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6th grade english language arts thematic unit plans for Easel Activities
ESL Activities Beginner & Intermediate: Writing With the Masters Print & Digital
Use these differentiated writing activities with all students including ELL, Gen ED, SPED and ESL Newcomers alike. This writing unit is sure to motivate the most reluctant writer and your ESL learner. Students use a masterpiece painting and writing graphic organizers to develop story elements of character, setting, and plot. This will engage all learners from ESL and Special Education to your most advanced students.Couple this with my ESL Grammar Practice, ESL Games, ESL Newcomer Units, ESL Vo
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4th - 12th
ESL Activities: Careers Unit for Beginners and Intermediate ELL
Use these English vocabulary and grammar activities with your beginner and intermediate level English Language Learners or Newcomer EFL students. This unit offers your students multiple exposure to career vocabulary. Use the vocabulary and writing activities to introduce and reinforce new vocabulary. Explore career options and salary opportunities with your students. End your career unit with a culminating “My Dream Career” writing activity.Research shows students need 8-12 exposures to new
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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ESL ELL Giving and Asking for Directions and City Places Themed Unit and Project
Get ready to teach your students how to give instructions and directions. Would you like them to learn more about city places, community workers and how to use the imperative tense properly? Giving and asking for directions is an important skill to master for a second language learner. This themed unit and project along with oral interaction games & simulation tasks is just what you need! Your students will learn how to give clear instructions and directions, ask for directions or inquire a
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4th - 8th, Adult Education
Also included in: ESL ELL Themed Units and Projects Bundle PBL
Amusement Park Design Project
Design your own Amusement Park! This fun unit consists of 16 worksheets that will challenge students in their creative thinking, research skills, design and engineering abilities.Digital option available! Please note, some worksheets transfer nicely into a digital version but many are designed to be completed on paper or as a hands on STEM/STEAM activity.The package includes:1. Unit title page2. Student title page3. Park research worksheet (internet access for students recommended)4. Art activ
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: STEAM Project Bundle
Conversation Activities Giving Receiving Compliments Middle High School Speech
Looking for a digital, no prep, fun and engaging way to teach your middle and high school students how to give and receive compliments, an important social skill? This packet includes a social story, 2 youtube links and activities! Compliments are a great way to fill the emotional buckets of those around us! It can be used in individual therapy, social skills groups or classroom activities (perfect Valentine's day activities). The content and graphics are geared for middle and high school st
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6th - 12th
From Head to Toe Communication and Comprehension Supports for Special Education
This collection includes color and black & white versions of picture-based reading and communication activities, IEP goal ideas, and corresponding progress monitoring sheets for From Head to Toe by Eric Carle *Book not included* Do you love teaching literacy using picture books but have students who are nonreaders or reading significantly below grade level? This collection of communication and comprehension supports are the perfect book companions to make it easier to differentiate popular p
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K - 6th
Au Restaurant-French Unit
This unit is great for Junior/Intermediate Core French as a Second Language class. It is a restaurant unit that includes listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities. It also has technology integration activities and ideas. There is a suggested lesson plan guide that includes the use of this unit's resources as well as the accompanying unit by Chez Galamb available for purchase here: Au Restaurant Accompanying unit by Chez GalambTPT EASEL ACTIVITYAnswer keys are provided at the end of
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4th - 8th
Distance Learning Short Story Passage No Prep ELA Suspense Mystery
This 48 page resource is a 4,500 word short story and meets CCSS for middle school reading and writing. It is the story of a boy discovering his new friend is actually a ghost and she needs his help. This close reading lesson is 99 pages long. This resource is the answered teacher copy (48 pages), with the blank student copy (48 pages), there is also a link for projecting or giving to students that are distance learning. As well - this is a TpT Digital Activity. That means students can complete
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2nd - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Weekly Reading Comprehension Context Clues Daily Reading Writing Bundle
Fantastic Food Trucks: Flexible No-Prep Project-Based Learning (PBL)
Welcome to the Fantastic Food Trucks PBL project! This project will lead your students through an amazing and in-depth journey as they design all aspects of their very own food truck business. With the provided grade-appropriate support, your students will design their menu, plan the layout of their truck, consider startup costs as well as how to market their business. There is a wealth of information in this packet to guide you and your students through this incredible learning experience. Whet
