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Free high school balanced literacy projects
CHARACTER ANALYSIS Book Report Activity | Generic Novel Unit Study Activity FREE
With this freebie, your students will be able to present a creative summary for any character for any book. This no-prep activity makes an engaging addition to any of my creative novel units (find the list below).CLICK HERE to find this in my Generic Novel, Movie, and Documentary Brochure Bundle!My novel units allow your students to work through the book in a natural and enjoyable way. There will be no dreaded multiple-choice tests. However, these activities are thorough which will allow you to
Grades:
4th - 12th
Fun Book Reports - Paper Bag Book Report
This is a fun freebie! Students do the written portion of the book report on the outside of a large grocery bag, and then place five items inside the bag to symbolize main characters, setting or events from the book. Students love these!!
Enjoy,
Shari Bithell
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3rd - 9th
Genre Mystery Mix-Up
If you’re looking for an engaging and rigorous way to check your students’ understanding of genre, you’ve come to the right place! This lesson will have you setting up a crime scene in your classroom where someone has broken in and mixed up all the genres in your classroom library. Students will follow clues around the school to determine the genres of books the culprit has left around using evidence based terms. This activity is a great follow up to a study of genres or a quick brush up to revi
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2nd - 10th
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Current Events Project
This is a project for middle school and high school students. Students explore credible websites and research current events that interest them. Students will write summaries about what they have read and can share them with the class. This is a great way to start a dialogue about current events in local, state, federal, and global politics, economics, and social issues.
Students are challenged to write in expository and persuasive formats. This allows students to dig deeper into the materia
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Choose Your Own Language Arts Adventure
Need to fill time at the end of the school year, or give early finishers an on-going project? Try the very hands-off "Choose Your Own Language Arts Adventure!" Student instructions: "For the next 4 weeks, you’re going to Choose Your Own Language Arts Adventure. There are a bunch of options, and if you think of something not on this list, just email your teacher your idea!"You can choose as many Adventures (a.k.a. Projects) as you want, but you MUST AT LEAST CHOOSE 1."
Grades:
4th - 10th
Beginning of the Year Reading Activity - Reading Timeline
Get your students excited about reading at the beginning of the year. This worksheet will have them thinking about what books have made an impact on their lives. After filling out the worksheet and sharing with peers, students can create a reading timeline on a poster, the computer or in their reader's notebooks. It's a great way to involve families as well by having students ask their family members about books that they read when they were young. Start the year off with some fond reading me
Grades:
1st - 12th
Instagram Template
This is such a fun assignment to incorporate into your classroom! You can use this for character analysis, summaries, plot, setting, etc! -Paper Copy of Template -Digital version to go into Google Slides (link in product) Enjoy!
Grades:
1st - 12th
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Soundtrack of my Life Poetry Project PREVIEW
This PREVIEW shows the instructions for a poetry project offered for students. See store for full version.
Through this fun and engaging activity, students will use their passion for music to help them master poetry in lyrical form! Students will be instructed to choose their own song to analyze in three parts.
Part 1: Analyze the song for meaning. Students will determine the message, theme, intended audience, and write a summary.
Part 2: Identify figurative language. Students will locate figu
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Group Project: School Advertisement Video
Group Project Packet used for advertisements where students can work both in groups and individually to examine different international school advertisements on Youtube and create their own. Teachers can divide students into groups of 3-5, give out the packet and just monitor the progress!The slide pack includes: Several exercises examining what makes their school unique and its appeal Planning and creating an advertisement for their schoolReflectionRubric CreationReference Page of good key term
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Grades:
9th - 12th
10 Secret Tips to Teacher Brainpower
BACK TO SCHOOL BRAIN BONANZA!
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Find immediate and FREE Tips to Boost Brainpower in all upper classes! Browse student-related tasks.
Use every tip listed, as refreshing discoveries to help boost your own brainpower. Or add accompanying tasks to sustain your students’ mental progress over the entire term.
Download extended classroom tasks – as whole brain approaches for your next lesson.
Use each tip here just as it appears Or download aw
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Saving the Bees Unit Plan
This unit plan focuses on having students work towards their role of actively preserving an important species. It includes an introductory Powerpoint providing students with the outline for the unit, as well as outcomes to be addressed, a large collection of PDF printables of internet searches using QR code technology, an outline for a letter writing portion to promote active citizenship, as well as a poster activity with sample included. Finally, instructions are provided on the creation of a
Grades:
5th - 9th
Logical Fallacy Project
This is an activity to help students understand and recognize logical fallacy in their daily living. They are asked to create bumper stickers independently or to write an original skit, commercial, or mock debate in a group.
