25 Literacy-Building Art Activities


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Boost early literacy with these creative art activities in a variety of media--clay, collage, paint, sand, recyclables, and more! All projects promote essential skills such as phonemic awareness, self-expression, expressive language, retelling, and more. Includes easy how-to, display ideas and rhyming poems to kick off each lesson! For use with Grade PreK-K.




Easy Art Activities That Spark Super Writing


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Foster wonderful writing with quick and easy art activities. First, invite students to create a collage, winter mural, decorated crown, or other simple art project. Then use inspiring prompts to guide kids to use their art as a springboard to writing! The great writing activities teach elaboration, summarization, plot, character, and more.




Incredible Quotations


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Celebrate and learn from the remarkable words of Abe Lincoln, Amelia Earhart, Rosa Parks, Michael Jordan, Ghandi, Anne Frank, Beethoven, Aesop, and so many more. This very special resource features 230 quotations along with ready-to-use prompts that invite students to think, write, discuss, and debate. Topics range from courage to humor, values to leadership. A great way to encourage journal writing! For use with Grades 4-8.




Every Day of the School Year Math Problems


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Using themes of historic events, holidays, famous birthdays, humorous happenings, and more, these instant math problems are a fun-filled way to build essential math problem-solving skills.




Disasters!


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Background information, activities, and projects to teach about earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes, and other forces of nature.




Write Away!


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Short story writing activities designed to help children use their creativity while communicating their ideas.




The Incredible Human Body


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This information-packed resource is filled with engaging hands-on activities to help students explore the major body systems. Includes a colorful life-sized 2-sided poster & reproducible science mini-books.




Teaching Memoir Writing


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Finn, a writing teacher, shares her expertise by encouraging students to create thoughtful, artistic, and interesting writing about themselves. Lesson topics include generating thoughtful questions, making connections, developing metaphors, and searching for themes in life. Illustrations.




Funny & Fabulous Story Prompts


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Contains eight sets of related story prompts. Each set contains recurring characters so that students will be able to create their own chapter books.




Plays about the Presidents


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Kids "meet" the presidents and explore our country's history with this exciting collection of read-aloud, reproducible plays. Subjects include: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and many more. With background information, discussion questions, and writing activities to extend learning. The dramatic way to highlight this election year! For use with Grades 5-8.