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Free high school english language arts resources for GATE
Listening and Following Directions Activity With Lesson Plan
Listening and Following Directions
An Activity That Challenges Students To Pay Attention To Details
This activity is designed to challenge students to listen closely to directions and complete tasks in the correct locations on a grid.
Interested in more following directions and reading comprehension activities? Check out:
Listening and Following Directions Growing Bundle + Reading Comprehension
Listening & Following Directions Back To School Edition +Reading Comprehension
Listening & Fol
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
FREE Close Reading Bookmarks - Annotating Text & Post-it Note Strategy
Print these bookmarks for your students and they will never forget how to close read! I print mine double-sided and students use one side for when we can write on the text and the other (post-it) side for when we're close reading something we can't write on!*****************************************************************************CCSS Aligned Interactive Reading NotebooksI use interactive notebooks in my classroom on a daily basis. I've created my own interactive notebook pages that are align
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4th - 12th
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March Connections Free Brain Teasers
Treat your students to March Connections, a two-page collection of mental calisthenics requiring the identification of specific words that will connect three, seemingly unrelated words--Leprechaun's, star, and medal, for instance. With a short brain workout, the word GOLD will come to mind--Leprechaun's gold, gold star, and gold medal. The forty items are related to March events or March weather. Full answer keys are included.
Download and enjoy!
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5th - 9th
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Standards Based 6-Traits Writing Elements (revising/editing)
NEWLY UPDATED!!
An Interactive student Guide to build self-efficacy in 6-Trait Text Revising and Editing. Ready to use for lessons with printables for Students. The guides includes a process with steps that will guide students through each of the 6 traits of writing (i.e., ideas & content, sentence fluency, word choice, organization, voice, conventions) for 6-8th grade.
The new updated version includes both color and black and white pages, a fun design, and all the same helpful content!
Grades:
5th - 10th
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Public Speaking Template, Tips, and Tricks for the 1-2 Minute Informative Speech
The common core wants effective speakers and 21st Century Learners!
Here is a template for the one to two minute informative speech in handy notecard-sized cutouts.
This document includes public speaking tips and tricks for all ages and ability levels.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Bell Ringers and Brain Teasers for Young Scholars Free Sample Activities
Challenge your students (and adult friends) to make the connections with these two activities from Brain Teasers for Young Scholars. Keys, fortunately, are included! Download and enjoy.
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4th - 9th
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Table Texting
"Table Texting" is a fun, interactive strategy you can use with any piece of text or topic. The key is to pose a higher-level question that encourages thinking among students. Students respond to the question in writing. The teacher or facilitator collects the papers and redistributes them. Students get to read other responses and reply. The process continues until all of the speech bubbles are completed. At the end, students get to read their classmates' responses. I have used this with success
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Menu of Independent Reading Projects FREE Enrichment and GATE
Just say YES to the five C’s for gifted learners with CHALLENGES, CHOICES, COMPLEXITY, CONTROL over what and how they learn, and teachers who authentically CARE. Energize all readers with this project choice menu – FREE! Come back for over 200 lessons and units specifically designed for gifted learners.
Grades:
3rd - 10th
Contrived Math--Tricked-Out Word Problems with Ordinary Numbers
This download is for those students and their teachers who enjoy solving somewhat twisted, definitely unusual (aka "tricked out") word math problems. An equal combination of language arts and basic math skills, Contrived Math challenges participants to collect common data, such as the number of days in a year, shuffle it around according to instructions, and come up with a targeted answer.
The activity is divided into two parts of twenty problems each. Full answer keys are included. Eigh
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5th - 9th
Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" Student Workbook Short Story Mini-Unit
Teaching Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" can be a really exciting time in a high school classroom with the potential for powerful discussions and a new distaste for the idea of conformity. Student favorite! This short story student workbook makes your life and the lives of your students easier. Students love having their own little workbook and teachers have zero prep to do!This short story student workbook includes:-Author bio and quiz-Pre-reading discussion guide-Vocabulary organizer with
Grades:
7th - 12th
Financial Literacy | Writing Prompt | Personal Finance | Opinon Writing
Help your students become proficient persuasive writers with this FREEBIE! Persuasive language is everywhere! Commercials, social media, movie ads and political speeches. Teaching persuasive writing and language is important and takes time and practice. Here’s an activity that supports persuasive writing by giving students a topic they can relate to, Financial Intelligence!What do your students already know about Financial Intelligence?If you’d like to give them a head start, check out this fun
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5th - 9th
April Vocabulary Downpour
April's designation as a month of rain is the anchor for this fifty-item brain teaser/vocabulary builder. Students are challenged to identify words that have the actual letters r-a-i-n or letter combinations that sound like "rain" within their spellings. Also included are interpretive questions based on idiomatic expressions with the word rain.
Five total pages including full answer keys. Download and enjoy.
