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8th grade english language arts activity microsofts for homeschool
First Day of School Investigate the Teacher Activity - Engaging - Print/Digital
Engage your students with this unique first day of school activity where students "investigate" the teacher and make inferences based on what they observe in the classroom. This kinesthetic activity is the perfect way to mix things up on Day 1 and set the tone for an engaging, student-centered year. If you want your students to get MOVING around the room, COLLABORATE with their peers, engage in INQUIRY-BASED learning, and practice INFERENCING + CRITICAL THINKING skills, then the "Investigate the
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4th - 12th
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Butterfly Life Cycle Complete Science Unit
Make learning about the butterfly life cycle even more fun with butterfly activities that combine science, reading and writing with hands on experiments. Students learn the stages of the butterfly life cycle, explore pollination, the compound eye, metamorphosis, adaptations, and so much more! Whether or not you raise live butterflies, this quality science resource is the perfect addition to your life cycle of butterflies activities. This complete science unit is packed with over 25 highly engagi
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Interactive Game Boards | Boost Engagement With Any Lesson
Boost engagement and excitement with these interactive game boards using sticky notes. These game boards can be used with any subject or lesson. They are perfect for review or test prep. Students can work as teams, partners, or as a whole class. Use your already printed worksheet or workbook and add these game boards to excite and motivate your students! This is the perfect way to spice up a review lesson or use for test prep. ***PowerPoint and PDF versions included. *These game boards were desi
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2nd - 8th
Also included in: Interactive Game Bundle | Student Engagement
Figurative Language PowerPoint: Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration, Idiom, and More!
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce your figurative language unit to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 42-slide PowerPoint features 7 literary devices: similes, metaphors, alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperboles, and idioms. The first 14 slides serve as an introduction to each literary device. These slides contain a definition and examples of each literary device. The final 25 slid
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Community Helpers Preschool | Community Helpers Kindergarten Unit | Worksheets
Community Helpers Preschool and Kindergarten! Community Helpers Worksheets and PowerPoint! This community helpers unit contains a 29 page PowerPoint and GOOGLE SLIDES with beautiful photos and clickable links. This pack also contains a class display with word/picture reference cards, hands-on community helper worksheets, and writing pages! Teacher Instruction Sheet included!Click on PREVIEW for a glimpse at all of the pages.New! More community helpers have been added for a total of 24 community
Grades:
PreK - K
Also included in: Preschool Back to School
Main Idea and Supporting Details PowerPoint with Ice Cream Graphic Organizer
Teaching students to identify the main idea and supporting details can be incredibly challenging! It doesn't have to be tedious and boring, too! If you are looking for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce main idea and supporting details to your students in a way that will grab their attention, you've come to the right place! I use ice cream cone graphics so that students will build a meaningful connection that will help them remember and understand how details support the mai
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2nd - 3rd
3rd Grade Morning Work Math Spiral Review ELA Daily Morning Bell Worksheets
This oh-so-helpful 3rd grade Morning Work resource will save your sanity and your time during those hectic mornings in the classroom! An entire year’s worth of ready-to-go, NO-PREP Math and ELA Morning Work and bell ringers is included in this engaging, helpful, 3rd grade spiral review resource.Click the PREVIEW button above for an idea of everything included!Click HERE to try one week of 3rd Grade Morning Math FREE!Click HERE to see 2nd Grade Morning Work for the Year.Click HERE to see 4th Grad
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3rd - 4th
4th Grade Morning Work Math Spiral Review ELA Daily Morning Bell Worksheets
This oh-so-helpful 4th grade Morning Work resource will save your sanity and your time during those hectic mornings in the classroom! An entire year’s worth of ready-to-go, NO-PREP Math and ELA Morning Work and bell ringers is included in this engaging, helpful, 4th grade spiral review resource.Click the PREVIEW button above for an idea of everything included!Click HERE to try one week of 4th Grade Morning Math FREE!Click HERE to see 2nd Grade Morning Work for the Year.Click HERE to see 3rd Grad
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4th - 5th
5th Grade Morning Work Math Spiral Review ELA Daily Morning Bell Worksheets
