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Free Common Core CCRA.L.3 scaffolded notes
Teaching Symbolism Slideshow/Gallery Walk and Guided Fill-In Notes Freebie
Whether you’re starting off the year teaching symbolism or doing an end of the year refresher, this slideshow with guided notes is perfect for engaging your middle school and high school students and holding them accountable with accessible notes. This comes from my larger Symbolism Mini Unit with Alice Walker's "The Flowers" I use this in my own high school classroom and it’s a solid introduction and refresher to symbolism. Please enjoy and let me know how it went!Happy teaching!Check out my
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7th - 12th
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Daily Warm-Ups for High School ELA - Week 1
Prepare your students for standardized testing, academic success, college and career. These daily warm-ups covering foundational concepts for high school English Language Arts classes are standards-aligned and created using standardized tests, authentic texts and real world knowledge. Each week has five unique warm-ups covering foundational English topics: vocabulary, grammar, literary elements, writing style/techniques and a quick write. Save valuable class time by using these warm-ups as your
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9th - 12th
Vivid Words
Spice up your students' writing by having them include vivid words. This is a list of vivid verbs and vivid adjectives students can use in their writing. Use this as a reference for your students. You can display it for the whole class and print it for your students' writing notebooks.
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2nd - 8th
ELA Descriptive Writing Practice!
This was an extra credit opportunity that I gave my 7th grade students! It encourages them to write about their own interests, and creates a fun and engaging way to differentiate instruction. I asked students if they wanted to share out what they wrote about and read some examples and they all loved it. Perfect for practicing descriptive writing, can also be modified to help write about characters.
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7th - 8th
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Rhetorical Precis - The WHAT and the HOW
This structured analysis of expository literature fosters a deep understanding, exploration, and connection of informational text by pulling back the layers of the content and the delivery of oral and written rhetoric. This level of analysis lends itself well across curricula, and develops the student's internal background knowledge and stamina through productive struggle and, ultimately, a richer comprehension of the written word.
According to V. Stevenson and M. Frerichs, "a rhetorical pré
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3rd - 12th
FREEBIE! ESOL Differentiated Reading & Writing Activity Pack: Good Study Habits
This leveled reading pack includes a beginner, intermediate, and advanced reading passage with correlating leveled comprehension activities.A writing extension is included with graphic organizers and sentence starts.Digital and printable versions available!
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6th - 12th
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Odyssey Book 9 Ismarus Close Reading-High School English Low-High Level Readers
Engage your students in a deep exploration of Homer's epic tale with this comprehensive close reading assignment focused on Book 9 of "The Odyssey." This 2-page worksheet features the selected passage from the Robert Fitzgerald translation about Odysseus' fight with the Ciconese.Designed with color-coded annotations and thought-provoking guiding questions, this assignment encourages students to delve into the text, uncovering layers of meaning and literary devices. Each annotation is strategical
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7th - 12th
Annotation "How To" Checklist
Universal reference handout for secondary students to properly annotate / close-read either a fiction or nonfiction text. Includes:step-by-step instructions for annotating a short fiction OR nonfiction textin-depth look at the difference between:theme & toneindirect & direct characterizationcommon tone word list w/ definitions
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9th - 12th
Student Notes for The Distance Between Us - YA Edition
In this google slides presentation, students can take notes on The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande (YA Edition). Simply upload to your google classroom and select "make a copy for each student" . At the end of the slideshow there is also a bonus - guided presentation: How to Write a Text Analysis along with graphic organizers and planning pages to start your students' writing! Check back soon for complete unit plan, vocabulary resources and digital downloads!
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5th - 9th
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Identifying Counterarguments
This resource helps students easily identify counterarguments in argumentative texts by walking them through a discovery activity and then short bursts of practice. In my own practice, I have found this resource helps students at both the middle and high school level!
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7th - 12th
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ESOL Formative Assessment grading Sheet
This grading sheet is for ESOL, TESOL, ESL, ELD teachers who are looking for a quick and concise way to conduct formative assessment in all 4 language domains. There is a place on the grading sheet where you can select the domain that you are assessing, write a description of the assessment, and write in the name of the classroom teacher of the students. Teachers can make copies of the blank sheet and store them in a binder and use this resource to track and compare student data. This is also a
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PreK - 5th
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Opinion/Persuasive Writing Graphic Organizer with Transitions! Easy for students
This is a wonderful graphic organizer for Opinion/Persuasive Writing. It is perfect for students who forget to use transition words. It helps them meet many writing standards and create a perfect opinion writing piece. My students enjoyed using this graphic organizer over any other that I have tried.
