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Free high school oral communication creative writing resources
A List of Character Traits
This is a list of 174 different Character Traits. So often when I was teaching I wanted a list of traits so that my students could look at the list while describing characters. This also helps students get to know and understand different character traits.
Mrs. R.
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Journal Prompts FREE
Journal Prompts FREE
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Do you have students who say they don't like to write or those who say they don't know what to write about? Watch pencils fly across their papers when they're given my 280 prompts that be used for daily journal writing or to encourage class discussions. Suggestions of how to use them are included. Great for morning meetings and centers! Take a look at the comments teachers have made about my prompts and you'll understand why they've been downloaded thousands of
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4th - 10th
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Free Winter Creative Writing Activities
Free Winter Creative Writing Activities
Lighten up the winter blues with these fun creative writing activities for the winter season. Correlated to the Common Core State Standards for Writing, this 13-page document (nine student handouts and two pages for examples & teacher's guide) includes poetry prompts, short story activities and prompts, and a fun narrative prompt using Twitter for inspiration.
As always, I like to create activities that will appeal to a wide range of students. These
Grades:
3rd - 10th
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Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Comic Strip Template FREEBIE!
Enjoy these FREE comic strip templates in your classroom! Product includes a template for both six and eight section comics. Also includes an optional section where students can add the title/author/setting/characters. These pages add a unique and fun way to have students create or summarize stories! Choose any of these four templates to make the assignment your own! This product is now a TpT Digital Activity! It can be used for Distance Learning.You can now:1. Customize this resource for your s
Grades:
PreK - 12th
New Year & End of Year Writing Prompt- Dear Future Self...
Have your students write a letter to themselves in 10 years. They can place the letters inside of a time capsule, or you can mail it to them in 10 years!Students will reflect of their goals and dreams for the future. What will they be doing? What will they have accomplished? This freebie can be used as a:-First day of school activity-Last day of school activity-New Year activity-Writing CenterEnjoy! If you have any questions, please feel free to email me: SweetToothTeaching@gmail.com------------
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2nd - 12th
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Black Out Poetry, Fun Poetry Activity, Blackout Poem Lecture Slides, FREE
Use this visually dynamic tool to get students excited about poetry. No, really, my teens LOVE this blackout poetry creative writing activity. View the 10-slide overview lecture (includes both Prezi Next and Google Slides versions) and imagine all of the possibilities your students could create.All you’ll need to fill an entire class session is the slide deck, dark markers or crayons, and a few newspaper pages or photocopies of a few pages from any novel you’re currently teaching.This item is pa
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7th - 10th
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FREE Narrative Writing Checklists | Rubrics | All Ages | Editing Assessment
Teach your students to independently check their narrative/story writing using these beautiful checklists and rubrics. this is the free PDF version. If you are looking for an EDITABLE VERSION WITH ALL TEXT TYPES, you can find it here.These editable checklists are specifically for narratives or story writing. We will be creating more for other writing genres shortly.There are three age variations in the bundle for Junior (Ages 5 - 7), Middle (7 - 11) and Senior (11 - 15). Each bundle contains
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K - 9th
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Listening and Following Directions Activity With Lesson Plan
Listening and Following Directions
An Activity That Challenges Students To Pay Attention To Details
This activity is designed to challenge students to listen closely to directions and complete tasks in the correct locations on a grid.
Interested in more following directions and reading comprehension activities? Check out:
Listening and Following Directions Growing Bundle + Reading Comprehension
Listening & Following Directions Back To School Edition +Reading Comprehension
Listening & Fol
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
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
FREEBIE! Mixed /L/ Blend Articulation Game board and Worksheet
Hello and welcome to Twin Sisters Speech & Language Therapy LLC. We are glad that you have stopped in to download another one of our many freebies that we have available for our wonderful TpT followers. This recent freebie of ours targets the production of mixed /L/ blended words. We hope that you and your students enjoy the worksheet and game board that is included in the download, and that your student's articulation of /L/ blended words improve as a result!If you liked this freebie, yo
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PreK - 12th
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List of Character Traits — 500 Words Characterization; Reference & Support Tool
This list includes 500 different Character Traits. This is a great resource for students to reference while describing characters or practicing characterization skills. You could post it around your room or print copies for students. Help your students expand their vocabulary and use words beyond "good" and "bad."
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4th - 12th
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End of Year Activity - Letter to My Future Self Freebie - Distance Learning
I always close out the school year with this fun and easy (NO GRADE) activity! Students write a letter to their future selves. PDF and Google Slides versions available. In class activity: I ask them to bring in a self-address envelope, with a forever stamp on it. They place their letter in the envelope when they are finished. They can write as little or as much as they like! This is private; I tell them that I will not read them! I save them and send them the year that they graduate from high sc
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5th - 12th
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Boom Cards for Social Skills Initiate Start the Conversation!
