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Not Your Normal November Unit — Upper Elementary

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November No Prep — Not Your Normal November Unit

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This No Prep Unit includes printables and passages that can easily stand-alone or serve as springboards for discussion and expansion. They are November and Thanksgiving themed and most are matched with video or interactive clips from Scholastic, History.com and Plimouth Plantation.

This No Prep Unit contains social studies activities, Common Core State Standards aligned English Language Arts and math lessons, art projects, school culture and hope projects, math task cards, a science experiment and an all new Wampanoag Cinderella story with an huge interactive notebook literary component to help deepen student understanding of literary elements and the Wampanoag culture.

92 page
20 Math Task Cards – November Themed

Table of Contents
November Outline and Clips to Watch Math the Printables and Lessons page 3
#1 Wampanoag Facts Printable page 5
#2 Wampanoag Facts Printable: Language page 6
#3 Wampanoag Folklore Printable page 18
My Own Wampanoag Tale page 19
# 4 My Notebook Wampanoag Words page 23
# 5 Before the First Thanksgiving page 25
# 6 The First Thanksgiving page 26
# 7 The Mayflower page 27
# 8 The Landing page 28
# 9 The Mayflower Compact page 29
# 10 Plymouth Colony – What Would You Do? page 30
# 11 My Compact page 31
# 12 The Pilgrims page 32
# 13 Harvest Festival page 33
# 14 Doubling it Up – A Little Turkey Day Math page 34
Achiq: The Wampanoag Cinderella – The Story page 35
Achiq: The Wampanoag Cinderella – Interactive Notebook Story Unit page 40
Thanksgiving Science: Cranberry Chemistry – Spy Ink page 76
Turkey Glyphs page 80
Fall Art Projects page 84
Leaf Pressing
Corn Husk Dolls
Make a Mayflower
# 15 Veteran’s Day page 85
I Am Hopeful – I Am Thankful Unit page 87
A unit that helps students find hope in their lives as well as
things to be thankful for.
Thanksgiving Math page 91
Hubbub page 92
Fifth Grade Thanksgiving/November Math Task Cards page 93

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ELA ON SALE! Five Minutes to Fluency Practice Level 2.1: Aligned to the Common Core Standards

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This is the ideal activity to move struggling readers to grade level fluency – complete with comprehension practice. Intended to bring second and third graders up to grade level proficiency, it is also appropriate for English Language Learners or older students who need fluency practice.

The instructions are easy to follow, the program is motivational for students and the activities quickly incorporate into any schedule.

Perfect for classroom use or easily incorporated into take-home, parent involvement activities. This program is effective in group settings, as a series of homework activities, or as one-on-one activities aides or older students can administrator.

The passages include grade-level phonics sounds, non-fiction and fiction material and are Common Core Standards aligned.

The quizzes are a combination of comprehension and higher order thinking questions

Five Minutes to Fluency: Level 2.1, is the second in a series of intervention handbooks designed around moving struggling readers to grade-level reading proficiency and beyond.

Again, Five Minutes to Fluency: Level 2.1 offers a quick, easy and inexpensive way to increase student fluency and comprehension.

This is intervention the entire class can benefit from! Quick and painless…easy to differentiate…and effortlessly adaptable into any classroom or Response to Intervention program.

CinderHazel No Prep Book Unit — Just in time for Halloween

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CinderHazel No Prep Book Unit

This is a NO PREP book unit for “CinderHazel” — a book by Deborah
Nourse Screen Shot 2015-10-07 at 6.32.36 PMChapin-Pinotti CinderHazelLattimore. This is an engaging differentiated unit that contains interactive notebook pages, writing assignments, quizzes, printables, cross-curricular activities, literary elements and a whole lot more!

This Cinderella around the world unit is full of engaging common core state standards aligned assignments that are perfect for the 21st Century Classroom.

Check out my other Cinderella Around the World Lessons at Elizabeth’s Lessons: Cinderella Around the World!

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Language Arts: No Prep Unit For The Egyptian Cinderella

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This is a NO PREP booScreen Shot 2015-09-30 at 7.05.08 PMk unit for “Egyptian Cinderella” — a Cinderella book by Shirley Climo. This is an engaging differentiated unit that contains interactive notebook pages, writing assignments, quizzes, printables, cross-curricular activities, literary
elements and a whole lot more!

This Cinderella around the world unit is full of engaging common core aligned assignments that are perfect for the 21st Century Classroom.

Check out my other Cinderella Around the World Lessons at Elizabeth’s Lessons: Cinderella Around the World!

