Holidays Around the World Research Project: Research & Informational Writing
By E•Fish•ient Teaching
The perfect writing assignment for the month of December or any month of the year! This holiday informational/explanatory writing assignment gives students the opportunity to learn about different holidays around the world. Students will be assigned or choose a holiday to research and then write their own informative essay. There are two pages giving different holidays to research, but you can also write your own holidays in if you would like. Students can use the graphic organizer to help organize their ideas before writing their explanatory essay. Engage your students in a festive exploration of holidays around the world with this comprehensive research and writing activity. It includes everything your students will need to conduct thorough research, organize their findings, and craft a well-structured essay.
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Why use it in your classroom?
This resources is perfect for the month of December. Students can learn about all the different ways people around the world celebrate around Christmas or holidays around December. Or use it throughout the year to explore different holidays during each month. Whether used in a classroom or for homeschooling, this product promises to inspire curiosity & celebrate diversity in a meaningful way. Start exploring the world of holidays today!
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Persuasive Writing | Christmas: Who Will Guide The Sleigh?
By Nardine Mettry
This Christmas persuasive graphic organizer & writing is based on one of the greatest holiday read-aloud EVER, "Who Will Guide My Sleigh Tonight?" - Jerry Pallotta.
Your students will say their opinion and convince you which animal should help guide the sleigh.
The animals included are: rhino, elephant, tiger, giraffe, monkey.
They will cut out the animal and stick it connecting it to the sleigh.
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Hanukkah Writing Prompts, Hanukkah Activities, Hanukkah Worksheets, Chanukah
By Write On with Jamie
Introducing Hanukkah / Chanukah essay writing has never been easier! This comprehensive writing prompt unit with 4 complete essay lessons - argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive - guides students through the step-by-step process of crafting a compelling essay. Using detailed graphic organizers, students will learn to draft an outline with convincing evidence and write a thorough essay.
All aspects of argumentative writing, expository writing, narrative writing, and persuasive writing are covered in this resource: brainstorming ideas, developing a thesis statement, introducing supporting evidence, writing hooks and leads, and incorporating the 6 Traits of Writing™. The resource also focuses on how to structure the rising action, climax, and falling action in the plot of the personal narrative essay.
The video, slide show, graphic organizer, worksheets, writing template, and rubric allow students to practice and develop their essay writing skills. The writing quiz reinforces guided note-taking techniques when used in conjunction with the instructional video. The detailed lesson plans make implementing essay writing easy for teachers.
This no-prep lesson is adaptable for in-class instruction, distance learning, or independent student work. The instructional video with writing tutorial and template can be presented as whole class instruction or assigned for students to complete at home.
All materials are available in both Google Drive™ and print formats, ensuring easy access for all students.
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This Writing Prompt Unit for Hanukkah / Chanukah includes:
4 Entertaining Instructional Videos with:
4 Detailed Hanukkah / Chanukah Lesson Plans with:
4 Hanukkah / Chanukah Worksheets with:
4 Hanukkah / Chanukah Slide Shows with:
4 Essay Rubrics
4 Graphic Organizers
Google Slides™
4 Writing Quizzes
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Graphic Organizers - Christmas Worksheets (PDF)
By KJ Inspired Resources
Do your students need some engagement during the weeks leading up to Christmas? Use these 6 Christmas graphic organizers with any text! Use whole class, small group, centers, independent reading, or homework. Use for fiction, non-fiction, chapter books, mentor texts, or story of the week.
What's Included:
Ugly sweater sequencing: first, next, then, last
Stocking stuffer: students choose a character in a Christmas story and name 3 things they would find in the characters stocking
Present Retell: first, next, then, last
Story Christmas tree: main idea and 5 details
Snowman venn diagram: use however you choose ex: compare 2 character from 2 different stories and then compare the problem in each story underneath
Elf candy story elements: book title, characters, setting, problem, solution
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Gingerbread House Descriptive Writing + Graphic Organizer + Winter Narrative
By Veronica Reyes
Introducing our delightful Descriptive Gingerbread House Writing! - a creative and educational resource designed to inspire young minds! This engaging set comes with three specially crafted writing papers, each catering to different writing levels: primary dotted, dotted, and lined, ensuring that students of various ages can enjoy and benefit from this activity.
Key Features:
Brainstorming Graphic Organizer: Descriptive paragraph graphic organizer included.
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Bring the magic of the holiday season into your classroom with our Writing Prompts for Gingerbread Houses, where creativity and learning come together in a sweet and educational experience!
