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RACE Writing Strategy: Lesson and Practice
When I first started teaching the RACE strategy for constructed response, I was blown away by how much my students’ writing improved. Often times they had the correct answer, but the way in which they were constructing the answer cost them precious points on tests and benchmarks. RACE is an acronym for Restate, Answer, Cite, and Explain. It is easy to remember and students pick up on it very quickly. I used a variation of this lesson for an observation my very first year of teaching and got rave
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6th - 9th
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Rhetorical Devices & Appeals Movie Speeches Bundle Rhetoric Analysis Activities
This fun rhetoric bundle includes fun and engaging rhetorical analysis practice worksheets (rhetorical devices and appeals) for 13 different cinematic movie speeches. Most of the time, a rhetoric unit can become boring and irrelevant for advanced middle or high school students, who beg to have real-world application for certain analysis skills. With this film speech analysis bundle, your students will understand just how much rhetoric (ethos, pathos, logos & various rhetorical devices) inva
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8th - 12th
Text Feature Sorting Activities | Print & Digital Versions
This standards-based, comprehensive review of the text features is the perfect to engage students while reviewing! Multiple sorts and activities in this resource include print features, graphic features, and organizational features. Students can interact with identifying text features, describing them, and identifying their functions. Sorts and activities include a combination of images and written descriptions to provide multiple ways for students to interact with academic vocabulary.This resou
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4th - 6th
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Interactive Bookmarks for Any Novel: Questions, Literary Analysis, Vocabulary
Use these interactive and foldable bookmarks with any novel in your secondary classroom to help engage your students with the text. With multiple options to choose from, the possibilities are endless. These instructional bookmarks are classroom-tested to improve student engagement and understanding!
This resource includes five different bookmark fronts and nine different bookmark backs to provide secondary English teachers with complete control and customization.
The bookmark fronts include s
Grades:
6th - 12th
HIGH SCHOOL POETRY ANALYSIS | 2 Weeks of Lesson Plans | 50+ Poems in 10 Packets!
This 2-week poetry unit will boost skills in close reading and formal analysis in any high school English course. The unit features 50+ canonical poems written by a diverse spectrum of English-speaking poets. The poems and accompanying lesson plans are organized into 10 thematic packets which can be used in sequence over two weeks. That's over 200 pages worth of editable poetry resources! This poetry curriculum promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising on intel
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8th - 12th
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Connotation and Denotation Activities | Author's Tone & Word Choice Activities
Unleash the power of words with these dynamic connotation and denotation activities! The Connotation Hyperdoc provides an engaging interactive way to present connotation, denotation, word choice, loaded words, neutral words, tone, and mood!There’s no better way to implement 21st century learning! The accessibility and modern design of the hyperdoc instantly engages students while allowing teachers to implement differentiation between tasks. The structured directions for each word choice activity
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7th - 10th
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New Year's Poetry Analysis and Project for Secondary ELA
Are you a middle school or high school English Language Arts teacher seeking a meaningful, standards-based project for the post-holiday return to school in January? Look no further! Our New Year's Poetry Analysis and Project is designed to save you time while delivering a rich and engaging learning experience.Key Features:Poem Analysis: Students delve into the exploration of five unique New Year's or New Year's Resolution themed poems, fostering critical thinking and literary analysis skills.Tim
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7th - 10th
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States of matter and Phase Changes Science Reading Comprehension Passages
Looking for a way to increase science reading comprehension in your classroom? Need a quick and easy sub plan? Help your students learn all about the three main states of matter (solid, liquid, and gas) and how they change from one state to another through phase changes with this science reading comprehension passages with note-taking templates that guide the students, comprehension worksheets that have leveled questions, and Task cards to extend the learning. Perfect for Common Core Literacy Sc
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6th - 9th
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Author's Purpose Lessons Activities & Author's Point of View | Identifying Bias
Identify author's purpose for writing and challenge students to analyze author's point of view for bias! This lesson includes an informative author's purpose power point (or a modern, engaging slides presentation that uses humor). Students will be able to identify and distinguish between writing to persuade, inform, explain, entertain, and describe.After reviewing the different types of writing, students will engage in high-interest author's purpose analysis activities. Check out the author's po
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6th - 9th
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The Ultimate Star-Crossed Love Stories Unit with Romeo and Juliet + Paired Texts
In this unit, students will close read and discuss key star-crossed love stories such as “Orpheus and Eurydice” and “Layla and Majnun.” I have also included an excerpted version of Romeo and Juliet that includes the major scenes / moments from the play to make it more palatable for students and also easier to read in a short amount of time. Excerpts from the play are accompanied by close reading tasks, questions, and discussions to help students interact with the text in a meaningful way.This bu
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Basketball ELA Mystery
This March Mania Basketball ELA Mystery is the perfect activity to give to your middle school students during the month of March when fans are crazy for March Madness and basketball (however, you can really use this any time of the year!). Your students will solve activities like reading comprehension and series of events, grammar, literary terms, and proofreading in order to figure out who stole the basketball uniforms.In this product, your students will receive a list of suspects who possibly
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5th - 9th
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Romeo and Juliet- Guided Notes Handouts on All 5 Acts
Bundle of FIVE Guided Notes Handouts on each act of William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet!Each handout focuses on one act of the play and is comprehensive and detailed. In each document, all scenes are introduced with a simple summary and followed by clear and concise slides that cover characters, key elements of plot, literary devices in context, famous quotations, and questions for interpretation. There are spaces for students to fill in the blanks and answer questions as the teacher
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Romeo and Juliet Bundle- Powerpoints, Guided Notes, Quizzes, and Test
Tone Mood Activities - Word Choice - Literary Devices Activity - Author's Craft
This teaching bundle includes tone activities that will teach your students how to successfully analyze the tone in literature and writing. This literary device lesson and tone activities take 2-3 one hour class periods to complete.This resource includes the following materials:Analyzing Tone in Literature Google Slides presentation (30+ slides)DIDLS Charts for Strategic Tone Analysis – Diction, Imagery, Details, Language, SyntaxFour Poems to Analyze – Same Subject, Different TonesTeacher’s Key
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6th - 9th
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Dark Romantics Unit - American Literature - High School ELA
This unit provides a great introduction to American Dark Romanticism. It includes an introductory powerpoint with a Cloze notes handout, a powerpoint showing how gothic elements are still present in pop culture, two close reading assignments (The Minister's Black Veil and The Raven), both with answer keys, and a project with rubric.
