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8th grade english language arts lessons for homeschool under $5
First Day of School Investigate the Teacher Activity - Engaging - Print/Digital
Engage your students with this unique first day of school activity where students "investigate" the teacher and make inferences based on what they observe in the classroom. This kinesthetic activity is the perfect way to mix things up on Day 1 and set the tone for an engaging, student-centered year. If you want your students to get MOVING around the room, COLLABORATE with their peers, engage in INQUIRY-BASED learning, and practice INFERENCING + CRITICAL THINKING skills, then the "Investigate the
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4th - 12th
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Number Sense Color by Code 0-10 Math Activities Worksheets Games Warm Up Kinder
Do your students need a fun and engaging way to practice number sense? Count & Color includes color-by-number activities with a twist. Students are shown multiple ways to represent a number. Therefore they must count before they color! This really makes your students THINK.Each of the 11 pictures will reveal a fun surprise...a colorful picture of a number!These are perfect warm ups, independent practice sheets, morning work pages, fast finisher activities, etc.This set covers numbers 0-10.⭐S
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PreK - 1st
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Emergency Sub Plans 4th 5th Grade Animal-Theme FULL DAY No Prep Substitute Plans
Looking for ready-to-use substitute teaching plans for an entire day (and more)? Whether you're out sick, home with an under-the-weather child, or need a mental health day, these 4th/5th Grade Emergency Substitute Plans have you covered! It can be used at any time of the year and is an animal-themed packet of learning activities for your students to do with your substitute while you're out for the day. The substitute plans include everything from morning work to reading, math, and more to give
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4th - 5th
Figurative Language PowerPoint: Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration, Idiom, and More!
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce your figurative language unit to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 42-slide PowerPoint features 7 literary devices: similes, metaphors, alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperboles, and idioms. The first 14 slides serve as an introduction to each literary device. These slides contain a definition and examples of each literary device. The final 25 slid
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3rd - 6th
Titanic! Nonfiction Text Features & Comparing Multiple Accounts 4-8 NO PREP
Spice up your lessons with this Titanic Pack! Students practice identifying and using nonfiction text features in natural context. They'll also compare multiple accounts of survivor stories. Just like all of my other activity packs, these lessons are FUN, extremely high-interest, organized, RIGOROUS, and ready to teach today!*NOTE* - This product is included in my Spring Bundle. Purchase the bundle to receive an exclusive Easter Mini-Pack!Your students will:Construct an 11 page "book" in their i
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4th - 9th
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Emergency Sub Plan - Missing Teacher Substitute Teacher Lesson and Activity
Emergency Sub Plan - Missing Teacher Substitute Teacher Lesson and Activity: This emergency sub plan is ready-to-use for any day off! This lesson and activity will keep your students totally engaged and on-task. The assignment is about your inexplicable absence and puts students in charge (by the principal) of investigating the reason you are not at school. Students will create a Missing Teacher poster and an investigative police case file that has them examine evidence and witness testimonies
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5th - 8th
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Main Idea and Supporting Details PowerPoint with Ice Cream Graphic Organizer
Teaching students to identify the main idea and supporting details can be incredibly challenging! It doesn't have to be tedious and boring, too! If you are looking for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce main idea and supporting details to your students in a way that will grab their attention, you've come to the right place! I use ice cream cone graphics so that students will build a meaningful connection that will help them remember and understand how details support the mai
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2nd - 3rd
Speed Debating Engaging Persuasive Activity: Practice Ethos, Pathos, & Logos
Looking for an engaging way to practice ethos, pathos, and logos? Want to practice debating in preparation for a formal debate? Just want to have some FUN and hit the listening and speaking standards? Feel like challenging your students to think fast on their feet? Don't know what else to teach tomorrow?Look no further, because this is it. I am not exaggerating when I say "Speed Debating" is the BEST lesson I've ever taught. It's one of those activities that is so student-directed that you, as t
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7th - 12th
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All About Me Back to School Activities
This All About Me Backpack can be used for back to school, first day of school, or first week of school. These make adorable back to school bulletin board and back to school hallway displays. These could also be used for Open House or Parent Night! Included are over 40 pages that could be used with PreK, Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd, or even 3rd! What's Included:CRAFTS-Backpack craft (black line)-Backpack Cover Template (with zipper)-Backpack Cover Template (without zipper)-Directions on how to
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PreK - 3rd
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Also included in: Back to School Activities Bundle | Back to School Survival Kit
Informational Text Structures PowerPoint with Practice Passages
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce nonfiction text structures to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 34-slide PowerPoint begins by introducing the 5 categories of informational text structures to students. Each text structure features a graphic organizer. Plus, students find it engaging because all of the example paragraphs are related to soccer! After reading each soccer passage, students are show
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3rd - 6th
Character Traits PowerPoint Lesson with Word Lists and Practice Passages
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce character traits to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 36-slide PowerPoint is highly interactive. It begins by distinguishing character traits from emotions and physical traits. It then focuses on the skill of inferencing by using feelings, actions, dialogue, and thoughts found in the text. This PowerPoint is designed to build your students' character trait vocab
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3rd - 6th
Friendship How to Be Good Friend Writing Activity Craft Kindness Bulletin Board
Are your students learning how to be a dino-mite friend? This darling dinosaur craftivity and bulletin board kit is the perfect way to celebrate friendship in your classroom. Let your class brainstorm and write about how to be a good friend with this fun writing activity. It would make a fantastic bulletin board for back-to-school to promote kindness at the beginning of the year, and since it has an adorable heart theme it also could make an adorable display for February (Friendship is import
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1st - 3rd
Context Clues PowerPoint Lesson for 4th, 5th, 6th grade
