Short Stories Centers

Mini book for kindness week. Simply have students cut out each page and staple them together. Students will be able to color in each page. Great way to start brainstorming random acts of kindness. Resource comes in colored and black-white versions. A HUGE thank you to the following content creators for making my resource possible:

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Bring some frosty fun into your reading lessons with this integrated blizzard-themed learning resource! The fictional passage Zip The Elf Builds a Snowman follows two spirited friends as they play outside on a snow day. Students will be engaged by the whimsical illustration and hilarious character dialogue as they strengthen 2nd-4th grade reading skills.

This comprehensive winter-wonderland activity incorporates:

A short 185-word story filled with vivid details and descriptive language.

A 10-word spelling list spotlighting the Magic E vowel pattern.

6 multiple-choice reading comprehension questions.

1 constructed response question with space for writing.

Colorful, playful illustration to match the passage.

The magic E focus builds phonics skills while the reading comprehension questions address key ideas, details, events, and vocabulary. The constructed response integrates writing skills and allows creative retelling. This one resource combines reading, writing, spelling, phonics, vocabulary, and visual literacy into an integrated snow day adventure!

Perfect for whole group, centers, morning work, partner practice, or homework, this snow-much-fun resource creatively reinforces fundamental 2nd-4th grade ELA/literacy skills and engages students with its lively narrative. Make blizzard learning magical with Zip and Elf Build a Snowman!

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2nd grade reading

3rd grade reading

Magic E spelling

Short story

Reading comprehension

Reading skills

Constructed response

Winter

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Squiggle Scribble Doodle Journal. 58 Pages. This is a Journal that one of my friends uses in her classroom, it is a Scribble Journal. Students take the doodle (or scribble) and draw something that uses the scribble in it, it can be part of it or even something in the background. Everyone sees something different, and imagination is the key here. After they have created their drawing, students should write a brief description of what is going on in the scene above. This is a 58 page journal with 58 different scribbles or doodles on each page for your students to design and write about. 3 hole punch these and put them in a binder or a folder for best use! Enjoy & Please leave feedback if you find this useful! Thanks! Brian If you like this product, please take a minute to "LIKE" it and "PIN" it! Keywords: Language Arts, drawing, writing, spelling, journal, practice, free time, early finisher

For early-finishers in class or bored kids at home!

Inside you'll see 10 "snack size" stories, which are simple one-page stories. The purpose is mainly entertainment for kids who finish activities early or are bored. But you can extract lots of teaching moments: reading, colors, informational text or parts of a story, sentence structure, etc.

I'd recommend printing, laminating OR possibly even folding each story like a book. Maybe every child has one copy of each and they can read through them.

I've included a bonus page. You can have kids draw their own picture and make their own silly snack-size story.

Other products you might like:

• Spot the Difference (between pairs of images)
• Social Stories (for behavior and teaching)

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Do your students ever wish to write their own creative story to existing images? With the Write Your Own Stories series they can! The Write Your Own Stories each has stories that are pre-illustrated for your students to discover and create their own unique story.

I have included versions in both lined, dotted lined and unlined story pages for you to choose which will best suit the needs of your students. I did not include page numbers on any of the pages because I felt that it should be up to the students to decide the order that the story should happen. I also included story helper pages which are best used by letting the students have the story helper pages while they are looking at the illustrated pages. Students can fill the story helper pages out and decide the order that their story will progress in. This would be great in a literacy center or just have available for early finishers.

Brian

These no prep arctic animal nonfiction and fiction reading passages with comprehension questions and main idea and key detail graphic organizers are perfect for your second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade students! These reading comprehension worksheets will bring a love of learning back to your reading block. Your students will be engaged while learning about some wonderful animals who call the arctic home!

Do you often cringe at how your students struggle to enjoy nonfiction texts? Do your students often become disinterested and bored when reading informational passages? Looking for something engaging and exciting? Look no further!

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This Product Includes:

Nonfiction Topics:

→ Polar Bear

→ Beluga Whale

→ Reindeer

→ Harp Seal

→ Puffin

→ Walrus

→ Arctic Fox

→ Narwhal

Fiction Stories:

→ A Trip to the Aquarium

→ Hero Beluga

→ Mossy the Other Reindeer

With This Product You'll Get:

✔ 8 nonfiction passages

✔ 3 fiction passages

✔ 2 different reading response options for nonfiction passages

✔ Text-dependent questions

✔ Standards-based questions

Skills Covered:

⚡ Main Idea and Key Details

⚡ Using graphic organizers

⚡ Context clues

⚡ Text features

⚡ Point of view

⚡ Idioms

⚡Summarizing

⚡ Moral

⚡ Cause and effect

How To Use This Resource:

**►**whole group

►small group

►partner work

►independent work

►homework

►sub plans

►reading centers

Check out what teachers are saying about this product!

❤️_Shere K says, "_My 3rd daughter is doing distance learning and they are working on non-fiction passages. None of the assigned passages held her attention. But she loved these!! Lots of fun facts about arctic animals. She quickly made her way through them all and asked for more."

❤️_Melody D says, "_Great for reinforcing skills for comprehension of nonfiction text features & fictional stories. My students loved learning about the arctic animals!"

