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Higher education ELA test prep activities
Poetic Devices Question Trail: Engaging & Kinesthetic Poetry Activity
Want to spice up your lessons on poetry and engage ALL of your students? Get your students moving and interacting with this unique high-interest activity that takes students on a “trail” around the room! Use this to practice identifying devices or to review for an assessment! I typically use this as a way to scaffolding analysis of poetic devices. Before we analyze, I need to know who is still struggling with identifying devices. Poetic/literary devices seem like those things we teach our kids e
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Question Trails GROWING BUNDLE: Engaging Activities
Test Prep: Vocabulary in Context Question Trail Activity BUNDLE - Context Clues
Tired of boring your students with test prep or vocabulary lists? Help your students prepare for state standardized testing, as well as college-entrance exams, with these vocabulary in context question trail activities! This bundle contains a set of 3 different question trails, designed with context clues + test prep practice in mind.If you've never facilitated a "question trail," now is the time to try it out! You and your students will be hooked on its unique approach to learning.A question tr
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Informational Text Questions: 50 Non-Fiction Articles
Teach Common Core informational Text Reading Skills with 50 non-fiction articles & 200 accompanying text-based questions that students will love! Includes editable .docx and Google Doc for no prep lessons or Google Classroom activities. Perfect for distance learning!FULL-YEAR'S WORTH OF NON-FICTION READING RESPONSE ACTIVITIES!!These can be used as homework reading, or as an in-class lesson plan! Zip Includes (editable .docx and Google Doc):18 two to three page articles.32 half page articles.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Google Digital | APA Format Style Guide | Guide, Worksheets, Presentation, etc.
APA Format Style Guide | Instructional Packet, Worksheets, PPTX PresentationAs a follow up to our best-selling bundled resource on MLA formatting, we now offer A Practical Guide to APA Formatting!We think this is the most beautiful and useful APA style guide / teaching & learning packet on the internet. And now it's available in this fully-digital Google Drive version! Inside, you get all this: ❤ A high-quality PDF containing a detailed guide to the most common formatting tasks, including pa
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Analogy PowerPoint, Google Slides: Lesson, Notes and Exercises
Updated and revised! Over 50 slides in length! From top 10 TPT seller! This may be one of the best deals I have for any of my PowerPoints. Analogies are important for numerous reasons. In this PowerPoint the art of learning how to solve an analogy will be thoroughly examined. This PowerPoint will include notes on the different types of analogies, notes on how to break down an analogy, and exercises to help students become more comfortable with solving an analogy. Whether it is for telling a
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Real-World Rhetoric Bundle Argument Analysis of Modern Essays, Critical Thinking
What does it take to win an argument? With this bundle of seven real-world rhetorical analysis lessons, students will examine short articles on high-interest topics, identify specific rhetorical tools including ethos, pathos, and logos, and determine whether each writer is ultimately effective in swaying the reader.Each of these real-world rhetoric lessons include:• A full-text copy of a public domain argument essay• A paper-saving handout of short-answer questions• A Google Drive version of the
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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English Bell Ringers | Engaging Warm Ups for High School
These bell ringers are used to push students to think critically and analyze a variety of texts in a short “chunk” of time. Most of these pieces can be completed in 5-10 minutes - giving you that sacred time to take attendance and a deep breath! :) Students will work with a variety of texts from poetry to writing prompts. Each day is broken into a specific topic to be sure that students are working with multiple genres.Monday: Informational TextTuesday: PoetryWednesday: WritingThursday: Fictio
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: ELA Bell Ringers: Entire Semester | English Warm-up Bundle
Test Prep: Vocabulary in Context Question Trail Activity #1 - Context Clues
Tired of boring your students with test prep or vocabulary lists? Help your students prepare for state standardized testing, as well as college-entrance exams, with this vocabulary in context question trail activity. If you've never facilitated a "question trail," now is the time to try it out! You and your students will be hooked on its unique approach to learning.A question trail is an activity comprised of different multiple choice “stations” or “spots.” These questions are posted throughout
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Parts of Speech Grammar Pretest Practice Worksheets
Parts of Speech Grammar Pretest Practice WorksheetsUse these 3 worksheets as a pretest, test, or as practice worksheets for grades 5 and up. There are two parts to these worksheets. First, your students will complete a short matching activity to connect the different parts of speech with their definitions. Then, students are asked to read 5 sentences. They will seek to identify the different parts of speech that is asked of them. The answer keys are also provided!Feel free to follow me to stay u
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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How to Pass Any Multiple Choice Test: Strategies and Quiz Game
I use this lesson each year to prep students to take multiple choice tests, weather that is an EOG, State Final Exam, Classroom assessment, SAT, ACT, etc. These strategies are extremely useful and invites students to think about multiple choice tests in a new way. The lesson hinges around a quiz in a made up language so students cannot "know" the right answer but they can use other skills to infer the best responses. At the end of the quiz students can go over the questions and find out about th
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Literary Terms Real World Examples, Bell Ringers Task Cards, 1st Edition
Identify Literary Terms from Real World Examples: A Task Cards Set, 1st Edition. This is an excellent modern and engaging activity to have students take ownership of their learning and make connections to the world around them.
