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Middle school english language arts lessons on sale
Short Story Unit BUNDLE
Are you looking to plan your short story unit? Have you been teaching short stories for years and looking to find some fresh new resources? This bundle contains resources and materials to help you make it an engaging, thorough unit of study! Contents: 1) Sample Unit Plan (free bonus):A detailed 5-week sample plan explaining how you can break down your teaching of multiple stories, key literary elements, literary analysis writing, and discussion skills. 2) Student Workbooks Pages: Pre- and post-
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8th - 10th
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Fake News Unit | Critical Thinking | Media Literacy | Fact Analysis & Research
Teaching students to navigate news and information on mainstream, traditional and social media as critical thinkers is essential in 2024. It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate FACTS and OPINIONS, SATIRE from LIES, and PERSUASION from PROPAGANDA in the "MISINFORMATION:" eraA well-grounded understanding of MEDIA-LITERACY is crucial in stopping FAKE NEWS and RADICALIZATION. And This PROVEN resource will teach your students the skills to identify, analyze and critique information throug
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5th - 10th
Conjunctions, Prepositions, and Interjections L.5.1.A Distance Learning
Conjunctions, Prepositions, and Interjections (Google Slides Ready)Get the BUNDLE here!Aligned to CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.1.AExplain the function of conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections in general and their function in particular sentences.Great for test prep, homework, and as a mini-lesson. Contents:Anchor PostersAnswer Keys3 printables on Coordinating Conjunctions3 printables on Subordinating Conjunctions3 printables on Prepositions, Object of the Preposition, and Prepositional phrase
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4th - 6th
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Compare and Contrast the Author's Point of View BigFoot
Close ReadingPoint of ViewCompare and ContrastDoes Bigfoot exist? Or is he just a made up legend? Students will read two nonfiction articles to compare and contrast both sides of the Bigfoot debate! This is a fun, but educational, lesson. Included is BOTH print and digital versions.I wrote this lesson because I wanted an interesting topic that would catch my students' attention. I also was frustrated trying to find articles that showed a clear point of view about a similar topic. I wanted no
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Close Reading Lesson Bundle: A Year of Close Reading
Advertising & Marketing Unit | Media Literacy | Read & Write Ads | Persuasive
Teach your students essential MEDIA LITERACY SKILLS with this COMPLETE UNIT on ADVERTISING. It's packed with ENGAGING, INFORMATIVE & FUN activities to teach students the PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUES to READ ADVERTS and the skills to WRITE ADVERTS. This COMPLETE UNIT OF WORK will take your students from zero to hero over FIVE STRATEGIC LESSONS covering:⭐ WHAT IS ADVERTISING?⭐ PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUES in advertising.⭐ How VISUAL IMAGERY is used in advertising.⭐ The CRAFT of COPYWRITING in advertisi
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Advertising & Marketing Bundle | Persuasive Techniques & Media Literacy
Information Report Unit | Informational Writing | Informative Text | Digital PDF
Teaching INFORMATIONAL WRITING is a breeze with this HUGE collection of INFORMATION REPORT WRITING LESSONS, ACTIVITIES, GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS, ASSESSMENT TOOLS, TEXT PROMPTS and INFORMATIVE DIGITAL WRITING TEMPLATES for students and teachers. NO PREP REQUIRED.We provide PROVEN INFORMATIVE TEXT TEACHING STRATEGIES in a FUN and ENGAGING unit to foster INCREDIBLE research and Information Report Writing skills. ❤️NO PREPARATION REQUIRED to teach INDEPENDENTLY or as a WHOLE CLASS ACTIVITY.INCLUDING OVE
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3rd - 8th
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Explanatory Writing Unit | Explanation Text | Digital & PDF | Essay Lesson Plans
Teach your students to write an ENGAGING EXPLANATORY ESSAY in 2024. Master the HOW and WHY of NONFICTION and EXPOSITORY WRITING with this DIGITAL and PRINT-based unit.THIS COMPLETE UNIT COVERS✅ Writing Sequences ✅ Causal Explanation Texts✅ Consequential Explanation Texts✅ Explaining Cycles✅ Processes (Scientific, Mechanical and Biological events)✅ Tutorials - Including videos✅ Explanation of Historical Events ⭐ NO PREP REQUIRED⭐ FULLY EDITABLEIt will keep your kids EXCITED and ENGAGED for weeks
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3rd - 7th, Adult Education
Procedural Text Writing Unit | Organizers | Prompts | Lessons | Digital & Print
Teach your students to write procedures, instructions, manuals, recipes, and science experiments with the correct structure, vocabulary skills, structure and language features.⭐"HOW TO" WRITING⭐is as easy as 1-2-3 in 2024 With our PERFECT PROCEDURAL WRITING UNIT. THIS ENGAGING 115-PAGE UNIT COVERS:✅ Recipes✅ Instructions for games ✅ Directions✅ Science Experiments✅ Walk-Throughs✅ Tutorials - Including videos✅ Life Hack's ✅ Self-Help Guides⭐ And much more NO PREP REQUIRED.This HUGE UNIT offers a
