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High school english language arts independent work packets for Easel
Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions Worksheets Activities Grades 8-9
These 10 pages of reading comprehension passages and questions worksheets contain multiple choice questions for students to practice a range of skills. Passages are high-interest and written on an 8th-9th grade level. This resource is perfect for test-prep, special education and progress monitoring, differentiating, and scaffolding for struggling readers. This Download Contains: 10 passages with multiple choice questions: easy one-page printables answer keyself checking digital version on Easel
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8th - 9th
Also included in: ELA Skills Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities 8-9th Grade Bundle
French regular and irregular verb review packet: core French RÉVISION DES VERBES
These French worksheets are a great review of French regular and irregular PRESENT TENSE verbs commonly used in a beginning core French class. It's the perfect French verb conjugation review to use just before finals, during back-to-school time, or as a summer learning activity to help students with their French verb conjugations. Your beginning French students will love these easy-to-use French worksheets to review regular and irregular French verbs to prepare for a year-end exam or a back-to-s
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7th - 10th
Engineering and STEM Careers Research Project and Activities for Middle School
Teaching students about exciting STEM careers is one of the most important things we can do to inspire our next generation of scientists and engineers! But, what does it mean to have a career in STEM? What are some STEM career examples? You can answer these questions and more with this multi-day research project. Grab all the Engineering resources and save today!In this project, students meet science, reading, and writing standards as they research an engineering career of their choice and creat
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6th - 9th
Context Clues Worksheets for Middle School High School Printable and Digital
Using context clues, Students learn new words with these digital or print worksheets. Practice context clues to increase vocabulary! Several different context clues activities for students to do fir a great review or quick substitute work. Students define context clues, determine meanings of words in context, and write sentences using context clues. Answer key included. Has context clues text signals reference sheets and reading passages with context clues are engaging worksheets for test prep.
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7th - 10th
Brown Girl Dreaming by J.Woodson; A CCSS Aligned, PDF & Digital Book Study
OVERVIEW: If you like to inspire, teach, and motivate your students using award-winning, literature, don't overlook this amazing memoir: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (2015 Newbery Honor Award, 2015 Coretta Scott King Award, 2014 National Book Award, and 2015 E.B. White Read-Aloud Middle Reader Award). Use this PDF, custom-made, no-prep, CCSS aligned memoir-study to help your students focus, understand, and stretch themselves as they read. If you want to use it with distance lea
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5th - 9th
RACES Strategy Writing Passages and Prompts for Text Evidence
This product contains 5 ready-to-use passages and short response questions to guide students through the use of the RACES strategy. RACES is a writing strategy to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and text evidence, and to provide concluding statements. → Need a 100% Digital Google Slides compatible version? CLICK HERE!Why use the RACES strategy? This mnemonic device is especially helpful for struggling writers and students w
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7th - 10th
Also included in: ELA Skills Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities 8-9th Grade Bundle
ESL Newcomers | ESL Activities Grammar Verb To Be
These ESL grammar activities give your beginner level English Language Learners or Newcomer ELLs multiple opportunities to learn and retain the English Verb To Be in conjunction with contractions. Students use the study guides with picture support as they work through the material. Couple this with my other ESL Grammar Units and your students will have a solid foundation in the fundamental grammar elements of English.As an ESL teacher of older students (MS & HS), I was disappointed with m
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Spring and Easter - Easy Reading Comprehension for Special Education
This is an add-on to my Spring and Easter symbol supported stories for those of you who are wanting the same stories only without symbols for your students who don't need that support. These ten reading passages are all about springtime and easter including: springtime, flying a kite, garden, spring break vacation, baseball game, Easter eggs, Easter egg hunt, jelly beans, Easter Bunny, and Easter Sunday!Each story includes:Short and simple 4-5 sentence storyCut and paste cloze (fill in the blank
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K - 12th
Also included in: The Mega Easter Bundle for Special Education
ESL Newcomer Activities: Home Sweet Home Unit | Print & Digital
