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Middle school english language arts lectures for parents $5-10
Book Tasting: Introduce Your Students to New Books and Genres
Do you want to introduce your students to new genres or new choices of books? Hold a BOOK TASTING in your classroom! This event will get your students motivated and excited about reading! Hold this event 2-3 times a year in your classroom and/or make it an evening event for parents to "sample" new books with their children. Resource includes: book tasting menuplace matsreflection napkinsbookmarkspreviewing a book signgenre signs with definitionsgenre bookmarks with definitionsevent signs, table
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3rd - 8th
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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
ELA First Day: Back to School Stations, Meet the Teacher, Syllabus, Icebreaker
Have the best first day EVER in ELA with this bundle of first day stations, slides, and syllabus templates! Whether you like customizing in Canva, PPT, or Google Slides, these templates will make prepping for your first day total breeze. Not only will you be more efficient with your back to school prep, but you'll also set the tone for the rest of the year. Students will be impressed with your visual syllabus and engaged from day one!What you will get:⭐ A super fun, low pressure ice breaker idea
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7th - 12th
Mother's Day Writing Activities 2024 Crafts Cards and More Mothers Day
Celebrate Mother’s Day with these fun and meaningful activities for older kids! These writing resources will give your intermediate students a chance to reflect on their relationship with their moms and express their appreciation in a creative and heartfelt way. With everything from Mother’s Day crafts to expository writing with the various activities, you can pick and choose what you want students to work on or let them decide! Easily include these low-prep activities into your writing curricul
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3rd - 6th
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Functional Vocabulary File Folder Games for Special Education Matching Activity
These file folder games for special education and autism focus on color matching, picture matching, and word matching for a variety of functional vocabulary words. Activities include multiple options for easy differentiation: matching picture to picture (identical), picture to picture (non-identical) and picture to word, including both real-life photographs and illustrations. These are great for students working on matching and learning real-life functional vocabulary such as those in special e
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PreK - 12th
Literary Terms & Devices – 19 Weekly Lectures, Bell-Ringers or Flipped Content
Welcome to Lit. Term Tuesday – an easy way to start your class each Tuesday (or whatever day you want) with a high-interest bell-ringer lecture featuring classic literary devices paired with modern examples with which your students are certain to identify. (These literary device lectures also work great as flipped content for weekly homework assignments on in-class stations.)Sure, everyone knows protagonist and antagonist, but have your students learned about anti-heroes (think: Walter White fro
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8th - 11th
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Note-Taking Skills Lessons & Templates: Teach with ANY Unit! (with GOOGLE)
Do your students struggle with taking notes in class, especially from a lecture? Are they unsure what to write down, or how to organize their ideas?Use this lesson to empower students with a critical skill that can change their academic lives! And the best part? You can use this lesson set concurrently with another unit, so you’re able to efficiently make progress with this skill alongside your existing curriculum!NEW: This resource now includes Google Docs and Slides versions for ease of use wi
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7th - 10th
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Summer Reading Activities 2023
