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Holidays/seasonal Common Core RL.6.10 resources for Microsoft PowerPoint
A Christmas Carol Activities Unit Plan | Middle School
This A Christmas Carol Unit Plan is a great way to keep your middle school students engaged in learning activities during the Holiday Season. This PDF resource is complete with detailed lesson plans for each Stave of Charles Dickens' holiday tale, including before, during and after reading activities. Students will analyze characters, setting, theme, and more as they enjoy this classic story! These resources work well with the novella and various dramatized play versions of the story.Best of al
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Thanksgiving Christmas Holiday Mega Bundle - Middle School ELA
Dewey Decimal System Activities - Halloween Alternative - Zombie Library Lesson
Need Dewey Decimal System activities for older students? Use this two-part Zombie themed library lesson to teach Dewey Decimals through a zombie apocalypse story! It's great for any time of the year, but it also works well as Halloween alternative for middle school.Click the PREVIEW button above to see more details.Save 20% when you bundle this activity with its companion Dewey Decimal Activity: Zombie Dice Game.FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM ACTIVITYRecommended for: Grades 5-8Lesson
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5th - 8th
Socratic Seminar: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, Standards Aligned
This Socratic seminar contains a great message for the beginning of the school year! Socratic seminar is an excellent and engaging way for students to practice higher order thinking skills. Introduce your students to Socratic seminar with this easy-to-implement, step-by-step resource. This 32-slide PowerPoint resource with printables is a Socratic seminar to include pre and post activities featuring the poem “A Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. This resource includes a well-organized protocol fo
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Eleven by Sandra Cisneros — Short Story Analysis
This resource for "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros includes awesome reading questions as well as an activating strategy and an after reading project!At first glance, “Eleven” appears to be a simple story about a traumatic event experienced by a young girl on her birthday. However, upon a deeper look, this story reveals a struggle of facing unjust assumptions and stigmas. This story is a great opportunity to challenge students to consider additional struggles people face on top of the universal growin
Grades:
6th - 9th
6th Grade Reading Literature Game - Test Prep
Grade 6 ELA - Reading Literature/Narrative Test Prep - Put down the pencils and have fun with this reading literature language arts game. This is a quiz style PowerPoint review game that is fully editable. It can be played by one child, or the teacher can lead the game and have the whole class compete in groups. The game is in PowerPoint, but you can simply upload to your Google Drive as Google Slides, and share with your students using Google Classroom. Play competitively in school, or send h
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5th - 7th
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Holiday ELA Activity - Twas the Night Before Christmas
Searching for a Fun Christmas Activity for your Middle School ELA Students? Ask your students to analyze Clement Clarke Moore’s classic poem, “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” and complete these fun activities. “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (the original title) is the perfect piece of poetry to review figurative language and poetic devices with students (including metaphor, simile, alliteration, imagery, personification, and more!). An Informational Article on the historical figure of St. Nichola
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Thanksgiving Christmas Holiday Mega Bundle - Middle School ELA
Christmas Holiday Activities Middle School ELA
Searching for Holiday Activities to use with Middle School Students prior to leaving for Winter Break? This Christmas Activity Bundle will keep your ELA classes engaged all through December! These resources include Holiday Writing Assignments, Informational Text Readings, Slides Presentations, Fun Activities, and more!FIVE Great Holiday Resources Included: (Find detailed descriptions of each below!)A Christmas Carol Guided Reading ActivitiesHow to Write a Business Letter (to Santa)Celebrating Di
Grades:
6th - 9th
Ruby Bridges Library Lesson - Black History Month - Civil Rights - Segregation
This Ruby Bridges Library Lesson is perfect for Black History Month or anytime you want to teach students about school segregation and the Civil Rights Movement. Editable in Google Slides and PowerPoint.Click the PREVIEW above to see more information than the thumbnails show!This 3-6 library lesson will save you so much time! Everything you need to teach elementary students about Ruby Bridges and school segregation is included here. You only need to add your school's information to a few slides
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Lab Safety Rules, Activities, Slideshow, Notes, Posters, Games, Quiz, Contract
Does pounding LAB SAFETY RULES into your students' brains feel like nailing oatmeal to the wall? This adorable lab safety rules MEGA BUNDLE will add a little fun. You will love the adorable, inclusive images in these lab safety activities! Instead of boring images of lab safety rules, these images highlight what not to do in the science lab.You've seen it all.... googles on foreheads, unattended Bunsen burners, and my personal favorite, the impromptu snack break in the middle of a dissection. Cl
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5th - 12th
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Christmas Card Project
Christmas Activity for ELA. Students will create a Christmas card based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Directions with grading checklist rubric included on one sheet. Includes two card templates, one with decorative border and one without, and pictures to choose from to decorate their card. No prep. Print and go or use on the computer for students to create. Students can work on it at a computer station electronically or they can make a card manually with just a blank sheet of paper. E
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: A Christmas Carol Bundle of Support Materials
James by Percival Everett
James is a 320 page novel by Percival Everett for Grades 9 - 12. Buy any version of the novel on Amazon. The modern classic, James, is a retelling of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" from the perspective of the slave, Jim. This novel study contains 23 days of lessons for students to complete an opening bell ringer activity, chapter vocabulary and reading response questions for 22 days of reading (~3 chapters or ~14 pages per day), plus one post-reading day, optional movie-view
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Reading Awards - End-of-Year Reading & Book Awards - Editable Reading Awards
Celebrate independent reading success with end-of-year reading awards! These awards are editable in PowerPoint and come in three versions. You can quickly print and write, or customize the end-of-year reading awards to fit your needs.Set up a little class party to hand out these end-of-year reading awards! Students will love to be recognized, and all of their hard work from the school year will not go unnoticed. With these awards, you'll have three options in order to make them the best fit for
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5th - 12th
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Halloween "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe Gr. 6-9
What better way to celebrate Halloween than by reading “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe? This timeless gothic horror is just what you and your students need to get in the mood for Halloween and all things that go bump in the night!
