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Free Common Core W.11-12.4 resources
Choice Board FREE Worksheet, 12 Activities for ANY Short Story & Novel Unit CCSS
This FREE student choice board works with any short story or novel study. Once students have finished reading an assigned short story or chapter of a novel, use this choice board worksheet to increase student motivation as they meaningfully reflect on the text. The choice board worksheet was designed for English/language arts students in grades 7 through 12.Want more dynamic lesson materials designed to engage our teens?Click here for a discounted 10-pack of worksheet activities that can be use
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7th - 11th
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Essay Writing Support, Improve Literary Analysis Essays, FREE Slides/Handout
These lecture slides were designed to help middle school and high school students improve the quality of their writing voices when building literary analysis essays. This product includes PDF slides that can be projected as you lead a short lecture on 11 words that rob the power from students’ writing voices. The download also includes a student handout with suggested answer key to be used as an assignment/practice round.If you’d like to view a sample of how I present these slides to my classes,
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8th - 11th
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End of Year Reflection Activity - Middle & High School
This activity is a great way for your students to reflect on their growth and see themselves from someone else's perspective.
Works great as an end of year reflection activity but could also work any time during the school year.
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Literary Terms Task Cards {Set 1 of 4}
Literary Terms Task Cards {Set 2 of 4}
Literary Terms Task Cards {Set 3 of 4}
Literary Terms Task Cards {Set 4 of 4}
These task cards are great prep for:
Literary Terms & Devices Test 1
Literary Terms
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6th - 12th
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Essay Outline Writing Basics (Instruction & Practice) - Common Core Aligned
This free lesson on essay outlines includes 3 illustrated instructional printables and 5 practice activity templates. This resource requires no prep from the teacher as it provides everything essential to teaching efficient and effective essay outline technique.
This resource emphasizes the importance of how outlines positively contribute to well written, efficiently organized essays. Upon completion, students should feel confident in their understanding of the purpose outlines play in essay wr
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7th - 12th
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End of Year Activities - High School - Interview, Formative Assessment, Prompts
Keep high school students focused with these free activities including a formative assessment, alumni interview, and real-world discussion activity. Use the self-reflective survey to get students thinking critically about their futures. Furthermore, encourage students to write and discuss situations requiring problem-solving. The prompts can be used as bell ringers or task cards, or for learning stations and cooperative learning.These activities are perfect for engaging students and teachers wi
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Free Twitter Tweet Story or Chapter Summary
Fiction & Non-Fiction Twitter Tweet Common Core Activity: Use the Twitter Concept to Make Connections to the TextUsing Twitter to Make Connections: Do you want to see if your students grasp the main idea or big event in a chapter or story but don't want to assign a boring chapter review? Use this creative "Tweet" activity--it's fun, fast, and you'll be able to tell right away if they read it/got it!Use in social studies for historical figures, science for chapter summary, and so many other
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Literature & Nonfiction Creative Reading Activities, Vol 2 Bundle
Writing a Literary Analysis Essay - Step-by-Step - Free Resource
Download this free literary analysis step-by-step guide to provide your high school ELA students with detailed instructions for writing essays about literature. No prep.This handout discusses and provides examples for the following steps:1. Break down the prompt2. Create a thesis statement and introduction3. Organize information4. Locate illustrative quotes5. Insert signal phrases6. Develop analysis7. Insert transitions8. Write conclusion9. Revise/Edit/Proofread10. Have someone readTha
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9th - 12th
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AP Essay Writing Paper
This paper is designed to look like the test-format that students will write on for their AP essays if you would like them to have authentic practice in your classroom. Can be printed front-to-back. Students should write using a blue or black pen, according to AP guidelines. Looking for more AP Literature Resources? Check these out:AP Literature Units BundleAP Literature Book ClubLiterary Merit Book Notes Bookmark PamphletAP Literature Poetry ReviewLiterature Deepening Assignment ProjectComp
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Learning through a Lens for AP Literature
FREE Response to Literature Bell-Ringer Writing Tasks, Quickwrite Warm-Ups, CCSS
Help students connect with literature with this set of bell-ringer writing prompts!For each writing task, students are given a compelling quote and asked to explain the author’s message and the extent to which they agree or disagree with the idea. Then, they’ll support their position, providing reasons and examples from their own life experience, observations of others, or academic studies. The magic happens when students share their answers either in small group or full-class discussion. In tha
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9th - 12th
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Paragraph Structure - Ten-Minute Revision Unit #1
A two to three-week unit based on Common-Core Standards and designed to help students improve paragraph structure through daily bell ringers, practice activities, annotated examples, quizzes, and more.
TEN-MINUTE REVISION is a comprehensive writing, editing, and revision curriculum for high-school students. Using only the first ten minutes of each day, this unit will help students analyze effective paragraph structure and write or revise their own paragraphs with effective topic sentences and s
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9th - 12th
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Brainstorming Organizers, FREE Handouts & Examples to Help Teen Writers, CCSS
These four brainstorm organizers will help middle school and high school writers learn to gather their ideas and research before writing. I’ve included not only blank handouts for you to use with your students, but also four examples of completed organizers to use as models. All of the pages can be printed as handouts or projected for use on a white board. The four brainstorming organizers with completed samples/models include:Bubble clusterSpider diagramFormal outlineColumnsWant to learn more a
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6th - 12th
Narrative Writing (Short Story) with a Mentor Text - Halloween Activity
Use the classic story, "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving, to make Halloween connections in secondary English Language Arts. After reading the story, students write a new ending with this creative writing prompt. In addition to analyzing author's style, students include character, setting, plot, and theme in their own story writing using the mentor text as a model. This activity gives students practice with narrative writing and helps prepare them for standardized writing assessm
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8th - 11th
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Holiday Fun! FREE White Elephant Party and Real-Life Writing Instruction Lesson
Who says high school kids can’t have holiday parties? As long as you tie your class party to a Common Core writing standard, you can justify having a little fun before leaving for your winter break.In this lesson, students will be introduced to the idea of a White Elephant gift exchange, receive a small bit of the idiom’s background, and bring an item from home to donate to the class gift exchange. Then, after the fun of the swap is over, have students learn to write a properly formatted thank y
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7th - 10th
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FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES LIST 4 ALL GRADES K-12 AND SUBJECTS + TEACHER RESOURCE
Sometimes, you just need a list of websites for everyone. Here it is. FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES Put together by Teach Me, Maria!It takes time to gather this information, figure out the appropriate grade levels, and format, maintain, and update this page. All I ask is for an honest review if this list helps you.
