Wednesday Weekly 5 under $5 - October 15, 2025

                                

Every week I put together a list of 5 great products from members of The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs Marketing Cooperative (TBOTEMC) with the requirement that each product must be less than $5.  With a variety of subjects and a wide range of grades, there just might be something that you can use, so continue to read below and see!

In addition, if you're a seller on Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) who would like to get more information about joining TBOTEMC, contact me via email at ReneeHeiss@gmail.com or by simply leaving a comment on this blog post.

Pumpkin Globe Craft | Continent Outlines and Maps & Globes Activity - $2.25

by Fourth Grade Frenzy

2nd - 4th grades

Activities, Halloween, Homeschool, Printables

Bring geography to life with this engaging Pumpkin Globe Activity! Perfect for your maps and globes unit, this hands-on project lets students create their own globe using pumpkins while reinforcing mental mapping skills and learning about continents and oceans. Outlines and labels are included.

Sentence Patterns Grammar Worksheets for Halloween | Print | Digital | Easel - $4.00

by Charlene Tess

9th - 12th grades

ESL, EFL, and ELL, Handouts, Printables

This Halloween activity will teach your students to rewrite sentences without changing their meaning to achieve sentence variety. At the same time, they will be reminded of things that are associated with Halloween. Good writers vary their sentence patterns by sometimes placing phrases or clauses at the beginning of their sentences. The twenty Halloween - themed sentences in this exercise all begin with the subject and the verb.

Math Halloween Fraction Riddles Putting Fractions in Lowest Terms, Equivalency - $3.25

by Scipi

3rd - 5th grades 

Activities, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Handouts, Homeschool, Printables

This math resource contains ten Halloween fraction riddles which provide students practice in putting fractional parts in lowest terms as well as recognizing equivalent fractions. Specific words are provided, and the students are to figure out the correct fractional part of each particular word. (Example: The first 1/3 of LEDGER which would be LE.) If the fractional part is correctly identified, when the students write the fractional parts on the lines provided, a new word is formed. Each group of new words becomes a Halloween riddle or an answer to a riddle.

Halloween 1st Grade Reading Sentence and Picture Match Games and Assessments - $3.00

by Mickey's Place

K - 2nd grades

Activities, Assessment, Centers, Halloween

Sentence to Picture Match: Halloween is a reading comprehension activity created to be used at centers or in small groups. Students will read each sentence and match it to the picture it describes. The picture cards can be in a folder, cut apart, or placed in a pocket chart. The student will then place the sentences that describe a picture next to the picture card.

Retelling Profiles For Fiction & Nonfiction - Free

by Reading Spotlight

All grades

Assessment, ESL, EFL, and ELL

If you have a student who sounds like a good reader but does not seem to understand what is read, retelling is a good strategy that will give you insight into the student's thinking process. It is almost prep-free! Two RETELLING PROFILES, one for fiction, one for non-fiction, are included. They are very useful tools to evaluate comprehension processes of your students. A short, student self-evaluation form for retelling is also included.

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Wednesday Weekly 5 Best Under $5 - 6/28/17

Here's a quick rundown of the best 5 TpT items, in no particular order, for this week. Of course, all items are under $5, as well! With a variety of subjects and a wide range of grades, there just might be something that you can use, so continue to read below and see!

Following Directions July 4th Freebie - FREE

By Kathy Babineau

ELA/Special Education; Grades K-4

This is a super easy to use low-prep activity that the kids love! Great activity for paying attention and following directions. To use, simply make enough photocopies of the “coloring pages” as you need for your class or group. (I have done these activities with entire classrooms, in small groups and with individual students.) Only one copy of each of the “directions” pages is necessary, as these are designed to be read aloud by the teacher/speech language pathologist. Distribute the “coloring pages” to your students, and then instruct them to take out pencils and crayons and to listen to your directions carefully. I often encourage my students to ask for clarification or repetition as needed. Then, read the directions, one at time, and challenge your students to follow your directions carefully as they color and add detail to their papers.

Argumentative Text Set - Can Cell Phones Be Educational Tools? - $2

By A Teacher's Teacher

ELA/Writing; Grades 7-10

This four-passage text set is accompanied by an argumentative prompt regarding the topic of cell phones in the classroom. It's a perfect assignment to engage typically students of all ability levels due to the interesting topic. It will also strengthen your students experience with the idea of using the text to support their writing, rather than their own personal experiences. Modeled after AIR Testing, which is used in numerous states across the country, it would also fit well into a PARCC simulation. The text set, itself, is 7 pages long.

You will receive the text set and prompt in a ready-to-use format for easy accessibility (.pdf) as well as a file that you can open and edit, to best fit for your own classroom needs (.docx). In addition, the option to use a quick-sharing link for Google Docs is also provided, in case you use the Google Suite of Apps. All you'll have to do is open the Word or PDF file labeled for Google Docs, copy the link provided, and paste it into your web browser. From there, follow the directions on the Word document or PDF to save it to your Google Drive

Animal Informational Reports: Mollusks - $3.50

By Teach to Tell

Science/ELA; Grades 2-6

Have your students write informational reports on 11 mollusks. These flipbooks scaffold the structural components of an Informational Report at each stage of the writing process. This resource can be used as a stand-alone flipbook or in an interactive notebook. It includes editable flipbook templates (2-7) in blackline to print, a self-editing checklist, a peer-editing checklist, 4 teacher marking rubric formats, and 4 different styles of writing sheets. Check out the details on the product description page for more information about this great product!

Canada: A Country Research Project - $4

By Globe Trottin' Kids

Geography; Grades 2-4

Students complete a variety of activities as they research the geography and culture of Canada. The activities are glued into a separate notebook (not provided), creating a wonderful artifact to share and keep. Activities include maps (labeling maps; creating a compass rose and a map key), country stats (recording the population, area, products, and climate), Flag (coloring a sample flag; writing a description of what the colors and symbols mean), and more (see full description on the product page). Also included are student passports and stamps, suggested research websites, a 4-point rubric, and an answer guide, as student responses will be varied. Globe Trottin' Kids country research projects can be used as an independent learning center, a small group cooperative learning experience, or a whole class activity.

Basketball Theme Unit - $3

By The Balanced Classroom

Math/ELA; Grades 2-6

The basketball fans in your classroom will enjoy learning about the inventor of the game with this common core aligned integrated unit. This pack contains an original nonfiction selection title "Who Invented Basketball?" with follow up discussion questions and a main idea and details related organizer. Common Core Contents include an article on who invented basketball with work on main idea and supporting details (RI.2) and discussion cards (RI.1) as well as work on language, writing, multiplication, even-and-odd numbers, and much more.  See the full description on the product page to learn more about this terrific product!

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