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200 Daily Bell Work Writing Prompts (Grades 7/8)
Be prepared to teach your Grade 7/8 Language class with a year's worth of bell work writing prompts for Google Slides™! This resource is perfect for a soft start to the Language block and for creating a daily routine for your students to follow.This resource includes 200 writing prompts themed for each day of the week to spark student interest and promote engagement. The writing prompts also contain three sub-questions for those students who find it difficult to brainstorm ideas. With prompts an
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7th - 8th
Also included in: Grade 7 Ontario 2023 Language Bundle (FULL YEAR)
Literary Elements BUNDLE (To use with ANY novel or to teach narrative writing)
Resources for teaching literary elements (narration, plot, setting, characterisation etc.) Powerpoint presentations, detailed lesson plans, informational hand outs, worksheets, posters and more!
Currently studying a novel in class? Looking for resources to help your students analyze literary elements more effectively? Or, are you teaching writing? Looking for resources to help students develop plot, characters and setting more authentically?Either way, these resources will assist you!
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Grades:
7th - 10th
How to use GOOGLE SEARCH like a BOSS!! | Research Skills | Digital Citizenship
Teach your students an ESSENTIAL LIFE SKILL of the INFORMATION ERA. Learn how to refine and filter GOOGLE SEARCH QUERIES using PROVEN TECHNIQUES that improve RESEARCH and CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS in 2024. This ❤️NO PREP unit teaches you and your students how to USE GOOGLE SEARCH LIKE A BOSS!This EDITABLE resource comes with all the instructional slides, graphic organizers, and video tutorials you need to make an immediate impact.Learn exactly how to find what you want online, filter out unwant
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Teaching Symbolism and Allegory - Introduction Activity & PowerPoint
Teaching symbolism can be tricky, but symbolism activities like this one HOOK your students and help them engage with any text. This is a sweet introduction to symbolism that your students will remember long after the candy is gone.⭐️ I use this with “Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe, but it is not text-specific. You can use it with any short story or novel or as a stand-alone lesson. Your resource for teaching symbolism includes:An anticipatory set using Tootsie Roll Pops (or Blow Po
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7th - 10th
Zendoodle Hand Self Portraits Art Lesson Middle School Art Lesson
DescriptionStudents discover who they are through art in this hand-self portrait lesson! Get to know your students as they write about their beliefs and who they are as a person. Students will use the creative process to design and apply elements using repetition and variety in their handprint piece. Students create their own self-portrait using their handprint, Zentangle designs, and a narrative describing who they are. The art lesson centers around creating a piece of artwork based on a core
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5th - 12th
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Fake News Unit | Critical Thinking | Media Literacy | Fact Analysis & Research
Teaching students to navigate news and information on mainstream, traditional and social media as critical thinkers is essential in 2024. It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate FACTS and OPINIONS, SATIRE from LIES, and PERSUASION from PROPAGANDA in the "MISINFORMATION:" eraA well-grounded understanding of MEDIA-LITERACY is crucial in stopping FAKE NEWS and RADICALIZATION. And This PROVEN resource will teach your students the skills to identify, analyze and critique information throug
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5th - 10th
Persuasive Techniques Unit - Media Literacy Analysis PowerPoint & Project Bundle
Teach persuasive techniques, ad analysis, and propaganda with this bundle of media literacy activities. This comprehensive bundle includes bellringers, projects, PowerPoints, and quizzes for teaching persuasion through engaging advertising analysis, interactive practice, and creative projects. In this bundle, you’ll get 3 weeks of engaging activities to introduce or strengthen student understanding of persuasive techniques. This is a perfect foundation for media literacy with a variety of activ
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6th - 9th
Movie Review Writing - Presentation and Activities for Writing a Film Review
