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Free 8th grade english language arts lessons for Easel
Context Clues Worksheet Vocabulary - Free Context Clues Activities 6th 7th 8th
Context Clues Worksheet Freebie: This vocabulary activity is a great way to help students who struggle with understanding and using context clues to define vocabulary words.This Download Contains: PRINT2 pages of vocabulary activitiesAnswer Key DIGITALReady-to-use Easel activityLike this product? CLICK HERE for the full Context Clues Passages Vocabulary resource for grades 6-8This resource shows examples of definition/explanation context clues, synonym/restatement context clues, antonym/contras
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6th - 9th
RACE Strategy Writing Activity Worksheets FREE with Easel Activity
The RACE writing strategy helps students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and evidence from the text, and to provide concluding statements. Like this product? Check out the full version here! Writing with the RACE StrategyR: Re-state the questionA: Answer all parts of the questionC: Cite the text to provide evidenceE: Explain your citationWhy use the RACE strategy? RACE is a mnemonic device that helps students write open-ended constructed
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6th - 8th
Possessive Nouns Grammar Worksheets for Distance Learning | Distance Learning
Use the grammar worksheets in this FREE resource to help your students practice using possessive nouns correctly. Included are a mini-lesson on how to use apostrophes with possessive nouns, and a twenty-question exercise to practice using them correctly. The answers are included.****************************************************************************************************************SAVE $$ Click here to buy this resource along with several others in the Punctuation Practice Bundle and sav
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Punctuation Practice Bundle
Poetry Comics: Metaphors with Robert Frost
Poetry Comics: Metaphors with Robert Frost
This is a free file from a larger product called Poetry Comics: Metaphor, Tone, and Personification. These lessons follow the same format as the free sample, except a worksheet is added afterward to reinforce the skills taught in the comic. Also check out Poetry Comics Vol 2.
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Middle School Language Arts Bundle
Narrative Writing Lesson Sub Plans
Need a quick writing activity for your students to do with a sub? Well, here you go. It includes two photo writing prompts(so you can use this twice), a graphic organizer, writing page, and an editing checklist.
Hope this helps you complete your sub plans quicker.
Angie
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4th - 8th
FREE Acadia National Park Reading Passage and Graphic Organizer
Looking for engaging national parks research activities for your classroom? This Acadia National Park set is perfect for reports and research projects and includes2 page informational text reading passage2 page printable graphic organizer6 slide digital graphic organizer for Google SlidesThe graphic organizers help students focus on the most important aspects of the national park as they keep their notes organized. This activity can easily serve as a note-taking tool for an essay or presentation
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Acadia National Park Graphic Organizer and Word Search Bundle
Revision and Editing Checklist for High School Essay Writing in High School
When students are finished drafting, this is a perfect essay checklist to help them revise and edit their essays. Students can use it on their own or have a partner comb through their essays. Use with multiple modes of writing. Looking for more? Check out the following writing units: ⭐ Argumentative Writing Unit⭐ Compare & Contrast Essay Unit⭐ Expository Writing Unit ⭐ Literary Analysis Essay UnitPlease contact me with questions and visit my store for additional teaching materials: Love and
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7th - 12th
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FREE Show Evidence From the Text: Nonfiction Reading Practice
Do your students know how to adequately show evidence from the text when they are asked? We often take for granted that students automatically know how to do this.
Use my Show Evidence From the Text: Nonfiction Reading Practice *FREE* resource to help your students! This resource includes a visual aid to help students remember, as well as ONE nonfiction passage with questions to practice citing evidence from the text. Suggested answers for each question (and identification of evidence from the
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6th - 9th
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Alliteration Activity Middle School Poetry
Searching for and engaging alliteration activity? These FREE Alliteration Activities are such a fun way to get your middle school students excited about poetry! This product includes direct instruction and many examples of alliteration in poetry as well as in real life. An engaging Slides presentation will guide your class through the activities. Laugh and have fun with your students while studying this poetic device. Also included are two student assignments. The first asks students to take a c
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Elements of Poetry Unit for Middle School Students Bundle
ESL Weather & Seasons - Flashcards, Worksheets & Activities
This resource is great to help your students learn new vocabulary related to the weather and seasons. Included in this packet are flashcards about the weather, a list of vocabulary words with verbs and adjectives, fun facts and activities. Included: - Flashcards related to the weather - Vocabulary words like verbs and adjectives related to the weather and seasons.- Fun facts about the Lightning - Rainbows & Tornadoes.- Writing activity "My Favorite Season" - The Four Seasons worksheets- Wea
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5th - 8th
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A bundle of rhetoric handouts on multiple logical fallacies
These are handouts I use to help when teaching rhetoric. The handouts are for teaching logical fallacies (bad forms of logic) such as circular reasoning, paradoxes, slippery slope, straw man, legit vs. false analogies, hasty generalizations, false authority, either-or fallacy, bandwagon appeals, after therefore because of, and ad hominem attacks. As of 11/8/18 this now includes an answer guide as well.If you have happened to buy my unit for Heller's novel Catch-22 these are already included in t
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7th - 12th
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Drug and Alcohol Education Distance Learning Print or Digital Worksheets
Red Ribbon week is coming, and you need a print and go activity to teach your students about the dangers of drugs. Inside this FREE resource is the true story of two gifted young men who died young due to drug overdose. Teach your middle grade or high school students about the dangers of reckless drug use. Plus, this resource is available as printable worksheets or may be use as a digital resource on the computer!Click here to save 30% off the price of reading passages by purchasing a bundle!If
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: High School Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Bundle
Misplaced Modifiers Comic