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Grades:
8th - 12th
Notice & Note SUPERBUNDLE: Fiction & Nonfiction
This bundle combines ALL my resources for N&N fiction and nonfiction signposts!Bookmarks, posters, and icons for both fiction/narrative and nonfiction/expository texts. See those listings for more details.Enjoy!
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Close Reading & Chunking Text: Reading Comprehension Skills
Close reading and reading comprehension skills are vital for students to become life-long readers and thinkers. “Chunking” or chunking text is a technique used to close read pages of text, a section of the text, or break down an article, chapter, or poem. Chunking has your students look closely at these particular sections, summarize, analyze and interpret what they read. This is a great reading comprehension technique and activity for your struggling readers. If you are looking to improve your
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: Literature Activities Bundle, Oh My!
Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac Novel Study
Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac is a middle grade novel about a Native American middle schooler sheltering in place with her grandparents during the COVID19 lockdowns. This novel study includes companion worksheets that follow every 2nd chapter. Students will practice:SummarizingInferencesContext cluesText-to-self connectionsIdentifying author's point of view and purposeIdentifying character's point of view and purposeAnd more!This is a print-and-go novel study perfect for independent reflection or t
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3rd - 6th
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Earth on Turtle's Back & When Grizzlies Walked Upright Native American Myths
Bundle of 2-3 days worth of activities to introduce Native American Mythology, including an editable slide presentation in both PowerPoint and Google Slides, a link to an online game matching morals to children's stories, reading comprehension worksheets, a pre-reading fill in the blank cloze activity (printable or digital), a compare and contrast worksheet and a writing or class presentation assignment that has students creating their own origin myths about their least favorite school rules. U
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7th - 11th
A Rover's Story By Jasmine Warga Novel Study
This NO PREP, EDITABLE interactive slide unit will monitor your students’ comprehension in the novel A Rover’s Story by Jasmine Warga. This unit can be used as a read aloud guide, book club questions, a whole class novel, or can be assigned to individual students. Each chapter is complete with assigned pages, questions on editable slides, and an answer key! All slides are the size of an actual piece of paper, so you can print copies for students or upload the slides to a platform of your choice.
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3rd - 7th
Text Dependent Analysis Essay
This instructional Powerpoint is a step-by-step guide for writing a text-dependent analysis essay. Through this presentation, students will gain a clear understanding of what a TDA essay is in terms of structure and content.
In addition, students will be guided through the process of reading a prompt, annotating a text, and completing the R.A.C.E. graphic organizer.
Students are also provided with carefully scaffolded instruction on how to develop and support their ideas. They will learn ho
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6th - 8th
Sophia's War (by Avi) Novel Study - Distance Learning
NOTE: This is the digital version of my Sophia's War Novel Study. If would prefer this content in a PDF version, please click HERE. Do not buy both of these resources separately as they have identical content.This digital resource includes a worksheet and answer key for each set of 5 chapters in the novel Sophia's War by Avi (there are 70 chapters total!). Each worksheet includes 4 of the following headings: Character Study, Quote Analysis, Vocabulary, Cause & Effect, Self-Reflection, Compre
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5th - 8th
TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN Novel Study Complete Text Unit
A ready-to-print novel study on TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN by John Marsden complete with printable student booklet, teacher’s resources including full unit plan, notes, quotes and ideas for further extension.This easy to follow resource provides a ready Tomorrow When the War Began unit plan for teachers and Tomorrow When the War Began student booklet which is printable and ready to teach, saving you time and effort searching for suitable text study resources.Perfect for students in Australia an
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN Novel Study Essays Posters Secondary English
Hybrid Socratic Seminar - Print and Editable Digital Worksheets + Resources
Step into the future of classroom discussions with our Hybrid Socratic Seminar! Say goodbye to passive observation and hello to total student engagement! In this innovative approach, your classroom transforms into a dynamic space where TWO discussions run simultaneously: one in person and one online.**To dive into this exciting resource, your classroom needs access to 1-to-1 technology.**Here’s what you’ll get:✅ A comprehensive 9-page teacher guide packed with detailed instructions, helpful scre
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Martin Luther King Jr. I Have a Dream Close Reading Analysis Activities
Must have MLK "I Have A Dream" resource for rhetorical analysis and Black History Month. Guided close reading worksheets help students analyze the rhetorical situation, diction, syntax, figurative language, connotation / denotation, and rhetorical appeals found in Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream Speech". This lesson involves direct instruction, engaging supporting videos, guided rhetorical analysis practice exercises, and a structured rhetorical analysis close reading of MLK's "I Have a
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Martin Luther King I Have A Dream Malcolm X Close Read Rhetoric Bundle
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