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High school oral communication writing-essays interactive whiteboards
The M&M Game
*NOW EDITABLE! This is a fun activity to do in the early days of school. My students love it and always want to play it more than once. Basically, each student has a mini-bag of M&M’s and, depending on which color they draw out, they tell different things about themselves. Students first play in a large group with the visual display on the SMART Board, and then return to their table groups to play in small groups.*UPDATED* Now includes an editable version, and comes with paper “candy” if you
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K - 12th
Citing Textual Evidence Practice: CLAIM EVIDENCE AND REASONING Elaboration CER
Step-by-step workshop to teach textual evidence and elaboration. Culminating writing: FULL CONSTRUCTED RESPONSES. ARTICLES INCLUDED!This workshop guides students through the process of gathering and quoting evidence and elaboration for argumentative, expository essay writing, and short answer extended responses. Several methods are used for breaking down each element including C.E.R. & R.A.C.E strategy. Students learn each element in chunks, then gradually build the elements into responses,
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6th - 9th
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Thesis Statement PRACTICE For Argumentative Essay Writing w Lessons & Activities
Thesis statement practice for argumentative writing the fun and simple way! This Google Classroom workshop will have students whipping out perfect thesis statements in minutes. It is an interactive, MUST-DO lesson before teaching argument writing. After all, the thesis statement is the most important sentence in the essay. In this self-checking workshop, students identify elements and missing elements of thesis statement by moving the buttons to reveal answers. They will also write thesis statem
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6th - 9th
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ENGLISH 1 & 2 STAAR | Extended Contructed Response (ECR) or Expository Essay
This unit focuses on the UPDATED STAAR extended constructed response or ECR. This was formally the expository and persuasive essay. To ensure student STAAR success, this unit comes with simplified steps and interactive notes and activities that step struggling students through the writing process. To save you time, each lesson comes with detailed instructions, speaker notes with TEA information, answer keys that show possible responses, notes on how to adjust with time contraints, and ready to p
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9th - 12th
Working Memory Executive Functioning NO PRINT Speech | Distance Learning
Memory for Messages is the perfect functional resource to target working memory skills in your middle and high school students. This lesson is designed to be NO PRINT and NO PREP. You can download it today, and use within minutes. *****************************************************************************************************************Each student is presented with a printed message, then asked to determine which words are relevant in that message, to be written down on a "sticky note"
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6th - 9th
Short Stories for Comprehension for Older Students
Comprehension work for upper elementary, middle school, and even high school speech-language students made easy! Target receptive language, expressive language, and reading comprehension using vocabulary meanings in context, iidioms/figures of speech, wh- questions, inferences, and predictions with these original high-interest short stories made for older students. 8 stories allow for multiple practice targets! Each Story Includes:A total of 9 pages!3 containing the story and vocabulary activiti
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4th - 10th
Thesis Statement Mini Lesson Practice Would You Rather DIGITAL RESOURCES ELA
Wanna get your students cracking up while learning how to write a thesis statement for ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY WRITING? This hilarious, Google Slides workshop uses WOULD YOU RATHER questions as prompts to teach basic elements and structure of a thesis statement. Students LOVE it! This EASY workshop is perfect for 6th grade teachers introducing thesis statement, and for older struggling students, or those who lack prior knowledge. Students simply choose a position, plug in their claim and reasons, t
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Argument and Debate QUARTER 2 BUNDLE
NO PRINT Directing Your Tone of Voice Middle & High School Inferences
Do you find it difficult to teach tone of voice? Do you find that the instructions your giving sound vague and too abstract? This interactive PDF provides instructions for tone of voice vocabulary including practice tools, video examples, and quantifiable measures for concrete thinkers. Additionally, the social scenes and scenarios take ONE phrase in THREE difference contexts to solidify how tone of voice changes in different contexts.Have middle school and high school students in mixed group
