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Higher education english language arts independent works
The Great Gatsby Unit Bundle -Engaging Novel Study - Stations, Activities & More
Get EGG-cited to teach F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby with this GREAT novel study full of engaging activities, including an escape room, learning stations, film analysis, and more! This resource contains a whopping 222 pages of resources sure to engage and challenge your students. I absolutely LOVE teaching Gatsby now, but I actually hated the book when I read it in high school, so my mission has always been to make this novel engaging and relevant for teens today. Seriously, I am obsess
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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MLA 9th Edition, MLA in-text citations & works cited, PDF & Google Drive
With the release of the MLA 9th Edition Handbook, the Modern Language Association updated and refined the rules for proper citations. Are you teaching the correct, most up-to-date version of in-text citations and works cited page formatting? With this 47-slide MLA overview lecture and package of helpful student handouts, your students will know exactly how to approach their citations for your class, standardized testing, and future college courses.Begin with the Prezi-based lecture (also downloa
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Spanish 1 Worksheets - Definite and Indefinite Articles in Spanish
Definite and Indefinite Articles in Spanish- El, La, Los, Las - Un, Una, Unos, Unas -Includes 10 pages of exercises, a wall chart/poster (A4), Vocabulary Lists and Teacher Answers.These activities are ideal for a Spanish 1 level class. ✅ PRINTABLE (PDF) VERSION ✅The Printable PDF Version of this resource includes: Summary Chart A4 in Color - (1 page)A chart with a summary of definite and indefinite articles in Spanish. Can be used as a wall chart or as a full page handout.Summary Chart A4 in Col
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6th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Exhausted by Essays? 5-Minute Essay Grading System - Reclaim Your Weekends!
You want your students to receive meaningful feedback on their papers and grow as writers. You also, though, need to have time to recharge on weekends and holidays without the burden of endless essay stacks hanging over your head.With my five-minute-per-essay grading system, you’ll zip through your stacks of papers, saving HOURS of time. Before I created this system, it took me 15-to-20 minutes to grade an essay. Now, with the use of a detailed coding system and a content rubric that’s laser-foc
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
First Chapter Friday Graphic Organizers - Active Listening Sheets Print/Digital
Promote active listening and help students focus during your First Chapter Friday read alouds with this pack of engaging graphic organizers available in print AND digital versions.I designed these worksheets to be "low-maintenance," so that students can ENJOY listening to First Chapter Fridays without doing work that feels like a chore. That's why all of these worksheets include graphics for students to color as they listen. You can pass out a different organizer each week, or print off multiple
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Cell Phone Characterization, PDF & Google Drive, Literature or History Activity
Add a little fun to ANY novel, play, short story, or history unit with this worksheet where students choose a character (or historic figure) and fill a fictional cell phone with email messages, playlist entries, and a wallpaper image.This PDF file and Google Drive version includes a blank form and a completed sample to show students, if you wish. The sample is from my students’ study of To Kill a Mockingbird, showing Scout Finch’s cell phone content, but you could use this worksheet with ANY wor
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6th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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MLA Style & Format 9th Ed: Instruction, Practice, Examples Distance Learning
Teach your students how to cite their sources! Newly updated to include MLA 9th edition. This has also been updated for distance learning! Everything is included in an easy-to-use Google Slides document that can be shared digitally with students on a platform such as Google Classroom.MLA style and format for citations includes teaching instructions, practice exercises, interactive notebook flipbook, and many examples. The citations are those your students use the most. I wrote guidelines and exa
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Custom Bundle for Jen W.
