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Free high school english language arts resources for Easel Activities
Comic Strip Template FREEBIE!
Enjoy these FREE comic strip templates in your classroom! Product includes a template for both six and eight section comics. Also includes an optional section where students can add the title/author/setting/characters. These pages add a unique and fun way to have students create or summarize stories! Choose any of these four templates to make the assignment your own! This product is now a TpT Digital Activity! It can be used for Distance Learning.You can now:1. Customize this resource for your s
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PreK - 12th
Free Winter Creative Writing Activities
Free Winter Creative Writing Activities
Lighten up the winter blues with these fun creative writing activities for the winter season. Correlated to the Common Core State Standards for Writing, this 13-page document (nine student handouts and two pages for examples & teacher's guide) includes poetry prompts, short story activities and prompts, and a fun narrative prompt using Twitter for inspiration.
As always, I like to create activities that will appeal to a wide range of students. These
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3rd - 10th
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Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Context Clues Worksheet Vocabulary - Free Context Clues Activities 6th 7th 8th
Context Clues Worksheet Freebie: This vocabulary activity is a great way to help students who struggle with understanding and using context clues to define vocabulary words.This Download Contains: PRINT2 pages of vocabulary activitiesAnswer Key DIGITALReady-to-use Easel activityLike this product? CLICK HERE for the full Context Clues Passages Vocabulary resource for grades 6-8This resource shows examples of definition/explanation context clues, synonym/restatement context clues, antonym/contras
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6th - 9th
Expository Writing - Newspaper Article Writing Activity
Looking for a fun and creative way for students to learn about expository writing? In this activity, students will create the front page of a newspaper including writing a headline and a main story as well as adding other newspaper themed elements. Students will practice using 3rd person point of view and learn how to incorporate the 5 w's into their writing. This resource can easily be adapted for different ages and abilities and works well as an introductory lesson for expository writing or
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: WRITING - Persuasive, Narrative, Expository & Descriptive Writing Bundle
FREE STAAR Daily Reading Comprehension Passages Review Warm Up Bell Ringer Quiz
Are your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students in need of repeat practice when it comes to STAAR reading test prep? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.This 1 Week Review of daily reading practice has short, engaging texts with text-dependent reading comprehension questions. It's the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of a variety of text genres (Fiction, Poetry, Informational Text, Argumentative, and Cross-Curricul
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6th - 9th
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Argumentative Essay Writing Resources: Persuasive Essay Graphic Organizer
This activity is designed to help scaffold the argumentative or persuasive essay. Graphic organizers with writing checklists help students organize a five paragraph essay, with reminders to introduce a thesis statement, provide facts and examples, and introduce a counterclaim. De-mystify the argumentative essay once and for all!Check out the full product here:Argumentative Essay Writing Resources : Graphic Organizer and Sample Essay This Download Contains graphic organizer for five-paragraph ess
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6th - 9th
Frayer Model Vocabulary Organizer Printable and Digital Activity
This freebie includes 10 Frayer model vocabulary organizers. Each organizer includes space for a definition, facts/characteristics, examples, and non-examples. A blank space in the middle allows you to customize the terms studied to your unit or content area. I print 6 per page (2x3), double-sided for a quick reference sheet. You may wish to print full-page and staple together as a unit vocabulary journal, or develop a creative way to use the organizers in collaborative groups or interactive not
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4th - 12th
Poetry Comics: Metaphors with Robert Frost
Poetry Comics: Metaphors with Robert Frost
This is a free file from a larger product called Poetry Comics: Metaphor, Tone, and Personification. These lessons follow the same format as the free sample, except a worksheet is added afterward to reinforce the skills taught in the comic. Also check out Poetry Comics Vol 2.