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4th - 12th
Describing your location - ESL adult and kid conversation lesson
YOU CAN FIND A VIDEO SAMPLE OF THIS LESSON: Click here This presentation contains a 71 slide PowerPoint lesson in editable PPT format with a vocabulary handout and Teacher’s notes.Descriptions of locations are becoming more and more difficult (not only for ESL), because we have learnt to rely completely on a GPS. We can’t read maps anymore and we have a tough time for giving directions to a specific location, if we can’t “share the GPS location on our phone”.In this lesson, I’ve tried to collect
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: learning to describe - bundle for ESL, EFL, ELL adult conversation
Conversation Questions & Comments Mega Bundle Boom Cards
This Boom Card deck series works great for speech/language or special education students working on social skills, expressive communication, or carry-over of speech skills by providing sample scenarios in which to practice best conversational responses. Each deck includes 20 cards with situations pertaining to that deck topic in order to help students think about appropriate comments, questions, or answers. Incorrect choices provide great starting points for discussion. Good for teletherapy or s
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6th - 12th
Thesis Statement Practice Worksheets For Argumentative Writing Would You Rather
Wanna get your students cracking up while learning how to write a thesis statement? This hilarious, Google Slides workshop uses WOULD YOU RATHER questions as prompts to teach basic elements and structure of a thesis statement. Students LOVE it! This EASY workshop is perfect for 6th grade teachers introducing thesis statement, and for older struggling students, or those who lack prior knowledge. Students simply choose a position, plug in their claim and reasons, then put it together in a sentence
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6th - 9th
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Citing Textual Evidence Practice
Teach the skills of gathering, citing, quoting, and integrating evidence, and using elaboration with this fun INTERACTIVE DIGITAL NOTEBOOK made on Google Slides. NO PLANNING! NO PREPPING! NO PRINTING!This workshop guides students through the process of gathering and quoting evidence and adding elaboration for constructed responses and essays. Great for self-pacing because students can work directly on the slides. Also, great for social distance in class learning, and hybrid teaching because Go
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6th - 9th
NO PRINT Mapping Out Language Functional Life Skills BUNDLE
This is a collection of innovative, interactive PDFs that will allow middle school and high school students to work on life skills while targeting attention, memory, semantic reasoning, executive function, auditory comprehension, and verbal expression on just 5 pages for 5 different cities: Charleston, SC; Big Sky Resort, MA; El Paso, TX; Washington, DC; and Chicago, IL. *****Watch this YOUTUBE video to see my 6 tips in action for using Mapping Out Language resources in teletherapy sessions!!**
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6th - 12th
Writing: TTQA - Turn The Question Around Poster (English & Español)
One of the most frustrating things a teacher sees when grading writing of any kind is when students do not properly respond to the question or writing prompt. Usually, the response is a very painful to read sentence fragment.My attempt to address this is a somewhat simple strategy; TTQA: Turn the Question Around. When employed and reviewed religiously, it is my hope that your students begin to respond to any writing prompt in the proper manner. Included in the resourceThere are color-coded "help
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3rd - 12th
Conversation Questions & Comments: Valentine's Boom Cards
This Boom Card deck is great for social skills and pragmatic language therapy! These Valentine's Day/relationship/friendship communication situations help students think about appropriate conversational responses. Wrong answers provide great starting points for discussion. Good for teletherapy or social skills groups!To play:Read the communication situation and four possible responses. Determine the "best" response. Variations on play include: Cover responses and have students give their respons
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8th - 12th
Also included in: Conversation Questions & Comments: Holiday Bundle Boom
Personal Narrative Essay Mini-lesson: Adding VOICE-- EDITABLE
In this activity, students are guided through SIX revision steps in which they add voice to their personal narrative or college essay drafts. Voice is one of the most important skills of the personal narrative/ college essay, and this activity challenges students to inject imagery into their writing through making associations and brainstorming similes, metaphors, and personification-- all based on those over-used abstract words. It also guides students through revising their diction to be mor
