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12 Days before Christmas Break (#9) - Holiday Rebus Writing


Have students try and create a holiday Rebus letter this season. A rebus uses pictures and symbols to replace words in a story, or in this case a letter, and the reader has to figure out the meaning (see sample picture above).
We have provided a template of this assignment which includes a slide where you can list the students name and link to their accompanying slide (see the notes section within that slide for directions). This is a great way to keep students on their slide when working on a collaborative document like this.
Since it is collaborate that means everyone gets access to the exact same document. When you are assigning it in Google Classroom make sure you do not select “make a copy” for each student--instead, you need to pick “students can edit” when you make your classroom assignment.
If you try this with students I would love to see their finished letters! Please feel free to share a link in the comments or on my Twitter page @atechcoachlife.
UPDATE: I just tried this in a fourth grade classroom (with the template I provided) and unfortunately they couldn't work in a collaborative document. I think the set up might have been difficult for them. They ended up in other people's slides and deleting slides. So I adjusted the assignment where they worked individually on their own slides (versus everyone in one project), which worked out so much better. As their teacher I could cut and paste their letters into a master document to share at the end. Here are a couple of the student responses.

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