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8th grade Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa ELA test prep lessons
Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions Worksheets Activities Grades 8-9
These 10 pages of reading comprehension passages and questions worksheets contain multiple choice questions for students to practice a range of skills. Passages are high-interest and written on an 8th-9th grade level. This resource is perfect for test-prep, special education and progress monitoring, differentiating, and scaffolding for struggling readers. This Download Contains: 10 passages with multiple choice questions: easy one-page printables answer keyself checking digital version on Easel
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8th - 9th
Also included in: ELA Skills Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities 8-9th Grade Bundle
Grammar Worksheets, Weekly Grammar Practice, High School Vol. 1
This set of 18 grammar worksheets is classroom-tested and proven to raise test scores and improve students' writing!! With these weekly grammar exercises and paired video links for tutorials, you'll be set up for a classroom success story to review a specific grammar skill weekly or however often you choose!Student Experience: I use one worksheet a week in conjunction with a tutorial as a flipped classroom video (18 links provided). Each set of worksheets covers a hot topic that teens care about
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: Daily Grammar Practice Curriculum, High School Vol. 1 BUNDLE
Sentence Structure Bundle - Simple, Compound, Complex, & Compound-Complex Types
This creative, scaffolded sentence structure unit engages students and breaks down challenging concepts into bite-sized pieces. In these sentence types lessons, students will learn how to craft simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences through visual, brain-based approaches.If you want your students to understand the four basic types of sentences, this unit is what you need. It takes a scaffolded approach to learning sentence structure by starting with basic skills and working up
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7th - 10th
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Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions - 12 Mini-Units (Google Compatible)
Reading Comprehension SkillsHelp your students master 12 critical reading comprehension skills with this ULTIMATE BUNDLE of Reading Comprehension Mini-Units. Each 3-day mini-unit contains engaging, hands-on learning activities, guided notes, 6+ original reading comprehension passages, and ample opportunities for students to practice these important skills. You’ll love how each mini-unit is ready to print-and-teach. Your students will love practicing these skills in creative and fun ways.Great
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5th - 8th
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Inferences MURDER MYSTERY!!! The Case of Mr. Crane
A "WHODUNIT" OF INFERENCES!! The second in a series!!! An engaging and fun way to infer!
Students work as a whole class to read 24 mystery clues to solve a murder. Along the way they make inferences and record them on the Murder Mystery sheet. Each set of clues add new suspicions that keep students focused, motivated, and most off all constantly inferring!!
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Happy Murder Mystery Solving!!!!
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3rd - 9th
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Writing Responses with Text-Based Evidence - Doodle Notes & 5 Learning Stations
When students analyze and respond to a text they are often required to cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support their interpretation of what the text says. That’s why it is essential to teach students not only the skill of selecting the right evidence, but also the skill of writing a response that analyzes the evidence they have selected. This can be a daunting task! However, this fun and engaging Doodle and Do resource is here to help! It includes fun sketch notes or doodle note
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5th - 8th
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Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi: Complete Differentiated BundleYour upper elementary and middle school students will love reading the classic Christmas story, "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry and you'll love the differentiated options for you and your students!This packet includes 5 different versions of this text ~ See Preview File for samples of each:Original Version - unaltered text, The Gift of the MagiModified Version - The Gift of the Magi re-written in clear, easy-to-understand languageAnnotated V
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Christmas Activities for Middle School Bundle
Christmas Activities BUNDLE | 6 Classroom Arts & Craft Projects for the Holidays
If your kids love making art (and who doesn't!), this Christmas Bundle is perfect for you! It is a collection of six of my most popular Holiday art activities for the classroom teacher. Each lesson is unique, fun, and easy. You will get each lesson and the instructions, handouts, and videos (where applicable) for a significantly discounted price. Use all the lessons this year or save some for next year. These lessons are perfect for integrating art into the classroom. I've taken out all the fear
