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Adult education english language arts task cards for staff
ESL Writing Activities With Picture Prompts
Need a fun way to get your ESL / ELL / EFL students to practice writing? Here are 40 engaging picture prompts that can be used 2 different ways.1. 40 Picture Prompts with 2 sets of questions (Level I and Level II). These can be projected onto a screen. (These are "full page" size.) After students write their answers, you can have them discuss their responses aloud for an interesting class discussion and great speaking practice!2. 80 Task Cards (40 different pictures + 2 levels of questions). The
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards for Literature
Add depth and complexity to your instruction with these Critical Thinking Task Cards for Literature! These tasks cards allow students to deeply analyze any fiction reading material through 11 topics of critical thinking: Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives. You will appreciate the versatility of these task cards; they can be used with almost any text (novels,
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4th - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards Bundle
ESL Speaking Activities: Bundle
This bundle includes four fun activities to practice speaking and English conversation with your students 1. ESL Activities: Picture Prompts for Speaking Practice Set 1 and Set 2Each set includes 20 engaging picture prompts (2 sizes) plus 20 conversation task cards. The pictures and questions are appropriate for all ages. There are 2 levels of questions so you can use these task cards with various levels and throughout the year. Suggested Uses:• Conversation Practice: Students will work in pair
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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ESL Conversation Activities: Picture Prompts for Speaking Practice (SET 1)
Need a fun way to get your ESL / ELL / EFL students to practice speaking? Here are 20 engaging picture prompts (2 sizes) plus 20 conversation task cards. The pictures and questions are appropriate for all ages. There are 2 levels of questions so you can use these task cards with various levels and throughout the year. Suggested Uses:• Conversation Practice: Students will work in pairs. One student will look at the picture as the other student asks the questions provided on the task card. I recom
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: ESL Speaking Activities: Bundle
Real-World Grammar Fails, Proofreading Task Cards, Set #1
This easy prep, multi-functional task card set of real-world grammar mistakes is an excellent modern and engaging activity for bell ringers, grammar practice, review or just for fun! These amusing images are ready-to-go in bright, attractive task card format, which gives you tons of flexibility for using these in class. Students love to spot errors in the unlikeliest places, and an activity like this gets them thinking, collaborating, and editing! All subjects could get involved in the editing
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Media Bias News Articles - Fake News & Media Literacy Analysis Activity Vol. 1
Practice detecting media biases in the news and get your students to decipher the complexities of the media landscape with this set of 15 custom-written fake news articles designed to delve deep into the world of Fake News and Media Bias. Each fake news article is meticulously written with heavy bias to showcase the various kinds in media, including Mudslinging, Slant, Spin, Sensationalism, Opinion Statements, Jumping to Conclusions, Mind Reading, and Unsubstantiated Claims. You'll love how thes
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Hashtag Block Alphabet Task Cards - Lowercase Letters
Are your kiddos obsessed with the Target Building Hashtag Blocks or the Amazon Plus Plus Blocks? These alphabet task cards are perfect for developing fine motor skills while also practice letter production and recognition. This set includes all 26 lowercase letters. This is great for STEM bins, early finisher activity, centers, and so much more. I recommend printing 4 pages per sheet to get the desired task card size. Please feel free to reach out with any questions and leave a review! (: The bl
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PreK - 4th, Staff
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Famous Love Letters: A Close Reading & Creative Lesson for Valentine's Day
This lesson by Bespoke ELA is a great lesson to use in February to celebrate Valentine's Day in a unique and creative way that is sure to engage students!Task:To analyze how famous love letters use language, literary and rhetorical devices, and imagery to convey a message about love.Enduring Understandings:Students will understand how language, literary and rhetorical devices, and imagery affect a letter's meaning.Students will learn about famous people from history through the lens of their rel
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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ESL Speaking & Writing Activities Differentiated Funny Picture Prompts
