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Informational Text Structures PowerPoint with Practice Passages
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce nonfiction text structures to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 34-slide PowerPoint begins by introducing the 5 categories of informational text structures to students. Each text structure features a graphic organizer. Plus, students find it engaging because all of the example paragraphs are related to soccer! After reading each soccer passage, students are show
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Argumentative Writing - A Complete Argument Essay Writing Unit - PRINT & DIGITAL
Help your students master the art of argumentative writing with this argument writing teaching unit! I created this argumentative essay writing teaching unit with secondary ELA students in mind, and it includes step-by-step and engaging writing instructional materials. This argument essay writing unit includes everything you need for a complete argumentative writing instructional unit, including the print & digital materials. This essay writing instructional unit includes an editable instruc
Grades:
7th - 10th
Academic Vocabulary Unit: Year-long vocab program with activities & quizzes
Revolutionize the way you engage your students with vocabulary with this year-long academic vocabulary program! If you find yourself dreading, or even avoiding, including vocabulary in your middle school ELA or high school English curriculum, this vocabulary unit is for you!This academic vocabulary unit is filled with engaging vocabulary activities, and it is designed to help prepare secondary ELA students to succeed in your English class. This Academic Vocabulary Program Includes:45 weeks of de
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Explanatory and Informational Writing Unit for Secondary ELA
Engage your students in an informational and expository essay unit that will help them learn how to write academically! This explanatory, expository, and informational writing unit includes everything you need to teach informational and explanatory writing to your middle and high school students. Plus, all of the digital and print materials are included!There is an editable PowerPoint presentation and supplementary teaching materials that contain assignments, activities, and an essay. This writi
Grades:
6th - 9th
Citing Text Evidence PowerPoint Lesson: Practice Passages and Sentence Starters
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce text evidence to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! Use this 36-slide PowerPoint to create an engaging lesson where your students will read passages with comprehension questions, and then they will find and cite text evidence to support their answers! Citing text evidence to support answers is emphasized in nearly every state's reading standards. If you are looking fo
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Text Evidence: A Bundle of Practice Passages, Lessons, and Activities
Journalism Teaching Bundle: Lessons, PowerPoints, Assignments for Middle and Hig
Elevate your journalism curriculum with our comprehensive teaching bundle! This Journalism Teaching Bundle includes essential lessons, engaging PowerPoint presentations, and creative assignments, providing everything needed to kickstart your students' journalistic journey, whether it be for a stand-alone unit, elective class, or school newspaper or yearbook program.This journalism teaching resource bundle includes the following resources:Four editable PowerPoint presentations covering key topics
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Grades:
7th - 10th
Reference Materials Bundle: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Atlas, Almanac
This mega bundle has everything you need to keep your students engaged as you teach them about the five basic types of reference materials: the dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, almanac, and encyclopedia. Besides learning about how to use these reference books, students also learn some specifics about each type of reference book. The activities in this bundle make learning how to use reference books fun and easy! Students love the activities while teachers love the convenience of these no-prep resou
Grades:
4th - 6th
Narrative Writing and Short Story Unit Bundle
Narrative Writing/Short Story Unit: This common core aligned bundle is perfect for back to school and it includes everything you need to teach narrative writing, narrative strategies, and short stories to your middle and high school students. This unit focuses on writing better narratives by understanding and analyzing narrative elements within short stories. The unit begins with vocabulary and ends with a fictional or personal narrative.There are three file types in the zipped download.- Three
Grades:
7th - 10th
Ethos, Pathos, & Logos in Advertisements Question Trail: Engaging Activity
Spice up your lessons on ethos, pathos, and logos with this engaging question trail activity that will get students up and moving around the room. This activity gives students practice identifying the rhetorical appeals in adA question trail is an activity comprised of different multiple choice “stations” or “spots.” These questions are posted throughout the classroom. At each station, students answer a multiple-choice question. Each answer (a, b, c, or d) will send the students to a different s
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Question Trails GROWING BUNDLE: Engaging Activities
Primary & Secondary Sources Simplified – PPT + Printables bundle
The Common Core ELA State Standards demand that students be exposed to a wide variety of challenging literary and informational texts. Increasingly, our children will need to be able to read and analyze a mix of primary and secondary sources as they build their content knowledge. This set of activities is designed to introduce your students to the concept of primary and secondary sources, as well as the difference between firsthand and secondhand accounts (RI.4.6). It includes:
• 10-slid
Grades:
4th - 6th
Unsolved Mystery Research Project
This is a research project I have been using with my upper elementary and middle school students that students love! First students choose an unsolved mystery to research from the list of topics included. New in 2023 are two student topic lists. Topic list 1 is for more mature students because the topics are more suited for middle school students and includes 29 topics. Topic list 2 has less mature themes, but are equally interesting and could be used for students at any grade level. This list c
Grades:
4th - 9th
Rhetorical Analysis Bundle - Appeals & Devices PPTs, Activities & Printables
Strengthen the rhetorical analysis and argumentation skills of your high school and advanced middle school students by helping them learn, identify, analyze and practice rhetorical strategies—both appeals and devices. Save 20% with this comprehensive, engaging bundle of two products (also sold separately) that includes: Rhetorical Appeals: Introductory PowerPoint, Activities & Handouts --32-slide PowerPoint, 18-page packet of printable activities including:• Rhetorical Appeals Introductory P
