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Adult education The New Year close reading resources for staff
2024 New Year's Activities - Resolutions Foldables and More! Updated Yearly!
Check out the preview and thumbnails!A new year (or a new school year) is a great time to turn over a new leaf, try new things, and end bad habits. Right around winter break (or at the beginning of a new school year) have a class discussion about resolutions. Brainstorm goals that are attainable and share some of your own. Have students create the foldable and then hang them for others to read.* This activity is great for all students!* Wonderful for goal-setting discussions and character educat
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Vision Board Student Workbook, Goal Setting, New Year's Resolutions
This Vision Board Student Workbook starts the year with a great goal setting activity for back to school; with plenty of engagement and creativity! Writing for the end of the year reflection? Teachers will love promoting a growth mindset while completing the workbook pages. It gets exciting because the vision board workbook pages turn into a student poster! Your students will love their vision boards! Visual inspiration to kick off the school year! UPDATED: Now includes 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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MURDER MYSTERY BUNDLE - 10 MURDER MYSTERIES TO SOLVE
This is a bundle of my two products. It contains ten murder mysteries for the students to solve. Students need to solve the mysteries by analyzing clues and testimonies. Fun activities that the whole class can enjoy when learning about detective stories or at any time during the school year. Solution and the instruction to each case included.
Two products can be purchased separately:
MURDER MYSTERY I.
MURDER MYSTERY II.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Christmas Around the World Coloring Pages: Christmas Coloring Pages
This 15-page coloring book includes a wide variety of holidays around the world including Christmas in different countries, Chinese New Year, Diwali and many more!
Two coloring book covers are included: Holidays Around the World and Christmas Around the World.
Holidays Included (one coloring page for each):
- Hanukkah
- Kwanzaa
- Diwali
- Santa Lucia
- Las Posadas
- Chinese New Year
- Christmas in Russia
- Christmas in Canada
- Christmas in USA
- Christmas in Italy
- Christmas in France
- Chr
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PreK - 4th, Staff
Marshmallow Team Building: A Back to School Activity for First Day of School
Whether you’re headed back to school or starting a new unit, this team building exercise will get kids engaged and excited about being in your classroom. The Marshmallow Team Building exercise helps teachers establish a classroom atmosphere of teamwork and sets the tone for a fun, high energy class!Here's what you need: a whole lotta marshmallows, a box of toothpicks, and some Clorox wipes! :-) Set your classroom up for the first day so that students are working in teams to build eight differ
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5th - 12th, Staff
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One Pagers Bundle — 8 One-Pager Projects and Templates
This One Pager Bundle is a great deal if you are a fan of the one-pager project like me!One-pagers are the highlight reel of a student’s analysis regarding a particular subject. It requires them to really asses what is the most essential information, such as the most important quotes, symbols, themes, or connections... among many other things.One Pagers are awesome for so many reasons... here's a few:They are an appealing alternative to the traditional worksheets.They make great summative tools
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" Activities, Exams, Quizzes, Vocab - UNIT
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee literature novel guide: lessons, tests, and creative activities created and written by Tracee Orman. I've included EDITABLE files (in Microsoft Word) so you can customize the resources to suit the needs of your students.This unit IS included in my To Kill a Mockingbird Teaching Unit and Interactive Notebook Unit Growing BundleThe unit includes:• Introduction activities, including To Kill a Mockingbird KWL Introduction Activity• List of vocabulary words and def
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Rhetorical Appeals in Movie Speeches - Ethos, Pathos, Logos Analysis Activities
Let's face it, sometimes our rhetoric units aren't the most engaging ones of the year. Students often get bored quickly with historical speeches and other dry informative texts. While it is important to teach these valuable rhetorical documents, students will definitely appreciate some relevant and exciting analysis materials too. These movie speech worksheets present the perfect opportunity you need to get your students actively engaged with speech analysis. By interacting with iconic films, ol