Movie Review Writing - Presentation and Activities for Writing a Film Review: This movie review writing lesson is a comprehensive resource that covers all aspects of teaching students how to write a compelling movie review. With detailed presentation to guide the lesson and a variety of informational handouts and graphic organizers, students will have everything they need to successfully analyze and critique any film. The resource systematically breaks down the film review writing process, provi
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8th - 11th
Creative Writing Unit: Short Story Activity | Prompts, Rubric, Graphic Organizer
Need a no-prep Creative Writing Unit activity for middle & high school? This Short Story unit is ready to go. Guided writing prompts walk your students through each part of the short story process. A 34-slide engaging PowerPoint will help you easily teach this unit and quick and easy rubric will help you get through grading with a breeze!55 Total pages/slides!Here is what is included:1) Teacher Instructions2) Teacher PowerPoint Cheat Sheet3) 15 Page Student Packet: ✎ Plot Diagram
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5th - 8th
Forensics Fun - Murder Mystery for Middle School: Getty Palace Hotel
There has been a murder the old historic hotel in downtown. The concierge has been found dead in the basement elevator. Your detective team has been assigned to the case. Can you solve the murder?Click here to save 20% on our TRIO Murder Mystery BundleUsing their skills critical thinking skills, deductive reasoning, and team work, the Junior Crime Detectives work in partnerships or teams to solve the murder mystery.Everything you need for your Junior Detectives is included in this kit including
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6th - 9th
Team Building STEM Cup Challenge Activity!
Looking for a fun ice breaker activity for your students? Try this STEM cup challenge! Students will work through a series of challenges in order to build different cup towers. They will work on their problem solving and communications skills while learning! Follow me on instagram! @lifewiththemiddles
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3rd - 12th
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Game Show Mania - Five Fun ELA PowerPoint Review Game Shows
Save $7.00 with this bundled deal that includes five fantastic PowerPoint review games for English Language Arts!This package includes these five game shows:"Comma Invasion" - Reviews comma rules with a goofy alien-invasion/classic-monster-movie theme"Shootout at the Homophone Corral" - Reviews common spelling errors like "there / their / they're" in with an old western theme"Language Knockout" - Reviews nouns, verbs, pronouns, phrases, and verbals (gerunds, infinitives, and participles) with a
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: MY FULL STORE! - A bundle of every single product I have
Bell Ringer for Middle School ELA Classroom Journal Prompts- 50 Prompts
**Updated 2022** Question of the Days are freestyle journal entries set to music. In my experience, this style of writing helps students feeling more comfortable with their ideas and the process of writing. As a bonus, when you read their journals, you learned so much about your students which will strengthen relationships and connections. This download includes:Colorful Google Slides Presentation: 50 colorful slides to help you stay organized. Questions are split into 10 sets (5 questions in ea
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6th - 9th
Minute Mysteries Brain Teasers Riddles Breaks Logic Deductive Reasoning Puzzles
With visual hints and fly-in solutions! These are a fun to use if you have a couple extra minutes at the end of class. Encourage students to work more efficiently and reward them with a minute mystery at the end of class for finishing early. They can also be a great introduction to one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories OR to a Slip or Trip lesson. The rules are simple: (1) Students ask yes or no questions (2) Teachers respond accordingly to guide students to the correct answer
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6th - 12th
Poem of the Week Collection: a YEAR of Multimedia Poetry!
Historically speaking, poems started out as stories intended to be read aloud. Share poems the way they were MEANT to be read - with audio and video readings – while still achieving rigorous reading and creative writing!This Poem of the Week Collection can be used in multiple ways, whether you want... • more consistent poetry stretched throughout the year,• to scaffold students up to more difficult poems, • to compress these poems into a shorter unit in April, or • to make poetry come alive alon
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Poetry Activity Bundle: Reading & Writing Poems in Secondary ELA
Public Speaking Introduction, Speech and Debate Unit - Bundle! - 5 Lessons!!!
