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Middle school english language arts centers on sale
Independent Reading Conferences {Templates to Differentiate Your Instruction}
Independent reading is such an important time for students to practice the skills that have been modeled or taught to them. But what should you do during this time? Make the most of this time by conducting INDEPENDENT READING CONFERENCES! This one on one time with each student will provide valuable information as you get to know them better as readers. I have created a series of questions to guide you through your conferences. These questions will take all the guess work out of conferencing, all
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3rd - 6th
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Modal Auxiliary Verbs
MODAL AUXILIARY VERB 48 TASK CARDS - SCOOT Grade 4
Common Core Aligned to: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.1.C. - Use modal auxiliaries (e.g., can, may, must) to convey various conditions.
A great way to use task cards is playing SCOOT! Scoot is an easy, fun, fast paced game that will get the kids up and moving around.
Place a task card on each desk in numerical order. Each student will read the sentence and will write down the correct answer on their sheet. Then after a minute or two, say "SCOOT!" and
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4th - 6th
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TABLE TALK LITERATURE AND NONFICTION DISCUSSION CARDS BUNDLE
Bring reading engagement and comprehension to life with these table talk cards! Students will actively analyze, infer, and make connections with the text. These open ended questions will guide students to delve deeper into the text and enhance discussion with their peers. These table talk cards will spark conversations with your students and give you opportunities to drop in and listen to meaningful discussion. Use in partners, groups, or even at your guided group table. Literature cards are de
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3rd - 6th
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Interactive Reading Comprehension | Triangles, Posters, Organizers |
This interactive reading resource has to be one of my favorite creations! This is a tool that can be used ALL YEAR LONG! Students will interact with the text by marking their thinking with their manipulatives (triangles from key rings). Students use triangles to "point" to their answers/thinking. Reinforce or introduce reading skills & strategies with this reading comprehension pack. Key ring manipulatives color coordinate with the posters so students can reference them during reading. Colo
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Reading Kit Bundle | Interactive Reading Comprehension
Reading Kit Bundle | Interactive Reading Comprehension
This Reading Kit is everything you need to engage your readers with the text! This bundle includes SEVEN resources that can be used individually, small group, or whole group. These hands on manipulatives offer choice and meet the needs of your individual students.These resources can be used with any text! Menus, key rings, posters, graphic organizers, manipulatives for fiction and non-fiction.Please see individual product previews to see what's included in this bundle. *Thank you for visiting my
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3rd - 6th
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Teacher's Toolkit For Teaching Non-Fiction Text Features
This Teacher’s Toolkit to teach non-fiction text features has many resources to help you teach your students! The bright posters will add color to your classroom wall while providing students with useful information and helpful examples. This pack also includes engaging activities for students to “play” so they will become proficient with non-fiction text features. Interactive text feature triangles just added to this resource to use as reading manipulatives. These triangles will make assessing
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2nd - 6th
Also included in: Reading Kit Bundle | Interactive Reading Comprehension
Expand-a-Word {Vocabulary Word Building Activity}
This word building activity will be loved by all your students!Expand-a-word is a word work activity I created to "expand" my students' collection of words.Students will make as many words as they can by inserting letters in front, in between, and behind the three letters, without rearranging the order of the three letters.Can be used for whole class or small group instruction, partners, individually, centers, enrichment homework, engaging 5 minute filler.Perfect opportunity to introduce plurals
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3rd - 8th
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Guided Reading Questions For Fiction & Non-Fiction {Before, During & After}
Do you ever get stuck during guided reading or during a reading lesson with questions to ask your students? I created these higher order, perfect with any text questions to keep my students and I on track! Use teacher key ring at guided reading groups to make your lesson/discussion run smoothly or place all questions (poster size)on stand and flip over as needed. Everything you need at your fingertips!
This resource includes:
72 Questions to use for fiction & non-fiction (before, during, an
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2nd - 6th
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Ultimate Response to Reading Bundle-Use with any fiction text!
