Welcome to my Back to School English Teaching Resources page.
Are you looking for fun reading and creative writing activities
to use at the beginning of the school year?
On this page, you will find lists of read aloud books that are great to
use at the beginning of the year, unique creative writing templates,
reading sticker charts, and fun poetry activities.
You can use the creative ideas that are on this page
to help you plan engaging language arts activities for your students to
complete during the first week of school.
The beginning of the school year is the perfect time to have your students
DIVE into reading!
My students are encouraged to read with unique reading
sticker charts that are designed especially to encourage and promote reading.
Start off the new year by providing your students with fun creative writing
activities that will make them DIVE into writing with enthusiasm!
For creative writing assignments, when I give my students unique and fun
templates to write on, I have found that they tend
to use their best effort on these assignments.
When my students are engaged, on task, and using their best effort, they are more careful
to not make careless spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors.
I hope that you will find some creative ideas to use with your own
students at the beginning of the year with the Back to School English
teaching resources that are found on this page.
At the beginning of the school year teachers often get to know their students
through an information worksheet that students fill out about themselves.
These student
information sheets are often ideal for a first bulletin board or classroom
display for the new school year.
If you are looking for a new, unique, fun, and eye-catching idea for this
"get to know me" creative writing activity, take a look at my version of this lesson plan that
uses school bus templates.
This Student Information School Bus set of lesson plans will
provide you with all of the teaching resources that you need for your
students to fill out an introductory worksheet about themselves during the first week of school.
This fun back to school creative writing activity will help you to be able
design a colorful bulletin board display of your students' work.
Since this is a short creative writing assignment, your students can complete this task quickly
and you will be able to display samples of your students' work in your classroom by the end of the
first or second day of school!
This Back to School English teaching resources set is designed to be assembled into one VERY
LONG school bus.
If you do not have the space for a long school bus display in your classroom,
you can assemble these templates into groups of 5 students together
and have 5 or 6 smaller school buses representing all of your students'
information sheets together.
Remember, you can make your school bus display as long as you want by gluing as
many student bus templates together as you wish. Each student fills in their
information section and draws and colors a picture of himself or herself in
the bus windows.
Above is an example of how these school bus templates are assembled together.
This example shows how 5 student worksheets
(plus the front of bus and door templates) are glued together.
Instead of drawing pictures, you can glue pictures of your students on the templates.
There is a second set of bus templates that you can use
if you want to glue student photographs in the bus windows.
Although this is a fairly short writing activity, I still have my students
complete a first draft. By taking the time to write a first draft, I can ensure
that my students' final drafts contain less spelling and capitalization errors.
As my students are filling out their first drafts, I walk around the
classroom and read their responses and make comments about the interesting
information that I have learned about my new students.
When a student has finished his first draft, he raises his hand, and I go over and quickly
glance at his work and point out the mistakes that I feel that he should
edit and revise. Then, I give this student his final draft bus template.
Below is an example of the first draft worksheet, which should be
cut into two rectangles and given to two students.
Since this set of teaching resources uses the word favorite in it, there is a second
set of resources which contains the spelling favourite for
teachers in countries that use this spelling.
Above: There are two bus templates that are not given to the students:
the front of the bus and the door. On the door template,
you will write the grade level, your name, and the name of your school.
Above: Students draw and color a picture inside the school bus windows.
Above: The third bus template (shown on the left) is the template that you will need to make multiple
copies of to give to your students.
The fourth bus template (shown on the right) will completed by one student.
Above: With these bus templates, glue photographs of your students in the window areas.
Above: Example of bus templates with student photographs glued in the window areas.
Above: Examples of black and white bus templates.
Above: If you are unable to print out color copies of this project, there are
black and white school bus templates included in this set.
Above: This Back To School English teaching resources set includes 12 pages of road signs
which you can use as bulletin board accent pieces to help you in decorating your
bulletin board display of your students' work.
Above: This set includes a 5 page road banner that you can assemble together
and use for your bulletin board display if you wish.
Above: I do not have a photograph example of this finished school bus project.
Above is an example of my
School Bus Book Reports
which are very similar (they are shorter in length and contain a different writing component).
Hopefully this picture will give you an idea of what a finished bulletin board
display using these projects would look like.
Most teachers like to include a "get to know me" lesson plan activity during the first
week of school. Your students probably completed a boring worksheet about this topic
with their teacher from last year.
