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Middle school english language arts resources for Prezi
Argumentative Essay Writing, Argument Writing How to Guide, Topics, Rubric CCSS
Help your high school and advanced middle school students win their written arguments with these easy-to-follow essay writing materials. This bundle of interactive, step-by-step materials inspires even my most reluctant students to put pen to paper. Activities/handouts featuring modern design elements will guide your students as they learn to craft their own meaningful and effective argumentative essays. Easy prep for you; excellent growth for your students’ writing skills.Just print and teach!I
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8th - 11th
MLA 9th Edition, MLA in-text citations & works cited, PDF & Google Drive
With the release of the MLA 9th Edition Handbook, the Modern Language Association updated and refined the rules for proper citations. Are you teaching the correct, most up-to-date version of in-text citations and works cited page formatting? With this 47-slide MLA overview lecture and package of helpful student handouts, your students will know exactly how to approach their citations for your class, standardized testing, and future college courses.Begin with the Prezi-based lecture (also downloa
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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To Kill a Mockingbird Unit Plan, Harper Lee Novel Unit Study, TKaM, CCSS
Enjoy this MASSIVE bundle of beautifully designed materials that will take your class through Harper Lee’s classic American novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Everything you’ll need is here; just add a class set of To Kill a Mockingbird novels, a classroom with internet access, and you’re good to go.This HUGE bundle includes:• A day-by-day calendar to follow with helpful details and nightly homework assignments (read this file first when you open the bundle)• Suggested procedure for how to address th
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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GREEK MYTHOLOGY Unit Plan for Teens, Ancient Greece, Five-Week Myth Unit, CCSS
Looking for a Greek mythology unit for an older audience? Take those beloved mythological stories and ramp them up with this bundle of five weeks of complete lesson materials designed for advanced middle school students and high school freshmen/sophomores as they connect their studies of Greek mythology to our modern world and their own lives. Everything you’ll need is included; no textbooks needed.This Greek mythology unit is one of my students’ favorites of the year. I’ve used it successfully
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8th - 10th
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Punctuation Lecture & Editing Handout, Grammar Activity, PDF & Google Drive CCSS
This 24-slide "Power of Punctuation" presentation will entertain your students and inspire them to take care with their punctuation marks. Using humorous examples and interactive slides/handout, your class will learn the striking difference in meaning that can occur with one misplaced comma. Examples are sure to fire up your high school and middle school students – expect giggles and outrage.Package also includes a one-page handout (both printable PDF & Google Drive versions) to allow studen
How to Write Email, Email Etiquette, PDF & Google Drive, Distance Learning, CCSS
Teach your students proper email etiquette – or "email netiquette" – with this 45-minute "How to Email" lesson that includes a high-interest introductory lecture and two fun real-world writing activities.First, present the right and wrong way to build an email message with a dynamic 15-slide lecture (Prezi, PDF, and Google Slides versions included). Then, assign students to evaluate four sample emails sent by high school students seeking a summer internship. Finally, have students work individua
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Micro Fiction, Fun Creative Writing, Flash Fiction, PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Micro Fiction – Flash Fiction – Two-Sentence Stories – Sudden Fiction – Twitter TalesWhatever you want to call them, super-short stories are a super-fun way to spend a single class period as you introduce teens to the idea that an entire story can exist within just two sentences.Use this 20-slide overview lecture with eight compelling examples from four different genres (drama, horror, sci fi, and romance) to get your students’ creative wheels turning. (Slide deck is included in Prezi, PDF, and
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8th - 11th
Write Like a Pro, Mentor Sentences to Improve Teen Writing, PDF & Google Drive
In this "Write Like a Pro" lesson, you'll use the styles of current and classic authors to teach your students six simple and effective techniques that will IMMEDIATELY improve their sentence flow and writing voice.This 28-slide presentation and 2-page student handout will introduce your students to easy-to-use and highly effective techniques to improve their effectiveness on the page. The lecture slide deck includes both online/offline Prezi files and a Google Slides version. The handout, which
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8th - 11th
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Fahrenheit 451 Introductory Lecture Slides, Bradbury F451, Prezi & Google Slides