How to Write Email, Email Etiquette, PDF & Google Drive, Distance Learning, CCSS
Teach your students proper email etiquette – or "email netiquette" – with this 45-minute "How to Email" lesson that includes a high-interest introductory lecture and two fun real-world writing activities.First, present the right and wrong way to build an email message with a dynamic 15-slide lecture (Prezi, PDF, and Google Slides versions included). Then, assign students to evaluate four sample emails sent by high school students seeking a summer internship. Finally, have students work individua
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Julius Caesar Unit Plan, Shakespeare, FIVE WEEKS of High-Interest Lessons, CCSS
Looking for a fresh approach to pull your students into The Tragedy of Julius Caesar? William Shakespeare’s timeless tale of political intrigue will thrill your students when you use this MASSIVE bundle of high-interest lessons. This package includes FIVE WEEKS OF COMPLETE LESSON MATERIALS designed to challenge and entertain students in grades nine through twelve.This HUGE bundle includes:• A day-by-day calendar to follow with helpful details and nightly homework assignments (read this file firs
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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MURDER MYSTERY BUNDLE - 10 MURDER MYSTERIES TO SOLVE
This is a bundle of my two products. It contains ten murder mysteries for the students to solve. Students need to solve the mysteries by analyzing clues and testimonies. Fun activities that the whole class can enjoy when learning about detective stories or at any time during the school year. Solution and the instruction to each case included.
Two products can be purchased separately:
MURDER MYSTERY I.
MURDER MYSTERY II.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Coloring Podcast Pages: Podcast Worksheets, Activities, Notes for ANY Episodes!
Sometimes lesson planning can be as easy as hitting play-- especially when you have print and go podcast pages! These podcast worksheets can be used with ANY podcast and will keep your students focused and engaged while listening.Using podcasts in the classroom is popular for a reason! Students love them, teachers love them, and they can add an entirely new dimension to your literacy program. There are so many educational podcasts out there that you can find plenty of offerings to pair nicely wi
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Yearbook Curriculum BUNDLE+ for Student Journalism Publications
In this yearbook bundle, you'll have everything you need to plan, prepare, market, design, and create your student publication with this one-stop resource for your yearbook program. This yearbook curriculum includes all of my best-selling tools for creating a yearbook and conducting a yearbook and/or journalism class, plus some NEW tools (only in this bundle) to make a full, cohesive curriculum for yearbook/journalism advisers. *DOWNLOAD THE PREVIEW FOR FULL LIST OF CONTENTS*-Units include the f
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Current Event Article Close Reading, Informational Text, PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Need more informational text-based lessons in your classroom? This print-and-go worksheet is the perfect little tool to use as a weekly, occasional, or extra credit assignment. You can either provide an article for your students to work through as a class or assign students to find their own article to use as the basis of the lesson. Whether you use this handout as an in-class assignment to use with copies of your local newspaper, take kids to the computer lab to find an online article, or assig
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Rhetorical Appeals in Movie Speeches - Ethos, Pathos, Logos Analysis Activities
Let's face it, sometimes our rhetoric units aren't the most engaging ones of the year. Students often get bored quickly with historical speeches and other dry informative texts. While it is important to teach these valuable rhetorical documents, students will definitely appreciate some relevant and exciting analysis materials too. These movie speech worksheets present the perfect opportunity you need to get your students actively engaged with speech analysis. By interacting with iconic films, ol
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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One Pagers Bundle — 8 One-Pager Projects and Templates
This One Pager Bundle is a great deal if you are a fan of the one-pager project like me!One-pagers are the highlight reel of a student’s analysis regarding a particular subject. It requires them to really asses what is the most essential information, such as the most important quotes, symbols, themes, or connections... among many other things.One Pagers are awesome for so many reasons... here's a few:They are an appealing alternative to the traditional worksheets.They make great summative tools
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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RTI: Fluency Sentences for Progress Monitoring Phonics Interventions
**Note: This individual product is now available in this BUNDLE (click the word BUNDLE to view the bundle).**Please check the comprehensive preview file to *see* what you're going to get...and please read this product description completely and note this product is a (((grade level license))). **This RTI bundle is ideal for using after my RTI literacy bundle {Set 2} which stops at reading phonics patterns in isolation AND ideal for using before reading oral fluency passages. I like to think of t
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1st - 8th, Higher Education, Staff