Put a new twist on this assignment by using these star shaped creative writing
templates that your students will find unique and fun.
Meet the Stars of Our Classroom is a teaching resources set
will engage your students in writing an
introduction and description about themselves using fun star shaped templates.
Although I have included these lesson plans on my Back to School English teaching
resources page, this creative writing assignment can easily be used anytime of the
school year.
This star shaped creative writing set contains six templates that
are assembled together to form a large star. The finished star project measures
20 inches in width and 20 inches in height.
These star projects will make a colorful bulletin board display of your students' work.
Everything that you need to complete these projects is included in this set of teaching
resources. All that you will need is scissors, glue, tape, and coloring pencils.
Below is a photograph that shows a bulletin board display using these star templates.
The stars in this photograph are from my star book reports instead
of this "Meet the Stars of Our Classroom" set, but both projects are exactly the same size and shape.
Below is an example of the first draft writing worksheets that are included
in this set of teaching resources. The line spaces on the first draft worksheets
match the line spaces on the final draft star templates.
Since this set of teaching resources uses the word favorite in it, there is a second
set of resources which contains the spelling favourite for
teachers in countries that use this spelling.
The 5 writing topics in this star project are:
This set includes 6 templates that assemble into the shape of a large star.
In the center of the star, students can draw a picture of themselves or they can
glue a photograph of themselves.
Below are examples of the six star templates:
This Back to School English teaching
resources set includes a grading rubric.
Cell Phone Templates: How many times have students had to write an essay
about their summer vacations during Grades 1 - 5?
If you choose to use a tradition lesson plan idea for this writing activity, your students will
likely be very bored in your class. This is not something that you want your
students to feel during the first week that they are in your classroom!
Instead, provide your students with an engaging and fun way for them to write
about what they did during their summer vacations with these unique cell phone
text message templates.
Instead of being bored, your students will go home during
the first week of school anxious to tell their parents about a fun project
activity that they completed in your class.
Note: In the example above, you will notice text message abbreviations and
symbols used in place of words.
Normally, I would not allow my students to use these types
of abbreviations and symbols in their creative writing assignments, but for this activity,
I felt that it was appropriate.
My students really enjoy being able to write their summer vacation text messages
using the abbreviations and symbols that they commonly use everyday when they
write text messages to their own friends.
For some of the abbreviations that my students used,
they had to "translate" their messages for me, as I am not up to date on all
of the codes and symbols that young people use in text messages these days!
Are you also looking for a unique activity that you can complete the first
or second day of school that will provide you with student work samples so
that you can create a colorful bulletin board display during the first week
of school?
This is an ideal Back To School creative writing activity that will not take
much time, is easy to assemble, and will provide you with student work samples
that you can post on your bulletin board immediately.
You will be able to quickly design an eye catching bulletin board display
featuring your students' work using the bulletin board banner and additional
cell phone accent pieces that are included with this set of Back to School
English teaching resources.
These cell phone templates measure 6 inches in width and 17 inches in height.
This Back To School English teaching resources set contains the following components:
For creative writing assignments, I believe that it is important for students
to go through the writing process.
For this reason, my students never begin their creative writing assignments by
writing on their final draft cell phone templates, instead they write on first
draft worksheets. Then, they edit and revise their work on their own, with a
partner, or in individual writing conferences with me.
Below is an example of the first draft writing worksheet that is included in
this creative writing teaching resources set. The writing lines and spaces on the first draft worksheet
match the lines and spaces on the final draft cell phone templates.
After students have edited and revised their first drafts, you should give
them their final draft cell phone templates.
There are two templates for students to glue together to assemble their cell
phones. The two cell phone templates have thick borders around them,
which makes it easy for students to cut out these templates
on their own.
Below are examples of the final draft
black and white cell phone templates.
Below: This set of teaching resources includes color phone templates.
There are 6 different colors to choose from:
orange, blue, red, green, pink, and purple.
Below: To help you quickly decorate your bulletin board, I have included
8 cell phone accent pieces in this Back to School English teaching resources set.
Below: This set of teaching resources includes grade level cell phone accent pieces.
There are 8 separate sets of these cell phone templates for Grades 1 - 8.
The Grade 5 examples are shown below.
To help give you an idea of what these finished cell phone projects look like, below is a photograph
of a bulletin board display using these same cell phone templates.
This example is from my cell phone book report projects,
so the text area and drawing areas are a bit different than they are in this set of teaching resources.
