A school year includes many odd sorts of days.
The Common Core State Standards (corestandards.com) include ten anchor standards each for writing and reading and six anchor standards for language. Each ELA activity in this book will list the anchor standards addressed, thus making them flexible enough to fit any grade level. Each activity is meant to be:
- You unexpectedly finish a unit on Thursday and don't want to start a new one until Monday.
- Holidays or special events make regular lessons difficult.
- You're sick and need a substitute teacher for a day.
The Common Core State Standards (corestandards.com) include ten anchor standards each for writing and reading and six anchor standards for language. Each ELA activity in this book will list the anchor standards addressed, thus making them flexible enough to fit any grade level. Each activity is meant to be:
- Flexible
- Fast and easy preparation
- Fun for students
- Aligned to the CCSS
- Correlated to CCSS curriculum maps
- August 26 National Dog Day (argument)
- September 3 Skyscraper Day (informative/expository)
- October 2 - Write a Comic Strip (comic strip/narrative)
- November 21 - World Hello Day (letter writing/optional argument)
- December - Rudolph's Top 5 Writing Tips (narrative)
- January- Frosty the Snowman (narrative)
- February- Evaluate a Website (argument)
- March - Gingerbread Man (folk tale/narrative)
- April 5 - National Read a Road Map Day (Reading/Creating maps as informational text)
- May 20 - Endangered Species Day (Informative/expository)
