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Free 8th grade english language arts microsofts for GATE
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.
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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.
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3rd - 10th
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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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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Elements of a Short Story-Planning template for Students
This outline template can be used when planning a short story. It also includes a quick activity where you can teach the elements of a short story (conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution) prior to beginning the outline. The visual shows the students how a short story must include all of these elements in order to continually engage the reader. Teacher answer key included.
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5th - 8th
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Monroe Doctrine Close Reading and Socratic Seminar
Advanced level and text-dependent questions for "The Monroe Doctrine." Ideal for US History classes. Basic level text-dependent questions are included, followed by a more advanced level Socratic Seminar.
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5th - 12th
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Solving Real World Problems
This packet guides students through the process of discussing real world problems, researching them, and finding realistic solutions. The packet is directly aligned with the Florida standards for gifted learners.
keywords: group work, teamwork, real world, issues, controversy, elementary, gifted and talented.
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K - 12th
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Celebrate Pi Day in a Novel Way - Pilish Writing FREE
If you celebrate Pi Day, March 14th (3/14) with your students, this is a fun writing activity to challenge students. PILISH is writing in which the digits of pi determine the number of letters in consecutive words. Included are examples and links to helpful resources: a "PILISH CHECKER," student sheets, and videos to share.See also "Celebrate Pi Day in a Novel Way" and visit Pilish for Pi Day.Find other resources for gifted and advanced students at BIG IDEAS for LITTLE SCHOLARS.
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4th - 12th
Editable 40 Book Challenge Tracking Sheet | Genre Challenge Tracking
This editable resource aligns with Donalyn Miller's 40 Book Challenge - where students are challenged to read 40 books during a single school year. Depending on your curriculum, you may want more specific genre choices, or even more independent choices! I have each genre listed with a number in front so students know how many of that genre they need to complete. Students write one book title for each box. For a book over 300 pages, students will write the title in two boxes.
Grades:
4th - 8th
Writing Workshop: Peer Editing Checklist
1 page handout for your writing workshops. This checklist was created for senior honors students but can be differentiated for other levels. Checklist asks writing content, writing structure, and basic editing questions. Have your classes peer edit at least two times prior to turning in their final essay, and you will pleased with the results. Works well with my Time Saving Writing Content Editing Key offered in my storefront.
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Raft Activity: Conflict During Westward Expansion
This document explores Chief Joseph's Lincoln Hall Speech and challenges students to use creativity to explore the conflict from various points of view. A RAFT activity (Role, Audience, Format, Topic) allows students the opportunity to place themselves into historical context by personifying a character from Westward Expansion and creating their choice of document to reflect the issues of the time period.
Keywords: Nez Perce, Westward Expansion, Gifted Education, RAFT, Choice, Differentiation,
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6th - 11th
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Critical Thinking with Print Advertisements -- Blended Learning for Students
Use this slideshow as a blended learning resource to spur critical thinking and analysis about print advertisements.
Each slide leads students through a series of questions and teaches various advertising strategies in the process.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Veteran's Day Reading & Activities
This free resource includes two different sets of activities for students regarding Veteran's Day. The two documents each have links to websites with readings for the students and then a series of in-depth questions and activities for the students to engage in. This resource is designed for students in grades 5-8 and integrates icons of Depth and Complexity in the questions.
Grades:
5th - 8th
All - American Slurp Reading Comprehension Questions
"All-American Slurp" is a short story written by Lensey Namioka that explores themes of cultural identity and assimilation. This is a set of 8 questions related to the short story "The All American Slurp" by Lensey Namioka. Emphasis of questions are on the experiences of "people of color" and "immigrant experience".
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6th - 12th
*EDITABLE* Student Led Conference PPT
Editable Powerpoint, perfect for Student led and student focused conferences. Students can input goals and reflections into the powerpoint. Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4, and Yearly Goals/Reflections.Helps build student accountability for their success in school!