Are you looking for Boom Cards to teach middle and high school students to learn different ways to initiate conversations? These interactive social skills cards teach students to use small talk, compliments, comments and questions to start conversations. Teletherapy compatible.Students can click on the microphone icon to have directions and scenarios read to them.This set is intended for teaching middle and high school students four different ways to start conversations. These four ways (smal
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5th - 10th
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Skittles Ice Breaker: A Get-to-Know-You Activity
This break-the-ice activity is great for the first week of school or anytime you want to bring your class together. You learn more about your students while they learn more about each other.
The activity is simple. Open a few bags of Skittles and give a little bit to each student. They aren't allowed to eat them until the activity starts. Your students take turns picking a Skittle and answering the question that accompanies that Skittle color. You go around the class until everyone's Skittles a
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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FREE! Speech Therapy: Word & Sentence Level Articulation Screener
Welcome to Twin Speech! We are so glad that you were able to stop by to check out our latest freebie. This one is a great one to use during data collection at the start of the school year, or anytime in which you would like to do a quick screening of your students articulation during the year.
What you will get with this download is our two page quick print articulation screener. It screens 52 sounds at the word and sentence level! Yes, sentence level too! We know that it is hard to scree
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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Author's Point of View Cheat Sheet! {Freebie!} (First, Second, Third Person)
Free for all your needs in helping students remember the multiple methods that writers may use to narrate their stories. This author point of view cheat sheet is also super handy for writing units and helping students pick as well as stick to their narrative style.Each point of view is simply defined. Additionally clear examples of word choices that fit with each style are given. If you are looking to nail the common core standard "Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator
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4th - 9th
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Blank Lined Paper
This paper is great for whenever you are ready to publish any of the fantastic writing that you have been working on class and would like something a little snazzier than just plain notebook paper.There is also a nice blank area at the top for students to add a fancy title of their choosing.Includes:- Single Sided- Double SidedFeel free to rate as thanks!GRAMMAR PARTY!Complete Grammar Bundle (Save Over 50%) Includes everything below!Nouns Worksheet + TestPrepositions Packet + TestAdjectives Work
Grades:
2nd - 12th
30 Circles Challenge | Creative Thinking
30 Circles Challenge | Creative ThinkingThis 30 Circles Challenge comes from Bob McKim. It’s a great warm-up that encourages creative thinking! Simply give students 3 minutes to transform as many circles as they can into recognisable objects!
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1st - 12th
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Spring Articulation Color by Symbol Hidden Images L and Lblends Sample
❀ Spring Articulation Hidden Pictures (Color by Symbol) for L and LBlends ❀
Need an engaging way to target articulation skills for those hard to motivate students? Give this a try! These fun pages are spring themed!
These pages were created for elementary students working l and lblends. They could also be used with middle school students depending on skill level.
Try my whole pack to get the following sounds: f, v, l, lblends, s, sblends, z, sh, ch, th (voiced and voiceless), pre-vocalic r
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2nd - 10th
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Speech Therapy Materials: Pacing Boards
Speech Therapy Materials: Pacing Boards
This is a collection of pacing boards to use with your speech and language clients. There are three sets. 2 regular pacing boards, 2 pacing boards for inclusion of final sounds and 2 pacing boards to use the pause and think method. For ideas on how to use these boards visit our blog at www.nwspeechtherapy.com/blog
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Descriptive Writing Picture Prompts
Descriptive Writing Picture Prompts. Using writing prompts with photos to teach descriptive writing is an effective exercise. Teach your students to use concrete, or sensory, detail with three thought-provoking photos with writing prompts and notes on using sensory detail. This is part of my complete unit on Writing a Narrative Essay.Writing a Narrative Essay - Complete UnitYou might also likeWriting Prompts for Research and Response PapersWriting a Persuasive Essay - Complete UnitWriting a Rese
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7th - 10th
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FREE Plot Diagram: Story Mountain (Digital and Print)
This DIGITAL and Print ‘Story Mountain’ works for ANY novel, film or other narrative text. Students use the prompts to map major plot points, with the mountain graphic serving as a visual metaphor of the process. Optimised for Google Slides, PowerPoint or Printable (pdf), this activity is perfect for ANY English classroom from upper primary to high school, whether in-class or distance learning.Love this activity? Check out 35 more like it included in my ‘Digital and Print Activities for ANY Nov
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5th - 9th
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Following Complex Directions - Winter FREEBIE
Do you students have difficulty carrying out verbal directions? Here is a FREEBIE download to help your students! This download focuses on complex, language-laden oral directions.
Links to the FULL version of this packet and others for the other seasons are below:
➣ Following Complex Directions Fall 500
➣ Following Complex Directions Winter 500
➣ Following Complex Directions Spring 500
➣ Following Complex Directions Summer 500
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2nd - 10th
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Also included in: Following Complex Directions BUNDLE
Critical Thinking Language Sentence Frames {Say What?} Aligned to Common Core
***I'm pleased to share that as of September 2013, these Critical Thinking Language Frames (along with my Reading Interventions "If/Then" Menu) were selected for inclusion as a professional learning resource in the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Digital Library. Read more about it here.***
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Get all your students into the highest levels of Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT) today with these lang
Grades:
K - 12th
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