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Back to School Common Core W.8.10 resources
Parts of Speech Unit Review - Grammar Worksheets, Quizzes, & Activities
Struggling to find an engaging and challenging Parts of Speech unit that has it all? These grammar worksheets cover the 8 parts of speech and come complete with PowerPoints, parts of speech worksheets, activities, and quizzes! Teacher prep is as easy as 1-2-3, including digital and printable options.✔ Check out the preview for more information!I love using these parts of speech mini-lessons to kick off my grammar bell-ringers at the start of the year. They also make a great self-guided grammar r
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5th - 7th
WHY STUDY HISTORY | Back to School Activity | First Day of School Discussion
Why do we study history anyway? This back to school activity is a must have for any history or social studies class! Start the first day of school (or the first lesson of any history class) with “WHY” because students always want to know why? Why am I learning about history? Why do we have to study this stuff anyway? When am I ever going to use this in life? Isn’t history about a "bunch of old dead people" and things that have already happened? **Major necessary upgrades have been made to ma
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Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
Solar Eclipse 2024 Activities
Experience the 2024 total solar eclipse with your students with these three fun activities. They are offered in both a printable PDF version and Google Drive™ (Google Slides™) version. The Google version can be shared online with your students and they can fill in their responses online; perfect for a paperless school.The activities include a compiling information and responses for a 2044 time capsule, create a solar eclipse play list, and an extensive Solar Eclipse Idioms activity. Students wil
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5th - 10th
End of the Year Activities | Bell Ringers, Brain Teasers & Riddles | Volume 1
Start your class with some fun mental exercises and icebreakers. Everyone loves logic puzzles, riddles, and critical thinking. As featured in the TpT newsletter, expand your students' brain power with this set of Brain Teasers to use as bell ringers or brain breaks in your classroom! In both printable and digital versions, these brain teasers are perfect for distance learning as well!What's Included:Now in Google Drive format!30 different Brain Teasers in 2 great formats - (Worksheets or Google
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Back to School Bundle: Icebreakers, Memes, Decor, Rules, Procedures
Back to School Bundle includes icebreakers, get-to-know-you and all about me activities, classroom posters and memes, rules and procedures activity, editable presentations, and more. You will have plenty of resources to last the first few days AND for years to come.These best-sellers are included:Back-to-School Rules and Procedures: Can I Chew Gum in Class? EDITABLE!Teacher Memes Posters {Back to School, Class Rules} EDITABLE! Grammar Fail Presentation: Using Humor to Teach the Importance of Eng
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6th - 12th, Staff
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First Day of Middle School Beginning of Year ELA Letter Writing Activity | Goals
First Day of Middle School Beginning of Year ELA Letter Writing Activity | GoalsLooking for Beginning of the Year ELA Letter Writing Activities for that first week / first day back to school? Spend the first day of school breaking the ice with this no prep letter writing activity! This is not just a "first day of school letter to my teacher" activity for you to learn about your students, this is also a letter for students to learn about their own goals and expectations for the year! Also provide
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6th - 9th
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Memoirs in 100 Words - Writing with Mentor Texts - Personal Narrative Writing
Students use precise word choice and eliminate redundancy in their writing with this memoir lesson. Originally inspired by The Washington Post feature, “Life is Short: Autobiography as Haiku,” students write memoirs in 100 words or fewer. This lesson teaches students to “show” themselves in vivid details and carefully chosen words. The lesson has recently been updated to include Google slides and instructional YouTube videos for guided practice!In pre-writing activities, students journal about
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7th - 11th
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Growth Mindset Activities & Lesson for Middle School Back to School New Year
Looking for an impactful social emotional learning lesson? This Growth Mindset lesson is sure to encourage your students! It includes everything you need to introduce growth mindset to your middle school class. This lesson is one of my favorite back to school activities, but it’s also great for any time you want to encourage students and set a positive tone in your classroom. This is designed to be a 2-3 day lesson, depending on the length of your class periods. It’s perfect for the first days o
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: First Two Weeks of Middle School ELA Back to School BUNDLE