This packet of summer reading activities includes: A Note On Summer ReadingSummer Reading List - Picture Books (30 Titles) - Color & BW - HyperlinkedSummer Reading List - Chapter Books (30 Titles) - Color & BW - HyperlinkedSummer Reading List - Blank (Fill in Your Own Titles)Walk A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes - Picture Books (30 Titles)Walk A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes - Chapter Books (30 Titles)Walk A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes - Choose Your Own The Taylor Swift Summer Reading Play
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K - 6th
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End of the Year Memory Book Flipbook for Middle School Distance Learning
Send your middle school students home for the summer with a lasting age-appropriate keepsake. UPDATED to include a digital version for distance learning!My "Middle School Memories" flipbook is easy to print and assemble and allows students to reflect on many facets of their school year, ranging from their daily school life, favorite things, best memories, class superlatives, and more. I include an instructional video link for assembling the flipbook.Bonus: each page offers students opportunities
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5th - 8th
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Elements of Drama Terms, Complete Teaching Unit, Lesson Plans
Teach, review, and assess the key elements of drama terms - drama, stage directions, aside, soliloquy, monologue, and dialogue - with this creative, thorough, and low prep teaching pack!It provides: - foldable instructions or sketch notes for note-taking- PPT lecture with definitions and examples- Interactive sorting cards with self-checking QR codes- Independent practice worksheet- two review games: Game show and Bingo- a fun group creative writing assignment to apply the terms with rubric- a p
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7th - 10th
MUG #3, Mechanics Usage & Grammar Bell-Ringers, Editing & Proofreading Practice
Welcome to Volume #3 of M.U.G. Monday, where students master Mechanics, Usage, and Grammar by working together to proofread real-world writing examples. These 19 weekly grammar editing sessions address the most common errors made in middle-school and high-school writing.I've used these lessons on Mondays because I like alliteration (M.U.G. Shot Mondays), but you can use them anytime you want. Most semesters run 18 weeks, but I threw in an extra M.U.G. editing mini-lesson in case you have an extr
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8th - 11th
MLA Lesson 9th Edition, Formatting In-Text & Works Cited, Complete Teaching Unit
No more "boring" lectures on MLA! With this teaching pack, you get a variety of ways to present and practice MLA formatting. 9th Edition, Updated 2021Student Experience: Begin by reviewing the basics of MLA structure and its importance. Then, as you teach, students will see examples and have a chance to practice the formatting of internal and extremal citations. Next, students will participate in an interactive, hands-on activity where they sort MLA citation information and become "human citati
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Research Writing Unit, Curriculum BUNDLE+
MUG #4, Mechanics Usage & Grammar Bell-Ringers, Editing & Proofreading Practice
Welcome to Volume #4 of M.U.G. Monday, where students master Mechanics, Usage, and Grammar by working together to proofread real-world writing examples. These 19 weekly grammar editing sessions address the most common errors made in middle-school and high-school writing.I've used these lessons on Mondays because I like alliteration (M.U.G. Shot Mondays), but you can use them anytime you want. Most semesters run 18 weeks, but I threw in an extra M.U.G. editing mini-lesson in case you have an extr
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8th - 11th
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Allusions in Literature Lesson, Complete Teaching Unit
In this packed and ready-to-go teaching pack for allusions in literature, you will find everything you need to teach and practice this critical skill for literary analysis. The lecture is easy-to-use and the examples are plentiful and modern. Student Experience: Students will walk through definitions, modern examples, and guided practice. There are task cards for interactive practice, and worksheets and quizzes for assessment. Included:- Teaching Suggestions with CCSS- Lecture (PPT and Google)-
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8th - 11th
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Skills Teaching Units, BUNDLE of Lessons
Student Made Calendar 2024 (Parent Gift) UPDATED YEARLY!!