These lesson plans include the poem, a study guide for individual or group work, summarization of the poem by stanzas and vocabulary PowerPoint presentations for elements of poetry arranged in the ExC-ELL format. A quiz/test is included with modifications noted by two
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6th - 9th
Digital HISTORICAL BACKGROUND INTRO & vocab study THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM
PURPOSE: These PowerPoint lessons provide digital pre-reading resources: factual historical background context, vocabulary word study for all chapters, practice, and assessments for the historical fiction novel THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM by Christopher Paul Curtis. BL 5.0GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous literature by front-loading story elements critical to comprehension & aligned to standardsAUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning su
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4th - 12th
AUTHOR STUDY Langston Hughes: Thank You Ma’m, One Friday Morn & report template
GOAL- to provide factual information, explore published work samples, and supply a digital scaffolded research organizer so students may complete an AUTHOR STUDY FOR LANGSTON HUGHES.*The 2 PREREADING PowerPoint lessons provide digital pre-reading resources, historical background info, vocabulary word study, practice, and assessment for two of Hughes’ short stories; Thank You Ma’m and One Friday Morning. PDF LINKS to texts, AUTHOR INTERVIEW LINK, LINKS FOR BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH included. *These
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
The Greatest Gift by P. Stern PREREADING INTRODUCTION LESSON & VOCAB
**This powerful Language Arts PREREADING Powerpoint will help your students better comprehend rigorous grade level reading material. It will prepare all students by presenting beautiful photos to teach the very difficult vocabulary found in this challenging text. Also, the lesson presents the historical importance of the story setting, allowing for deeper comprehension and greater appreciation of this complex piece of work. **PURPOSE: This PowerPoint lesson provides digital pre-reading resource
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5th - 12th
READ ALOUD HISTORICAL BACKGROUND INTRO to novel THE CAY photos, music, maps ppt
PURPOSE: This NONFICTION PowerPoint lesson provides digital pre-reading resources & factual historical background information for THE CAY, BL 5.3* LINK to the AUDIOBOOK is included GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous historical fiction literature by front-loading historical facts to aid comprehension & align to standardsAUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual classroomsHISTORICAL POWERPOINT: please be aware that
Grades:
5th - 12th
Summer School Morning Work-Digital Vocabulary and Organizers
Enhance student language skills with 14 Summer Word of the Day digital vocabulary activities. Boost student. reading, speaking, and writing abilities. The engaging mini-lessons will grow vocabulary and improve communication . The POWERPOINT is ideal for upper elementary and middle school, ELL and ESL classrooms.The predictable and repetitive format of this SUMMER VOCAB lesson is perfect to set students up for success. The class will know what to expect each day and in what order, which makes cl
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4th - 9th
A Chaparral Christmas Gift by O. Henry PREREADING short story INTRO & VOCAB
**This powerful Language Arts PREREADING Powerpoint will help your students better comprehend rigorous grade level reading material. It will prepare all students by presenting beautiful photos to teach the very difficult vocabulary found in this challenging text. Also, the lesson presents the historical importance of the story setting, allowing for deeper comprehension and greater appreciation of this complex piece of work. **PURPOSE: This PowerPoint lesson provides digital pre-reading resource
Grades:
6th - 12th
VOCABULARY STUDY and introduction to short story BLACK COWBOY, WILD HORSES ppt
Purpose: "Black Cowboy, Wild Horses" by Julius Lester: this introductory lesson provides digital pre-reading information for the author, genre, and setting. Fun facts, photo visuals, and video clips support the story details. The lesson also includes vocabulary study, practice, and assessment.PDF LINK INCLUDEDGOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous literature by front-loading story elements critical to comprehension aligned to standardsAUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent wo
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4th - 7th
The Thanksgiving Visitor short story Truman Capote introduction, digital vocab
**This powerful Language Arts PREREADING Powerpoint will help your students better comprehend rigorous grade level reading material. It will prepare all students by presenting beautiful photos to teach the very difficult vocabulary found in this challenging text. Also, the lesson presents the historical importance of the story setting, allowing for deeper comprehension and greater appreciation of this complex piece of work. **PURPOSE: This PowerPoint lesson provides digital pre-reading resourc
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Grades:
6th - 12th
My Perspectives: Brown Girl Dreaming by J. Woodson Digital intro & vocab, PPT
Purpose: My Perspectives "Brown Girl Dreaming" is an excerpt by Jacqueline Woodson: this introductory PowerPoint lesson provides digital Pre-reading information for the author, genre, and setting. The lesson also includes vocabulary study, practice, and assessment.GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous literature by front-loading story elements critical to comprehension and aligned to standardsAUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL
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5th - 9th
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND INTRO to novel THE CAY photos, music, maps ppt
PURPOSE: This NONFICTION PowerPoint lesson provides digital pre-reading resources & factual historical background context information for THE CAY, BL 5.3* LINK to the AUDIOBOOK is included GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous historical fiction literature by front-loading historical facts to aid comprehension & align to standardsAUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual classroomsHISTORICAL POWERPOINT: please be aw
Grades:
5th - 12th
Thank You Ma'am short story by Langston Hughes Prereading Intro Lesson & Vocab
Purpose: " Thank You Ma'am" by Langston Hughes: this introductory lesson provides digital pre-reading information for the author, genre, and setting. The lesson also includes vocabulary study, practice, and assessment.PDF LINK INCLUDEGOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous literature by front-loading story elements critical to comprehension and aligned to standardsAUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual classroomsPDF FILE.
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education
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