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8th grade Hispanic Heritage Month english language arts simulations for Google Apps
Personal Finance Unit - PBL Simulation - Print and Google™ Drive
If you’re looking for a way to teach life skills that gives kids the opportunity to see what it’s like to have the financial responsibilities of an adult, this Project-based Learning Simulation is it! In this financial literacy unit, kids will confront the challenges we all face as they try to make their money last the month, while paying the usual bills, and hoping to dodge those unpleasant surprises that sneak up on us from time to time. *** 7-16-2021 BIG Announcement! The digital version of P
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Personal Finance Unit - PBL Simulation - Money Crack the Code Bundle
The Lady or The Tiger by Frank Stockton with Simulation - Print & Digital
This lesson on the short story “The Lady or The Tiger” by Frank Stockton can be printed, used digitally, or a combination of the two. All resources are Google Drive resources (primarily Google Docs unless otherwise noted as Google Slides, Google Forms, etc.). These resources include support for struggling readers and writers and/or special education students, such as an adapted text, chunked questions, graphic organizers and suggested transitions for writing. This lesson focuses on the skills of
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8th - 9th
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Also included in: Short Story Unit Bundle: Teaching Literary Elements - Print & Digital
Halloween Escape Room - Digital & ELA Skill-Based!
This Halloween digital escape room is a fun way for kids to practice some key English Language Arts skills while be a completely no prep activity for you! This fun digital escape room is completed on Google Forms. Students will be a part of a group of friend’s adventure that begins when they accept a dare to go into a haunted house on Halloween night. The friends get trapped in the house by the mansion’s ghost and must solve 12 clues and complete 12 ELA skill-based challenges to move on to the n
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5th - 8th
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The Odyssey: 10 Minute Trojan War : Pre-reading activity
Welcome to an exhilarating and knowledge-packed lesson plan that will equip your students with a deep understanding of the Trojan War, a crucial prelude to comprehending The Odyssey. Through the utilization of a printable kit and the dynamic storytelling technique called "The Woosh," learners will embark on an immersive journey, reenacting the decade-long conflict in a condensed ten-minute form. This proven strategy not only fosters enjoyment but also offers an unparalleled opportunity to introd
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7th - 10th
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Editorial vs. Regular News Article Game (Is it Fact or Opinion Writing?)
In this engaging, self-checking Google Slides game, students gain a valuable skill for interacting with media. Students are guided to learn the difference between fact and opinion writing—even when the difference is subtle—by reading information about both, then looking at headlines and choosing whether the headlines are for editorials or regular facts-only news articles. All headlines are from real articles, so students are learning with content that is relevant. Students are given feedback i
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4th - 10th
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The Most Dangerous Game Mock Trial
After being hunted for three days by General Zaroff, Sanger Rainsford is now on trial and being charged for Zaroff's murder. Was Rainsford truly acting in self-defense, or did he willfully and intentionally kill General Zaroff and feed him to his hounds? Your students will RAVE about this mock trial based on Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game"! What better way to get students to practice literary analysis, argument development, and speaking and listening skills than with a mock trial
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Gilded Age: Virtual Field Trip (Google Earth exploration)
Take your students on a virtual field trip to learn about the Gilded Age. Using a combination of informational text, Google Earth exploration, videos, and visuals, your students will learn about this era from multiple perspectives. This activity is versatile. It's great for early finishers, sub plans, an extension activity, partners, or conducted as a whole-group learning activity. This virtual field trip covers::: What was the Gilded Age?:: Changes in society (industrialism):: Immigration:: The
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6th - 8th
Herd Behavior: The Game (Google Drive Document)
This game compliments the idea of "following the crowd" well. Students try to answer the questions with what they think the majority will say. They then reflect on the activity through asking themselves why they made the decisions they did, and then connecting it back to their own lives. It's a fun way to simulate herd mentality and how humans are wired for it!Product includes printable response page, link to an article to read beforehand, pre-playing discussion questions and reflection question
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7th - 10th
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The Dust Bowl: Virtual Field Trip (Google Earth Exploration)
Take your students on a virtual field trip to learn about the Dust Bowl. Using a combination of informational text, Google Earth exploration, videos, and visuals, your students will learn about the Dust Bowl from multiple perspectives. This virtual field trip covers::: What was the Dust Bowl?:: The Homestead Act of 1862:: Impact on Native Americans:: Land Changes:: Homesteading:: Changes to Farming Practices:: Black Blizzards:: Lives of Homesteaders:: Making a Choice:: Soil Conservation Service:
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6th - 8th
Christmas DIGITAL Escape Room BUNDLE No Prep!