 

Table of Contents

Cinderella Elements
Table of Contents
Cinderella Elements
#1 Draw A Title Page
#2 Questions Along the Way
#3 In My Opinion
#4 Constructed Response Questions
#5 Story Connectors
#6 Character Analysis
#7 Correct the Grammar Errors
#8 Comprehension Quiz
#9 Character Conflicts
#10 Sentence Sorting
#11 Sentence Sorting – My Own Strips
#12 Sentence Sorting to Essay Writing Enrichment
#13 Dictionary Skills
#14 Compare and Contrast Rhodopis and other Egyptian Girls
#16 Compare and Contrast Rhodopis and Cinderella
#17 Read and Write Argumentative: Social Studies
#18 Story Summary
#19 Character Changes
#20 Text to Text – Cross Fiction Story Analysis
#21 My Thoughts While Reading…
#22 Inferring Character Feelings
#23 Cause and Effect
#24 Compare and Contrast – Story Elements
#25 Think, Question, Analyze
#26 The Egyptian Cinderella Report Card
#27 The Egyptian Cinderella Book Review
#28 Sentence Sorting Traditional Cinderella
#29 Lights, Camera, Action
Constructed Response Rubric Guide
Constructed Response Rubric
Answers
Samples of Interactive Notebook

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150 Daily Reading and Writing Warm-Ups for 4th and 5th Grade

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Link to Warm-Ups

These Daily Reading and Writing Warm-Ups are aligned to the Common Core State Standards and help to foster the 21st Century higher order thinking skills necessary in today’s world. Not your ordinary multiple-choice bell-ringers, but learning tasks designed to engage students and get them thinking.

They are easy to differentiate — and were previously sold separately, so look at the preview please.

Over 150 passages, these Daily Reading and Writing Warm-Ups are themed for an entire school year and are written at reading levels from 3rd through 5th grades.

Jouanah: A Hmong Cinderella No Prep Unit: Common Core Aligned

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by Elizabeth Chapin-Pinotti

Grades 2, 3, 4 and 5

Jouanah: A Hmong Cinderella No Prep Unit: Common Core Aligned Link

Jouanah Chapin-Pinotti No Prep Unit CoverThis is a no prep unit for Jewell Reinhard Coburn’s “Jouanah: A Hmong Cinderella. These engaging activities are turn-key…read the story to your class or have them read it as part of literature circles, go over the Cinderella story elements and engage them with these lessons!

Activities are naturally differentiated and aligned with the Common Core State Standards.

Included:
#1: About Jouanah…In My Opinion
#2: Jouanah Story Connectors
#3: Story Characters – Jouanah
#4: Jouanah Grammar Fix
#5: Sentence Sorting – Cinderella
#6: Jouanah Sentence Sorting
#7: From Sentence Sorting to Essay Writing
#8: Jouanah Dictionary Skills Activity
#9: Comprehension Quiz for Jouanah: The Hmong Cinderella
#10: Questions Along the Way
#11: About: Jouanah: A Hmong Cinderella: In My Opinion…
#12: Jouanah: A Hmong Cinderella: Constructed Response #12
#13: Jouanah: A Hmong Cinderella — Character Conflicts
#14: Quick Write Compare and Contrast
#15: About the Author
#16: Story Summary
#17: Character Changes
#18 Text to Text: Connection Fiction Texts
#19: My Thoughts While Reading Jouanah: A Hmong Cinderella
#20: Inferring Character Feelings
#21: Cause and Effect
#22: Compare and Contrast Cinderella and Jouanah
#23: Think, Question and Analyze
#24: Jouanah: A Hmong Cinderella Report Card
#25: Jouanah: A Hmong Cinderella Book Review
#26: Lights, Camera, Action
Answers

If you have any questions…please email me at elizabethpinotti@gmail.com

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

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Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella: No Prep Unit: Common Core Aligned

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by Elizabeth Chapin-Pinotti

Grades 2, 3, 4 and 5

This is a no prep unit for “Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella” Chapin-Pinotti Cindy Ellen Unitby Susan Lowell. These engaging activities are turn-key…read the story to your class or have them read it as part of literature circles, go over the Cinderella story elements and engage them with these lessons!

Activities are naturally differentiated and aligned with the Common Core State Standards. Engaging interactive notebook pages included.

Included:

Table of Contents

Cinderella Elements
#1: Cindy Ellen Problem Solution Interactive Notebook Page
#2: Cindy Ellen Character Traits RL.3
#3: Joe Prince Character Traits RL.3
#4: Critical Thinking Literature Questions Interactive Notebook Page
#5: Ask and Answer Questions from the Story RL.1
#6: Inferring RL.6
#7: Cindy Ellen – What do you think? RL.1 and 3
#8: Problem/Solution Interactive Notebook Page RL.5
#9: Critical Thinking Questions
#10: About Cindy Ellen RL 1 and 2
#11: Recounting Cindy Ellen
#12: Character Motivation and Evidence RL.5
#13: Idioms: RL.4
#14 Cindy Ellen: Character Conflicts RL.1 and 3
#15 Sentence Sorting RL.2
#16 From Sentence Sorting to Essay Writing RL1 and 2
#17: Quick Write: Compare and Contrast RL.9
#18: Text-to-Text RL.9
#19: I Can Answer Questions About the Text RL.1
#20: Theme
#21: Moral RL.2
#22: Inferring RL.6
#23 Retell the Story through your Favorite Drawings RL.7
#24: Cause and Effect
#25: Cindy Ellen Report Card
#26; Cindy Ellen Book Review
Rubric for Constructed Response

Don’t for get to look at my other Cinderella Units!!

