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Christmas Friends Level V

This Level V book is designed for advanced high school students and contains the following projects (from pre-writing through final product with all the instruction and skills needed for each assignment):

  • Twice-Told Tales—The Gift of the Magi
  • Research Report on One Aspect of the Gift of the Magi

Skills:

  • Word Associations
  • Strong Verbs
  • Creating Emotion With Color
  • Emphasizing With Repeating Words and Phrases
  • Breaking the Rules
  • Character and Hindrances
  • Directed Brainstorming
  • Overview Source for Research
  • Outlining Cards
  • Quotation Inclusion
  • Transitions in Chronological Writing
  • Merging Sources
  • Opening Paragraph Instruction
  • Closing Paragraph Instruction

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Christmas Friends Level III

This Level III book is designed for junior high students and contains the following projects (from pre-writing through final product with all the instruction and skills needed for each assignment):

  • Original Creative Writing– Twice Told Tales
  • Original Expository Essay– Three Holiday Traditions

Skills:
• Brainstorming

• Reseach

• Thesis Statement

• Thesis Statement “Reloaded”

• Transitions

• Quotations, Punctuation, and Capitalization

• Checklist Challenge Coding

 

Christmas Friends Level III SAMPLE

 

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Christmas Thank You Cards | Advanced

This Christmas Thank-You Card set is a unique product that will help your 4th – 6th grade kids/students send thank-you notes/cards after Christmas pain-free and without tears!

 

Included in This Set

This packet is chock full—with lines on the inside for students to write on and all of the following:

  • 1. Ten full-colored 4.3 x 5.7 sized brightly-colored cards (five different holiday pictures on the front)
  • 2. Ten full-colored 8×5 sized brightly-colored cards (five different holiday pictures on the front)
  • 3. Ten black-lined 4.3 x 5.7 sized cards to color (five different holiday pictures on the front)
  • 4. Ten black-lined 8 x 5 sized cards to color (five different holiday pictures on the front)
  • 5. Four pages of 2-3 sentence paragraphs of thanks or four rhyming lines of thanks for struggling writers to copy onto the writing lines if they can’t think of their own message of thanks
  • 6. 54 total pages of almost-done-for-you Christmas Thank-You cards
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Christmas Thank You Cards | Beginners

This Christmas Thank-You Card set is a unique product that will help your 2nd – 4th grade kids/students send thank-you notes/cards after Christmas pain-free and without tears!

 

Included in This Set

This packet is chock full—with primary lines on the inside for students to write on AND/OR if they prefer, pre-written messages for them to cut and paste onto the inside of the card and the following:

  • 1. Ten full-colored 4.3 x 5.7 sized brightly-colored cards (five different holiday pictures on the front)
  • 2. Ten full-colored 8×5 sized brightly-colored cards (five different holiday pictures on the front)
  • 3. Ten black-lined 4.3 x 5.7 sized cards to color (five different holiday pictures on the front)
  • 4. Ten black-lined 8 x 5 sized cards to color (five different holiday pictures on the front)
  • 5. Four pages of 2-3 sentence paragraphs of thanks or four rhyming lines of thanks for struggling writers to simply cut and paste onto the inside of the cards
  • 6. 58 total pages of almost-done-for-you Christmas Thank-You cards
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Christmas Thank You Cards | Pre-writers

This Christmas Thank-You Card set is a unique product that will help your Pre-K – 1st Grade kids/students send thank-you notes/cards after Christmas pain-free and without tears!

Included in This Set

This packet is chock full—with “dotted messages” and/or “dotted rhyming lines” thank-you notes written inside each card for young ones to simply write over and the following:

  • 1. Ten full-colored 4.3 x 5.7 sized brightly-colored cards (five different holiday pictures on the front & five different messages inside)
  • 2. Ten full-colored 8×5 sized brightly-colored cards (five different holiday pictures on the front & five different messages inside)
  • 3. Ten black-lined 4.3 x 5.7 sized cards to color (five different holiday pictures on the front & five different messages inside)
  • 4. Ten black-lined 8 x 5 sized cards to color (five different holiday pictures on the front & five different messages inside)
  • 5. 46 total pages of almost-done-for-you Christmas Thank-You cards

 

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Christmas Preposition Practice

There are the 17 lessons (and corresponding student worksheet pages) in this 90-page worktext, including the following:

1. Introducing the Preposition Practice Pal (Santa, Buddy, Angel, Elf, Reindeer)

2. Several lessons introducing and teaching prepositions in categories by their initial letter—A preps, B preps, Vowel preps, etc.

