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Common Core L.8.2 pdfs under $5
"Thank You Ma'am" Langston Hughes story, literary analysis, PDF & Google Drive
Use this classic short story, “Thank You, Ma’am” by Langston Hughes, to teach your students the elements of literary analysis. This one-day lesson plan includes detailed instructions, a six-question deep-thinking exercise (with detailed answer key, of course), and an optional writing activity that shows students step-by-step how to build a powerful introductory paragraph to any literary analysis essay. All student handouts are included in both PDF and Google Drive formats.This lesson is best for
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8th - 11th
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Revising and Editing Practice with Task Cards 6th 7th 8th Grade Worksheets
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to revising and editing? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.These 20 revising and editing task cards are the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of short modern informational text articles will help engage your students as they practice answering a variety of multiple-choice questions about revising and editing a text.Great for middle school students. f
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5th - 9th
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Editing & Proofreading Worksheets Revising Editing Practice FAST Test Prep BEST
Are you looking to help your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students practice editing and revising questions?These editing tasks were created to give your students examples of a variety of tasks they will see on their end of year ELA test or Florida FAST test. The passages come from high-interest topics. They will help engage and capture your students’ interest while also working on their editing and revising skills.Topics: Spelling, Punctuation, Pronouns, Complete Sentence, Tenses, Conjunctions, Plur
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6th - 9th
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Main Idea Writing a Summary: Common Core Informative/Explanatory Writing
Writing a Summary: Common Core Informative/Explanatory Writing Activities - NO PREP - Just print and go!
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my WRITING RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
Summarizing is a life-long skill. Our students will enter the real world soon and will find themselves having to summarize many different types of work for employers, employees, and even clients. It's essential that we teach them this valuable skill.
This pack focuses on summarizing nonfiction pieces. Students
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8th - 12th
Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
WHY STUDY HISTORY | Back to School Activity | First Day of School Discussion
Why do we study history anyway? This back to school activity is a must have for any history or social studies class! Start the first day of school (or the first lesson of any history class) with “WHY” because students always want to know why? Why am I learning about history? Why do we have to study this stuff anyway? When am I ever going to use this in life? Isn’t history about a "bunch of old dead people" and things that have already happened? **Major necessary upgrades have been made to ma
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Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote Analysis, Team Activity, CCSS
Make the words of Transcendental philosopher and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson come alive for your students with breath-taking photography in this two-day class group activity with optional independent writing supplement.This packet includes visually stunning images from nature coupled with quotations from Nature and Self-Reliance, two of Emerson's most-noted works. This 17-page PDF also includes a detailed suggested lesson procedure along with 10 half-sheet student handouts for teams to use as the
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9th - 12th
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Comma Rules Worksheets
These commas rules worksheets condense the most common instances that commas are used to 8 simple commas rules so students can confidently master and understand them one at a time, adding a new rule each day after mastery. My students struggled knowing and using comma rules correctly every year (because commas are tricky!), and I knew something had to change. After noticing a huge deficit specifically in the understanding of when to use commas and where to place them correctly, I got to work to
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Rules for Commas- BUNDLE
CURRENT EVENTS: News Article Summary, Main Idea, Reading Comprehension | NEWSELA
This Current Events Summary is an excellent tool for students to get involved with the news and the current events of the week. A simple writing format helps students find, summarize, and write opinions about current news stories and events. I find this activity to be a practical filler for various social studies courses. What's Included:Teacher directions with ideas for implementation and useSimple student directions: Find, Highlight, Summarize, Importance, OpinionGuided student writing temp
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Middle School English ELA Fun Halloween Activity like "Mad Libs™!" Grammar Game
Middle School English ELA Fun Halloween Activity similar to "Mad Libs™!" | Parts of Speech Grammar GameBring your ELA boys and ghouls some Halloween grammar fun with this engaging Halloween Activity Game similar to Mad Libs™! (Note: This activity is a part of my HALLOWEEN FIVE ACTIVITIES BUNDLE --Click here to check out a preview). Your middle school ELA students will have so much Halloween fun, that they won't even realize they are practicing parts of speech! This activity is similar to Mad Lib
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Middle School English ELA Fun Halloween Activities & Games | BUNDLE of 4
Political Parties | Campaign Simulation Running for President
This presidential election simulation is an excellent way for students to comprehend all aspects of political parties and the campaigns needed to elect a presidential candidate - "Let's Get The Party Started!" The teacher will divide class into groups of 4 to 5 students per group. Each group will develop their own political party and choose a presidential candidate to represent their party. Using the included criteria, allow students a few class periods, or portions of class periods, to create
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5th - 12th
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Articles of the Constitution: A Primary Source Analysis on the 7 Articles
This is an excellent way to study and know the information contained within the United States Constitution. To better understand the layout and information within the United States Constitution, students will read through the original 7 Articles of this primary source document and find the main ideas. This is a nice addition to Constitution Day or your existing unit on the Constitution.Don't be afraid to have your students study this great document. Being one of the most influential documents
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6th - 12th
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Mentor Sentences from YA Lit - Types of Sentences and Narrative Leads
Do your students struggle with identifying sentence types? Can they use what they know about grammatical sentence structures to develop strong narrative leads? These engaging and analytical mentor sentence questions can help with both! The sentences are designed so that you can teach grammar more meaningfully and in combination with reading and writing. Teach students to observe strong grammatical and figurative language elements, identify the elements authors use, and analyze the effect on read
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Grammar Lessons and Activities Bundle for Middle and High School
Coordinate Adjectives and Cumulative Adjectives - Easel Digital and Printable
Learn about Coordinate Adjectives and Cumulative Adjectives. Reference sheet gives definitions and examples of the comma rules. Practice Worksheets help students place commas correctly. Explains using commas and how to tell the difference between coordinate adjectives and cumulative adjectives. Coordinating adjectives must have a comma because they can have the word "and" put between them, or their order can be reversed. Cumulative adjectives must stay in the order in which they are presented, o
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Parts of Speech BUNDLE
Clauses and Phrases (4 Types of Sentences) Grammar Ninja is Hilarious, Engaging
This 2-page review handout will help students practice looking at sentences and determining the difference between:
* Subordinate Clauses
* Simple Sentences
* Compound Sentences
* Complex Sentences
* Compound-Complex Sentences
This unit uses the legendary story of samurai, Oda Nabunaga, to intrigue students while they practice.
