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Middle school english language arts homeschool curricula for parents
Book Tasting: Introduce Your Students to New Books and Genres
Do you want to introduce your students to new genres or new choices of books? Hold a BOOK TASTING in your classroom! This event will get your students motivated and excited about reading! Hold this event 2-3 times a year in your classroom and/or make it an evening event for parents to "sample" new books with their children. Resource includes: book tasting menuplace matsreflection napkinsbookmarkspreviewing a book signgenre signs with definitionsgenre bookmarks with definitionsevent signs, table
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3rd - 8th
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Meet the Teacher Template Editable | Welcome to Our Class Back to School Letters
This editable meet the teacher template is a perfect way to provide your students and their families with some information about you and your classroom at the beginning of the school year. You can send it in the mail in the summer, email it home, provide a copy to each family at an open house, hand out to your students during the first week of school, or upload to google classroom. Click here to SAVE 30% by buying this as part of my Back to School Forms Bundle!What's Included:- Meet the Teacher
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Back to School Forms Bundle | Print + Digital
ELA First Day BUNDLE: Everything for back to school: Syllabus + Stations + Fun
Have the best first day EVER in ELA with this bundle of first day stations, slides, and syllabus templates! Whether you like customizing in Canva, PPT, or Google Slides, these templates will make prepping for your first day total breeze. Not only will you be more efficient with your back to school prep, but you'll also set the tone for the rest of the year. Students will be impressed with your visual syllabus and engaged from day one!What you will get:⭐ A super fun, low pressure ice breaker idea
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7th - 12th
Mother's Day Writing Activities 2024 Crafts Cards and More Mothers Day
Celebrate Mother’s Day with these fun and meaningful activities for older kids! These writing resources will give your intermediate students a chance to reflect on their relationship with their moms and express their appreciation in a creative and heartfelt way. With everything from Mother’s Day crafts to expository writing with the various activities, you can pick and choose what you want students to work on or let them decide! Easily include these low-prep activities into your writing curricul
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3rd - 6th
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Functional Vocabulary File Folder Games for Special Education Matching Activity
These file folder games for special education and autism focus on color matching, picture matching, and word matching for a variety of functional vocabulary words. Activities include multiple options for easy differentiation: matching picture to picture (identical), picture to picture (non-identical) and picture to word, including both real-life photographs and illustrations. These are great for students working on matching and learning real-life functional vocabulary such as those in special e
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PreK - 12th
Summer Reading Activities 2023
This packet of summer reading activities includes: A Note On Summer ReadingSummer Reading List - Picture Books (30 Titles) - Color & BW - HyperlinkedSummer Reading List - Chapter Books (30 Titles) - Color & BW - HyperlinkedSummer Reading List - Blank (Fill in Your Own Titles)Walk A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes - Picture Books (30 Titles)Walk A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes - Chapter Books (30 Titles)Walk A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes - Choose Your Own The Taylor Swift Summer Reading Play
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K - 6th
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Reading Guides and Handbook for Parent Teacher Conferences ENGLISH EDITION
Parents love these guides to Reading Levels. These are easy to read with sample pictures and explanation of the characteristics for each leveled book being sent home. A fantastic handout for back to school, open house, or anytime!What's Included:1. Guide with Fountas and Pinnell Reading Levels AA - Z in color and black and white2. Guide with DRA Reading Levels A-1 - 70/80 in color and black and white3. Guide with Reading Recovery Reading Levels 1 - 34 in color and black and white4. Guide with
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K - 6th
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Back to School Night | Teacher Information Brochure| Meet the Teacher | EDITABLE
This is a super easy way to give your parents all the information they need on back to school night. It has a spot for teacher wish list, student supplies, daily schedule, subjects, contact info, etc.It is in black and white. I print it on a cute colored paper and it turns out adorable and can be copied on the school copier to save your some colored ink! There is a colored version that you can find in my TpT store if you prefer that!Parents love this and hang it on their fridge year round!
