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High school english language arts independent work packets under $5
Halloween Grammar Worksheets, NO PREP, Middle and High School
These five Halloween grammar worksheets designed for high school students aren’t your typical Halloween grammar exercises! These are truly NO PREP, print and go, age-appropriate exercises to challenge and review your teens' grammar skills during October. Student Experience: These grammar activities for Halloween reflect a seasonally-inspired thematic concept of the page that coincides with key, standards-based grammar skills. For example, students will be asked to combine and create compound
Grades:
7th - 11th
Also included in: Grammar Worksheets Holiday and Seasonal BUNDLE
Thanksgiving Grammar Worksheets, NO PREP, Middle and High School
These five Thanksgiving grammar worksheets designed for high school students aren’t your typical Thanksgiving grammar exercises! These are truly NO PREP, print and go, age-appropriate exercises to challenge and review your teens' grammar skills during November.Student Experience: These grammar activities for Thanksgiving reflect a seasonally-inspired thematic concept of the page that coincides with key, standards-based grammar skills. For example, students will be asked to cook up the perfect di
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7th - 11th
Also included in: Grammar Worksheets Holiday and Seasonal BUNDLE
Kobe Bryant Dear Basketball Poem — Analysis & Paired Text Michael Jordan Letter
Students LOVE reading and analyzing Kobe Bryant's "Dear Basketball" Poem. In this activity, they will complete a Poem Analysis & Compare/Contrast Paired Text Activity. The paired text students will look at is Michael Jordan's 2003 Retirement Letter, also titled "Dear Basketball."In 2015, Bryant announced his retirement through “Player’s Tribune” in a poem titled “Dear Basketball.” In the poem, Bryant shares his love for the sport with the world. Bryant later earned an Academy Award for Best
Grades:
6th - 10th
Context Clues Worksheets for Middle School High School Printable and Digital
Using context clues, Students learn new words with these digital or print worksheets. Practice context clues to increase vocabulary! Several different context clues activities for students to do fir a great review or quick substitute work. Students define context clues, determine meanings of words in context, and write sentences using context clues. Answer key included. Has context clues text signals reference sheets and reading passages with context clues are engaging worksheets for test prep.
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7th - 10th
Figurative Language Worksheets and Google Slides - Simile, Idiom, Allusion, etc.
Figurative language independent practice worksheets print and digital resources. This packet of worksheets contains extensive guided practice on figurative language. Alliteration, allusion, hyperbole, idiom, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, proverb, personification, proverb, pun, and simile are covered. Use them for classwork, homework, bonus work, and substitute plans. Printable and Google Slides versions are included.FROM MEMORY TO MASTERYBloom's taxonomy verbs are applied throughout. Student
Grades:
6th - 9th
ESL Newcomers | ESL Activities Grammar Verb To Be
These ESL grammar activities give your beginner level English Language Learners or Newcomer ELLs multiple opportunities to learn and retain the English Verb To Be in conjunction with contractions. Students use the study guides with picture support as they work through the material. Couple this with my other ESL Grammar Units and your students will have a solid foundation in the fundamental grammar elements of English.As an ESL teacher of older students (MS & HS), I was disappointed with m
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Novel Study - Science Literacy
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind novel study is based on the young reader’s edition. This exciting memoir shows how, even in a desperate situation, one boy's brilliant idea can light up the world. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would ch
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5th - 9th
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ChatGPT: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Reading Comprehension Activities
Since its release in late 2022, ChatGPT has taken the internet by storm. But what role does this highly sophisticated chatbot have in middle and high school classrooms? Do the benefits of this new artificial intelligence technology outweigh the potential harms? Explore these questions and more with this high interest reading comprehension lesson.Part of my best-selling, ‘High Interest Reading Comprehension’ series, this no-prep, digital and print lesson includes:Hook and vocabulary-focused pre-r
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6th - 12th
Also included in: High Interest Reading Comprehension Bundle (Digital + Print)
Poetry Packet — 5 Poems (Middle School Poetry Unit: 7th, 8th or 9th Grade Level)
