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Common Core L.8.2 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
Editing & Proofreading Worksheets Revising Editing Practice FAST Test Prep BEST
Are you looking to help your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students practice editing and revising questions?These editing tasks were created to give your students examples of a variety of tasks they will see on their end of year ELA test or Florida FAST test. The passages come from high-interest topics. They will help engage and capture your students’ interest while also working on their editing and revising skills.Topics: Spelling, Punctuation, Pronouns, Complete Sentence, Tenses, Conjunctions, Plur
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6th - 9th
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Commonly Confused Words #1, Homophones, Slides + Note-Keeping Sheets CCSS
Use these beautiful bell-ringer slides to grab your students’ attention at the beginning of class and teach them the right way to use 18 commonly confused word pairs/homophones. Each weekly lesson includes a photo slide prompting students to write a word usage rule (a great way to let you catch your breath and take attendance while they jot down notes) and then apply that rule to three different sentences. An answer key on a separate slide is also included with each week’s lesson. Materials prov
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6th - 8th
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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
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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"Thank You Ma'am" Langston Hughes story, literary analysis, PDF & Google Drive
Use this classic short story, “Thank You, Ma’am” by Langston Hughes, to teach your students the elements of literary analysis. This one-day lesson plan includes detailed instructions, a six-question deep-thinking exercise (with detailed answer key, of course), and an optional writing activity that shows students step-by-step how to build a powerful introductory paragraph to any literary analysis essay. All student handouts are included in both PDF and Google Drive formats.This lesson is best for
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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
Revising and Editing Practice with Task Cards 6th 7th 8th Grade Worksheets
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to revising and editing? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.These 20 revising and editing task cards are the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of short modern informational text articles will help engage your students as they practice answering a variety of multiple-choice questions about revising and editing a text.Great for middle school students. f
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5th - 9th
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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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All About Me - Letter to Teacher - Back to School Activity - Writing Activity
The All About Me: Letter to My Teacher is the PERFECT back to school activity to have students introduce themselves to their new teacher at the beginning of a new school year or semester. This NO PREP best-selling resource can be used with middle school and high school students in any content area. The PRINT and DIGITAL scaffolded writing materials allows teachers to easily meet the needs of all learners while setting writing expectations from the beginning. In addition, the Letter to My Teacher
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5th - 8th
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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Comma Rules Trashketball Review Game - Punctuation Activity - Commas Power Point
Review commas with this fun Trashketball game! This PowerPoint presentation will reinforce student learning of correct comma use for the following: commas in compound sentences, commas in a series, commas for introductory phrases and clauses, and commas for nonessential phrases/clauses. Students review these punctuation concepts while reading informational text about Greek mythology.The PowerPoint includes the following slides:review slidesrules for the studentsgame slidesteacher instructionske
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6th - 9th
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Comma Rules Worksheets
These commas rules worksheets condense the most common instances that commas are used to 8 simple commas rules so students can confidently master and understand them one at a time, adding a new rule each day after mastery. My students struggled knowing and using comma rules correctly every year (because commas are tricky!), and I knew something had to change. After noticing a huge deficit specifically in the understanding of when to use commas and where to place them correctly, I got to work to
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Rules for Commas- BUNDLE
Commonly Confused Words #2, Homophones, Slides + Note-Keeping Sheets CCSS
Use these beautiful bell-ringer slides to grab your students’ attention at the beginning of class and teach them the right way to use 18 commonly confused sets of words/homophones. Each weekly lesson includes a photo slide prompting students to write a word usage rule (a great way to let you catch your breath and take attendance while they jot down notes) and then apply that rule to three different sentences. An answer key on a separate slide is also included with each week’s lesson. Materials p
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6th - 8th
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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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Commas. Punctuation worksheets / Lessons. Practice & Reviews. 7th-8th Grade ELA
✶ This 7th and 8th grade ELA resource contains 14 Grammar Lessons; spread throughout 29 pages, with full answer keys about Using Commas Correctly; punctuation. It is ideal to explain, practice, and review the main skills of each topic with your students. ✶✶✶ Click here to get the SOFT COPY (Google Drive) of this resource. ✶✶✶✶ This resource is written in a simple and plain language; which makes it easier to get underachievers back on the track as well as address individual differences among your
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6th - 8th
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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
Middle School English ELA Fun Halloween Activity like "Mad Libs™!" Grammar Game
Middle School English ELA Fun Halloween Activity similar to "Mad Libs™!" | Parts of Speech Grammar GameBring your ELA boys and ghouls some Halloween grammar fun with this engaging Halloween Activity Game similar to Mad Libs™! (Note: This activity is a part of my HALLOWEEN FIVE ACTIVITIES BUNDLE --Click here to check out a preview). Your middle school ELA students will have so much Halloween fun, that they won't even realize they are practicing parts of speech! This activity is similar to Mad Lib
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Middle School English ELA Fun Halloween Activities & Games | BUNDLE of 4
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
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
Types of Sentences - Sentence Structure - Simple, Compound, Complex Review Game
This trashketball game reviews the four sentence structures: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. Beginning slides review clauses, coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, and relative pronouns before trashketball play. During the game, teams of students compete to shoot baskets into a trash can, which makes learning grammar fun! (Updated version now has a link to a Google Slides Presentation.)Research shows that students often learn best when they can move, and this ac
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5th - 8th
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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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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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Coordinate Adjectives and Cumulative Adjectives - Easel Digital and Printable
Learn about Coordinate Adjectives and Cumulative Adjectives. Reference sheet gives definitions and examples of the comma rules. Practice Worksheets help students place commas correctly. Explains using commas and how to tell the difference between coordinate adjectives and cumulative adjectives. Coordinating adjectives must have a comma because they can have the word "and" put between them, or their order can be reversed. Cumulative adjectives must stay in the order in which they are presented, o
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Parts of Speech BUNDLE
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