This No Prep Book Unit is based on Cendrillon by Robert D. San Souci and contains 37-pages of interactive, cross curricular and engaging activities -- all standards-aligned. This print-and-go unit contains interactive journal pages, a review of Cinderella Elements, essays, social studies assignments, quizzes and a whole lot more. Differentiated for use with the whole class. 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

This No Prep Book Unit is a companion to Cinderella and the Hot Air Balloon by Anne Jungman and Russel Ayto and contains over thirty pages of interactive, cross curricular and engaging activities -- all standards-aligned. This print-and-go unit contains interactive journal pages, a review of Cinderella Elements, essays, social studies assignments, quizzes and a whole lot more. Differentiated for use with the whole class. My Blog: http://www.luckyjenny.com/blog-reading-all-around.html Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/epinotti/ TES Store: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/elizabethpinotti Table of Contents Cinderella Elements #1: Title, Problem, Solution #2: Character Traits Interactive Page - Cinderella #3: Character Traits Interactive Page – Prince Charming #4: Inferring Cinderella and the Hot Air Balloon #5: What Do You Think? Interactive Page #6: Problem and Solution Interactive Page #7: Interactive Notebook Questions #8: About Cinderella and the Hot Air Balloon Your Opinion #9: Cinderella and the Hot Air Balloon Summary #10: Character Motivation Interactive Page #11: Character Conflicts #12: Sentence Sorting #13: Sentence Sorting to Essay Writing Enrichment #14: Quick Write Compare and Contrast #15: Text-to-Text Connection Fiction Texts #16: My Thoughts While Reading…Note-taking #17: Inferring Character Feelings with Evidence #18: Comprehension Quiz #19: Cause and Effect #20: Cinderella and the Hot Air Balloon Report Card #21: Cinderella and the Hot Air Balloon Book Review #22 Lights Camera Action #23 Cinderella and the Hot Air Balloon Report Card Rubric for Constructed Response

This No Prep Book Unit is based on Smoky Mountain Rose: An Appalachian Cinderella by Allan Schroeder and Illustrated by Brad Sneed. and contains 37-pages of interactive, cross curricular and engaging activities -- all standards-aligned. This print-and-go unit contains interactive journal pages, a review of Cinderella Elements, essays, social studies assignments, quizzes and a whole lot more. Differentiated for use with the whole class. Look for my other Cinderella Around the World Book Units at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/elizabethpinotti Table of Contents Cinderella Elements #1: Smoky Mountain Rose Problem Solution Interactive Notebook Page #2: Smoky Mountain Rose Character Traits RL.3 #3: Character Traits RL.3 #4: Critical Thinking Literature Questions Interactive Notebook Page #5: Ask and Answer Questions on Illustrations RL.7 #6: Inferring RL.6 #7: Smoky Mountain Rose – What do you think? RL.1 and 3 #8: Problem/Solution Interactive Notebook Page RL.5 #9: Critical Thinking Questions #10: About Smoky Mountain Rose RL 1 and 2 #11: Recounting Smoky Mountain Rose #12: Character Motivation and Evidence RL.5 #13: Visualize the Future #14 Smoky Mountain Rose: Character Conflicts RL.1 and 3 #15 Sentence Sorting RL.2 1,4,3,5,7,6,2 #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: The Smoky Mountain Rose Report Card #26: The Smoky Mountain Rose Book Review Rubric for Constructed Response

A perfect companion to any "Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland" book study is this Plot Diagram Teaching PowerPoint and student template. This plot diagram is an organizational tool focusing on a pyramid or triangular shape, used to map the events of a story. This mapping of the plot structure of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" helps students visualize the key features of the story and serves as an engaging, interactive tool. Check out my other “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” resources and a big Bundle at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/elizabethpinotti

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Interactive Reader" was designed specifically with 21st Century Learning and the tenants of higher order thinking in mind. The activity infused unit study offers built-in differentiation, is jam-packed with black-line masters that foster student engagement and higher order thinking and is easily adjustable to remedial, gifted and every student in between. Carroll's beloved novel is laid out, chapter-by-chapter, with questions, literary study, writing activities, source document analysis, links to other resources, Socratic Seminar templates, vocabulary activities, games, interactive notebook pages and a whole lot more! There are also end of book questions and activities as well as in-depth character explanations and information on themes and other literature nuances. A must-have for any teacher embarking on an "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" unit study. Check out my other “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” resources and a big Bundle at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/elizabethpinotti

