Motivational Quote Posters for SEL

Activity Overview

To support their work on positive self-talk and motivational strategies, students can create quote posters of inspirational quotes. These can be from famous people, family, or of their own invention, and should help motivate them and their classmates to succeed both academically and socially throughout the year! These quotes can be based around an important theme or be personal to the students themselves. Students will love creating their designs and seeing them showcased around the room or the school!

For more templates to add to this assignment, check out our quote poster templates! Students can also create from scratch using one of the poster layouts.

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Template and Class Instructions

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Due Date:

Objective: Create a Motivational Quote Poster!

Student Instructions:

Click "Start Assignment"
Using school resources, find a quote that is meaningful and inspirational to you. Or, write your own quote!
Using the template provided, write your quote in big bold letters.
Underneath the quote, include the author's name in smaller letters.
Change colors, backgrounds and add any scenes, characters, items or animals to enhance your design and make it pop!
Save and exit when you're finished.

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Lesson Plan Reference

Grade Level --- N/A ---

Difficulty Level 2 (Reinforcing / Developing)

Type of Assignment Individual

Type of Activity: Social Emotional Learning

Common Core Standards

[ELA-Literacy/W/5/7] Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
[ELA-Literacy/RI/5/1] Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

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Rubric

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Poster Rubric

Create an eye-catching, creative poster to demonstrate your understanding! These can be hung around the class or presented digitally!

	Proficient 33 Points	Emerging 22 Points	Needs Improvement 11 Points
Text	The text on the poster includes important facts, is accurate and is pertinent to the topic demonstrating a solid understanding of the subject.	The text on the poster includes some important facts, is mostly accurate and is pertinent to the topic demonstrating an emerging understanding of the subject.	The text on the poster does not include enough important facts. The information is not accurate or is not pertinent to the topic.
Artistic Depictions	The art chosen enhances the poster by symbolizing or illustrating important facts. Time and care is taken to ensure that the design is neat, eye-catching, and creative.	The art chosen is mostly accurate, but there may be some liberties taken that distract from the assignment. The design constructions are neat, and meet basic expectations.	The art chosen is too limited. The design appears rushed and incomplete.
English Conventions	Ideas are organized. There are few or no grammatical, mechanical, or spelling errors.	Ideas are mostly organized. There are some grammatical, mechanical, or spelling errors.	Storyboard text is difficult to understand.