If you have any questions…please email me at elizabethpinotti@gmail.com

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

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Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella No Prep Unit

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by Elizabeth Chapin-Pinotti

Grades 2, 3, 4

Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella No Prep Unit

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This is a no prep unit for “Cendrillon” by Robert D. San Souci. These engaging activities are turn-key…read the story to your class or have them read it as part of literature circles, go over the Cinderella story elements and engage them with these lessons!

Activities are naturally differentiated and aligned with the Common Core State Standards. Engaging interactive notebook pages included.

Included:

Table of Contents

Cinderella Elements
#1: Cendrillon Problem Solution Interactive Notebook Page
#2: Cendrillon Character Traits RL.3

#3: Godmother Character Traits RL.3
#4: Critical Thinking Literature Questions Interactive Notebook Page
#5: Ask and Answer Questions from the Story RL.1
#6: Inferring RL.6
#7: Cendrillon – What do you think? RL.1 and 3
#8: Problem/Solution Interactive Notebook Page RL.5
#9: Critical Thinking Questions
#10: About Cendrillon RL 1 and 2
#11: Recounting Cendrillon
#12: Character Motivation and Evidence RL.5
#13: Non-Fiction Quick Write: French Creole
#14 Cendrillon: Character Conflicts RL.1 and 3
#15 Sentence Sorting RL.2 Answers: 3, 2, 4, 1, 5, 7, 6
#16 From Sentence Sorting to Essay Writing RL1 and 2
#17: Quick Write: Compare and Contrast RL.9
#18: Text-to-Text RL.9
#19: I Can Answer Questions About the Text RL.1
#20: Theme
#21: Moral RL.2
#22: Inferring RL.6
#23 Retell the Story through your Favorite Drawings RL.7
#24: Cause and Effect
#25: Cendrillon Report Card
#26; Cendrillon Book Review
Rubric for Constructed Response

Don’t for get to look at my other Cinderella Units!!

If you have any questions…please email me at elizabethpinotti@gmail.com

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

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Frankenstein: Teacher’s Guide and Lesson Activity Unit Common Core Aligned

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by Elizabeth Chapin-Pinotti

Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

Link to Unit

Cover of Frankenstein

Cover of Frankenstein

This is a Common Core State Standards – Higher Order Thinking Unit for Mary Shelley’s classic novel “Frankenstein”.

Revised — new graphic organizers and activities for differentiated instruction included!!

Activity templates, vocabulary, chapter descriptions, teacher note pages, critical thinking comprehension questions by chapter, fluency and chapter-by-chapter close reading assignments are perfect for all level classrooms with some differentiation to span from intervention to AP settings. This unit also includes Socratic seminar/discussion plans as well as lessons around the gothic novel, theme and so much more.

The comprehension activities included herein are designed to spark learning and thinking, while partner activities will inspire critical thinking in both challenged and Advanced Placement learners. Dozens of reproducible student lessons are included as well as notes on chapter content, theme, genre and much more.

This interactive teacher’s guide will help you help your students gain a better understanding and appreciation of Mary Shelley and one of the greatest literary works of all time…Frankenstein.

The entire packet is available for previewing so please look to know exactly what you are getting.

Great video lesson clip to enhance this packet: Clipped Classic Video Lesson of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Common Core

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Language Arts: CinderHazel No Prep Unit: Common Core Aligned

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3rd, 4th and 5th Grades

by Elizabeth Chapin-Pinotti 

CinderHazel Unit Cover

CinderHazel Unit Cover

Chapin-Pinotti CinderHazel Unit Activity from LessonThis is a no prep unit for Deborah Nourse Lattimore’s story “CinderHazel”. These engaging activities are turn-key…read the story to your class or have them read it as part of literature circles, go over the Cinderella story elements and engage them with these lessons!

Activities are naturally differentiated and aligned with the Common Core State Standards.

CinderHazel Book Unit Includes:

Table of Contents

Cinderella Elements
#1 CinderHazel Draw A Title Page
#2 Questions Along the Way
#3 CinderHazel Constructed Response Questions
#4 Story Connections for CinderHazel
#5 CinderHazel Characters
#6 CinderHazel Math Connections
#7 CinderHazel My Own Word Problems
#8 CinderHazel Comprehension
#9 CinderHazel Character Conflicts
#10 Sentence Sorting: CinderHazel
#11 Quick Write Compare and Contrast
#12 About the Author
#13 Story Summary
#14 Character Changes
#15 Text to Text – Connecting Texts
#16 My Thoughts While Reading CinderHazel
#17 Inferring Character Feelings
#18 Cause and Effect
#19 Compare and Contrast CinderHazel and Cinderella
#20 Cinderella Sentence Sorting
#21 From Sentence Sorting to Essay Writing

If you have any questions…please email me at elizabethpinotti@gmail.com

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

 

CinderHazel Unit Activity

CinderHazel Unit Activity

CinderHazel Activity Chapin-Pinotti