Grab every eye in the room with this 39-slide lecture that provides all of the background information your class will need to launch a study of Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi novel, Fahrenheit 451. (Download includes both Prezi and Google Slides versions.)The presentation includes a high-interest attention-grabber on book censorship and a quickwrite topic designed to help make Ray Bradbury’s themes relevant to your students (15 minutes for writing and discussion). Then, launch into the 30-minute lecture
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8th - 11th
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Hook the Reader with Strong Introductory Paragraph Launch, Hooks, Writing Help
There are good ways to start an essay and lousy ways. With this mini-lecture and reference tool handout, students will learn four specific techniques to use to bust writer's block and bring their reader into their essay. Great ways to launch an essay are featured here with real-world, actual examples of how it's done. Match these lead-in styles with your students' individual essay topics and you'll never have to sign heavily when you start reading another essay. Students also appreciate having s
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7th - 10th
Hero’s Journey, Speech Assignment for Joseph Campbell's Hero Journey, CCSS
What do Finding Nemo, Legally Blonde, and The Lego Movie all have in common? All of these stories (and so many others) fit the classic storytelling pattern of a heroic journey, as established by famed scholar Joseph Campbell.Using ten of the Hero’s Journey steps chronicled by Campbell, students will connect many of the films they love with elements of the Ancient Greek storytelling tradition in this partner speech assignment. The entire lesson plan will take six days or so, depending on your cla
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7th - 10th
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Globe Theatre, Lecture & Extra Credit Paper Craft, Shakespeare's Globe Theater
Launch your study of any Shakespearean play with this lecture and hands-on activity that will get your students excited about working with The Bard and learning about his Globe Theatre (Globe Theater). The first half of the lesson features an 18-slide overview presentation in Prezi, PDF, and Google Slides versions. The second half of the lesson (optional) encourages students to build their own miniature Globe Theatre. They’ll need glue, scissors, and a steady hand to make a theater worthy of th
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8th - 11th
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TPCASTT Purposeful Poetry Analysis | DIGITAL
This is a 52-slide PREZI presentation introduction to TPCASTT, a method for reading and analyzing poetry.Explains what each part of TPCASTT stands for and gives examples.If you are searching for a tried and true method to help your students analyze and understand poetry, then look no further! TPCASTT is a systematic method of poetry analysis that helps students access poetry and enjoy it. TPCASTT is a best practice activity used in IB, AP, and Pre-AP ELA courses but can easily be used with stude
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7th - 11th
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Also included in:Â Poetry Lessons: ** Growing Bundle ** | DIGITAL & PRINT
To Kill a Mockingbird, Lecture Slides + Quickwrite to Launch Harper Lee’s Novel
Grab every eye in the room with this 30-slide lecture that provides all of the background information your class will need as you launch your study of Harper Lee’s classic American novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Downloads in Prezi, PDF, and Google Slides versions.The presentation includes a quickwrite topic that will help make To Kill a Mockingbird’s characters and themes relevant to your students (15 minutes for writing and discussion). Then, launch into the 30-minute lecture which covers Harper
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8th - 11th
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The Odyssey - Introduction and Notes (Paperless Included)
Looking for a ready-to-go intro for Homer's Epic Poem, The Odyssey? This helpful resource provides a visually engaging introduction to The Odyssey and to The Epic Hero with stunning visuals and connections to increase student understanding.Includes 3 pages of printable CLOZE strategy notes (fill in the blanks), with an answer key, as well as a 17-slide presentation to captivate students. A paperless CLOZE note-taker is also included now. Easy to share in class, or to share digitally in a class
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7th - 10th
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Breakfast Cereal Rhetorical Analysis - AP Lang, Rhetoric Intro
This product is a FUN easy-to-understand way to teach students how to rhetorically analyze using breakfast cereals. Students will learn how to closely “read” a breakfast cereal for taste, texture, shape, andcolor, and examine the box artwork in order to discover the audience, tone, and message the cereal is conveying.This activity introduces students to the idea of close reading and using part-to-whole critical thinking crucial to therhetorical analysis required by the Common Core standards, th
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8th - 12th
Implicit Vs. Explicit Prezi with handout
This Prezi presentation introduces students to explicit vs implicit information within different texts.
