Valentine's Day English Language Arts Resources | Middle School Reading Writing

Have some fun with your middle school students this Valentine's Day while helping them strengthen their reading and writing skills! This bundle includes a hands-on close reading poetry analysis activity, a lesson on word choice inspired by a mentor text, and an engaging grammar and editing activity on punctuation and capitalization.

Valentine's Day Poetry Puzzles are a fun, challenging way for students to practice close reading and poetry analysis.

The Valentine's Day Writer's Palette lesson is an engaging and memorable lesson that has students analyze and apply the author's craft of diction.

The Valentine's Day Punctuation Practice worksheet has a message that can be punctuated as a love letter or as a break-up letter. Students use punctuation and capitalization to create both letters without changing, adding, or deleting any of the words.

WHAT'S INCLUDED
• Valentine's Day Writer's Palette Word Choice Writing Lesson
• Valentine's Day Poetry Puzzles Close Reading Activity
• Valentine's Day Punctuation Practice Activity

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COMMON CORE AND TEKS ALIGNED
• CCSS.CCRA.R.1 and CCSS.RL.6-8.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence
• CCSS.CCRA.R.4 and CCSS.RL.6-8.4 Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text
• CCSS.CCRA.R.5 and CCSS.RL.6-8.5 Analyze the structure of texts, including how ... stanzas relate to each other and to the whole
• CCSS.CCRA.W.4 and CCSS.W.6-8.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
• CCSS.CCRA.L.2 and CCSS.L.6-8.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing
• TEKS.LA.6-8.5.F Make inferences and use evidence to support understanding
• TEKS.LA.6-8.6.C Use text evidence to support an appropriate response
• TEKS.LA.6-8.9.F Analyze and apply author's craft purposefully in order to develop their own products and performances: analyze how the author's use of language contributes to the mood, voice, and tone
• TEKS.LA.6-7.10.D.vii and TEKS.LA.8.10.D.v Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: correct capitalization
• TEKS.LA.6-7.10.D.viii and TEKS.LA.8.10.D.vi Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: punctuation
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