Use these activities with your ESL beginner English Language Learners or Newcomer students. Engage your English Language Learners while they learn house vocabulary and plural nouns. These vocabulary and grammar activities incorporate research based practices proven to enhance English Language instruction and aid in optimal retention of key concepts. *** Updated for digital access.As an ESL teacher, I was frustrated over the lack of quality resources for introducing vocabulary and grammar concep
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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5 Paragraph Essay Writing- EASIEST way to teach kids to organize their writing
A Best-Seller! Here are a few TpT Buyer reviews:"It's a small resource, but mighty. And extremely intuitive. In fact, I'd say that so far, this may be the best 5 paragraph essay resource I've used yet. Thanks! I would buy this again in a heartbeat. It is awesome. (16+ year teacher here!)""One of the best writing products I've ever purchased!""I used this with my 7th & 8th graders as yet another way to organize their writing. It helped the students that still did not know how to organize thei
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3rd - 9th
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Also included in: The Ultimate Writing Bundle (Grades 3-6)
Articulation Mad Labs
Articulation Mad Labs helps kids work on articulation, language arts, vocabulary, and reading skills. This activity comes with full page sorted lists of: /s/ (initial, medial, final, blends) /r/ (prevocalic, /er/, /ir/, /ire/, /or/, /ar/, /air/) , and /th (mixed) sounds. 14 different Mad Libs activities are included for a total of 27 pages to download.Kids can fill in the Mad Labs by themselves or in a group. They can then practice reading to one or more people to work on articulation skills. I
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2nd - 12th
Technology Errorless and Differentiated Journal Writing for Special Education
Do you have students who have difficulty coming up with their own thoughts? With three different levels included, this fun technology journal prompt pack is perfect for all of your non-writers, emerging writers, and writers! This pack is about different types of technology, including headphones, computers, gaming consoles, tablets, smart phones, and more! There are 10 differentiated journals included, enough to get you through 2 full weeks if you do a journal each day.A classroom sample provides
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PreK - 12th
Sentence Structure Activity Color by Number Worksheets
Let's just drop every thing and color! This sentence structure color by number activity is a great way to reinforce the difference between simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences with your students. This fun activity includes THREE worksheets with 10 sentences on each for students to determine the sentence structure of each.This independent and dependent activity can be used as station work, extra credit, homework, classwork, or for tutoring sessions.INCLUDED IN DOWNLOAD:3 Stud
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Ultimate Sentence Structure Bundle
Student Choice Biography Research Project — Secondary ELA — CCSS Rubric
Do you want to teach your students the format of a short biography? This no-prep biography research project guides students through the research and reporting on a significant figure of their choice! It will shepherd student learning from the selection and planning process to the creation of a polished essay using thoughtfully scaffolded and tested activities. Designed as a weeks-long research unit, this product includes (See PREVIEW):The Basics of MLA Style PowerPoint presentation to assist wit
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6th - 10th
Theme Graphic Organizers and Worksheets with Easel Activity
Are you teaching theme? Do your students struggle with identifying the message in a story? Use these graphic organizers to help students with finding theme. The worksheets will help them understand how to identify theme in a novel or a short story by looking at dialogue, conflict, and endings. Includes examples of each from literature and uses a mnemonic device to remember what theme is. (THEME = THE MEssage) Additional pages to support finding theme included for taking notes, along with a word
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6th - 9th
Complex Sentences and Independent or Dependent Clauses - Digital and Printable
These complex sentences worksheets and informational handout is a great addition to your Sentence Unit. Reference guide helps students understand the structure of a complex sentence. It explains sentence structure, and how to distinguish between simple, compound, and complex sentences by identifying independent and dependent clauses (or subordinate clauses) and the use of subordinating conjunctions and nonrestrictive clauses. There are four worksheets in addition to the handout. Digital Resource
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-complex Sentence Structure BUNDLE
Random Act of Kindness Activities | Social Emotional Learning| Kindness Activity
Random Act of Kindness activities, worksheets, videos and a random act of kindness challenge. Kindness activities are great for back to school activities and building a positive classroom community. Spread kindness across your whole school community. A random act of kindness is a selfless act performed by a person or people wishing to either assist or cheer up an individual person or people. Random Act of Kindness Activities are a perfect way to build a positive classroom and school community.