This Poetry Packet includes 5 Poems your students will read and analyze. The poems included are suggested for a Middle School Poetry Unit: 7th, 8th or 9th Grade ELA.This packet is a wonderful tool because you can have students complete the analyses of the poems in a variety of ways: whole-class, independently and/or collaboratively.The poems included in this packet are:"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth"We Wear The Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunb
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7th - 9th
Comprehensions for Star Wars Day, "May the 4th be with you"
These Star Wars-themed guided reading activities, aimed at children aged 8-13 years old, tests children’s retrieval, word meaning, summary and deduction skills. There are two activities - one focused on the Star Wars films across the years and the second focused on the most recent installment in 2019 - The Rise of Skywalker.Questions and answers are provided, with an indication of how many marks are on offer at the end of each question. This is particularly helpful for children preparing for rea
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4th - 9th
Christmas Grammar Worksheets, NO PREP, Middle and High School
These five Christmas grammar worksheets designed for high school students aren’t your typical Christmas grammar exercises! These are truly NO PREP, print and go, age-appropriate exercises to challenge and review your teens' grammar skills during December.Student Experience: These grammar activities for Santa reflect a seasonally-inspired thematic concept of the page that coincides with key, standards-based grammar skills. For example, students will repair broken sentences (fragments and run-ons)
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8th - 11th
Also included in: Grammar Worksheets Holiday and Seasonal BUNDLE
Genetics & Heredity Middle School Science Sub Plan Independent Work No Prep
Make Sub Days Stress-Free Days! with this Genetics and Heredity independent work/sub-plan lesson with a word search, crossword puzzle, highly engaging reading passages, and other activities. Great for an introduction or review of Genetics and Heredity in an engaging way without all the stress. With highly engaging reading passages and activities, this lesson plan provides easy, breezy, sub-eezy implementation that you or a substitute can use. It's not only ideal for substitutes but works great f
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7th - 10th
Informational Text Lesson on Hot Topics: Dangers of Energy Drinks
This informational text lesson on the dangers of energy drinks is the perfect ready-to-go lesson to practice close reading skills and comprehension! With eight specific standards-based questions and a text-based writing prompt, your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate!Student Experience: Students will read the high-interest, engaging article about the dangers of energy drinks. Then, students will truly dig into and respond to that text. Last, students will write a short a
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7th - 11th, Adult Education
Also included in: Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #1
Spring and Easter - Easy Reading Comprehension for Special Education
This is an add-on to my Spring and Easter symbol supported stories for those of you who are wanting the same stories only without symbols for your students who don't need that support. These ten reading passages are all about springtime and easter including: springtime, flying a kite, garden, spring break vacation, baseball game, Easter eggs, Easter egg hunt, jelly beans, Easter Bunny, and Easter Sunday!Each story includes:Short and simple 4-5 sentence storyCut and paste cloze (fill in the blank
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K - 12th
Also included in: The Mega Easter Bundle for Special Education
The Crucible Close Reading Passages, Activities, and Prompts for Each Act
These close reading passages are an excellent tool for a Crucible unit. Each passage is carefully chosen and abridged to capture a key scene from the act, and the coinciding activity and prompt allow you to focus on key reading and comprehension skills: Puritan lifestyle, Elements of Drama, Conflict, and Mood. PDF and digital for Google versions.Some suggested answers are included. This pack of exercises is included in my Complete Unit for The Crucible: Click HereBe the first to know about my
Grades:
10th - 12th
Christmas Activities Puzzles Middle and High School Sub Plans Independent Work
Calm the Holiday Chaos with this PRINT AND GO Lesson Plan! These Christmas activities and puzzles teach the history of Christmas in an engaging way without all the holiday chaos. With highly engaging reading passages and activities, this lesson plan provides easy, breezy, sub-eezy implementation that can be used by you or a substitute. It's not only ideal for substitutes but works great for pre-holiday, district testing days, fun Fridays, or a teacher catch-up day.These Christmas worksheets are
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7th - 10th
States of Matter Worksheets Solids Liquids Gases Digital or Print NGSS MS-PS1
