Engage students in writing at home fun with this engaging Google Slides narrative writing project. Students will plan, draft, revise and edit a spooky story. This activity pairs well with the book Creepy Carrots, but is not needed to do the lesson. This is a great Halloween activity without actually mentioning or celebrating the holiday. ALL teaching videos are already included.. simply assign and go! Excellent for digital learning, distance learning, homeschool teachers, hybrid teaching, guest teachers, student teachers and the average busy teacher! Students will practice basic skills on Google Slides while working on this presentation. ALL TEACHING VIDEOS are included, or can be replaced with videos that you make. Simply assign, and students will be ready to go. This unit includes 5 lessons for one week of writing. Week Overview: Monday: Introduction and Prewrite - Students will learn to add bullet points to their graphic organizer Tuesday: Draft - Students will write a basic topic sentence, 2 event sentences and 2 detail sentences (including adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and commas) Wednesday: Draft - Students will finish their last 2 events, 2 details and add a basic closing sentence Thursday: Revise/Edit - Students are walked through using a basic revising and editing checklist Friday: Students are taught to add photos and to use a rubric to check their work before turning it in. What you get with the download: A PDF linking to: Teaching Slide Student Planning Template Student Publishing Template This was designed for second graders, but can easily be implemented in first and third grade classrooms. These lessons build on each other, so might go through previously covered topics rather quickly. If you would like the comprehensive resource, upgrade to the bundle. Check out A YEAR OF DIGITAL WRITING LESSONS [a growing bundle]: August Stellar Student Informative Writing Sun-Sational Summer Narrative Writing Stuffie Adventures Narrative Writing September Rocking Road Trip Narrative Writing Flat Teacher Bitmoji Project Narrative Writing The Best Season Opinion Writing Cat vs. Dog Opinion Writing October The BEST Candy Opinion Writing My Spooky Story Narrative Writing Pumpkins Informative Writing Bats Informative Writing November My Family's Thanksgiving Personal Informative Writing How to Catch a Turkey Informative/How To Writing Turkey Escape Imaginative Narrative Writing Bonus: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Informative Writing Project December Letter To Santa Opinion Writing My Night on the Polar Express Narrative Writing How to Catch an Elf Informative/How To Writing Or The Best Present Opinion Writing Polar Penguins Imaginative Narrative Writing How to Build a Snowman January The Snowy Day Narrative Writing When I Met a Yeti Narrative Writing Snow Informative Writing February Love Monster Informative Writing The Sweetest Person Opinion Writing The Best Part of Me Opinion Writing Book Review Opinion Writing March Animal Research Project (3 weeks of Informative Writing) April Magazine Writing Project (4 week cumulative project - opinion, narrative, informative, how to, letter writing and more) May Hey Little Ant Opinion Writing Project Insect Report Informative Writing A Buggy Life Narrative Writing Looking for other digital resources? - Digital Writing Journal - Second Grade Digital Let's Get Reading - Second Grade Digital YEAR LONG Math Bundle Please open the preview file to see exactly what is included. Please ask all questions before purchasing. Enjoy! Don't forget to leave feedback on all paid purchases for future credit toward free resources.

Build your own cross-curricular writing journals August-November For The December - March journals please check out our Winter K-2 Writing Journals *** Common Core Aligned *** Students identify their Common Core writing standards by circling which type of writing their piece reflects (Opinion W.1, Informative/Explanatory W.2, or Narrative W.3). Students, parents, teachers, and administration will be able to tell which form of writing you are working on. You can copy the journal pages back to back and staple them with the monthly cover. Or you can simply copy different pages for different levels of writing skills depending on the needs of your students. This set includes: • 4 covers each month Aug/Sept/Oct/Nov (16 total) • Word bank for each month (color and black and white) • Blank word bank for writing across the curriculum • Pre-primer - 2nd Grade Personal Word Walls (Editable) & blank personal word wall • 8 common core writing pages to choose from for growing writers • All covers come in full color, black and white, creative expression pages, and coloring pages • Ideas page included! MIX & MATCH: Copy the cover of your choice with a word bank or personal word wall on the inside or back cover. Add more lines each month and watch your writers bloom! GET STUDENTS INVOLVED: Let students take part in assembling the journal of their choice with their favorite monthly cover and writing pages. Some students may be ready for two writing lines while others are ready for six. CROSS-CURRICULAR: These journals can be used across the curriculum as science, writing, math, or social studies journals. You might also love our writing workshop song to get students focused on writing. This transitional song can be played while students get out their writing supplies and meet you up front for a mini-lesson. Then when you send them back their supplies are already out and they are ready to go! I'm a Writer Song If you like this set as much as we do, kindly leave some feedback. Join our Followers Get Freebies Program! Every month we will send a freebie only available to our followers. Make sure you follow us so you won’t miss out! The Common Core Standards were developed and written by the NGA. © Copyright 2010. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. All rights reserved.

