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Game Board Templates: Turn Any Unit into a Game! (Google & PowerPoint)

By Secondary Sara

Get ready to give your next unit or learning cycle a makeover! Use this FULLY editable set of 5+ templates to convert your teaching and assessment into a path of action steps that will engage your learners from start to finish. Take your current

Subjects:

English Language Arts, For All Subject Areas

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

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Activities, Games, Google Apps

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Chapter Study Guides: Student-Led Notes & Discussion for ANY Novel (with GOOGLE)

By Secondary Sara

GOOGLE NOW INCLUDED: Need an alternative to chapter quizzes? Want individual student accountability and comprehension that is mutually beneficial to students AND the teacher?Have STUDENTS divvy up the task of making a study guide for each chapter,

Subjects:

Reading, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.7.2, RL.8.2, RL.9-10.2, RL.11-12.2

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Socratic Seminar Task Cards: Discussion Sentence Starters

By Secondary Sara

Though most students LOVE to talk, sometimes students need guidance to learn how to appropriately contribute to a larger conversation.Enter these 48 task cards of sentence starters! Based on the expectations of Common Core standards in SL.1 for

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English Language Arts, Other (ELA)

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Not Grade Specific

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Activities

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SL.7.1, SL.8.1, SL.9-10.1, SL.11-12.1

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Vocabulary Word of the Week for Secondary ELA: Vol. 1 of 2 (DISTANCE LEARNING)

By Secondary Sara

Want a no-prep vocabulary program that is student AND teacher friendly?This “Word of the Week” program is an easy-to-implement, EDITABLE routine that you can use for mini-lessons or bell-ringers all year long. The clear, modern design and

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Vocabulary

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Google Apps

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Poem of the Week Collection: a YEAR of Multimedia Poetry!

By Secondary Sara

Historically speaking, poems started out as stories intended to be read aloud. Share poems the way they were MEANT to be read - with audio and video readings – while still achieving rigorous reading and creative writing!This Poem of the Week

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Literature, Poetry

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Handouts

CCSS:

RL.7.7, RL.7.10, RL.8.7, RL.8.10, RL.9-10.10, RL.11-12.10

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Reading Bookmarks: DURING Reading Tools for Secondary ELA

By Secondary Sara

Want to scaffold students into doing more critical thinking DURING reading? Want them to take notes without ruining the joy of the book? Want to annotate, but can’t mark in a class set of novels? Or, just as importantly: do your students have

Subjects:

Vocabulary, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Printables

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Grammar Bell-Ringers #1: Complete Sentences, Sentence Types, Run-ons, & More

By Secondary Sara

Want to incorporate grammar in small doses? Get ready to activate your students’ brains and learn grammar rules through inductive reasoning!This set of lessons can be used daily or weekly for any ELA class that needs help with basic sentence

Subjects:

Grammar

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

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Bell-Ringers & Programs Bundle for MIDDLE School ELA

By Secondary Sara

Ready for an engaging, productive bell-ringer system that YOU do not have to make? Every day of this bell-ringer/daily warm-ups routine is EITHER premade OR created by students! This bundle includes the following products from my store, in what

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Reading, Grammar, Vocabulary

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Assessment

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$29.99

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Grading Helpers: Tools, Forms, and Checklists for ANY Teacher! (with GOOGLE)

By Secondary Sara

New and veteran teachers alike can benefit from time-saving organizers to streamline the feedback process. Use this set of forms and checklists to help you during teaching, turn-in day, and grading!NOW INCLUDES Google Docs as well as Microsoft Word

Subjects:

For All Subject Areas, Back to School

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Professional Documents, Classroom Forms, Google Apps

$2.99

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Bell-Ringers & Programs Bundle for HIGH School ELA

By Secondary Sara

Subjects:

Reading, Grammar, Vocabulary

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Lesson

$41.95

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Grammar Video Project: Students Teach Their Peers!