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2nd - 8th
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Literary Analysis: Analyzing Fiction and Nonfiction Texts Reading & Writing Unit
Are your students confused about text analysis? You know how to do it yourself, but you're not sure how to make it accessible to students? I know the feeling. Analyzing texts is hard, and it rarely comes naturally. It's a difficult concept to break down into a methodical process. Still, it can be done. I created these analyzing texts materials to help my students practice analyzing a variety of texts, including nonfiction, fiction, paired texts, short films, movies, commercials/advertisements, a
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8th - 11th
Christmas Science Inquiry Activity for Middle School
An exciting Christmas themed mini-inquiry science lab! Teach and reinforce observation and inference skills in this fun easy to prep activity. Your students will love solving the mystery of the candy cane crime! Perfect for forensic units, inquiry units, and the holiday season.ACTIVITY DESCRIPTIONThis is an exciting mini-inquiry lab that uses candy canes! In this inquiry lab activity students read a short newspaper article about a candy cane criminal who is sneaking into Santa's Toy Shop
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4th - 8th
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MS-ETS1-3
Verbals Unit Bundle: Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives Lessons & Activities
Looking for a way to make the confusing concept of verbals transparent for students? This is a HUGE bundle of verbal goodies. It contains accurate, clear, and appealing documents to help teachers make a somewhat challenging grammatical concept accessible for students. The resources are scaffolded to reduce frustration and increase confidence.Within this zip file, you will receive the following documents for each topic:- Presentations, which are partially editable PPTs, for each grammar concept,
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7th - 10th
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Inferences MURDER MYSTERY!!! The Case of the Lunch Lady
A "WHODUNIT" OF INFERENCES!! The third in a series!!! An engaging and fun way to infer!
Students work as a whole class to read 24 mystery clues to solve a murder. Along the way they make inferences and record them on the Murder Mystery sheet. Each set of clues add new suspicions that keep students focused, motivated, and most off all constantly inferring!!
Check out other Murder Mystery Inferences in my store!!!!
Happy Murder Mystery Solving!!!!
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3rd - 9th
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Christmas Jeopardy - a Christmas trivia game
Christmas Jeopardy is an interactive game in which students answer trivia questions about Christmas. This resource reflects the popular TV game show, but adaptations have been made so it can be played in the classroom. The categories are:Christmas SongsFood, Drinks, & TreatsSanta ClausThe Christmas StoryGiftsChristmas PlantsChristmas GeographyFinish the Movie TitleChristmas AlliterationCarols by Another NameDays From ChristmasWho Said It?Christmas Decorations*SIGN UP AS A FOLLOWER OF “OFF TH
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Christmas Games Bundle - activities for class parties
Literary Devices Mini-Unit Bundle: Theme, Conflict and Characterization Lessons
This bundle includes three 3-day mini-units on Theme, Conflict, and Characterization.Great News! The student packets in each mini-unit are also available as a Google Slides resource. In addition to the PDF version, students can complete the packet pages via a file sharing service such as Google Drive, Google Classroom, or in the internet “cloud.” The digital version of the packet is accessible from any computer and allows students to complete their work online.* FYI: The anticipatory set activit
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5th - 8th
Christmas : Bright Wishes - Art Lesson Plan
Here is a Christmas project that leaves a lot of place for creativity from the students. You will be working with symmetry and patterns. Your students can even add wishes inside of their light bulbs. This project takes 4 periods. A magnificent project working with engravable aluminium.Happy Holidays!Level:Grades 4 to 6Junior Hugh and High SchoolTechnique:DrawingEngravingVisual Language: PatternsSymmetryMaterials:Engravable metal (1/2 sheet per student)PencilEraserWhite sheets (photocopy paper)Sc
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4th - 12th
Also included in: Art Lesson Plans Bundle : Grade 6 Visual Art
Create a Character Stocking: Symbolism, Characterization, and Analysis Activity
Characterization is one of the most important things we teach in the secondary ELA classroom, so why not revisit some of your favorite, loved characters from the year around the holidays?With this activity, students will receive a blank holiday stocking to color and design so that it serves as a symbolic representation of one of their favorite literary characters. As "cute" as this may be, there's plenty of analysis and writing to be done to enhance the rigor of this lesson. Students may simpl
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7th - 12th
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Subjects and Predicates plus Hard-to-Find Subjects Unit
