Martin Luther King: Free Resources, Free Lessons, Activities, Crafts Ideas, and More

With only 2 weeks left until we honor the life of Martin Luther King I have put together some great free resources for you. I always like to start with a great list of books, like the one below, to use for Shared Reading or for your students to read. You can find a complete list by clicking on the picture below.

There were so many wonderful websites that shared free lessons and reading and activities so I will share the ones I liked the most. The first is Scholastic which you can access by clicking on the picture below. I found lots of lessons, whiteboard resources, book lists, and great free reproducibles including a play and mini book. Hope you will check it out.

The next website was Education World that had 5 wonderful lessons for all grade levels and some wonderful links to lessons gathered on the web. Just click on the picture below.

The next website is Education.com which you can access by clicking on the picture below. Here you will find free  activities, crafts and worksheets.

Next is Family Education where you will find many free activities and ideas like this "I Have A Dream" report. Just click on the picture below.

Finally, a great site for crafts. I just loved this dove craft below. You will find this one and several others at Activity Village by clicking on the picture below.

I have finally revised my "Honoring Martin Luther King" Unit for Grades 2-3. I've added over 30 pages of reading and writing activities. It also includes 2 Interactive Student Notebook Activities.

Here is a preview of the beginning of the unit.

The students reading books are differentiated at the 2nd and 3rd grade levels as well as the Cause and Effect Activity to help meet the needs of all the students in your classroom. 

There are 4 different informative text and opinion piece writing prompts to choose from and the Interactive Notebook activities.

 If you click on the picture below you can read the full description and when you download the Preview file you will see sample pages of all the materials and activities in this packet.

Last but not least is a freebie. Just click on the picture below to download my "Martin Luther King: Free Writing Prompts Grades 2-4." Common Core Standards are included for all 3 grade levels. These writing prompts are not included in my "Honoring Martin Luther King" packet above. Hope you enjoy!

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Martin Luther King Literacy Activities, and Freebie

It's the 1st Friday in January and it's freezing here in Tallahassee. I know so many of you are weathering the massive snowstorm and frigid temperatures with more on the way. It's a new year and I wanted to start the year off with something special for all of you! I just revised my Martin Luther King Literacy Packet which you can see by clicking on the image below. 

There are whole group activities to introduce the 3 Noun Sort Activities, Picture/Word and Picture/Fact Card Matching and Writing Activities as you can see below.

Writing Sentences with Sentence Frames whole class activity, Writing Sentences Center Activity and Assessment.

There are free picture/word cards when you download the Preview. Just click on any of the 3 pictures above.

Of course I have to start the year off right by offering all my wonderful followers and viewers a freebie.

Just click on the picture below to download your free MLK packet.

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Purring About Winter Poems, a Winter Play, and Freebies

Want to help your struggling readers build confidence and fluency at the same time? Poetry and plays are perfect. Poems are short and so much less intimidating. Try choral reading to help reluctant readers feel safe to take the risk of reading as their voices blend in with the whole group. Poetry is also great for teaching word strategies, fluency, and writing. Plays can be used in the same way. In many plays there are parts for all the boys or all the girls. If you don't have enough parts for everyone, 2 or 3 students can read the same part. Usually the parts are small and practiced over and over again which also helps build confidence and fluency. My ESL students loved performing plays and reading poems, especially ones they could act out.

I decided to write a fun winter play and winter poetry packet for Grades 1-2. The play is called, "How Will I Know When it is Winter?" There is a Narrator and 9 characters that tell the children what happens to them when it is winter. Day is very short, Weather is very cold and Snow falls from the sky. What a great way to teach the signs of Winter! Then they can practice matching the picture/word card with the sign of winter card.

If you use interactive student notebooks there is a page to add where students will look at the picture and word. Then they will flip it back and write the sign of winter. You can see the activity in the picture below.

There are also 5 original poems about winter and literacy activities to go with each poem. Here is a sample of a dialogue poem called, "I Love Winter!" which can be done by dividing the class into 2 groups.Then pairs of students can recite it as a center activity. This is a great poem to teach end punctuation as there are questions and sentences with exclamation points. There is a whole class activity using punctuation cards as well as an anchor chart. Then students will punctuate the copy of the poem that has no punctuation marks as a center activity.

If you would like to check out this Winter play and poems packet just click on the picture below. Download the Preview to see all the materials and activities in the packet and get a free activity.

I also have a fun free activity, "Hooray for Winter" Making Words and Sentences, which you can download by clicking on the picture below.

Don't forget to get my "mini Winter Edition of Making Sentences with Sentence Frames" by clicking on the picture below.

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