Elly Elementary

Charlie Anderson by Barbara Abercrombie about Charlie, a fuzzy gray cat, who walked out of the woods one evening and into Elizabeth's and Sarah's hearts. Now he sleeps on their beds, lets them dress him up in doll clothes, and laps up warm milk on...

This resource is a perfect way to learn about and celebrate Thanksgiving with your class. It includes 18 pages of reading ELA resources, vocabulary work, writing, art projects and math concepts and activities. A perfect way to include some "thankfulness"...

Introduce Literature Circles to 1st and 2nd graders using Katie Woo books. This unit includes ELA resources and activities for Katie Woo books: .Katie Woo Cartwheel Katie . Katie’s Spooky Sleepover . Katie Woo Daddy Can’t Dance . Katie...

This bundle contains three resources perfect for starting the new school year: 1. September Back to School Ideas - This 34-page packet includes getting to know you activities, read alouds and discussions, learning about community and words that are...

Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing is an excellent read aloud for beginning of 4th grade. It is funny and enjoyable and a good kickoff to learning proper sentence responses for comprehension. This is a chapter by chapter comprehension unit. Each chapter...

This is a perfect unit for back to school or before introducing an in-depth community unit in Social Studies. Students will do some getting to know you activities and learn about each, their homes, their school, and their community. This 30 - page unit...

  This 30-page unit plan was prepared for use with Ish by Peter H. Reynolds. It includes: character traits and graphic organizers story maps comprehension questions writing prompts writing assessments extension activities for...

This 30 page reading and activities packet is for The Bubble Factory by Tomie dePaola. It includes;. Before/during/after activities . Character traits and comparisons . Comprehension . Story summary and retelling . Writing prompts/assessments ...

This 97-page unit study should be used with Strega Nona and all her stories. It includes: . Vocabulary work (defining, using in sentence, word boxes, word search) . Character Maps and comparisons . Story Maps, retelling, sequencing ...

This 30 page unit was created for The Art Lesson by Tomie dePaola. It includes before/during/after reading activities: . character analysis and comparison (feelings/expressions review) . Author's viewpoint . Cause/effect . story maps and...

This 30 page reading and activity packet was designed for use with Emma Kate by Patricia Polacco. It includes: . character comparisons . graphic organizers . vocabulary work .reading comprehension .story mapping and retelling .text-to-self...

This 56 page packet includes activities for the following Tomie dePaola legends: . The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush . The Legend of the Bluebonnet . The Legend of the Poinsettia . Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato . Jamie O'Rourke and the...