Give yourself a break from those boring ESL worksheets and engage your English Language Learners with these picture prompts. Perfect for bell ringers, ELL lessons, extension activities, and differentiated stations, these picture writing prompts are sure to get your most reluctant learner writing and speaking. These prompts have generated plenty of discussion during our ESL lessons and I hope they open up conversation for your students as well. And, if you have a mixed ability class like mine,
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
Grammar Review Task Cards - ELA Language Skills with Sentence Writing Practice
If your students need consistent practice to strengthen grammar and language skills, these task cards are for you! These activities will give them lots of practice with synonyms, antonyms, homophones, prefixes, suffixes, and parts of speech. Get even more review activities and save with the Mixed Skills Review Bundle.These 40 task cards will have students working with synonyms, antonyms, homophones, affixes, and parts of speech. Each card has one or two tasks for the specified topic. For example
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4th - 7th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Grammar and Language Task Cards - Sentence Structure, Vocabulary, & More
Sentence Writing Task Card Bundle - Practice Activities to Build Writing Skills
If your students need activities to help build sentence writing skills, this bundle of 124 task cards will give them lots of writing practice! Your students will soon be writing better sentences with these activities focusing on sentence structure, adding descriptive details, and correcting mistakes in grammar, punctuation, and spelling. ⭐️ Bundle includes the following sentence writing task card sets (Click PREVIEW above for a closer look at this bundle):Sentence Building Task CardsGive your st
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4th - 7th, Adult Education
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Citing Textual Evidence Lesson, Complete Teaching Unit
If using textual evidence is new to your students, or if you just want an easier method to remember or some practice, this easy prep, complete teaching pack is perfect! Teaching students to effectively use textual evidence is crucial for all subjects, and this lesson and its components are easily adaptable for any subject. Student Experience: This teaching pack is designed to specifically teach and practice the skill of selecting and incorporating textual evidence with a catchy theme and an eas
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7th - 10th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Research Writing Unit, Curriculum BUNDLE+
Vocabulary: Task Cards Irregular Past Tense Verbs Task Card Set ELA ESL
These English grammar task cards will give your students practice in using the most common irregular past tense verbs in the English Language. These are great for your General Education, ESL, or EFL students.Use for centers, homework, fast finishers, group, pair, or independent work - or as a whole class game such as scoot or jeopardy.Use for centers, homework, fast finishers, group, pair, or independent work - or as a whole class game such as scoot or jeopardy.The 32 task cards provide student
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2nd - 12th, Adult Education
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Bundle: ESL Conversation Question Card Sets (over 600 different questions)
This bundle includes 8 different conversation card sets (over 640 questions) for ESL speaking practice and fluency. The questions are divided by grammar type or theme: Present simple, Past Simple, Present Perfect, Conditionals:zero, first, second and third Future Tenses, Persuasive Speaking, Explain & Discuss, Speak for 30 Seconds. By purchasing this bundle you are saving 25% of the price if you purchased the sets individually and you'll be ready for improvised conversation activities throug
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7th - 11th, Adult Education
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Descriptive Writing Task Cards - Adding Details to Stretch Sentences
It can be difficult to get students to write descriptive sentences, but these task cards can help spice up their writing! They will stretch a sentence by starting with one that is short and simple and adding descriptive words and specific details to make it more interesting and more precise. Also very helpful for ESL Students! For even more fun activities to spice up writing, try this Descriptive Writing Activity Bundle.⭐️ What you get with this resource:40 printable ask cards2 paperless options
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4th - 8th, Adult Education
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Back To School Meme Game Ice Breaker Getting to Know You
Have you ever played a meme game? They are a lot of fun. Your students will love creating memes using different topics. This will be the best First Day Ice Breaker Ever!This can be done in a center or as task cards. Students will love this I promise, as mine did!Included is a 23 slide powerpoint with 10 meme slides and 10 Bonus Free topic Memes... (10 slide may not seem like a lot but the whole game will take a good amount of time, depending on how you do it about a half-hour to an hour)...**thi
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3rd - 12th, Staff
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Real-World Grammar Fails, Proofreading Task Cards, Set #2
