ELA Resources Character Trading Cards In this activity, students can learn and practice ELA or Social Studies skills by creating character trading cards. The project helps students analyze characters and allows them to connect with their books. Designing the cards also encourages students to be creative and artistic! trading-cards-instructions-and-rubric-1Download Reading Workshop Materials Reading Workshop Serves to instill in students a love for reading! The workshop offers choice in books and choice in how students respond to their books. Students read a set amount of books per time period and record them in a book log. Then they choose to share about a few of the books with their class, from giving commercials about their books, to creating posters, to writing reviews. RWS-4th Grade Traditional.docxDownload 4th Grade Traditional RWS Book Responses PacketDownload American Library of Poetry Contest After studying poetry and practicing writing various forms of poetry, students can enter a nationwide poetry contest. Several of my students have already published! See the document below for reference on how to introduce the opportunity to students and help them enter. Once you collect all of the poems, you will need to mail them in, or submit them electronically, but the excitement from the students is well worth the extra task! American Library of Poetry AssignmentDownload Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Like Loading...