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Middle School Language Arts Bundle
Any Time NEW DAY Resolutions | Social Emotional Learning | Reading Comprehension
You don't have to wait until the New Year to make resolutions. Use these Any Time "NEW DAY" Resolutions to re-engage students! Your Middle School and High School students will laugh at the funny reading comprehension passage.There are three parts to this Social Emotional Learning Skills / Life Skills resource:1) The Goal Setting worksheets are for everybody (4 pages)Help students develop SELF AWARENESS and adjust to a changing world. Reflect on the challenges and successes from the past.Brainsto
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7th - 10th
"Mean" by Taylor Swift: Similes, Inferences, Imagery with Anti-Bullying Message
Using Taylor Swift’s award-winning song, “Mean,” you can teach and solidify for students what is
1. Simile
2. Inference
3. Imagery
I have also included an anti-bullying message or a random acts of kindness activity for students to complete. This can be reported on through discussion, journal writing and/or a short essay. Enjoy this timely lesson with your students and please check out my store for more lesson plans.
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5th - 12th
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Free Halloween Wordsearch Activity & Writing Prompts
Want a challenging Halloween activity for your middle or high school students? Need ideas for fun activities? Download my free Halloween-themed word search. Includes answer key and several writing prompts and ideas to use in your secondary classroom. Warning: the word find is difficult. It may take your students a long time to complete and drive them insane. This is how I get back at them when they are being difficult. heehee...just kidding.Word Search: Use this activity for enrichment or ext
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6th - 12th
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#KindnessRules : FREE Friendship Differentiated Journals (Special Education)
This friendship journal is great for social lessons on kindness and friendship. #bsechallengeHow can you be kind to someone? By being a good friend!With three different levels included, this journal about friendship is perfect for ALL of your special education students, including non-writers, emerging writers, and writers! Teaching our students to be a good friend and be kind to one another is often something that gets lost in the fast paced world of education. We often tell our students to "be
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PreK - 12th
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FREE French verbs être, avoir, faire, aller: present tense verb conjugation
Need help reinforcing common irregular French verbs? Do your students know them all, but sometimes use the wrong verb? This FREE French worksheet is perfect for your core French and French immersion classes to review present tense French verb conjugations.This French worksheet is appropriate for French beginners ,as a review for French 2, or for use with any French immersion class who needs to review present tense verbs.This French verbs worksheet has three parts:1. Write the meaning of each v
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6th - 9th
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FREE Brainstorming Personal Narrative Graphic Organizer | Writing Prompts
Brainstorm Personal Narrative Graphic Organizer | Writing Prompts Brainstorming for Personal Narrative Writing Unit BundleDo you need an engaging graphic organizer to help your middle school students brainstorm for their personal narrative writing unit? This FREE Personal Narrative Graphic Organizer uses guided brainstorming writing prompts to help your middle school students organize and brainstorm their narratives with ease. (This graphic organizer worksheet is a free sample from my PERSONAL N
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6th - 9th
ESL Newcomers ESL Beginners Emergency Pack Sampler Print & Distance Learning
Help! It’s the middle of January and they just put a beginner level English Language Learner in my History class! Use these ESL beginner level English Language worksheets and ESL Newcomer Activities to provide engaging, independent practice for your newcomer or beginner level ESL older kids or adults. You can find the full Newcomer Pack Resources Here:Newcomer Pack 1Newcomer Pack 2Newcomer Pack Bundle As an ESL teacher, I know the challenges presented to my content area colleagues when they are
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Brain Teasers: REBUS Puzzles FREEBIE
This product is a sample of my Brain Puzzles recommended for grades 2-6! It includes one of my word puzzles student activity sheets and answer keys. This is a great way to sample to see if your students are up to the challenge before buying my larger pack!Are you following me? ALL items are 50% off for the first 24 hours AND FLASH 24 HR FREEBIES once a month! It pays to follow me!https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/StraightoutofpencilsI create individualized, or content specific for what y
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2nd - 12th
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12 Free ELA Downloads | Sample Pack | Taster Resources & Activities | Pagecraft