COMMON CORE: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.7.1b; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2
"I hate grammar," students too often say. "Why do we have to learn this stuff?" No
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Irony Task Cards
Teaching irony? Amp up the fun and proficiency level in your classroom with (30) Irony Task Cards that address situational, verbal, and dramatic irony - a literary concept often found on standardized tests. Answer key included. Task Cards are an effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets! Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required! Like Task Cards? Like PowerPoints? Try the Teach & Reach Bun
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: ELA Jumbo Task Card Bundle - Volume 1
Star Spangled Banner Activity: National Anthem Reading & War of 1812 summary
It's the National Anthem! Whether it's social studies, english, or music class, this mini-unit is perfect for any study on the Star Spangled Banner (or the War of 1812). This bundle includes a fun, introductory whole-group PowerPoint-style quiz, a historical reading with comprehension questions, and a creative re-writing of the National Anthem. Everything you need is included! It's even in PDF and Google drive formats! Learn more specifics in the details below:☞ This resource is also a part of
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
Comma Rules Breakout Escape Room NO PREP Paper and Digital
Have you noticed you students struggle to learn fundamental skills? In the age of technology, it can be hard to capture students attention, and help them retain key information! Breakout Escape Rooms will help engage your students in learning.This product has been tested in my classroom. The result? Engaged learning!This breakout escape room walk students through common comma uses. This product is NO PREP, meaning you just print and learn...or go digital! No cutting, pasting, or sorting! You can
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5th - 8th
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Memoirs in 100 Words - Writing with Mentor Texts - Personal Narrative Writing
Students use precise word choice and eliminate redundancy in their writing with this memoir lesson. Originally inspired by The Washington Post feature, “Life is Short: Autobiography as Haiku,” students write memoirs in 100 words or fewer. This lesson teaches students to “show” themselves in vivid details and carefully chosen words. The lesson has recently been updated to include Google slides and instructional YouTube videos for guided practice!In pre-writing activities, students journal about
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7th - 11th
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Interlopers, Saki, H.H. Munro Short Story Literary Analysis, PDF & Google Drive
Use the classic short story, “The Interlopers,” by Saki (H.H. Munro) to teach your students the elements of literary analysis. This one-day lesson plan includes a full-text copy of the public domain story, a six-question deep-thinking exercise (with detailed answer key, of course), and an optional writing activity that shows students step-by-step how to build a newspaper article. You could easily extend this one-day lesson into two days by allowing in-class time to complete the journalism portio
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8th - 11th
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Capitalization Worksheets Middle Grades Printable and Digital Easel Activity
5 worksheets on capitalization for middle school students to practice and prepare for ELA state standardized tests. The fifth worksheet is a 2-page capitalization test. General capitalization rules for writing such as capitalizing proper nouns and capitalizing titles. Answer keys included. Digital or printable. It has an Easel Activity ready for learning. 16 pages including digital pages. Please see full preview.*Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuat
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6th - 9th
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Coordinating Conjunctions Practice Worksheets: FANBOYS
Students can always use more practice when it comes to conjunctions! In this product, you will find one note sheet that can be used as a minilesson, a review, or a reference sheet for students. Also included are three different worksheets that will help students to practice and/or review coordinating conjunctions.
With worksheet one, students will identify coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS) in sentences and practice combining two complete sentences using a conjunction and a comma.
With worksh
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5th - 10th
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Writing Poems Poetry Book Assignment & Rubric
Writing Poems: Poetry Book Assignment and Rubric
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my POETRY RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
This is the final assignment I give my students in our poetry unit: compiling a book of their original poems.
Editable PDF file includes the following pages:
• Poetry book requirements/criteria sheet for students
• Poetry book checklist for students (differentiated pages for several level of learners)
• Poetry book rubrics with Common Core State Standards alignment
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Class Constitution: Creating a Classroom Constitution & Preamble
Have you ever created a constitution for your own classroom? Each year in civics class, as we learn about the United States Constitution, I have my students help create our very own class constitution. The students love being a part of creating rules and policy for our classroom. This student-led activity has always proven to be a success! Each student's voice is heard as they actively engaged in crafting of an official document for the class. The process begins as students are grouped to dr
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6th - 12th
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Punctuating Dialogue and Embedding Quotations ELA Game | Grammar Activity
Are your students STILL putting periods and commas in the wrong places when punctuating dialogue or embedding direct quotations? You could continue banging your head against the wall, or...you could make a light-hearted review out of the issue by playing this game with your junior high or high school students.This game focuses on the punctuation aspect of embedding quotations and formatting dialogue. The 72 question cards included cover placement of commas, colons, brackets, parentheses, ellipse
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7th - 10th
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