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PreK - 12th, Staff
Cursive Joke Book Handwriting Practice
Keep your students practicing their cursive with this engaging activity. Great for whole and small group, centers, distance learning, school breaks or home schools.Read the Reviews! "This is a genius idea! Great way to address handwriting difficulties especially with students on the autism spectrum. Thank you!" "My students enjoy these and have asked for more." "Students LOVE this!" "My students loved this as a part of our morning routine. I heard them telling each other the jokes later on duri
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3rd - 7th
Also included in: Cursive Joke Book & Printing Joke Book Discounted Bundle
Plot Diagram Graphic Organizer Elements Summarizing Worksheets Story Map
Help guide students' thinking when it comes to plot with this easy to use plot elements graphic organizer bundle resource. It contains a diagram, graphic organizer, anchor charts, posters, story map, task cards, cut & sort activities, and more.Includes: an interactive notebook foldable to start students off with the terminology and examples of each feature in a plot diagrama graphic organizer to complete after reading a story (sample one is filled out to help the teacher model for the studen
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4th - 6th
End of the Year Memory Book Flipbook for Middle School Distance Learning
Send your middle school students home for the summer with a lasting age-appropriate keepsake. UPDATED to include a digital version for distance learning!My "Middle School Memories" flipbook is easy to print and assemble and allows students to reflect on many facets of their school year, ranging from their daily school life, favorite things, best memories, class superlatives, and more. I include an instructional video link for assembling the flipbook.Bonus: each page offers students opportunities
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5th - 8th
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[Levels A-M English] Reading Levels Explained for Parents | Parent Guide
Supporting students’ reading at home is easy when you have ready-to-go reading level guides written with parent-friendly vocabulary. These Guided Reading Level Parent Letters are designed to explain the specific characteristics of students’ independent and instructional reading levels. Simply provide during parent teacher reading conferences to explain a child’s reading accuracy, fluency, comprehension, and more. These parent handouts are also perfect to send home in book bags and with students’
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K - 7th
Editable State Testing Parent Letter Secret Mission to Motivate Students
Encourage your students during your state's standardized tests with the help of their family, friends, and neighbors! Prior to standardized tests, send this letter home with students in a sealed envelope addressed to their parents or caregivers. It asks the parents and caregivers to write a letter or note of encouragement to their child, place the letters in a envelope, and send back to school to the teacher. On test day, the teacher will place the envelopes on the students' desk to open on t
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3rd - 12th
Inferences: Short Stories with Inferential Questions
Practice making inferences--drawing conclusions when given some, but not all, of the information, now in short story form! Stories are geared to upper elementary and middle school topics, such as running for student council president, getting left out of a party invitation, and working a summer job. The following pages include:-10 short stories with 5 inferential questions each-3 categories of inferences: predictions: making a reasonable guess of something that could happen next environ
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4th - 8th
Also included in: Inferences Bundle
EDITABLE End of Year Letter to Students and Parents (Color & Black versions)
EDITABLE End of Year Parent Letter: This EDITABLE end of year letter to parents and students is designed to send home at the end of the school year or over the summer. This letter thanks parents and families for their support in helping their child succeed and gives examples of how they can help their child continue to learn over the summer months. This End of Year letter from Teacher is appropriate for all elementary and middle school ages!This End of Year Letter resource includes: -- Color and
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1st - 7th
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The Tiger Rising: Complete Novel Study Unit
This resource contains everything you need to guide your students through a thoughtful and in-depth study of the novel, The Tiger Rising. All resources included are ready to print and go, allowing your students to think deeply across many reading standards and skills.Included in this unit:Student covers (three are included and can serve as packet or folder covers)Author studyFigurative language studyOpen mind character analysis30 Think sheets (there is one for each chapter)Formal text response
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3rd - 6th
Open House Classroom Information Meet The Teacher Parent Letter Packet Template
"✨No time to make a Back to School Flipbook for your Open House? This editable ONE PAGE resource is perfect for Back to School Night, Open House, or Meet the Teacher events. It creates a beautiful and informative Parent Information Sheet that quickly captures ALL aspects of your classroom. Whether you're a Middle School, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th-grade or even Highschool teacher, this snapshot will leave a lasting impression. ✅ Simplify communication with parents and make a positive first
