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Back to School Activities for Secondary - First Week of School - PRINT & DIGITAL
Engage your new students from day one with these 11 back-to-school activities that are ideal for the first day and first week of school! This Back-to-School Activities Packet is ideal for middle and high school students, and it is filled with beginning-of-the-year ice breakers and activities you and your students will love!You and your students will get to know each other and start the school year on the right foot with these beginning-of-the-year activities. These 11 first-week-of-school activi
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6th - 9th
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WRITING - Persuasive, Narrative, Expository & Descriptive Writing Bundle
Looking for something to help your students with their WRITING? This easy-to-use set of activities, graphic organizers, and templates will help your students write persuasive, narrative, descriptive, and expository pieces. Templates can be used all year for multiple writing assignments and can easily be differentiated for varying grades and abilities. Includes five of my writing packages with detailed assignment sheets, mentor texts, self-assessment rubrics, peer editing activities, grading ru
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6th - 9th
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare BUNDLE
Daily detailed lesson plans, unit overview, student workbooks, printable materials, engaging posters: all you need for teaching Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. This timeless play is taught year after year in classrooms around the world, and for good reason! You may be teaching this play for the first time, or looking for new resources to reinvigorate your teaching, having taught it for many years; either way, these Romeo and Juliet resources are for you! ***SAVE 20% BY BUYING THIS BUNDLE!***CONT
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8th - 10th
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The Great Gatsby Unit Bundle -Engaging Novel Study - Stations, Activities & More
Get EGG-cited to teach F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby with this GREAT novel study full of engaging activities, including an escape room, learning stations, film analysis, and more! This resource contains a whopping 222 pages of resources sure to engage and challenge your students. I absolutely LOVE teaching Gatsby now, but I actually hated the book when I read it in high school, so my mission has always been to make this novel engaging and relevant for teens today. Seriously, I am obsess
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding BUNDLE
Daily step-by-step lesson plans, detailed student workbooks, teacher's answer keys, posters, task cards, and more! All you need for a teaching unit on "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding. Lord of the Flies is a timeless novel which is taught year after year in classrooms around the world... and for good reason! You may be teaching this novel for the first time, or looking for new resources to reinvigorate your teaching, having taught it for many years; either way, these Lord of the Flies reso
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8th - 11th
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Teaching Figurative Language Techniques WORKSHEETS
Do you want to help your students understand a wide range of figurative language techniques? These worksheets will do just that. Each worksheet contains information and examples on each technique (which can be cut off and make for great notes in their books), as well as practice exercises. Answer keys are also provided. **************************************************************************LOOKING FOR A DIGITAL VERSION? These worksheets are designed to be printed and completed on paper. If yo
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Figurative Language Bundle
Nonfiction Text Features Scavenger Hunt Summarizing Informational Text Graphic
✨BEST-SELLER✨ This nonfiction graphic organizer works w/ any type of informational text or nonfiction passage: use it again & again. Students love the non-fiction text activities like the Nonfiction Text Features scavenger hunt & the fun dice Nonfiction Game | Nonfiction Reading response worksheet. Perfect for summarizing nonfiction text, teaching nonfiction reading skills, nonfiction centers, no-prep sub-plans, close reading, teaching nonfiction reading strategies, informational writing
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4th - 10th
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Teaching Grammar BUNDLE
Are you looking for materials to help teach grammar to middle / high school students? Then this product will help! These materials were designed to be engaging and challenging, yet also visually appropriate for teenagers.