By Secondary Sara

We learn by DOING and by TEACHING others. Transform your grammar instruction by putting STUDENTS in the role of teacher!In this project, student groups collaborate to design and record their own SHORT videos (1-5 minutes) teaching one focused

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Projects, Google Apps

$3.99

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The Outsiders: Chapter Quizzes

By Secondary Sara

Need a quick assessment of literal and critical comprehension of The Outsiders? Use this set of four quizzes to get a snapshot of your students’ understandings of the novel!Each two-page quiz has a combination of question types that will help you

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Assessment

CCSS:

RL.6.10, RL.7.10, RL.8.10, RL.9-10.10

$4.99

100

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Student Survey: EDITABLE for Secondary ELA (with Google Version)

By Secondary Sara

Need a quick but effective student survey? Let this one tell you who students are, how they learn best, where they want to sit (if you make seating charts), and what their strengths and weaknesses are in English. (If desired, you CAN edit this for a

Subjects:

For All Subject Areas, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Professional Documents, Classroom Forms, Google Apps

$1.99

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Creative Writing Prompts: 100 Prompts to Hook ALL writers!

By Secondary Sara

Use this list of 100 writing prompts, divided by learning style, to help ALL students feel inspired to write! Present these to kickstart ANY creative writing/narrative assignment: fiction, poetry, or memoir/autobiographical pieces. The goal of

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing, Poetry

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities

CCSS:

W.6.3, W.7.3, W.8.3, W.9-10.3, W.11-12.3

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Task Card Activity for Literature: Apply to ANY Novel or Short Story!

By Secondary Sara

Need a flexible way to assess a fictional text? Want to try task cards, stations, and small group collaboration? (Want something OTHER than a quiz to assess understanding?)Try this set of task cards to put some variety in your assessment of literary

Subjects:

Reading, Literature

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Task Cards

$4.99

152

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Grammar Bell-Ringers #2: Common Errors, Homophones, and More

By Secondary Sara

Want to incorporate TEST PREP grammar in small doses? Get ready to activate your students’ brains and learn grammar rules through inductive reasoning!This set of lessons can be used daily or weekly for any ELA class that needs help with common

Subjects:

Grammar, Spelling, Test Preparation

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

$7.99

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Vocabulary Word of the Week for Secondary ELA: Vol. 2 of 2 (DISTANCE LEARNING)

By Secondary Sara

Subjects:

Vocabulary

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Google Apps

$19.99

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Summer Countdown Paper Chain: 30-Day Bell-Ringer or Discussion Prompts EDITABLE

By Secondary Sara

Grab a discussion starter that doubles as classroom décor! This easy to assemble paper chain is a more visual way to interact with students, whether as a bell-ringer, quick write, bonding with your classes, or other conversation booster. These 31

Subjects:

Spring, Summer, End of Year

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Bulletin Board Ideas

$2.50

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FREE Reading Quote of the Week Collection

By Secondary Sara

Inspire your readers with fresh "food for thought" on why reading is important and enjoyable. This collection of 40 reading quotes gives you one quote per week in the school year, with a few to spare! The quotes are mostly general thoughts on

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Bulletin Board Ideas, Posters

FREE

140

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FREE Grammar in Literature Activity: Use for Any Novel!

By Secondary Sara

Ready to show students that grammar is not just necessary, but beautiful? Use this multi-purpose activity to collect and examine grammar “in the wild” while reading!Use any of the three different versions/templates of this activity as:• Diagnostic:

Subjects:

Grammar, Literature, Short Stories

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment

FREE

127

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

6 years of teaching 7th & 8th grade ELA, and 8 years of high school tutoring experience. I'm also a National Writing Project consultant and writing team coach. I'm constantly involved with both the middle and high school "worlds", and I love all of these grade levels and their quirks!

MY TEACHING STYLE

I teach with a lot of technology and student-centered projects! I flip my ELA curriculum when I can, and create units in which students drive their own learning. Student motivation is very important to me, and we spend time in class talking about why the lesson matters to their futures.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

National Writing Project Teacher Consultant; Conference presenter; Kappa Phi Kappa Award 2010

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Bachelor's degree with honors in English Pre-Education, with minors in Professional Writing and Music. Master's degree in Integrated English Language Arts 7-12. Both degrees are from THE Ohio State University!

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Check out my blog at secondarysara.com! You can also interact with me on Facebook and Pinterest.

GRADES

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool, Not Grade Specific

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Social Studies, World Languages, Latin, Other (Specialty), ELA Test Prep, Other (Social Studies), Other (ELA), Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, School Counseling, Study Skills, Short Stories, Writing, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Halloween, Winter, The New Year, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, St. Patrick's Day, Spring, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, Test Preparation, End of Year, Classroom Community