Doodle and Do ELA Skills Bundle - 6 Units - Vocabulary, Writing, Reading
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Ready to instantly engage students with fun, doodle-y, and challenging English Language Arts lessons?
Then, this bundle of Doodle and Do resources is perfect for your classroom! It’s filled with 6 different units that will help your students…
- Write Responses with Text-Based Evidence
- Learn about and practice Figurative Language
- Develop Skills for Studying for Tests
- Learn 36 words associated with Fiction
- Learn 39 words associated with Nonfiction
- Understand and develop Close Reading skills
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About the Writing Responses with Text-Based Evidence Resource:
This Doodle and Do resource is designed to give students a solid background on HOW to write a response with textual evidence. First students learn all about text-based evidence and the READ strategy for responding to short answer questions. They do this with the super engaging set of DOODLE notes. Then, there’s ample opportunities to practice how to select, analyze, and write responses with text evidence as students rotate through 5 learning stations! At the learning stations they’ll find and analyze textual evidence, practice the READ strategy, improve two sample short answer responses, cut out and put together a written response, and analyze short responses.
This resource includes:
- Doodle and Do Resource Overview
- Lesson Plan for Doodle Notes (along with detailed tips for each study technique)
- Learning Stations Tips and Tricks
- Doodle Notes (2-pages) on How to Write Text-Based Responses (2 versions)
- Detailed Stations Set-Up and Task Guide for Teachers
- Learning Station Cards (5)
- All Answer Keys
- Learning Station Activities:
--- Find and Analyze Textual Evidence – Long reading passage + 3 tasks for finding and analyzing textual evidence
--- Practice the READ Strategy – 2 reading passages + 2 cooperative tasks for writing responses using the READ strategy
--- Analyze a Written Response – 2 reading passages + Activity to highlight and analyze the sample written responses
--- Putting Together a Written Response – Long reading passage + cut and paste activity to put together a response and add in the missing information
--- Improve the Written Response – 2 reading passages + Activity to revise and improve two sample responses
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About the Figurative Language Resource
This Doodle and Do resource is designed to help students understand 6 types of figurative language. First, students will complete highly engaging Doodle Notes about each type of figurative language. They'll doodle and sketch their notes on 4 different engaging doodle note pages. Students will learn about each type, review examples, and create examples of their own. Next, they’ll complete a fun writing activity for each type of figurative language. They’ll create silly similes with spinners, make metaphor matches, assemble personification cubes, participate in an alliteration tongue twister challenge, give sentences a hyperbole makeover, and fill in onomatopoeia Wacky Libs. This mini unit is not only effective in helping students understand different types of figurative language, it’s also super engaging and fun!
This resource includes:
- A detailed teacher overview of the resource
- 7 detailed lesson plans: Figurative Language, Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Onomatopoeia, Alliteration, Hyperbole
- Doodle and Do cover page for students
- Set of Doodle Notes – all filled in (4 pages)
- Set of Doodle Notes – guided notes format (4 pages)
- Simile Writing Activity (2 pages)
- Metaphor Match-Up Activity (2 pages)
- Metaphor Match-Up Teacher Clues
- Personification noun and verb brainstorm
- Personification Cube template
- Onomatopoeia Wacky Libs – word clues
- Onomatopoeia Wacky Libs – “My Pet” passage
- Alliteration Challenge
- Hyperbole Makeover Interactive Shape
- Hyperbole Makeover Worksheet
- Hyperbole Writing
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About the Nonfiction Vocabulary Resource:
This Doodle Vocabulary resource will introduce your students to 39 words associated with nonfiction. Students will learn about types of nonfiction, kinds of nonfiction writing, nonfiction text features, nonfiction text structures and additional words associated with the genre. Students will not only learn the new vocabulary words, they’ll also showcase their learning with some doodles!
This resource includes:
- Resource Overview, Tasks, and Doodle Information (3 pages)
- Instructional tips and tricks for teachers (5 pages)
- A Doodle Vocabulary cover page (This is great if students will be creating a vocabulary packet.)