PRODUCTS INCLUDED:
PUNCTUATION: A Teaching Pack
TENSES: A Teaching Pack
SENTENCES: A Teaching Pack
DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH: A Teaching Pack
ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE: A Teaching Pack
VERBALS: A Teaching Pack
PRONOUNS: A Teaching Pack
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- A Powe
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6th - 9th
CNN 10 Student News Current Event Analysis, Worksheets: Print & Google Digital
My students are hooked on CNN 10, formerly CNN Student News! It is a great, free online resource that is perfect to get students thinking about current events with a Common Core lens. This activity set has FIFTEEN templates to choose from and is aligned with Common Core Literacy and Writing standards for ELA, history, and science (NGSS). In addition to receiving printable copies provided in PDF, this lesson was recently converted to GOOGLE 1:1 compatible templates for a completely GOOGLE Classro
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4th - 12th
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Upper Level Vocabulary | Worksheets, Strategies | Speech Therapy Middle School
Some days at the middle school level feel like one big vocabulary lesson. I needed a better, more complete way to teach a wide variety of vocabulary skills and, most importantly, strategies!My students needed strategies that they could use in their classrooms to understand and remember important vocabulary. I created this curriculum to teach important tier 2 vocabulary words AND strategies that work on increasing vocabulary AND word finding skills. The following is included in this packet:100 wo
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4th - 11th
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Embedding Quotations in Writing - Teaching How to Embed Quotes - PRINT & DIGITAL
Teach your students how to properly embed, cite, and explain quotes in their writing with this comprehensive teaching lesson! Students will learn four different ways to embed quotes in their writing. This lesson includes ample activities for practice, and students can apply the skill all year long. Includes digital resources!From an extensive editable PowerPoint to multiple worksheets to help students practice the skill to invaluable student references, this embedding quotes teaching resource ha
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Ultimate Writing Bundle - Secondary ELA Writing
Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck BUNDLE
Daily step-by-step lesson plans, detailed student workbooks, teacher's answer keys, posters, task cards, and more! All you need for a teaching unit on "Of Mice and Men" by Steinbeck. You may be teaching this novel for the first time, or looking for new resources to reinvigorate your teaching, having taught it for many years; either way, these Of Mice and Men resources are for you!
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Of Mice and Men TEACHING UNIT PACK: 15 lessons worth of engaging
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8th - 11th
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Email Etiquette Lessons - How to Write and Reply to an Email Eloquently
Have you ever received an email from a student that was written in a rude tone? Emojis, slang, all caps, incomplete sentences galore? We all have, and it's enough to drive us up the wall! But! What if students have just never been taught how to use professional etiquette when addressing a boss or superior? That realization inspired this unit, which revolutionized the way my students emailed me from that point forward.Every year, I recommend teachers of all subjects in middle and high school tea
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Email Etiquette Lesson Bundle Digital & Print - How to Email a Teacher
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare {Student Workbooks}
These Romeo and Juliet workbooks/worksheets may well change the way you teach the play and have your students excited to study Shakespeare's classic!****************************************************************************DIGITAL VERSION** Because of the move to online instruction due to Covid-19, I have made a Google Slides Version of this workbook, a link to which is now included. However, please note that they were not originally designed to be used digitally. The best and most effective w
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare BUNDLE
Personal Information Practice Forms for Special Education
PDF Autofill your student's personal info! They can trace their info and have it faded as well as they continue to practice their personal information. These forms offer a realistic way to practice the most essential personal information, such as name, address, birthday, age, and others. To use: Choose one form for each student and make multiple copies (or laminate) and keep in their binder for morning work and if they have downtime. Once they master the information in a certain form, you can sw
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: All About Me · Digital and Print · BUNDLE for Special Ed
To Kill a Mockingbird BUNDLE
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a timeless novel which is taught year after year in classrooms around the world... and for good reason! You may be teaching this novel for the first time, or looking for new resources to reinvigorate your teaching, having taught it for many years; either way, these To Kill a Mockingbird resources are for you! ***SAVE $8.75 BY BUYING THIS BUNDLE!***CONTENTSTo Kill a Mockingbird TEACHING UNIT PACK: Five weeks worth of engaging teaching resources from set-by-s
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7th - 10th
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First Chapter Friday Graphic Organizers - Active Listening Sheets Print/Digital
Promote active listening and help students focus during your First Chapter Friday read alouds with this pack of engaging graphic organizers available in print AND digital versions.I designed these worksheets to be "low-maintenance," so that students can ENJOY listening to First Chapter Fridays without doing work that feels like a chore. That's why all of these worksheets include graphics for students to color as they listen. You can pass out a different organizer each week, or print off multiple
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Parts of Speech Unit - Activities, Instruction, & Quizzes - Digital & Print