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4th - 9th
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ESL Reading Comprehension - Ghost Stories
ESL Reading - Ghost Stories (Southern States Edition) is for beginner and intermediate ESL students. Students will read local folklore while studying the culture of the United States. The edition includes four stories:1. "Huggin' Molly" from Alabama2. "Mammoth Cave" from Kentucky3. "The Gray Man" from South Carolina4. "Ghost Girl" from North CarolinaMaterials are student-tested and include the following:* speaking practice* high interest texts* scaffolding of higher order skills* formative
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Green Eggs and Ham Communication and Comprehension Supports for Special Ed
Do you love teaching literacy using picture books but have students who are nonreaders or reading significantly below grade level? This collection of communication and comprehension supports are the perfect book companions to make it easier to differentiate popular picture books to meet the diverse needs of your students! Includes printables, Easel activities, IEP goal ideas, and progress monitoring sheets for Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. *Book not included* Who is it for?Elementary students
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K - 6th
Also included in: March Bundle for Thematic Groups, Reading, and Communication Skills
Scary Story Collection for Middle School: Escape Room, Task Cards, Printables
This spooky collection of fiction reading comprehension passages combines several standards so that students have an opportunity to practice their skills without isolating each standard. Each fictional story has descriptive characters and settings, drawing your students into the mystery. This unit will reinforce skills that you have taught. Students will use their skills to solve the mysteries (demonstrating comprehension of the text). What your students will discover: Was Dracula real or just a
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6th - 8th
NATIVE AMERICANS (all 4 units)-Social Studies Notebooking-With Reading Passages!
Interactive Social Studies Notebooks are wonderful, and fun, ways to introduce your students to geography!I've been using notebooks in Social Studies for several years now, and I love it! My units involve a lot of reading, and even includes mini-books and reading passages! These mini-books have foldables and other activities that focus on reading skills, such as summarizing, looking for main idea and details, highlighting important information, taking notes, etc. My students have loved watching
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3rd - 7th
Interactive Notebook - Geography Unit - Social Studies - With Reading Passages!
Interactive social studies notebooks are wonderful, and fun, ways to introduce your students to geography!I've been using notebooks in Social Studies for several years now, and I love it! My units involve a lot of reading, and even includes mini-books and reading passages! These mini-books have foldables and other activities that focus on reading skills, such as summarizing, looking for main idea and details, highlighting important information, taking notes, etc. My students have loved watching
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3rd - 7th
Hero or Outlaw? Use Evidence to Decide! Nonfiction Passages and Printables
High-Interest nonfiction reading passages about the controversial wild west figures, Wyatt Earp, William Tilghman, and Jesse James. Each biography contains a biased read or an information list of their activities, a complete life story passage, and several printables that will engage your students in the text, challenge them to find evidence, and encourage them to read for understanding by analyzing the passages and defending their opinions. All answer keys are included.What's Included?• Nonf
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6th - 8th
Theme and Central Message in Literature (Mentor Texts)
This resource meets the Common Core Literacy Standards for Theme and Central Message.Grade 1 RL 1.2 Retell stories and tell about their central messageGrade 2 RL 2.2 Recount stories and determine their central messageGrade 3-RL 3.9 Compare and contrast themes of storiesGrade 4-RL 4.2 Determine the theme of a storyGrade 5-RL 5.2 Determine a theme of a story using details from the textGrade 6-RL 6.2 Determine a theme in the text and how it is conveyed through particular detailsPicture books (mento
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1st - 6th
ESL ELL Restaurant Project - Ordering Food, Role Play and Activities
Do you want to teach how to order food at the restaurant? This themed unit and project, along with oral interaction games & simulation tasks, is just what you need! Your students will learn how to order their meals, express their culinary preferences and inquire about others' tastes as well as learn new vocabulary related to different types of food. They will feel better prepared for real life "eating out" situations!Teach them about fine dining conventions, restaurant employees and how mak
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5th - 9th, Adult Education
Also included in: ESL ELL Themed Units and Projects Bundle PBL
Mystery Project Middle School English
In this ready for October, student-centered, open-ended middle school language arts unit, students explore the genre of mystery. What makes a mystery? Why do some people love to be scared? What makes mysteries interesting? A great addition to your middle school English and Language Arts classroom. Ideal for distance learning.Delve into mystery fun just in time for Halloween or any time of year. Editable Slides AND PDF files included. This is a great project for students to do on their own
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6th - 8th
Interactive Notebook: 13 AMERICAN COLONIES-Colonial America w/ Reading Passages!
