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English Awards and Certificates: Welcome to my student awards and certificates section of Unique Teaching Resources that focuses on
reading and writing awards.
On this page, you will find awards to present
to your students for achievement in the area of language arts.
I have designed reading, spelling, creative writing, and
improvement English award certificates.
In addition to rewarding your students for excellence in language arts,
remember to focus on rewarding students of lower ability who have shown
improvement and effort in English.
By acknowledging these students for
their achievements, you are boosting their confidence and giving them
positive reinforcement to continue working hard at their ability level.
All of the printable student award certificates that are found on this page
contain a color template of the award and a black and white template of the award.
In order to save space on this page, I have only shown examples of the color templates.
I have designed my English award certificates with a large border around them so that
they are easy for you to cut out. You may want to laminate your awards so that they are
more durable and look even more impressive.
Note To Teachers:
The certificates that are found on this page (and my other 8 awards pages) are priced at $0.50 or $1.00.
If you are planning on buying 7 (or more) award certificates on this site, it is a much better idea to purchase this bundled set of 66 awards for $3.50.
Click on the link below to view this value pack:
Printable Award Certificates
Value Pack For School Teachers
66 Award Certificates For $3.50
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Printable English Award Certificates: Dive Into Reading
Encourage your elementary school students to Dive Into Reading this school year with
this underwater themed award certificate.
This is a general reading award that you can present to your students for a variety of
different occasions: completing a book report project,
reading a targeted number of books,
doing well on a comprehension exam about a novel read in class,
improved reading fluency, or general improvement in reading.
Are you looking for other resources with an underwater theme? Check out these other pages on
Unique Teaching Resources that contain ideas for the theme Dive Into Reading/Learning:
Do you want to encourage your students to dive into reading great books? This unique set of book report projects contains 12 fish templates so that you can assign a variety of different fish templates to your students.
Project Measurements:
Width = 9 inches Height = 7 inches
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Dive Into Reading Book Reports
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
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Printable English Award Certificates: Flying High With Books
Encourage your students to read books on their own by presenting them with this
Flying High With Reading award.
I encourage my students to read a wide variety of different genres by having them record each
book that they read using one of my unique incentive and sticker charts:
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)
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
Above are examples of how I motivate my students to read a wide variety of different genres.
Instead, do you want to encourage your students to read a set number of books? If so, try one of
these fun 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
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.
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Summer Reading Sticker Charts
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General Reading Award Certificates
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Reading Award For Boy Elementary School Students
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Reading Award For Girl Elementary School Students
I have designed two versions of this general reading award, one for boy students and
another for girl students. I present these award certificates to my students after they have
done a great job on their book report projects.
On Unique Teaching Resources, you will find ideas and examples for over
25 different book report projects that will help you to engage your students in reading!
Do you want a fun and challenging book report idea for your students that will make them hungry to read their books? Your students will find this cheeseburger book report project delicious!
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Cheeseburger Book Report Projects
Your students will be enthusiastic about becoming chefs and creating a sandwich book report project that contains 7 different layers in it (6 of the layers are shown above).
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Sandwich Book Report Projects
Are you looking for a fun idea that requires students to design a game all about their books? Your students will have fun playing their games together after they have finished these engaging projects!
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Game Board Book Report Projects
Your students will love designing large character body projects about the characters found in their books. This project is also ideal for a biography book report about a famous person.
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Character Body Book Report Projects
Nonfiction Book Reports: Your students will enjoy being newspaper editors and writing articles, cartoons, and timelines based on the famous people that they have read about in their books.
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Biography Newspapers (nonfiction)
Your students will WANT to use their imaginations to complete this extra large wanted poster. They will enjoy creating a crime that a character committed and why he/she is wanted by the police.
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Extra Large Wanted Poster Projects
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Printable English Award Certificates: Spelling
This is a spelling award that you can present to your students for a variety of different reasons:
excellence on weekly spelling tests, improvement on weekly spelling tests, improved
spelling in creative writing, or a spelling bee competition.
I designed this award with a bee theme to go along with spelling bees that many teachers
and schools have.
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Printable English Award Certificates: Writing
This is a general writing award that you can present to your students for
a variety of different occasions: creative story writing, improved handwriting, or improvement
in grammar and punctuation in writing.
When you cut out this pencil shaped template along the solid black lines,
you will have uniquely shaped pencil awards to hand out to your students.
On Unique Teaching Resources, you will find ideas and examples for over
20 different large creative writing templates that will help
you to engage your students in creative writing!