This thematic unit contains science, math and literacy across the curriculum activities – as students classify, analyze, inquire about and research snowflakes: including what snow is, snowflake categories, read along research, paragraph writing, 32-math and science task cards and more. Also included is a PowerPoint presentation to help teach 1st and 2nd graders the process of paragraph writing. Table of Contents Page 2 Looking for Winter Instructions and Standards Tie-­‐in Page 3: Looking for Winter – What are the Clues? ELA Page 4: Looking for Winter: Snowflake Adjective Printable ELA Page 5: Five Senses ELA/Science Printable Pages 6-­‐7: Adding Snowflakes. Wintery Word Problems. Math Page 8: Snowflake Science printable. Students read about snowflakes and their shapes. Teacher should read this aloud, as students follow along, and then pair up students to re-­‐read and then complete the associated activities. Science, research, ELA Page 9 -­‐ 10: More printables for Snowflake Science. Classification. Two separate activities. Science Page 11: Mittens Read-­‐along Research. Read this page aloud as your students read it silently. Pair students, have them re-­‐read the passage and begin their Helping Hand essay. Social Studies, literacy across the curriculum, ELA Page 12: Instructions for Helping Hand Paragraph on Mittens. ELA, literacy across the curriculum Page 13: Helping Hand Paragraph Template. ELA, literacy across the curriculum Page 14-­‐15: Mitten Writing Template for students to recopy their Mitten essays and decorate for display. Page 17-­‐18: Snowman Math: Addition number sentences. Pages 19-­‐21: Differentiated Passages. The passages, Mittens (page 11) and Snowflake Science (page 8) are re-­‐written to be easier for struggling readers and English Learners to read and comprehend. Page 22-­‐23: A Flurry of Math – Math Game. Math

Bring in March with 20 original nonfiction March-themed Reading and Writing Warm-ups for Fifth Graders. Each passage is written at three levels: above grade level, at grade level and below grade level. Sixty passages in all. Why Reading and Writing Warm‐Ups? Adding just one daily Reading and Writing Warm‐Up to your schedule takes less than ten minutes a day, promotes the higher order thinking skills necessary of today’s student and helps build reading fluency and comprehension skills. Aligned with the Common Core State Standards, these passages help promote literacy in all subjects, while providing opportunities for higher order thinking and reasoning. A reading, Common Core and Bloom’s Taxonomy boost all in one ten minute a day assignment. Passages are written to promote vocabulary acquisition. Content vocabulary repeats allowing readers to familiarize themselves with the same word in different sentences. Students learn to write by writing, every day…sentences, paragraphs, essays and stories. Students also learn to read fluently and across the curriculum by reading every day…take an extra ten minutes a day to promote that proficiency.

This workbook is designed to cover one-quarter of the Common Core State Standards in English for the 9 and 10th grades. The writing requirements should be used to teach and emphasize all of the Common Core State Standards for Language - as proper grammar usage must be relevant and applicable to real world settings. This unit is perfect to teach the short fairy tales of the Brothers’ Grimm – Hans in Luck and The Golden Bird. This unit contains a 37-page Interactive Reader – with lessons, quizzes, project-based learning opportunities and more plus 2 PowerPoints – one for the Golden Bird and one for Hans in Luck. Table of Contents The Golden Bird page 5 Theme CCSS 9-10 RL.2 page 11 Character Analysis CCSS 9-10 RL.3 page 12 Author’s Choice n Text Structuring CCSS 9-10 RL.4/5 page 13 Digging Deeper: Critical Thinking for 21st Century page 14 Summary Writing CCSS 9-10 W.4/5 page 15 PBL: Multimedia Project page 16 Who Were the Grimm Brothers? Information Text (RI.2) page 17 Hans in Luck page 18 Literary Devices CCSS 9-10 RL.6 page 23 Multi-Media Comparison CCSS 9-10 RL.7 page 25 Writing Arguments CCSS 9-10 W.1 page 26 Non-Fiction: Around the World 1812ish CCSS 9-10 RI.2/7 page 27 PBL CCSS.W1 and W.7 and RH.2 and RH.3 Appendix page 29 Writing Rubric page 30 Critical Response Rubric page 31 References page 32