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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A Modest Proposal Satire Study: Fun Lesson Plan + Teaching Satire with Examples
Make A Modest Proposal relevant and fun with this engaging satire study! Not only will students better comprehend the challenging text, but they will also be equipped to write their own mini modest proposal for a issue or injustice they the care about in today's world. Whether you are teaching A Modest Proposal digitally or in print, this satire unit will have you covered!You will get:⭐ The full text of A Modest Proposal in a guided reading format⭐15 questions and active reading tasks for A Mode
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Annotating Literary Texts Nonfiction Close Reading Activities Annotation Skills
Are your students really annotating texts are are they just having fun highlighting? How should you teach annotation skills? Here's everything you need this close reading skill: clear instructions, tips, and best of all, texts that students can use to practice annotating. This will make it so easy for you to teach this important reading skill!Here's what you'll get:both a print and digital version of this resourcestudent notes explaining what annotation iswhy it is beneficialwhen & what s
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6th - 10th, Adult Education
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Tiny House Design for ANY Character: Reading project for inferences, symbolism
Tap into the popularity of the growing Tiny House Movement by assigning a literary analysis that students will LOVE. This is a hands-on assignment that brings STEM into the English classroom! This Tiny House lesson can be used with ANY character, author, historical figure, or student! You will get: ⭐1 Exemplar tiny house design for Harry Potter's tiny house⭐1 Student planning guide for evidence-based answers ⭐1 set of instructions for using the free website Floorplanner.com ⭐1 Youtube video with
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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"Firework" by Katy Perry Poetry Terms Figurative Language Activities
Figurative Language and Poetic Devices/Poetry Terms Identification using Katy Perry's "Firework"Use Katy Perry's popular song "Firework" to teach figurative language, sound devices, and other poetry terms. You can decide how many and which devices you'd like your students to find.Updated to include additional exercises for more in-depth learning and making connections to the text! Those I've pointed out in this exercise include:alliteration, anaphora, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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SPORTS Bundle: Informational Text Close Reading Passages for BIG KIDS
Sometimes it helps to add some “star power” to your reading comprehension activities. I know for my sports-obsessed readers, nothing captures their attention quite like their favorite sports teams and athletes.With that in mind, I created these sets of close reading passages that feature several of today’s best NBA and NFL players. I've also included a set of baseball passages that feature the stories behind the most well-known baseball traditions.This bundle gives you a nice selection sports re
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4th - 7th, Staff
Happy New Year Clip Art Set {Educlips Clipart}
A set of New Year clip art images. Images included are: fireworks, streamers, blowers, champagne bottle and glasses, balloons, kids celebrating, New Year baby & word art.(The New Year baby was given away as a freebie but is added to this set for your convenience.)67 images (43 in color and 24 in B&W)This set contains all of the images shownThis set has been completely updated on 12/27/21The older version (2015) is also included in this download.Images saved at 300dpi in PNG files.For per
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PreK - 5th, Staff
Famous Love Letters: A Close Reading & Creative Lesson for Valentine's Day
This lesson by Bespoke ELA is a great lesson to use in February to celebrate Valentine's Day in a unique and creative way that is sure to engage students!Task:To analyze how famous love letters use language, literary and rhetorical devices, and imagery to convey a message about love.Enduring Understandings:Students will understand how language, literary and rhetorical devices, and imagery affect a letter's meaning.Students will learn about famous people from history through the lens of their rel
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Holiday Backgrounds Bundle: Valentine Clipart Background Clipart
**NO EXTENDED LICENSE REQUIRED! You do not need an Extended License to use these simple backgrounds in your Boom Cards, Seesaw activities, Google slides, etc. Backgrounds are not considered "moveable images" so you can you use in digital or PDF materials without purchasing my Extended License for Digital Products with Moveable Images. ENJOY!This HUGE bundle is a must-have if you are creating digital products and want colorful, simple backgrounds to complement your activities and lesson content
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PreK - 8th, Staff
