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Free high school critical thinking literature resources for Easel
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Maze Run Escape Room Logic Puzzle Game Challenge Activities Freebie Pack No Prep
Maze Run Escape Room Puzzles provide a fun brain boosting challenge for students. Great for School Party Activities, Puzzle Competitions, Extra Credit, Individual or Team Building Activities! These escape room games are designed to help exercise problem-solving, critical thinking, and focusing skills. It is a great way to keep the students busy and help build/improve essential skills. There are 4 Fun Unique Levels of the Maze Run to choose from. Each level is different and as the levels increase
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Practice Reading Graphs: USA Today FREEBIE, DISTANCE LEARNING, EASEL ACTIVITY
*** UPDATED FOR DISTANCE LEARNING***Assign to your students via Google Classroom, Answer boxes are already provided for your students to input their answers. The Answer Key has been removed in the digital activity, but you can still access it in the pdf version.This digital activity presents 4 graphs from the popular "USA Today Snapshots" to provide practice with all aspects of reading graphs (3 bar graphs, 1 pie chart) - interpreting data, drawing conclusions, recognizing sources, etc. Th
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6th - 9th, Adult Education
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Word Search Mini Escape Room Puzzle Game Pack - No Prep Easel Activity Freebie
This fun mini-word search escape room activity is great for individual skill building or team building. This quality word search escape room puzzle is designed to be as one escape room activity or can be combined with other escape room activities that may work with this type of puzzle.A great way to expand your escape room adventure! It is a 3 in 1 Puzzle Escape Room. A fun way to help exercise students’ problem-solving, critical thinking, and focusing skills. Great to help keep students busy wh
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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
Claim Evidence Reasoning Graphic Organizer and Lesson Plan Free
Do your students struggle with providing strong, credible evidence for their claims? These two free Evidence Graphic Organizers can be used for any argument, opinion, persuasive, or research essay to help students gather and analyze arguments and evidence that they need to support a claim.Students gain critical thinking skills as they justify the use of their evidence and the evidence checker graphic organizers allow them to see exactly what kind of evidence they are using.This freebie includes
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5th - 9th
Modern Expanding Expression Tool Visual Organizer & Activity
A modern twist on a classic tool. This updated Expanding Expression Tool has been streamlined to provide visual cues and more visually appealing. This tool can be used to help clients of all ages expand oral and written expression, as well as teach adjectives and expand vocabulary. This updated resource is compatible with teletherapy mediums, such as Zoom, so you can easily annotate on the screen what descriptions your client provides.This PowerPoint includes 9 visual examples for your client to
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Free One Page Fact Sheet for Any Story or Novel
Use this free one-pager with any novel or short story. The prompts allow students to analyze the characters, main events, setting, point of view and perspective, narration, plot, and character motivations. It also includes a prompt for students to create their own ONE PAGER, additionally exploring symbolism and theme.I included two handouts (one with larger print and fewer prompts) to allow for differentiation as well as a one-pager rubric prompt and optional template.This resource is NOT editab
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7th - 11th
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Also included in: All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
The Outsiders FREE Novel Study Activity! Fun Crossword Puzzle Review
NOTE: This project can be purchased as part of a UNIT PACKET offered in my store. If you are interested in the UNIT PACKET for The Outsiders, click on the following link for more details and a FREE preview: THE OUTSIDERS UNIT PACKET ********THE OUTSIDERS CROSSWORD REVIEW:This is a 20-question Crossword Puzzle with terms, characters, and plot points from the novel. Good for summary and review before exam, or just for days when students are silent readi
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7th - 10th
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Character's Perspective Graphic Organizer
Enjoy this free graphic organizer, where student's will make a plan for writing about a character's perspective based on what the character does, says, and thinks.
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Tall Tales, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales Graphic Organizers
12 Graphic Organizers for Literacy with ELL Supports
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3rd - 12th
Context Clues in Vocabulary - Silly Words! Digital and Print
An impoverished vocabulary is a huge problem for many struggling students in middle school. Sometimes even a dictionary offers little help; these students often don't understand the dictionary definition. In high school, figuring out high-end vocabulary words on tests often makes the difference between a passing score and a mastery score. Figuring out meaning from context clues may be the best skill and strategy possible for these students. However, practices and worksheets can also be fr
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5th - 10th
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Halloween Activity for High School ELA Figurative Language Sensory Sentences
This Halloween writing worksheet is a fun way for your high school ELA students to review figurative language and descriptive writing that appeals to the senses while celebrating the spookiness of Halloween. Includes examples for modeling expectations. No prep.Printable PDF or TPT Digital Easel Activity This brief, fun activity requires students to write a sentence appealing to a reader's sightsmelltastetouchsoundEach sense is paired with a type of figurative language including: metaphor,simile,
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8th - 11th
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Smart ELA Bell Ringers, Warm Up Lessons, Reading Comprehension - FREE
These smart bell ringers are engaging warm-up activities that address a wide range of ELA standards. They are a perfect mix of literature, informational texts, and reading comprehension and cover various topics such as fiction, poetry, literary devices, history, social studies, science, and life skills. Students are asked to read, analyze, determine the meaning of words, make inferences, provide conclusions, support claims, and make connections.The handouts and online Easel activities are ideal
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7th - 12th
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Hamlet Introduction Activity Fun Compatibility Survey Free
Introducing theme and characterization is a blast with this creative quiz, a fun and engaging introduction activity for Shakespeare's Hamlet. Your high school ELA students might argue that they have nothing in common with Shakespeare's characters! This compatibility test will prove them wrong! No prep.Printable PDF or TPT Digital Easel Activity This compatibility test allows students to determine how similar their experiences and feelings are to Hamlet’s. The activity shows students how universa
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: HAMLET Creative Bundle Creative Writing Characterization and One Pager
FREE The Great Gatsby Character Map Printable Worksheet
Free Great Gatsby Printable Character Map!Use this great character map worksheet to engage your students in the classroom. Have students track various character traits, important quotes, and more while reading! This worksheet is adaptable to suit your specific needs in the classroom. Looking for more? Check out our array of resources for The Great Gatsby:✎ Great Gatsby: Character vs. Society✎ Great Gatsby: Character vs. Man✎ Great Gatsby: Character vs. Self✎ Jay Gatsby as Antihero Classroom Pos
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Introducing Macbeth Freebie / Macbeth Meets the Witches Abridged and Modified
Macbeth was the first Shakespeare play I ever taught, and it helped me appreciate how much fun your students can have while acting out a drama in the classroom.However, this experience also helped me understand what aspects of a Shakespearean drama frustrate students and teachers. Some of the characters are confusing, some scenes do not advance the plot or are not school appropriate, and some of the language is dense.For these reasons, I created an abridged and modified version of Macbeth. Every
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Abridged and Modified Macbeth Bundle (14 resources!)
