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Common Core RL.11-12.4 centers
Poetry Review Dice Game for Any Poem
Do you need a fun, student-centered activity to add to your existing poetry toolbox? Check out this engaging poetry review game for middle or high school students. It's a dice challenge that can be used with any poem (although poems that are rich in sound devices and figurative language are preferable). WHAT IT IS AND WHY IT'S BENEFICIALGet students involved in analyzing poetry, identifying figurative language, and thinking like a poet as they talk with their small group about any poem of your c
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9th - 11th
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Halloween Activities for Middle School and High School ELA
This fun and engaging resource is also available as part of my Multi-Holiday Growing Games Bundle. Check out the savings now!Treat your middle and high school students with six Halloween-themed games and puzzles - charades, "picture-ary," a crossword puzzle, bingo, word scramble, and ghost story in-the-round. Use these engaging, student-friendly games sporadically throughout the month of October, for one game-day in stations, or however you choose. Games can be played in partners, in small group
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: St. Patrick's Day Activities & Games | Fun ELA Game HOLIDAY BUNDLE
Language Arts Color by Number Bundle
This bundle contains ten color by number activities for language arts classes. These activities are designed for upper elementary, middle school and even high school students. They are great to include on sub days, as homework assignments, or just a quiet activity for students to practice language arts skills. Color by number activities included for the following topics: Verbals (Gerunds, Participles, Infinitives)Verb MoodsSentence Structure (Types of Sentences)Figurative LanguageTypes of Irony
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5th - 11th
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Poetry Analysis: "Stopping By Woods..." by Robert Frost
My standards-based poetry analysis of Robert Frost's beloved poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" includes everything you need for a meaningful activity for your students! They will practice reading, writing, language, and drawing skills as they look at Frost's poem in-depth.In addition, your students can doodle and color all over the pages! Each page has items that can be colored and they are encouraged to draw, as well. It's a great activity for all levels of learning.See my preview to
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for K. Cook
Tone Games and Exit Tickets / Google Slides
As the new school year approaches, I am looking forward to teaching younger learners for the first time in many years. In anticipation of working with younger students, I have been working on building a variety of grammar and vocabulary games that I can use in a variety of circumstances: as bell ringers and morning work, as sponge activities, during intervention blocks, or at stations.Since this set is designed for flexibility, the entire set is available in Google Slides so you can decide wheth
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Grammar and Vocabulary Fun and Games Bundle (20 games, 730+ cards)
Tone and Mood Activities & Tone and Mood Worksheets - Mood vs. Tone Analysis
These engaging tone and mood activities will help students make inferences about mood vs. tone in literature. Students will practice identifying tone and mood, completing mood and tone activities that involve analyzing fiction texts and explaining how an author's word choice and syntax create a dominant impression. As an extension and application activity, students will write about a picture using 3 different tones or moods. These interactive digital activities are ready for your 21st-century cl
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8th - 11th
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ELA Task Card Bundle (192 Task Cards!) / Print and Digital / Google Slides
Task cards are a great way to connect instruction, content, and movement. For this reason, I have been working hard to develop a series of task cards that work for multiple texts. Each set of task cards has 32 cards focused on a specific part of English language arts instruction, including informational texts, rhetoric, figurative language, literary devices, plot structure and conflict, characterization, theme, main idea, summary, making text connections, making inferences, and research skills.