The Yellow Wallpaper Mini-Unit - Engaging, Complete Print and Digital Resource
“The Yellow Wallpaper Mini-Unit” is perfect for teaching students to analyze literature in a meaningful way. All of the prep work and thinking have been done for you. This truly is a print-and-go resource. The mini-unit includes 5 lesson plans, an interactive PowerPoint presentation to introduce the story’s historical context, student activities, as well as a detailed answer key. The mini-unit also includes a creative writing piece that allows students to play around with voice and situate thems
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
How to Write a Research Paper for Beginners APA & MLA Bundle - Middle & High
Research Paper Bundle has both my APA and MLA units! Teach the research paper in either or both formats from start to finish! This could also be used to compare the two formats since different teachers prefer different formats.**UPDATED TO 9th EDITION MLA.The research paper is my least favorite unit to teach. It is cumbersome, multifaceted, and exhausting because students have such a difficult time grasping the concepts at first. Therefore, I constructed this unit for those of us who need an e
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Jack the Ripper: Tone & Bias in the Media Coverage of this Infamous Murder Case
Jack the Ripper. One of the most notorious serial killers of all time. And he was never caught. There are over 100 theories about his identity. If you're looking for a high-interest nonfiction topic to get your students interested in analyzing nonfiction, this is it! This activity has two parts. The first parts takes students through an exercise of identifying tone in a news article written about Jack the Ripper. There are four articles in this part of this lesson that all come from The L
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Poetry Escape Room: Engaging Poetry Activity for Any Poetry Unit
Make poetry fun with this engaging and challenging poetry escape room activity that can be facilitated traditionally, digitally (aka NO prep), or with a blended hybrid approach. During this escape room, students will label the elements/rhyme scheme of a poem, identify examples of poetic devices, closely read, and analyze poems from various authors.This sequential escape room was designed with scaffolding in mind. It takes students through 5 challenges, which start simple and gradually progress t
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Murder Mystery - Solve two murder mysteries by Agatha Christie
This download contains two murder mysteries written by Agatha Christie broken down to clues and testimonies so the students can try to solve them.
The mysteries included are:
1. Sparkling Cyanide
- detailed teacher's instructions, solution to the case
- worksheet for students
- 26 clues
2. After the Funeral
- detailed teacher's instructions, solution to the case
- worksheet for students
- 8 testimonies to infer information from
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Pieces and Symbols of Christmas Clip Art
This Pieces and Symbols of Christmas clip art is packed with traditional Christmas symbols of the holiday and is great for centers, math and ELA activities, sorting and more. You will receive 70 high-quality clip art image files, which includes 42 color and 28 black & white in 300dpi png.This set includes:Bow (2 color options, 1 b/w)Candy cane (4 color options, 1 b/w)Christmas bellsBell with a cute faceBoy elf (2 options)Girl elf (2 options)Gift (2 color, 1 b/w)Blank gift (2 color, 1 b/w)Cut
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PreK - 5th, Staff
New Years Clipart {Creative Clips Clipart}
This 56-image set has everything you need to kick off the New Year! Included are 32 vibrant, colored images and 14 black and white versions.
Images include:
- firework bursts
- firecrackers
- party hats
- clocks
- curly ribbons
- New Year's Boy, Girl and Baby
- champagne glasses
- noise maker
- horns
- balloons
(Many of the decorations come in additional colors which are not all shown in the preview image due to space)
The images will have high resolution, so you can enlarge them and they w
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PreK - 12th, Staff
Critical Lenses to use with ANY Fictional Text!
Sometimes it takes a little tactile learning to grasp difficult concepts. This lesson uses fun props as a way to teach students how to analyze literature through critical lenses. This lesson also includes examples for each lens from Harry Potter.
You will get:
8 Critical lenses with explanations for each lens
*Religious Connection Lens
*Psychoanalytical Lens
*Feminist or Gender Lens
*Historian Lens
*Archetype or Narratology Lens
*Marxist Lens
*Reader Response Lens
*New Criticism Lens
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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