Need a way to review subjects and predicates? Before students can understand the difference between a sentence and a fragment, they need a firm understanding of the concept of subjects and predicates. To many grammar teachers, these are no-brainer topics. For students, however, it can be frustrating. This bundle is designed to help students learn to break down sentences to identify subjects and predicates, even those tricky little subjects!The unit contains two different PPT presentations (one t
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Grammar Lessons and Activities Bundle for Middle and High School
Verb Task Cards and Printables Bundle {Action, Helping, & Linking Verbs}
Verbs are everywhere! This bundle includes two of my favorite (and best-selling) grammar products: VIGOROUS VERB PRACTICE and VEERING THROUGH VERBS TASK CARDS AND CHEAT SHEET. Look no further for a way to practice, teach, and/or assess your students' verb knowledge.This BUNDLE comes with:PRODUCT 1**three printables and an answer key for each Each page includes a definition for each type of verb (action, linking, and helping) and gives an examplePRODUCT 2**Verbs Cheat Sheet (perfect for student b
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4th - 9th
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Sentence of the Day: CCSS Daily Sentence Editing Tool for the YEAR (EDITABLE)
EDITABLE Sentence of the Day Year-Long Sentence Editing Tool!!
Middle grade students to middle schoolers are often challenged by the editing process. When trying to tackle the editing process of an entire written piece, it can be tricky for this group to pick up on obvious and not so obvious errors that exist.
With this Sentence of the Day daily sentence editing to enhance student writing in grades 4-8, your students will get the practice and reinforcement needed to identify: spelling, capita
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4th - 8th
Also included in: Word Work and Writing BUNDLE for Grades 4-8
Irony Mini-Unit - Lessons on Situational, Dramatic, & Verbal Irony (Google)
Help students develop a deep understanding of situational, dramatic, and verbal irony with this fun and engaging 3-day mini-unit!This IRONY MINI-UNIT provides numerous opportunities for students to learn about the three types of irony, determine the purpose of irony, analyze irony, describe how irony contributes to a story and even write their own examples of irony. Each lesson starts with a fun and engaging activity – Irony Hunt (where students differentiate between examples of irony and just
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5th - 8th
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Poetry Bell Ringers Volume 1 - Warm-Up Activities to Analyze and Create Poems
Bring poetry to life in your classroom with these poetry activities. This set of 30 poetry bell ringers will help your students practice a wide range of poetry devices and help improve their poetry writing. These poetry activities are all different and engaging, so even students who "don't like poetry" will find an activity they can enjoy! Perfect during National Poetry Month (or beyond)!Try a SAMPLE week Set your students up for poetry writing success with these incredible poetry warm-ups. Use
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7th - 10th
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Characterization Lesson Plans - 3 Fun Characterization Lessons
When reading literature, it is essential for students to investigate characterization. When they begin to understand the author’s process for developing characters, they are able to visualize characters and dive deeper into the text. This engaging 3-day Characterization Mini-Unit is designed to help students understand how authors create characters and how students can use clues from the text to better comprehend a character within the context of the story.This characterization mini-unit provi
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5th - 8th
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Thesis Statement Activities - Thesis Statement Worksheets, Templates, Examples
Save with the bundled discount! These thesis statement activities will help your students master thesis statements. This bundle includes an introductory mini lesson, handouts, practice worksheets, thesis statement templates, graphic organizers, and examples written by real students! Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®.⚡︎⚡︎⚡︎ Save over 10% with the bundled discount! ⚡︎⚡︎⚡︎Included with these Thesis Statement Activities:✏️ Thesis Statement Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® a
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7th - 12th
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Literary Analysis Using Pixar Short Films
I love to use these short films as a way to review literary elements with my students OR a way to introduce the concept of analysis. Sometimes, my students find it easier and less “scary” to analyze a film rather than a piece of literature. Each short film comes with a sheet of questions for students to review topics such as: • Symbolism • Theme • Mood • Characterization • Imagery • And so much more!These questions will push students to think outside of the box and actually analyze/apply what
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: High School English Lesson Bundle | Essential English Skills
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