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9th - 12th
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Poetry Analysis Journal Writing Prompts for Any Poem Digital & Print
These poetry journal writing prompts are intended to help students respond to poems in a thoughtful way while deepening their comprehension of the text. It contains twenty response-to-reading prompts that can be used with almost any poem and is appropriate for middle and high school classrooms. What are the topics like?Each poetry journal prompt focuses on a different aspect of reading poetry. Students are asked to analyze theme, figurative language, and structure. In addition, they will make co
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Poetry Analysis Bundle: Engaging Games, Activities, and Writing Prompts
Close Reading Strategies, Techniques, & Tips: A Practical Guide for High School
Tired of useless close reading handouts that do nothing more than teach your students to hate literary analysis? Simply instructing your classes to go through a checklist or point out literary elements doesn’t teach them any skills. In fact, if you teach the wrong kind of close reading lesson, you’ll discourage critical thinking and teach students that reading great literature is just about ticking off lists of literary devices. That kind of disempowering instruction creates a generation of pas
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9th - 12th
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340 High School Reading and ELA Test Prep Common Core Questions for State Exams
Are you looking for a test prep resource that will help your students be prepared for the types of questions that they will see on your reading and language arts state exams? The following resource includes 340 rigorous questions patterned after released state exams as well as the question banks from print and electronic resources from some of the top test prep vendors. You will not find a question stem bank this large and diverse anywhere! This tool is the ideal test prep tool for grades 9-1
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9th - 12th
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Music as Poetry Analysis Activity for Any Song - Digital and Print
Teaching students to analyze poetry can be challenging. This free resource uses pop culture music (almost any song of your choosing will work) to engage students in discussion about lyric poems. Song analysis activities make teaching poetry fun!ContentsThis song analysis activity is included in different versions:1. A condensed two-page graphic organizer 2. A 14 page resource with one question on each page so you can use them individually, with learning stations, or with gallery walksFormatsThi
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Poetry Analysis Bundle: Engaging Games, Activities, and Writing Prompts
Literary Elements Print & Go for ANY Book or Story
Whether you are looking for rigorous critical-thinking questions or a place where students can doodle as they read, I've got you covered with my literary elements print & go handouts that can be used with any book or story. The literary elements covered include: character development, setting, point-of-view (first, third limited, & third omniscient), plot, theme, tone & mood, and figurative devices. These can be used at ANY point in the novel or story. Great for literacy circles or s
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8th - 12th
Also included in: All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
The Gift of the Magi Lesson Plans and Activities
O. Henry's classic Christmas story "The Gift of the Magi" is a great read for the holiday season. I've read it successfully with high school, university, and advanced ESL/EFL students. And now I've put together the most comprehensive collection of downloadable and printable resources to teach "The Gift of the Magi" this holiday season! This 105-page collection of 15 activities, worksheets, games and assessments that I've written and honed over the years cover every aspect of the story: vocabula
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Most Dangerous Game Figurative Language Hunt and Sort
This set of activities has been designed to accompany the reading of the short story “The Most Dangerous Game.” Each of these activities works well for assessing students’ knowledge of figurative language including similes, metaphors, hyperboles, and personification. One of the included activities requires students to sort 20 examples of figurative language into the correct figurative language category. This is perfect for struggling readers who might be overwhelmed by revisiting the entire text
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6th - 12th
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Tone Task Cards | 36 Passages w/ Multiple Choice Questions
Tone Task CardsThese task cards are great for grades 6-12, depending on the needs of your age group, as they practice selected response questions about tone, specifically over a nonfiction passage. Many resources exist for fiction, but nonfiction is a focus for upper grades.Each task card consists of a short passage, followed by a multiple choice question with options A-D.This resource includes:Task Cards on PowerPointTask Cards as JPGsTerms of UseA blank card templateThe answer keyA recording p
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6th - 12th
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The Tempest Bundle: Complete Teacher's Unit
Studying The Tempest? Don't know where to get started? We have you covered from start to finish with this bundle.Everything you need for a fun and successful unit on Shakespeare's play The Tempest.Great for differentiation! Suits the needs of multiple learners. Includes:The Tempest Interactive Flip book Study GuideThe Tempest Interactive Characterization Flip book The Tempest Acts 1-5 QuizzesThe Tempest: Epilogue AnalysisThe Tempest Escape RoomShakespeare Comedies Power point
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9th - 12th
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AP Literature Poetry Test Prep | Spring Activities Bundle
AP Literature Poetry Activities Bundle--SpringThese AP lit poetry bundle focuses on poetry analysis and writing while incorporating Spring Themes. This bundle can be used any time in the months of March, April, and May to celebrate the season! This is also the perfect bundle to prepare your students for the AP exam. There are activities for analyzing, writing, thesis creation, and essay outlining. These activities require little to no preparation!