Get BOTH of my Christmas Digital Escape Rooms that are NO PREP for a discount when you buy the bundle. These escape rooms will give your students the fun experience of helping Santa be ready for Christmas Eve in the North Pole AND a scavenger hunt at a school's Holiday Jubilee! The North Pole Escape Room has 12 ELA skill-based challenges and 12 tasks to complete. The Holiday Jubilee Escape Room has 14 ELA skill-based challenges and 22 tasks! These are both all digital and are done in Google F
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5th - 8th
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Mock Election and Voting Simulation Unit
Let’s Get Out and Vote! This election simulation takes students from registering with paper applications or online, to researching the candidates, making campaign signs, voting in a mock election paper-based or online; you decide! Students collect the votes in a graph to decided who the winnign candidate is. Its a fun way to teach civil responsibility and learn about the election process. This unit is organized to be completed in 4-5 days. It has a plan at the beginning of each day along with
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3rd - 8th
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Era of Reconstruction: Interactive Activities
This resource is designed to have students critically explore the period of Reconstruction. Two highly engaging, interactive Slide Presentations will vicariously draw students into the lives of the Freedmen during this historical period of time. LESSON ONE: Reconstruction Era [Intro]Includes:45 Slide Presentation & Guided Notes HandoutPOV Freedmen Scenario Activity LESSON ONE will have students examine; the different ways in which newly freed slaves expressed their emancipationthe POV of a F
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle- Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan & Jim Crow
Choose Your Adventure: Dystopia
Immerse your students in the world of Dystopian literature with this "Choose Your Adventure" activity! Students are inserted into the story as the protagonist and are given a series of choices that will determine their fate. There are 74 choices and 28 possible endings! They must navigate through social classes, a rebellion, totalitarian rule, and a dubious government. Use as a hook activity for a novel, a genre study, or to accompany another dystopian text!
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6th - 10th
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Social and Emotional Learning: A 10 Week Introductory Course.
Unleash the Power of Social and Emotional Learning! Transform Your Classroom with a Comprehensive 10-Week SEL Program!Over $200 worth of materials, yours for $50!!Are you looking for a dynamic, engaging, and fully-tested Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum? Look no further! Our 10-week lesson plan is designed to captivate and educate middle and high school students, and it's perfect for home school settings too! What's Included? Over 70 Resources: Dive into an extensive collection of
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5th - 12th
Public Speaking and Debate Activities for Middle and High School
Help your students build their confidence while having fun with this collection of public speaking and debate activities. These games and exercises would be great for middle or high school Model United Nations, English, and drama classes, or for use in any context in which students practice speech and argumentation. Instructions for 22 different activities are included, along with hundreds of prompt and topic ideas. Activities included: The Bowl of DestinyFight the FillerSynergistic SpeechesTalk
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Model UN Lesson and Activity Bundle
Virtual Field Trip Template for Spanish Class
This interactive, virtual field trip template is perfect for any Spanish class. You can use it for distance learning, socially-distant learning in the classroom, or in-person project-based learning. Allow your students to choose a Spanish-speaking country or city that they want to virtually travel to as they complete the virtual field trip template. They will take pictures and write descriptions of their virtual trip on this fun Google Slides template.With this Google Slides (18 slides total)
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Spanish Virtual Field Trip Bundle
Macbeth Mock Trial: Shakespeare and Problem-Based Learning
Do you want to do simulations, trials, and PBL activities, but don’t have time to do the complex design? Would you love to teach the art of both fair and foul argument while balancing the Bard? This lesson offers any class reading Macbeth (or other Shakespeare plays featuring crime or injury) a chance to put a character on trial. With legal expertise, roles, rules, and procedures, you can teach close reading and argumentation while also having some fun. This unit gives students a chance to play
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8th - 12th
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U.S. Supreme Court Virtual Field Trip Activity: Key Functions, Landmark Cases
Take your students on a virtual field trip to learn about the Supreme Court of the United States. Using a combination of Google Earth™ 360-degree views, video, informational text, and visuals, your students gain key understandings about the purpose, organization, and functions of the Supreme Court. Your students will also tour various aspects of the Supreme Court Building and will gain an overview of key landmark cases.This virtual field trip covers::: Where is the Supreme Court Building?:: What
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6th - 9th
Also included in: U.S. Government Virtual Field Trip Bundle (Google Earth Exploration)
Host Your Own Classroom Murder Mystery Masquerade Ball!