The cell phone templates in this set are exactly the same size and shape as the templates in the
photograph below, and they measure 6 inches in width and 17 inches in height.
Summer Vacation Suitcase Templates: This set of Back To School English
teaching resources has the same writing topic as the above cell phone templates,
but uses suitcase templates instead.
I designed this set of resources for teachers
to use so that they had a second template idea to choose from. For this assignment,
students write about their summer vacations using
unique suitcase shaped templates.
This is an ideal Back To School creative writing activity that will not
take much time, is easy to assemble, and will provide you with student
work samples that you can post on your bulletin board immediately.
You will be able to quickly design an eye catching bulletin board display
featuring your students' work using the bulletin board banner and additional
suitcase accent pieces that are included with this set of Back to School
English teaching resources.
Since I am also a teacher, I understand that teachers often need to
change or adapt a resource that we find to meet our own needs.
I have
provided 2 different versions of these suitcase templates in this set
of lesson plans in order to help you select the version that would
best suit your own needs.
The first set of suitcase templates contains two templates:
a handle and a suitcase.
Below is an example of the first draft
worksheet for the first set of suitcase templates. The
line spaces on this worksheet match the line spaces
on the final draft suitcase templates.
This creative writing assignment will not take your students very long to complete.
The suitcase templates are on 2 worksheets, have thick borders,
and they are easy to cut out and assemble together.
These suitcase templates measure 7 inches in width and 13 inches in height
after they have been assembled together.
This Back To School English teaching resources set will provide
you with student work samples that you can post on your bulletin
board during the first week of school.
You can use the matching bulletin board banner and additional
suitcase accent pieces that are included in this set to help you
quickly assemble a colorful and eye catching bulletin board
display in your classroom during the first week of school.
Below are the first set of suitcase templates
that match the first draft worksheet shown above. There is an area
for students to draw a picture on the suitcase template.
Above and Below:
There are 7 different colors of suitcase templates provided in this set of teaching resources:
blue, brown, orange, green, red, pink, and purple.
The second set of suitcase templates are designed for teachers who want to
have a longer creative writing assignment.
This version contains 3 templates. The two suitcase templates are
stapled together at the top to make a flip book. The handle is
glued behind this booklet.
Below is an example of the first draft worksheets for this second
set of suitcase teaching resources. This set of worksheets has space for students
to write longer stories. The line spaces on the first draft worksheets
match the line spaces on the final draft suitcase templates.
Below: The second set of worksheets contains 3 templates: handle, front
of suitcase, and the back of the suitcase.
After your students have cut out these 3 templates, they should staple
the two suitcase templates together along the top to form a flip book.
The handle is glued on the back of the suitcase.
Below: There are 7 different colors of suitcase templates in this set:
brown, blue, orange, green, red, pink, and purple.
Below: To help you quickly decorate your bulletin board, I have included
7 suitcase accent pieces in this Back to School English teaching resources set.
Color Pencil Box Templates: Are you looking for a fun creative writing
assignment and a colorful bulletin board display idea?
For this writing assignment, students write about the following
topic: "I am a Colorful Student."
Are you looking for a creative writing assignment and bulletin board
display that is individualized to the grade level that you teach?
This Back To School English
teaching resources set has 8 separate writing templates that have Grades 1 - 8
written on the student worksheets and templates.
There are also 8 bulletin board display banners for each grade level (Grades 1 - 8) included
in this set of teaching resources.
For this creative writing assignment, students choose 5 words or phases that describe
themselves and write them in the 5 pencils. In the pencil box area, students
write a description about themselves, as well as their birthdays along
the side of the box.
Below is an example of the writing areas in these color pencil templates.
Although this activity can be used anytime of the school year,
it is ideal for a Back To School creative writing activity.
This assignment will not take your students very long to complete.
The pencil box templates are on one page and they are easy to cut out.
The color pencil templates measure 6 inches in width and 10 inches in height.
This quick creative writing assignment will provide you with student
work samples that you can post on your bulletin board immediately,
along with the colorful bulletin board banner and additional color pencil
box accent pieces.
"We Are Colorful Students" contains the
following teaching resources for Grades 1 - 8:
Since the templates and banners in this set use the word colorful in them,
there is a second copy of these teaching resources which uses the spelling
colourful for teachers in countries that use this spelling.
Below are examples of the first draft worksheets.
This Back To School English teaching resources set includes grade level
templates for Grades 1 - 8.