If you want an overview of my ELA product quality, or you love what you see and just want to download a collection of my freebies in one go, I've tried to make it a little easier for you! This collection is best suited to middle and high school classrooms. Includes:Word group task from my Six Word Memoir activityText hexagons from my Vincent Van Gogh Art ActivityEssay page from my pack for A Christmas CarolIntroduction page for my Ikigai Hexagonal ThinkingNoun page from my Parts of Speech One-pa
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7th - 10th
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Text Structures Task Cards | PDF & Digital
These 5 text structures task cards are perfect for PSSA test prep or standardized test prep. They use Fiction excerpts from popular youth novels to help engage your students as they practice answering text structures questions. Digital with TpT's Easel. Each card contains a short excerpt, two multiple-choice questions, and one short answer question. They can be used in small groups, literacy centers, stations, partner work, intervention groups, and much more. You could also use one card at a tim
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: ELA Task Cards Bundle | Reading Comprehension | PDF & Digital
Health Reading Passages Mental Health Free Resource Comprehension Worksheets
This is your Day 5 Freebie Download! {JOIN THE 5 DAYS OF FREEBIES FUN AND FOLLOW ON INSTAGRAM!}________________________________________________________________This resource contains cut and paste activities from the Health Reading Passages Bundle It contains 2 Engaging, Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension Passages with Directions for Student Annotations! Reading Comprehension Questions also included!Printables from Internet Safety and Anti-Bullying Reading Passages, and Mental Health Reading Passa
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5th - 9th
ELA Paired Passage Practice Test | Print & Digital | PSSA Test Prep
Help your students prepare for Pennsylvania's PSSA Test by taking this paired passage practice test. This practice test was created and modeled after the 6th through 8th grade PSSA Released Practice Tests. The 11 questions were written to give your students examples of all the types of questions they will see on the PSSA. The Giver Passages will help engage and capture your students’ interest while also working on their test-taking skills.Question Types: multiple-choice, evidence-based selected-
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Bundle | PSSA ELA Test Prep | Print & Digital
Word Search - Happy Holidays - Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa - Freebie No Prep
In respect of the wonderful cultural events and festivals that happen during the month of December, this holiday word search freebie pack provides several words that help describe what makes special events such as Christmas, Hanukkah (Chanuka), Kwanzaa, and other global holidays a memorable one.These quality no prep printer friendly sheets are ready to print. Includes great brain puzzles to help exercise problem-solving, vocabulary, spelling, and focusing skills. There are 4 fun variations of th
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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FREE Reading Comprehension Passages with Multiple Choice Questions Task Cards
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to reading comprehension? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.These 10 reading skills task cards with text-dependent reading comprehension questions are the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of short well-known Fiction stories and modern Non-Fiction articles will help engage your students as they practice answering multiple-choice and constructed respo
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5th - 9th
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Word Search & Scramble Puzzles - Happy Valentine's Day No Prep Activity Free
These Word Search & Word Scramble Combo Puzzles provide a fun brain workout activity for students. Great for Valentine's Party or Activity! The activities are designed to help exercise problem-solving, vocabulary, spelling, and focusing skills. These quality no prep printer friendly sheets are ready to print. A great way to keep the students busy and help build/improve essential skills.There are 4 fun levels of the puzzle and designs/styles to choose from (with/without artwork). Same words &
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Reading Comprehension Task Cards | Test Prep | Print & Digital | Common Core
These 8 task cards that cover making inferences, main idea, theme, and summarizing a text are perfect for Ohio's AIR test prep or common core standardized test prep. They use excerpts from popular youth novels to help engage your students as they practice their reading comprehension skills. The cards contain a short excerpt and use multiple-choice, evidence-based selected response (A/B questions), multiselect, and short response questions. They can be used in small groups, literacy centers, stat
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Reading Task Card Bundle | Ohio AIR Test | PDF & DIGITAL
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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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