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Middle school english language arts internet activities for GATE
Emergency Sub Plan! Drama Technical Theatre Professions Video Class Discussion
Need something for a substitute to teach? Teach your students about theater professions. This lesson gives students an opportunity to learn about various theater professions--the costume designer of Wicked, stage properties from Hamilton, set design of Beetle Juice, lighting designer of War Horse and a sound designer. Excellent for gifted learners or students who need independent study or an alternative assignment. This is terrific for a substitute as well. How do I use this in my classroom?
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Theater Class Emergency Sub Plan Bundle One Month in Length
Romeo and Juliet Unit Review Escape Room (paper + dig) - Shakespeare activities
This escape room is the perfect Romeo and Juliet unit review. This bundle has both a paper and digital format, meaning this is super versatile for wrapping up the Shakespeare play. These Romeo and Juliet activities cover plot, characters, quote identification, and a close reading.Highlights of this Romeo & Juliet Unit Review:✅ Two levels of difficulty to choose from✅ 50-60 minutes✅ Paper or digital✅ Full Teacher’s Guide✅ Optional extension activitiesThis Romeo & Juliet bundle includes:⭐️
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8th - 11th
Chinese New Year Mini Digital Escape Reading Comprehension
This Chinese New Year Mini Escape game is a one-lock escape room that introduces your students to the holiday in a fun and engaging way. This fully interactive informational game has students read animated text, watch 2 short videos, read some interesting information about what animal they were born under in the Chinese zodiac, and then play a game (quiz) to solve the clue and win the escape!The benefits of this mini-version are that it is perfect for introducing students to the concept of escap
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3rd - 8th
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Oregon Trail Learn about Pioneers Interactive Digital Escape Game
Try this FREE sample to check out how they work! The Oregon Trail Interactive Learning Experience/Escape Room, is a fun and engaging way to introduce students to Westward Expansion, the pioneers, and the Oregon Trail. Each topic covered has an informational passage a video about the topic being covereda video about the stop along the traila puzzle to solve to find the clue for the escape rooma 'just for fun' game for early finishers Can they crack the code?At each stop along the trail, different
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3rd - 6th
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Lord of the Flies Escape Room (paper + digital) - Unit Review Activities
Are you ready for an engaging review for your Lord of the Flies unit? Students review the novel by William Golding by completing a series of puzzles to demonstrate understanding of plot, character, figurative language, conflict, and theme. There’s even a TWIST ending!Highlights✅ Paper game (no locks required)✅ Digital game with automatic answer validation✅ Full teacher’s guide and set-up instructions✅ ~45 minutes for on-level 9th gradersEach version contains the same Lord of the Flies review act
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7th - 10th
Harlem Renaissance Activities - Escape Room (paper + digital) - Black History
Make learning fun with this Harlem Renaissance activity! Your students will learn about the historical context of the Harlem Renaissance as well as famous figures. This is reading-heavy and "true history," but a great addition to Black History Month or National Poetry Month. Use this Harlem Renaissance Activity for:✅ ELA or Social Studies✅ Your poetry unit or National Poetry Month✅ Black History Month This Harlem Renaissance activity is the perfect way to introduce your students to the era. It h
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7th - 10th
Elements of Poetry Review Escape Room (paper + digital) - Poetry Unit Review
Ready for a poetry unit review your students won’t forget? These escape rooms will help your students review the elements of poetry in any learning environment. Each version has a Figurative Language Sort, Poetic Devices Puzzle, Close Reading activity, and a Secret Poem. Perfect to review during National Poetry Month or beyond!✅ 45-60 minutes✅ Paper or digital✅ Grades 7-10If you’ve never done an escape room, never fear! The Teacher’s Guide has been written with total beginners in mind. You get s
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7th - 10th
Pedro's Journal — Hyperlinked PDF project to accompany novel
This hyperlinked PDF is designed to be used on a computer or tablet (perfect for iPads or Chromebooks) while reading Pedro’s Journal. Questions and activities have been developed to aid and deepen comprehension and spark critical thinking—all in line with Common Core. More than 20 links are embedded in this PDF document so your students are just click away from activities, additional research, non-fiction texts, videos, games, and more. This project can be used individually or as a class; use al
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4th - 8th
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Radio Theater Play Script Bow Wow Blues Comedy Great Characters! Buffoonery
