebook style paper. An extra blank page is provided for extra writing space. A second version is provided for some of the pages to account for variations in US/UK spelling.

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. __________ The BFG Comic Style Workbook by Michael Allen Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.