Do you teach a mystery novel/unit/genre study? Need something AMAZING for Halloween? Want to be remembered as the most AWESOME TEACHER EVER? My students' absolute FAVORITE events of the whole year was the murder mystery masquerade ball I put on after students read Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. Three weeks before the event, I would send out mysterious invitations alluding to a masquerade ball. Two weeks before the event, I would give students their character cards. These cards inclu
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Virtual Field Trip Bundle in ENGLISH & SPANISH
These 5 interactive, virtual field trips in ENGLISH & SPANISH take students to a variety of locations. Students will complete interactive Google Slides and jump into a 360 map on Google Earth! Incorporate culture and fun with virtual field trips for kids!Trips include:7 Wonders of the Hispanic WorldPeru - Sacred Valley & Machu PicchuCosta RicaFrida Kahlo's Blue House (Museum)Template to ANY country - student choice!You can use these for distance learning, socially-distant learning in the
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8th - 11th
Stuck in School Fun Simulation Game (Critical Thinking, Problem Solving)
This resource is an editable, fun simulation game in which students work in groups to survive scenarios. The scene is set as the students being stuck in school overnight, with all windows and doors barricaded. If any school personnel catches them, they will die/lose. Groups must strategize tactful ways out of the situations to make it through all 12 scenarios and survive the game.
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5th - 12th
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Social Media Reflection Experiment Choice Board
This resource will help inform and inspire students to be more responsible digital citizens who can navigate the online world safely, ethically, and effectively, now and in the future! The social media reflection experiment helps learners press pause to stop and think about how social media might impact their lives in positive and negative ways.The project offers four choice options so that each learner will find an option that is relevant and meaningful to their own life. iWitness- what do they
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Haunted Ski Lodge - Virtual Escape Room Review on Types of Text Structure
What's scarier than a review on text structure? A BORING review on text structure!This will be FREE on TpT through September 21. Grab it now!With the spooky season almost upon us (and let's be real, it's always spooky season for middle schoolers) what could be better than grabbing their attention AND reviewing focus standards? Keep the rigor going AND entice them to participate with a virtual escape room.All you have to do is share the first slideshow with your students and ta-da! Your job is do
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6th - 10th
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Christmas DIGITAL Escape Room NO PREP! Escape to Winter Break
This digital escape room is a fun way for kids to practice some key ELA skills while being a completely NO PREP activity for you!This fun digital escape room is completed on Google Forms. Students will be participating in a scavenger hunt at their school's Holiday Jubilee in hopes of not only winning, but also escaping to winter break. Students will have to solve 22 clues and complete 14 ELA skill-based challenges to move on to the next section and finish the scavenger hunt. This will keep stu
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Christmas DIGITAL Escape Room BUNDLE No Prep!
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Importance of learning English language arts
English language arts (ELA) concepts — reading, writing, listening, and speaking — empower students to become effective communicators, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners. They are the foundation for all other types of learning as students must rely on ELA skills to master content from other subject areas and communicate what they’ve learned.
Strong reading skills can help students make sense of written content, and gather information for further analysis. Writing skills can help students articulate their ideas, construct arguments, and synthesize information. And speaking and listening skills empower students to clearly present their ideas, participate in group discussions, and collaborate with their classmates. This is why teaching English language arts is critically important for student’s success in school and beyond.
Benefits of learning English language arts
Learning English language arts offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. It helps students:
- Develop effective communication skills
- Build critical thinking and analytical skills
- Nurture their creativity and imagination
By ensuring that students have a solid foundation in English language arts, teachers can help set them up for future success.
Discover printable and digital English language arts resources
On TPT, English language arts resources come in various forms: from interactive notebooks and task cards to small-group activities and individual worksheets. They can be used to enhance learning, assess a student’s mastery of ELA concepts, or to reteach a tricky concept. By incorporating ELA resources from TPT into your teaching toolbox, you can create an engaging learning experience that strengthens students’ understanding of ELA concepts.
If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable and digital English language arts worksheets, TPT has an extensive collection of resources across topics and grade levels. No matter what ELA topic your students are working on — whether you’re teaching the parts of speech to 1st graders or argumentative essay writing to 10th graders — TPT has instructional materials that are designed to help with any ELA learning need. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, teaching and learning ELA will be so much easier.
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What types of English language arts lessons are available on TPT?
There are many different types of English language arts resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular ELA lessons include reading, writing, phonics, vocabulary, spelling, and creative writing.
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Educators can save time preparing English language arts lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for ELA resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of ELA lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
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Students learn best when they're engaged! Sprinkle a little fun into your English Language Arts lessons by using manipulatives, pairing unusual texts like poems and short films together, or doing an escape room activity.
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