❤️_Emily R says, "_I liked that this resource offered differentiated text options so that my students could all read the same information, but would be appropriately challenged by the text."

❤️_Miss Cassidy's Classroom Resources says_, "We absolutely loved this resource!!! We used it as a winter project, and students put it altogether! They loved learning about different animals!"

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Do your students ever wish to write their own creative story to existing images? With the Write Your Own Stories series they can! The Write Your Own Stories each has stories that are pre-illustrated for your students to discover and create their own unique story.

I have included versions in both lined, dotted lined and unlined story pages for you to choose which will best suit the needs of your students. I did not include page numbers on any of the pages because I felt that it should be up to the students to decide the order that the story should happen. I also included story helper pages which are best used by letting the students have the story helper pages while they are looking at the illustrated pages. Students can fill the story helper pages out and decide the order that their story will progress in. This would be great in a literacy center or just have available for early finishers.

Brian

Do your students ever wish to write their own creative story to existing images? With the Write Your Own Stories series they can! The Write Your Own Stories each has stories that are pre-illustrated for your students to discover and create their own unique story.

I have included versions in both lined, dotted lined and unlined story pages for you to choose which will best suit the needs of your students. I did not include page numbers on any of the pages because I felt that it should be up to the students to decide the order that the story should happen. I also included story helper pages which are best used by letting the students have the story helper pages while they are looking at the illustrated pages. Students can fill the story helper pages out and decide the order that their story will progress in.

Brian

It is a fun engaging writing project your students will enjoy. Prep Free! Ready to Go!

Task:

1. Students are going to write a six page story using the Shamrock Craft Book pages.

2. The main character will be a leprechaun. He is going on a journey of searching for gold coins. The middle of this story is made up with three mini stories of finding each individual coin or coins.

3. Each student will use a leprechaun as his main character. However each student is going to design and write his own version of the gold coins searching adventures.

Step by step assignment directions are giving using Teacher Writing Sample "It's St. Patrick's Day!" as a model.

You could use this Shamrock Craft Book to write anything related to St. Patrick's Day.

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- 1 Colored set

- 1 Black lined set

- Lesson Plan for It's St. Patrick's Day Project

- Step by Step Assignment Directions

- 1 Teacher Writing Sample

- 2 Student Writing Samples

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Purple Turtle EBOOK: The stories involve Purple Turtle and his friends including Zing,the stuttering rabbit, Biggy Bear, Melody the bird, Squirty the squirrel and others. In each story,a topic is addressed such as friendship, honesty, conservation, getting over fears, etc. In " Roxy Learns to Swim", Purple suggests going swimming in the river to his friend, Roxy. Roxy says no and tells Purple why. Along comes a friendly fish named Fella who helps Purple solve Roxy’s problem. Grades 1-3, Aadarsh Publishing Great for kids to read or as a book to read to children. The books have beautiful and colorful illustrations. I am sure your kids will enjoy Purple Turtle Ebooks!

It is a fun engaging writing project your students will enjoy. Prep Free! Ready to Go!

Task:

1. Students are going to write a six page story using the Owl Craft Book pages.

2. The main characters will be two animals. Together they want to accomplish a task. They have four tries. First three tries are all failed. They refuse to give up. With the last try, the fourth try, they are able to succeed.

3. Each student will: pick two animals as his main characters; define a task he wants his characters to accomplish; pick a proper title for his story.

Step by step assignment directions are giving using Teacher Writing Sample "Fly a Hot Air Balloon" as a model.

You could use this Owl Craft Book to write anything related to Valentine, Mother's Day, or Father's Day.

This product includes:

- 1 Colored set

- 1 Black lined set

- Lesson Plan for a Narrative Writing Project

- Step by Step Assignment Directions

- 1 Teacher Writing Sample

- 2 Student Writing Samples

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Thank you so much and I hope you enjoy this lesson.

• Check out my store https://www.TeachShare.com/store/Qiang-Ma for more lessons to help your students have fun while learning!

• Comments, suggestions, feedback and questions always welcomed!

• Each time you give feedback, TeachShare gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I value your feedback greatly!

• Be sure to click on the green ★ to follow me for updates and new product announcements!

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Purple Turtle EBOOK: The stories involve Purple Turtle and his friends including Zing,the stuttering rabbit, Biggy Bear, Melody the bird, Squirty the squirrel and others. In each story,a topic is addressed such as friendship, honesty, conservation, getting over fears, etc. In this story, " Friends Forever", the first in the series of Purple Turtle stories, a young turtle is born with a purple shell. WIll he be treated differently because of its unusual colored shell? Purple meets a bird named Melody who asks Purple for help. Grades 1-3. Aadarsh Publishing Great for kids to read or as a book to read to children. The books have beautiful and colorful illustrations. I am sure your kids will enjoy Purple Turtle Ebooks!