Below are examples of the final draft pencil box templates.
Students write 5 words or phrases that describe themselves
in the 5 pencils. Then, students write a description about themselves in
the pencil box section, as well as their birthdays.
At the bottom of each pencil box is the title of this writing assignment
"I AM A COLORFUL GRADE _ STUDENT!"
These color pencil templates have been customized to contain Grades 1 - 8 written
on them. There are templates with the spelling of either colorful or colourful written on them.
Below are 3 different examples of the final draft pencil box templates.
I know that it takes teachers a lot of valuable time to assemble their
bulletin board displays. Many teachers spend hours of time cutting out
large display letters or making a banner at home on their computers.
This time is valuable and better spent on developing your classroom curriculum, so I have designed a matching 5 page banner for your
bulletin board display.
If you have access to a laminating machine, you can laminate your banner
so that it is durable and you can use it year after year for bulletin board
displays of these color pencil templates.
The first banner that is included in this Back To School English
teaching resources set is a general banner that is not specific
to any particular grade level. There is a second banner in this set
with the spelling colourful written on it (not shown).
Instead of using the general banner above, I wanted to have a bulletin board banner that was
specific to the grade level that I was teaching.
This set of teaching resources includes separate
banners for Grades 1 - 8, and there are two versions of each banner using
the spelling of colorful and colourful.
Below: To help you quickly decorate your bulletin board, I have included
4 pencil box accent pieces in this Back to School English teaching resources set.
I hope that this set of creative writing resources that I have designed
to be grade level specific helps you to have a Back To School writing assignment that is
targeted to the grade level that you teach.
The specific grade level
banners and accent pieces are designed to help you create a colorful
bulletin board display that is also targeted for the grade level that you teach.
Although you will only use one set of these grade level resources this
year, be sure to save the entire set of color pencil templates and
banners to use for the future. As teachers, we are often switching
the grades that we teach and you can use this same writing idea with
the other grade levels that you teach in the future.
Are you looking for a fun Back to School
lesson plan idea that involves your students getting to know each other?
Your students will enjoy completing this unique project on the first day
of school. They will have fun getting to know their new classmates by
conducting interviews with them and writing about their partners
inside their megaphone templates.
You will be able to quickly create a colorful bulletin board display on the very first day of school
by using your students' finished megaphone projects.
This set of Back To School English teaching resources also includes a colorful circus themed
bulletin board banner (see example above) and additional megaphone accent pieces.
The megaphone templates are on one worksheet and they are easy to cut out.
These templates measure 10 inches in width and 6.5 inches in height.
Above: Finished example of Classmate Interview Megaphone Templates
This Classmate Interview Megaphone set of teaching resources contains the following components:
Classmate interview worksheets (2 pages)
This is a fun activity for your elementary school students to complete during the first week of
school, but you could also use these lesson plans any time during the school year.
Begin by grouping your students into pairs and giving each of your students
the two interview worksheets which contain questions for students to ask their
partners. Below are examples of these two interview worksheets.
Above: Classmate Interview Worksheets
Since the interview questions use the word favorite in it,
there is a second copy of this resource which uses the spelling favourite
for teachers in countries that use this spelling.
After students have completed their interviews, they should begin writing their first drafts.
For creative writing assignments, I believe that it is important for
students to go through the steps of the writing process.
For this reason, my students never begin their creative writing assignments
by writing on their final draft megaphone templates, instead they write
on first draft worksheets.
After my students have written their first drafts,
they edit and revise their work on their
own, with a partner, or in individual writing conferences with me.
Below is an example of the first draft worksheet that is included
in this set of teaching resources. The writing lines and spaces on the first draft
worksheets match the lines and spaces on the final draft megaphone templates.
Above: Classmate Interview First Draft Worksheets
After students have edited and revised their first drafts, you should give
them their final draft megaphone templates.
The megaphone template is one printable worksheet and has thick borders,
which makes it easy for students to cut out the template themselves.
The area between the megaphone and the handle should also be cut out, and since this is a
bit tricky for some students, I cut this area out myself for my students
before I give them their final draft megaphone templates.
In order to give the finished bulletin board display of these projects
more variety, I have designed megaphone templates that face left and
right. I give half of my class left templates and the other half right templates.
Below are examples of the final draft megaphone templates.