Grades:
7th - 12th
Context Clues BUNDLE: Constructing the Meaning of Words and Phrases In a Text
This context clues bundle has everything you need to keep your upper elementary students engaged as you teach them how to use context clues to construct the meaning of words and phrases, including figurative language. The activities in this bundle make learning how to use context clues fun and easy! Students love the activities while teachers love the convenience of these no-prep resources that can be used year after year! I created these resources to address CCSS RL.5.4 and RI 5.4: Determine th
Grades:
4th - 6th
Summarizing Nonfiction PowerPoint Lesson with Practice Passages and Poster
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to teach your students how to write a strong nonfiction summary in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 53-slide PowerPoint will guide your students through the process of summarizing nonfiction. Students will learn that the first step to writing a strong nonfiction summary is to write a strong main idea sentence, and they will be presented with a formula that will help them write that importan
Grades:
4th - 7th
Rhetorical Analysis Bundle for Secondary ELA
Increase student understanding with hands-on and engaging rhetorical analysis resources. This analysis unit includes many rhetoric resources including complete lessons and activities. Rhetorical Analysis with Sticky NotesThis lesson includes:an editable, 87-slide PowerPoint for teaching rhetorical analysis (with definitions and examples)18 rhetorical analysis organizers9 writing prompts with outlines 2 grading rubricsteacher instructionsa sample week lesson planthree included speechessuggested
Grades:
8th - 11th
NONFICTION FULL YEAR ARTICLE OF THE WEEK: PRESENTATIONS & ACTIVITIES | PRINT
The Nonfiction Article of the Week is a full-year, 40-week informational text program for middle and high school English language arts teachers that includes high-interest articles, instruction slides, standards-based reading responses, videos, and creative assignments. Included in your purchase:40 teacher slideshow presentations in PowerPoint format that guide you through each element of the lessons. The slides include pre-reading discussion questions, prompts for each of the activities, answe
Grades:
6th - 9th
Parts of Speech Review Game - Nouns, Verbs, & Adjectives - Trashketball Activity
Engage your students with a game of Parts of Speech (Nouns, Verbs & Adjectives) Trashketball. In this game, there are three rounds. In the first round, students identify nouns in the context of each sentence; the sentences increase in difficulty and complexity with the inclusion of multiple nouns and abstract nouns. In the second round, students identify verbs and/or verb phrases, and in the last round they identify adjectives in the sentences. (Updated version now has a link to a Google
Grades:
4th - 8th
Rhetorical Devices: PowerPoint, Activities & Handouts
Help your high school and advanced middle school students learn, understand and practice a wide variety of rhetorical devices with this engaging, fully editable 40-slide PowerPoint and 10-page printable activity packet. The CCSS-aligned package includes: • Definition, purpose and examples of fourteen types of rhetorical devices (see list below). Multiple examples from historical speeches, literature and everyday life for each• Assessment activity that asks students to identify rhetorical devic
Grades:
8th - 12th
Elements of Nonfiction Introduction - Informational Text Doodle Notes & Posters
Are you looking for engaging ways to introduce your informational text unit? This Elements of Nonfiction introduction is a great place to start. With the no-prep slideshow and doodle notes, your students will record the essential elements of nonfiction text. This informational text introduction is a quick and easy way to refresh students' nonfiction skills and set your unit up for success!✔ Check out the preview for an in-depth look at this resource! ► This Elements of Nonfiction Text Unit Intro
Grades:
5th - 7th
Paragraph of the Week EDITABLE Templates Add-on Pack
Editable Paragraph of the Week Templates are the perfect add-on to your Original Paragraph of the Week program and the DIGITAL Paragraph of the Week program. Please be sure you have Power Point installed on your computer, as well as Kimberly Geswein's KG Blank Space Font. Using the same format at the original program, this template pack allows you to TYPE IN your own writing prompts while keeping the familiar style that the students are used to. This Add-on pack DOES NOT contain any writing p
Grades:
2nd - 6th
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Associated Press (AP) Style Writing Bundle: An Intro to Journalistic Writing
Writing journalistically for either newspaper or yearbook is quite different than writing a paper for English class. With this AP Style teaching bundle, your student journalists will learn the fundamentals of AP Style writing and how to write for a scholastic journalism class. This journalism unit includes a variety of resources to help your students learn the basics of AP Style, and it includes materials for direct instruction, student practice, and assessment!This AP style journalism writing u
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education
The Anatomy of a Newspaper: Journalism and Informational Text Lesson
Teach your students all about the elements of a newspaper with this journalism and text-based lesson, Anatomy of a Newspaper. With this resource, your students will learn all about the parts of a newspaper, which will help them be able to identify key information quicker. This journalism teaching unit includes the following items:a 26-slide presentation for direct instruction that breaks down the various elements of newspapers including the section, headline, byline, photo caption, and more news
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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Reference Materials PowerPoint Lessons with Practice Exercises
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce the various types of reference materials to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 112-slide PowerPoint focuses on the five basic types of reference materials: the dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, almanac, and encyclopedia (both print and online). Along with learning about how to use these reference books, students will also learn the specific characteristics of each ty
Grades:
4th - 6th
Fun Nonfiction Reading Activities! Sports, Super Hero, Urban Legend & Conspiracy
Enjoy 124 Super Hero, Urban Legend, Conspiracy Theory, Sports and Athletes Reading Comprehension and Analysis Activities using Informational Texts. Perfect for distance learning! Fun nonfiction reading comprehension and analysis activities and writing prompts (persuasive, expository, creative/narrative) about 124 Super Heroes, Urban Legends, Conspiracy Theories, Sports and Athletes (Printable & Digital) - NO PREP lesson plans, student handouts, PowerPoint slides, Google Docs, Google Slides,
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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