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Back to School Common Core W.9-10.5 resources
Editable Student Information Sheet - Get to Know Your Student Survey Questions
Promote equity, growth mindset, and class community while you get to know your students! This editable student information sheet includes student survey questions to obtain important student information. Suitable for distance learning with digital forms for Google Classroom®.Included with this Student Information Survey:✏️ Editable Student Information Sheet for Microsoft PowerPoint®✏️ Sample Student Survey Question Prompts✏️ Ready-to-Print Student Information Sheet with 25+ Student Survey Q
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6th - 12th
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Back to School Bundle: Icebreakers, Memes, Decor, Rules, Procedures
Back to School Bundle includes icebreakers, get-to-know-you and all about me activities, classroom posters and memes, rules and procedures activity, editable presentations, and more. You will have plenty of resources to last the first few days AND for years to come.These best-sellers are included:Back-to-School Rules and Procedures: Can I Chew Gum in Class? EDITABLE!Teacher Memes Posters {Back to School, Class Rules} EDITABLE! Grammar Fail Presentation: Using Humor to Teach the Importance of Eng
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6th - 12th, Staff
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Memoirs in 100 Words - Writing with Mentor Texts - Personal Narrative Writing
Students use precise word choice and eliminate redundancy in their writing with this memoir lesson. Originally inspired by The Washington Post feature, “Life is Short: Autobiography as Haiku,” students write memoirs in 100 words or fewer. This lesson teaches students to “show” themselves in vivid details and carefully chosen words. The lesson has recently been updated to include Google slides and instructional YouTube videos for guided practice!In pre-writing activities, students journal about
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7th - 11th
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Back to School - All About Me Newspaper Activity - DIGITAL & PRINT
Get to know your students and assess their writing skills in this fun and engaging Back to School Newspaper - Biography Activity. Everything you need is included to get started right away! Easy to differentiate for varying ages and abilities. Includes both print and digital versions of the activity! Use with Google Classroom™ and other digital learning platforms!Students are asked to create the first page of a newspaper all about their unique lives and experiences. Extend to a full newspaper
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6th - 8th
6 Word Memoir Getting to Know You Activities High School & Middle School
This Six Word Memoir Project is a perfect back to school icebreaker for high school or middle school students. Build classroom community while teaching important ELA writing concepts like diction, syntax, and the writing process. This EDITABLE, NO PREP, GOOGLE SLIDES six Word Memoir writing activity is a fun and engaging getting to know you activity for high school or middle school students as well as an excellent way to introduce any identity unit or memoir unit. This activity is editable so yo
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7th - 12th
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Icebreakers, Bell Ringers, Activities, and Games Bundle for Classroom Community
Use these back to school (BTS) activities to review classroom management, reading, writing, and grammar. Designed for the beginning of the school year, this bundle includes an icebreaker activity, a combining sentences game, task cards, memoir writing lesson, Trashketball review game, and problem-solving writing prompts that are designed to get your students reading and writing right away! Icebreaker ActivityUse these cards as a team-builder activity at the beginning of the school year. Much l
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7th - 10th
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Letter To My Teacher: Beginning or End of Year Writing Prompt, Draft, Revision
This beginning of the year or end of term or end of year writing prompt gets students reflecting on their learning as they prewrite, draft, revise, edit, and prepare a letter to their future teacher. Available as an editable Canva template, a PDF, and within Easel for virtual or in-person learning. Great as a stand alone, multi-day activity for a sub or while you wrap up assessments.Engaging students in meaningful writing in the first or last weeks of school can seem impossible. In order to p
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5th - 8th
Beginning of the Year Writing Sample: Autobiographical Narrative
This assignment is perfect for the first few days of school. Students need a personal picture from their phones or home in order to complete the essay, so give them time to make a choice or bring one in. These essays are always fun to read and grade. Your students get to share something personal and you begin to work on that critical relationship component right away!"A picture is worth 1,000 words" is an expression that everyone is familiar with, and this assignment capitalizes on that. Student
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Back to School Activities Bundle
Get to Know You Collaborative Hexagon Group Activity
This collaborative, back to school get-to-know-you hexagon activity is perfect for helping your students get to know each other! This hexagon activity can be done with students in grades 8-12 (and younger, with some modifications) and helps students learn each others' names, share safe information about themselves, find commonalities with their classmates, practice critical thinking skills and cooperation, and then reflect on the process as a whole.This resource includes: Teacher instructions, i
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7th - 12th
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Back to School Engaging Team Building Survival Activity Digital Resource
In this space survival challenge, students are thrust into the thrilling world of astronauts on a mission to survive in the vastness of the cosmos. Stranded miles away from their mothership due to mechanical difficulties, they must work together to make crucial decisions and choose the most essential items for their journey back to safety.Students must think critically to prioritize essential items for their journey, fostering decision-making skills that extend beyond the classroom. This activi
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6th - 12th
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A Protocol to Facilitate Collaboratively Looking at Student Work on PowerPoint
Do you need a best practice idea for a back to school staff development or professional learning team or collaborative inquiry session? This 15-slide, editable PowerPoint with slide notes and instructions outlines an 8-step protocol for improving instruction and looking at student work. It was designed as a tool to help teachers with data-driven decision making about instruction to better meet the needs of students. The PowerPoint can be used in a staff or professional development session or
