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Elementary english language arts literature circles
Holes Novel Study Unit | Comprehension Questions with Activities and Tests
This novel study for Holes, by Louis Sachar, contains 124 pages of resources, including comprehension and vocabulary by chapter, reading response activities, assessments, and more. Focus standards include figurative language, theme, character analysis, plot, and opinion writing.No-prep, predictable, and extremely user-friendly, this literature guide is perfect for whole class, small group, or independent study. ♥You're free to use the printable OR digital version; BOTH are included with your pur
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Holes and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | Novel Study Bundle
RACES Writing Strategy Posters | Citing Text Evidence | Text-Based Response
Your students have a basic understanding of what text evidence is, but are struggling to incorporate it in their writing. The RACES strategy is designed to guide students through the process of answering a constructive response prompt. (or text-based prompts)This resource is equipped with Text Evidence Discussion Bubbles which are perfect for small groups, whole-group discussions, teacher-led centers, or even online learning! These sentence starters encourage students to speak about the text. --
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1st - 6th
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Book Club Fiction and Nonfiction Bundle Digital and Printable
I LOVE that this can work for ANY book. I have packets made for my small group and I can easily have them flip to the page to work. It is awesome! Thank you!” - Amy B.You’ve heard Book Clubs (or Literature Circles) are a fun way to get your students reading and talking about books. You’ve even heard Book Clubs make reading fun for your most reading-averse students. But how do you start them? How do you run them effectively? How do you make sure all your students—regardless of reading level—ge
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2nd - 5th
Literature Circles Book Club Activities Novel Study Talk Reading Response Sheets
Are you looking for ways to engage and grow your readers during their book and novel studies? Look no further than this comprehensive Book Club Activities and Literature Circles Reading Bundle, perfect for any book or novel! This bundle has everything you need to get your students started on literature circles and make book clubs an exciting and educational way for them to grow as readers in your class. This jam-packed bundle is perfect whether you teach 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade.TAKE A PEEK AT EVE
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3rd - 5th
Charlotte's Web Novel Study Unit - Comprehension | Activities | Tests
This novel study for Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White, contains 135 pages of resources, including comprehension questions and vocabulary activities, creative activities, assessments, and more!Focus standards include figurative language, setting, character analysis, theme, and plot.No-prep, predictable, and extremely user-friendly, this literature guide is perfect for whole class, small group, or independent study. ♥You're free to use the printable OR digital version; BOTH are included with your pu
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little | E.B. White Novel Study Bundle
Chapter Book Study - Reading Response Sheets for ANY book | Book Club Printables
Printable and Digital Reading Response Worksheets and QuestionsTired of searching for a perfect novel study every time you start a new chapter book with your students?! This chapter book study works with ANY book, perfect for reading small groups and literature circles. Now includes a Google Slides digital version! These pages will promote higher-level thinking as students read and respond to chapter books. They can be used in whole-group, small-group, or independently! Mix and match these pages
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2nd - 5th
Sight Word Fluency Phrase Booklets
Provide targeted sight word and fluency phrase practice with these booklets! Each booklet contains 100 Fry's words. All five booklets track 500 Fry's sight words with corresponding fluency phrases. Each booklet gets increasingly difficult. According to Fry's, these words span from K-5. Meet the needs of your varied levels of readers! Easy to put together, easy to track! These would work very well with a data binder and student-led learning too! There are master lists for easy teacher refe
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K - 2nd
Also included in: Sight Word Fluency Phrase Books Bundle
Book Clubs for 1st and 2nd Grade
Book club activities for first and second grade classrooms!★Can you run successful book clubs in the primary grades?★It may seem like a stretch, but the spring is such a great time to get your students ready and used to reading, thinking about, and discussing books with their peers instead of me, the teacher!I created this unit as a guide to running book clubs in your primary classroom and provided some tools that your kids can successfully use! In this unit:IntroductionWhat book clubs look like
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K - 2nd
The BFG Novel Study Unit | Comprehension Questions with Activities and Tests