Purple Turtle EBOOK: The stories involve Purple Turtle and his friends including Zing,the stuttering rabbit, Biggy Bear, Melody the bird, Squirty the squirrel and others. In each story,a topic is addressed such as friendship, honesty, conservation, getting over fears, etc. In this story, "Purple and World Peace",Purple meets Dovey the Dove, while walking in the woods. A symbol of peace,the dove is sad that there is so much fighting in the world. Purple tries to find a way to make Dovey smile. Can use with discussion on cooperation/anti-bullying. Grades 1-3, Aadarsh Publishing Great for kids to read or as a book to read to children. The books have beautiful and colorful illustrations. I am sure your kids will enjoy Purple Turtle Ebooks!

Great for an intro on conservation/water pollution.Purple Turtle EBOOK: The stories involve Purple Turtle and his friends including Zing,the stuttering rabbit, Biggy Bear, Melody the bird, Squirty the squirrel and others. In each story,a topic is addressed such as friendship, honesty, conservation, getting over fears, etc. In this story, "Purple Meets Freddy at the Lilly Pad ",(EBOOK)Freddy the Frog is very sad. His pond is littered with trash including soggy newspapers, a plastic milk jug and even an old sneaker. Purple and his friends meet Freddy and set out to lend Freddy a hand. Great for kids to read or as a book to read to children. The books have beautiful and colorful illustrations. I am sure your kids will enjoy Purple Turtle Ebooks!

What is Friendship? Purple Turtle EBOOK: The stories involve Purple Turtle and his friends including Zing,the stuttering rabbit, Biggy Bear, Melody the bird, Squirty the squirrel and others. In each story,a topic is addressed such as friendship, honesty, conservation, getting over fears, etc. In "Purple's Birthday Party,Purple’s friends are all excited because it’s Purple’s birthday. When Biggy breaks his ankle, he can’t attend and is very disappointed. Purple has a great idea and shows that friendship is one of the very best gifts one can have. Grades 1-3, 19 PagesAadarsh Publishing Great for kids to read or as a book to read to children. The books have beautiful and colorful illustrations. I am sure your kids will enjoy Purple Turtle Ebooks!

Purple Turtle EBOOK: The stories involve Purple Turtle and his friends including Zing,the stuttering rabbit, Biggy Bear, Melody the bird, Squirty the squirrel and others. In each story,a topic is addressed such as friendship, honesty, conservation, getting over fears, etc. Use this story to discuss children's common fears. In "Purple Befriends Monsters", Do you have a fear? Maybe, it’s spiders. Maybe, it’s a creature living in your closet.In " Purple Befriends Monsters",Biggy invites Purple for a sleepover. When night-time comes,monsters come out frightening Biggy. How will Purple come to the rescue? Grades 1-3,19 Pages,Aadarsh Publishing Great for kids to read or as a book to read to children. The books have beautiful and colorful illustrations. I am sure your kids will enjoy Purple Turtle Ebooks! K-12 Subject:

Great for an intro on endangered species.Purple Turtle EBOOK: The stories involve Purple Turtle and his friends including Zing,the stuttering rabbit, Biggy Bear, Melody the bird, Squirty the squirrel and others. In each story,a topic is addressed such as friendship, honesty, conservation, getting over fears, etc. In "Purple's Safari Adventure", Purple and his friends go on a safari to see some of the world’s unique animals. They learn that many of the animals are in trouble. Can Purple and his friends do anything to help? Grades 1-3 18 Pages,Aadarsh Publishing Great for kids to read or as a book to read to children. The books have beautiful and colorful illustrations. I am sure your kids will enjoy Purple Turtle Ebooks!

Purple Turtle Ebook: Use this book to introduce a discussion on the universe. In this story,"Purple/Goople and inside the Earth". space alien friend Goople visits Purple for an amazing adventure. Goople takes Purple on an amazing trip to see the universe. What might they see along the way? What unusual ability will Goople share with Purple at the end of the book? 26 pages. Wonderful and colorful illustrations that kids will love.

Purple Turtle EBOOK: The stories involve Purple Turtle and his friends including Zing,the stuttering rabbit, Biggy Bear, Melody the bird, Squirty the squirrel and others. In each story,a topic is addressed such as friendship, honesty, conservation, getting over fears, etc. In this story, " Friends Forever", the first in the series of Purple Turtle stories, a young turtle is born with a purple shell. WIll he be treated differently because of its unusual colored shell? Purple meets a bird named Melody who asks Purple for help. Grades 1-3. Aadarsh Publishing Great for kids to read or as a book to read to children. The books have beautiful and colorful illustrations. I am sure your kids will enjoy Purple Turtle Ebooks!

Great for an intro on conservation/water pollution.Purple Turtle EBOOK: The stories involve Purple Turtle and his friends including Zing,the stuttering rabbit, Biggy Bear, Melody the bird, Squirty the squirrel and others. In each story,a topic is addressed such as friendship, honesty, conservation, getting over fears, etc. In this story, "Purple Meets Freddy at the Lilly Pad ",(EBOOK)Freddy the Frog is very sad. His pond is littered with trash including soggy newspapers, a plastic milk jug and even an old sneaker. Purple and his friends meet Freddy and set out to lend Freddy a hand. Great for kids to read or as a book to read to children. The books have beautiful and colorful illustrations. I am sure your kids will enjoy Purple Turtle Ebooks!