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Higher education english language arts handouts for Microsoft Word
TED Talk: Persuasive Writing Unit & Assignment
Our most popular item, now with an updated TED Talks To View list!This TED Talk presentation assignment begins with viewing and analyzing TED Talks based on different Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking techniques. Students then create their own. Perfect for either in-class or independent work! This Package Includes: Overview of TED Talks Assignment Sheet Persuasive Techniques HandoutRecommended TED Talks to study Note Taking Template for active viewing Research Notes Template Ideas Templ
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â THE PERSUASIVE WRITING MULTI UNIT BUNDLE
Essay Writing Guide: 5 Paragraphs & Beyond
A complete essay writing handout/guide for high school students (and feisty middle school students), in a digital and ready to print booklet!This Booklet includes:A Quick Reference Sheet for basic essay structureDetailed explanations of Introduction, Body, and Conclusion paragraphs, including diagrams and descriptions of every partExamples of Introduction, Body, and Conclusion paragraphs, with each of their sentences/parts highlightedA basic sample essay for students to analyze (different from t
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â THE PERSUASIVE WRITING MULTI UNIT BUNDLE
Infographic Creation Mini Unit & Assignment
Infographics are great tools to get students processing and contextualizing the information that they research while allowing them to creatively convey what they’ve learned. This makes them perfect for any class! This assignment was designed to teach students about the core concepts of infographic texts, how to make the basic visualizations (graphs, flow/pie charts, tables, titles, etc.) that comprise them, and how to incorporate them all together into a layout that conveys information for a sin
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Career Resume Writing Handouts, Mini-Lessons, Rubrics (Editable Word .docx!)
*Updated and Expanded Google Slides Version Now Available!*Teach resume writing with ease. This series of handouts and mini-lessons will teach students how to write a resume, but also teach writer's craft and grammar with a real-life product. Includes:1) Inferring requirements from sample resume2) Brainstorming experience 3) Creating a draft 4) Replacing tired verbs with active verbs 5) Making tense consistent6) Creating clear and consistent formatting7) Proofreading (with Rubric)Please ask a qu
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Narrative Persuasive & Expository Essay Outlines
Narrative, Persuasive (Argument), and Expository (Explanatory/Informative) essay outline templates for students offered in editable Microsoft Word .doc so it can be modified to fit your needs.
This IS included in my Essay Writing Resource Bundle: Common Core Aligned.
Created by Tracee Orman
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
HIGH SCHOOL POETRY | 5 American Poets: Dickinson, Hughes, Frost, Bishop, Brooks!
This high-school poetry bundle features 5 EDITABLE units on American poetry that can be used in sequence over two weeks. The 5 units feature a total of 50 poems by 5 American poets: Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and Gwendolyn Brooks. By having students read the 10 best poems by each writer, you'll introduce them to the breadth of each poet's work while taking a deep dive into two or three poems in each class session.This poetry curriculum promises to elicit dy
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Yearbook Page Requirements Checklist for Journalism Students
Yearbook Page Requirements Checklist for Journalism Students
A valuable tool for any yearbook adviser! This checklist covers everything the student should include for that yearbook page. All sections represented: Sports pages, Events, People ("Mug" pages), Academics, Organizations, Table of Contents, Colophon, Index/Advertising, etc.
You can customize this file with your school name and text sizes/style of fonts.
Makes yearbook production much easier for you and the student/staffer. Also
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Poetry Analysis Student Handbook for AP Literature and Composition
Due to the price of quality AP Lit textbooks, I opted to take all the best parts of several and compose my own Student Handbook to use for the study of poetry in my classroom. Included here are 52 poems, each paired with AP level analytical questions. These poems and questions have been pulled from various AP textbooks, and have been neatly compiled into one document. Just post the document online, each student can print one out, and there you go-- INSTANT TEXTBOOK (that the students can take
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Reading Circles: LITERATURE / FICTION Group Reading Mini Unit & Assignment
Reading/Literature Circles are group activities/assignments that put your students in charge. Stop telling your students what's happening in the books your read, and have them start telling each other! This works for a whole class book, or for each group to be able to select their own - Great for differentiation!Your class is split into groups (between 4-6 members works best), and are then given a piece of literature (a novel or short story) to discuss. The text is then split into sections (by c
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
Three Scene Play Playwriting Unit for Drama, Theatre, or Acting Classes
DISTANCE-LEARNING FRIENDLY. REVISED AND UPDATED JULY 2019. This complete, three-week unit plan for teaching a simple, three-scene playwriting structure in any class has been extremely helpful to the many teachers who have purchased it over the past four years, since it debuted in July of 2015. I have been honing the lessons contained in this unit for a decade and a half in my own classes and it is a simple, fun and creative way to teach story structure, character development, and dialogue writin
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand HUGE BUNDLE
The contents of this bundle include:1. Group Inquiry Project: This is an introduction to the novel. Students read the back of the book and research different words on the description. They then share their discoveries with the class in a creative presentation. 2. Reading Guide: Students can use this guide or the text analysis guide as they read through the book.3. Text Analysis Guided Exploration: This activity can be used all throughout the reading of the novel. Students are given chunks of the
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Thesis Statement
Use this worksheet to help students plan a thesis statement for a research paper. The thesis worksheet guides students to use three main points and meld them together in one sentence for a thesis statement. Effective scaffolding for students with writing accommodations and modifications or first-time writers! These handouts model sentence-by-sentence, paragraph-by-paragraph the basic structure of a five paragraph research paper.Use this worksheet in conjunction with the other 6 that I have pos
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
2024 CRAAP Test Activity (DOC) - Frequently updated! Stem, Distance Learning
"Since humans have used language to communicate, strategies have been developed to trick one another. In the past, these strategies have included propaganda, scams, deception, and more. In today’s internet era, students struggle with these tricks and others – like information abundance, data filtering, and fake news. It is more important now than ever, to teach students the skills they need to identify if information is reliable, or if it is crap."This document includes:Frequent updates, saving
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â CRAAP Test Bundle - Unit, Activities, Posters, and IB MYP Rubric
Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin-CSI Activity
This is one of my favorite lessons. After reading the short story, "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, the students are always perplexed by the ending. What just happened? How did she die? These questions quickly float around the classroom. Place students in groups and tell them that today's class will be an interpretation contest-CSI style. The winner must prove that Mrs. Mallard died due to psychological trauma, physical causes, or a little of both. Evidence will be gathered from the
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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In Cold Blood, TEDTalk: Death Penalty
This handout, with key, requires that students analyze a TEDTalk (argument) about the death penalty. They must analyze how the speaker appeals to ethos, logos, and pathos. They must also identify logical fallacies (though specific terminology is not required). They must identify author's purpose and rhetorical strategies.