Responding to reading will be so much fun for your readers! I know you're going to love all this resource has to offer-originality, creativity, and variety! This comprehensive reading product includes multiple options that will engage your students during reading time. You have the ability to easily differentiate student work and empower your students with choices. The reading/writing activities promote critical thinking and spark discussion before, during, and after reading! This resource inclu
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3rd - 6th
125 Reading Activities for Any Book | Independent & Group Reading Response Tasks
Your students will love our ⭐HUGE collection of READING ACTIVITIES FOR ANY BOOK. Tailored for grades 3 to 7, these adaptable TASK CARDS will elevate your literacy sessions independently or in groups. Foster reading responses that stimulate critical thinking and creativity and enhance comprehension skills with 125 ACTIVITIES empowering students to evaluate and understand FICTION & NONFICTION texts with purpose.WHAT'S INCLUDED❤️ 60+ activities require students to RESPOND in various genres and
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3rd - 7th, Adult Education
Book Character Awards | Character Traits
ROLL OUT THE RED CARPET FOR THIS BOOK CHARACTER AWARD PACK! Your students will keep track of all the characters they meet in books on their character trait tracking sheets. Book characters should be recognized and celebrated for their strengths and weaknesses. Many possibilities to use this book character award pack: yearlong bulletin board, monthly award ceremonies, bi-annually, after literature circles, etc. Resource includes:100 book character awards plus blank templateStudent tracking sheets
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Character Analysis Bundle | Character Traits
Orton Gillingham Complete Intervention Mega Bundle for Lesson Plans (Dyslexia)
This Complete Orton Gillingham Bundle follows the Scope and Sequence of the Wilson Fundations program all 3 levels, but it is suitable to support most Orton Gillingham programs. It includes Phonemic awareness intervention, word lists and sentences with hundreds of decodable stories with cloze passages, fluency assessments, and comprehension questions. There are also hundreds of OG multisensory activities correlated to each unit. Most struggling readers need to be taught with a lot of practice.
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1st - 6th
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Idiom, Adage, and Proverbs, Set 1 Task Cards
IDIOM, ADAGE, and PROVERB 28 Task Cards - SCOOT, Set 1. Grade 4 aligned, but can also be used for grade 5.Get the BUNDLE pack of 4 sets here at 30% off.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.5.BRecognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs.Idioms, Adages, and Proverbs covered are:Food for thoughtRing a bellBeauty is in the eye of the beholderHave eyes in the back of one's headIf the shoe fits, wear itHigh and dryJoined at the hipDon't look a gift horse in the mouthAt a crossroadsCut to
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Idiom, Adage, and Proverbs BUNDLE Distance Learning
Short Story Listening Comprehension Scaffolded with Visuals for Speech Therapy 2
Listening comprehension is a vital skill for all children. Providing visuals is the perfect way to scaffold the task, while gradually increasing the difficulty. This resource contains 3 different levels of difficulty: 1, 2, & 3 sentence mini-stories. Each story comes with a visual support to assist in answering the questions. Use these visuals as needed and fade them when possible.This resource is perfect for targeting listening comprehension, reading comprehension, and Wh- questions - maki
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PreK - 9th
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Table Talk Nonfiction Discussion Cards | Use With Any Text
Bring reading engagement and comprehension to life with these table talk cards! Students will actively analyze, infer, and make connections with the text. These open ended questions will guide students to delve deeper into the text and enhance discussion with their peers. These table talk cards will spark conversations with your students and give you opportunities to drop in and listen to meaningful discussion. Use in partners, groups, or even at your guided group table. These cards are designe
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: TABLE TALK LITERATURE AND NONFICTION DISCUSSION CARDS BUNDLE
Character Analysis Bundle | Character Traits
Everything you need to make character analysis fun, engaging, and interactive! These resources will help your students become more interactive with text and analyze the characters they meet in depth. Bundle includes four resources:Interactive Character Analysis PostersCharacter Traits Mini File Folders and Graphic OrganizersBook Character Awards {Character Traits}Character Memory Book*Thank you for visiting my store! Want to know when I add a new product or freebie? Please click "follow me" at t
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Orton Gillingham Spelling (Prefixes & Suffixes) Level 5 (Barton Aligned)
Help your students spell and read better with this no prep fun Orton Gillingham Spelling Rule Activities Bundle. (Prefixes and Suffixes) It contains the following activities: Lesson 1: Plurals–S versus ESLesson 2: Consonant SuffixesLesson 3: ED and ING, The Doubling RuleLesson 4: Other Sounds of EDLesson 5: Vowel SuffixesLesson 6: Spelling–The Change RuleLesson 7: Spelling–TION versus SIONLesson 8: Prefixes: dis, in, un, nonLesson 9: Prefixes: mis, sub, re, preLesson 10: Prefixes: inter, mid, o
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2nd - 6th
Syllable Division Practice Bundle (Orton-Gillingham)
Many of the students I work with really struggle with reading and spelling. This is why I created this bundle of activities so my students would have lots of opportunities for fun, meaningful practice. Syllable Division is important for reading and spelling. Especially for dyslexic students, syllable division helps them read unknown words. This pack teaches how to use syllable division rules 1 through 4 Plus 3 syllable words consonant le words and silent e multi syllable words.VCV division- teac
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2nd - 6th
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Orton Gillingham CVC, Blends, Vowel Team Readers Bundle (RTI & Dyslexia)
224 No Prep Decodable Phonics Stories based on word families that are a helpful resource for Kindergarten - Third Grade Instruction and RTI. They include CVC to CVce Blends, Vowel Teams, Diphthongs, L and R controlled Vowels, Silent Letters, Homonyms, Suffixes and Prefixes, Doubling and Dropping RuleThe readers are suitable for beginning readers and struggling readers based on the Orton Gillingham method. These stories are carefully sequenced. I use these readers as part of my intervention with
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1st - 7th
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Analogy Task Cards
56 Analogy Task CardsCreated for grades 3-5. There 2 sets each with differentiated levels, feel free to start with set #1.There are 28 task cards in each set.A great way to use task cards is by playing SCOOT. SCOOT is an easy, fun, fast paced game that will get the kids up and moving around.Place a task card on each desk in numerical order. Each student will read the sentence and will write down the correct answer on their sheet. Then after a minute or two, say "SCOOT!" and the students will SC
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4th - 6th, Adult Education
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Reaction to Reading Using Emoji Sticky Notes {Interaction With Text}
Get students engaged with fictional text with these emoji sticky notes! I want my students to connect and engage with the text, leading to the enjoyment of reading along with deeper responses and discussions. This is perfect to start at the beginning of the year or to start reading responses in your classroom.