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- 48 task cards with answers for cutting and printing, pdf
- 48 task cards full page size in pdf and jpeg for projecting, using in Google, Classflow, Nearpod, Kahoot, as a screensaver and more!
Students not only identify the literary term used in the real wo
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Rhetorical Appeals, Argument, Propaganda Advertisement & Media 5 DAY UNIT BUNDLE
EDITABLE, Organized, UNIT: Teach the concepts of ethos, pathos, logos, and persuasion with fun, real world examples. Then guide students to write, research, create a project, and take tests.Complete: This is a well reviewed and well organized unit that teaches Ethos, Pathos, Logos, Persuasion, and Propaganda, using Advertising and Media Examples. Students learn, create, write, research and are assessed.Flexible: Like all Teachers Best products this is an EDITABLE and CUSTOMIZABLE unit bundle. Ea
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
SAT / ACT Prep: Grammar Bundle #1 (Pronouns, Apostrophes, Noun Clauses, Adverbs)
If you are a fan of the SAT / Vocab Units 1-15 Bundle (https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/SAT-Prep-Vocabulary-Units-1-15-BUNDLED-3110197), you may be ready for some more skills to add to your teaching toolbox. Here are six (6) new grammar mini-lessons on popular topics that the SAT / ACT assess students on: using pronouns, apostrophes, commas with noun clauses, and adverbs v. sentence modifiers. You may edit all of the documents, adding in your own students' names and picking them apart
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Literary Analysis Essay & Elaboration Practice with Lyrics, Spoken Word & Film
Teach literary analysis by writing in response to inspirational and engaging videos! No prep student printables and Google Doc. Perfect for distance learning or google Classroom activities!TEST PREP is FUN with VIDEO CLIPS, SONGS + SPOKEN WORD!WRITING PROMPT: Choose a specific literary element (theme, characterization, structure, point of view, etc.) or literary technique (symbolism, irony, dialogue, figurative language, etc.). In a well-developed paragraph show how the author used that element
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Test-Taking Strategies Word Search Test Prep Game
By:Funnyarti••Test taking is a fact of life, and test taking should not feel as if it is a new experience each time. Tests help instructors gauge progress, measure skills, and determine grades.••When you are confident in your test-taking skills, you will have less test anxiety and be able to focus on showing what you’ve learned.•••The following Strategies are included in this package:•Key Words.•Brain Food.•Read Carefully.(...)Files included: • 1 PDF 2 Pages Ready to Print. ''With Answer'' • 2 J
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1st - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Testing Motivation Coloring Pages State Test Posters + Stickers BUNDLE
Google Digital | MLA Format Style Guide | Guide, Worksheets, Presentation, etc.