Public Speaking Activities for Writing a SpeechSpeech ActivitiesDebate ActivitiesWriting for Public Speaking, Speech, and DebateDifferentiated Activities for Public Speaking, Speech, and DebateEnrichment Activities for Public Speaking, Speech, and DebateGoogle Slides*****************************************************************************************Introducing how to research, write, practice, and present a speech has never been easier! These lessons guide students through a step-by-step p
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6th - 8th
E-Book Template Bundle
Make Beautiful E-Books in a Snap!If you only know PowerPoint or Google Slides as support systems for live presentations, you may not have discovered their potential for making PDF e-books. These templates will allow you and your students to create beautiful e-books for just about any purpose you can imagine. Here are just a few ideas:* Personal memory books* Mini-textbooks* Reflective journals* Research projects* Illustrated stories or poetry collections* Art, photography, or writing portfolios*
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6th - 12th
Epic Grammar FAIL - Fun Test Prep Review Game
A fun way to get students to practice finding and fixing common grammar errors and typos. It's a great activity for back-to-school, test prep and review, holidays, the last day or week of school, or other filler days.
"Epic Grammar FAIL" is a fun, interactive way for students to review common grammar concepts. In the game, students will play in teams to find the editing / proofreading errors in real signs, song lyrics, published novels, and other random places (some of which are totally hilario
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5th - 10th
198 Riddles / Brain Teasers / Bell Ringer Activities BUNDLE
198 Riddles Bell Ringers / Lesson Starters / Morning Meeting - Riddles BundleAre you looking for some gripping ways to settle your students really quickly at the start of your lesson?Here are 198 of the best riddles out there that you can use as bell ringers / lesson starter activities for teens!I have done all the hard work for you and gathered more of the best riddles into one neat PowerPoint that you can pull up whenever you need. These 198 riddles have passed my strict screening process to e
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Narrative/Memoir Writing Brainstorming/Generating Ideas: Memory BINGO Activity
Help your writers generate ideas for writing a narrative, memoir, or scene with this interactive "Memory Bingo" game that will get students sharing and collecting memories!During this activity, students will use a list of 50 prompts to add various memories to a BINGO board. During BINGO, students will share memories and add more to their treasure trove of ideas after hearing their classmates' memories. After the activity, students will reflect on their top 5 memories and begin writing about one.
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5th - 12th
Geography Jeopardy - an interactive social studies game
Geography Jeopardy is an interactive game in which students answer geography trivia questions. This resource reflects the popular TV game show, but adaptations have been made so it can be played in the classroom. The categories are:Where Am I?LandformsImaginary LinesKnown by Its ShapeGeography SuperlativesIslandsParts of a MapCountries Starting with "I"Colorful PlacesWater! Water! Water!ContinentsFamous LandmarksWhere in the World?*SIGN UP AS A FOLLOWER OF “OFF THE PAGE” AND GET NOTIFICATIONS OF
Grades:
5th - 8th
Poetry Bundle Writing, Reading, & Understanding Poetry
Poetry Resources for Reading, Writing, and Understanding Poetry, Volume 1
This (and ALL of my poetry resources) IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my POETRY RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
Poetry Resources Bundle, Volume 2 is also available; it includes my newer resources that are aligned with the Common Core State Standards.
This bundle contains my resources for teaching poetry, which includes teaching poetic devices and figurative language, reading/interpreting poetry, and writing original po
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Narrative Revising and Editing Checklist (Self and Peer)
This checklist is used after students have written narrative stories. They will go through their stories with the checklist independently first. Then they will have a classmate use the same checklist to read their story. At the end, the peer can leave comments with advice and feedback. This has been helpful in building independence during writing, rather than having a line waiting for me to read their stories!
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3rd - 8th
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My Dream Car: A Microsoft Excel Project
I found that my students really enjoyed doing this Excel project in Computer Applications. Students will use Excel and its capabilities, to apply formulas and charts to a subject which they find fun and interesting, their dream car. They will choose several cars and will then do a cost analysis of their selected cars. To do this project, they have to select several cars, find cost and fuel economy information on those cars, download pictures of the cars and use Excel to do a cost analysis.
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Microsoft EXCEL Activities - 6 PROJECTS!
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