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High school english language arts lectures $5-10
Argumentative Essay Writing, Argument Writing How to Guide, Topics, Rubric CCSS
Help your high school and advanced middle school students win their written arguments with these easy-to-follow essay writing materials. This bundle of interactive, step-by-step materials inspires even my most reluctant students to put pen to paper. Activities/handouts featuring modern design elements will guide your students as they learn to craft their own meaningful and effective argumentative essays. Easy prep for you; excellent growth for your students’ writing skills.Just print and teach!I
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8th - 11th
Literary Terms & Devices – 19 Weekly Lectures, Bell-Ringers or Flipped Content
Welcome to Lit. Term Tuesday – an easy way to start your class each Tuesday (or whatever day you want) with a high-interest bell-ringer lecture featuring classic literary devices paired with modern examples with which your students are certain to identify. (These literary device lectures also work great as flipped content for weekly homework assignments on in-class stations.)Sure, everyone knows protagonist and antagonist, but have your students learned about anti-heroes (think: Walter White fro
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8th - 11th
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Note-Taking Skills Lessons & Templates: Teach with ANY Unit! (with GOOGLE)
Do your students struggle with taking notes in class, especially from a lecture? Are they unsure what to write down, or how to organize their ideas?Use this lesson to empower students with a critical skill that can change their academic lives! And the best part? You can use this lesson set concurrently with another unit, so you’re able to efficiently make progress with this skill alongside your existing curriculum!NEW: This resource now includes Google Docs and Slides versions for ease of use wi
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7th - 10th
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Elements of Drama Terms, Complete Teaching Unit, Lesson Plans
Teach, review, and assess the key elements of drama terms - drama, stage directions, aside, soliloquy, monologue, and dialogue - with this creative, thorough, and low prep teaching pack!It provides: - foldable instructions or sketch notes for note-taking- PPT lecture with definitions and examples- Interactive sorting cards with self-checking QR codes- Independent practice worksheet- two review games: Game show and Bingo- a fun group creative writing assignment to apply the terms with rubric- a p
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7th - 10th
MUG #3, Mechanics Usage & Grammar Bell-Ringers, Editing & Proofreading Practice
Welcome to Volume #3 of M.U.G. Monday, where students master Mechanics, Usage, and Grammar by working together to proofread real-world writing examples. These 19 weekly grammar editing sessions address the most common errors made in middle-school and high-school writing.I've used these lessons on Mondays because I like alliteration (M.U.G. Shot Mondays), but you can use them anytime you want. Most semesters run 18 weeks, but I threw in an extra M.U.G. editing mini-lesson in case you have an extr
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8th - 11th
MLA Lesson 9th Edition, Formatting In-Text & Works Cited, Complete Teaching Unit
No more "boring" lectures on MLA! With this teaching pack, you get a variety of ways to present and practice MLA formatting. 9th Edition, Updated 2021Student Experience: Begin by reviewing the basics of MLA structure and its importance. Then, as you teach, students will see examples and have a chance to practice the formatting of internal and extremal citations. Next, students will participate in an interactive, hands-on activity where they sort MLA citation information and become "human citati
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Research Writing Unit, Curriculum BUNDLE+
MUG #4, Mechanics Usage & Grammar Bell-Ringers, Editing & Proofreading Practice
Welcome to Volume #4 of M.U.G. Monday, where students master Mechanics, Usage, and Grammar by working together to proofread real-world writing examples. These 19 weekly grammar editing sessions address the most common errors made in middle-school and high-school writing.I've used these lessons on Mondays because I like alliteration (M.U.G. Shot Mondays), but you can use them anytime you want. Most semesters run 18 weeks, but I threw in an extra M.U.G. editing mini-lesson in case you have an extr
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8th - 11th
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Allusions in Literature Lesson, Complete Teaching Unit