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Scarecrows writing mini unit FREEBIE in the DOWNLOAD PREVIEW!! Do you LOVE Scarecrows???? Do you have great craftivities using scarecrows but want writing to go along with it? Then, this is for you!!! This is a part of my FARM UNIT. A person requested for just the "Scarecrow" part of my FARM unit. If you already have my FARM UNIT...just simply re-download-these scarecrow printables are there now! :o) This scarecrow packet includes: -Describe the Scarecrow in the bubbles printable -Scarecrow headers: Scarecrows, look, can, are, have to be printed out and use for class discussion -2 different Scarecrow focus maps to choose from (printables) -Scarecrow Acrostic -2 different "All about my Scarecrow" printables (to pick for the needs of your students) -3 Narrative Writing/Drawing printables "How to create a Scarecrow (to choose for the levels of your students) -Scarecrow labeling page printable -2 different opinion writing printables -4 Reading Comprehension organizer printables "The Common Core Standards were developed and written by the NGA. © Copyright 2010. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. All rights reserved.” Any claims of correlation or alignment to the CCSS are solely those of 1st Grade is WienerFUL and have not been evaluated by CCSS.

My students absolutely LOVE these Classroom Management Games! I thought back to the beginning of the year and made a list of some of the most common behaviors that students need help with at the start of school. It's usually fairly consistent from year to year. These games target those behaviors while positively reinforcing students meeting your expectations. These games are played as a whole group and end with some sort of reward. I print the games on cardstock and laminate them. I use Velcro dots to attach the game pieces to the game boards. The first game focuses on blurting out. This one is a difficult one at first for students, because they have been at home all summer and aren't as used to waiting to speak or raising their hand. I used the game of BUMP to work on the blurting issue. When students blurt out, the teacher gets to add a game piece to the board. When a student raises their hand or waits their turn to speak, that student gets to add a game piece to the board. The first with four in a row wins! Don't forget that you can bump each other off the board! I have included a list of mostly free prize ideas in the resource. I think this one is so cute! It's time to get ON BOARD the ON TASK BUS! I know it's cheesy, but I love it! The bus starts out empty. When the class is on task during an assignment or activity, they get to put a kid on the bus. When the bus is full, they win an award. Some years, tattling is a problem, and then other years, it's not. But sometimes it starts to happen later in the year, so this game (like all the others) might be good to pull out later on in the year, as well. This is played like traditional Tic Tac Toe. When students tattle, the teacher gets to add an X to the game board. When the teacher see students problem solving on their own, they get to add an O to the game board. The first with three in a row wins! We talk a lot about making smart choices those first weeks of school. This is a good vs. poor choices game that will help students think about their choices and the power that they hold. It's important to get your students involved in taking care of their classroom. To encourage picking up after oneself and putting things where they belong, students play this whole group game, Cleanup Showdown. When you catch a student cleaning up or picking something up for someone else, add a crayon to the bucket. When the bucket contains all seven crayons, the students win the game. This last one is great for building community in your classroom. Choose a focus behavior for the game, such as using kind words, complimenting others, helping friends, etc. When students are exhibiting that behavior, add a heart game piece to the kind side of the chart. When someone does something that is not kind, add a heart to the other side. If the kind side outweighs the not kind side by the end of the day or class period, the class wins the game. If you are interested in playing these games with your students, click any of the photos to check the resource out. I am making these for the entire year, so I hope they will help you and your students as your are establishing your classroom community. I hope you have a great school year!