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8th grade Spring close reading projects
Tile Coaster Mother's Day Craft & Father's Day Gift, Card, Questionnaire, Tags
Are you looking for the perfect Mother's Day craft or Father's Day craft to make at school?! These hand-drawn Mother’s Day and Father’s Day DIY tile coasters, foldable cards, printable questionnaires, and gift tags are easy to create. Plus, they make a super cute Mother’s Day gift or Father’s Day gift that is kid-created! Your students' loved ones are sure to cherish this special keepsake forever!RESOURCES INCLUDED:4 tile templates (mom, mum, dad, any special person)10 foldable cards8 questionna
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PreK - 8th
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One Pagers Bundle — 8 One-Pager Projects and Templates
This One Pager Bundle is a great deal if you are a fan of the one-pager project like me!One-pagers are the highlight reel of a student’s analysis regarding a particular subject. It requires them to really asses what is the most essential information, such as the most important quotes, symbols, themes, or connections... among many other things.One Pagers are awesome for so many reasons... here's a few:They are an appealing alternative to the traditional worksheets.They make great summative tools
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Cinco de Mayo Activities Bulletin Board Coloring Pages Craft Art Project Reading
Cinco de Mayo Portrait Art Coloring PagesIntroduce students to Cinco de Mayo activities with Portrait Art Coloring Pages! This resource is ideal for bulletin boards, art projects, and educational coloring. Designed for Upper Elementary and Middle School students. Inside this resource, you'll find:Self-Directed Student Guide: Step-by-step instructions on how to draw a portrait.9 Influential Mexican Heroes: Features portraits and biographies to explore and choose from.Four Creative Templates: Hel
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3rd - 8th
50 EDITABLE Projects and Assignments for ANY NOVEL STUDY
This bundle contains 50 projects and activities for ANY NOVEL STUDY in secondary English Language Arts. Use these projects, activities, handouts, and lessons to enrich your students’ close reading and analysis of any novel unit in your curriculum. THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS BOTH A PDF VERSION AND AN EDITABLE MICROSOFT WORD VERSION SO THAT YOU CAN ADAPT THESE RESOURCE FOR DISTANCE LEARNING AS NEEDED!This bundle includes the following projects, activities, lessons, and handouts:1. FreeChoiceReadingChal
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6th - 12th
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The Crucible Unit Plan Bundle -- Worksheets, PowerPoint, Handouts
Everything you need for your unit plan on Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, is here in this mega bundle. With more than 100+ pages, you'll get:
• A 46-slide Introductory presentation with personal photos of Salem, MA (PPT is NOT editable but includes formatted blank slide for you to customize if needed)
• Lots of pre-reading activities
• Vocabulary guide
• Quizzes for each act with answer keys
• Quotation study guide
• Acting activities for each act
• Review grid game/activity for each scene
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Tiny House Design for ANY Character: Reading project for inferences, symbolism
Tap into the popularity of the growing Tiny House Movement by assigning a literary analysis that students will LOVE. This is a hands-on assignment that brings STEM into the English classroom! This Tiny House lesson can be used with ANY character, author, historical figure, or student! You will get: ⭐1 Exemplar tiny house design for Harry Potter's tiny house⭐1 Student planning guide for evidence-based answers ⭐1 set of instructions for using the free website Floorplanner.com ⭐1 Youtube video with
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Fences by August Wilson Unit Plan Bundle: Worksheets, Task Cards, Projects
If you're teaching August Wilson's play, Fences, you need this teaching bundle to help shape your unit and lesson plans. Included in this bundle:• 56 task cards with engaging critical thinking questions for every scene of the play• Anticipation guide• Writing activities for each scene• Acting activities• Sample pacing guide• Troy as a tragic hero• Uncle Remus allusion close-reading activity• 7 Characterization chart activities• Video worksheet for film on the Negro Baseball Leagues (film availab
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8th - 12th
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Halloween Activities Mini Unit BUNDLE Lesson Plans for English
If you are looking for quick and easy ideas to use in October to keep your middle or high school English students on task and engaged, then look no more! Add rigor and fun to October! This pack includes up to 3 weeks of materials depending on your class periods and how you use what's included: Use them all or use pieces to provide differentiation to your different groups. This mini Halloween unit with poetry, nonfiction, fiction, research, and writing will help you SURVIVE the holiday season wh
Grades:
8th - 10th
Agamograph Collection for Easter, Spring & St. Patrick's Day | Fun Arts & Craft
This agamograph collection includes designs for St. Patrick's Day, Easter, and Spring. My agamographs are a fun and unique way to integrate art into your classroom with a huge "wow factor." Students love the surprise of seeing the final project "change" images. And best of all, they did it themselves!! I recommend this for grades 3 and above.What's an agamograph? It is a picture that morphs into another when you look at it from a different angle. It's hard to say but easy to do--and as the origi
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3rd - 10th
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3D Spring Crafts: 3D Hot Air Balloon Craft
Hot Air Balloon Craft Activity Packet :
This craft activity packet provides a creative way for your students to create a beautiful three-dimensional hot air balloon for the classroom or home. A beautifully art project for a spring or summer craftivity!
