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Balanced literacy simulations in English (UK)
Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart Reader's Theater Play
Originally published in the October 2008 issue of Scholastic's Storyworks magazine (and later reprinted in Scope, Scholastic News, and my book, Read Aloud Plays: Classic Short Stories), this newly-revised script is true to the original text but is cleverly structured to be more appropriate for middle grade and young adult audiences. It includes the original text, a comprehension worksheet, a "mock trial" activity, as well as teacher notes and a key--fourteen pages in all. Parts for 9 students, s
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5th - 9th
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Project Based Learning Starting a School Newscast
Are you wanting to start a school newscast? How to Start a School Newscast is a guide to help teachers or administrator start a school newscast. Materials lists, steps, hints, and printable guides will help you get started. This project helped get my students engage in learning and increased their communication skills. Students become so excited about finding news stories they don't even realize that they are writing and reading. Their fluency increases while enjoying the project! Students
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning Bundle
Reader's Theater: Native American Myths & Legends
With this differentiated reader’s theater set, students will engage in 4 traditional Native American legends and myths that helped to explain the natural world to our early ancestors!! √ Click HERE to SAVE 25% on this resource with my Reader’s Theater Bundle of Myths, Legends, and Traditional Tales!ABOUT THIS PRODUCTEach play is based on 4 traditional myths and legends that students will be able to compare and contrast; helping to meet the CCSS: RL.4.9. Compare and contrast the treatment of s
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle of Myths, Legends, and Traditional Tales!
Book Tasting
Invite your students to try out different literary genres by hosting a BOOK TASTING in class. This product contains everything you will need to make this event a success.You can hold a book tasting in your classroom or the school library. Students will get to try a selection of books they may not have chosen themselves. It's a great lesson to strengthen reading culture in your school and encourages children to keep an open mind about their reading.This product contains: EDITABLE book tasting i
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3rd - 8th
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Jury Selection Simulation: Overview of Legal System and Justice
Students will be introduced to a case about college student Amy in a case of drunk driving with damage to property. Overviews of the legal system include this simulation of jury selection, understanding of key terms in court proceedings, and an argument of innocence vs. guilt. Students will read descriptions of 30 potential jury members and create a list of favorable versus unfavorable qualities about each. They will then evaluate the pros and cons of this potential jury member, considering pote
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9th - 12th
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Substitute Cover Lessons Pack for a range of subjects
A pack of substitute cover lessons that can be used for a wide variety of subjects for middle / secondary level students.So, you're sick? Off on a course? Out on a field trip? Or maybe you are the cover teacher and no substitute lesson has been planned, or the students are feeling less than inspired by the work and you need to some emergency substitute lesson plans. Either way, there is always the hassle of setting inspiring substitute lessons to keep the students on task and interested while st
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4th - 9th, Staff
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How a Bill Becomes a Law - Full Lesson/Simulation
This is a full lesson plan for how a bill becomes a law. I have the full written out lesson plan (objective, student will, teacher will, etc) as well as all the materials needed for the lesson. This includes: role/task cards, mock congress sheet, powerpoint, exit ticket and lesson plan.
My students really loved this, as it was a real-life simulation. It was important to explain the expectations beforehand and it ran smoothly. The kids had so much fun coming up with their own laws to "pass" in
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4th - 6th
Blueback - Tim Winton - Novel Study Bundle - Teacher Guide - Literacy Task Cards
This is a 48-page novel study based on the book "Blueback" by Tim Winton. I created it for an extension Stage Two reading group so it is appropriate for use in both a Stage Two or Stage Three classroom. It contains chapter-by-chapter discussion questions. Questions target both literal and inferential comprehension as well as text-to-self connections. The novel study can be used either as independent worksheets for students or a discussion guide for teachers. Answers are included at the end of th
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3rd - 7th
Also included in: Multi-Age MEGA Bundle - Unit 1 NESA Resources - Blueback - Narrative
First day of school activities get to know you ice breakers
This printable resource pack and now with digital overlay options contains everything you need to help break the ice with your students. This would be ideal for any new class whether they are just new to you or even new to each other and thanks to the digital overlay, can be used with distance learning too.You will also find some physical activities to get them up and about, moving and talking to one another and finding things in common, helping the group to improve their social skills in talkin
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4th - 8th
Halloween Writing Activity Ghost Haunt Dice Simulation
Other Halloween ActivitiesGhosts Say What: Quotation PracticeSpooky Parts of SpeechSpooky Compound SentencesSpooky Idiom MatchSpooky Writing PromptsHalloween Literacy Based TicTacToe Choice BoardsHalloween TicTacToe Choice BoardThis product is an interactive simulation using dice that follows the story of a ghost out to have some fun on Halloween.Included in this product:- Directions for the simulation-Signs to mark locations of events in classroom-Event directions-Recording sheet-Sample recordi
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2nd - 6th
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I Spy With My Little Eye - Board game Template
I spy with my little eye is a very fun game your students will enjoy. Students can work independently or in pairs. The objective of the game is for the students to find words on the board game. You can say the item they have to look for, describe it or say the letter for what it begins.Have some magnifying glasses available for your students when they work on this activity. They really enjoy it.Laminate for durability.Also great for:Letter recognitionBack to school activityLearning center activ
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K - 12th
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The London Eye Mystery Complete Novel Study PDF
This is an updated version of my previously posted novel study sets. This updated version includes questions ALL 41 chapters of the book. It also includes 4 quizzes to be used after each section of the novel. The quizzes only pertain to the chapters read since the last quiz. Each quiz is a collection of questions from the homework pages. If you are looking for a test to cover the whole book, see my other listing. This set does not include an answer key as most of the questions are "brain" questi
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4th - 6th
Using commas, dashes and parentheses - 1 hour lesson!
