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5th grade english language arts unit plans for Microsoft Word $5-10
The Arrival by Shaun Tan -- 100+ Page Unit and Teacher's Guide GATE
Yes, we can teach reading, writing, speaking and listening, and critical thinking skills using this amazing graphic novel which has no “words!” It’s a journey about who we are, where we have come from, and the humanity we share. It’s about hope and love and understanding. At times powerful, at times breathtakingly beautiful . . . Shaun Tan’s The Arrival should be on every bookshelf in every classroom.This 100+ page teaching guide and unit has been developed over the past three years in my adv
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5th - 12th
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Start Your Own School Newspaper and Newspaper Club
Starting your own school newspaper isn't difficult. I've run (and created) our school newspaper for three years. This document has most of the materials you'll need for set-up. The newspaper club in my school was open to fifth grade students and printed copies were distributed in the school to faulty, staff, classroom libraries, school common areas, and to the newspaper club members. Our newspaper is usually 12 pages long and we use Microsoft Publisher to create it.
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3rd - 6th, Staff
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Writing a Short Story - Complete Unit
Your students will have their short story story written and completed in 15 days! This unit includes activities, specific lesson plans and every thing you need to help your students. My kids were very successful during this unit and enjoy it every year. It's positively directed but fast paced.
How to Write a Short Story
Day 1: Background Survey & Getting Excited Activity
Day 2: Character Development
Day 3: Continue Character Development & Setting Development: Where, When and We
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4th - 10th
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Realistic Fiction Writing Unit
This realistic fiction writing unit includes the following lessons:
1) Making a writing goal and generating ideas for a realistic fiction story
2) Generating Ideas: Imagining Stories from Ordinary Moments
3) Selecting a seed idea/story idea
4) Developing believable characters
5) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivations
6) Planning your story: Story Mountains, Story Booklets, and Timelines
7) Show, Don't Tell
8) Grammar: Punctuating Dialogue
9) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of your Story
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4th - 8th
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Mystery Writing Unit Plans
These mystery writing unit plans include the following minilessons:
1) What makes a good Mystery story?
2) Planning Problem/ Solution
3) Planning Clues
4) Planning Characters
5) Planning Setting
6) Planning story: plot beginning, middle, and end
7) Building Suspense
8) Using Mystery Planning Sheet to Help Organize Writing
9) Focusing on Characters
10) Character Personality and dialogue
11) How to Use and Punctuate Dialogue (Conventions)
12) Editing
13) Revising Reminders
This also includes t
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4th - 7th
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SHARK TANK Economics Pitches Prototypes PROJECT BASED PBL GATE
Welcome to the shark tank project-based learning unit. Let’s begin our entrepreneurial careers today!
Build critical thinking skills, public speaking success, and bring creativity, language arts, and economics into your classroom in a purposeful and authentic way.
Students will work in collaborative teams to solve a complex, ongoing, inquiry-based problem with a physical product for an authentic audience:
• Brainstorm a product, citing a need that will be fulfilled.
• Construct a prototyp
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
Monster By Walter Dean Myers: 65 Pages- Unit Lesson Plans, Handouts & more
Complete 65 Page unit I have improved upon over the years. These are 21 complete lesson plans. Each lesson plan includes aim, do-now, instructional objective, an independent reading activity... I include very specific modeling activities (so if it happens to be your first time teaching Monster you will have great examples to model inferences etc.) Also included, where needed in the unit, are homework assignments.
Handouts and Worksheets are included as well. 21 lessons in a 65 page file means
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5th - 8th
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Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick Unit Critical Thinking GATE Hands-on!
Students reluctant to read? They’ll read this one! These lessons will keep them interested and keep them thinking along the way … You’ll be free to pick and choose the best activities to suit your students, because in this collection, there is much, much more than you’ll ever need for one graphic novel unit.
Open Brian Selznick’s graphic novel Wonderstruck, and you will quickly see why readers of all ages are wonderstruck—captivated by the interplay of text and pictures, drawn into two storie
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4th - 7th
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Road Trip Adventure PROJECT BASED LEARNING for GATE and 3rd - 8th Grades
Come along on a fun project-based adventure as students practice different forms of writing, geography skills, computer and internet technology skills, engineering and design skills, math skills, public speaking, creativity, and art.
Here is your Gold Medal Standard project based learning unit ready to go. Because this project-based unit relies heavily on student creativity and invention, the key knowledge, understanding, and success skills can be scaffolded across many grade levels. This un
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
5th Grade Common Core Lesson Plan Template with Drop-down Boxes
A lesson plan template for creating unit or chapter plans that are aligned to the Common Core Standards. This lesson plan format has all ELA and Math standards for fifth grade available to select from in a single drop down box saving time to search for and type in standards. This format will make you look great to your administrator! Included is a drop down list of Bloom's Taxonomy descriptive verbs to easily identify student learning objectives. Standards for Mathematical Practice and ELA Ancho
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5th
Chrysanthemum! Teaching the Elements of a Short Story
This unit provides lesson plans for teaching the elements of a short story using Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes as a model. Several graphic organizers are included as well.
Topics covered: setting, characters, conflict, rising and falling action, climax, resolution, and theme.
