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Free middle school english language arts independent work packets
Context Clues Worksheet Vocabulary - Free Context Clues Activities 6th 7th 8th
Context Clues Worksheet Freebie: This vocabulary activity is a great way to help students who struggle with understanding and using context clues to define vocabulary words.This Download Contains: PRINT2 pages of vocabulary activitiesAnswer Key DIGITALReady-to-use Easel activityLike this product? CLICK HERE for the full Context Clues Passages Vocabulary resource for grades 6-8This resource shows examples of definition/explanation context clues, synonym/restatement context clues, antonym/contras
Grades:
6th - 9th
RACE Strategy Writing Activity Worksheets FREE with Easel Activity
The RACE writing strategy helps students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and evidence from the text, and to provide concluding statements. Like this product? Check out the full version here! Writing with the RACE StrategyR: Re-state the questionA: Answer all parts of the questionC: Cite the text to provide evidenceE: Explain your citationWhy use the RACE strategy? RACE is a mnemonic device that helps students write open-ended constructed
Grades:
6th - 8th
Free Empathy Worksheets Social Emotional Learning Vocabulary Activities Rubric
You will download a free sampler empathy worksheet for students to define and understand this word. A grading rubric is also included. ➔➔ Click HERE the full empathy packet of activities.You will download both print and digital EASEL PDF formats for your convenience.★★ Click HERE to go back to my homepage and browse the categories on the left.▶︎ DIGITAL COMPATIBLE RESOURCE:Through the EASEL by TPT platform, you will be able to annotate and customize the PDF using overlays. Underlying content is
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Greek & Latin Roots Worksheets - Prefixes & Suffixes Early Finisher Sub Plans +
Free ELA worksheets! Expand students' vocabulary and improve reading, writing, and spelling with free worksheets and digital resources for Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes. Printable and digital resources for Google Classroom are included. The resource covers dozens of words formed from Greek & Latin Roots on 10 worksheets. Activities include word sorts, cloze sentences, forming inflections, and matching words to definitions, synonyms, images, and opposites.WHAT'S INCLUDEDRoots,
Grades:
5th - 8th
Sight Word Activities for Special Education Sight Word Spelling Practice Freebie
You know your special education students need sight word practice. But, you also know that most of the students are too old for 'cutesy' sight word activities that have baby-ish clipart and activities. Your older students need sight word spelling activities that are age appropriate and won't cause embarrassment. Sight word homework doesn't have to be filled with 'baby work'. You can help your older students learn to spell sight words with these no-prep sight word homework assignments! ・゛゛・。
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3rd - 6th
Any Time NEW DAY Resolutions | Social Emotional Learning | Reading Comprehension
You don't have to wait until the New Year to make resolutions. Use these Any Time "NEW DAY" Resolutions to re-engage students! Your Middle School and High School students will laugh at the funny reading comprehension passage.There are three parts to this Social Emotional Learning Skills / Life Skills resource:1) The Goal Setting worksheets are for everybody (4 pages)Help students develop SELF AWARENESS and adjust to a changing world. Reflect on the challenges and successes from the past.Brainsto
Grades:
7th - 10th
Boston Tea Party Color by Number, Reading Passage and Text Marking
This Boston Tea Party Color by Number and Text Marking activity has your students searching for text evidence from the reading passage and coloring in answers. This is a highly engaging reading comprehension activity. Great addition to your American Revolution unit.Topics include: British Parliament, No Taxation without Representation, Sons of Liberty, Tea Act, Stamp Act, Intolerable ActsStudents read about the Boston Tea Party, answers questions, mark the text for evidence, and color the pictur
Grades:
4th - 6th
ESL Newcomers ESL Beginners Emergency Pack Sampler Print & Distance Learning
Help! It’s the middle of January and they just put a beginner level English Language Learner in my History class! Use these ESL beginner level English Language worksheets and ESL Newcomer Activities to provide engaging, independent practice for your newcomer or beginner level ESL older kids or adults. You can find the full Newcomer Pack Resources Here:Newcomer Pack 1Newcomer Pack 2Newcomer Pack Bundle As an ESL teacher, I know the challenges presented to my content area colleagues when they are