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K - 8th
![Preview of "The Tale of the Mountain Cat, A Native Story;" [*New Book Trailer]](https://ecdn.teacherspayteachers.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=avif,quality=70,width=525,height=525,onerror=redirect/thumbitem/The-Tale-of-the-Mountain-Cat-A-Native-Story-1657551517/750f-27066-1.jpg)
"The Tale of the Mountain Cat, A Native Story;" [*New Book Trailer]
Check out the New Book Trailer (+13 Rating): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE7yE0KDIeo&t=4s
[All profits from this work go to the Homeless.] This is a story about a boastful Mountain Cat who comes into a meadow community and creates a confrontation. It is done in a "Native American" style of legend and story telling. This short story has been incorporated into the novel, "The Legend of Rail Wolf." ["Aids Orphans Remembered"]
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5th - 10th
Using Commercials for Critical Thinking in the Classroom -- FREE!
Think of commercials as little 30-60 second visual persuasive essays, and as such, they have great potential in the classroom.We teach to a visual generation. Let’s harness some of the power and appeal of screen time to generate discussion, examine new ideas, and spur interest in various topics!This guide offers tips for commercial analysis and sample lessons using commercials. It also contains suggestions for dozens of commercials and short videos to use in the classroom.
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2nd - 12th
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One Page Non-fiction Response for Reluctant Writers 3rd-8th
I generated this form a couple years ago as a way for students to think critically about non-fiction topics in a non-threatening, brief format. It was developed with reluctant readers and writers in mind.
As a gifted and talented resource teacher, I always have some students who are identified gifted and talented yet avoid writing. These students might be full of information and eager to contribute to class discussions with proclamations of “I saw on the History Channel . . .” Left to their
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3rd - 8th
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Mystery Word Puzzle
A great puzzle activity to do for morning work. Fill in the boxes with the letters of a mystery word (I frequently use vocabulary words) and have the students try to rearrange the letters to find the mystery word. This is a great way to work in prefixes, suffixes, inflected endings, etc.
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1st - 12th
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Reading Discussion Guide: BOOKTHINK
In BOOKTHINK, reading groups set daily goals for home reading. At home, students use comment and question starters based on Bloom's Taxonomy to prepare for discussions using class-devised discussion rules. This unit runs itself once established and may be repeated with different texts during the year. Differentiation strategies are highlighted throughout the unit. Assessment opportunities with Commons Core Standards-based rubrics are also included.
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5th - 9th
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Free: Editing lessons, adding interesting openings to sentences
Do your students have a hard time putting a comma after a sentence opener or dependent clause. Are you not sure how to teach it in the context of writing. This is both a revision lesson and a grammar lesson that teachers students how to use sentence openers.
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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![Preview of "Riding the 'Mad Dog' Roller Coaster (A Rdrs Th Script)" [*New Book Trailer]](https://ecdn.teacherspayteachers.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=avif,quality=70,width=525,height=525,onerror=redirect/thumbitem/-Riding-the-Flying-Deutchman-Roller-Coaster-A-Readers-Theater-Script-2627531-1542723039/750f-2627531-1.jpg)
"Riding the 'Mad Dog' Roller Coaster (A Rdrs Th Script)" [*New Book Trailer]
Check out the New Book Trailer (+13 Rating): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE7yE0KDIeo&t=4s
All profits from this work go to the Homeless.] This is a Readers Theater Script that is based off of the novel, "Pure Iron Metal Head: Hideous Praxis," and it accommodates five players. It centers around three junior highers (Colton, Gig and Lonnie), who are hanging out at the Santa Del Mar Beach & Boardwalk. As they are walking around, they decide to take on the Boardwalk's world famous rolle
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Engaging iGen GENERATION Z with Visuals Videos Toolkit and Lessons - FREE! GATE
Free tools to help you reach and teach, engage and motivate Generation Z who is: PragmaticConnectedGlobalEducatedSocialVisualIndependentThese tools will engage critical thinking through visual channels and finally will appeal Generation Z’s love of gadgets … self-made products in this case. You get:Visual Inference Guides with sample lessonsCommercials for Critical Thinking with sample lessonsJingles – a Musical Critical Thinking ToolThe Piano – a mini-lesson using Animation for Critical Thinkin
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Muffin to worry about Testing Tags
I am using this to tag on my breakfast muffins for our ELA state test. It is a powerpoint edible resource.Printing 4 slides per page, so it will print 4 tags per page! Happy testing!
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3rd - 8th
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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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