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Introduce your students to the five competencies of SEL with these writing and journal prompts for elementary, middle, and high school.
Ali Habashi
Shaped Editor
April 04, 2022
Design a parade or write a limerick for St. Patrick's Day this year with these writing and journal prompts.
Ali Habashi
Shaped Editor
March 02, 2022
These 12 Olympics activities for elementary and middle school students will let them sharpen their math, social studies, and writing skills.
Alicia Ivory
Shaped Editor
January 07, 2022
Teacher and award-winning poet Toney Jackson joins us for a special lesson on how to write rhymes in the classroom.
Ali Habashi
Shaped Editor
December 21, 2021
Ready for a fresh start in your classroom? Say goodbye to the old and hello to the new with our fun New Year's activities for students.
Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Editor
December 14, 2021
Celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa with 12 holiday classroom activities, games, and crafts for elementary and middle school students.
Jordan Friedman
Shaped Editor
December 14, 2021
Celebrate the Festival of Lights with these Hanukkah classroom games and activities for elementary students.
Jordan Friedman
Shaped Editor
November 30, 2021
Give a lesson on the significance of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day with these Pearl Harbor activities for elementary and middle school students.
Alicia Ivory
Shaped Editor
November 10, 2021
Try these fall activities for elementary students in your classroom that put a twist on common fall themes.
Shaped Staff
October 01, 2021
Use these National Hispanic Heritage Month activities and lesson ideas to honor Hispanic American contributions and influences in our society.
Daniel Poremba
Senior Tier II Specialist, HMH
August 27, 2021
Find free teaching resources. Explore fun classroom activities, lessons plans, downloadables, and videos for Grade K–12 kids to keep learning and growing at grade level.
Shaped Staff
June 16, 2021
Want to help your students develop their organizational, analytical, and research skills? Teach them how to write an expository paragraph.
Alicia Ivory
Shaped Editor
May 05, 2021
Teaching kids how to write a persuasive paragraph consisting of their opinion and supporting sentences puts them on the right track to being an effective communicator.
Alicia Ivory
Shaped Editor
April 12, 2021
Fourth-grade teacher Perry Hollins shares tips for teaching current events through an SEL lens.
Perry Hollins
Fourth-Grade Teacher, Evanston/Skokie School District, Illinois
April 01, 2021
Use these educational activities for elementary school to explore different topics in reading, math, and science and add an element of fun into your lessons.
February 03, 2021
Introduce students to Black innovators with these Black History Month writing prompts and guide them into a particular type of text, such as personal narrative, informative, or persuasive.
Perry Hollins
Fourth-Grade Teacher, Evanston/Skokie School District, Illinois
December 22, 2020
Before we say goodbye to 2020, we want to highlight the most-read Shaped blogs, written with you in mind as you navigated this most unusual year.
Christine Condon
Shaped Editor-in-Chief
December 17, 2020
These reading activities for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade will help your students with reading practice so they can gain the right literacy skills.
Shaped Staff
December 08, 2020
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