This No Prep Book Unit is based on “Dinorella” and contains 29-pages of interactive, cross-curricular and engaging activities -- all standards-aligned. This print-and-go unit contains interactive journal pages, a review of Cinderella Elements, essays, social studies assignments, quizzes and a whole lot more. Differentiated for use with the whole class. Activities: 1. Common Core Ties – page 1 2. Template Instructions – page 3 3. Cinderella Elements – page 11 4. Make an Invitation – page 14 5. Alliteration Exercise: “D” Word List – page 15 6. Comprehension Questions – Constructed Response – page 16 7. Story Characters Template – page 17 8. Write Your Own Cinderella Story Template – page 18 9. Comprehension Questions – Multiple Choice – page 19 10. One-Minute Fluency Passages – page 20 11. Sentence Sorting Template – page 27 12. From Sentence Sorting to Essay Writing Template – page 28 Check out my blog: http://www.luckyjenny.com/blog-reading-all-around.html Follow me on Pinterest (and join my group boards): https://www.pinterest.com/epinotti/ email: eac913@yahoo.com

Counter the December Dilemma with rich lessons and links on Christmas, the Native American Miwok Big Time Festival, Ramadan, Hanukkah, Christmas, traditions and holidays in general in a culturally competent context. Also included: an original story about a group of children who combine their holidays into one that focuses on the central themes of all: peace, good will to men and hope. Table of Contents #1 Countering the December Dilemma Photos for Brainstorm – Fourth of July #3 Miwok Big Time #4 Student Page: Indian Grinding Rock #5 Photo for Indian Grinding Rock Activity #6 Student Page: Chaw’se #7 Student Page: Miwok Roundhouse #8 Hanukkah #9 Student Page: The Dreidel #10 Student Page: Make a Dreidel #11 Ramadan #12 Student Page: Ramadan #13 Student Page: Good Deed Quilt #14 Kwanzaa #15 Student Page: Kwanzaa #16: Christmas #17 Student Page: The Origin of the Christmas Tree #18 Student Page: My Christmas Tree Origin Story #19: Student Page: Traditions I Do #20 Student Page: My Traditions Comic Strip #21 Holiday RAFT Assignment #22 What is a R.A.F.T.? #23 RAFT Rubric #24 My Investigation #25 Holiday Cutouts for My Investigation #26 Holiday Cutouts for My Investigation #27 Kwanmisadomakuh Big Time: Literature Unit Original Illustrated Story Common Core Aligned Literature Study Worksheets

This No Prep Novel Unit is for use with Louis Sachar’s Sideways Stories from Wayside School and contains 39-template pages of interactive, cross-curricular and engaging activities -- all standards-aligned. This print-and-go unit contains interactive journal pages, comprehension, literary analysis and a whole lot more. Differentiated for use with the whole class. #1 Cover #2 Questions Along the Way #3 In My Opinion #4 Story Connectors #5 Character Analysis: Sharie, Todd and Bebe #6 Character Analysis: Calvin, Maurecia and Myron #7 Character Analysis: Jason, Paul and Rondi #8 Character Analysis: Deedee, Sammy and Dana #9 Character Analysis: D.J., John and Leslie #10 Character Analysis: Miss Zarves, Ron and Kathy #11 Mrs. Gorf, Mrs. Jewls and Joe #12 The Three Erics, Allison and Dameon #13 Jenny, Joy and Terrence #14 Nancy, Stephen and Louis #15 Blank Template #16 Interactive Notebook Pocket #17 Inferring Character Feelings #18 Correct the Errors #19 Character Conflicts #20 Dictionary Skills Activity #21 Quick Write Compare and Contrast #22 Story Summary #23 Character Changes from Beginning to End #24 Text to Text: Connecting Fiction Texts #25 My Thoughts While Reading Template #26 Comprehension Quiz 1 #27 Comprehension Quiz 2 #28 Inferring Character Feelings #29 Inferring Differently #30 My Inference #31 Cause and Effect #32 Compare and Contract Two Characters #33 Think, Question and Analyze #34 Sideways Stories from Wayside School In Brief #35 Louis Sachar’s Humor #36 Book Review #37 Lights, Camera, Action #38 Sensory Effects #39 Rubric for Constructed Response Questions Check out my blog: http://www.luckyjenny.com/blog-reading-all-around.html Follow me on Pinterest (and join my group boards): https://www.pinterest.com/epinotti/ email: eac913@yahoo.com