Example: Left Megaphone Template
Example: Right Megaphone Template
Above: Color Megaphone Templates
Above: Megaphone Bulletin Board Accent Pieces
This set of teaching resources includes grade level (1 - 8) bulletin board
accent pieces for you to use on your classroom bulletin board display.
There are 8 separate sets of these megaphones for Grades 1 - 8.
Below are the examples for the Grade 3 set.
Above: Grade 3 Accent Pieces
Grades 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 are not shown.
Pencil Writing Templates: During the first few days of school, it is
helpful for students to think about the goals that they want to work
towards and achieve during the new school year.
This is an ideal Back To School creative writing activity that will not take
much time, is easy to assemble, and will provide you with student work
samples that you can post on your bulletin board immediately during
the first week of school.
These unique Back to School pencil writing templates measure 2.5 inches
in width and 17.5 inches in height.
For creative writing assignments, I believe that it is important for students
to go through the steps of the writing process.
For this reason, my students never begin their creative writing assignments
by writing on their final draft pencil templates, instead they write on first
draft worksheets. Then, they edit and revise their work on their own, with a
partner, or in individual writing conferences with me.
Below is an example of the first draft worksheet that is included in
this set of teaching resources.
The writing lines and spaces on the first draft
worksheets match the lines and spaces on the final draft pencil templates.
After students have edited and revised their first drafts, you should
give them their final draft pencil templates.
This pencil project is easy to assemble and both templates are on the same worksheet.
Below is an example of the final draft pencil templates.
This Back To School English teaching resources set includes color
pencil templates for you to use as well. There are 5 different colors to choose
from: blue, red, orange, pink, and purple.
Above: Color Pencil Templates
Below: To help you quickly decorate your bulletin board, I have included large
pencil accent pieces in this Back to School English teaching resources set.
Example 1: What Are Your Goals This Year?
Example 2: Large Grade 4 Pencil (Grades 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8 are not shown.)
This set also includes 9 plain pencil bulletin board accent pieces:
blue, red, yellow, orange, green, pink, purple, brown, and light blue.
Above: 9 Plain Pencil Bulletin Board Accent Pieces
This All About Me poetry lesson plans set will provide you with all
of the teaching resources that you need for your students to write an introductory
biography poem about themselves for a fun Back to School activity.
There are a lot of different versions of biographical poems that teachers
have developed over the years. I never found one that used fun writing templates,
so I created my own version of this popular All About Me poetry idea.
My All About Me Poem lesson plans contain first draft printable worksheets that
will assist and guide your students in writing the 9 lines of this biography poem.
For the final draft of these biographical poems, students write
the 9 lines of their poems inside 9 pencil templates, with each pencil
increasing in width. After your students have colored their pencil templates, you will
have a dynamic and colorful poetry display to post
on your bulletin board at the beginning of a new school year.
Although I have included these lesson plans on my Back to School English teaching resources
page, this creative writing set can easily be used anytime of the school year.
This pencil shaped poetry set contains three templates that assemble
into 9 horizontal pencils. The finished All About Me Poem project measures 10 inches in
width and 15 inches in height.
These finished projects will make a colorful bulletin board
display of your students' work. Everything that you need to complete these
projects is included in this set of teaching resources. All that you will need is scissors, glue,
tape, and coloring pencils.
There are 9 lines of poetry for this biography poem assignment.
This All About Me biography poetry set includes two first draft worksheets.
There is an example poem for students to use as a reference at the top of
the first worksheet.
Below are examples of the first draft writing worksheets.
Students should proofread and edit their first drafts before they begin writing
on their final draft pencil templates.
Above: Examples of First Draft Worksheets For All About Me Biography Poems
After students have edited their first drafts, you should give them their final
draft poetry templates. Students can color their pencil templates after
they have finished writing their poems.
Below is an example of the 3 final draft pencil writing templates.
Above: Final Draft Black and White Pencil Templates
The finished pencil templates measure 10 inches in width
and 15 inches in height after they have been assembled together.
Above: Assembled Pencil Templates
This set of teaching resources also includes color pencil templates.
Above: Final Draft Color Pencil Templates
This Back to School English teaching resources set includes
12 colorful pencil bulletin board accent pieces to help you
decorate your bulletin board display of your students All About Me poems.
Above: Pencil Bulletin Board Accent Pieces
During the summer of 2011, I had the opportunity to go swimming with dolphins
(that's me on the right).
This amazing experience inspired me to create a new set of teaching resources that
included Back to School and ocean themed resources together.