Want to have some fun? Here's a fifteen minute comedy radio play, with 15+ roles for students, written especially for the classroom! This original play was written by an award winning middle grade author. Me! Strengthen your students' listening, speaking, reading skills all at once. A one stop shop! HOW DO I USE THIS IN MY CLASSROOM? If you are a reading teacher, you could read this script to cover one of your standards or language arts teacher to study characterization and voicing Or you cou
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7th - 10th
Orbit Enrichment Project
This is the perfect project for gifted or early finishers. You could alsogive to the whole class as a ”May Do” assignment when they’re finishedwith their “Must Do” tasks. This project can be used in various ways.Choice is powerful with students, especially when providing enrichment foradvanced students. Your students will surprise you with their end result.Students pick a topic that “orbits” around something they’ve learnedabout or are learning about in their grade level. For example: division,v
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2nd - 6th
Also included in: Enrichment Activity Growing Bundle
Broadway Musical Units and Study Guides| Theater History| Musical Storytelling
GROWING BUNDLE SAVE A BUNCH!! Here are 10 units (360 pages) and study guides focused on Tony Award winning, classic Broadway musicals--The Music Man, West Side Story, Phantom of the Opera, The King and I, South Pacific and Peter Pan and Sweeney Todd (which should be considered a classical). Students study, research, synthesize and apply the information with opportunities for individual, distance and/or cooperative learning. Plus, free lesson about Audra McDonald! Note: This is a GROWING bu
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8th - 10th
CRITICAL THINKING TASK CARDS Word Relationships TRIADS I Literacy
Combine critical thinking with vocabulary development and have fun doing it with TRIADS I. Teach your students to use Bloom's upper level skills -- analysis, evaluation, and creation with TRIADS I. At the same time, they will be exploring word relationships. This resource is available in print and digitally on TPT Easel. HOW TRIADS WORKThe challenge in this activity is to find 1 word that can be added to each of the TRIAD words to make a well-known phrase or compound word. The common word may b
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3rd - 6th
Depth + Complexity Prompts BUNDLE / Printable + Online
Online or in person project that includes the *ORIGINAL* AND *NEWER* depth and complexity prompts/GATE Icons which are great for all learners, especially gifted students.INCLUDES:+ Teacher Guide Instructions+ Google Slides Prompts with original and newer prompts+ Printable 1/2 Sheets with both original and newer promptsThere are *multiple* ways to complete this project. You could assign specific slides alongside another resource for students to complete with!+ FREEBIE INCLUDED +Depth + Complexi
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3rd - 6th
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Depth + Complexity Prompts 1 / PRINTABLE + DIGITAL
Great note takers that are PRINTABLE -or- DIGITAL that include the *ORIGINAL* depth and complexity prompts/GATE Icons which are great for all learners, especially gifted students.INCLUDES:+ Teacher Guide Instructions+ Google Slides Prompts with 13 slides+ Printable Half Sheets with 13 slidesThere are *multiple* ways to complete this project. You could assign specific slides alongside another resource for students to complete with!+ FREEBIE +Depth + Complexity Prompts/GATE Icons Guide
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Depth + Complexity Prompts BUNDLE / Printable + Online
CRITICAL THINKING TASK CARDS Word Relationships TRIADS II Literacy
TRIADS II combine critical thinking with vocabulary development, while building word relationships. Teach your students to use Bloom’s upper level thinking skills – analysis, synthesis, and creation – while having fun! These task cards are available in print and digitally on TPT Easel.HOW TRIADS WORKFind a word that can be added to each of the words on the TRIAD. The common word comes before or after each of the 3 words to make a familiar phrase or a compound word. Example: The common word for
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3rd - 6th
Martin Luther King Jr. Biography Interactive Activity- Learn About Black History
This Martin Luther King, Jr. Interactive Activity introduces your students to this great leader of the civil rights movement in a fun and engaging way. This fully interactive biography has students read (or listen to) an animated biography, watch a short video, read some famous quotes, read some fun facts, and then take a quiz to check for understanding. They will then assemble a puzzle to finish up.This is a perfect activity for a 35-45 minute class period, leaving time for students to open com
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Black History Biographies Bundle Interactive Learning Upper Grades
30 minute Internet Basics WebQuest
I know that you and your students will learn so much from this WebQuest. It teaches the basics of internet usage and it's a great
way to start the conversation of internet safety. It is a 30 min or less lesson and comes with a BONUS activity page for those go-getters.