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Adult Education, Staff
Personal Coat of Arms Project
The Personal Coat of Arms Project walks your students through the process of creating their own coat of arms that represents who they are! Get to know your students as they write their own personal mottoes, create visual representations of their likes, hobbies and dreams, write about them, and present them to the class. This is also an excellent resource for teaching students how to analyze characters in literature!Personal Coat of Arms Project contains: - Set of instructions - 3 Rubrics (Coat
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: First Day of School Icebreakers BUNDLE
BEGINNING OF THE YEAR PROJECT: "Where I'm From" Poem
Begin the year off by getting to know your students while setting the tone for rigor. Many beginning of the year projects that ask students to share something about themselves don't ask them to engage engage with ELA skills in a meaningful way. On the first few days of school, guide students to analyze this poem by George Ella Lyons and follow-up with having them use the poem as model to tell you about themselves. Have them take it a step further by asking them to add pictures and to present it
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7th - 11th
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EMAIL ETIQUETTE | Start the year right
This PowerPoint presentation is engaging, comprehensive, and designed to equip teachers with a powerful resource for teaching students the art of effective email communication.This resource is right for you if you want to:ensure students learn essential digital literacy skillsexplain the nuances of email writingengage your students with a fun and interactive presentationprovide many examples and non-examples to help students understand expectationsbe able to personalize slides to reflect your cl
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Not Grade Specific
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Write an Email to a Teacher (Email Writing Review Assignment & Mini Lesson)
Do your students need to learn or review what they should put into an email to a teacher? Check out this writing assignment with a mini lesson and notes sheet included to begin the conversation about proper academic email etiquette. The document you'll open upon purchase includes instructions for students to self-direct themselves through the mini lesson and notes, then specific instructions for the writing assignment where they're asked to write an email to a teacher. The assignment is great to
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Conversation Starters Package on Standardized Testing
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on standardized testing.What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for middle/high school students on the subject of standardized testingActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
Penny Boat: Beginning of Year Goal Setting Interactive
This is a fun interactive activity to use at the beginning of the year! Essentially, students build boats out of a pre-cut size of foil. Then, they see how many pennies this boat can handle before it sinks! The idea is to discuss afterward how these are similar to preparing and succeeding in life, including planning, collaborating, and not "sinking" when other obstacles are placed in your way. This pack includes: 1. instructions 2. Penny Boat Reflection: Graphic Organizer3. Penny Boat Reflection
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7th - 12th
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First Day of School Activity: About Me Project
Do you hate boring/cheesy icebreakers on the first day of school? Do you need a fun and creative way to get to know your students and their writing abilities at the same time? Do you want a great piece of student work to display in your classroom? Do you have no clue what to do on the first day of school?This is the first day activity for you! Each of your students will need a piece of paper cut into a perfect square ( I usually do this beforehand) it can be colorful or plain whiteExplain to th
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5th - 12th
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How to Write an Autobiographical or Introductory Essay: Steps, Topics, & Rubric
It's the perfect way to break the ice. This all-in-one printable contains a list of autobiographical writing prompts on cultural experience/family, a grading rubric, and a list of components that are needed to formulate a strong introductory essay. Why not utilize the finished product for a speech component as well? It's a win-win for students and teachers.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Back to School Writing Assignment Student Experts 10 Unwritten Rules
At the beginning of the year, I am looking for engaging ways to get to know my students, and engage in meaningful learning as quickly as possible. I have used this assignment for several years, and the kids love it. It is based on a quick study of an excerpt from Sherman Alexei's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian. We read the text as writers making annotations about style and tone. I do a quick book talk to establish context, but we don't study the whole novel in class.Then studen
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Back to School Activities Bundle
Writing a Personal Narrative
This is a great back-to-school writing lesson in which you can assess student writing and get to know them at the same time! Students can electronically draft a personal narrative. Directions for each part of the essay are included on each slide. A peer editing and self assessment slide are also included.
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7th - 12th
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MLA Format Checklist & Example
Print this handout double-sided for your students to practice editing with MLA format. On the first side, they can check for all the components needed in a paper with MLA format. Instructions for inserting a Hanging Indent and Page Number in Google Docs are included. On the second side, an example of what this format should look like with tips for formal academic writing is included. This is a reference for students to visualize any MLA mistakes.
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9th - 12th
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Get To Know You Acrostic Poem
An acrostic poem using the student's first name. This asks for more complex thought than "A is for amazing." This is a great filler activity to keep students occupied when they finish diagnostic tests sooner than their peers at the beginning of the year. Combines poetry, characterization, and a bit of visual creativity. 10 minutes or so of explanation; an hour or so of student work. End product from student is an illustrated acrostic poem of their name on a half-sheet of paper. Created by Englis
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7th - 10th
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