Christmas Found Your iPhone | Santa or The Grinch Character Analysis | No Prep
By Perfectly Planned Designs
Looking for an engaging Christmas activity for characterization and character analysis? Students have stumbled upon an iPhone that belongs to either Santa or the Grinch! This printable iPhone Character Analysis activity is perfect for your Upper Elementary Middle School or High School classroom! Perfect for early finishers too!
It is a great no-prep resource that you can use during the holiday season for a fun, engaging activity that your students will LOVE! With this character cell phone analysis activity, students will make inferences using what they know about either Santa or the Grinch. The engaging design of this cell phone activity will ask students to "snoop" through a phone they found, peep their text messages, playlists and even check their most recent location history. Students are to design the homescreen on the phone based on whether it is Santa's or the Grinch's phone. For example, they might draw a scene from Santa's workshop and include the weather for the North Pole, etc.
Students should answer the other questions on the worksheet in the appropriate spaces, such as "peep their playlist" and "track their location." This literary analysis activity can be used during the holidays for a fun activity that's in keeping with the holiday spirit.
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Christmas Opinion Writing Prompts Worksheet Pack for Students
By Mrs Wates Teaching Creations
Improve your students writing skills with this engaging Christmas Opinion Writing pack. These no-prep worksheets are perfect for your primary grade opinion writing unit. Featuring 10 written prompts & picture prompts, centered around the holiday season, this resource is tailored to enhance narrative, opinion & informative writing. Encourage proficiency in organization, sentence structure & grammar. These fun prompts are versatile, suitable for opinion writing, sentence practice or even as lively morning meeting conversation starters. Watch as your students master the art of expression while delving into the joy of the holidays. UK and US English versions available.
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Holiday Opinion Writing: The Best Holiday Tradition: Graphic Organizer & Paper
By E•Fish•ient Teaching
This opinion writing is a perfect activity for your holiday writing. This is great around Christmas time, but can also be used for any holiday tradition. The students will write about their favorite tradition and why it is their favorite. This gives students practice with stating their opinion and giving 3 reasons why they believe that way. There are 2 graphic organizers included allowing for differentiation for students to write a shorter or longer paper. This activity is a fun way for students to share a little about their holidays and what they enjoy.
What's included?
Included in this download is 2 different graphic organizer, 4 different papers to write their paragraph(s) on, and a page where they have the option to illustrate their favorite tradition.
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Christmas Writing Prompts - 4 Christmas Writing Activities, Christmas Worksheets
By Write On with Jamie
Introducing Christmas essay writing has never been easier! This comprehensive writing prompt unit with 4 complete essay lessons - argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive - guides students through the step-by-step process of crafting a compelling essay. Using detailed graphic organizers, students will learn to draft an outline with convincing evidence and write a thorough essay.
All aspects of argumentative writing, expository writing, narrative writing, and persuasive writing are covered in this resource: brainstorming ideas, developing a thesis statement, introducing supporting evidence, writing hooks and leads, and incorporating the 6 Traits of Writing™. The resource also focuses on how to structure the rising action, climax, and falling action in the plot of the personal narrative essay.
The video, slide show, graphic organizer, worksheets, writing template, and rubric allow students to practice and develop their essay writing skills. The writing quiz reinforces guided note-taking techniques when used in conjunction with the instructional video. The detailed lesson plans make implementing essay writing easy for teachers.
This no-prep lesson is adaptable for in-class instruction, distance learning, or independent student work. The instructional video with writing tutorial and template can be presented as whole class instruction or assigned for students to complete at home.
All materials are available in both Google Drive™ and print formats, ensuring easy access for all students.
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This Writing Prompt Unit for Christmas includes:
4 Entertaining Instructional Videos with:
4 Detailed Christmas Lesson Plans with:
4 Christmas Worksheets with:
4 Christmas Slide Shows with:
4 Essay Rubrics
4 Graphic Organizers
Google Slides™
4 Writing Quizzes
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The lessons in the Elementary Holiday Writing Prompts Unit include:
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Copyright © Write On! with Jamie. All rights reserved by author. All components of this product are to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited unless additional licenses are purchased. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this product are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY.
Gingerbread Man How-To Informative Writing + Graphic Organizer- Winter Activity
By Veronica Reyes
How-To Catch a Gingerbread Man Writing!
Creating a how-to writing guide on catching a gingerbread man, complete with two types of writing papers (dotted and lined) and a graphic organizer for brainstorming.
Graphic Organizer:
Writing Papers:
Dotted Paper:
Lined Paper:
First page of the final draft comes in 2 versions. One with the gingerbread man clipart and one without.