Identify and Correct Grammar Mistakes in Real World Fails. This 2nd set of proofreading task cards for real-world grammar mistakes is an excellent modern and engaging activity to have students take ownership of their learning and make connections to the world around them. In fact, these are all fun images I've spotted along the way somewhere or another!These amusing images are ready to go in bright, attractive task card format, which gives you tons of flexibility for using these in class. Plent
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards Bundle
Add depth and complexity to your instruction with this Critical Thinking Task Cards Bundle! You are getting all 3 (Science, History and/or Social Studies, and Literature) of my Critical Thinking Task Cards. That's 264 unique task cards! These sets are $21.00 if purchased separately; Save $4!These tasks cards allow students to deeply analyze any fiction and nonfiction reading material through 11 topics of critical thinking: Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics,
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4th - 10th, Adult Education
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Song Lyrics Analysis - Figurative Language & Poetic Elements PLUS Grammar Bundle
Your students will love practicing literary elements and grammar concepts through the use of song lyrics! Use these activities to build their skills with figurative language and grammar and sentence structure in a fun way.This bundle includes two related resources:Song Lyric Analysis for Figurative Language and Creative Writing:Two pages of notes and suggestions for useChart with definition and examples of each type of figurative languageActivity to identify the type of figurative language in a
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Hashtag Block Alphabet Task Cards - Uppercase Letters
Are your kiddos obsessed with the Target Building Hashtag Blocks or the Amazon Plus Plus Blocks? These alphabet task cards are perfect for developing fine motor skills while also practice letter production and recognition. This set includes all 26 capital letters. This is great for STEM bins, early finisher activity, centers, and so much more. I recommend printing 4 pages per sheet to get the desired task card size. Please feel free to reach out with any questions and leave a review! (:The block
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PreK - 4th, Staff
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House Vocabulary and Prepositions of Location for ESL
This product has 2 activities (plus vocabulary review sheets) that will help your ESL students practice speaking and listening using rooms of the house and furniture vocabulary. Vocabulary Focus: Rooms of the House (bedroom, bathroom, living room, dining room, kitchen and laundry room)Furniture and objects in the housePrepositions of location (above, behind, below, between, in, in front of, next to, on, over, under)Grammar Focus: Answering Yes/No questions, Asking questions, LocationSpeaking / L
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5th - 11th, Adult Education
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Also included in: ESL Activities: Bundle 1
ESL Conversation Activities: Picture Prompts for Speaking Practice (SET 2)
Need a fun way to get your ESL / ELL / EFL students to practice speaking? Here are 20 engaging picture prompts (2 sizes) plus 20 conversation task cards. The pictures and questions are appropriate for all ages. There are 2 levels of questions so you can use these task cards with various levels and throughout the year. Suggested Uses:• Conversation Practice: Students will work in pairs. One student will look at the picture as the other student asks the questions provided on the task card. I recom
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: ESL Speaking Activities: Bundle
Real-World Grammar Fails, Journalism/Yearbook Proofreading Task Cards
This set of real-world grammar mistakes is an excellent engaging activity for bell ringers, grammar practice, review or just for fun for your yearbook, newspaper, media, or journalism class! I've collected mistaken-ridden magazine covers, newspaper headlines, yearbook pages, and more to keep things interesting - and to provide plenty of examples!Allow students to take ownership of their learning and make connections to the world around them. Students love to spot errors in the unlikeliest places
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Yearbook Curriculum BUNDLE+ for Student Journalism Publications
16 Bright Chevron Editable Task Cards Templates PPT or Slides™
16 Bright Chevron Editable Task Cards Templates PPT or Google Slides™Includes:16 blank doodle frames over backgrounds in a variety of colors and patterns including red, lime, aqua, yellow, purple, red, and multi-colored. These would be great for your chevron classroom decor! Be sure to look at the preview to see a larger version of all the templates.Templates are ready for you to begin typing. If you prefer not to add text, then you can delete the text boxes and print the cards to use as a borde
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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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.
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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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