This oh-so-helpful 5th grade Morning Work resource will save your sanity and your time during those hectic mornings in the classroom! An entire year’s worth of ready-to-go, NO-PREP Math and ELA Morning Work and bell ringers is included in this engaging, helpful, 5th grade spiral review resource.Click the PREVIEW button above for an idea of everything included!Click HERE to try one week of 5th Grade Morning Math FREE!Click HERE to see 2nd Grade Morning Work for the Year.Click HERE to see 3rd Grad
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Grades:
5th - 6th
Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences PowerPoint Lesson
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce simple, compound, and complex sentences to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 74-slide PowerPoint is designed to teach your students about the differences between simple, compound, and complex sentences. Students will have opportunities to identify and generate each type of sentence.This student-friendly PowerPoint allows you to teach the types of sentences while
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Reading Comprehension Strategies Skills Passages PowerPoint Graphic Organizers
This Comprehension Strategies Bundle has 4 reading comprehension packs: Main idea and Details, Sequencing, Compare and Contrast, and Making Inferences! Reading passages, centers, worksheets, graphic organizers, posters, and more!Each pack has a PPT slideshow to introduce the strategy, lesson plan, center activities, printables, reading passages, comprehension posters, bookmarks & more. The interactive PowerPoint introductions and engaging follow-up activities not only make teaching these ski
Grades:
K - 2nd
Informational Text Structures PowerPoint with Practice Passages
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce nonfiction text structures to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 34-slide PowerPoint begins by introducing the 5 categories of informational text structures to students. Each text structure features a graphic organizer. Plus, students find it engaging because all of the example paragraphs are related to soccer! After reading each soccer passage, students are show
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Character Traits PowerPoint Lesson with Word Lists and Practice Passages
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce character traits to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 36-slide PowerPoint is highly interactive. It begins by distinguishing character traits from emotions and physical traits. It then focuses on the skill of inferencing by using feelings, actions, dialogue, and thoughts found in the text. This PowerPoint is designed to build your students' character trait vocab
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3rd - 6th
Dialogue PowerPoint Lesson: Practice Writing and Punctuating Dialogue
Do your students misuse quotation marks when trying to add dialogue to their stories? Would you like to teach them the punctuation rules for writing with dialogue? If so, this highly interactive 71-slide Writing Dialogue PowerPoint may be exactly what you are looking for! Three dialogue rules are introduced. Quotation marks enclose the words that the character said.Use a tag at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of the dialogue.Use the correct punctuation for writing dialogue.Next, pun
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3rd - 5th
Nonfiction Text Features PowerPoint: Practice with Informational Texts
Are you searching for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce nonfiction text features to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 120-slide PowerPoint is designed to introduce your students to 23 common text features found in nonfiction books. Use this PowerPoint to create engaging lessons over the course of multiple days.This PowerPoint begins with an introduction to text features. Each of the 23 text features is presented indi
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Also included in: Nonfiction Text Features BUNDLE: Worksheets, Posters, Activities
Picture of the Day: 180 Writing Prompt Photos to inspire Creative Writing Daily!
180 Creative & Funny Daily Picture of the Day picture writing prompts: This Photo of the Day Photo Writing Prompt resource presentation contains 180 funny, silly, cute & crazy visual writing prompt photos that your students will love! 180 Picture of the Day photos gives you enough for every day of the school year! I use these writing prompts with pictures as Morning Meeting slides to get students ready for a fun day of learning. These pictures can also be used for: Morning Meeting activi
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Grades:
1st - 6th
Journal Writing Prompts Bell Ringers for a Full Year Editable Distance Learning
*EDITABLE* A Year of Journal Prompts Bell Ringers or Exit Slips Bundle includes: Over 400 writing prompts aligned with the ELA Common Core Standards for reading, writing, speaking and listening, language, and history strands. The prompts are provided in Powerpoint and in Microsoft Word, so they are completely editable and perfect for distance learning! NOTE: If you are looking for a version of the prompts already formatted in Google Drive, they are here: JOURNAL PROMPTS in GOOGLE SLIDESThis IS i
Grades:
5th - 12th
Also included in: Custom Bundle for Jen W.