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Folklore Infographic Example
An example of an infographic on a folklore creature. Very useful if you need a demonstrate of an infographic, but don't have time to make one. Bonus, it likely won't take away any 'easy' topic for students who need it. And you'll get to learn about the scary Gloson!
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Lord of the Flies Preface: Lesson and Assessment
This package provides support for any teacher of the classic novel, Lord of the Flies. There are two components to the package, the first, two pages of lesson notes which acts as a preface or review of Lord of the Flies. Discussing Dystopian literature, core themes and contexts in which the novel was written. These detailed notes also help provide thematic considerations for possible essay and writing topics. The second component is an creative assignment outline which instructs students to draw
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6th - 12th, Staff
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Beowulf Final Project Choice Sheet
Hello Fellow Teachers!I use this choice sheet for the final project for Beowulf.I have found that these 10 multi-modal and diverse projects cover all of the learning styles and student accommodations that may be embedded within my classrooms.I introduce it when I am pre-teaching and make sure to talk about it at least once in every class. At least eight days before we finish Beowulf, I check with each student to ensure that they have chosen a project and are working on it.I also have standard cl
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9th - 12th
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Lion King Themes & Music
Writing activity on the themes or central concerns in Disney's "The Lion King".
There is also the option of a musical analysis to give students choice.
Themes of betrayal, love, power and others.
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6th - 9th
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Structured Free Day Plan - Accountability Check - UPS Day Special Delivery
It's important to honor our students' interests and give them a 'Brain Break' from the curriculum now and again. As with working out, rest or recovery time is just as important as the workout itself. Google recognizes this and gives its employees "20 Percent Time" or time to pursue special projects and individual interests. Why not use this concept in our classrooms to encourage our students and model how to pursue real life interests with expert guidance from their teachers? UPS Day is a specia
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Making Reading Real: Using Your 5 Senses to Increase Comprehension & Creativity
As a young person, I had ALWAYS hated to read. It was amazing the great lengths I would go to escape reading a novel assigned as homework! I did NOT know that you were supposed to:
1. use all 5 of your senses while reading, and
2. become the character.
Now days, I teach reading to middle school students in a behavior program and I love helping students create a love of reading through using the tools they were born with! Their 5 senses!
This is a common sense, no nonsense way to teach read
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4th - 10th
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Competitive Advertising
This worksheet can be used prior to starting the advertising unit or as a consolidation. It touches on competitive advertising and brand wars and provides the students with an opportunity to analyze an existing ad, as well as create their own (thereby touching on multiple skills). Each question can be taught as a mini-lesson, if found suitable, as they lend themselves well to a critical and engaging oral discussion. The last question can also be assigned as a take home group project, at the end
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Distance Learning Project Choice Board for any Vocabulary Word List
Teachers must provide a list of words from any subject to their students along with this choice board.Students will demonstrate understanding of vocabulary words through a 9-square choice board that provides links and references in the center block surrounded by 8 activities that students can complete at home with basic materials. Internet is necessary for the full benefit of these activities.There is a self-assessment for 5 of the projects at the bottom of the page. Links are also provided as h
Grades:
2nd - 12th
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Upper Grades Story Paper
I have used this paper for work with idioms, alliteration, hyperbole and so many other things. This is a story paper with two lines at the bottom below a frame for students to illustrate their sentence in.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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1920's Speak Easy Product
Students will travel back in time to the 1920s when jazz music, dancing, and entertainment flourished. In addition to reading the book and watching the film The Great Gatsby, students will learn about the role of parties and how it influenced social life during this decade.The Task: The goal for this project will be for students to become “party planners,” and organize a party that resembles an authentic 1920’s speakeasy. Each student will choose to work on a committee and research all the histo
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Manufacturing for Functional Skills English
A reading, writing, speaking and listening assignment with a manufacturing/consumerism theme, complete with suggested answers and mark schemes for reading and writing.
Features:
One reading text of approximately 500 words and nine questions to examine comprehension.
One Level 1 and one Level 2 writing task.
Scenarios for a group discussion and a presentation.
Reading and writing mark schemes based on awarding body format.
Text box enabled for learning platforms or printable.
Encourages critica
Grades:
11th - 12th, Adult Education
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