Are you searching for a step-by-step context clues PowerPoint that can be used to introduce context clues to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 49-slide PowerPoint begins by introducing the 5 types of context clues to students. The five types of context clues include: definitions, synonym clues, antonym (contrast) clues, inference clues, and example clues.The last half of the PowerPoint contains 14 multiple-choice practice slides. Students
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4th - 6th
Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences PowerPoint Lesson
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce simple, compound, and complex sentences to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 74-slide PowerPoint is designed to teach your students about the differences between simple, compound, and complex sentences. Students will have opportunities to identify and generate each type of sentence.This student-friendly PowerPoint allows you to teach the types of sentences while
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3rd - 6th
Teen Numbers Sense Activities 11-20 Color by Code Math Worksheets Kindergarten
Do your students need a fun and engaging way to practice number sense? Count & Color includes color-by-number activities with a twist. Students are shown multiple ways to represent a number. Therefore they must count before they color! This really makes your students THINK.Each of the 11 pictures will reveal a fun surprise...a colorful picture of a number!These are perfect warm ups, independent practice sheets, morning work pages, fast finisher activities, etc.This set covers numbers 11-20.⭐
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K - 2nd
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Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases PowerPoint Lesson with Practice Exercises
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce prepositions and prepositional phrases to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 54-slide prepositions PowerPoint is highly engaging! Students will read sentences and identify the prepositional phrases within sentences. It features many practice opportunities! Students also learn to differentiate between "to" as a preposition and "to" as an infinitive.PowerPoints fil
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3rd - 6th
We Don't Eat Our Classmates Craft and Read Aloud | Back to School Activities
Engage your students in a rigorous interactive read aloud with the book We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins. Students will love the read aloud and be able to apply their knowledge in the extension activities and writing prompts centered around the book's theme of making friends.Get all current interactive read alouds H A L F off with the Interactive Read Aloud ENDLESS Bundle! All future IRAs will be added for F R E E ! The We Don't Eat Our Classmates Interactive Read Aloud and Ac
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K - 2nd
Narrative Writing - Graphic Organizers, Rubrics & More For A Personal Narrative
Personal Narrative Writing - An easy package to teach students how to write a well-organized personal narrative. These organizers and worksheets lead students through the writing process, from brainstorming to the finished product. Using examples and extensive peer and self-editing, students can produce a well-written narrative paragraph. It can also be a starting point for a longer essay or writing piece.For a DIGITAL version of this resource, click HERE. Includes the following 15 pages:- Les
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6th - 9th
Also included in: WRITING - Persuasive, Narrative, Expository & Descriptive Writing Bundle
Hexagonal Thinking | Getting to Know You Activity | GRADES 5-8 | Back to School
⭐ BUILD A POSITIVE CLASSROOM CULTURE! Provide your students in 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades with an engaging and insightful way to connect with one another and learn about hexagonal thinking.**DESIGNED FOR GRADES 5-8**Students will:fill in the sections of a hexagon with information and illustrations about themselvesuse the hexagons as a tool to communicate as they move through the classroom and match up their common interests►As an alternative activity, students can connect their hexagons in sm
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: BUNDLE 25 Interactive Google Apps LANGUAGE ARTS Lessons and Activities
13 Colonies Map and Activities | Printable & Digital
Focus on climate, geography, and the economies of the early American colonies using this informational text, comprehension worksheet, map activity, and assessment! Students will gain a better understanding of how climate and geography played a role in shaping each colonial economy. A printable PDF version and digital version is included! **This resource is part of the no-prep 13 Colonies Unit Bundle. It includes FIVE printable and digital resources at a 30% discount price! A FREE 13 Colonies wo
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: 13 Colonies Unit | Colonial America | Colonization | Map & Activities
Dialogue PowerPoint Lesson: Practice Writing and Punctuating Dialogue
Do your students misuse quotation marks when trying to add dialogue to their stories? Would you like to teach them the punctuation rules for writing with dialogue? If so, this highly interactive 71-slide Writing Dialogue PowerPoint may be exactly what you are looking for! Three dialogue rules are introduced. Quotation marks enclose the words that the character said.Use a tag at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of the dialogue.Use the correct punctuation for writing dialogue.Next, pun
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3rd - 5th
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson - Short Story Slides, Assignments, and Activities
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson - Short Story Slides, Assignments, and Activities: Engage your middle and high school students with Shirley Jackson's compelling short story, The Lottery, using this comprehensive resource designed to engage your students. Included are presentation slides to guide the lesson, reading analysis questions to deepen understanding, a symbolism assignment to enhance critical thinking and a video comparison assignment for added context. Additionally, students will have th
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8th - 12th
Prefixes PowerPoint Lesson with Vocabulary Practice (mis, un, re, pre, dis)
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce common prefixes to your students in a way that will grab their attention? If so, this highly interactive PowerPoint may be exactly what you are looking for! After defining affix, prefix, and suffix, students learn the meaning of the five most common prefixes: un-, dis-, re-, pre-, and mis-. Then, there are more than 20 practice slides where students must identify a prefixed word in the sentence and the meaning of the p
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2nd - 4th
Point of View PowerPoint Lesson with Practice Passages: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Person
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce point of view to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 47-slide PowerPoint is highly engaging, and it focuses on first person, second person, and third person point of view. Students are taught to follow these three steps to identify which point of view was used by the author:Read the passage.Cross out the dialogue.Focus on the pronouns.If they consistently do these
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3rd - 5th
Also included in: Point of View Bundle of Activities: Worksheets, Task Cards, Craftivity
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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.
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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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