3. Antonym prepositions

4. Synonym prepositions

5. Two-or-More Word prepositions

6. Time prepositions

7. All categories combined

 

Additionally, there is an Appendix that is every preposition teacher’s dream:

  • 1. Colored and Black and White starry night scene and six preposition pals to choose from for practice (Santa, Buddy, Angel, Elf, Reindeer)—students cut these out and have physical practice manipulating the preposition pal in relation to the starry night scene
  • 2. Think Fast Preposition Quizzes for Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced students (separate ones)
  • 3. Preposition Category Cards for students to have the preposition categories at their fingertips
  • 4. Complete 12 page preposition list by categories as well as in alphabetical order
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Write-for-a-Month, Christmas Friends Level II

This Level II book is designed for upper elementary students and contains the following projects (from pre-writing through final product with all the instruction and skills needed for each assignment):

  • Elves and the Shoemaker Rewrite Given Story
  • Retelling Choice Holiday Story in Own Words
  • Christmas Decorations/History Question and Answer Boxes Over Given Material

Skills:

  • Symbols for outlining
  • Two outlining modals
  • Writing a story without dialogue
  • Story writing
  • Researching
  • Question and answer outline
  • Checklist challenge coding

 

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Write-for-a-Month, Christmas Friends Level IV

This Level IV book is designed for high school students and contains the following projects (from pre-writing through final product with all the instruction and skills needed for each assignment):

  • Twice-Told Tale: The Fir Tree
  • Original Comparative Writing—Before and After: Scrooge and Another Character
  • Twice-Told Tale: A Christmas Carol

Skills:

  • Character development
  • Plot development
  • Hindrances
  • Solutions
  • Scene-by-scene outlining
  • Show, don’t tell instruction
  • Comparative words and sentences
  • Time period study
  • Dialogue instruction/inclusion

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Write-for-a-Month, Christmas Friends Level I

This Level I book is designed for early elementary students and contains the following projects (from pre-writing through final product with all the instruction and skills needed for each assignment):

  • Frosty
  • Christmas characters—Tiny Tim, Rudolph, Santa, Angels
  • Snowman building

Skills:

  • Introduction to the sentence-by-sentence outline
  • Creating a sentence-by-sentence outline
  • Writing a sentence-by-sentence outline
  • Brainstorming
  • Researching
  • Essay

 

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Write-for-a-Month, Christmas Friends Level III

This Level III book is designed for junior igh students and contains the following projects (from pre-writing through final product with all the instruction and skills needed for each assignment):

  • Twice-Told Tale Elves and Shoemaker (Story Writing)
  • Three Holiday Traditions Original Essay

Skills:

  • Original creative writing
  • 1-3-1 essay approach (“Five Paragraph” Approach)
  • Thesis statement (without opening paragraph)
  • Thesis statement “reloaded” (without closing paragraph)
  • Quotation punctuation and capitalization
  • Transitions

 

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The Annotated Christmas Book List for Familes

True confession: When my two oldest kids were little, I read aloud to them three to five hours every day. (Well, some of it was devotions and bedtime stories with their daddy too.) My husband worked twelve to thirteen hour days, and I had several small children.  So I read.  And read.  And read. Some of our favorite readings were definitely Christmas stories, traditions, song books, collections, and more. We even increased our reading time during the holidays (not sure how!)! My bookshelves are still full of our favorite Christmas stories—and each year when our children, ages eighteen to thirty-four, come to decorate for Christmas and for our Christmas Eve party, we always pull out some of the collections of stories and read one or two aloud. So it’s only fitting that I pass on some of the titles to young mamas who want great books to read at Christmas time—via The Annotated Christmas Book List for Families!

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Jungle Book Level IV

This Level IV book is designed for high school students and contains the following projects (from pre-writing through final product with all the instruction and skills needed for each assignment):

  • Original Expository Essay–Three Ways to Survive in the Jungle
  • Twice Told Tale– Jungle Book

Skills:

  • 1-3-1 Essay Approach (“Five Paragraph” Approach)
  • Quotation Punctuation and Capitalization
  • Transitions
  • Thesis Statement
  • Thesis Statement “Reloaded”
  • Character Development
  • Hindrance Development
  • Time Period Study (if needed)
  • Direct or Indirect Paragraph Development via “Twice-Told Tale”
  • Scene Development
  • Dialogue Inclusion
  • Opening and Closing Paragraphs Instruction

 

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