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4th - 6th, Adult Education
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125 Guided Reading Activities | ANY BOOK | Text Response | Student Instructions
This HUGE collection of ⭐READING ACTIVITIES⭐ for ANY BOOK or TEXT TYPE is packed with DIFFERENTIATED TASKS for FICTION and NONFICTION TEXT GENRES. Your students can work INDEPENDENTLY or in GROUPS through these FUN and ENGAGING activities that will make reading in 2024 a blast!WHAT'S INCLUDED❤️ 60+ activities require students to RESPOND in various genres and styles.❤️ 40+ activities incorporating ARTISTIC and CREATIVE skills about their book❤️ 30+ TECHNOLOGY activities, including open-ended iPad
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3rd - 7th, Adult Education
Recount Writing Unit | Retelling | Lessons | Graphic Organizers | Prompts
MASTER RECOUNT WRITING in 2024 with this complete EDITABLE UNIT that ensures your students learn the ESSENTIAL SKILLS, PURPOSE and PROCESS of RETELLING events with accuracy and energy—covering PERSONAL, FACTUAL, LITERARY and HISTORICAL RECOUNTS.❤️NO PREPARATION REQUIRED to teach INDEPENDENTLY or as a WHOLE CLASS ACTIVITY.INCLUDING 80 PAGES OF ❤️ Lesson plans,❤️ Teaching materials❤️ Visual writing prompts❤️ Assessment tools❤️ Writing Checklists❤️ Graphic Organizers❤️ Plus, much moreUse it as an I
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3rd - 7th
Aesop's Fables Unit | Writing & Reading | Meaning, Moral, Message & Theme
This COMPLETE DIGITAL & PDF UNIT explores Aesop's Fables to learn the concepts of IDENTIFYING THEME, MORAL and MESSAGE within FABLES, MYTHS and LEGENDS and how these timeless tales have impacted storytelling for thousands of years. Make FABLES a part of your READING and WRITING lessons in 2024 through proven teaching strategies.This EDITABLE unit Covers:⭐ What Is a Fable and Its Purpose?⭐ Who Is Aesop, The Father of Fables?⭐ 12 Famous Interactive Fables by Aesop (Professionally Narrated) ⭐
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3rd - 6th
Satire : PowerPoint, Google Slides Digital Lesson
Perfect for distance learning OR the classroom! 35 slides in length! Two student activities! Introduce your students to the literary genre of SATIRE through this spectacular PowerPoint presentation. Jam-packed with information that will get your students excited about decoding and recognizing SATIRE. Included in this Powerpoint presentation are the following: general information on SATIRE, background information on SATIRE, examples of satire from literature, and examples from culture that use S
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Realism Unit: American Literature (Google Slides, PowerPoint)
Journalism Writing Prompts | News Reports | Newspaper Articles | Media Literacy
With over FORTY images worked into our ENGAGING GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS, you can complete a WEEKLY journalism / Newspaper Article reporting task ALL YEAR LONG in 2024 as classwork or homework to boost your student's MEDIA LITERACY skills.These templates take students through a PROVEN four-step article writing process on some AMAZING images. Students will learn how to.1: Analyze the Photo2: Identifying your Audience and Purpose3: Communicate the facts.4: Plan and create a structured journalistic rep
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4th - 9th
Biography & Autobiography Writing Unit | Graphic Organizers Lesson Plans Rubrics
This resource is the complete solution to teaching students how to write ENGAGING BIOGRAPHIES and AUTOBIOGRAPHIES in 2024.This COMPLETELY EDITABLE expository writing unit is packed with loads of excellent TEACHING CONTENT to ensure your students are fully aware of both writing styles and the PROCESS of constructing BOTH formats of BIOGRAPHY through proven TEACHING STRATEGIES.Purpose-built as a DIGITAL resource, it is packed with INTERACTIVE MEDIA and GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS alongside a PRINT BASED PD
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4th - 7th
STORY ELEMENTS BUNDLE | CHARACTERS, SETTING, PLOT, ENDINGS in NARRATIVES
This bundle combines five of our top-rated story elements products designed to help teachers and students be incredible story readers and authors through building a deep knowledge of CHARACTERS, SETTING, PLOT, THEME, MOOD, CONFLICT and RESOLUTION when dealing with NARRATIVES.All at a heavily discounted price and a bonus freebie for good measure.Read the reviews for yourself, as you will not be disappointed.YOU MIGHT ALSO❤️VE THESE ENGLISH RESOURCES ❤️ Year-Long Visual Writing Prompts Collection❤
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3rd - 9th
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Sentence Structure | Paragraph Writing | Punctuation | Elementary Writing Bundle
This collection combines FOUR of our MOST POPULAR and useful SENTENCE STRUCTURE, TYPES OF SENTENCE, PARAGRAPH WRITING, and PUNCTUATION resources at a discounted rate. Be sure to take a look at each one in detail to learn about each and read the glowing reviews for yourself. You will not be disappointed with this HUGE 300 page EDITABLE Bundle*********************************************************☀️⭐SENTENCE WRITING UNIT DESCRIPTIONThis complete SENTENCE STRUCTURE UNIT is designed to take stud
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4th - 6th
Main Idea Task Cards and Guided Mini Lessons Google Ready!
