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8th grade holidays ELA test prep unit plans
Theme Lessons and Activities for Teaching Theme - Passages and Worksheets
Understanding a story’s theme is critical to deciphering the author’s message in a text. This 3-day theme unit is designed to make learning fun while helping students go beyond the surface meaning of text to truly understand the author's message and the underlying meaning of the text. Filled with theme passages, theme worksheets, activities, and tasks, this unit is a hit!This unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of identifying theme. Each lesson starts with a fun and enga
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5th - 8th
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Black History Month Research Project
Are you searching for meaningful Black History Month activities for your middle school students? This Research Project which includes a Creative Poster Project is the perfect way to celebrate Black History Month and teach useful research, writing, and communication skills at the same time! Students will learn vital research skills, learn about an influential African American, put their thoughts and ideas down in an ORGANIZED essay, peer edit and revise their essays, and present their research fi
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6th - 9th
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Short Story Unit Plan - Scary and Surprising Stories - Lessons and Assignments
Short Story Unit Plan - Scary and Surprising Stories - Lessons and Assignments: Elevate your English class with this chilling and thrilling short story unit, guaranteed to send shivers down your students' spines! Perfect for Halloween or any time of the year, this collection of scary and surprising stories will captivate and engage your students. Explore the dark and mysterious world of suspenseful, creepy, and spooky tales with handpicked stories that are sure to keep your students on the edge
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7th - 10th
Listening Comprehension Unit - Upper Elementary to Middle School - Note Taking
Listening comprehension is an essential element of ELA instruction. That’s because students do not intuitively know how to take notes, discern what is important in a listening passage, or even know how to reference their notes when answering questions. This unit develops all of those skills through fun active listening anticipatory sets, instruction on listening and note taking, five original listening passage practice tests, multiple choice and short answer questions, and a final assessment t
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5th - 8th
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Civil Rights Movement Unit: PPTs, Guided Notes, Worksheets, Test + Google Apps
The Civil Rights Movement Unit Bundled includes Civil Rights Movement PowerPoints, primary source doc worksheets, an activity, warm-ups, exit tickets, crossword puzzle review, a Kahoot! review game, and editable assessment, all bound together by daily lesson plans. Civil Rights PowerPoints with presenter notes are packed with primary source documents, and stunning visuals. I have used these lectures with AP, Honors and regular students. PowerPoints also include 9 embedded YouTube videos for stu
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Text Structure Powerpoint
This powerpoint is a fun, colorful way to introduce or re-teach TEXT STRUCTURE!
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- 21 EDITABLE slides
- 5 video clip examples
- 15 slides can be printed to created colorful, informative posters for your class, including:
*definitions written in kid-friendly language
*key words to look for
*graphic organizers
Text Structures included:
- Cause & Effect
- Compare & Contrast
- Description
- Problem & Solution
- Sequence
*Be sure to check out the preview for an example of wha
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Martin Luther King - Reading Comprehension, Activities, Nonfiction MLK Passage
This 5-day unit covers many critical ELA skills as students develop a deep understanding and connection to Martin Luther King, Jr.! While studying about King, students practice critical skills including reading comprehension, identifying nonfiction text features, participating in group discussions, analyzing a quote, cooperative learning, and writing. Six activities are included in this unit. Each is based on a nonfiction reading passage about Martin Luther King, Jr. The activities are desig
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Lessons and Unit Plans for the entire month of January! - 4 Unit BUNDLE!
ELA Test Prep Bundle - Multiple-Choice, Short Answer, and Motivational
Save and prepare your students to succeed on state assessments with this Test Prep Bundle! This bundle includes units on Answering Multiple-Choice Questions, Answering Short Answer Questions, and Tips and Ideas for Motivational Test Prep.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Test Prep Unit - Answering Multiple Choice QuestionsIn this 5-day unit, students learn specific strategies to promote success on state assessments and daily practice.