MLA Format Style Guide | Instructional Packet, Worksheets, PPTX PresentationWell, you asked for it and now it's here. We think this is the most beautiful and useful MLA style guide / teaching & learning packet on the internet. And now it's available in this fully-digital Google Drive version! Inside you get all of this:❤ A high-quality digital PDF containing a detailed guide to the most common formatting tasks. Distribute this to the students.❤ A Google Slides document containing your teachi
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Comparative Essay Writing & Elaboration Practice with Film Clips
Teach comparative essay writing using inspirational and engaging short films and video clips! No prep printable and Google doc - Perfect for Google classroom or distance learning!40 CULTURALLY RELEVANT, INSPIRING WRITING ACTIVITIES (80 VIDEOS)BONUS: All 40 CCSS-ALIGNED writing activities (80 videos) teach emotional intelligence & social emotional curriculum (SEL)NO PREP print and go editable handouts and Google Doc for 40 weekly comparative writing activities (for controlling idea paragraph,
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Jeopardy Game for Reviewing Literary Terms and Elements
This is a great review for students on literary terms and elements. Categories included in the review are Elements of Plot, Characterization, Irony, Figurative Language and More! This would be a great review for the end of the year before juniors take the New York State Comprehensive English Regents Exam.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Socratic Seminar and Activities: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Frost
Socratic seminar is an excellent and engaging way for students to practice higher order thinking skills. This 55-slide PowerPoint resource with printables is a Socratic seminar featuring the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost, which is a fitting poem for the winter season. The resource includes a well-organized protocol for conducting a formal discussion or Socratic seminar based on Frost’s poem. On Day 1 and Day 2 students complete several poetry, writing, and vocabular
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
SAT / ACT Prep: Grammar Bundle #3 (Writing Questions & Verb Usage)
If you are a fan of the SAT / Vocab Units 1-15 Bundle (https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/SAT-Prep-Vocabulary-Units-1-15-BUNDLED-3110197), you may be ready for some more skills to add to your teaching toolbox. Here are six (6) new grammar mini-lessons on popular topics that the SAT / ACT assess students on: Subject-Verb Agreement, Punctuating Two-Zero Interrupters, Writing with Parallel Structure, Writing in the Subjunctive Mood, Using Active & Passive Voice, and Shifting Phrases, S
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Line of Reasoning Digital Activities Cancel Culture AP Language Seminar
Line of Reasoning overview and activities designed specifically to help students understand and apply this sometimes elusive concept.Hot Topic for practice: Cancel Culture. Can be used as an accompaniment to an argument, rhetorical analysis, synthesis, or thematic unit. Perfect for AP English Language and Composition and AP Seminar courses - both of which use LOR concepts in daily practice and test mastery in the end-of-course exams and for AP Seminar, the performance tasks. Help your students i
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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ACT, SAT, Accuplacer, TSI 2.0 Test Prep: English Study Cheat Sheet
This bag is packed with a gallery walk activity and correlating student note-taking sheet. Designed to help students review the grammar basics which are most tested on the English portion of the ACT, SAT, Accuplacer, or TSI 2.0. Before your students take a standardized test, have them “review” the basics with this engaging activity. Students will create a study cheat sheet of grammar rules and examples of each rule. Learning what is on the test and what is expected will help prepare students
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: ACT Test Prep Bundle (English, Math, Reading, and Science)
Fine Art Analysis #4, Munch, critical thinking, high school English & art CCSS
Help students hone their critical thinking and analysis skills with this fine art bell-ringer (Masterpiece Monday? Fine Art Friday?) and/or literature supplemental lesson. The worksheet features six leading questions to help students analyze Edvard Munch’s 1896 painting, Separation. The download includes both a printable PDF and interactive Google Drive version of the student worksheet along with a high-resolution PDF, JPG image, and Google Slide version of Munch's public domain artwork.A few su
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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An ENTIRE YEAR of AP Literature Lessons ON GOOGLE DOCS
47 Lessons for teaching AP Literature and Composition all organized into the nine units set up by the College Board!You'll get a PDF of a curriculum map for an entire school year broken down by units and skills. Every lesson is named on the PDF and linked to Google documents that you can copy and modify as needed. All lessons can be done on paper or online.Each of the nine units contains 4 to 5 lessons hitting EVERY Enduring Understanding, Essential Knowledge and Skill for that unit. These are l
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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