Main IdeaTask CardsReading Comprehension Skills Do you love to read about unsolved mysteries? Capture your students' attention with nonfiction paragraphs about aliens, UFO's, crop circles, and much more! This is my students' favorite lesson. It is a great way to teach the main idea without boring the kids to death. I have two YouTube videos that preview and explain this lesson. Please check them out and like them! Unsolved MysteriesMeet Nala Bella in this video as she explains what this le
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Main Idea Task Cards Bundle
Diary of Anne Frank: A Complete Unit
This package works effectively for all modes of teaching/learning (in-person, hybrid, remote) and for switching between the modes if required.This is a complete unit of study for Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl. The package includes chapter by chapter study questions, a test, a news report assignment with graphic organizer and ANSWERS. Questions focus on vocabulary, close reading, higher order thinking, and personal response. There are a few answers missing (half a dozen...98%of the answe
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7th - 12th
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Distance Learning Reading Comprehension Intervention Bundle
Google Apps Ready!Page 2 has all of the Google Slides LinksClose ReadingIntervention PackDaily Guided Reading Lessons✎ Four weeks of daily guided reading lessons for your intervention reading group! These lessons are close reading lessons designed to make your struggling readers more independent. It also reinforces the close reading strategies. ➨ Learning targets are included!!! ☺Included are six nonfiction articles, 20 days (4 weeks) of daily guided reading lessons, pair share, close readin
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5th - 9th
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The Raven and Edgar Allan Poe: PowerPoint, Google Slides
Over 40 slides! Now with guided reading questions! "The Raven" brought to you in PowerPoint!!! This is the perfect way to introduce this famous poem to your students!! Filled with a ton of information related to state standards, as well as images to spark the imagination! Included in this power point are the following: background information, information on Poe, literary focus (symbolism, foreshadowing, point of view, etc.) and an overview of the poem. Great for Poe units, poetry units, summer
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Compare and Contrast the Author's Point of View Sharks
Close Reading Point of View Compare and ContrastShould all the sharks in the world be removed from the ocean to protect people from shark attacks? Explore this topic in two different nonfiction articles!View the Video Preview: PreviewI wrote this lesson because I wanted an interesting topic that would catch my students' attention. I also was frustrated trying to find articles that showed a clear point of view about a similar topic. I wanted non fiction articles that would be easy to teach wi
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Close Reading Lesson Bundle: A Year of Close Reading
Personal Narrative Writing Unit | Interactive Lesson Plans, Graphic Organizers
An entire unit of ☀️PERSONAL NARRATIVE WRITING☀️ awaits you in 2024, with absolutely no prep required that your students will love, packed with GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS, LESSON PLANS, WRITING PROMPTS, ASSESSMENT TOOLS and MORE.This EDITABLE PowerPoint bundle will allow you to teach your students how to write excellent PERSONAL NARRATIVES using a proven model based on research skills, writing strategies and engaging content.The bundle includes over 85 PAGES of:❤️ Lesson plans,❤️ Teaching materials❤️ Vi
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3rd - 8th
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CRITICAL THINKING LITERACY SKILLS | SEARCH, FAKE NEWS, FACT & OPINION, RESEARCH
This collection brings together 4 of our MOST POPULAR and valuable resources at a DISCOUNTED RATE, providing students with CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS in LITERACY from various perspectives.Be sure to take a look at each in detail to learn about each and READ THE GLOWING REVIEWS for yourself. You will not be disappointed with this HUGE 350-page EDITABLE Bundle.*********************************************************☀️⭐How to use GOOGLE SEARCH like a BOSS!! | Research Skills | Digital Citizenship⭐
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4th - 7th
Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" (Google Slides, PowerPoint)
Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" brought to you in EITHER Google Slides OR PowerPoint. This is the perfect way to introduce this powerful story to your students!! Filled with a ton of information related to state standards, as well as images to spark the imagination! Included in this lesson are the following: background information, literary focus, an overview of the plot, questions for guided reading or pre-reading, and post-reading prompts. Great for short story units, summer school, review an
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7th - 12th
Also included in: American Literature: Short Story Bundle (Google Slides, PowerPoint)
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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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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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