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Common Core L.9-10.2 resources under $5
Punctuation Lecture & Editing Handout, Grammar Activity, PDF & Google Drive CCSS
This 24-slide "Power of Punctuation" presentation will entertain your students and inspire them to take care with their punctuation marks. Using humorous examples and interactive slides/handout, your class will learn the striking difference in meaning that can occur with one misplaced comma. Examples are sure to fire up your high school and middle school students – expect giggles and outrage.Package also includes a one-page handout (both printable PDF & Google Drive versions) to allow studen
WHY STUDY HISTORY | Back to School Activity | First Day of School Discussion
Why do we study history anyway? This back to school activity is a must have for any history or social studies class! Start the first day of school (or the first lesson of any history class) with “WHY” because students always want to know why? Why am I learning about history? Why do we have to study this stuff anyway? When am I ever going to use this in life? Isn’t history about a "bunch of old dead people" and things that have already happened? **Major necessary upgrades have been made to ma
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Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
Clauses and Phrases (4 Types of Sentences) Grammar Ninja is Hilarious, Engaging
This 2-page review handout will help students practice looking at sentences and determining the difference between:
* Subordinate Clauses
* Simple Sentences
* Compound Sentences
* Complex Sentences
* Compound-Complex Sentences
This unit uses the legendary story of samurai, Oda Nabunaga, to intrigue students while they practice.
COMMON CORE: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.7.1b; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2
"I hate grammar," students too often say. "Why do we have to learn this stuff?" No
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Necklace, Guy de Maupassant Short Story Literary Analysis, PDF & Google Apps
Use the classic short story, “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, to teach your students the elements of literary analysis. This two-day lesson plan includes a full-text copy of this public domain story, an 8-question student handout (with detailed answer key, of course), an interactive slide lecture (both Prezi Next and Google Slides versions included) to help your students learn how to analyze text as they connect the author’s setting to the character development of Mathilde Loisel, and an opt
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8th - 11th
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Main Idea Writing a Summary: Common Core Informative/Explanatory Writing
Writing a Summary: Common Core Informative/Explanatory Writing Activities - NO PREP - Just print and go!
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my WRITING RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
Summarizing is a life-long skill. Our students will enter the real world soon and will find themselves having to summarize many different types of work for employers, employees, and even clients. It's essential that we teach them this valuable skill.
This pack focuses on summarizing nonfiction pieces. Students
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8th - 12th
Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote Analysis, Team Activity, CCSS
Make the words of Transcendental philosopher and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson come alive for your students with breath-taking photography in this two-day class group activity with optional independent writing supplement.This packet includes visually stunning images from nature coupled with quotations from Nature and Self-Reliance, two of Emerson's most-noted works. This 17-page PDF also includes a detailed suggested lesson procedure along with 10 half-sheet student handouts for teams to use as the
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9th - 12th
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The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin with Nonfiction Text - Short Story Analysis
Students complete close readings of two texts: Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and The Washington Post article “Study Suggests You Can Die of a Broken Heart” to make relevant connections. Students begin by completing an anticipation guide with statements about love and marriage. A handout with before-, during-, and post-reading strategies provides scaffolding for their reading, and the lesson culminates with an assignment requiring students to find a love song or poem that matches a theme f
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Real-World Nonfiction Connections Bundle: Thoreau, Douglass & Chopin
STAAR Practice Revising & Editing Task Cards Sentence Editing Worksheets Grammar
Finding quick, easy, and engaging ways to practice revising and editing that doesn't overwhelm students can be challenging. Task cards are the perfect solution. They are quick, to the point, versatile and challenging.These editing task cards can be used as bell-ringers, warm-ups, tutoring sessions, exit tickets, game cards, and more.The 20 editing and revsing task cards are perfect to prepare for the English I & II STAAR Exam or EOC test. They use modern informational text articles as editin
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8th - 11th
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CURRENT EVENTS: News Article Summary, Main Idea, Reading Comprehension | NEWSELA
This Current Events Summary is an excellent tool for students to get involved with the news and the current events of the week. A simple writing format helps students find, summarize, and write opinions about current news stories and events. I find this activity to be a practical filler for various social studies courses. What's Included:Teacher directions with ideas for implementation and useSimple student directions: Find, Highlight, Summarize, Importance, OpinionGuided student writing temp
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Political Parties | Campaign Simulation Running for President
This presidential election simulation is an excellent way for students to comprehend all aspects of political parties and the campaigns needed to elect a presidential candidate - "Let's Get The Party Started!" The teacher will divide class into groups of 4 to 5 students per group. Each group will develop their own political party and choose a presidential candidate to represent their party. Using the included criteria, allow students a few class periods, or portions of class periods, to create
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5th - 12th
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Articles of the Constitution: A Primary Source Analysis on the 7 Articles
This is an excellent way to study and know the information contained within the United States Constitution. To better understand the layout and information within the United States Constitution, students will read through the original 7 Articles of this primary source document and find the main ideas. This is a nice addition to Constitution Day or your existing unit on the Constitution.Don't be afraid to have your students study this great document. Being one of the most influential documents
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6th - 12th
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Mentor Sentences from YA Lit - Types of Sentences and Narrative Leads
Do your students struggle with identifying sentence types? Can they use what they know about grammatical sentence structures to develop strong narrative leads? These engaging and analytical mentor sentence questions can help with both! The sentences are designed so that you can teach grammar more meaningfully and in combination with reading and writing. Teach students to observe strong grammatical and figurative language elements, identify the elements authors use, and analyze the effect on read