The TEDTalk covers themes very similar to In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (how an unstable upbringing can "result" in murderers). This source would work well in a synthesis or
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Essay Writing: Personal Essay Assignment
Personal essays are an amazing way to tap into student writing! As open structure pieces of persuasive writing, they use techniques and content from a variety of other writing formats without the rigidity of formal literary essay style and structure. Instead, they allow students to use evidence they are more than familiar with (their own lives) and a natural voice (their voice) to develop their thesis. This is the kind of writing students see and do daily; in conversations, in ads, in emails, i
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â THE PERSUASIVE WRITING MULTI UNIT BUNDLE
Media Literacy: Fact, Opinion, and Bias
This 2-3 day, editable Word document mini-unit is geared toward high school students, specifically in language arts, but also for any class in which students will be researching. We assume that older students can easily distinguish between fact and opinion and detect bias in sources, but that is not necessarily the case, especially in today's confusing multimedia landscape. This unit includes a pre-assessment to introduce students to the subtleties of distinguishing fact from opinion and determi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Media Literacy Complete, No-Prep Unit Bundle
Macbeth Act I Open book Scavenger Hunt with KEY
Macbeth Act I Open book 50 question Scavenger Hunt with KEY. This is an excellent individual or diad exercise to do in class or as homework. It may serve as a platform for discussion or as an assessment tool. This is an add water and stir lesson plan, easy for the teacher and with a high effectiveness index for students. It keeps them on task and improves reading comprehension. A page answer KEY is provided, making this three pages total. Please do not share the KEY.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Introduction Paragraph - Research Paper
Use this worksheet to help students plan an introduction paragraph for a research paper. Do you need support for an entire 5 paragraph research paper? Buy the paragraph-by-paragraph research bundleThe worksheet guides students through each sentence with a checklist of ideas, an example, and a space to write their own sentence. Students then rewrite the entire paragraph and make sure it flows. Use this worksheet in conjunction with the other 6 that I have posted to teach the process of an enti
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
AP Language and Composition: Literary Terms List and Quizzes
A complete list of 74 literary techniques that all AP Language students should know before taking the AP exam. Seven scaffolded quizzes are included. Quiz #1 starts with the first 14 terms, and each quiz adds on 15 terms consecutively until they reach all 74 terms on Quiz #5. Quiz #6 adds on logical fallacies and Quiz #7 is a review of all the literary techniques and logical fallacies- perfect for last minute review before exam day! Each quiz includes a matching section with the terms and defini
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Censorship Activity and Discussion Guide
This assignment gives the students a detailed definition of censorship and the various types of censorship prevalent in our society today. Once students have a basic familiarity with the idea of censorship, and the rationale behind it, they assess their own viewpoint on the issue.
Oftentimes, my students will initially be against the idea of censoring material in this country, until they start to consider various inflammatory topics within the debate (such as religiously insulting text or chil
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Writing Guide 2: Incorporating Evidence & MLA
This is a print and go guide on how to use different types of evidence in formal essay writing. It focusses on the use of quotations versus paraphrasing in MLA writing, and also contains a quick reference guide for creating an MLA Works Cited.Package Includes:- In-text Citations- Sentence starters for Analysis- Example paragraphs for incorporating Quotations and Paraphrases- A cheat sheet for an MLA Works Cited list.If you like this handout, you should check out our other products!Thesis Statem
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
TED Talk Viewing Guide: Grit & The Power of Perseverance
Angela Lee Duckworth is a psychology professor and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies psychological issues related to student and professional performance (things like perseverance, self-control, co-operation, etc.), and is so good at what she does that she was awarded a MacAurthur (Genius) grant. This talk is from 2013 and discusses how 'grit' (a combination of perseverance and passion for what you do) is a better indicator of success than IQ or social factors like famil
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in:Â THE EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING BUNDLE
The Paper Menagerie Short Story Packet
This packet covers Ken Liu's Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy award-winning short story, "The Paper Menagerie", a tale of the struggle for identity within a biracial teenager and the deep rift between his Chinese mother as a result. Steeped in magical realism and zhezi papercraft, the packet contains:*An About the Author section*A Hometown Spotlight on Lanzhou, China*Pre-Reading Questions*Survey-Style Anticipation Guide*Vocabulary Matching Activity*Post-Reading Questions*Thematic Analysis with Au
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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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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