This novel study for The BFG, by Roald Dahl, contains 150 pages of resources, including comprehension questions and vocabulary by chapter, creative activities, assessments, and more. Focus standards include figurative language, character analysis, plot, and opinion writing.Perfect for whole class, small group, or independent study. ♥You're free to use the printable OR digital version; BOTH are included with your purchase!♥Excellent for school OR homeschool. No-prep and so easy for teachers, pare
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: The BFG | The Phantom Tollbooth | The Witches | Novel Study Bundle
Hatchet Novel Study Unit | Comprehension Questions with Activities and Tests
This novel study for Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, contains 136 pages of resources, including comprehension and vocabulary by chapter, reading response activities, assessments, and more.Focus standards include figurative language, opinion writing, character analysis, plot, and point of view.No-prep, predictable, and extremely user-friendly, this literature guide is perfect for whole class, small group, or independent study. ♥You're free to use the printable OR digital version; BOTH are included with
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Hatchet and Island of the Blue Dolphins | Novel Study Bundle
Sight Word Fluency Phrase Books Bundle
This is the bundle of two sets of sight word booklets covering 1000 sight words. Provide targeted sight word and fluency phrase practice with these booklets!A parent letter is included. Master lists for easy tracking are also included. Each booklet contains 100 Fry's words. All 10 booklets track Fry's sight words with corresponding fluency phrases list 1-1000. Easy to put together, easy to track! These would work very well with a data binder and student-led learning too!Students work through t
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K - 5th
Literature Circles - Book Clubs | Roles & Reflection Pages | Print and Digital
Literature Circles Adapted for Lower Elementary Grades: Literature Circles make the perfect Book Clubs and are an effective and engaging way to get students invested in reading and they align perfectly with the standards for speaking and listening!I like to think of Literature Circles as a structured book group. After explicit modeling, these groups can become independent. Each student takes on a role that rotates with each meeting. These roles include discussion director, illustrator, word
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1st - 4th
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Room on the Broom Unit, Crafts, Sequencing, Puppets, Character Sorts, & Writing
This Room on the Broom inspired unit is packed with essential ELA skills! Practice retell, sequencing, writing, rhyming, number words, cause & effect, Science of Reading aligned word mapping skills, and so much more! Your students will love creating the unique paper towel retell craft and the showstopper extra large broom craft. You will love that students are working on key writing and sequencing skills!These activities pair perfectly with the book written by Julia Donaldson.You will find
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PreK - 1st
Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Literature Circles Book Clubs
Add some depth and complexity to traditional Literature Circles with this complete and ready-to-use resource!You will be amazed by the level of discussion and critical thinking that will take place among your students. Each Literature Circle role (listed below) is directly connected to 11 elements of critical thinking: Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives). Ju
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4th - 9th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle
End of the Year Activity - MYSTERY Readers Theater Script - Who Freed the Fish?
This fun and engaging end of the year activity is a perfect reading mystery activity for your students! Who Freed the Fish is a super fun reader's theater script! In this whodunnit mystery reader's theater activity, students will learn to become detectives and then use their sleuthing skills to figure out what happened to the Field Day goldfish! With lots of suspects and circumstantial evidence, the students will have to take good notes, make lots of inferences, and think like a real detectives
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4th - 6th
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Reading Response Menus Digital and Printable *EDITABLE*
“Great resource to hold students accountable by writing about what they are reading and using evidence from the text. My students enjoy these because they feel like they have a choice and it's not just a prompt for everyone. Thank you!” - Jennifer B.Every week, a teacher must grapple with an ancient mystery: “I love that my students are reading independently! But, how do I make sure they understand what they’re reading? How do I hold them accountable?”Wonder no more! These Reading Response Menus
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3rd - 5th
The Lemonade War Novel Study Unit - Comprehension | Activities | Tests
This novel study for The Lemonade War, by Jacqueline Davies, contains 134 pages of resources, including comprehension and vocabulary by chapter, reading response activities, assessments, and more.Focus standards include figurative language, theme, character analysis, plot, and point of view.No-prep, predictable, and extremely user-friendly, this literature guide is perfect for whole class, small group, or independent study. ♥You're free to use the printable OR digital version; BOTH are included
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: The Lemonade War and The Lemonade Crime Novel Study Bundle
Literature Circles Roles Job Sheets Rubrics and More!
