BACK TO SCHOOL BUNDLE FOR ELA GRADES 11-12: 150+ Activities, Posters & More

Save over 25% with six popular back-to-school high school English products in one!

Kick off the year right with this HUGE mega-bundle of customer favorites for ELA Grades 11-12. This 153-page bundle includes:

FIRST WEEK SURVIVAL KIT: 20+ BACK TO SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

Build a community of learners from day one with this best-selling mega-pack that includes over 20 fun-filled and practical back-to-school activities—including printables, games, activities, learning inventories and more.

Sample activities include:

• Coat-of-Arms. Students design their own unique crest to hang around the room to get acquainted. Parents love to see them at open house too!

• Top 10 Playlist. Students love their music. This activity lets them create a playlist that helps reveal who they are.

• Beach Ball Bonanza! A fun and friendly game in which students get to know each other by tossing around a beach ball and following its hilarious instructions.

• Reading and Writing Inventories. This activity will be helpful as you develop differentiated learning strategies and plan large and small group activities.

• Learning Style Inventory. Which students are visual learners? Which are auditory? Tactile? Determine your students’ learning styles and provide them with tips to maximize each

• Scavenger Hunt. Students compete in a scavenger hunt that will get them comfortable with your classroom so they know where to locate what they need from the start.

• Classroom Contract. What better way to get buy-in to your classroom rules than have students create them? This activity provides an outline for students to take part in crafting and signing off on the classroom rules as well as the consequences for breaking them.

COMMON CORE POSTERS, VOCABULARY & GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS FOR ELA 11-12

How can you best prepare your students (and yourself!) for the more rigorous Common Core standards? These three popular Common Core resources will help you build the strongest possible foundation for your high school students. It includes:

• Posters you can print, laminate, and hang in your classroom to help connect your lesson with the ELA 11-12 standards students must master. They can be displayed individually at the launch of a unit or lesson, or even switched daily as posted learning goals.

• Graphic Organizers that enable students to dig more deeply into the ELA 11-12 standards by putting them into their own words. Students can refer to them as new standards, units and lessons are introduced. Also included are a variety of lesson ideas and activities that incorporate the standards and graphic organizers.

• Vocabulary Inventory that asks students to self-report their level of understanding of academic terms and phrases specific to the ELA grade 9-12 standards, serving as your instructional compass on what areas to focus on and which students need the most support. A blank vocabulary inventory is also included that can be filled in with any words you choose to be used diagnostically all year long.

LEARNING SCALES: POSTERS & EXIT TICKETS FOR QUICK ASSESSMENT

When used thoughtfully, learning scales can provide quick, meaningful assessment of where students are in their learning process. Simply print and hang these colorful posters so that students can easily assess and indicate their progress on any learning goal. Laminate them, and they can be used for years to come!

Need to gather more concrete data? This packet also includes printable exit tickets that ask students to use the same number system to assess their progress and explain their response. This simple activity is an excellent summary strategy for any lesson, and provides you with usable, actionable feedback on EVERY student that can be used to guide future instruction.

PASSES FOR EVERY PURPOSE PACKET (Also offered for free on TPT.)

A pass for every purpose! Simply print and cut these attractive, ready-to-use passes enabling students to move around school grounds while encouraging them with humor to hurry back to class.

This package includes:

• Hall passes

• Restroom passes

• Homework passes

• Clinic Passes

• Media Center Passes

Also included is an optional fill-in form page to record student name, date, teacher’s signature, etc.—simply copy on the back of the passes to capture the information you need. These print-and-go passes come in a variety of sizes and styles; laminate for years of use!

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Lead the pack and reduce the stress of going back to school with this comprehensive bundle that will help you get organized, become quickly acquainted with your students, and prepare them for a great year of learning ahead!

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