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Other (ELA) activities for Microsoft Word
Back To School Night Letters from Students to Parents
This product can be used for students to write a letter to their parents about what they have been doing in school and what they look forward to learning about. The letters will be presented on their desks for Back to School Night. Parents also have an opportunity to write back. The students love coming back and seeing that their parents wrote them back!
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2nd - 7th
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Team Building Energizers - Building Classroom Community Games and Activities
This product includes forty games and activities you can play with students to build your classroom community. Each game is described thoroughly so you can successfully play them with your students! The games that are included are:
1) Hangman
2) Celebrity
3) Quick Change
4) Electricity
5) 2 Truths/1 Tall Tale
6) Human Knot
7) Lucky 6's
8) Maze
9) Helium Stick
10) Sentence Story
11) Left Out - Clumps
12) Giggles
13) Charades
14) People to People
15) Back 2 Back Drawings
16) Bippity Bipitty Bop
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K - 9th
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Ethics and Journalism - Controversial Photos Activity (GRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHS)
This packet allows your students to explore ethics and journalism. Through this activity they view three controversial photographs that were taken and published by professional journalists but stirred up controversy due to the graphic content or story topic. This activity is very thought-provoking and engaging. Students view each photograph, read a short paragraph or two about the context surrounding its taking and publishing, and finally analyze each one for the ethical questions it raises and
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8th - 12th
Be the Teacher for a Day Project and Presentation
One of my favorite public speaking activities! Let you students teach the class and master important standards in the process.
This handout breaks down creating a lesson for students. I broke down each portion of the lesson and included multiple activity suggestions/examples for each required portion. In this comprehensive assignment sheet, you will find student behavior agreements, lesson plan template, and rubric.
This activity can work with any subject and any objectives that you want
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10th - 12th
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The Great Debaters Viewing Guide
This movie is a must in my public speaking class. I use this movie to preface our debate unit as well as to demonstrate how public speaking is not just a required course, but a useful tool that can motivate and inspire people.
Viewing guide includes comprehension questions surrounding the movie's action as well as objective-based questions (summary, text structure, etc.).
Such a great resource for any public speaking class or unit. This movie relates to the civil rights movement as well.
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7th - 12th
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The Finest Hours: A Book Study
The Finest Hours is the true story of the Coast Guard's "Most Daring Rescue." It is now also a major motion picture. This book study includes pre-reading questions along with a helpful list of nautical terms. It has guided reading questions for each chapter as well as post reading questions. Also included are three quizzes, one from each part of the book that are related back to the guided reading questions.
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9th - 12th
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Macbeth (2010) Movie Handout
This product is a handout to be filled out while viewing the Macbeth (2010) movie starring Patrick Stewart. It contains 25 details from the play in one column. The other column is for students to fill in how the detail/scene differs in the movie. An answer key is provided.
Note: The duration for this handout is the length of the movie, roughly 2.5 hours.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
The Three Little Pigs: A Musical Sound Story Created by YOU!
Get ready for fun as you teach your students the story of The Three Little Pigs in a brand new way! Children will love the delightful retelling of this classic story as much as they'll love listening for their chance to make noises and/or play an instrument as the story progresses. You'll love that they are developing auditory discrimination and listening skills as they have a great time!
Perfect for music classes, this activity will be a hit in any language arts and/or reading class, too! Thi
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PreK - 5th
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6th Grade Reading, Writing, & Language Arts Milestones Review with ANSWER Key
Review Packet for students taking the 6th grade Milestones. This review covers every CCGPS standard (particularly the reading, writing, and language standards). The last page will guide students through how to best answer a constructed response/short answer question using the RACE strategy and transition words.
This would be great to review with any grade level, though. Very in-depth and asks students to recall definitions and create their own examples for language used in the standards. is co
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6th
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Create an Advertisement Assignment
This assignment asks students to apply their understanding of pathos, ethos, and logos, as well as other persuasive techniques to create their own advertisement. The document includes directions and rubric requirements, as well as a planning sheet.
(I used this assignment as a mid-unit assessment before moving on to analyzing persuasion in a written text, but it could also work as a culminating project or an extension activity to supplement lessons on analyzing types of persuasion in advertisin
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6th - 9th
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EDITABLE Star Student Letter Template and Cover for Book
Print out the blank letter template for students to write a friendly letter to their Student of the Week/Star Student. Turn the letters into a book for your Star Student to take home! Edit the cover to correspond with your student and class name, print out on bright colored card-stock paper, and voila! A wonderful book to celebrate a child's week of being a star.
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K - 3rd
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The Little Red Hen: A Musical Sound Story Created by YOU!
Get ready for fun as you teach your students the story of The Little Red Hen in a brand new way! Children will love the delightful retelling of this classic story as much as they'll love listening for their chance to make noises and/or play an instrument as the story progresses. You'll love that they are developing auditory discrimination and listening skills as they have a great time!
