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Oral communication music Common Core RL.6.1 resources
Teach Theme/Moral/Lesson with Songs & Lyrics {Digital Interactive Google Slides}
Hi teacher friends! Are you looking for a fun way to introduce and practice the skill of finding theme? This is the only resource you will need for teaching theme/ moral/ lesson with songs! I found myself struggling with how to introduce theme to my students, but then I came up with the idea of using songs and their lyrics. I created this product for use in my own classroom, and when I used it, my students were hooked! They were engaged and motivated - singing along in the classroom, listening c
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Social Language Interrupting Conversation Lessons Activities Speech Therapy
Are you looking for an engaging social story and social language activities for elementary students that work on interrupting AND has editable components? Interruption Combustion is 68 pages (plus 4 editable templates) of activities designed to reduce interrupting behaviors in readers from 2nd-5th grade. Use them with your students with autism, ADHD, aspergers, or your students who struggle with self-monitoring and improving their interrupting behaviors. You will receive the following page
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Elementary Social Communication Autism Conversation Skills
Holes Mock Trials - a court simulation activity
This resource is included in Holes available at our store. Holes Mock Trials is an activity that facilitates many ELA learning outcomes in a way that is highly engaging for students. They will develop research skills, engage in critical thinking, defend a position, play the role of a character in court, and practice presentation skills. Students will learn about the judicial system as they participate in a mock trial of their own.This resource includes:Teacher NotesCourt InstructionsCourt Proced
Grades:
5th - 8th
New Kid by Jerry Craft Novel Bundle
Three great products in one place! New Kid by Jerry Craft is the very first graphic novel to win the Newbery Award. This bundle includes Chat Stations, Chapter Questions with Answer Keys, and super fun Comic Graphic Organizers for students to demonstrate their creativity. Chat Stations are used to hold students accountable during class discussions. No more having one or two students raising their hands for discussions with Chat Stations. Chapter Questions provides four questions per chapter
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4th - 7th
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Discussion Questions & Creative Writing Prompts for Korman's Masterminds
Motivate your students towards active, engaging discussion with these open-ended discussion questions to accompany Gordon Korman's middle-grade book Masterminds! This product contains:- three questions per chapter in an easy-to-use printable chart, along with suggestions for encouraging your students to participate in discussions. - these questions created as printable handouts for students, so that they can be used for homework, comprehension checks, essay prompts, or even as group preparati
Grades:
5th - 7th
Also included in:Â Gordon Korman ELA Resource Bundle I Print & Digital Versions
Independent Reading Activity: One-Pagers, Annotation Guides, + Bulletin Boards
Motivate your middle school students to read books for enjoyment with these flexible and easy to assess activities! Students practice identifying the literary elements and reading with a purpose! Students will identify themes and summarize the plot and conflict.Book Bistro is a research-based independent reading program that fosters a love of reading.It's essentially a high-interest, middle school book report that taps into the social nature of middle school students. The assignment puts the fun
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6th - 9th
The Last Cuentista Novel Study Vocabulary in Context and Discussion Questions
Enjoy this engaging novel study for the Newbery Award winning novel, The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera. Students will love reading this novel and completing the corresponding worksheets with comprehension questions, analyzing quotes, summarization, figurative language, setting, and so much more. Vocabulary as used in context is vital to student success. 284 vocabulary words have been pulled from the text, textual context is provided, and students create their own definition based on the
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5th - 9th
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Nurturing Our Students Self-Worth and Self-Confidence
Keala Settle's incredible performance of the song "This is Me," from the hit movie "The Greatest Showman," is the inspiration to this complete unit of study teacher's guide, certain to help lift your students' self-esteem!This unit of study will guide you and your students through activities that promote critical thinking, reading comprehension and analysis, and build classroom community as well.Activities included in this guide-*Copy of the lyrics*Video links of two powerful performance of "Thi
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4th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Coaching Our Students' Literacy Skills Through Inspirational Song Lyrics
Read Across America Day Activity | The Grinch | Reading Comprehension
Read Across America Day ActivityCelebrate Read Across America Day with your students using this fun and educational activity. Students will read the lyrics to a popular song (You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch) while identifying different examples of figurative language and their meaning. Students will identify metaphors, similes, hyperbole, and alliteration with this fun activity. This resource includes a guided review practice activity, graphic organizer, 10 multiple choice questions, and a writing
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4th - 6th
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BUNDLE Disney's Encanto STAAR Comprehension | PDF Google Forms & Task Cards |
Are you looking for new and fun ways to review for STAAR? Have you considered introducing STAAR/Standardized test prep with music? This bundle includes all four sets of 10 question assessment uses Encanto's songs "What Else Can I do?" "We Don't Talk About Bruno" "Surface Pressure" and "Family Madrigal" as the text, and exposes students to literature question stems which are STAAR/CCSS aligned from previous years' assessments. The assessments focus on a variety of skills such as inferencing, summ
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4th - 7th
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"Thunder" A Socratic Seminar Unit of Study Featuring Imagine Dragons
Motivate your students to engage in critical analysis and collaborative conversation through the study of this popular hit song! Your students will-*explore vocabulary and figures of speech, *build background on the song's inspiration, *write their connections between the song, other texts and their personal paths, *explore the science and symbolism behind the song, *analyze lyrics, *and engage in a Socratic seminar with their classmates to deepen understanding and build speaking and listening s
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6th - 8th
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Also included in:Â An Imagine Dragons Classroom
Book Club Rubric with CCSS Reading and Speaking & Listening Standards Grades 4-6