Enjoy!!!
Kwanzaa Writing Prompts - Kwanzaa Activities, Kwanzaa Worksheets, Kwanzaa Essay
By Write On with Jamie
Introducing Kwanzaa essay writing has never been easier! This comprehensive writing prompt unit with 4 complete essay lessons - argumentative, expository, narrative, and persuasive - guides students through the step-by-step process of crafting a compelling essay. Using detailed graphic organizers, students will learn to draft an outline with convincing evidence and write a thorough essay.
All aspects of argumentative writing, expository writing, narrative writing, and persuasive writing are covered in this resource: brainstorming ideas, developing a thesis statement, introducing supporting evidence, writing hooks and leads, and incorporating the 6 Traits of Writing™. The resource also focuses on how to structure the rising action, climax, and falling action in the plot of the personal narrative essay.
The video, slide show, graphic organizer, worksheets, writing template, and rubric allow students to practice and develop their essay writing skills. The writing quiz reinforces guided note-taking techniques when used in conjunction with the instructional video. The detailed lesson plans make implementing essay writing easy for teachers.
This no-prep lesson is adaptable for in-class instruction, distance learning, or independent student work. The instructional video with writing tutorial and template can be presented as whole class instruction or assigned for students to complete at home.
All materials are available in both Google Drive™ and print formats, ensuring easy access for all students.
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This Writing Prompt Unit for Kwanzaa includes:
4 Entertaining Instructional Videos with:
4 Detailed Kwanzaa Lesson Plans with:
4 Kwanzaa Worksheets with:
4 Kwanzaa Slide Shows with:
4 Essay Rubrics
4 Graphic Organizers
Google Slides™
4 Writing Quizzes
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The lessons in the Elementary Holiday Writing Prompts Unit include:
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© Google Inc.™ All rights reserved. Google™ and the Google Logo are registered trademarks of Google Inc.™ Write On! with Jamie® is an independent company and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google Inc.™
Terms of Use
Copyright © Write On! with Jamie. All rights reserved by author. All components of this product are to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited unless additional licenses are purchased. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this product are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY.
Gingerbread Man How-To Informative Writing + Graphic Organizer- Winter Activity
By Veronica Reyes
How-To Catch a Gingerbread Man Writing!
Creating a how-to writing guide on catching a gingerbread man, complete with two types of writing papers (dotted and lined) and a graphic organizer for brainstorming.
Graphic Organizer:
Writing Papers:
Dotted Paper:
Lined Paper:
First page of the final draft comes in 2 versions. One with the gingerbread man clipart and one without.
Enjoy!!!
Gingerbread Man How-To Informative Writing + Graphic Organizer- Winter Activity
By Veronica Reyes
How-To Catch a Gingerbread Man Writing!
Creating a how-to writing guide on catching a gingerbread man, complete with two types of writing papers (dotted and lined) and a graphic organizer for brainstorming.
Graphic Organizer:
Writing Papers:
Dotted Paper:
Lined Paper:
First page of the final draft comes in 2 versions. One with the gingerbread man clipart and one without.
Enjoy!!!
Gingerbread Man How-To Informative Writing + Graphic Organizer- Winter Activity
By Veronica Reyes
How-To Catch a Gingerbread Man Writing!
Creating a how-to writing guide on catching a gingerbread man, complete with two types of writing papers (dotted and lined) and a graphic organizer for brainstorming.
Graphic Organizer:
Writing Papers:
Dotted Paper:
Lined Paper:
First page of the final draft comes in 2 versions. One with the gingerbread man clipart and one without.
Enjoy!!!
Gingerbread Man How-To Informative Writing + Graphic Organizer- Winter Activity
By Veronica Reyes
How-To Catch a Gingerbread Man Writing!
Creating a how-to writing guide on catching a gingerbread man, complete with two types of writing papers (dotted and lined) and a graphic organizer for brainstorming.
Graphic Organizer:
Writing Papers:
Dotted Paper:
Lined Paper:
First page of the final draft comes in 2 versions. One with the gingerbread man clipart and one without.
Enjoy!!!
Gingerbread Man How-To Informative Writing + Graphic Organizer- Winter Activity
By Veronica Reyes
How-To Catch a Gingerbread Man Writing!
Creating a how-to writing guide on catching a gingerbread man, complete with two types of writing papers (dotted and lined) and a graphic organizer for brainstorming.
Graphic Organizer:
Writing Papers:
Dotted Paper:
Lined Paper:
First page of the final draft comes in 2 versions. One with the gingerbread man clipart and one without.
Enjoy!!!