This is an engaging No Prep Unit for Groundhog’s Day that includes: Readers’ Theater scripts, Science Literacy and Comprehension activity, vocabulary, labeling, story writing, graphic organizers and more. 19-pages of fun!

Can you Name 4 states that begin with the letter "S" in 30 seconds? Can you Name 4 types of precipitation? Can you Name 4 parts of the sun? Engaging game for the entire class, as a,center activity, or for partner play. The premise is simple – a team or student draws a card and answers the question by naming four. Questions based on information students need to know for school success in 5th Grade. There are: 81 – History/Social Studies Cards 45 – Science Cards 63- Math Cards 45 – English/Language Arts Cards

Students love this fast-paced game for work student and spelling and reading reinforcement. Word Seek -- Boggle is great for whole class or partner play, early finishers, literacy centers, bell ringers and warm-ups. Boggle can even be given as homework. The rules are easy: • Players have three minutes to find as many words as they can on a 3 x 3 • grid. • Players have four minutes to find as many words as they can on 3 x 4 and 4 x 4 grids. Players have five minutes to find as many words on a 5 x 5 grid Word letters must be adjoining in a chain. (Letters in the chain may be adjacent horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Words must contain at least three letters. Scoring: The first two letters of each word do not count for score. Each player gets 1 point for each letter after the second. For example: • won = 1 point • come = 2 points • change = 3 points Word Seek is great for partner play, early finishers, literacy centers, bell ringers and warm-ups.

Winter themed Boogle Word Search. Goes great with my Waiting for Winter -- Snowflake Science lesson! 41 cards in all. Students love this fast-paced game for work student and spelling and reading reinforcement. Word Seek -- Boggle is great for whole class or partner play, early finishers, literacy centers, bell ringers and warm-ups. Boggle can even be given as homework. The rules are easy: • Players have three minutes to find as many words as they can on a 3 x 3 • grid. • Players have four minutes to find as many words as they can on 3 x 4 and 4 x 4 grids. Players have five minutes to find as many words on a 5 x 5 grid Word letters must be adjoining in a chain. (Letters in the chain may be adjacent horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Words must contain at least three letters. Scoring: The first two letters of each word do not count for score. Each player gets 1 point for each letter after the second. For example: • won = 1 point • come = 2 points • change = 3 points Word Seek is great for partner play, early finishers, literacy centers, bell ringers and warm-ups.

This No Prep Book Unit is based on “The Salmon” and contains 39-pages of interactive, cross-curricular and engaging activities -- all standards-aligned. This print-and-go unit contains interactive journal pages, a review of Cinderella Elements, essays, social studies assignments, quizzes and a whole lot more. Differentiated for use with the whole class. Table of Contents Cinderella Elements #1: The Salmon Princess Problem Solution Interactive Notebook Page #2: The Salmon Princess Character Traits RL.3 #3: Character Traits RL.3 #4: Critical Thinking Literature Questions Interactive Notebook Page #5: Ask and Answer Questions on Illustrations RL.7 #6: Inferring RL.6 #7: The Salmon Princess – What do you think? RL.1 and 3 #8: Problem/Solution Interactive Notebook Page RL.5 #9: Critical Thinking Questions #10: About The Salmon Princess RL 1 and 2 #11: Recounting The Salmon Princess #12: Character Motivation and Evidence RL.5 #13: Visualize the Future #14 The Salmon Princess: Character Conflicts RL.1 and 3 #15 Sentence Sorting RL.2 1, 3, 6, 4, 5, 7, 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: Notes to Author: Critical Thinking Activity #21: Moral RL.2 #22: Inferring RL.6 #23 Retell the Story through your Favorite Drawings RL.7 #24: Cause and Effect #25: The The Salmon Princess Report Card #26: The The Salmon Princess Book Review #27: Non-Fiction Quick Write – Southeastern Alaska #28: Non-Fiction Quick Write – Abut the Author Rubric for Constructed Response Check out my blog: http://www.luckyjenny.com/blog-reading-all-around.html Follow me on Pinterest (and join my group boards): https://www.pinterest.com/epinotti/ email: eac913@yahoo.com