This file may be used in many ways:
1.Whole group instruction: How to complete a web quest.
2. Individual/station work: Leave copies at the computer
and …BAM! Meaningful work for early finishers. You’re welcome.
3. Homework
4. Int
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3rd - 7th
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Folktale Readers Theater Script Buddy and the Evergreen Trees
Part of a Bundle Fighting the winter blahs? Brighten your days with this delightful reader's theater script and short unit, a dramatization of The Legend of the Evergreens. With roles for 15+ it is most suitable for elementary grade level students. Cooperative learning is a focal point of the mini-lesson. A teacher could assign this reader's theater script to students who are distance learning. #BFTPTDEALSBased on the beloved folk tale, students will:develop beginning characterization through
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4th - 6th
CRITICAL THINKING with Word Relationships TRIADS III Task Cards Literacy Center
Combine critical thinking with vocabulary development and have fun doing it with TRIADS III. Teach your students to use Bloom's upper level skills -- analysis, evaluation, and creation with TRIADS. At the same time, they will be exploring word relationships. These task cards are available in print and digitally on TPT Easel.HOW TRIADS WORKThe challenge in this activity is to find 1 word that can be added to each of the TRIAD words to make a well-known phrase or compound word. For example, t
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3rd - 6th
HINK PINK et al. PUZZLES Election Word Riddles Task Cards Vocabulary GATE
HINK PINKS, HINKY PINKIES, HINKITY PINKITIES, and HITINKITY PITINKITIES are riddles that help children learn to problem solve while exercising vocabulary skills (definitions, synonyms, parts of speech, rimes, ...). These Election themed, printable task cards prompt your students to interpret data, make inferences, draw conclusions, and analyze new information. Hink Pinks, et al. riddles are terrific for centers, enrichment, differentiation, bell ringers, sponge activities, and GATE. You can even
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4th - 8th
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Theater Arts Native American First People Folk Tales Readers Theater
BUNDLE Save! Celebrate Native American month with this GROWING bundle includes (6) units concerning Indigenous people--Inca, Zuni, Meti, Innuit and Aboriginal tribes in particular. As a bonus, I've thrown in a Greek myth! Each readers theater unit contains information which would be useful in a Social Studies, Language Arts or Drama class. This is a perfect arts integration project, too!HOW DO I USE THIS IN MY CLASSROOM: This can be used independently of the study of each culture or as a c
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5th - 8th
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Digital American Revolution Famous Figure Research Project - Google Classroom
In this digital activity, students will choose a famous figure of the American Revolution to research and write a report about. Students will also have an opportunity to plan for a presentation about their famous individual.Students will research about their famous figure’s early life, the contributions to the American Revolutions, and their later life/death. The project has three parts:- Part 1: Choosing and researching a famous figure- Part 2: Planning for and writing the research report- Part
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4th - 8th
California Gold Rush Digital Interactive Activity
California Gold Rush Digital Interactive ActivityExamine the California Gold Rush using this digital interactive activity!The file link is provided and will ask you to make a copy of it into your google drive!Students are asked to explore websites, listen to audio, examine photos, etc. about various aspects of the gold rush such as mining tools, diseases of the time, routes to CA, and MUCH MORESkills covered: analyze, compare, infer, critical thinking, listening, explore and MOREStudents are als
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4th - 8th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Distance Learning California History Hyperdoc Bundle
Drama Lesson Costume Design with Any Play or Musical Character Research Sketches
IMPROVED!!This drama lesson focused on costume design is one which can be used with ANY play or musical and is a perfect staple for the busy teacher. The students learn about the history of costume design, view video clips of costume designers and create their own costume designs. Suitable for students in grades 6 to 9 the product is for two class periods, although it could be used for a one day exploration of the subject as well. In addition, a teacher could assign this lesson to those studen
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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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.
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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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