Perfect for music classes, this activity will be a hit in any language arts and/or reading class, too! This ac
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PreK - 5th
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Google Maps Activity for Serial Podcast
This 12 page activity provides an in-depth look into the various timelines discussed in the Serial podcast. it also requires students to use critical thinking skills and use technology to make inferences.
Students will begin by plotting 22 various key locations on 4 different maps of Baltimore using the provided addresses and maps.
After they have plotted the locations, students will go through each timeline answering questions regarding drive times from one location t
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8th - 12th
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FARMHOUSE - Name Tags with Number line and alphabet chart with keywords
Farmhouse themed name tags with number line and fundations alphabet chart with keywords. Great visual for students to have their own individual alphabet chart with keywords
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Not Grade Specific
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American Romanticism Anticipation Guide/Four Corners Activity
This is an anticipation guide made active!
Students are introduced to the ideals of American Romanticism though the guide, in which they have to reflect upon a series of statements. Afterwords, students participate in "Four Corners" style discussion groups, engaging in small group talks about their opinions and beliefs. A fun, interactive way to begin your unit on American Romanticism!
Included in the document:
- Teacher Activity Instructions
- Copiable Student Anticipation Guide
- Number
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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Cause and Effect Cut and Paste
Students will cut out a cause sentence and match it up with the effect sentence. They will then glue them together on the chart on page two.
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1st - 3rd
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An Introduction to Debates for the Elementary Classroom
This guide is a great way to introduce principals of formal debates, objective thinking, and active listening within the elementary classroom. Suitable to use for grades 2-8…just modify the topics in this COMPLETELY EDITABLE Word document. The guide includes:· Instructional notes· Group brainstorming activities· Reasons to study debates and ways they are used in the real world· Debate organization outlines and worksheets· Objective thinking activities· Formal debate structure· Active listening a
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2nd - 8th
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College and Career Research Project and Presentation
This activity is GREAT to get students thinking about the next stage of their lives whether that be college or career.
This assignment sheets asks student to create either a PowerPoint presentation or a poster board to present to the class answering a number of questions tailored to either avenue - college or career.
I used this project as a midterm for my public speaking students, but it can be used any time of the year.
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10th - 12th
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Reading Vocabulary 5E Lesson Plan
This is a Reading Vocabulary lesson plan that uses Poetry. The lesson plan follows the 5E Lesson Plan model. The 5 Es are Engagement, Exploration, Explanation, Elaboration, and Evaluation. The plan uses poetry to enforce vocabulary, however, any reading passage can apply to this lesson plan. The lesson plan applies to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and the Common Core Standards. The lesson is designed for the average student, however it includes differentiated lesson plan ideas. The
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Reading 5E Lesson Plan BUNDLE
Activity for viewing The Simpsons' Lord of the Flies episode
This is an activity centered around students viewing the 14th episode of the 9th seasons of The Simpsons - "Das Bus" - which is a parody of Golding's Lord of the Flies.
Essentially students are asked to identify specific characteristics of Piggy, Ralph, Jack, etc. in the various Simpsons characters. On the back of the sheet, students are instructed to identify similarities and differences between the novel and the episode.
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9th - 12th
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Wanted Poster template
I create a template for a wanted poster in word - completely modifiable :)
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2nd - 5th
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Word Study w/ r-influenced /o/ sounds (or, ore & oar) - Words Their Way
These words are inspired by List 28 in the Words Their Way, Word Sorts for within Word Pattern Spellers resource book by Marcia Invernizzi. These materials are inspired by the Beth Newingham's word study unit she has designed, but it is altered and more manageable for my classroom. Her unit has an allotted time for spelling instruction daily and in my district there isn't a specific time for explicit spelling instruction. With that being said, these resources take minimal time from classroom ins
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2nd - 6th
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Rudy Movie in class Film Guide
Movie guide for Rudy film! 10 questions (3 full pages) that require students to analyze the character struggles/conflicts, accomplishments and successes, and theme. There is also personal reflection questions. Great assignment to use while a substitute is there for a few days so students are practicing their writing.
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8th - 12th
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Halloween 5th Grade Word Search
HALLOWEEN 5th GRADE WORD SEARCH
FOR 5th GRADERS ONLY! ...IT'S ALL ABOUT THEM AND HALLOWEEN!!
All the words on here are about 5th graders and Halloween!
They'll get a kick out of searching for words about THEMSELVES AND HALLOWEEN!
A BIG puzzle - 32 WORDS!! They'll enjoy doing this and they know how to use them.
You know how and when to use these too. Enjoy!
* ALSO FOR HALLOWEEN - CLICK THE LINK:
- HALLOWEEN FUN FACTS QUIZ! - What a great “EXTRA” for Halloween! 13 trivia questions all abo
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5th
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