Student Data Binders - Data Tracking - Goal Setting - Growth Mindset Activities
Are you looking for a student-friendly data folder that will allow students to not only set goals and track their growth throughout the school year, but will also include opportunities to help them develop a Growth Mindset? This data folder contains over 80 different PRINT AND DIGITAL options for student goal setting, data tracking charts, and student self reflections so that you can customize your student data folders to best suit your students’ needs.Teachers will LOVE that this back to school
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5th - 9th
Puzzle Piece Mural
Team-building activities are great for back-to-school time, whether coming back to school from the summer or for the New Year! The “Puzzle Piece Mural” comes with a blank puzzle piece with directions and a banner. Each item comes with two options for the title, depending if you want the bulletin to say “class” or “team.” My students thoroughly enjoyed sharing about themselves and connecting their puzzle pieces with their peers’ puzzle pieces!About Wondering with Mrs. Watto:Welcome! I am a middle
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5th - 9th
Back to School Creative Writing Assignment
Back to School Creative Writing | PDF and Digital Formats: In this Back To School Creative Writing Assignment, students will select one of the provided character roles: classroom desk, old backpack, gym floor, lunch bag, student and create a written or visual product based on the character's specific writing prompt. This no-prep - just photocopy and teach creative writing assignment gets students excited and engaged during Writer's Workshop or any ELA writing lesson. This resource contains indiv
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Creative Writing Full Year Bundle
BACK TO SCHOOL: Interactive Flip Book To Plan a Successful Year
Engaging, student-friendly, interactive, and ready to print-and-go, this Back to School Flipbook will save you loads of time, help you learn about your students and their interests, and will engage your students in back to school activities that are both fun and relevant!THIS BACK TO SCHOOL RESOURCE INCLUDES:Flipbook Cover Page Tweet All About It (students 'tweet' about 6 topics) It's a Wonderful Life (7 unique statements about students' outside-of-school life, such as "The TV show that best des
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6th - 8th
Classroom Management Trashketball Game - Rules, Expectations, Behavior Activity
As you review rules, procedures, and expectations, this New Year's Activity and Back-to-School Trashketball Game engages students and lays the foundation for a positive classroom culture throughout the year. This PowerPoint presentation can be used for social-emotional-learning (SEL) as you return from the holidays so you can make a fresh start in 2023. Updated version now has a link to a Google Slides Presentation.This activity encourages students to carefully read a syllabus, school policy ma
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6th - 10th
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Growth Mindset Bell Ringer Journal Prompts for Entire School Year
There are 175 growth mindset bell ringers in this Powerpoint presentation. This means you will have a warm up assignment for the entire school year! Have your students complete their bell ringers in a composition book or ELA notebook. No printing or prep needed! Bell ringers, Do nows, Warm ups, Journal prompts... whatever you call them in your classroom: these growth mindset questions are perfect for middle school or high school. This product consists of several excellent teaching strategies all
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6th - 12th
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Back-to-School Bundle / Back-to-School Stations (14 resources) / 6-12 / 90+ pgs.
In the past, I have used stations as my back-to-school activity for secondary English language arts. I enjoy using stations because they help get students up and moving, becoming comfortable with each other and with the space.However, during our year of pandemic teaching, traditional stations were not always possible. This experience encouraged me to be more flexible with my back-to-school activities. For this reason, when I put this bundle together, I focused on resources that teachers could mi
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6th - 12th
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Writing Interactive Notebook Eighth Grade Common Core with Scaffolded Notes
Interactive Writing and Language Notebook for Eighth Grade - 311 pages - answer keys included! Great for distance learning! This bundle has everything you need for a full year of teaching eighth grade writing and English language arts:A 183-page hands-on interactive writing notebook including answer keys128 pages of scaffolded notes including answer keysInteractive Writing NotebookThis writing and language notebook features all-original graphics and is completely hands-on and interactive. Each c
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7th - 9th
Figurative Language and Critical Thinking with Quotes - Mega Pack
It's Back to School Time - Start your class off thinking deeper from day one!