Fully resourced 1 hour lesson in which students learn the difference in meaning between using commas, dashes and parentheses and then apply what they have learned to their own writing.
Easily adaptable.
This lesson includes:
- Full explanation of commas, dashes and brackets.
- Task where students decide which punctuation they will use
- Writing task.
Grades:
5th - 10th
Also included in: Punctuation and grammar skills for middle school
Matariki activities, reading, printables
Matariki activities. Activities for students for years 1 - 8 in New Zealand Schools during the season of Matariki Maori New Year - Have a look at these worksheets, printables and activities: UPDATED to refer to the 9 stars of Matariki SAVE Get this as part of my Matariki bundle which also has my School Journal linked activities : Matariki Bundle*********5 Reading comprehensions Suitable for independent reading for Gold readers plus or suitable for shared reading.Songs Twinkle, twinkle little
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1st - 7th
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Also included in: Matariki Bundle
common spelling patterns mat
A mat of words that share the same spelling pattern to aid with spelling
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2nd - 8th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Free Reading Comprehension / Response Activities
Free Differentiated Written Activities For Any Book, Novel or Short StoryThis novel study resource for any book, will encourage your students to review and reflect on their reading material in imaginative and creative ways!This is a free sample of the full set of Written Activities for any book resource!The full set of activities are differentiated into a total of 24 activities: 12 brief and 12 more extended tasks (making them suitable for a variety of grades and ability levels) and are self exp
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4th - 6th
Pronouns,Sentences, Comprehension, Questions & Answers, Literacy Centers, NoPrep
Do your students need help with Pronouns, Sentence Structure and Comprehension, Tracking and Reorganization?There are sentences, paragraphs and narratives with comprehension questions with answers in this resource to help with this.This product is designed to give students practice on identifying Pronouns, sentences, paragraphs, narratives with comprehension questions and answers, through repeated practice of sentence structure, simple, compound, and complex sentences, and identifying pronouns.
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4th - 7th
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ng-and-nk-endings
ng-and-nk-endings A 74 page printable pdf product. Contains several activities to cover the spelling of -ng and -n in words. ng-and-nk-endings includes the following; 74 pages (includes cover pages)read and drawsread, trace and writecolour the pictures that have the -ng soundbrainstorm pagewrite the room (look for -ng or -n words)alphabet letter tiles (for word building)word cards word sort pages to laminatesegment the wordgenerate a sentence from the given picturetrace the -ng spellingfill in t
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K - 2nd
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Grammar Book Compilation of worksheets with explanations -Year 2 (whole year)
Entire year Grammar concepts with poetry for year 2 students includes explanations and activities
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1st
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AQA English Language GCSE Paper 2 skills with Mockingbird
This unit is a great way to teach summary, language and perspective skills at KS4. It is focused on AQA English Language GCSE Paper 2. It prepares students for Q2 summarise the differences, Q3 writer’s use of language and Q4 perspective and point of view. It includes 24 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar answers, online research and historical articles . Page numbers refer to the Arrow Books edition.Lesson 1: Context research onlineLesson 2: C1 Maycomb CountyLesson
Grades:
11th - 12th
Persuasive - Advertising Placemat
I have created this persuasive advertising placemat, or poster, to help facilitate students understanding of visual, language and persuasive devices authors purposefully use to create effective persuasive texts.
I have had great success with my students, using the placemat to identify features and devices used by authors in a variety of texts.
ALL AUTHORS PERSUADE THE READER - WHETHER IT BE A NARRATIVE, POEM, ADVERTISING OR INFORMATION TEXT.
USE IN CONJUNCTION WITH ARISTOTLES 4 ELEMENTS OF APP
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4th - 7th
Functional Skills: The Alphabet & Dictionary Skills
Alphabet and dictionary skills are foundational to developing functional skills in several areas, including language, literacy, communication, organisation, and problem-solving. 12 games included!Here's how they contribute to achieving functional skills:Learning the alphabet helps individuals recognise and understand the basic building blocks of written language. By mastering alphabetical order, individuals can organise and retrieve information more efficiently, leading to improved reading and
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Not Grade Specific
Sentence types - writing new zealand curriculum
A great resource for students, to fine-tune their writing and become confident in writing quality sentences. Great to use with criteria, and to encourage students to highlight evidence of sentence types, to keep them on track.Teaching one sentence at a time allows students to explore and write their own examples. We have used these in a structured way, giving set topics, and it brings success to our students every time.Highly recommend having copies of these, for students to refer back to and us
Grades:
4th - 6th
The Smartest Giant in Town
Word MatStory MapStory Map- missing sectionsGiant description pageGiant’s have, can, are worksheetDesign a tie for the giantLetter templateWord/picture matching
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Grades:
PreK - 3rd
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