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3rd - 8th
CRAAP Test Unit - 5 Day Detailed Lesson Plans for STEM Distance Learning .DOC
The CRAAP Test Unit is a detailed 5 day set of lessons, leading students from the introduction of the CRAAP Test, through practice and mastery of it 5 days later. The CRAAP Test Unit includes:5 Detailed Daily Lesson Plans2 Ready-to-go Premade Google Slides Presentations3 Printable ActivitiesLinked Lesson plans, so you don't have to hunt for links or activity printoutsLesson Plan Outlines, and Teacher Justifications
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: CRAAP Test Bundle - Unit, Activities, Posters, and IB MYP Rubric
Complete Wonderland and Looking-Glass Comprehension and Logic Unit Combo
This is my complete combo for both the "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There" books. It has chapter comprehension worksheets for both books. This also includes my logic unit study which teaches a basic introduction to formal logic as well as analyzes a lot of the hidden logic lessons within the first Alice book.Logic Unit Description:This is a collection of worksheets and tests that work for a month long introduction to formal logic and fal
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5th - 12th
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Five Day 5th Grade Poetry Unit
This poetry unit teaches the 5th grade common core standards for poetry, including: poetry structure, theme and figurative language, It includes 5 days of lesson plans and 10 awesome poems to use as examples. The lessons include student activities as well. The poems range from thought-provoking to funny, and are all LOVED by 5th grade students!
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5th
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Soundtrack of my Life Project
This is my FAVORITE project to do with middle schoolers. I have seen other adaptations of this, but this document is created by me with my own original ideas, sequence and rubric. In my 'Soundtrack of my Life' unit, we begin a 4 day course with an introduction where we listen to the song 'I Was Here' by Beyonce. I give students a sheet with the lyrics printed on them and ask students to, as we're listening, highlight/underline/circle/star one or more important verse that stands out to them. Afte
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5th - 12th
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6.1 Present Day Eastern Hemisphere Geography and Culture Unit Guide
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Present Day Eastern Hemisphere Geography and Culture Unit Guide
This document is a full unit plan for introducing Present Day Eastern Hemisphere Geography and Culture, and is designed to meet Common Core and NYS SS Framework guidelines, while incorporating CC ELA skills. Embedded in my unit plan is also an Inquiry Design Model that was inspired by C3 (College, Career, and Civic Li
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5th - 10th
If Stones Could Speak: Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge by Marc Aronson
Through this unit, students will learn that archaeologists, like detectives, work to piece together the past through investigation in the text, “If Stones Could Speak” by Marc Aronson. This common core aligned packet emphasizes specific skills that are targeted in each chapter. Through this packet, students are exposed to diverse perspectives and challenge them to analyze data and draw meaningful conclusions about history. Students will learn to analyze how claims support the main idea and h
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5th - 8th
WRITING UNIT: *ONTARIO CURRICULUM*- Proper Sentences and Perfect Paragraphs!
ONTARIO CURRICULUM (but EASILY adapted to various Province/State expectations)This is a FULL writing unit with everything you will need to teach it.Unit Includes:Expected Duration Overall Curriculum Expectations AddressedSpecific Curriculum Expectations AddressedUnit VocabularyDiagnostic, Formative and Summative AssessmentsSpecial Education Accomodation and Modification ConsiderationsLearning Goals for the UnitOverall unit overview to break down each lesson9 fully prepared lessons (student work
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2nd - 5th
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Witch of Blackbird Pond Unit Plan
Developed by Mark Weakland, this Witch of Blackbird Pond Literature Unit Plan consists of ten core 60 to 70 minute lessons and three supplemental lessons that make use of an Exploration Board.
The purpose of this integrated focus unit is to develop language arts skills through multiple patterns of practice. More specifically, students working through this unit will demonstrate oral reading fluency, use metacognitive reading strategies that lead to deeper levels of thinking and greater levels
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5th - 7th
Digging Deeper with Because of Winn-Dixie
This packet has 9 pages of rigorous text-dependent questions for each chapter in Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DeCamillo, with 6 additional pages of possible answers. The questions are designed to make students think deeper about the possible themes and symbolism in the story. Each of the 6 signposts from Notice and Note (Beers & Probst) are explained and included with the questions. CCSS RL 1, 2, 3, and 10 for each grade level suggested.
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3rd - 6th
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Auslan Semester/Year Topic Planner K-6 (simple)
A simple topic planner including an initial 5 weeks of introductory content and then a semester or year (depending on how many classes you run) of topic divisions for K-6. This is a very useful starting document for teachers new to Auslan struggling with how to sequence their content.
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K - 6th
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Out of the Dust Unit Plan for 4th, 5th, and 6th Grade
This is a resource for teachers doing a book club unit on the book "Out of the Dust" by Karen Hesse. This unit includes theme questions and lessons that incorporate book club curricular areas such as comprehension, literary aspects, composition, and language conventions. There are five lessons developed in detail. Just because there are five lessons does not mean this unit will last five days. It could easily take a month to get through with your class. This is because each lesson includes a les
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4th - 6th
Extensive The Year of the Hangman Novel Study
This is an extensive study of the novel The Year of the Hangman by Gary Blackwood. This novel study contains vocabulary by chapter, prediction logs, chapter questions, an answer guide, activities, bulletin board design idea, final project ideas, and a set of questions for students to use to help the students write a biography on the author. The complete document is 62 pages long. It works well as a blog, too.
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4th - 12th
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Rule the World: A Nation Building Simulation
Watch your students become entirely engaged as they compete to see who will be the supreme ruler of the world. This simulation has students work in teams (nations) to create their own culture or the teacher can adapt the 'tasks' to have them research and report out on real nations. Diplomats and spies from each nation move around the world and develop trade / defence agreements (or steal valuable information!) in preparation for the 'War' phase of the game. Every time I have run the simulatio
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4th - 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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