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8th grade english language arts reflective journals for teachers
Exit Ticket Journal on Google Slides-- 180 Prompts for the ENTIRE SCHOOL YEAR!!
This digital journal on Google Slides enables students to reflect back on classroom lessons either in class or at home through distance learning. There are over 70 original prompts included in this bundle as well as free choice options that encourage students to reflect on their learning.These exit tickets are appropriate for any secondary content area in grades 6-12. To use this Exit Ticket Journal, each prompt is numbered 1-180 so that you can assign a specific number of prompts to your stud
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Word of the Year Project
One of my favorite projects of the year! Students will reflect on the past year, brainstorm for the upcoming year, and create artwork revolving around their word of the year. Product includes: -Directions-Examples-Writing Supplements-A digital option
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2nd - 11th
Literacy Coaching Schedule
This is a Literacy Coaching Schedule, so I can document my tasks each day. This is helpful when you are completing your coaching log, reflecting on progress for the week, and when conferencing with administration.
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education
English Language Arts SEL Mental Health 3 Weeks Daily Check In Digital Resources
Use this digital NO PREP English Language Arts resource to keep your virtual or in-person students engaged and motivated. Check in on your students' wellbeing online while supporting a growth mindset. This editable mental health SEL reflection activity includes 15 creative writing prompts (2 weeks worth of daily social-emotional learning check ins) in a beautiful captivating Google Slidesâ„¢ and PDF format. Works with middle school (grade 6, grade 7, grade 8) and high school students.Give yourself
Grades:
7th - 12th
Music Listening Journal - PDF/Editable Bundle
Included: PDF version, Mac editable version, and PC editable version.
*Colored covers NOT included: use colored printer paper when copying and assembling your journals!
Ideal for 5th-8th grade music classes: start each music class with a listening journal exercise!
INCLUDES:
-Front Cover: Places for the students to write their name and grade level.
-About Me: a page for students to write in their favorite artists/songs
- Journal Entry Page: where students write while listening to the daily l
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Report Card Comments for Middle School Language Arts
Writing excellent report card comments as a middle school language arts teacher can be a struggle and a challenge, especially for teachers who do not enjoy writing. Language arts is definitely a complex subject in which to report progress. It includes reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. I have spent hours and hours over 25 years developing and refining clear and thoughtful report card comments. It is necessary to reflect student progress and give feedback to middle school parents.
Grades:
5th - 8th
Reflective Journaling for ELA Mindfulness Bellringers: SEL Writing Morning Work
Morning Work: Social Emotional Learning Activity: Supporting Students' Mental Health:Build healthy social-emotional learning habits with this morning work journaling practice. Students start and end their week with a mindfulness journal practice that is rooted in research. If you teach Middle or High School students, then you know that our students are facing some serious struggles with mental health issues. I created this reflective bi-weekly digital or printable journaling activity in response
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in:Â Christmas Activities, Holiday Activities, English Holiday Bundle
Reader's Notebook Starter Pack
This product was created to help you organize your reader’s notebooks. It closely follows the ideas in Donalyn Miller’s The Book Whisperer and Fountas and Pinnell’s Reader’s Notebook. The pages have been created to fit into composition notebooks. There are two options for each page: one in color and one in B&W.
Pages Included:
* Cover for notebook
* Table of Contents
* 30, 35, and 40 Book Challenge
* Reading List
* Books to Read
* Vocabulary Words
* Reader's Notebook Guidelines
* How to Use
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Reading Response Journal Letters
This document is three pages that outlines the procedures for your students to write reader's response letters to you based on the book they are currently reading. This assignment is incredibly flexible, which makes it easy for students to use no matter what book they are reading.
The document includes directions, an example letter based on a Jerry Spinelli book, and a rubric that shows how the assignment will be graded (out of 20 points).
I designed the pages so they could either be hole
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Curriculum Map Template {Middle & High School Humanities}
Having clearly mapped out units for the school year is critical in my practice, but I never quite found the right map to match my style and personality as a teacher. This curriculum map was designed by me, at the time, a 10-year veteran teacher, who decided to quit her comfortable job and take a new job closer to home. I created this map to help me navigate two brand new courses (English 1 and English 3) with the language, goals, and through processes that I felt comfortable with.
You may fin
Grades:
6th - 12th
Student Daily Goal and Behavior Reflection Sheet
Teachers that use this in their classrooms are guaranteed to move to the left on the TTESS rubric! In order to have a classroom that is more student-centered and student-driven, students must be able to track their own progress on goals set by them (and conferenced with the teacher). With this daily self-reflection sheet, students are able to effectively use ten minutes to reflect upon their academic and behavior that day. Students are expected to write in complete sentences and keep track of t
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Writing Reflection Tool DLIQ
Here is a tool you can use for AVID, DLIQ.
D-Did L-Learn I-Interesting Q-Questions
You can enlarge it, laminate it, and do it as a whole group lesson until your students get the hang of it. After they learn how to use the tool, you can print out copies and have them fill it in themselves.
-Page with lines
-Page without lines for students who would like to draw a picture versus write.
How to use it:
Use it as a writing reflection tool
When to use it:
After lessons, projects, fieldtrip
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Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education
Writing Conference Forms for Teachers & Students
Looking for a way to organize your writing conference information?