This lab is VIRTUALLY NO PREP! You will need a computer for each student or you can have students share a computer. You can use this to introduce the concepts, however I typically use it as a review. You can also pick and choose from the activities, I have the students do it in class during a 1 hour 45-minute period and most students finish in about an hour. I also include a KEY for easy grading and prep. This product is a total of 5 activities using some Chemistry websites and PHET University o
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6th - 12th
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MS-PS1-4
, MS-PS1-2
, MS-PS1-1
Fragments and Run-on Sentences. Worksheets, Practice, Proofreading. 9th-10th ELA
This high school grammar resource contains 14 worksheets; the total of 42 pages, with full answer keys about: (1). Sentence Fragments, (2). Run-on Sentences, and (3). how to write correct sentences using (A). coordinating conjunctions, (B). subordinating conjunctions, and (C). conjunctive adverbs for Grade 9 and Grade 10 students. *** Click here for an editable Word Document version ****** Click here for a FILLABLE and an EDITABLE Google Document version ***>>>> This resource is par
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9th - 12th
Novel Study: Independent Reading Teacher Guide Assignment
Tired of book reports and literary essays?SO ARE YOUR STUDENTS!What they need is more freedom and control over their learning, and there's no better way to give it to them than to make them the teachers! In this independent novel study, students are able to pick any novel they like, and then create a guide/textbook to teach the text. It's a great resource for group reading circles and other differentiated / personalized / Problem Based Learning style lessons. Designed for diverse learning enviro
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEGA BUNDLE
Valentine's Day Grammar Worksheets, NO PREP, Middle and High School
These five Valentine's Day grammar worksheets designed for high school students aren’t your typical February grammar exercises! These are truly NO PREP, print and go, age-appropriate exercises to challenge and review your teens' grammar skills during February.Student Experience: These grammar activities for Valentine's Day reflect a seasonally-inspired thematic concept of the page that coincides with key, standards-based grammar skills. For example, students will find their perfect match as they
Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in: Grammar Worksheets Holiday and Seasonal BUNDLE
Kobe Bryant ‘Dear Basketball’ Poem Analysis (Digital & Print)
This lesson guides students through an annotation, analysis, and creative response to Kobe Bryant’s 2015 retirement poem, ‘Dear Basketball’.‘Dear Basketball’ is a moving meditation not just on sport but also on aging and the necessity of change. The poem is all the more poignant due to the tragic passing of Kobe Bryant in 2020.Fully optimised for online and/or in-person delivery, the lesson/s include:Pre-learning context (and linked video)Figurative language revisionGuided annotation and analysi
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6th - 10th
Also included in: Black Poetry BUNDLE (Digital & Print)
Solar & Lunar Eclipses 2024 Science Sub Plans - Middle & High School Activities
Follow up the Solar Eclipse of 2024 with these no-prep activities about solar and lunar eclipses. These print & go worksheets are ideal as an independent work packet or sub plan for your middle or high school students. Your 6th, 7th, 8th, or 9th grade students will love the variety of fun and engaging activities which include crossword puzzles, word search, crack the codes, and reading comprehension passages to support students' learning about why solar and lunar eclipses occur and how these
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6th - 9th
Technology Errorless and Differentiated Journal Writing for Special Education
Do you have students who have difficulty coming up with their own thoughts? With three different levels included, this fun technology journal prompt pack is perfect for all of your non-writers, emerging writers, and writers! This pack is about different types of technology, including headphones, computers, gaming consoles, tablets, smart phones, and more! There are 10 differentiated journals included, enough to get you through 2 full weeks if you do a journal each day.A classroom sample provides
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PreK - 12th
Fun End of the Year Activities Middle High School Sub Plans Independent Work
Calm the Holiday Chaos with this PRINT AND GO Lesson Plan! These End of the Year Summer Break activities and puzzles teach the history of our current school schedule and why it might need to be changed in an engaging way without all the holiday chaos. Students will also get tips about landing that summer job. With highly engaging reading passages and activities, this lesson plan provides easy, breezy, sub-eezy implementation that can be used by you or a substitute. It's not only ideal for substi
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: End of the Year Bundle Middle High School Sub Plans or Independent Work
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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.
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