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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Growth Mindset Bell Ringers FREEBIE: Social Emotional Learning Writing Prompts
These fully-editable growth-mindset bell ringers will get your class thinking and are perfect for social emotional learning as well! With thought-provoking and engaging prompts, they can be used as individual writing prompts or large group discussion topics. Teachers agree that these bell ringers are perfect for daily warm ups or morning meetings. I’m so excited for your students to experience a variety of life-impacting questions to write about individually or discuss within groups.⭐️ Get all 3
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Homeschool
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Back To School Student Goal Setting Templates: Create Personal & Academic Goals
Get your students involved in setting their own student-centered performance goals. From leadership gurus to accomplished CEO’s, the most successful people in life have proven that setting goals with a growth-mindset is a must! If you don’t know where you want to go, how can you even get there? If you don’t know where the target is, how do you know where to aim? This concept is true for for the classroom and student achievement as well. After thousands of studies, Dr. John Hattie of Melbourne,
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Free Email Etiquette Rubric / Editable Google Slides / Distance Learning Ready
Heading into a year of distance learning, school closures, virtual classrooms, and everything in between, I wanted to begin the year by making sure my students would be able to communicate successfully in a digital setting. That's where this free email etiquette template comes in! As a class, we graded example emails, and then students used the feedback from that experience to send me an email. This rubric is simple and easy to use: 1 pages, 5 points, couldn't be simpler. Plus, it's in Google Sl
Creative Writing Workshop Lesson 1: Introduction to Storytelling
Hi! I'm Livia Blackburne, author of the NY Times bestselling young adult novel Midnight Thief. In July of 2015, I ran a week long creative writing camp for middle and high school students. We had a ton of fun, and the students wrote some great short stories and novellas! After the camp, I revised my materials and expanded them for other teachers to use.
Lesson one is a bird's eye view of storytelling. Why do we tell stories in the first place? What makes a good story? How do you become a bet
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Creative Writing Workshop Complete Bundle
AP Lit On-Demand Scoring Rubric
These scoring rubrics are based on the September 2019 course update and the new analytical rubrics released for on-demand scoring. It accurately reflects the scoring rubrics put forth by College Board, they have been condensed to fit onto a single page for scoring. A second page is included with scoring rules and notes for teacher use. Please use these rubrics to score any on-demand essay in your AP® Lit course, or to accompany previously released on-demand essay prompts. (To see the original an
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10th - 12th
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Also included in: AP English Literature Full Course Year Long Bundle | 3500+ Pages!
Beowulf (or King Arthur) Creative Sword Activity FREE
Free Creative Sword Activity: Allow students to express some creativity while reading Beowulf (or King Arthur, or any literature involving swords). I use this sword activity as a way for students to express their artistic skills, as well as their speaking and listening skills. They must name and describe their sword, giving it special magical powers. The activity usually takes no longer than 15 minutes, or one class period if you have students share their swords with the class. You may use the h
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
Emma Lazarus The New Colossus Statue of Liberty Poetry Analysis
Deeply analyze Emma Lazarus’s famous poem and connect to its larger historical context of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the “New” immigrants, and America’s melting pot with this everything's-included, no-prep lesson.************************************Greatness is appreciating the layers of poetic word in expressing a complex idea.A poem written as a favor to raise money for a pedestal on which to display an unbelievable gift from France. The iconic poem that almost wasn’t written.Take yo
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8th - 11th
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FREE BELL RINGERS FOR ENGLISH
BEGIN DAILY BELL RINGERS AND ESTABLISH STRUCTURE AT THE START OF YOUR CLASS BY TRYING OUT TWO WEEKS OF STUDENT WRITING PROMPTS. Just put the overhead of the board for students to complete as they walk into class. These writing prompt journals are designed for the middle and high school English classroom to promote quality unique writing through practice with the writing process, interdisciplinary writing, use of multiple genres, and working through revisions Want mor
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7th - 12th
Transition Words in Essays Lesson for High School English Academic Essay Writing
Teach your English students how “repeated word” transitions improve clarity and flow in their essay writing. This transition words strategy works for opinion writing, argumentative writing, informational writing, and analytical writing.If you’ve ever wondered how to break down and teach students how to make their writing flow in a professional way, this resource will help!If you find value in this free resource, I ask you to let me know by leaving a review on TpT, a comment on my YouTube video,
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9th - 12th
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Common App College Essay Introduction Narrative Plot Line, FREE Handout
Looking for a one-page Common App College Essay Introduction Handout with a narrative writing plot line? This FREE resource is an overview of the Common App Reflective Essay. It defines "Reflection," introduces the "Incident, Response, Reflect" plot line, and provides general content, language, and structure guidelines for college essay writing.Click here for OUTLINES for ALL SEVEN COMMON APP PROMPTS! Prompts, sentence stems, and graphic organizers!INCLUDED:Reflective writing overview (with defi
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10th - 12th
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