This set of Dive Into a New Year of School teaching resources includes these
6 components:
These unique butterfly fish creative writing templates measure
10 inches x 6.5 inches. The fish templates have thick black borders
so it is easy for your students to cut out their fish creative writing templates on their own.
I have not chosen a topic for this writing assignment so that these writing
templates can be used for any topic that you choose. If you are looking for
ideas for writing prompts, you will find many ideas on my Back to School writing prompts
and September writing prompts pages.
This set of Back to School teaching resources includes:
These angel fish sticker charts measure 9 inches x 6 inches. The fish templates have thick
black borders so they are easy for your students to cut out on their own.
You can choose to use these unique fish sticker charts to record homework, the
number of books that your students have read, or they can be used for a variety
of different purposes.
This set of Back to School sticker charts includes:
You can present this award certificate to your students after they have
completed their angel fish sticker charts, or for any other occasion.
This set of Back to School English teaching resources includes color
and black and white versions of this award certificate.
This set of teaching resources includes a large whale that measures 18 inches x 10 inches
when the 3 template pages have been assembled and glued together.
This bulletin board display set of colorful fish templates highlights the
different subjects in school.
There are 9 fish that have the following school subjects written on them:
English, math, social studies, science, physical education, library,
music, art, and computer.
In addition, there are another 30 fish templates and worksheets included
in this set of Back to School English teaching resources.
Click here to go to Grammar Bulletin Board Displays page.
Click here to go to Parts of Speech Displays page.
Add pizzazz to your reading program with this delicious "genre pizza" that records the books that students have read.
This pizza chart encourages students to read 8 different genres of literature: fantasy, adventure, science fiction, realistic fiction, mystery, non-fiction, biography, and a free choice book.
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Genre Reading Pizza Chart (#1)
This 2nd pizza chart is exactly the same as the one on the left, except that it is a general reading incentive chart.
This pizza chart encourages students to read 8 different books, instead of 8 different genres. It will help your students to read with pizzazz and become enthusiastic about reading!
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General Reading Pizza Chart (#2)
By using these fish shaped sticker charts, your students will dive into reading 9 different genres of literature.
There are 11 different kinds of fish sticker charts in this ocean themed set of resources. Your ocean bulletin board display of your students reading charts will capture everyone's attention.
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Dive Into Reading Sticker Charts
Provide your students with an extra incentive to read 25 books with these colorful reading rainbow sticker charts.
This set includes a colored rainbow template, as well as 6 bright reading rainbow accent pieces that contain reading slogans on them that promote a colorful reading theme.
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Reading Rainbow Sticker Charts
The "athletes" in your class will have fun racing around the world reading 7 books, which represent the 7 continents.
For each book, students fill out the pages in their reading passports by writing a summary about the book and drawing a picture. Then, students color that continent on their world maps.
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Amazing Reading Race Passports
Do you want to give your students an extra incentive to read 15 books during a time period that you set for your them?
These cute puppy reading sticker charts will make your students dog-gone enthusiastic about achieving this reading goal! This set includes a matching student award certificate.
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Puppy Reading Sticker Charts
These apple sticker charts are a great way to motivate your students to read at the beginning of a new school year.
This set includes red and green apple templates, an award certificate, a matching banner, and a letter for parents. This is a perfect reading sticker chart set to use for Back to School.
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Good Apple Sticker Charts
Encourage your students to "Chill Out With a Good Book" with these cute penguin reading sticker charts.
These penguin shaped reading sticker charts are a fun teaching resource to use to motivate your students to chill out and read during the winter months of the school year.
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Penguin Reading Sticker Charts
Motivate your students to read 16 books and fall in love with reading with these sticker charts.
Although this set can be used any time of the year, I designed it as a February reading program and I used heart shaped graphics to tie in with a Valentine's Day theme.
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I Love Reading Sticker Charts
These colorful umbrella sticker charts will encourage your students to get drenched in reading books.
These incentive charts are perfect for a spring reading theme. This set includes 9 different colored umbrella templates to choose from and each umbrella has 20 raindrops for 20 stickers.
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Reading Umbrella Sticker Charts
This "Reading is SNOW Much Fun!" is a unique reading sticker chart set that contains a winter theme.
This set contains 2 snow globe templates: one for boys and another for girls (above). This set encourages students to read 16 books during the winter months of the school year.
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Reading is SNOW Much Fun!
This ice cream sticker chart set is designed to motivate your students to read during their summer vacations.