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3rd - 6th
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning | Novel Study, 5th-8th Grades
The perfect novel study for the book “A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket”! Great for use in a literature circle or novel study group. Activities contain higher level thinking reading comprehension, vocabulary and extension activities. Complete answer key is included and can be printed for students with IEPs. About The BookThe Bad Beginning is an excellent book that can be used to hook students on reading. This is book one in a series of stories about the Baudela
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5th - 8th
Greek & Latin Roots Card Game "Build A Word" Prefixes, Roots, & Suffixes
Looking for an educational game to help support learning Greek and Latin affixes and roots? Build A Word is an original, rummy-style card game that reinforces 8 prefixes, 8 roots, and 8 suffixes. Students of morphology will enjoy playing this game! What’s IncludedCard gameWord family cards for word wall or instructionVocabulary worksheet for instructionIn Build A Word, 2-4 players attempt to build words and score the most points. Players need to use strategy in order to build longer words, as lo
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4th - 6th
Life Skills Comprehension Worksheets | Special Education
This engaging, print and go, 130 page set of differentiated Life Skills Comprehension Worksheets includes worksheets for important life skills topics for students with special needs or Autism. Click HERE to save 20% by purchasing this resource as part of the FULL Life Skills Curriculum Bundle (includes 9 Life Skills Resources)WHAT TOPICS ARE INCLUDED?- Kitchen- Bedroom- Bathroom- Dining Room- Laundry Room* All topics are related to the Life Skills Bundles & Word Wall in my store.WHAT IS INCL
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PreK - 12th
Also included in: Life Skills Bundle | Special Education
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[A-Z English Bundle] Reading Levels Explained for Parents | Parent Guide
Supporting students’ reading at home is easy when you have ready-to-go reading level guides written with parent-friendly vocabulary. These Guided Reading Level Parent Letters are designed to explain the specific characteristics of students’ independent and instructional reading levels. Simply provide during parent teacher reading conferences to explain a child’s reading accuracy, fluency, comprehension, and more. These parent handouts are also perfect to send home in book bags and with students’
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K - 7th
Positive Postcards: 50 Positive Notes Home to Parents, Communication Log, Brag
Help build relationships and open communication by sending a positive note home to parents!One of the BEST classroom routines I ever started was getting in the habit of sending a positive note home every Friday. I appreciate how it trained me to notice more student positivity, and I loved how it helped me end the week on a feel good note.If you would like to start this wholesome routine yourself, this resource has everything you need!You'll get:⭐50 positive note ideas that you can hand write or
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7th - 12th
Short Text for Teaching Text Structure {Vol.2}: Informational Text about Color
Are you looking to expand your collection of short informational text perfect for {fun & interesting} close reading? Text that you and your students can read and reread in one session? If so, then I think you will love this second volume of articles in a new Hello Literacy Informational Text series I'm creating called Hello 411. I wrote and designed these informational text articles for my students because I was looking for text that was short, interesting, looked like a real magazine artic
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K - 8th
Interactive Calendar Books for Autism
I have created interactive Calendar Books. These books can be used on a daily basis. I have used mine this year, and have found that participation has gone up 100%. Students are responsible for following along and completing each page. There are six pages:Yesterday wasToday isTomorrow isThe month isThe date isThe weather isThe season isPrint each page on cardstock and laminate. Assemble the pages using binder rings.Please cut out the Calendar Book Pieces, laminate, and attatch to the book w
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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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.
Discover printable and digital English language arts resources
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.
Frequently asked questions about teaching English language arts
What types of English language arts lessons are available on TPT?
There are many different types of English language arts resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular ELA lessons include reading, writing, phonics, vocabulary, spelling, and creative writing.
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Educators can save time preparing English language arts lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for ELA resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of ELA lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
How can I make my English language arts lessons fun and engaging?
Students learn best when they're engaged! Sprinkle a little fun into your English Language Arts lessons by using manipulatives, pairing unusual texts like poems and short films together, or doing an escape room activity.
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