Misplaced modifiers are one of the most common mistakes students make in their writing. Help eliminate them with this comic, which provides teachers with a fun and entertaining way to teach or review misplaced modifiers. A worksheet with answer key follows. Perfect for learning stations or a quick review activity. If you like this comic, it's part of a larger set entitled Editing Comics and Activtities. Look for it in my store! If you like this resource, you might be interested in these:Parts of
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6th - 9th
Smart ELA Bell Ringers, Warm Up Lessons, Reading Comprehension - FREE
These smart bell ringers are engaging warm-up activities that address a wide range of ELA standards. They are a perfect mix of literature, informational texts, and reading comprehension and cover various topics such as fiction, poetry, literary devices, history, social studies, science, and life skills. Students are asked to read, analyze, determine the meaning of words, make inferences, provide conclusions, support claims, and make connections.The handouts and online Easel activities are ideal
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7th - 12th
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ESL Cooking Verbs- Flashcards, Worksheets & Activities
These cooking verbs task cards and worksheets are perfect for introducing cooking verbs to your students. The cooking verbs task cards are: To fry, to toss, to blend, to taste, to pour, to eat, to stir, to slice, to cut, to ice, to roll, to knead, to mix, to bake, and to beat. The vibrant images, short description, and an example will help your students understand these verbs much better. Then, your students will do activities like mix and match, word association, fill in the blank, highlight th
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4th - 8th
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Long E short i vowels articulation worksheets Complete lesson plan ESL/EFL
Do your students keep seeing sailing sheep? Maybe they are but to be sure teach them how to differentiate between /i:/ and /ɪ/.This resource is a complete and fun lesson plan introducing long E /i:/ and short /ɪ/ sounds to your ESL students. It may be used in adult education, or for high school or middle school learners of English.This file includes:- Directions for teachers.- 'Circle all the words with /i:/ sound and /ɪ/ sound' tasks (2 pages)- 2 vocabulary lists with pictures and IPA transcrip
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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ESOL Vocabulary for Beginners: What’s in Your School bag?
This is a free product within the series of “ ESOL Vocabulary for Beginners” which focuses on study skills. It teaches students some effective ways to learn a language. It is mainly about some techniques beginners can adopt to develop their vocabulary. The resource could be used in class to present and practice school objects, but it could be of great help to anyone doing homeschooling as well. The lesson is divided into four activities. The first is mainly an activity for
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4th - 9th
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Idioms in Short Passages Freebie
The Idioms in Short Passages Freebie contains one story with five idioms used in context. The students need to read the story or have it read aloud to them and then complete the attached pages. Included are opportunities to draw the literal images of idioms which taps into a student’s ability to visualize to aid comprehension and retention. The literal image will also aid to elicit conversation about how funny some idioms are. There are also opportunities to encode idioms into sentences for ret
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3rd - 8th
BLACK HISTORY William Still, Abolitionist FREE Resource PRINT and EASEL
William Still was a Black American who worked tirelessly on the Underground Railroad and was employed by the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery before the American Civil War. Included in this free resource is a one page biography (written by me) followed by four opinion questions as well as a copy of the preface to Still’s 1878 collection of accounts he had gathered from many fugitive slaves (in the public domain). Question #4 is related to the preface. A full copy of William St
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7th - 10th
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Analyzing 'The Ring of Gyges': Philosophy from Plato's Republic for Middle & HS
Caught you! Are people only good because they fear punishment and hope for a reward? I teach Glaucon's retelling of the Ring of Gyges from Book 2 of Plato's Republic (2:359a–2:360d). The story is about a shepherd who gets hold of a magical ring that makes him invisible. What would you do with such power? Glaucon tells the story to refute Socrates's notion that justice is a worthy pursuit. Would you use it for good, or would you use it for ill? I developed a lesson plan to get students thinking a
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7th - 10th
FREE Intermediate French Subway Reading Comprehension & Questions le métro
In this FREE NO-PREP immersive French reading passage, Tante Georgette helps Molly understand le métro before she travels to Paris. Can your students better understand the Paris subway as well? This 2-page authentic reader in conversation format helps advanced beginners and intermediate students apply vocabulary and culture associated with the Paris subway. There are comprehension questions in both French and English. Answer keys included. Available in print, Google Slides™ and TpT Easel. Choose
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7th - 10th
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Procedural Writing: Hand Washing Activity
This package breaks down procedural writing for a junior or intermediate student by stated the characteristics and requirements of a procedural text as well as providing a procedure to wash your hands effectively as an example. In this collection, the educator will be provided with a rubric, worksheet, and checklist of level 4 procedural writing. Excellent source for a diagnostic assessment piece when starting the unit or when very early into the unit.
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5th - 8th
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ESL Reading Comprehension Passage with Questions - Multicultural Reading
Are you looking for a short multicultural reading passage that will help you connect with your ELL or ESL students? This reading passage was written for ELL and ESL students who are looking for relevant language resources that center around places outside of the Western world. Focusing on Southeast Asia, this reading comprehension passage gets your ESL students reading about a little region in the south of Cambodia called Kampot. They will learn about the Cambodian holiday called Pchum Ben, a re
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5th - 8th, Adult Education
TED Talk Ritual for HS Students. Perfect for Advisory, SS or ELA Classroom
TED Talks, 18 minute (or less) engaging talks on a variety of exciting topics, has taken the world by storm this past decade. Your high school students will love this TED Talk ritual. With virtually no prep for teachers, students gain awareness of current events, practice inquisitiveness, self-direct, and provide peers with TED Talk reviews.
This teacher-created session plan includes detailed instructions for students to experience age-appropriate TED Talks and create TED Talk reviews for peer
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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.
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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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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