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11th - 12th
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Antigone Unit Lesson Bundle of Lessons digital resource
You get my top Antigone lessons. I will continue to add to this bundle. So far it contains: 3D scene analysis, coloring pages mini-posters, and CSI literary investigation and murder board. More Bundles:♻️ A Christmas Carol Bundle of Lessons♻️ Animal Farm: Bundle Unit♻️ Bundle of 5 Learning Stations Units: Great Deal: Common Core Aligned♻️ Edgar Allan Poe Bundle of lessons:♻️ Frankenstein Growing Bundle Novel Unit♻️ Growing Bundle of Novel literacy Stations: Poetry, Mythology, Epic, Novel,Drama♻️
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9th - 12th
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CLOSE READING WORKSHEETS Secondary English BUNDLE Comprehension
This bundle of 6 CLOSE READING lessons on a short poetic, persuasive and narrative texts will help you to improve student comprehension and knowledge of language techniques.These resources are relevant to teens and largely written by teens. These are perfect for students in High School English - Years 9, 10 or 11.Each resource takes one or two lessons to work through and walks students through a framework that helps them assess and analyse many aspects of the text, such as author's purpose, mess
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9th - 12th
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Digital Escape Room: Of Mice and Men
I use this activity as part of a larger unit on Of Mice and Men. This is used as the first assignment in the unit as an introduction to the time period of the Great Depression. With this activity students will be asked to read short articles about general life during the Great Depression, the treatment of handicapped persons, and life for farmers and answer questions. They will watch two Edpuzzles on background information and information about John Steinbeck while answering questions. Students
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9th - 12th
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Hamlet: the Original Play Alongside a Modern English Translation
Our Shakescleare translations will help you and your students understand every line of Hamlet, while also saving you time and serving as a foundation for all sorts of lessons.
Every Shakescleare translation includes the following features:
Shakespeare's original textThe complete original text so you and your students don't need to buy a book version.
A complete line-by-line translationA modern English translation of every line alongside the original, so you and your students can instantly und
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Figurative Language CENTERS: 8 Stations, 3 Quizzes, 1 Glossary | All SHAKESPEARE
Hoping to deepen your students' knowledge of figurative language? Eager to equip your students with the tools and techniques for analyzing figurative language in Shakespeare's plays? This FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE STATIONS activity is a fun and effective method for giving students practice at analyzing the most important types of figurative language. Students will develop the skills not only to identify types of figurative language but also to explain how figurative language contributes to the meaning
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7th - 12th
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The Landlady Short Story by Roald Dahl Vocabulary in Context
Need a quick lesson? The Landlady by Roald Dahl is a suspenseful short story that will have your students hooked from the very beginning. Vocabulary as used in context is vital to student success. 35 vocabulary words have been pulled from the text, textual context is provided, and students create their own definition based on the context of each word. An answer key is included for use as a discussion of the correct vocabulary. This can be done after the first read of the text for CLOSE reading.*
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: The Landlady Short Story by Roald Dahl Vocabulary and Questions Bundle
The Epic of Gilgamesh Lesson Unit Bundle of Lessons Digital Activity
This is a bundle for my lesson unit on the Epic of Gilgamesh. I will continue to add to this bundle. So far it contains: literacy stations, 3D scene analysis, supplementary viewing guide with links, and writing prompts with rubric. More Bundles:♻️ A Christmas Carol Bundle of Lessons♻️ Animal Farm: Bundle Unit♻️ Bundle of 5 Learning Stations Units: Great Deal: Common Core Aligned♻️ Edgar Allan Poe Bundle of lessons:♻️ Frankenstein Growing Bundle Novel Unit♻️ Growing Bundle of Novel literacy Stat
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9th - 12th
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