The top ice cream scoop contains places for 24 stickers to be placed. In the bottom scoop, students have to write a summary about their favorite book that they read during their summer vacations.
Back To School English Teaching Resources
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Summer Reading Sticker Charts
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Heidi, I just had to write and let you know that your website has helped me create the most awesome author study of Roald Dahl's books. My students loved completing the big animal shaped projects you designed for The Enormous Crocodile, Esio Trot, and The Giraffe, and the Pelly and Me. For the final project, they had so much fun writing and drawing about the characters from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory using your Willy Wonka Factory project. Thanks for sharing your scrumdiddlyumptious ideas!
I can honestly say that I have never had such great results from children with a book report as I did using this wanted poster book report activity. I was blown away and the parents who have seen the finished projects were amazed too. Thank you! I will definitely log on again to see your other products and your after sales service is awesome, thanks again. Very much appreciated.
Thank you for all that you do! You are helping all of us to become better educators!
I just wanted to take a minute to say THANK YOU for the free downloads that are included in your newsletter Teachers Have Class each month, I look forward to receiving every single issue. I absolutely love your products and what you do. I am so excited to use your resources through my teaching journey. Keep up the awesome work. Happy Holidays!
Your lesson plans for Stellaluna, Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas have saved me so much planning time this year. My Gr. 3 students really enjoyed completing the projects that you designed for each of these books. I was able to create great Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas displays in my classroom this year with their projects. Thanks for sharing your ideas and for saving me time.
My students loved your seasonal powerpoint games for Halloween and Thanksgiving. They thought they were playing a game instead of reviewing grammar ;-) I've already purchased all of your other holiday powerpoint lesson plans. Keep making more of these great activities, more POWER to you Heidi!
Thank you so much for letting me know about the new book report templates. I have been anxiously watching for the house book report project to be posted on your site, so I was excited to be able to purchase it today. It is absolutely adorable. I must tell you that I have received so many compliments from other teachers this year about my students' book reports that I have displayed in our school halls. Thank you again for all of your wonderful ideas....you make my life so much easier as a teacher!
I want to write and tell you that I love the resources that you make and share with us, they have truly been helpful to me and my students. I have been teaching grammar rules in a more exciting way, and I owe it all to you. Your grammar powerpoint lessons have been such a blessing! Thank you very much!
I feel so fortunate to have found your website and I have referred several of my co-workers to your website. Just for the month of January, there were three teachers displaying your book reports. I had the trophy reports, my neighbor to the left had the computer reports, and my neighbor to the right had the birthday cake reports. Thank you so very much for all of your work!
I just wanted to say thank you for the most amazing teaching resources that I have ever come across in my thirty years of teaching. I have used many of your book report sets this year and my students absolutely loved them. What was particularly pleasing was seeing some of my reluctant readers (especially the boys) really wanting to read books and complete the activities. Keep up the great work!
I am in awe of what you have accomplished and created for those of us teaching in the public sector. Good for you for taking time off and self publishing. Your enthusiasm is contagious and your generosity is amazing. I recently provided a reading in-service for the K-5 staff at my school. I listed your website as a "must" to visit.
Thanks you for your expertise, creativity, and heartfelt enthusiasm. You are an inspiration to new and veteran teachers and a model for those of us who have not had the guts to go out on our own. You did it!!! I suggest that you go on the speaking circuit and share your knowledge and creativity at the International Reading Association Meetings and the State Reading Associations.
I'm writing to tell you that my students just finished the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory group projects. They worked so hard, and the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory projects turned out great! We had them to show for student led conferences. The parents were very impressed, and so were many of the other teachers and my principal. They all commented on my students' work and your creative templates. My students had so much fun doing these projects. I also used the multiplication pizza sticker charts. My students loved those as well!! Thank you so much for all of your amazing products.
My students are working on their Charlie and Chocolate Factory projects that I bought on your website. One of my students said how nice the other character wheels were and he said, "Besides this is just fun!" Not bad for a third grade boy!!
Just wanted to say thank you so much for your wonderful site and the excellent resources that you provide at such reasonable prices. I purchased and used your lesson plans for the The Giving Tree with my students, and it was a blast. Thanks again!
Simply stated, I LOVE YOUR BOOK REPORT SETS!!!!!!! I'm interested in purchasing them ALL!!!! I've been looking for something like this for quite some time. My students are so excited about reading this year, and it is all because of your fun projects!
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