This product is a book club rubric for 4th, 5th or 6th grade that the teacher can use to assess students or the students can use to self-assess.What's on the rubric?Reading literature (RL) standard 1Speaking and Listening standardsHow to Use This Resource:whole groupsmall groupbook clubsliterature circlesliterature discussion groupsduring a reading  interventionspecial education (SPED)bilingual or Dual Language / DLI classroomswith ELLs for ESL instructionThe rubric uses a 1, 2, 3, 4 scale with
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4th - 6th
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Taylor Swift: A Modern Poet - Understanding Literary Devices & Elements
Dear Reader, Do you love Taylor Swift? Do your students? If you answered yes to both - then maybe this is the best day.Music can change the world - it can also change and empower your classroom when you find ways to connect to your students. This bundle of worksheets includes the following:1 Cover Page1 Guide to Literary Devices and Elements found within the songs3 informational guides of different literary devices and elements observed in Taylor Swift's most recent album, The Tortured Poets Dep
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5th - 7th
Literacy Through Lyrics- Volume 1
♪An awesome, bundled collection of complete units of study centered around popular, culturally relevant song lyrics that will motivate and inspire you and your students year round!♪You will adore this approach to coaching critical literacy skills in your students- It will be the refresh button you need to make learning together meaningful and truly engaging!♪Because teaching is supposed to be fun and who doesn't love a good soundtrack to sing (and study☺) together in the process?Have fun!Liz☺♥♪P
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3rd - 8th
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"High Hopes"- An ELA Unit of Study
Set the inspirational stage for your middle school students to analyze the awesome song lyrics "High Hopes," by Panic! At the Disco☺Your students will build incredible literacy skills through meaningful curriculum and conversation with a unit you will adore teaching☺This unit plan includes-ELA StandardsSong Lyrics for Student/Teacher UseClose Reading VisualVocabulary BuildingFigurative Language AnalysisWritten Reflection InvitationsCreative Outlets for Text ConnectionsSocratic Seminar Explanatio
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Coaching Our Students' Literacy Skills Through Inspirational Song Lyrics
Creative ELA Bundle for Slacker & WhatsHisFace I Print & Digital Versions
This is a bundle of two Gordon Korman products: discussion questions and creative writing projects for his two novels "Slacker" and "WhatsHisFace."Each one contains discussion questions by chapter. The discussion questions are purposely open-ended and subject to opinion to encourage debate and discussion in your classroom.This resource also contains essay and creative writing prompts. All projects are related directly to each book and many are also subject to opinion to encourage students to su
Grades:
5th - 7th
Beethoven in Paradise Novel Guide
This novel guide follows the HMH study guide for Beethoven in Paradise by Barbara O'Connor. This novel includes multiple choice questions, long responses (Following RACE format), and audio read-aloud. The slides have places to write their responses BUILT RIGHT IN! There are also links to images and music mentioned in the novel. These are exceptionally helpful for students who need to build background knowledge. Finally, there is an included paragraph organizer for a culminating activity.
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5th - 7th
"Christmas Lights" A Socratic Seminar Unit of Study Featuring Coldplay
Join your kids in the holiday merriment through this fun, engaging, meaningful unit of study on a unique holiday song, "Christmas Lights" by Coldplay. Students will work to analyze lyrics, build connections, explore figurative language, and engage in a collaborative dialogue through Socratic seminar. Your students will build reading comprehension, language, speaking, listening and writing skills through this unit and build classroom community through collaboration as well!
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6th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Holiday Song Lyric Analysis
STEM Musical Road - Music on the Road | Elementary & Middle School Technology
Does driving down the road ever feel boring and the music on the radio just doesn't do what it used to? Time to take a trip down a musical road where no radio, phones or sound systems are required. All you need is your car and a good set of tires to enjoy this music!In this lesson, students will learn about real-life roads that create music and create one of their own musical roads using a road making music synthesizer! This web-based activity presents the work as a fun, open-ended activity with
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4th - 10th
Also included in:Â Middle and High School STEM and Technology Curriculum
Citing Evidence and Theme/Author's Message Through Music!
I created this assignment because my students were not citing evidence correctly (they weren't including the title and or author, not including a quote at times and not providing adequate explanations after the quote). Using this lesson really helped my students grasp who the author (singer) is and the title of the text (in this case, the name of the song). Students understood the idea of theme/message and finding a quote from the song to support their ideas. Your download has 15 pages. Ther
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7th - 9th
SIGHTREADING....A YEAR LONG SUCCESS PLAN FOR 6TH GRADE
This is a step by step plan of sightreading that has been proven successful by myself after years of obtaining sweepstakes at UIL. This is a perfect preparation for 6th graders to get ready for UIL
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6th
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MS-PS2-3
Music Listening Assignment - Charlie Puth's "Change"
In a cross between music and social-emotional learning, this assignment examines Charlie Puth's "Change", first performed at the March For Our Lives rally, and tasks the students with social emotional questions based on the song and lyrics and dives into student personal responses regarding relationships and how we can be better friends and have better relationships with each other. Perfect for warm-up topics for teaching emotions in music or great use of literary elements in music. Also great f
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3rd - 12th
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Hello I'm Johnny Cash by G Neri Lesson Plan and Google Activities
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the nonfiction mentor text book Hello, I'm Johnny Cash by G. Neri and A.G. Ford. This is an excellent lyrical biography of Johnny Cash for focusing on American music, music pioneers and perseverance with connections to the Man in Black's music appropriate for elementary students. Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on:Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, tim
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Coaching Our Students' Literacy Skills Through Inspirational Song Lyrics
Bring creativity and collaboration to your ELA lesson plans through this awesome compilation of resources♪ Certain to spark something new and exciting within your students as they delve into popular song lyrics and build reading, writing, critical thinking, speaking, and listening skills with these engaging lesson plans and units of study☺This resource includes:♪Copies of song lyrics for teacher and student use♪Reflective writing prompts♪Text dependent analysis writing♪Building background nonfic
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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