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5th - 9th
Animation and Critical Thinking for GATE and Generation Z -- The Piano FREE
4th Graders through adults find this video and activity fascinating. Let's try it FREE!Maybe your students will ask the same question mine did, "When can we do this again?"Using a short 2 minute video and an accompanying "Visual Inference Guide," students quickly become engaged in a critical analysis as they share insights with classmates--connecting video and literature.This format works for upper elementary through high school honors classes because students respond according to their abilit
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Christmas Song Titles in Gobbledygook
Gobbledygook, high-sounding language that confuses and amuses, is the subject of this fun Christmas activity. Students are challenged to identify the titles of twenty-six popular Christmas tunes written in extreme gobbledygook. The activity is organized into two handouts--Set One with twelve titles and Set Two with fourteen. An introductory page for students explains the nature and origin of the term.
The last page is a graphic organizer for writing a letter to Santa in gobbledygook.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Radio Drama Play Script Sample The Canterville Ghost
Are you looking for something a lightly scary, but also thought provoking and a classic? Check out my adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost dramatized as a radio play script. This sample gives you a taste of the resource--the script has roles for 15 + students plus a sound effects crew. Students strengthen their reading, writing, listening and speaking skills while performing this play. The Canterville Ghost story by Oscar Wilde concerns a girl who befriends the ghost haunting Cante
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6th - 9th
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FREE Greek Alphabet Wall Display Gifted Language Arts
FREE Greek Alphabet Wall Display Gifted Language ArtsIf they already know the alphabet, try posting this one above your whiteboard instead! It includes upper and lower case symbols, English (Latin) equivalences, and pronunciations. It prints in landscape format with two letters per page and fit just perfectly in a horizontal row over my board as traditional alphabet displays do--but with a real wow effect that makes everyone entering the room stop and actually look at the letters. Letters are
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Informational Text: The American Search for Utopia: Free (CCSS Aligned)
This free, original Informational Text reading resource is taken from my teaching pack for Gordon Korman's popular book SCHOOLED.
The selected informational text--"The American Search for Utopia"-- is designed to provide students with background information that will heighten their understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment for Mr. Korman’s story and its characters. However, the text can also stand alone as a independent reading resource with social studies connections. The ten quest
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6th - 9th
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Emergency Substitute Lesson | Technical Theater Choice Boards| FREE
FREE! Give drama students opportunities for differentiation or engaging distance learning. This choice board lesson sample provides students an opportunity to learn about designers of costume for the Broadway musical, Wicked. Excellent for gifted learners or students who need independent study or an alternative assignment. How do I use this in my classroom? A teacher could assign this lesson to be completed at home, in-class or as an independent study. Check out the Choice Board Bundle! Note:
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6th - 9th
Visual Inference Guides - Analysis Tools for Photos, Short Film, Fine Art, +More
Use these guides to explore all things visual—from fine art to historical primary sources, from poetic videos to kids’ cartoons and from public service posters to visual instruction guides. These guides are designed to generate discussion, insight, inferences, and deeper understanding for a visual generation of learners.
Do We Write Our Answers?
We want to encourage collaboration and discussion—especially from your most reluctant writers. I don’t recommend writing more than a part or two in
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K - 12th
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January Rhymes and Analogies with Writing
Welcome your students to the new year with this FREE January vocabulary builder with a related graphic organizer for writing.
Begin with RHYMING IN THE NEW YEAR, a fun anagram activity focusing on words that rhyme with NEW and YEAR. A companion graphic organizer for writing, THREE YEARS, provides the basis for a composition about a favorite year from the past, the present, and a much-anticipated year from the future.
Next, JANUARY ANALOGIES provides a thinking-skills challenge with
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6th - 9th
March Freebie: Better Late than Never: Procrastination Week
Who among us, student and teacher alike, has not stepped over an unpleasant task and assigned it to an undetermined future date? For a select group, piddling around is standard procedure. Procrastination, it seems, is pretty much one of the common denominators of human behavior. So why would we be surprised that the second week in March is designated as NATIONAL PROCRASTINATION WEEK--that is, unless it gets put off until sometime later.
This free download, entitled BETTER LATE THAN
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6th - 9th
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February Bouquet: A Vocabulary/Spelling Brain Teaser
This two-part activity is a study of English words with tricky spellings, such as February and bouquet. The first set of thirty-three items focuses on everyday words that baffle us with their unusual letter combinations. The second portion, also with thirty-three items, features words that offer challenges with both their spellings and their less familiar definitions.
A resource list of 150+ more words with quirky spellings is included for those teachers who want to create another round or tw
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5th - 9th
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Depth and Complexity Chart for Scholastic News/Magazine/Newspaper
Depth and complexity chart for any article
Grades:
3rd - 10th
Depth and Complexity Icon Template
Depth and Complexity Icon Template to apply concepts and comprehension.
Grades:
1st - 12th
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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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