This version is UPDATED every year!! Super easy with tons of options! Get this and MORE in my Christmas bundle and SAVE!Christmas BUNDLEPrint this packet for each child. It includes a writing activity for each month of the year. I recommend printing the pages so that they are back to back. When you open the calendar, the writing for the month will be above the calendar for that month. The children can decorate and color each month's calendar. They can even add special dates or just leave it blan
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PreK - 6th
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Also included in: Christmas BUNDLE
Characters/Characterization Traits/Archetypes Lesson Plan
The objective of this Characters, Characterization Development and Archetypes complete teaching pack is to foster students' beginning or basic understanding of how an author uses details to "paint a picture" of a character throughout a text. Student Experience: The lesson slideshow paints the concept and terms, the task cards allow students the chance to practice their skills on authentic text, and the creative body biography activity allows students to show their comprehension of this skill in
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Skills Teaching Units, BUNDLE of Lessons
End of the Year Awards Certificates EDITABLE
This Award Certificate set has the end of year reading, math, citizenship, phonics, most improved, AR Reading, sight word awards, and more. Print in color or black and white. There is a matching invitation to go along with the awards. This set is editable for the children's names, your name, grade level, year, and school name. This set has grown to 45 different editable certificates for your precious kiddos! I know you will love these easy end-of-the-year certificates. There are academic and
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PreK - 6th
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Informational Text Features Lesson, Complete Teaching Unit
This complete pack for teaching and assessing informational text features will take your instruction of this skill from beginning to end. Each of my ELA Skills-Readiness Lesson Packs includes a teacher's guide lesson plan, an easy-to-use PPT lecture explaining the concept, guided practice, opportunity for collaborative and individual practice, and a form of assessment.Student Experience: Students will take notes during the engaging and up-to-date lecture. There are plenty of examples to explain
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Skills Teaching Units, BUNDLE of Lessons
Irony, Satire, & Parody Lesson, Complete Teaching Unit
In this teaching pack for irony with a lecture, task cards, real-world practice, "info text article," sketch notes, interactive notebook insert, and video clips linked in, you will find everything you need to teach irony and all its nuances and extensions. The materials provided will allow you to seamlessly and creatively cover the basic three types of irony and go beyond those to explain and illustrate satire, sarcasm, and parody to give students the full picture of irony.Included:- Lesson Plan
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Skills Teaching Units, BUNDLE of Lessons
Claims, Counterclaims, Rebuttals Lesson, Complete Teaching Unit
Build stronger argumentative writers by giving them direct instruction on the three hallmarks of argumentative essay writing: claims, counterclaims, and rebuttals. In this no prep teaching pack, you will find everything you need to teach and practice claim, counterclaims, and rebuttals in argumentative writing. Student Experience: Framed with a theme from a modern-day connection, students will walk through definitions, examples, guided practice, and a professional exemplar before they finally
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Setting Affects Plot & Conflict Lesson, Complete Teaching Unit
Looking for an interesting and engaging way to present how an author's use of setting affects plot? This complete teaching pack for teaching how setting affects conflict has everything you need to teach this skill with ease and success. Student Experience: In this classroom-tested, interactive, photography-inspired activity, students travel around the U.S. while discussing the key element of setting and exploring how it affects plot. Students will first take notes about the skill. Then, they wil
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7th - 11th
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Skills Teaching Units, BUNDLE of Lessons
Year Long Memory Book with Monthly Writing Pages
Year Long Memory Book with Monthly Writing Pages Ready to print cover pages for Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade and 2nd Grade, 3rd grade & 4th grade PLUS EDITABLE COVER PAGE to use for any class!!**SEE PREVIEW FOR EVERYTHING THAT'S INCLUDED**Don't wait until the end of the year to begin making your memory books! Start this year off right with a fun differentiated memory book that lets you track student progress throughout the year. Just pick the pages that work for your class, copy, stapl
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PreK - 6th
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Motivational State Testing Letters for Students and Parents | Editable in Canva
Introducing the Motivational State Test Notes for Students, a simple and effective way to bring a wave of encouragement and support into your classroom during test times—and beyond. This tool is designed to make it incredibly easy for busy teachers like you to get parents involved in a meaningful way, without adding to your already packed schedule.In just a few steps, you can send home a ready-made letter to parents, inviting them to write personal notes of encouragement to their children. Your
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3rd - 6th
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Note-Taking Lesson/Templates/Graphic Organizers, High School Study Skills Lesson
Wondering where to start when it comes to teaching note-taking skills, especially "focused note-taking"? Here's everything you need to teach your students how to take notes -- all in one comprehensive, no-prep Google Slides lesson!You can also use these slides to provide professional development in-servicing to introduce your colleagues to focused note-taking!⭐️ These slides are perfect for improving your students' study skills, active/critical reading skills, and reading comprehension! Through
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8th - 12th
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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.
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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