Daily Journal Prompts - Morning Journal Prompts - Google Slides - FULL YEAR
Ignite your student’s interest in writing with these daily journal prompts. These morning journal slides make it easy to incorporate writing daily into your curriculum. Three versions of these writing slides are included, so you can find something that works for you and your students! ⭐️ BUNDLE & SAVE ⭐️These morning journal slides are a part of the Digital MEGA Pack. Save over 35% with this digital starter pack! Add these digital slides to your writing routine for a smooth transition int
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Also included in: Virtual Distance Learning BUNDLE | Google Slides | Digital Starter Pack
Argumentative Writing - A Complete Argument Essay Writing Unit - PRINT & DIGITAL
Help your students master the art of argumentative writing with this argument writing teaching unit! I created this argumentative essay writing teaching unit with secondary ELA students in mind, and it includes step-by-step and engaging writing instructional materials. This argument essay writing unit includes everything you need for a complete argumentative writing instructional unit, including the print & digital materials. This essay writing instructional unit includes an editable instruc
Grades:
7th - 10th
English Bell Ringers - Grammar, Vocabulary, Figurative Language, Videos - Vol 3
English Bell Ringers - Grammar, Vocabulary, Figurative Language, Videos - Vol 3: Have your students in their seats as soon as the bell rings by beginning each of your middle or high school English classes with these engaging daily bell ringer routines! This comprehensive full-year resource includes everything you need to start each class with an engaging bell ringer activity. With tasks related to figurative language, word choice, vocabulary, grammar and video journals, you'll have what you need
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Greek Mythology Unit BUNDLE: Greek Gods, Myths, Activities, Escape Room & MORE
This Greek Mythology Unit BUNDLE includes over 150 pages and contains everything you need to teach your students about Greek Mythology or to prepare them to read Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief. First, introduce your students to Greek Mythology with the 2 Introductory PowerPoints. While following along, students will complete the Guided Student Note Pages and Graphic Organizers. The PowerPoints cover The Creation of the World & the Greek Gods of Mount Olympus.Have students continue to
Grades:
5th - 8th
Point of View & Perspective - Lesson, Activities, Worksheets, Poster & More
This Point of View and Perspective Resource has everything you need to teach, practice and assess Point of View and Perspective in Reading. This resource was created to align with the Common Core Language Arts Standards for 4th and 5th grade. It teaches the first-person point of view, as well as the third-person point of view. It also teaches about perspective and how the perspective being used in a story can change the way a story is told. SAVE MONEY and get MORE with my HUGE Reading &
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4th - 6th
Also included in: Reading and Writing Resource BUNDLE
Context Clues PowerPoint Lesson for 4th, 5th, 6th grade
Are you searching for a step-by-step context clues PowerPoint that can be used to introduce context clues to your students in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 49-slide PowerPoint begins by introducing the 5 types of context clues to students. The five types of context clues include: definitions, synonym clues, antonym (contrast) clues, inference clues, and example clues.The last half of the PowerPoint contains 14 multiple-choice practice slides. Students
Grades:
4th - 6th
Phonemic Awareness Digital Warm-Up Slides!
DIGITAL PHONEMIC AWARENESS WARM-UP SLIDES! This download includes 500 phonemic awareness slides that come in the following versions:PDF- Allows you to have a printed version of the slides for classroom use. You can print 4 slides per page, laminate, cut out, and place on a ring.PowerPoint- Allows you to add these slides to Microsoft Teams.Google Slides Ready - With a click of a link, you can load these into your Google Drive for Google Classroom use.PNG (Picture images)- These can be loaded into
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
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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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