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions (Social Studies ) *FREEBIE*
Looking to engage your 5th and 6th graders with an interesting informational text? Check out this free Social Studies Reading Comprehension Passage to check your students' understanding of vocabulary and reading strategies as well as improve their ability to summarize given texts. ⭐ CHECK OUT OTHER 5th and 6th READING PASSAGES ⭐1.1 ↪️ SCIENCE READING PASSAGES ↩️1.2 ☮️ FILLABLE SCIENCE READING PASSAGES ☮️2.1 ↪️ SOCIAL STUDIES READING PASSAGES ↩️2.2 ☮️ FILLABLE SOCIAL STUDIES READING PASSAGES ☮️3
Grades:
4th - 7th
Problem and Solution Text Structure Passage - Digital & Print
Download this quick and easy text structure lesson! Your middle school students will read a high-interest article about weather science while practicing problem and solution text structure, and the activities are perfect to print or use in Google Classroom.(If you love this free sample, don't miss the rest my Weather Reading Passages for Nonfiction Text Structure and Weather Nonfiction Bundle - Text Structure and Text Features!) This resource includes a digital Google Slides version! (Link in PD
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6th - 8th
Phonics Older Students Reading Intervention SOR Dyslexia FREE Summer Tutoring
FREE! long -a sounds (vowels) activities for older students. Get your summer tutoring students where they need to be in their reading. Struggling readers, dyslexic students and English language learners will gain confidence and reading fluency from this resource. Instructions included.This is a FREE bite-size sample. These passages are BRAND NEW and just released They focus on all spellings of long vowel sounds. You can get them here.These activities were created after my very successful phonics
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6th - 9th
Writing Prompt - 32 days - Digital & Print
Grab a notebook, loose-leaf paper, or your digital device and start writing at home! These writing prompts are designed to build writing stamina, help students develop a lifelong love of writing, and learn some cool writing strategies along the way. They are quick, simple and stress-free. HOW TO USE THE CARDS:Have students grab a notebook or digital device to write with. Feel free to have them decorate the cover of their writer's notebook to personalize it!Give students a prompt each day. H
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Black History Month Main Idea, Inferences, Sequencing & Vocab for Middle School
This is the Freebie Sample edition of the Main Idea, Inferences, Sequencing & Vocabulary for older students which has themes focused on Black History and works perfectly for Black History Month speech therapy sessions in middle school. Many of our speech and language therapy goals incorporate finding the main idea, explaining inferences and figurative language, remembering sequences, and defining vocabulary using context cues. This language therapy resource sample addresses all of these skil
Grades:
6th - 9th
Germs Reading Comprehension - Bacteria and Viruses - Distance Learning Freebie
Germs are everywhere! Kid-friendly reading comprehension passages and questions about bacteria and viruses. A cut and paste compare and contrast page is also included. You will also get digital access via Google Slides! Let’s try to stop the spread of germs and promote the importance of hand washing! You might also love: · Natural Resources Pack· Earth’s Rotation and Revolution · Electricity Unit · Volcanoes Pack · Rocks and Minerals Pack · Fossils Pack · Biomes Unit Pack · Food Chains and Food
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3rd - 6th
Science Sub Plans Middle School 6th, 7th, 8th Grade Science Lab Tools
Make Sub Days Stress-Free Days! This resource includes TEN NO-PREP activities perfect for use while teaching routines during the first week of school. These Print and Go activities are ALL-INCLUSIVE- No prior knowledge is needed. Includes an instructional component and plenty of engaging activities, including differentiation choices and fast finishers!Introduce your students to the world of science with INDEPENDENT activities that can be implemented by you or a sub. No science knowledge is requi
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Grades:
7th - 9th
Novel Study for ANY CHAPTER BOOK | FREEBIE
This novel study freebie is printable, and you can use it with ANY NOVEL OR CHAPTER BOOK! Your students will have fun reading their new favorite book while working on their reading standards.WHAT DOES THE FULL RESOURCE INCLUDE?The full resource chapter book novel study includes worksheets that will help your students become readers who reflect on what they read. This resource is perfect for at-home reading or in-class reading because it is both printable and digital. This resource allows stud