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5th - 8th
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Hispanic Heritage Month Spanish Music Bracket BUNDLE of songs in Spanish Class
This Hispanic Heritage Month Spanish Music GROWING BUNDLE of editable Google Slideshow music bell ringers or brain breaks for Spanish class are perfect for Hispanic Heritage Month 2024 (Latinx heritage month, el mes de la herencia hispana o mes de la hispanidad) as a fun Spanish class music bracket, or all year long for diverse music for Spanish class culture.This HHM Growing Spanish Music Bundle has been updated for 2024 & includes✅ 11 total editable Google slideshows of music in Spanish w/
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Irony Mini-Unit - Lessons on Situational, Dramatic, & Verbal Irony (Google)
Help students develop a deep understanding of situational, dramatic, and verbal irony with this fun and engaging 3-day mini-unit!This IRONY MINI-UNIT provides numerous opportunities for students to learn about the three types of irony, determine the purpose of irony, analyze irony, describe how irony contributes to a story and even write their own examples of irony. Each lesson starts with a fun and engaging activity – Irony Hunt (where students differentiate between examples of irony and just
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5th - 8th
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Verbals Unit: Participles, Gerunds, & Infinitives PowerPoint, Teaching Materials
Introduce verbals and verbal phrases to your students with this comprehensive verbals teaching unit that includes an interactive, animated, an EDITABLE PowerPoint presentation and quizzes, practice, and guided notes. This resource includes:- a 51 slide, EDITABLE PowerPoint Presentation- 39 page PDF file that includes 19 different activitiesLooking for an entire year of grammar instruction? This unit is included in my Mega Grammar Bundle for Secondary ELAThe PowerPoint teaches students these conc
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6th - 10th
Mentor Sentences Middle School Grammar Lessons Activities | Two Volume Bundle
Teach grammar by creating an authentic learning experience with this complete two-volume print and digital bundle of middle school mentor sentences. This volume two bundle includes 72 weeks of done-for-you digital and print mentor sentences for each week, examples and possible answers for each day of the week, teacher lessons and interactive notebooks lessons with all examples and answer keys, self-grading weekly assessments, projection slides, worksheets, or interactive notebook option for each
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6th - 8th
ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY Unit BUNDLE (Taylor) Novel Study Activities, Quiz
Your learners will enjoy the rigor and creativity of our engaging activities built from best teaching practices. We want to make your lesson planning journey easy, so you can focus on your expertise. This novel study includes a curriculum map pacing guide that offers our day-by-day suggestion for how to plan out your weeks of lessons. Our pedagogy section explains the instructive idea behind the activity, gives ideas for implementation, and aligns it to the standards. We've filmed some training
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6th - 8th
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Psychotic Short Stories -- Literary Analysis Mini-Unit
This full unit contains a variety of activities for studying "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs, and "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl.
The unit could be great for Halloween, but you could teach it any time of the year. It contains everything you need to have your students analyze three creepy and haunting short stories from great classic authors, including the following:
* A FULL-TEXT version of "The Tell-Tale Heart" as well as...
- A four-page vocabula
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: MY FULL STORE! - A bundle of every single product I have
High School Grammar Mini Unit Bundle Diagnostics Practice Worksheets Assessments
This High School Grammar Bundle is a comprehensive resource designed to help high school teachers effectively teach and reinforce essential grammar concepts.This bundle covers a range of topics, including fragments, run-ons, prepositions, clauses, and sentence structure. You will have access to a wealth of instructional materials, assessments, and resources that foster student understanding and mastery of these key grammar skills.With this bundle, you will get:Diagnostics for all mini-unitsHS Gr
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8th - 11th
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Conflict Mini-Unit: Understanding Types of Conflict w/ Google Classroom Version
Understanding the central conflict in literature is essential to grasping a work’s overriding themes. Help students identify the core types of conflicts in literary pieces with this mini-unit. When students can identify a story’s conflict, they can accurately summarize and analyze a text. This engaging and powerful 3-Day Mini-Unit is designed to help students do just that! This conflict mini-unit provides numerous opportunities to develop the skill of identifying conflict. Each lesson start
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5th - 8th
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Inferencing Powerpoint: Video, Comics, Songs, & Vocabulary Posters
This powerpoint is colorful, adorable, and includes a variety of great examples to keep your students engaged while learning about inferencing!