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: The Ultimate Personal Narrative Bundle for Grades 6-12
Counter argument/counter claim handout and slides- Argumentative writing
This handout and accompanying smart board lesson slides works for teaching counter argument AKA counter claim writing. I created it for an honors level 7th grade class, but it would work all the way up to grade 12. It contains two examples of counter argument paragraphs broken down into sections so students can understand how to write a strong counter claim paragraph. This lesson is original and works for any argumentative or persuasive writing, but I used it with expeditionary learning grade
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7th - 12th
Personal Narrative Essay Brainstorming Activity
This PowerPoint activity takes students through a brainstorming exercise in which students are presented with various categories and quickly list memories/ thoughts that come to mind.At the end of the brainstorming exercise, students have a nice bank of ideas from which to select a personal narrative story topic. I typically have my students do this activity at the start of a personal narrative unit and then have them draft 3-5 different stories from their lists. This activity is an excellent,
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: The Ultimate Personal Narrative Bundle for Grades 6-12
NO PRINT Communicating Compound & Complex Sentences BUNDLE Distance Learning
Although I personally recognize the importance of correct grammar and use it to the best of my ability, it is definitely not my favorite thing to work on with students. But, OHHHH, do I have some upper elementary and middle school students that need direct instruction in this area! If you're looking for a structured AND engaging activity for teaching sentence patterns, different types of conjunctions, and uses of conjunctions to formulate compound and complex sentences, this BUNDLE of NO PRINT r
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5th - 10th
Superstitions - What does science say? ESL adults PPT no-prep lesson
This presentation contains a 36 slide PowerPoint lesson in editable PPT format. *This is the conversation part of the "superstition" lesson. The second part is called: "Superstitions - quiz"I created this lesson for the Halloween period when superstitions are fun to discuss. Superstitions are a great conversation topic because we all seem to have them. Even my most pragmatic students reluctantly admit that they wouldn’t discuss road accident scenarios while driving or book a flight on Friday the
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Halloween mega bundle - ESL Adult English conversation power-point
Conversation Questions and Comments On the Job Ed. Boom Cards Distance Learning
This Boom Card deck works great for speech/language or special education students working on transitioning to the work world by targeting communication skills such as they prepare to interview, start a job, hold a job or lose a job. Includes 20 sample questions from the above scenarios and more! It's great for social skills, soft skills, and expressive language therapy! These on-the-job communication situations help students think about appropriate conversational responses in the working world.
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8th - 12th
Also included in: Conversation Questions & Comments Mega Bundle Boom Cards
Social Story - I Shouldn't Always Say What I Am Thinking
This is a social story created for the middle or high school level special education class. This story helps students to understand when it is not acceptable to just blurt out what they may be thinking and why. Relevant examples are used as they would be seen in the school day. 10 - 15 minute notebook file and discussion.
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3rd - 12th
CANADA VS USA - ESL adult and kid debate conversation
This presentation contains a 50 slide PowerPoint lesson in an editable PPT format with a work paper and Teacher’s notes that accompany the lesson. This lesson is a wonderful exercise in debating an opinion for ESL students or high school kids.Most ESL students, adults and kids alike, have misconceptions, stereotypes and sometimes just plain wrong opinions about these two great countries.Most of all, in my experience, it’s Canada that gets the short end of the stick. I know the comparison might a
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
350+ WH-Questions with 20 Various Topics for Your Speaking Class - 1st Edition
INTRODUCTIONTeaching Speaking requires latest information on what's happening around the world which sometimes teachers do not have time to look for. Through this 20 topics with 350+ WH-Questions that cover various topics like Youtube, Lifestyle, Pets and others, you can prepare another side of class management rather than gathering information only to create your sets of Speaking questions.ABOUT THE MATERIALThe slide aims for the improvement of your students' Speaking and Critical thinking sinc
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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