Here is a great product to do just that! All are aligned with Common Core Standards (5th-8th Grade) with a Six Traits Focus.
What this pack includes:
Student Notes Conference Sheet: (5th, 6th, 7th & 8th Grade Sheets)
• Purpose is to help students remember what they need to work on AFTER the conference.
• These can be filled out by the teacher or the student during the conference.
Teacher Anecdotal Notes Form: (10 Diffe
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Reading Interactive Notebook: Story Map Activities
Interactive notebooks are a personalized textbook , or a working portfolio of notes, classwork, even quizzes all in one spot! Are you tired of hearing the words: “I can’t remember what we did yesterday? I left it at home. I was gone yesterday, what did I miss? “ Well, those days are gone! If you are using an interactive notebook in your classroom, students will have an entire portfolio to use and help them throughout the year. Interactive notebooks are great organizational tools and perfe
Grades:
3rd - 12th
CCSS:
Independent Reading Conferencing Sheet- Read 180
Do you do independent reading with your students. Here is a form that will allow you to easily keep track of what your students are reading and how well they are able to recall information.
Grades:
1st - 12th
Stoic Teacher Journal - 180 Days of Stoic Reflections
The daily life of a teacher can have its trial and tribulations and often is it easy to lose our focus and "why". We have created this 180 Days of Stoic Reflections Journal so teachers can use the wisdom of the stoics to think about their lives, teaching practice, thoughts, and most importantly their actions.Included:Daily Reflection with a Stoic QuoteDaily Writing PromptsDaily Task ListsDaily Evaluation RubricsDaily Assessment Weekly ReflectionsThe practice of daily journaling along with a foc
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K - 12th, Adult Education
Digital SEL Daily Check-In Google Slides
This digital student check-in journal is a perfect way for students to start their day by "checking" in and reflecting during distant learning, or in the classroom. It can be used again, and again, simply just click "duplicate slide" to add more to the google slides presentation.Personally, I will be using these first thing in the morning for SEL morning meetings in the classroom.This product includes 5 google slides:Journal cover page Temperature check and responseGratitude checkIn My Control-I
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1st - 12th
Journal Warm Up, Bell Ringer, Anticipatory Set PowerPoint
50 slides!!! 50 Days of Journal Topics!!! 50 Images for EVERY TOPIC!!!This will save you HOURS of work and your kids will love them!!! Take the stress out of the beginning or you day/period by having the kids write on interesting topics!!! Awesome, awesome stuff!!!Note: If you are interested in a FULL YEAR for only 9.99, check out my new, improved version here complete with video links, student interaction, and more: Bell Ringers: An Entire Year
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Parent-Teacher Conferences BUNDLE: Sign-In Sheet and Reports
This resource includes a sign-in sheet and SIX VERSIONS of two-page parent-teacher conference reports with sections to highlight glows, growths, ELA/reading, mathematics, classroom behavior, areas to grow, at home support, additional comments, and benchmark data.
Grades:
PreK - 12th
End of Year Reflection Dice Game - Ice breaker - Brain Break - End of year
Use these end-of-year dice games to get students thinking about their school year and its memories. It is also good for getting students to reflect on what students learned and how they felt about what they learned. I use these to get feedback for my students and use that feedback on what I can change next time as a teacher. It is very fun and my students love it. This can be used in class or homeschool.This product contains:- End of year reflection dice game sheet with questions (Black and Whit
Grades:
PreK - 9th, Staff
Growing Bundle of HIGH INTEREST Reading Comprehension Superhero
This is a growing bundle that will contain at least 10 resources - all high interest and all perfect for intervention. This bundle contains, fluency passages, reading comprehension activities and standards-based informational text lessons. You pay one price! Practice every information text reading standard at high low and grade levels.Don't forget to come back and download often.Most units are differentiated and contain versions to use with the entire class.All Resources will be listed as they a
Grades:
4th - 12th
Daily Gratitude Journal - 186 Prompts for Positivity *DOCS
This gratitude journal is full of unique and original questions that will have students reflecting on every aspect of their lives in a positive way. Each question is meant to immediately create positive emotions and bring out thankfulness, self-awareness, and self-esteem, in students.As there are 186 questions, this journal could be used in class daily covering an entire school year, with 10 extra prompts. Each prompt will take about 2 - 8 minutes for students to answer. All questions are direct
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Lab Safety Writing Assignment - Science Disaster at Mission Middle School
The Science Disaster at Mission Middle School is a writing assignment to reinforce the rules and regulations that go along with science lab safety.
This lesson focuses on any and all rules that you might enforce in your science lab setting. Following the introduction of your lab rules, a 1-2 page writing assignment in narrative form is assigned using the enclosed scenario and characters. A grading rubric is also included. This assignment was issued to the sixth grade advanced science students,
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Student Data Profile, Intervention Logs (SLO Goal and MTSS), and Student Forms
Product is useful for all content areas, specifically ELAR and Math.All forms included come in PDF format and an editable Google Slides version that can be customized to meet your individual and student needs.Data helps us to get an overview of our students and their progress. Included in this product are:Student Data Profile (Based on Texas STAAR test but able to be customized in the INCLUDED, EDITABLE version)SLO Goal Intervention LogMTSS Intervention Log(Student Form) Student MAP Tracking/Cla
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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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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