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This Wonder novel, by R.J. Palacio character study pennant is all you need to teach and promote the memorable characters found in the book. Wonder is an amazing novel study for young readers. The Wonder pennant is a reading and writing activity. Your students will list character traits using the background organizer on the pennant. here is a pennant for each character (Auggie, Summer, Miranda, Olivia, Justin, Jack, Charlotte, Julian, Mr. Tushman) and two pennants with the book title. Your students will love the opportunity for creativity. The pennant can be used any time of the year. Give your students a relevant and modern experience while promoting kindness, anti-bullying, community, differences, tolerance, and most of all belonging. Leave the pennant up all year long! Wonder Character Study Banner Includes: Ready for you to easily line up by using the directions on how to assemble. The preview shows more! Includes: ★ pennant printables – each flag is a character. The sketchnotes style is very appealing. The line art is perfect for your students to add color and design. Here is your list! Auggie Jack Miranda Summer Justin Julian Mr. Tushman Charlotte Olivia (Via) Wonder We're All Wonders ★Classroom Décor ★Bulletin Board ★Hallway ★Showcase Display Directions are clear and explicit. Looking For More Pennant Activities? Check These Out: Women’s History Month Biography Research, Pennant, Make Your Own Pennant Banner Created by Danielle Knight, © Study All Knight ™, The Knight Stuff, LLC
What a CRAZY week and weekend!!! We are finished with our state testing and school fair. Yahoo!!! This past week consisted of finishing up state testing, teaching students a dance for the fair performance, painting a picture for the fair silent auction, (see picture below), making over 50 candy apples for the sweets booth, and practicing for the teacher fair performance! Yes, I am one of 11 teachers who actually dances in front of the parents and students at the fair!!! I think the best part of dancing would be attending all practices after school!!! enjoying the fair candy apples for the sweet booth silent auction: each student painted a different picture on the canvas End-of-the-Year Linky Party With state testing & the fair behind me, I can start preparing for the end of the year. I am linking up with Clutter-Free Classroom and sharing my end-of-the-year ideas. I can't believe May is right around the corner!! Where did the school year go? I still need to put together portfolios and make a power point presentation. I love making a power point from all of the pictures I take during the school year. I must admit that it takes over a week to construct because I always find a way to mess up something! It never fails that every year I make some kind of mistake!!! For the portfolios, I save the students' work all year and use sheet protectors in binders. I like to put the work in order from the first to last day for the parents. I put all work in sheet protectors. The parents appreciate the organization of the work so much because it saves them the time of doing it over the summer. Also, students complete a summer writing activity. This writing activity is my favorite one of the year. The creativity that flows from the students' brains is amazing! Students are asked to write about a summer trip they have taken already or plan on taking. After editing the rough draft, students write the final copy of the essay on sunglasses. Students glue glasses on large white construction paper and draw a picture around the glasses. I was amazed the first time I did this with my class. I did not instruct them to draw a person. The end results were more than I imagined! summer writing summer writing end-of-the-year presentation set up Click (HERE) to grab your sunglasses template. What a post! Please check out Clutter-Free Classroom Project and join the End-of-the-Year Linky Party! With much appreciation,
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What a CRAZY week and weekend!!! We are finished with our state testing and school fair. Yahoo!!! This past week consisted of ...
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This is a digital product. You will receive a pdf document via email to print on completion of your order. Get creative at home with our 'Mythical Creatures & Magic' art and craft activity bundle. The printable includes 12 pages of creative activities all about fairies, unicorns, magic forests and much more. ACTIVI
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Persuasive writing is one of my all-time favorite writing units!! There are so many fun activities to do and persuasion comes so naturally for the kids (you know they try to persuade their parents for things ALL the time!) I begin this unit by having students "Take a Stand" and make a choice between several pairs of options - McDonald's or Burger King, Disney or Nickelodeon, etc. Once they've made their choice they have to support it and tell why that is the better option. This is a great way to kick off the unit. Once we've modeled several together, I partner them up for writing discussions, give them a set of "Take a Stand" cards and let them continue practicing. After discussions, they're ready to move to the writing stage and we learn to write opinion pieces with supporting reasons and then on to lots of other persuasive pieces. Read-Alouds Some of my FAVORITE books to use during this unit include... I told you that I LOVE this book and double dip with it in my letter writing and persuasive writing units. We especially focus on the closings of the letters and notice how the word choice was carefully selected to help with the persuasion. Immediately after this book we also read... After reading this book, students think of an unusual animal that they would like to have as a pet. They brainstorm ways their animal could be useful/helpful and then write a persuasive letter to their parents to convince them to let them have the pet. They turn out SO CUTE!! Students turn their letters into the animal they chose for a display....precious!! Some of the other books we read during this unit are... This is a GREAT book to read and then have your students write from the perspective of the "bad" character from a fairytale having him/her convince readers that he/she was just misunderstood and is not a bad guy after all! Speaking of perspective, I also have my kids write a persuasive letter to THEMSELVES from an inanimate object. I model doing this using my purse (it tries to persuade me to keep it neater) or my high heels (they try to persuade me to give them a break and wear tennis shoes for a day). With a lot of modeling and brainstorming they really get the hang of this and GO ALL OUT with creative ideas and voice galore! Activities Some of my other favorite activities in this unit include... Book Persuasions Students create new book covers for one of their favorite books and try to persuade their friends to read the book. Persuasive Animal Dialogues After reading Hey, Little Ant students are paired as ants/anteaters and write persuasive dialogues where the ant is trying to persuade the anteater not to eat him and the anteater is trying to persuade the ant that he must! After modeling these, students select another pair of animals (predator/prey) to create original persuasive dialogues to perform for the class. Classroom Mascot Students choose an animal they think would best represent our class and write a persuasive speech on why it should be our mascot. They present these speeches to the class and then the class votes for a mascot! Celebration This unit integrates with our social studies Economics unit for the celebration. Students create products (I require them to make something that only uses PAPER to make it fair for all students) that they will sell at our class store. Then they write commercials to persuade their classmates to buy their products. Before writing these commercials, we watch lots of examples of cereal and toy commercials from the 80s/90s at http://www.retrojunk.com/content/sort/commercial/list/category/1/cereal and discuss persuasion techniques used in them. I film students presenting their commercials individually, create a mini-movie of them and we watch them all together! We then hold our store and students actually purchase products (with Madden Money, of course!) Afterwards, they hold reflections about supply/demand and how their commercials affected their sales. Find these Persuasive Writing activities at Teacher's Clubhouse. What are your favorite activities or books to use for teaching persuasive writing? There's only a couple of days left to win the HearALL Assessment Recorder - Enter Now! Also, visit Lightbulb Minds' Facebook page and leave a comment telling the ONE thing that would make this coming school year the best school year ever and you could win a FREE UNIT! All posts in this series: #1 - Writers' Notebooks #2 - Writing Workshop Schedule & Story Tees #3 - Publishing #4 - Friendly Letters #5 - How-To Writing #6 - Persuasive Writing #7 - Writing Memoirs/Personal Narratives