In this packed and ready-to-go teaching pack for allusions in literature, you will find everything you need to teach and practice this critical skill for literary analysis. The lecture is easy-to-use and the examples are plentiful and modern. Student Experience: Students will walk through definitions, modern examples, and guided practice. There are task cards for interactive practice, and worksheets and quizzes for assessment. Included:- Teaching Suggestions with CCSS- Lecture (PPT and Google)-
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8th - 11th
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Skills Teaching Units, BUNDLE of Lessons
Characters/Characterization Traits/Archetypes Lesson Plan
The objective of this Characters, Characterization Development and Archetypes complete teaching pack is to foster students' beginning or basic understanding of how an author uses details to "paint a picture" of a character throughout a text. Student Experience: The lesson slideshow paints the concept and terms, the task cards allow students the chance to practice their skills on authentic text, and the creative body biography activity allows students to show their comprehension of this skill in
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Skills Teaching Units, BUNDLE of Lessons
Informational Text Features Lesson, Complete Teaching Unit
This complete pack for teaching and assessing informational text features will take your instruction of this skill from beginning to end. Each of my ELA Skills-Readiness Lesson Packs includes a teacher's guide lesson plan, an easy-to-use PPT lecture explaining the concept, guided practice, opportunity for collaborative and individual practice, and a form of assessment.Student Experience: Students will take notes during the engaging and up-to-date lecture. There are plenty of examples to explain
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Skills Teaching Units, BUNDLE of Lessons
Irony, Satire, & Parody Lesson, Complete Teaching Unit
In this teaching pack for irony with a lecture, task cards, real-world practice, "info text article," sketch notes, interactive notebook insert, and video clips linked in, you will find everything you need to teach irony and all its nuances and extensions. The materials provided will allow you to seamlessly and creatively cover the basic three types of irony and go beyond those to explain and illustrate satire, sarcasm, and parody to give students the full picture of irony.Included:- Lesson Plan
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Skills Teaching Units, BUNDLE of Lessons
Claims, Counterclaims, Rebuttals Lesson, Complete Teaching Unit
Build stronger argumentative writers by giving them direct instruction on the three hallmarks of argumentative essay writing: claims, counterclaims, and rebuttals. In this no prep teaching pack, you will find everything you need to teach and practice claim, counterclaims, and rebuttals in argumentative writing. Student Experience: Framed with a theme from a modern-day connection, students will walk through definitions, examples, guided practice, and a professional exemplar before they finally
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Introduction to Greek Mythology- PowerPoint, Guided Notes, and Article
Included is a PowerPoint that gives an overview of Greek Mythology to introduce students to the subject in the beginning of the unit.
Slides explain
- The difference between myths and legends
- How the Greeks used myths to explain nature
- The influence of Greek mythology in our modern world- products, names, planets, psychological terms
-Information about the gods
-A comparison with Judeo-Christian religions
- Some of the major gods, heroes, and monsters
The PowerPoint comes with guided notes
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Setting Affects Plot & Conflict Lesson, Complete Teaching Unit
Looking for an interesting and engaging way to present how an author's use of setting affects plot? This complete teaching pack for teaching how setting affects conflict has everything you need to teach this skill with ease and success. Student Experience: In this classroom-tested, interactive, photography-inspired activity, students travel around the U.S. while discussing the key element of setting and exploring how it affects plot. Students will first take notes about the skill. Then, they wil
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Grades:
7th - 11th
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Skills Teaching Units, BUNDLE of Lessons
Note-Taking Lesson/Templates/Graphic Organizers, High School Study Skills Lesson
Wondering where to start when it comes to teaching note-taking skills, especially "focused note-taking"? Here's everything you need to teach your students how to take notes -- all in one comprehensive, no-prep Google Slides lesson!You can also use these slides to provide professional development in-servicing to introduce your colleagues to focused note-taking!⭐️ These slides are perfect for improving your students' study skills, active/critical reading skills, and reading comprehension! Through
Grades:
8th - 12th
Google Digital | APA Format Style Guide | Guide, Worksheets, Presentation, etc.
