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Grammar Lesson Bundle: FULL YEAR of Editable Lessons for Secondary ELA

By Secondary Sara

Grab a full year of EDITABLE grammar curriculum, and then exhale, because your prep is now done! This download is a no-prep, classroom-tested, easy-to-grade set of lessons, videos, quizzes, tests, and more, perfect for middle and high school

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Lesson

CCSS:

L.6.1c, L.6.1d, L.7.1a, L.7.1b, L.7.1c, L.7.2a, L.8.1a, L.8.1b, L.8.1c, L.8.1d, L.8.2a...

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Five Paragraph Essays Lesson Bundle (DISTANCE LEARNING): Unit for ANY Prompt!

By Secondary Sara

Now with Google Slides versions of lessons for distance learning! Students need to learn the rules in order to break them. Teach students about five paragraph essay structure with this bundle of lessons, ready to use before or during ANY essay

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Writing-Essays

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, Homeschool

Types:

Handouts, Google Apps, Lesson

$27.49

$24.99

658

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Greek & Latin Affixes Mega Bundle: YEAR of Flipbooks, Tests, and Activities

By Secondary Sara

Download ALL of my Greek & Latin affixes resources to get a year of seamless instruction and assessment! Students can learn 136+ affixes with 165 pages of resources. These materials can be used in a variety of ways, such as breaking the 10

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Lesson

CCSS:

L.6.4b, L.7.4b, L.8.4b

$25.47

$19.99

226

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Editing & Revising Bundle: Lessons, Activities, & Assessments for Writing!

By Secondary Sara

Do your students struggle to turn in quality writing for the first draft or make visible changes to the second draft? Do they need help understanding the difference between editing and revising, or need help figuring out how to do them? Use this

Subjects:

Grammar, Writing

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Lesson

CCSS:

W.7.5, W.8.5, W.9-10.5, W.11-12.5

$24.94

$14.99

133

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Grammar Bell-Ringers #1: Complete Sentences, Sentence Types, Run-ons, & More

By Secondary Sara

Want to incorporate grammar in small doses? Get ready to activate your students’ brains and learn grammar rules through inductive reasoning!This set of lessons can be used daily or weekly for any ELA class that needs help with basic sentence

Subjects:

Grammar

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

$7.99

220

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Indirect and Direct Characterization: “Show, Don’t Tell” Writing Lesson

By Secondary Sara

Need a quick lesson to review or introduce characterization? Want students to show instead of tell in writing? Grab this activity to define direct vs. indirect characterization and get writing immediately!In this lesson, students will:• Learn what

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Handouts, Lesson

$2.50

111

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Dashes, Ellipses, and Hyphens Unit: Grammar Lesson, Quiz, Test, & More

By Secondary Sara

Need a hand teaching punctuation in a no-prep, classroom-tested, easy-to-assess manner? Use this set of tools to introduce OR review dashes, ellipses, and hyphens to middle and high school students!This set not only addresses several CCSS topics,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Lesson

CCSS:

L.8.2a, L.8.2b, L.11-12.2a

$6.00

Digital Download ZIP (13.31 MB)

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A Christmas Carol: Non-Fiction Reading Activity

By Secondary Sara

Need to add non-fiction into a Christmas Carol or holiday-themed unit? Want to add some controversy to your class before winter break?Use this 2-day lesson connecting literature and modern articles to assess CCSS RI.1 and W.9 in your ELA classroom.

Subjects:

Literature, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Informational Text

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

RI.7.1, RI.8.1, RI.9-10.1, RI.11-12.1

$2.50

246

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Bell-Ringers & Programs Bundle for HIGH School ELA

By Secondary Sara

Ready for an engaging, productive bell-ringer system that YOU do not have to make? Every day of this bell-ringer/daily warm-ups routine is EITHER premade OR created by students! This bundle includes the following products from my store, in what

Subjects:

Reading, Grammar, Vocabulary

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Lesson

$41.95

$29.99

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Speaking Lesson on Posture & Movement: “The Seven Sins of Speaking”

By Secondary Sara

Use this lesson as a way to break down what a good public speaker looks like and prevent common mistakes in your students’ speeches! This activity can be flexibly used before any speech assignment of your choosing and is appropriate for a variety of

Subjects:

Other (ELA)

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Activities, Google Apps, Lesson

$3.00

156

Digital Download ZIP (8.60 MB)

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Thesis Statements are like Menus (DISTANCE LEARNING): Lesson for ANY Essay!