Are you looking for a unique way for your students to create a family tree? Your students will be branching out to learn about the members of their family as they design their own family trees.
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Family Tree Lesson Plans
The 5 writing topics in this extra large star shaped project are: My Family, My Favorite Subjects, My Hobbies/Interests, My Favorite Movies, Books, and T.V. Shows, and I Felt Like a Star.
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Star Writing Templates
Are you looking for a creative writing idea that involves your students writing a myth or a legend? Your students will enjoy writing stories using these fun templates that are in the shape of a knight's sword.
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Writing Myths Lesson Plans
Students write a story about being a knight in medieval times. Use these helmet templates with novels that have a castle, knight, or medieval theme in them, or during a social studies unit.
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Knight Writing Templates
Are looking for a new, unique, fun, and eye-catching idea for students to write an introduction about themselves? These school bus templates are a great back to school creative writing activity!
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Student Information Bus Templates
Provide your students with an engaging and fun way for them to write about what they did during their summer holidays with these unique cell phone text message templates.
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Cell Phone Templates
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Printable English Award Certificates: Creative Writing
This is a creative writing award that you can present to your students for
writing stories, poems, or journal responses for
creative writing prompts.
In general, I have found that most of my students are weaker in the area of written expression than
they are in reading comprehension.
For this reason, the majority of the fun projects and templates that are
found on my website focus on the entire writing process. Students begin by writing
a first draft and then they edit and revise their work. For the last step,
my students complete a fun final draft project. Instead of being bored with writing assignments,
my students are engaged, on task, and using their best effort.
Use this creative writing award to recognize your students' fine efforts
and outstanding work in the area of written expression.
On Unique Teaching Resources, you will find ideas and examples for over
15 different poetry templates that will help
you to engage your students in writing poems!
Earth Day is celebrated on April 22. This is a perfect opportunity for your students to write an acrostic poem with an environmental theme that is set inside a globe template.
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E.A.R.T.H. Day Acrostic Poems
This is a S.P.R.I.N.G. rainbow shaped acrostic poem. This acrostic poem is different because the key letters appear in the middle of the poem, instead of at the beginning of the poem.
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Spring Acrostic Poem
These pencil poetry templates will provide you with all of the teaching resources that you need for your students to write a fun introductory biography poem about themselves.
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All About Me Poems
If you have 25 students in your classroom, you can create a caterpillar display that is over 15 feet long with these unique poetry lesson plans. Each student writes a poem in one of the caterpillar templates.
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Caterpillar Poems
This S.N.O.W. acrostic poem is designed inside a snow globe template. There are separate templates for girls (shown here) and boys. Your students will enjoy these fun winter poetry lesson plans.
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S.N.O.W. Acrostic Poem
Are you looking for a Mother's Day activity that is unique and different? Every mother loves to receive flowers on Mother's Day! Students write Mother's Day poems inside these unique flower templates.
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Mother's Day Flower Templates
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Printable English Award Certificates: Reading Improvement
I have designed
two versions of this certificate, one for boy students and another for girl students.
This is a reading improvement award that you can present to your students for
improvement in reading fluency, comprehension, expression, or effort. By acknowledging a student for her improvement in the area of reading,
you are boosting her confidence and giving her positive reinforcement to continue
working hard at her own ability level.
One way to improve reading fluency is to have
your students practice and learn their reading sight words.
You can find free flashcards and word lists for the
Fry 1000 Instant Words and
Dolch Sight Words on Unique Teaching Resources
by clicking on the underlined links in this paragraph.
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Printable English Award Certificates: In The News
I designed this In the News award certificate to be presented to students
during an English unit on newspapers and writing newspaper articles.
I present this award to my students after they have written and designed their own newspapers
using my extra large (18 inches by 12 inches)
biography book report newspaper projects (shown below).
Below is an example of a newspaper project that students could
design themselves after they read a biography about Abraham Lincoln.
Nonfiction Book Reports: Your students will enjoy being newspaper editors and writing articles, cartoons, and timelines based on the famous people that they have read about in their books.
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Biography Newspapers (nonfiction)
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Printable English Award Certificates: Reader's Theater Award Certificate
Reader's Theater is a dramatic presentation of a written work in a script form.
The scripts are held by the readers and the lines are not memorized. The focus
is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures. Reader's theatre makes
comprehending the text meaningful and fun for the students!
Since there are two ways to spell
theatre/theater, I have provided copies of the awards with both of these ways of
spelling this word.
Thank you for visiting my English Award Certificates page.
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Teaching Resources for a large variety of fun lesson plan activities
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