APA Format Style Guide | Instructional Packet, Worksheets, PPTX PresentationAs a follow up to our best-selling bundled resource on MLA formatting, we now offer A Practical Guide to APA Formatting!We think this is the most beautiful and useful APA style guide / teaching & learning packet on the internet. And now it's available in this fully-digital Google Drive version! Inside, you get all this: ❤ A high-quality PDF containing a detailed guide to the most common formatting tasks, including pa
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Romeo and Juliet- Guided Notes Handouts on All 5 Acts
Bundle of FIVE Guided Notes Handouts on each act of William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet!Each handout focuses on one act of the play and is comprehensive and detailed. In each document, all scenes are introduced with a simple summary and followed by clear and concise slides that cover characters, key elements of plot, literary devices in context, famous quotations, and questions for interpretation. There are spaces for students to fill in the blanks and answer questions as the teacher
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Romeo and Juliet Bundle- Powerpoints, Guided Notes, Quizzes, and Test
Commas Unit: Grammar Lesson, Quiz, Test, & More
Need a hand teaching grammar in a no-prep, classroom-tested, easy-to-grade manner? Use this set of tools to introduce OR review comma rules to middle and high school students!This set of TWO lessons guides students through all the major comma rules and gives students plenty of practice. The first lesson is the main one, and there is a second (optional) lesson that discuss comma usage in the four sentence types (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex), which helps students apply comma ru
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Grammar Lesson Bundle: FULL YEAR of Editable Lessons for Secondary ELA
"The Doll's House" (Mansfield) Short Story Unit Guide, Lesson Plan
This no prep "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield short story unit guide makes an excellent lesson for a British Literature course as it exemplifies the modern period of literature. The themes that emerge throughout the story – materialism, social classes, bullying, acceptance, kindness, innocence, and family – truly do resonate with today's teens. Additionally, the unit provides opportunity for covering such skills at characterization, symbolism, theme across texts, and more. Student Ex
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10th - 12th
Author's Perspective & Viewpoint Lesson, Complete Teaching Unit
What's real and not real in the news and media today? How do we determine what's truth or not? Having an understanding of author's perspective, narrator voice, and bias can lead students to uncover more meaning and depth in what they read. Student Experience: In this teaching pack for author's perspective/viewpoint with a lecture, task cards, real-world practice, info text article, graphic organizer you will find everything you need to teach and practice identifying and analyzing author's viewpo
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Skills Teaching Units, BUNDLE of Lessons
Olaudah Equiano's "The Interesting Life" Memoir Unit
This teaching pack guides an in-depth study of an excerpt from Equiano's memoir The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano detailing his journey on the Middle Passage. There are so many options with this low prep pack that you can pick and choose or work your way through them all. Student Experience: Students are guided through the background, key events of the period, vocabulary words, an opportunity for summarizing, guided discussion for breaking down the memoir, interactive analysis of the memo
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: American Literature Curriculum, Year-Long, BUNDLE, English Lesson Plans
How to Write a Hook Like a Pro
This PowerPoint is a two-day activity. Students learn simple and easy ways to write hooks for many different types of essays. The activity starts out with a bell work prompts asking students what the best pick-up line they've ever heard is. We then talk about what the purpose of a pick-up line is. I then relate pick-up lines to hooks. I have seen a drastic improvement in the quality of my students' hooks and intro paragraphs after going through this activity with them! I'm hoping that you'll se
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Annotated Bibliography Bundle- MLA Format- Research- Evaluating Sources- Summary
This is a bundle of my annotated bibliography presentation with guided notes and my annotated bibliography assignment sheets products. Annotated bibliographies are great stand alone assignments or as part of a larger research units. Students are asked to practice their MLA citation, source evaluation, and summarization skills. Require academic journal articles, websites, or even podcasts. Choose how many sources your students have to write and how much information they need to include in their a
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7th - 11th, Higher Education
Othello Introduction and Discussion Questions PowerPoint
Introducing Othello, Iago, and Shakespearean tragedy to your class?Included in this 25 slide PowerPoint presentation is a comprehensive background overview of William Shakespeare's Othello. It includes definitions for tragedy, flawed hero, hubris, tragic flaw and more. The setting, character types (Venetians vs. Moors), and the culture for women and race in Shakespeare's time are also discussed.The last five slides include pre-discussion questions and topics to discuss, such as quotes and chara
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8th - 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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