Romeo and Juliet PLOT cloze activity - Act One
Spice up your Romeo and Juliet unit with this great little plot summary, cloze activity for Act One, Scenes 1 - 5.What is included?For students: Plot Summary: A brief plot summary with 20 words missing.Story Board: A bonus story board activity is included for students to draw or write their own plot summary.For teachers: Answers: on the one page plot synopsis with the 20 missing words numbered and listed in red.Why are there TWO versions of the Cloze Activity?Two versions of the Close Activity
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: A trio of BUNDLES - Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet
The Great Gatsby - Free Introductory Activity, "Are You a Great Gatsby?"
Looking for a fun pre-reading activity for your high school ELA students studying The Great Gatsby? Demonstrate to your students the universality of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby by administering this fun and effective compatibility quiz, "Are you a great Gatsby?" Students answer 20 yes/no questions to find how their lives parallel with Jay Gatsby's.After counting their "yes" answers, kids discover if they are great Gatsbys, good Gatsbys, Average to Below Average Gatsbys, or if their Roaring 20
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9th - 12th
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Fahrenheit 451 FREE Discussion Activity - Philosophical Chairs Questions
Engage students in your Fahrenheit 451 Unit Plan with a kinesthetic Philosophical Chairs discussion! After responding in writing, students physically take sides on a series of issues such as Montag's obligations, censorship, ignorance as bliss, and the pitfalls of technology. Discussions are passionate and well-reasoned. ⭐ Check out my Fahrenheit 451 Unit Plan for complete no-prep unit with activities for the entire novel! ⭐ More Fahrenheit 451 Resources: Fahrenheit 451 Bell RingersFahrenheit 45
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9th - 11th
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Free Lord of the Flies Multiple Choice Assessment
You just finished your Lord of the Flies Unit and you need to test. Your stack of essays is looming behind you. Have no fear, easy one page bubble test is here. Just print this out (only one page--you don't even have to duplex) and grab a stack of bubble sheets. In 40 questions it covers characterization, theme, and symbolism... What more do you need? I've included an answer key and a second option of the test with an extra credit for visual and kinesthetic learners. Clip art credit: Openclipa
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7th - 10th
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Free The Cask Of Amontillado: Visual Note Taking Companion
When you add the visual element to note taking (sketching, color) you increase the understanding and analysis of students with many different learning styles. We interpret information in so many different ways, and our students do as well. My note taking page allows for the visual element without the stress of students drawing. With this note taking page, they may categorize information in a non-linear pattern and add color, but they are not worried about drawing the perfect picture. They will
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8th - 11th
The Hero's Journey Note Catcher
This note catcher is compatible with any myth or story that follows the Hero's Journey, or monomyth. Students can record notes in each square to record their thoughts or examples of how the story they are reading represents each stage of Joseph Campbell's "Hero's Journey"*Should be printed on 8.5x11" paper
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7th - 12th
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FREE Common Core Holiday Bell Ringer/Exit Slips
Common Core Aligned Holiday Bell Ringers and Exit Slips for the ELA or History Teacher
'Tis the season to thank everyone for your patronage! Here are 12 free bell ringer/exit slips activities you can use at the beginning or end of class period. They are holiday-themed and practice skills such as analyzing figurative language, analyzing and comparing characters from a novel or historical figures, and writing for shorter periods of times.
If your students enjoy these, they will have fun with th
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: English Bell Ringer and Exit Slip Resources Mega Bundle
Classic Maze Escape Room Puzzle Game Activity Challenge Freebie Pack No Prep
Classic Maze Escape Room Freebie PackClassic Maze Escape Room Puzzles provide a fun puzzle challenge for students. Great for School Party Activities, Puzzle Competitions, Extra Credit, Individual or Team Building Activities! These escape room games are designed to help exercise problem-solving, critical thinking, and focusing skills. It is a great way to keep the students busy and help build/improve essential skills. Play fun styles of the Classic Maze Escape Room Freebie Pack. These quality no
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Shakespeare Wordsearch (with fact sheet and questions) FREEBIE
Looking for a quick, fun Shakespeare activity? This Shakespeare wordsearch is a great way to begin any Shakespeare unit. To give background to the words in the wordsearch there is a also a factsheet and questions that offer a very brief overview of the life and work of the amazing Shakespeare.This activity can be used as either a: teacher-directed, orindependent, student-led task.You could use this as: a substitute lesson,an introduction to Shakespeare, oran extension task for quick finishers.
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Romeo and Juliet BIG BUNDLE
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