How to Write a Sentence Writing Paper with Picture Box ESL Newcomer Activities
Unlock the Secret to Sentence Writing Success with These Writing Complete Sentences Worksheets ✏️ This sentence writing activity is a fun way for students to practice sentence structure. This can be used as 1st grade beginner writing lesson plan templates or ESL new comer activities. There are 6 differentiated sentence building worksheets.Past tense with example word choicesPast tense with blank boxes for student generated wordsFuture tense with example word choicesFuture tense with blank boxes
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K - 2nd, Higher Education
"To Kill a Mockingbird" Activities, Exams, Quizzes, Vocab - UNIT
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee literature novel guide: lessons, tests, and creative activities created and written by Tracee Orman. I've included EDITABLE files (in Microsoft Word) so you can customize the resources to suit the needs of your students.This unit IS included in my To Kill a Mockingbird Teaching Unit and Interactive Notebook Unit Growing BundleThe unit includes:• Introduction activities, including To Kill a Mockingbird KWL Introduction Activity• List of vocabulary words and def
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
TED Talk: Persuasive Writing Unit & Assignment
Our most popular item, now with an updated TED Talks To View list!This TED Talk presentation assignment begins with viewing and analyzing TED Talks based on different Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking techniques. Students then create their own. Perfect for either in-class or independent work! This Package Includes: Overview of TED Talks Assignment Sheet Persuasive Techniques HandoutRecommended TED Talks to study Note Taking Template for active viewing Research Notes Template Ideas Templ
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: THE PERSUASIVE WRITING MULTI UNIT BUNDLE
Transition Words and Phrases
**UPDATE**
After using this for a couple years, I've added two new pages.
This now includes:
1. The original Transition Words and Phrases page detailed below.
2. Transitions for Primary Essay Paragraphs
(This page is what I use on a more day to day basis when teaching writing and appropriate transitions for different places in primary level essays. This page also includes Transitions to Text Evidence and Evidence Elaboration)
3. Ways to Hook Your Reader
This is a compilation of Transition W
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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Resume, Cover Letter, and Interview Unit
Teaching career readiness? This is the resource for YOU! This resume, cover letter and interview unit includes everything you need to prepare students for life outside the classroom!This unit is perfect for preparing for students for life after high school. In today's competitive society, it is essential for students to have a professional cover letter and resume to succeed. Therefore, I have created this unit to help assist your students reach their goals and dreams! Enjoy! This unit includes
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Spanish to English Classroom Labels w Pictures for Spanish Classroom Decor
These Spanish to English picture cards are perfect for your ELL/ESL/EFL students or for Spanish classrooms! 68 words and phrases in both Spanish and English. Use as labels in the classroom, or print on cardstock to use as flashcards.This Spanish - English picture card set includes:✏️ 53 Spanish & English labels for your classroom with picturesdoor, window, pencil sharpener, computers, bathroom, mirror, sink, trash can, recycle bin, chair, table, cabinet, library, books, teacher's desk, white
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2nd - 7th, Higher Education
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Shakespeare or Tupac Interactive Bulletin Board and Anticipatory Activity
Who wrote it: rapper Tupac Shakur or William Shakespeare? Your students will have so much fun trying to decide whether the quote is from a Shakespeare play or lyrics from Tupac (aka 2Pac)! You can use the interactive bulletin board display OR the student handouts and presentation as an anticipatory set before ANY Shakespeare unit to get your students excited about and interested in Shakespeare.The zipped bundle includes a 42-page PDF for the interactive bulletin board, a 2-page PDF student hando
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Interactive Bulletin Board Bundle: Is it a Musician or a Famous Poet?
Frankenstein COMPLETE UNIT | Discussion Questions, Quizzes, & Writing | EDITABLE
Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-based! This 100-page EDITABLE curriculum has everything you'll need for profoundly stimulating lessons on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein! Invite your class to engage in student-driven discussions without compromising on intellectual rigor. The pre-reading handouts, discussion questions, daily quizzes, and analytical writing assignments will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and generate profound interpretive insights! This unit wa
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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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
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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.
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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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