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-40 editable slides with animation, cute clipart, and a variety of backgrounds
-embedded cartoon video clip (and website link), along with times to stop and ask inference questions in the notes section (**VIDEOS ARE FROM YOUTUBE, SO BE SURE YOU HAVE ACCESS AT YOUR SCHOOL)
-2 illustrated vocabulary slides that can be printed as word wall poste
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6th - 12th
Valentine's Day Activities Bundle- Creative Assignments for Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day Activities Bundle- Creative Assignments for Valentine's Day: Use this bundle of high-interest Valentine's activities to engage your ELA students in reading, writing, and ELA skills in February leading up to the holiday. With ready-to-use activities, assignments, slideshows, and more, you will be totally prepared to improve your students' ELA skills with a holiday twist!What Teachers Are Saying About These Valentine's Day Activities⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This whole bundle was great! Kids love
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6th - 9th
Thanksgiving Reading and Writing Activities and Assignments Creative Bundle
Thanksgiving Reading and Writing Activities and Assignments Creative Bundle: Use this bundle of high-interest Thanksgiving activities to engage your ELA students in reading, writing, and ELA skills leading up to the holiday. With ready-to-use activities, assignments, slideshows, and more, you will be totally prepared to improve your students' ELA skills with a Thanksgiving twist!What's Included in The Thanksgiving Reading and Writing Activities Bundle:➡️ Thanksgiving Figurative Language: Bring T
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6th - 9th
ELA Test Prep - Teaching Students How to Respond to Short Answer Questions
In this 5-day Test Prep Unit, students learn specific strategies to promote success on standardized assessments and daily practice. Students will learn test-taking strategies for answering short-response questions. They will learn how to include textual evidence in their responses to short answer questions with instruction, guided practice, and independent activities.During the mini-unit students develop and practice the “READ” strategy to promote thoughtful and thorough responses. Using the
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Test Prep BUNDLE! - Short Answer Questions and Motivation!
Heritage Speakers Unit: Cultura por todo el mundo hispanohablante
¿Quieren aprender sus estudiantes sobre todos los países hispanohablantes?This unit is designed for heritage speaker students or advanced learners of Spanish because the student materials and videos are in Spanish.How to use this resource:Students take notes, watch the embedded videos and take the quiz on each country.Learning Objective:The overall learning objective for this unit is for students to be exposedto the diverse cultural products and practices throughout the Spanishspeakingword. Most
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7th - 12th
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Unit - 2 Weeks - Washington Irving Short Story, CCSS
This is a fun 2 week unit plan for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Whether you need a unit during the Halloween season or you're simply looking to study an early work of classic American literature, this is a fun storyline for students to analyze. Students will: Participate in engaging PowerPoint sessions, read the text (included), engage with the rich vocabulary, collaborate to answer text-dependent questions, make inferences about themes supported with evidence, use a viewing guide as they watch
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8th - 12th
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch | Ocean Pollution | Earth Day unit
Are you looking for interesting and unusual ways to learn about human impacts on the environment? Planning for Earth Day, Clean Up Australia Day, Oceans Week, World Environment Day or World Water Day. If your students don't quite understand the importance of recycling, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch will alert them to the real impacts that just one plastic bottle can have.While many people are unaware of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, it is a major issue affecting global environmental health
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5th - 8th
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Freedom Walkers (R. Freedman) Novel Study
This unit includes everything you want in a novel study: vocabulary activities, comprehension and critical thinking chapter review questions, nonfiction reading skill worksheets, essay prompt, and answer keys for everything! Best yet, it is No Prep! Print and Go! ***This is the PRINT ONLY version. Save money and purchase the print and digital bundle.***WHAT'S INCLUDED (for each chapter)Vocabulary listVocabulary matching activityComprehension questions (minimum of four)Nonfiction reading skill
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Freedom Walkers Novel Study Print and Digital Bundle
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