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1st - 5th
Poetry Analysis Cheat Sheet - Graphic Organizer
My students have always struggled with LITERARY ANALYSIS because they feel overwhelmed and don't know where to start. This graphic organizer not only breaks down each element, helping students compartmentalize each device and look at each as an individual entity, but most importantly, it asks them THE EFFECT/PURPOSE of each element, which is the true essence of analysis. The more students practice analysis through the use of a structured template like this, the more comfortable they will become
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Independent Reading Bookmark- Summary and Main Idea with Key Details
Twice a week I have my students read at home for 15 to 20 minutes. I make this bookmark double sided. They complete one side each night, this is a great resource especially if you want your student to read. Great for middle school students.
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5th - 8th
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Adapted Frayer Model- ESL
Use this adapted vocabulary graphic organizer for ELD students studying content area vocabulary, direct-instruction ELD vocabulary, literary devices and beyond. Does not include non-examples and instead uses L1 translation as a scaffold.
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9th - 12th
Close Reading Notes Template
One page guided notes worksheet to help readers take a closer look at an assigned reading (scene from a play, short excerpt, or chapter of a novel).
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Not Grade Specific
Literary Devices Reference Sheet
Appropriate from 6th-12th Grades, this reference sheet includes:A version where students will fill in the definitions themselves (see my Literary Devices PPT/Google Slides presentation to aid students in this process)A version where the definitions are already filledPrint on colored paper to create a memorable resource that students can utilize year-round as they master the primary literary devices.Literary devices include:AlliterationAllusionCharged dictionHyperboleImageryIronyJuxtapositionMeta
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9th - 12th
Making Inferences and Citing Explicit Details (Notes & Application)
Guided Notetaking Activity on making inferences and citing explicit details from a text to support that inference. Students applied the by reading Charlotte Gilman's short story "The Giant Wistaria" which is a text perfect for teaching students about inferences. You can find a free pdf of "The Giant Wistaria" using google to accompany this lesson.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Digital Cornell Note Catcher Template
a free digital Cornell style note-catcher teachers can use for students on a digital device.
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Not Grade Specific
2nd Grade Writer's Workshop Conference Notes
Want to keep focused during your writing conferences during writer's workshop time? Then these note sheets are for you. These note pages were inspired by the Lucy Calkins' second and third grade writing rubrics in: narrative, opinion, and information writing. It takes into account common core standards in both writing and language. You'll know immediately where your second grader is at in their writing. Then use the next steps section to be sure that they're ready for third grade.
If you like th
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2nd
Parts of Speech Notes
Fillable or use pre-filled. Notes on the 8 parts of speech with corresponding sentence that is color-coded to help students visualize the parts in one sentence.
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3rd - 5th
Wayside School is Falling Down Reading Guide
Read Aloud Guide for Book #2 of the Wayside School SeriesPerfect for...Whole Class Read AloudSmall Group workLiterature Circles
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2nd - 5th
"The Highwayman" - Notes and Sound Analysis
One of my students' favorite activities with poetry is the reading and analysis of Alfred Noyes' "The Highwayman". In this activity, students will go stanza by stanza in the first part of the poem and examine the way language is used to convey feeling and meaning. This is a PERFECT partner or small group activity. Answer key is included.
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6th - 8th
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[FREE] QUESTIONING GRID - POSTER - INQUIRY-BASED
QUESTIONING GRID POSTERReintroducing a simplistic version of the questioning grid with a modern twist. Post in your classroom for inquiry-based learning! Use for scaffolding questions, and guided higher-level thinking questions. My questioning grid will help support your classroom with a modern look, and with some great expectations!WHAT'S INCLUDED:- 1 full poster page I teach in Halton Catholic District School Board (HCDSB). Fellow board teachers, keep your eyes on my shop for board-specific, i
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Not Grade Specific
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