Interactive Social Studies Notebooks are wonderful, and fun, ways to introduce your students to the 13 Colonies!I've been using notebooking in Social Studies for almost a year now, and I love it! My notebooking units involve a lot of close reading, and will focus on reading skills, such as summarizing, looking for main idea and details, highlighting important information, taking notes, etc. My students have loved watching their notebooks grow throughout the school year and enjoy looking back at
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3rd - 7th
Storytelling Japan Student Created Pictures Drama Unit Kamishibai Drawing
IMPROVED! Dive into the world of Kamishibai storytelling with DramaMommaaSpeaks' captivating unit, where students embark on a journey of imagination and creativity, exploring the art of storytelling like never before. This 8 day low prep unit is focused on storytelling using a Japanese form of storytelling called Kamishibai as its springboard for inspiration. This unit is successful with fourth through seventh grade students and classes in language arts, reading, drama, world history, social s
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5th - 7th
Health Reading Passages Mental Health Free Resource Comprehension Worksheets
This is your Day 5 Freebie Download! {JOIN THE 5 DAYS OF FREEBIES FUN AND FOLLOW ON INSTAGRAM!}________________________________________________________________This resource contains cut and paste activities from the Health Reading Passages Bundle It contains 2 Engaging, Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension Passages with Directions for Student Annotations! Reading Comprehension Questions also included!Printables from Internet Safety and Anti-Bullying Reading Passages, and Mental Health Reading Passa
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5th - 9th
The Old Mallory Place: Fiction and Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension Unit
Suspense is a great way to engage your students and help them improve their reading comprehension skills! That is why I wrote The Old Mallory Place, a high interest tale of a mysterious past that haunts the present. The cliffhanger ending gives your students an opportunity to write their own ending- they get to tell what they think happened!This resource is the perfect combination of fact and fiction. The 39 page resource contains a complete short story, 2 informational text passages, and numer
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Four Suspenseful Tales of Fiction Reading Comprehension Bundle
ESL ELL My Dream Bedroom Prepositions Collaborative Project
Help your students use descriptive structures adequately. This themed unit and project is what you need! Your students will learn how to differentiate between singular and plural objects, interact and argue in English and learn new vocabulary related to bedroom furniture. Use the reference sheets to introduce and go over important notions, worksheets to hone writing skills and games to ensure deeper learning. Wrap it up with a creative project included to reinvest learning. We also included a de
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3rd - 8th, Adult Education
Also included in: ESL ELL Themed Units and Projects Bundle PBL
ESL ELL Daily Routine and Time Telling Project
Help students learn about time telling and daily routines. This themed unit and project is what you need! Your students will learn how to read and tell time in English and learn new vocabulary related to daily activities. Use the reference sheets to view the notions, worksheets to practice and games to foster deep learning. Finish up with a creative project to reinvest learning. We also included a detailed planning to accompany you throughout the activities. This document includes:A detailed su
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3rd - 8th, Adult Education
Also included in: ESL ELL Themed Units and Projects Bundle PBL
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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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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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