By Secondary Sara

Now includes Google, PDF, *and* Office versions! Thesis statements are like menus: a promise of what is to come. Hook and satisfy your diners/readers with this lesson!Use this easy simile to teach your students why essays need thesis statements, how

Subjects:

Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Handouts, Google Apps, Lesson

CCSS:

W.6.1a, W.7.1a, W.8.1a, W.9-10.1a

$2.50

562

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Narrative Writing Flip Book: Mini-Lessons for ANY Unit

By Secondary Sara

Need help teaching your next narrative writing assignment? Do your kids need review, and/or need the tricks to take their writing to the next level? This dense flip book of eight mini-lessons will elicit stronger drafts from your writers to get

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Interactive Notebooks, Lesson

$7.99

Digital Download ZIP (0.69 MB)

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Theme Lesson & Quiz – Apply to ANY Novel, Short Story, or Movie

By Secondary Sara

Need a quick mini-lesson to review or introduce themes in a story? Grab this lesson and practice set to teach what theme is and immediately start identifying one in a text of your choice!In this lesson, students will:• Learn what a theme is (and

Subjects:

Reading, Literature, Short Stories

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.6.2, RL.7.2, RL.8.2, RL.9-10.2

$3.50

214

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Parallel Structure Unit: Grammar Lesson, Quiz, Test, & More

By Secondary Sara

Need a hand teaching grammar in a no-prep, classroom-tested, easy-to-assess manner? Use this set of tools to introduce OR review parallel structure to middle and high school students!This concept is very common on standardized tests, especially the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Lesson

CCSS:

L.9-10.1a

$6.00

Digital Download ZIP (42.60 MB)

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Formal Writing Word Choices Lesson for ELA: Write "Like a Boss"

By Secondary Sara

Do your writers still sound like students instead of professionals? Do they need help avoiding conversational word choices and tone?Use this lesson to teach students how to write “in a formal style” to meet CCSS for informative AND argumentative

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Lesson

$3.99

181

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Parts of Speech Unit: Grammar Lesson, Quiz, Test, & More

By Secondary Sara

Need a hand teaching grammar in a no-prep, classroom-tested, easy-to-assess manner? Use this set of tools to introduce OR review parts of speech to middle and high school students!In my experience, students in the older grades still need a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Lesson

$6.00

124

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WORD CRIMES: Poster Project and Lesson for the Music Video!

By Secondary Sara

Ready to stop some word crimes? Watch or listen to Weird Al Yankovic’s song and use this lesson as a follow-up!This 9-page, fully EDITABLE download includes the following:• In the introductory lesson, students watch the video and record their

Subjects:

Grammar

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

$3.99

$2.99

234

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Citations Lesson for Beginners: MLA 9th Edition (with Google Docs)

By Secondary Sara

Are your students resisting citations in their research? Don’t understand what citations are, or why they are important? It’s less ugly with a metaphor, when you explain it as making your writing more “designer” by putting logos on it! Win them over

Subjects:

Writing

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Handouts, Lesson

$2.99

165

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Visual Aids Lesson: Making & Using Better Slideshows in Public Speaking

By Secondary Sara

Are your students giving you Death by PowerPoint? Staring at the screen instead of the audience? Turning in presentations that look more like an outline than a TED talk?This one-day lesson breaks down the what, why, and how of creating more engaging

Subjects:

Other (ELA)

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Lesson

CCSS:

SL.7.5, SL.8.5, SL.9-10.5, SL.11-12.5

$3.00

Digital Download ZIP (5.22 MB)

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Concise and Redundant Writing Lesson

By Secondary Sara

Need a quick lesson to review or introduce topics like conciseness, redundancy, or wordiness? This lesson and practice is a great way to prep for tests like the ACT/SAT or teach CCSS L.7.3.A in middle school. In this lesson, students will:• Learn

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Writing

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Handouts, Lesson

CCSS:

L.7.3a

$2.99

Digital Download ZIP (0.90 MB)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

6 years of teaching 7th & 8th grade ELA, and 8 years of high school tutoring experience. I'm also a National Writing Project consultant and writing team coach. I'm constantly involved with both the middle and high school "worlds", and I love all of these grade levels and their quirks!

MY TEACHING STYLE

I teach with a lot of technology and student-centered projects! I flip my ELA curriculum when I can, and create units in which students drive their own learning. Student motivation is very important to me, and we spend time in class talking about why the lesson matters to their futures.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

National Writing Project Teacher Consultant; Conference presenter; Kappa Phi Kappa Award 2010

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Bachelor's degree with honors in English Pre-Education, with minors in Professional Writing and Music. Master's degree in Integrated English Language Arts 7-12. Both degrees are from THE Ohio State University!

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Check out my blog at secondarysara.com! You can also interact with me on Facebook and Pinterest.

GRADES

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool, Not Grade Specific

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Social Studies, World Languages, Latin, Other (Specialty), ELA Test Prep, Other (Social Studies), Other (ELA), Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, School Counseling, Study Skills, Short Stories, Writing, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Halloween, Winter, The New Year, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, St. Patrick's Day, Spring, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, Test Preparation, End of Year, Classroom Community