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Grammar Lessons and Activities Bundle for Middle and High School
High School Grammar Assessment | Digital Self Grading English Grammar Test
Do you need to assess secondary English students regarding grammar, mechanics, and usage? This multiple choice grammar test includes 100 grammar questions. The pre-test includes 50 questions, and the post-test includes 50 questions–AND, both grammar tests are self-grading. Use for the self-grading grammar test:→ The grammar assessment includes standard concepts that high school students should know. Therefore, it covers middle school language standards. → You can use this grammar test with middl
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8th - 11th
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Appositives and Appositive Phrases Trashketball Review Game - Grammar Activity
Review appositives and engage your students with this game! During the activity, teams of students review appositive phrases and compete to shoot baskets into a trash can. For the first two rounds, students identify the appositive phrases in each sentence, but the difficulty increases in the third round when they have to combine sentences to create new sentences with appositive phrases. (Updated version now has a link to a Google Slides Presentation.)Research shows that students often learn bes
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6th - 9th
Oprah Winfrey’s Golden Globes Speech Rhetorical Analysis PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Use Oprah Winfrey’s headline-grabbing speech from the 2018 Golden Globes to show your students the power of a well-constructed presentation. In this one class period activity, students will discuss the #metoo movement, view Oprah Winfrey’s 10-minute speech, and deconstruct/discuss her use of rhetorical devices. Questions focus on audience, metaphor, parallelism, pathos, and symbolism. These materials can serve as a stand-alone lesson or as a solid supplement to a study of Jim Crow laws or SAT-st
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Comma Rules Mini Lessons and Mentor Sentence Activities - Distance Learning
Does pesky punctuation have you in a funk? There are so many rules about punctuation in the English language! Do you need a succinct tool that will help you to capture the most important comma rules your students need to utilize in their writing? This mini unit features mini lessons on commas in a series, words of direct address, direct quotations, introductory material, plus four more comma rules and two semicolon rules. RESOURCE CONTENTS...A 36 slide editable PowerPoint presentation with...8 i
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: Grammar Lessons and Activities Bundle for Middle and High School
Grocabulary Bundle: Subjects, Predicates, Phrases, Clauses, & Sentence Types
Looking for fun extra practice grammar exercises? These Grocabulary resources are something I made in an effort to make grammar more fun and engaging for both students and teachers. It consists of three grammar practice exercises. Each grocabulary worksheet highlights a grammar concept, but the sentences contain funny and entertaining "vocabulary" words to get students thinking about using context clues to determine unfamiliar word meanings. The focus of these exercises is grammar, but they are
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6th - 11th
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Grammar Gap Filler 23: Run-Ons & Comma Splices
How many times have your students made errors in their spelling, mechanics, or usage, even though they have been taught the rules for years? Many teachers are tempted to “get back to basics” and teach everyone the concepts again, but that’s not a good use of your time, and it forces too many students to sit through instruction they simply don’t need.What’s more effective is to teach these conventions in the context of meaningful writing, giving each student the exact instruction they need. But t
Argument Writing that's Real-World Relevant: Activity Set
Argument writing can get old fast when the format is always the same. But repetition helps so much in getting students to understand how to write literary analysis. So what to do?You want your students to know how to make points, give evidence, and analyze that evidence, but you're sick of the groans when you roll out your newest essay assignment. Students focus on issues like word count and number of quotations instead of becoming better writers, and they barely engage with the feedback process
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7th - 10th
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Jamestown Activity: Webquest, History Reading, Video, Virtual Archaeological Dig
From adventure, to mystery, to the "starving time," students will enjoy learning even more about historic Jamestown through these 4 content-rich resources. Established in 1607, Jamestown was the first successful English settlement in the Americas, and is considered to be the beginnings of United States History. This mini unit will provide a variety of diverse learning resources to go along with your current unit on Jamestown history. Answer keys are included for all resources. Enjoy, and let
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
The MLA Format Activity l MLA format
Let's face it, MLA format can feel like the ogre under the academic bed. Intimidating. Complicated. Not to mention annoying. But with the resources now available to our kids online (like the Purdue writing lab's guide to citation), it doesn't have to be so stressful. All we really need to do is introduce students to the basic system, teach them to cite their favorite sources, and give them a roadmap to the right online source for when they need to cite something wild, like an interview originall
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Comma Rules Breakout Escape Room NO PREP Paper and Digital
Have you noticed you students struggle to learn fundamental skills? In the age of technology, it can be hard to capture students attention, and help them retain key information! Breakout Escape Rooms will help engage your students in learning.This product has been tested in my classroom. The result? Engaged learning!This breakout escape room walk students through common comma uses. This product is NO PREP, meaning you just print and learn...or go digital! No cutting, pasting, or sorting! You can
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5th - 8th
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Comma Practice Punctuation Activities | Paragraphs, Lesson Plan, & Powerpoint
Do you need a variety of comma activities to support your secondary writers? Study commas and their uses with this editable presentation and punctuation activities—comma worksheets and more. When teaching commas, I realized that I needed a variety of comma activities—more than one simple comma practice worksheet. Comma practice requires scaffolded tools to reach more students!Topics covered in these comma activities:Students will learn about using commas with: ✓ introductory phrases (participial
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Eighth Grade Grammar Bundle: Verbals, Active & Passive Voice, Verb Moods
Irony Task Cards
Teaching irony? Amp up the fun and proficiency level in your classroom with (30) Irony Task Cards that address situational, verbal, and dramatic irony - a literary concept often found on standardized tests. Answer key included. Task Cards are an effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets! Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required! Like Task Cards? Like PowerPoints? Try the Teach & Reach Bun
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: ELA Jumbo Task Card Bundle - Volume 1
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