- Vocabulary Test for all words (3 pages)
- Teacher Keys (vocabulary and test)
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About the Fiction Vocabulary Resource:
This Doodle Vocabulary resource will introduce your students to 36 words associated with fiction. Students will not only learn the new vocabulary words, they’ll also showcase their learning with doodles!
You can use this resource in a variety of ways! You might:
- Create a single packet filled with the doodle vocabulary pages that students can reference all year long.
- Select specific pages that relate to particular pieces of literature that students are studying and highlight words.
- Teach all the words at once as in introduction to fiction.
- Have students add definitions to their doodle vocabulary all year long.
This resource includes:
- Resource Overview, Tasks, and Doodle Information (3 pages)
- Instructional tips and tricks for teachers (4 pages)
- A Doodle Vocabulary cover page (This is great if students will be creating a vocabulary packet.)
- Vocabulary Test for all 36 words (3 pages)
- Teacher Keys (vocabulary and test)
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About the How to Study for a Test Resource:
This Study Skills resource is designed to help students develop skills for studying for tests. First, students will complete highly engaging Doodle Notes about 3 Easy Ways to Study for Tests. Then, students will practice the study skills at 5 fun Learning Stations. They’ll practice giving their notes a refresh, developing acronyms, creating memorable rhymes, writing their own quizzes, and making a study skills bookmark filled with tips and tricks for preparing for exams. After designing doodle notes and practicing the studying techniques, students will have skills to help them study for their next test in ELA or any class!
This resource includes:
- Doodle and Do Resource Overview
- Lesson Plan for Doodle Notes (along with detailed tips for each study technique)
- Learning Stations Tips and Tricks
- Doodle Notes (2-pages) on 3 Easy Ways to Study for Test (2 versions)
- Detailed Stations Set-Up and Task Guide for Teachers
- Learning Station Cards (5)
- Learning Station Sample Notes (Understanding Fiction, Capitalization of Names and Titles of Persons, Strategies for Reading Poetry, Determining Author’s Purpose)
- Learning Station Task Worksheets (Give notes a refresh, Create a memorable rhyme, Develop acronyms, Make your own quiz, Design a study skills bookmark)
- Alternate version of the Task Worksheets in case students will be using notes from the classroom instead of the sample notes
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About the Close Reading Resource:
This Doodle and Do resource is designed to help students understand and develop critical skills for close reading. First, students will “DOODLE” as they complete engaging doodle notes all about close reading. They’ll learn what close reading is, the purpose of each step of close reading, and ways to annotate a text. Then, students will “DO” fun activities as they closely read the diary entries from Captain Robert Scott’s doomed expedition to the South Pole. As students complete the fun close reading “missions” they’ll read the text multiple times. Students will progress from identifying key details to investigating the text’s structure to integrating their knowledge and ideas as they analyze the text. Students will record their analysis of the text in an interactive flip book. Also, they’ll work collaboratively for most of the missions as they develop background information for the text, participate in group discussions about the diary entries, annotate the text, and analyze the reading.
This resource includes:
- Detailed Resource Overview (for teacher)
- Close Reading Doodle Notes – Lesson Plan
- Close Reading Flip Books and Missions – Lesson Plans (4 pages)
- Close Reading Doodle Notes – 2 versions – guided notes and filled in
- Close Reading Mission Cards – Labels – 2 versions (for top secret envelopes – optional)
- Close Reading Mission Directions Cards – 4
- Background Information Cards – 4
- 3 Excerpts from Captain Scott’s Diary
- 10 Small Group Discussion Question Cards
- Close Reading Flip Book – 5 pages – Background, Basic Understanding, Interpretations, Analysis
- Answer Keys – Flip Book and Doodle Notes
Other Doodle and Do Resources…
- Doodle and Do Reading Skills bundle! - Making Inferences, Finding the Main Idea, Fact & Opinion, Sequencing, and Summarizing
- 5 Nonfiction Text Structure Mini-Units - Problem/Solution, Compare and Contrast, Descriptive, Chronological Order, and Cause and Effect
- How to Study for a Test Doodle Notes and 5 Learning Stations
- Writing Responses with Text-Based Evidence Doodle Notes and 5 Learning Stations
- Poet and Poem Study - Maya Angelou
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