Literature Circles roles, job sheets, rubrics, activities and more are all included in this Literature Circles Made Simple resource! Get literature circles up and running with ease in your 2nd-4th grade classroom! Many 5th grade teachers also use this resource for students that are new to literature circles, or that need a little extra support.Job sheets are written in kid-friendly language, making it easy for students to complete their jobs independently! Differentiated versions of EVERY job s
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2nd - 5th
The Lightning Thief Novel Study - A Percy Jackson Unit - Comprehension & Tests
This Percy Jackson book study for The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan, contains 194 pages of resources, including comprehension by chapter, vocabulary, reading response activities, assessments, and more! Focus standards include character analysis, theme, figurative language, setting analysis, point of view, and more.You will find that this study's layout is student-friendly, and that the questions and activities are easily adaptable for every learner. All Common Core activities have the code li
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4th - 6th
Solar Eclipse 2024 Kindergarten Activities, Craft Headbands Worksheets & Writing
Celebrate the 2024 Solar Eclipse with this updated, easy-to-use, and high-interest unit! This engaging unit includes exciting activities, writing prompts, adorable crafts, viewer instructions, party ideas, and so much more! You will even receive a bonus file with directed drawing and a foldable!This resource is jam-packed with everything you need to celebrate a solar eclipse near you or conduct an in-depth study about them. Due to the scientific nature of this product, the activities will work f
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PreK - 1st
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1-ESS1-1
Reader's Theater Scripts - 3, 4, or 2 Person Readers Theater - Fluency Practice
Looking for readers theater scripts and partner plays to help improve your students' reading comprehension and fluency skills? There are 10 reader’s theater scripts within this unit. They range between two, three, or four characters. Each readers theater script comes with a cover page, headband or necklace pieces, color copies, or black and white copies for each script.Each script: has a cover pagecomes with headband or necklace images for characters has highlighted color copies for each charact
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1st - 2nd
Number the Stars Novel Study Unit - Comprehension | Activities | Tests
This novel study for Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry, contains 130 pages of resources, including comprehension and vocabulary by chapter, reading response activities, assessments, and more.Focus standards include figurative language, character analysis, plot, and cause and effect.No-prep, predictable, and extremely user-friendly, this literature guide is perfect for whole class, small group, or independent study. ♥You're free to use the printable OR digital version; BOTH are included with your p
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Number the Stars and Out of the Dust Novel Study Bundle
Wonder Novel Study Unit | Comprehension Questions with Activities and Tests
This 243 page book study for Wonder, by R.J. Palacio, contains comprehension by chapter, vocabulary challenges, creative standards-aligned reading response activities, assessments, free writing journal pages, and much more!You will find this complete literature unit to be teacher and student friendly. It contains a wide variety of question types, along with open-ended graphic organizers and unique activities, all carefully crafted for this particular story. Focus standards include figurative la
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Wonder and Out of My Mind Novel Study Bundle
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Novel Study Unit
This novel study for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis, contains 122 pages of resources, including comprehension and vocabulary by chapter, reading response activities, assessments, and more.Focus standards include theme, plot, character analysis, setting, and more!No-prep, predictable, and extremely user-friendly, this literature guide is perfect for whole class, small group, or independent study. ♥You're free to use the printable OR digital version; BOTH are included with yo
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3rd - 6th
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Importance of learning English language arts
English language arts (ELA) concepts — reading, writing, listening, and speaking — empower students to become effective communicators, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners. They are the foundation for all other types of learning as students must rely on ELA skills to master content from other subject areas and communicate what they’ve learned.
Strong reading skills can help students make sense of written content, and gather information for further analysis. Writing skills can help students articulate their ideas, construct arguments, and synthesize information. And speaking and listening skills empower students to clearly present their ideas, participate in group discussions, and collaborate with their classmates. This is why teaching English language arts is critically important for student’s success in school and beyond.
Benefits of learning English language arts
Learning English language arts offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. It helps students:
- Develop effective communication skills
- Build critical thinking and analytical skills
- Nurture their creativity and imagination
By ensuring that students have a solid foundation in English language arts, teachers can help set them up for future success.
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On TPT, English language arts resources come in various forms: from interactive notebooks and task cards to small-group activities and individual worksheets. They can be used to enhance learning, assess a student’s mastery of ELA concepts, or to reteach a tricky concept. By incorporating ELA resources from TPT into your teaching toolbox, you can create an engaging learning experience that strengthens students’ understanding of ELA concepts.
If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable and digital English language arts worksheets, TPT has an extensive collection of resources across topics and grade levels. No matter what ELA topic your students are working on — whether you’re teaching the parts of speech to 1st graders or argumentative essay writing to 10th graders — TPT has instructional materials that are designed to help with any ELA learning need. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, teaching and learning ELA will be so much easier.
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