Grades:
3rd - 7th
RACE Strategy Writing FREE Grades 4-6 Google Slides
RACE is a writing strategy to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and evidence from the text, and to provide concluding statements.This product is located on Google Slides, and is designed to be 100% digital. → Like this resource? Check out the full version for more! Click here!R: Re-state the questionA: Answer all parts of the questionC: Cite the text to provide evidenceE: Explain your citationWhy use the RACE strategy? RACE i
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: 4-5th Grade ELA Reading and Writing Bundle
Isaac Newton Middle School Science Activity Worksheets Sub Plan Independent Work
Make Sub Days Stress-Free Days! with this Isaac Newton 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 the life of Isaac Newton 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 for pre
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6th - 8th
Basic Matching / Busy Booklet File Folder for Special Education / Taskboxes
Tired of messy file folders? Tired of picking up sandwich baggies off the floor? Want to keep your students or child engaged longer? Want to increase student independence time and work? Looking for Pre made lesson plan? Daily learning Actives?(ALSO CHECK OUT THE 6 in 1 BUSY BOOK BUNDLE FOR MORE!) (LINK BELOW) https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/6-in-1-Busy-Booklet-Bundle-for-Special-Education-File-Folders-Task-Boxes-8409687Meet the Basic Skills Busy Booklet for Special Education and Earl
Grades:
PreK - 8th
Genetics and Heredity: Informational Text and Crossword Puzzle FREE
Print and Go activities for Genetics and Heredity! Need work for Sub plans, Pre-Holiday, or a Teacher Catch-Up Day? Don't worry about downloading a puzzle where students don't know the vocabulary or the the clues are just different enough to be confusing. The informational text has all the answers to the puzzle. Includes some choices for differentiation and fast finishers. My goal is simplicity for the teacher and/or sub, and keeping the students engaged, busy, and learning. Everything students
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7th - 10th
FREEBIE: The Wild Robot Novel Study: Digital AND Print N' Go
Are you looking for the perfect book study or companion for The Wild Robot by Peter Brown? This book study *freebie* is the perfect combination of creativity, critical thinking, and reflection. This novel study covers every thing you need including deep vocabulary practice, extensive comprehension work, and writing activities.This *freebie* novel study includes:7 interactive slides and printable PDF pagesThree Essential Questions reviewed multiple times throughout the book study pages:How is fam
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2nd - 6th
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Reading Story with Story Elements and Writing Prompt ELA "Gifts for Jace"
“Crack the Case” makes finding “evidence” to support text a fun learning adventure! Check out the Table of Contents below to view a highlight of the quality, science of reading, resources you will receive:Page 1-2: Quality Short Story• Written by three-time Chicken Soup for the Soul coauthor, Angela Abbott• Character building passage, Gifts for JacePage 3: Character• In-depth activity to help students use text to identify character such as • Character age• Physical features• Personality• Thou
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3rd - 6th
Soundtrack Of My Life {Student Project}
Music makes the world go round. Engage your students with this thought-provoking "Soundtrack Of My Life" student project. As students explore the music that plays throughout life, this will help them to gain a deeper understanding of their true self & how they present themselves in this world... and you the teacher just might get a deeper understanding of them too. This project is great for:Back to SchoolCreative WritingDeep ThoughtsAnd Just Plan Fun
Grades:
6th - 12th
FREE Christmas Writing Prompts for Essays/Worksheets for 5th, 6th and 7th Grade
These Christmas essay writing prompts focus on Narrative, Descriptive, Persuasive and Expository essays for students in 5th, 6th and 7th grade. There are 2 exciting and thought-provoking topics with guided writing prompts outlining the correct structure for essays. This resource is perfect for students that have not mastered writing 4 paragraphs and require scaffolding. Each topic has tips or ideas for what to write in each paragraph giving students guidance for writing their essays. This resour
Grades:
5th - 7th
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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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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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