The prezi introduces these two terms and how they relate to inferences.
It asks students to identify explicit and implicit information in real world examples including:
-Film clip
-Song lyrics
-Cereal Advertisement
-Two commercials
Finally, students will read a short story and determine what statements are explicitly or implicitly answered within the text
Handout for students to follow a
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6th - 8th
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To Kill a Mockingbird Introduction (Historical Context) - PowerPoint or Prezi
This presentation begins by noting some of the autobiographical elements in the story and then gives students all of the historical context they need to understand allusions to The Great Depression, segregation, gender roles, and Europe. It also includes a section to preview and introduce the main characters in To Kill a Mockingbird as well as its major themes. It integrates many photos and primary sources as well as three embedded videos. There is a Prezi version AND a PowerPoint version. (Clic
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â To Kill a Mockingbird Unit
Dewey Decimal Signage - Vertical
45 STUDENT-FRIENDLY DEWEY DECIMAL SIGNSAlthough I spent MANY lessons teaching the Dewey Decimal system to my 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, our nonfiction section of the library remained greatly under utilized. When students were asked why they never browsed in this section, they shared that they didn’t know where to find the books they were looking for. (Sigh!)I began shopping for BIG, colorful, student-friendly Dewey signs to help guide students to the sections they were interested in, but I did n
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PreK - 12th
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Elements of Plot Bundle - PREZI, Student Note Packet, Activities, Task Cards
Tired of teaching "plot" the same old way? Have you never taught "plot" before?
Grab your students’ attention by taking them on a ROLLER COASTER ride through the elements of plot. This lesson and the accompanying activities use a unique\“roller coaster” analogy to help students master the sequential elements of plot found in literature!
Take a PEEK at this BRAND NEW "ELA Task Card MEGA BUNDLE"...
This “Plot Bundle” includes:
- Comprehensive lesson (PREZI presentation)
- 2 engaging “task” act
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7th - 10th
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Black Out Poetry, Fun Poetry Activity, Blackout Poem Lecture Slides, FREE
Use this visually dynamic tool to get students excited about poetry. No, really, my teens LOVE this blackout poetry creative writing activity. View the 10-slide overview lecture (includes both Prezi Next and Google Slides versions) and imagine all of the possibilities your students could create.All you’ll need to fill an entire class session is the slide deck, dark markers or crayons, and a few newspaper pages or photocopies of a few pages from any novel you’re currently teaching.This item is pa
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7th - 10th
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Argument in the real world: a PSA campaign with open letter and radio PSA
***Fully revamped 8/2020***In this partner/individual project, students create a PSA campaign - an open letter and a radio public service announcement - about a cause they care about. At the end, they present their cause, a summary of their letter, and their PSA to the class.This project is awesome for Common Core, as it covers a range of tasks including reading informational text, writing in different contexts, speaking and listening, and demonstrating an understanding of language!A Prezi intro
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7th - 12th
Divergent Faction Test
BONUS - FREE PREZI INCLUDED!
Get students engaged by having them complete their own Divergent faction test! By answering a series of questions/scenarios, students will figure out whether they are erudite, amity, abnegation, candor, or dauntless.
This fun and creative activity includes:
- Divergent faction test
- personalized Divergent chart
- reflection questions
- FREE PREZI!
This product was designed by Jared Laberge and is based on the best-selling Divergent series by Veronica Rot
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7th - 12th
The Six-Word Memoir: A Prezi, Guided Notes Page, and Teaching Guide
The six-word memoir is a popular project, but without plenty of examples and preparation, it can fall flat with students. This product includes the following: • A twenty-five slide Prezi that begins with background and Ernest Hemingway’s famous six-word novel. It covers the basic differences between memoirs and autobiographies then provides ten examples of six-word memoirs. The next slide prompts students to write a short background story for one of the memoirs in the presentation. The Prezi
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â A Writing Project Bundle--Prezis, Rubrics, Handouts, and Teaching Tips
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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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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.
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