Sticky notes (text markers) for these feelings will help your students in so many ways:
Strengthens their thinking orally and with written responses
Encourages active reading
Engages st
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3rd - 6th
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Digital Daily Writing Journal | Daily Quick Writes | Prompts | Distance Learning
This 52 PROMPT DIGITAL WRITING JOURNAL will get your student's creative writing juices flowing for 10-15 minutes of dedicated writing on FUN and ENGAGING TOPICS they will love. This EVERGREEN RESOURCE builds young writers' CONFIDENCE over time across ALL WRITING GENRES through STRUCTURED WRITING PROCESSES your students will be begging to do regularly.This resource is also COMPLETELY EDITABLE.You get PowerPoint, Google Slides, and a Printable PDF version. It is an excellent INDEPENDENT LEARNING
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2nd - 7th
Also included in: Innovative Substitute Teaching Bundle | No Prep Sub Plans
Inference Task Cards RL. 4.1
Inference 28 Task Cards, Reading Strategies for grades 3-5
There are 2 sets of 28 task cards with identical short stories. The easier version includes 28 multiple choice cards, each with a short story and an inference question. The more difficult version has the multiple choice options removed. Feel free to use the set that best suits your student’s needs.
Use them in pairs or in small groups. It’s also great for homework as a writing assignment. Another option is to use one card at a time wit
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3rd - 6th, Adult Education
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Response to Reading Thinking Stems {Posters, Key Rings, Templates}
These reading stem posters are a great visual for students to reference, which also serves as perfect discussion starters. These posters serve as constant reminders of good thinking while independently reading. The mini poster key rings will be at students’ fingertips, used at a response to reading center, or at groups to promote discussion.Ideal to send home in a bag with a book and letter template to promote reading at home and use as weekly reading homework.Response to Reading letters/templat
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
Also included in: Reading Kit Bundle | Interactive Reading Comprehension
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Importance of learning English language arts
English language arts (ELA) concepts — reading, writing, listening, and speaking — empower students to become effective communicators, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners. They are the foundation for all other types of learning as students must rely on ELA skills to master content from other subject areas and communicate what they’ve learned.
Strong reading skills can help students make sense of written content, and gather information for further analysis. Writing skills can help students articulate their ideas, construct arguments, and synthesize information. And speaking and listening skills empower students to clearly present their ideas, participate in group discussions, and collaborate with their classmates. This is why teaching English language arts is critically important for student’s success in school and beyond.
Benefits of learning English language arts
Learning English language arts offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. It helps students:
- Develop effective communication skills
- Build critical thinking and analytical skills
- Nurture their creativity and imagination
By ensuring that students have a solid foundation in English language arts, teachers can help set them up for future success.
Discover printable and digital English language arts resources
On TPT, English language arts resources come in various forms: from interactive notebooks and task cards to small-group activities and individual worksheets. They can be used to enhance learning, assess a student’s mastery of ELA concepts, or to reteach a tricky concept. By incorporating ELA resources from TPT into your teaching toolbox, you can create an engaging learning experience that strengthens students’ understanding of ELA concepts.
If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable and digital English language arts worksheets, TPT has an extensive collection of resources across topics and grade levels. No matter what ELA topic your students are working on — whether you’re teaching the parts of speech to 1st graders or argumentative essay writing to 10th graders — TPT has instructional materials that are designed to help with any ELA learning need. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, teaching and learning ELA will be so much easier.
Frequently asked questions about teaching English language arts
What types of English language arts lessons are available on TPT?
There are many different types of English language arts resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular ELA lessons include reading, writing, phonics, vocabulary, spelling, and creative writing.
How do I find English language arts lessons on TPT?
Educators can save time preparing English language arts lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for ELA resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of ELA lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
How can I make my English language arts lessons fun and engaging?
Students learn best when they're engaged! Sprinkle a little fun into your English Language Arts lessons by using manipulatives, pairing unusual texts like poems and short films together, or doing an escape room activity.
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