This is a 37-page Project-Based Learning Unit were student work cooperatively and independently to create their own government. This unit fosters 21st Century Learning Skills, is aligned with the Common Core State Standards and culminates in students deciding on a classroom government structure. In this unit students will learn The Basic Forms of Government How to Research and Create a Video How to Storyboard How to Discern Creditable Information from the Internet Research and Inquiry Skills Writing Process Skills How to think critically Technology Skills Cooperation Communication Table of Contents Project Explanation “The Ruling Class Project” page 4 “Who Rules” Student Worksheet page 5 “Before You Begin” Browsing the Web Worksheet pages 6-7 “Where are They?” Internet Search Practice Sheet on Various Governments – Then and Now pages 8—11 “Types of Government” Worksheet with explanations on Autocracy, Democracy, Theocracy, Oligarchy, Totalitarian, Dictatorship and Anarchy pages 12-14 Student Reference and Internet Resources Page page 15 “Our Classroom Government” Worksheet page 16 Create a Public Service Announcement Standards and Student Outcome Page page 17 PSA Checklist and Student/Teacher Monitoring Notes page 18 “My Classroom Government Planning Sheet” Worksheet page 19 “Research Template” and Fact Sheet Citation Page page 20 Public Service Announcement Script Outline Page 21 Script or Screenplay Writing 101 – A Quick and Dirty Guide to a Screenplay Page 22-23 Storyboard Information Sheet that Can Be Used as a Close Reading Assignment Page 24 “Storyboard Template” – Copy Multiple for Each Student Page 25 “Now What?” Instructions on What to Do Next Page 26 “Was I Convinced” Peer PSA Video Watching Review – Multiple for Each Student Page 27 “Name That Government Type” Group Quiz Page 28 “PSA Self-Reflection Sheet” Page 29 Answer Sheets Page 30-37

This No Prep Book Unit is based on “Jouanah: The Hmong Cinderella” and contains 36-pages of interactive, cross-curricular and engaging activities -- all standards-aligned. This print-and-go unit contains interactive journal pages, a review of Cinderella Elements, essays, social studies assignments, quizzes and a whole lot more. Differentiated for use with the whole class. Table of Contents #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

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 downable video or interactive clips. This Print and Go 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. Themes included: Veteran's Day, Hope, Thanks, Wampanoag and more. Center activities also included -- along with Math Task Cards -- centered on grade 5 but may be used with 4th through 6th grade students. Please look for other Print-and-Go units at www.luckyjenny.com.

Differentiated book unit for Fair, Brown and Trembling, a Cinderella story by Jude Daly. No prep printables and companion lessons that are engaging, interactive and perfect for every level of learner. Complete with interactive notebook pages, quizzes and a whole lot more. Common Core State Standard aligned. 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 Math Connections #8 Make Up My Own World Problems #9 Correct the Grammar Errors #10 Comprehension Questions #11 Character Conflicts #12 Sentence Sorting #13 Sentence Sorting to Essay Writing Enrichment #14 Dictionary Skills #15 Quick Write: Compare and Contrast #16 About the Author #17 Story Summary #18 Character Changes #19 Text to Text – Cross Fiction Story Analysis #20 My Thoughts While Reading… #21 Inferring Character Feelings #22 Cause and Effect #23 Compare and Contrast – Cinderella and Trembling #24 Think, Question, Analyze #25 Fair, Brown and Trembling Report Card #26 Fair, Brown and Trembling Book Review #27 Sentence Sorting Traditional Cinderella #28 Lights, Camera, Action Answers