Get a full year's worth of parts of speech instruction, activities, practice, and assessments with this parts of speech unit! These ready-to-use parts of speech resources include include both print and digital formats.Do your school students struggle with identifying the parts of speech? This Parts of Speech Teaching Unit includes eight engaging parts of speech units specifically designed for secondary students that will help your students master the parts of speech. With dedicated teaching unit
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6th - 9th
Article of the Week prompts for the entire school year in Secondary ELA
Make article of the week meaningful and relevant to your students with this print and go activity for secondary ELA. Here's how it works: use the provided lesson and article to teach students about building schemas for reading. Students learn that they can build schemas, or files, in their brain by reading as well and as much as they can. Next, begin reading articles and completing the activities on the provided worksheets. After reading, students reflect on their learning in their personal Buil
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6th - 12th
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The Veldt, Ray Bradbury Short Story Worksheets + Multimedia, PDF & Google Drive
If your students can’t go an hour without looking at their phones, they need to read “The Veldt.”Ray Bradbury’s chilling futuristic short story, “The Veldt,” gives us a glimpse of a world where children love their devices more than their families. Sound familiar? This compelling 90-minute lesson will get your students reading, thinking, and discussing the consequences of our tech-dependent culture. The materials (5-page PDF with links to online media and Google Drive versions of all student hand
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8th - 11th
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Night by Elie Wiesel, Chapter Questions Worksheets, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
Use this package of nine chapter-by-chapter question sheets as you take your class through Elie Wiesel’s compelling true story, Night. As we work to pull more non-fiction materials into our Common Core-aligned classrooms, this autobiographical account of life in inside the Nazi Germany concentration camps of WWII is an important title to include.These short answer worksheets will pull your students into Elie Wiesel’s story and inspire them to think deeply about the author’s themes.This packet in
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8th - 11th
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How to Read a Poem Introduction to Poetry & Poetic Terms PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Use this attention-grabbing 32-slide lecture (downloads in both Prezi & Google Slides format) and accompanying handouts to pull even your most reluctant students into a study of poetry. Begin by piquing your students’ interest in poetry by comparing the art form to song lyrics. Then, present a concrete, 9-step process to help any student decode any poem.These lesson materials include a guided note handout (with answer key) that will help focus students’ listening and serve as a reference she
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8th - 11th
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{To Kill A Mockingbird} Student Workbooks
**DIGITAL VERSION** Because of the move to online instruction due to Covid-19, I have made a Google Slides Version of this workbook, a link to which is now included. However, please note that they were not originally designed to be used digitally. The best and most effective way to use them is in their pen-to-paper, print-based form. These To Kill a Mockingbird workbooks/worksheets may well change the way you teach the novel and have your students excited to study Harper Lee's classic!**********
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: To Kill a Mockingbird BUNDLE
The Most Dangerous Game Activities - Short Story Unit - Questions - Map Project
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell: Short Story Units with Questions, Vocabulary, and Short Story Annotations! This 90 page short story with comprehension questions resource contains everything you need to teach “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. Perfect for your short story unit or The Most Dangerous Game unit, this short story package contains detailed comprehension questions, teacher friendly answer keys, vocabulary words, character analysis, creative writing activities, pr
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7th - 10th
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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.
Discover printable and digital English language arts resources
On TPT, English language arts resources come in various forms: from interactive notebooks and task cards to small-group activities and individual worksheets. They can be used to enhance learning, assess a student’s mastery of ELA concepts, or to reteach a tricky concept. By incorporating ELA resources from TPT into your teaching toolbox, you can create an engaging learning experience that strengthens students’ understanding of ELA concepts.
If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable and digital English language arts worksheets, TPT has an extensive collection of resources across topics and grade levels. No matter what ELA topic your students are working on — whether you’re teaching the parts of speech to 1st graders or argumentative essay writing to 10th graders — TPT has instructional materials that are designed to help with any ELA learning need. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, teaching and learning ELA will be so much easier.
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There are many different types of English language arts resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular ELA lessons include reading, writing, phonics, vocabulary, spelling, and creative writing.
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How can I make my English language arts lessons fun and engaging?
Students learn best when they're engaged! Sprinkle a little fun into your English Language Arts lessons by using manipulatives, pairing unusual texts like poems and short films together, or doing an escape room activity.
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