Figurative Language with your students on a daily basis!
Great morning work!
This set includes 50 quotes! All of my quote packs combined in one Mega-Pack!
The quotes are categorized to best allow you to pick the best quotes to go along with your current unit.
Inspirational Quotes - 11
Martin Luther King Quotes - 7
Proverbs - 4
Maya Angelou - 3
Ghandi - 3
Quotes using metaphors - 10
Similes - 4
Idioms - 8
2 quot
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4th - 12th
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Identity Project Using TED TALK for Middle and High School
Looking to help your students explore identity and stereotypes? Centered around the TED TALK, The Danger of a SIngle Story, this lesson brings middle and high school students through the critical thinking, discussion, and reflective process to develop an anti- bias stance when it comes to different identities. Also included are:Scaffolding activities creative project (digital or paper)connection to literary standards and writing standardsAlso check out other lessons on IDENTITY.For more lessons
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6th - 12th
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Letter To My Teacher: Beginning or End of Year Writing Prompt, Draft, Revision
This beginning of the year or end of term or end of year writing prompt gets students reflecting on their learning as they prewrite, draft, revise, edit, and prepare a letter to their future teacher. Available as an editable Canva template, a PDF, and within Easel for virtual or in-person learning. Great as a stand alone, multi-day activity for a sub or while you wrap up assessments.Engaging students in meaningful writing in the first or last weeks of school can seem impossible. In order to p
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5th - 8th
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi Novel Study
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Novel Study: My complete unit, full of fun and engaging activites that are CCSS aligned for grades 6-8.
This is such a great book - yet students think they will be bored when they hear the title and see the cover! I love the surprise on their faces from the very first page!!!!
Activities in this unit include:
Interactive Journal Prompts
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Blog Prompts
Instructions for creating and managing your class blog
The True
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6th - 8th
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The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau Novel Study
The City of Ember Novel Study: My complete unit, full of fun and engaging activities. CCSS aligned for grades 6-8.
Activities Include:
Interactive Journal Prompts
City of Ember Blog Prompts
Instructions for creating and managing your class blog
City of Ember Daily Quotes
Socratic Seminar Activity
Elements of Literature Review Activity
Decipher the Message
City of Ember Assessments
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6th - 8th
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ESL Back to School | ESL Writing Activities | Opinion Writing
Paragraph writing for English Language Learners are the foundation they need to be successful writers. This is perfect Back-to-School activity for your Language Learners. PLUS a digital version is included!ESL writing activities can help your English Language Learners succeed in their writing. The Step-by-Step Paragraph for Persuasive Writing is a way your ELLs can practice their writing every day in the classroom. In this writing activity for ELLs there is a total of 12 weeks of writing activi
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3rd - 12th
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First Day of School Activity: Completely Editable (AP Lit, AP Lang, Brit Lit)
This current upload is an activity for the first day of school. Students receive the initial worksheet for answers and wander around the room to the lettered stations for the questions. This is designed for high school and used in my AP Lit, AP Lang, and Brit Lit on the first day. IT IS COMPLETELY EDITABLE AND HAS DIFFERENTIATED SLIDES.**please note you will have to update year when editing!
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6th - 12th
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ELA Bell Ringers - Standards Based Approach Skills & Activities (School Theme)
Not sure if you are hitting the standards and skills your kids need? A standards-based approach for language arts bell ringers will help. These 20 core standards-based language arts skills and activities make the perfect ELA bell ringers. A quick review and activity for each of the 20 school-themed concepts can be used as a “bell ringer”, as independent work, or however you see fit. You get both digital and printable versions. Included:✅20 standards-based activities✅Digital Version✅Printab
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5th - 8th
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