Simply print, cut, and paste. Add yarn or thread for the supports and display. Place a small battery-operated tea light in the basket to duplicate the effects of an evening balloon glow in a darkened room. Perfect activity for spring and as a
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2nd - 12th, Adult Education
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Informational Texts Close Reading Activity and Project
Need a meaningful, standards-based and engaging activity to make it to December break? The Holiday Hustle is the perfect project for Secondary ELA right before the Holidays! This three week unit teaches students how to deconstruct advertisements and informational texts as they study and analyze two different holiday ads and three informational articles about advertising. After analyzing ads and informational articles, students create two projects: a Deconstructing Advertisements Guide for Teens
Grades:
7th - 10th
Sunflower Window Bag Plant Planter -Quickly grow seed in a bag Earth Day Spring
This adorable frame makes your window baggie plant look like a see-through pot! Instructions: Buy a bag a of large sunflower seeds (I usually buy the mammoth seeds on Amazon). Soak 3-4 cotton balls with water and drop in 3-5 seeds. Seal the sandwich-sized ziplock bag closed. Tape in the window where they will get sun. You'll notice them starting to sprout within a week. I let them grow in the window for 2-3 weeks without adding water or opening the bag. At that point I usually send them ho
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PreK - 12th
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One-Pager Text Analysis Project with Rubric - Creative Literary Study Lesson
Use this project to conclude the study of any text. I have had students do this assignment for short stories, but it could be used with literally ANY text! If you would like to make changes to the rubric or assignment, you can edit your copy of this resource!This resource includes:1. A teacher's guide2. Directions3. Student Examples4. A rubric If you are looking for a project for non-fiction texts, check out my other resource by following the link below!https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Prod
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Philadelphia Phillies Phanatic Baseball Hat
If you like to root, root, root for the home team (and that team is the PHILLIES), then you need to purchase this fun, easy to make Phillies hat for your students or kids! There are three options for this hat. Do whichever one would work best for your students. I completed the most complex version with my first graders and they had no problems. Staple the Phanatic to a sentence strip and you're done! Check out my video to watch how it's made. You can also watch my Instragram instructional video
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PreK - 12th
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Independent Book Project Bloom Ball Editable Template - Choice Reading Activity
Say goodbye to traditional boring old reading logs that most students fake anyway - have students create a Bloom ball instead!Each panel has a different element for students to consider - and the headings are completely editable!Here are the included panels:✅ Title and Author Information✅ Plot Elements✅ Setting✅ Important Characters✅ Theme✅ Conflict✅ Meaningful Quote #1✅ Meaningful Quote #2✅ Meaningful Quote #3✅ Figurative Language #1✅ Figurative Language #2✅ RecommendationSee Preview for more!T
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4th - 12th
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Welcome Back After Spring Break Activities & Fun Activities Before Spring Break
Perfect for the day before spring break OR to welcome students back after spring break, this EDITABLE, NO PREP, GOOGLE SLIDES activity is an easy way to engage your students and celebrate a much needed spring break! This fun activity encourages students to reflect on springtime, spring break, and spring holidays (Easter, Passover, Ramadan, etc) and what these moments mean to them as they look forward to (or reflect on) their break. Inclusive by Design: Prompts refer to “spring break” & “spri
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6th - 12th
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Martin Luther King, Jr. - What is Your Life's Blueprint? - 8th Grade Graduation
Are you looking for an engaging and inspirational activity to study Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy or Black History Month? These reading comprehension and journal activities focus on Dr. King’s “Street Sweeper” speech, “What is Your Life’s Blueprint?”This resource is perfect for:✅ Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (MLK Day)✅ Black History Month✅ 8th grade graduation✅ Back-to-school This inspirational speech was delivered at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia on October 26, 1967, six mont