Grades:
5th - 9th
RACE Strategy Practice Worksheets: 40 Passages and Writing Prompts for All Year
These 40 RACE Strategy practice worksheets will help you practice The RACE Strategy all year. The engaging passages and prompts will help students learn to seamlessly use evidence from the text within their responses. The RACE Strategy is a structure to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and evidence from the text, and to provide concluding statements. This Download Contains:Student resource introducing the RACE strategyExampl
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8th - 9th
Also included in: ELA Skills Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities 8-9th Grade Bundle
ESL Activities Beginner & Intermediate: Writing With the Masters Print & Digital
Use these differentiated writing activities with all students including ELL, Gen ED, SPED and ESL Newcomers alike. This writing unit is sure to motivate the most reluctant writer and your ESL learner. Students use a masterpiece painting and writing graphic organizers to develop story elements of character, setting, and plot. This will engage all learners from ESL and Special Education to your most advanced students.Couple this with my ESL Grammar Practice, ESL Games, ESL Newcomer Units, ESL Vo
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4th - 12th
ESL Activities: ESL Grammar: Present Progressive Verbs
Use these English grammar activities with your beginner and intermediate level English Language Learners or Newcomer EFL students. The present progressive or present continuous English grammar tense can be challenging because it has several forms. This complete grammar curriculum provides plenty of practice in using the appositive, negative, and interrogative forms of this English verb tense along with the correct use of the helping verb “to be” and contractions for each form.This unit also h
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Choice Reading Unit — An Independent Novel Study Program — ELA — CCSS Rubrics
This complete independent reading program provides students a choice in the literature they read and the topics they choose for analyzing that literature. Choice reading can have a powerful impact on developing lifelong readers and L-EA's choice reading unit connects student choice with relevant English topics and concepts (and Common Core standards) ,while providing rigorous writing activities and a straightforward spot-check Google form and rubric. An entire year-long English curriculum could
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7th - 10th
Women's History Biographies - Easy Reading Comprehension for Special Education
This is an add-on to my Women's History symbol supported stories for those of you who are wanting the same stories only without symbols for your students who don't need that support. These ten reading biographies are all about famous women including: Susan B Anthony, Mother Teresa, Amelia Earhart, Sacagawea, Princess Diana, Anne Frank, Whitney Houston, Helen Keller, Sally Ride, and Eleanor Roosevelt (also check out Black History biographies for Harriet Tubman, Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and
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K - 12th
Vocational Picture Writing Prompts
20 differentiated writing prompts with age appropriate images. This resource supplements the vocation units, but can be used separately to familiarize with basic concepts of the employment process for most occupations. Distance or remote learning| life skills | job skills | career | work readiness |This comes with:20 vocational picture writing prompts3 differentiated levelsLevel 1:WORD: Trace key words and identify the words in the picture.SENTENCE: Read the sentence and fill in the blank by c
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Vocation Units 1-12 Full Year MEGA Bundle + Supplemental Materials
ESL Newcomers ELL Beginners Grammar - Introduction to Nouns 1
Use these English language activities with your beginner English Language Learners or Newcomer EFL students. These ESL grammar lessons and worksheets are an engaging way for your beginner and intermediate level English Language Learners or EFL students to practice English grammar. The activities and study guides provide students with practice in using the articles "a" and "an" and singular and regular plural nouns. Graphics are provided for all vocabulary used in the activities- perfect for
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4th - 12th, Adult 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.
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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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