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6th - 9th
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Literary Charts: Engaging ELA Analysis Activities and ELA Test Prep for ANY TEXT
Take close reading to the next level with these literary chart templates! If you and your students are bored with the same old reading strategies then these ELA activities will have your students analyzing ANY text in a whole new way!Building off of one of my most popular strategies (rhetorical bar graphs), I created a whole set of literary chart prompts that form an unlikely yet fun union between Math and ELA. The best part? You can use these templates over and over again with ANY text and get
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7th - 12th
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Character Study One Pager- Use with any story or novel! Secondary English
This assignment uses the one pager concept, but it focuses on a character from the reading instead of the whole piece. Great for assessing indirect and direct characterization.You might also like my Novel Study Materials Bundle that includes an illustrated timeline, chapter overview, vocabulary study, character dossier, and a book tasting menu.Need more assessment ideas?Check out my ELAmazon Literary Analysis Assessment, Character Selfie, Character, Thematic Art Project, or Literary Postcard A
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Novel Study Materials Bundle- Secondary ELA- Use with any novel
Bird Nest STEM Challenge (Biomimicry Engineering Activity)
Bird Nest Engineering Design Challenge Students will dive into the engineering design process with this hands-on STEM challenge building a nest to safely catch a falling egg. A follow-up activity teaches biomimicry by relating what was learned in building a bird nest and applying it to designing a landing pad for a space capsule. As a student-driven assignment, the purpose of the teacher is to act as a facilitator. You will provide the structure to the project, but students will take an active r
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Middle School Distance Learning: Digital STEM Activity Bundle
GENERIC NOVEL STUDY Book Report for Any Book | Reading Comprehension Activity
This tri-fold is a great place to jot down those notes while reading. It's a fantastic way to get a quick glimpse at your students' progress to make sure they are connecting with their books. The two sides provide lots of space for note-taking. In a pinch, this can stand-in for a book report. It's so straightforward, you can feel confident in leaving this with your emergency sub plans. CLICK HERE to save 20% on this resource in the Generic Novel, Movie, Character Analysis, and Documentary Brochu
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4th - 12th
GRIT: A Growth Mindset Unit for Upper Grades
As teachers, we know that effort and determination are the biggest factors in our students’ success. All too often, this message doesn’t get communicated to our students. We often hear, “I can’t...It’s too hard...I’m not good at that.” The best way to shift that negative/fixed thinking is by implementing a growth mindset program. I created this week-long unit for upper grades (specifically high school or advanced middle schoolers) because I could not find quality age-appropriate resources to tea
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8th - 12th
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GENERIC NONFICTION Activity for Any Book Report | Reading Comprehension Project
This tri-fold is a great place to jot down those notes while reading. It's a fantastic way to get a quick glimpse at your students' progress to make sure they are connecting with their books. The two sides provide lots of space for note-taking. In a pinch, this can stand-in for a book report. It's so straightforward, you can feel confident in leaving this with your emergency sub plans.CLICK HERE to save 20% on this resource in the Generic Novel, Movie, Character Analysis, and Documentary Brochur
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Grades:
4th - 12th
"The Most Dangerous Game" Map Comprehension Activity)
This assignment serves as a good wrap-up of Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" and assesses student understanding of the plot. This download includes ready-to-print mini project guidelines for students (half sheets), a blank map template, as well as two rubric choices for "grading". *It should be noted that I do not grade artistic ability. This activity requires a close read of the text and students must mark the paths of both main characters throughout the story on their map. If they a
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8th - 11th
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