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Free high school english language arts lessons
Interactive Reading Notebooks ~ FREE Bonus Lesson! Making Inferences
This freebie includes a complete interactive reading notebook lesson on making inferences. It is a bonus lesson that is not included in my other notebook products, so be sure to download this if you own those as well.This lesson includes 3 activities and is aligned to CCSS standards for grades 4-8.Are you thinking about using interactive notebooks in your reading classroom? I've also included at the end of this freebie a 3-page Getting Started Guide / FAQ for interactive notebooking.If you are c
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3rd - 9th
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Context Clues Worksheet Vocabulary - Free Context Clues Activities 6th 7th 8th
Context Clues Worksheet Freebie: This vocabulary activity is a great way to help students who struggle with understanding and using context clues to define vocabulary words.This Download Contains: PRINT2 pages of vocabulary activitiesAnswer Key DIGITALReady-to-use Easel activityLike this product? CLICK HERE for the full Context Clues Passages Vocabulary resource for grades 6-8This resource shows examples of definition/explanation context clues, synonym/restatement context clues, antonym/contras
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6th - 9th
Also included in:Â Context Clue Chart with Passages Reading Comprehension Vocabulary Activities
THERE-THEIR-THEY'RE Student Review Packet - ELA FREE Grades 5-9
If you would like to teach or review the homonyms THERE, THEIR, and THEY’RE, this free product is student-ready, neatly-designed, and allows for different styles of guided practice!The THERE-THEIR-THEY’RE Student Ready Review Packet presents each usage explanation along with clear examples and varied practice opportunities. Students compose their own sentences, apply the correct form of there within given sentences and paragraphs, practice editing a passage to correct there/their/they’re errors,
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5th - 9th
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September 11th {9/11} Interactive Timeline Activity ~ Reading for Grades 4-8
September 11th {9/11} Interactive Timeline Activity ~ Reading for Grades 4-8This activity is meant to be an independent activity for students in grades 4-8. Lower level students may need some scaffolding.UPDATED September 2017. Items 6 and 14 have been changed due to changes in the timeline itself. Please re-download this activity to use again. ;) I'm using it in my 6th grade classroom. First, I will use the timeline to go through and discuss with my students the events of September 11th. Then,
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4th - 9th
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Essay Writing: Free Comprehensive Essay Checklist
This one-page essay writing checklist will help your students write better essays today! This checklist is broken down by paragraph and includes essential elements for writing stronger essays.This checklist is a preview of my comprehensive writing series:Essay Writing Unit: Teach Your Students to Master the EssayLooking for resources for the ENTIRE year?Secondary English Curriculum: Common Core - Grades 7-10Ultimate Writing Bundle for Secondary EnglishHelpful Tools and Resources for Secondary En
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6th - 12th
Commas Matter- A *FREE* Grammar -NO PREP- Worksheet!
Let's be honest - most students have a comma problem. This *FREE* lesson is a basic worksheet that tests the knowledge of comma placement to students learning (or re-learning) grammar. This is a Level One worksheet (with an answer key included) that can test the knowledge of any student! I use these lessons usually as a pre-assessment with my students, but it also fits well in any grammar unit!
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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FREE End of year Activities Middle School High Last Week of School Activities
Perfect for the end of the year, this EDITABLE, NO PREP, GOOGLE SLIDES end of the year choice board activity is a fun way to help your middle school or high school students celebrate the end of the year and reflect on their year! The choice board includes directions for nine fun, creative, and engaging activities in which students reflect on the past year's accomplishments, growth, and highlights. Activities Included:Playlist projectSurvival guide to high schoolLetter to next year's studentsLett
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6th - 12th
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FREEBIE!! Irregular Past Tense Verb Snowmen Match Up + worksheets
Irregular past tense verbs are tricky! They require the act of memorization because they go against all of the normal rules on how to make a verb go into past tense form. That is why they are difficult for students to learn.
This snowman match up activity will be a fun way for your students to work on irregular past tense verbs so that they can ultimately memorize some of the most commonly ones used. They will match up the snowmen with their present and past tense forms of the verbs and then
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K - 12th
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Poetry Comics: Metaphors with Robert Frost
Poetry Comics: Metaphors with Robert Frost
This is a free file from a larger product called Poetry Comics: Metaphor, Tone, and Personification. These lessons follow the same format as the free sample, except a worksheet is added afterward to reinforce the skills taught in the comic. Also check out Poetry Comics Vol 2.
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Middle School Language Arts Bundle
Persuasive Writing- *Sell Me This Pen*- A Lesson in Logos, Ethos, and Pathos!
What a wonderful world persuasion is! In this FREE lesson, students will get familiar with Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals for persuasion- Logos, Ethos, and Pathos. With an informational activity sheet, along with a *Sell Me This Pen* worksheet, students will find current examples of an ancient concept in modern commercials, as well as state their own case by selling an item they carry with them every day! Students will have fun finding ways marketing strategies focus on one (or more than o
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Monkey's Paw WW Jacobs COMPLETE Short Story Unit Middle School
The Monkey’s Paw Short Story Unit for Middle and High SchoolThis is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 8: August Selection – Click here to read more about the Short Story of the Month Club!Skills Focus:Elements of Plot ReviewCiting Text EvidenceContext Clues & Situational CluesTypes of ForeshadowingMood (and Mood Shifts)Analyzing DialogueEssential QuestionSee the list of activities below for a COMPLETE list of all of the skills covered. The ones above are simply the FOCUS of this unit
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7th - 10th
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ACE Writing Strategy: Citing Text Evidence FREE ACE Method Interactive Notebook
Interactive Writing Notebooks ~ Free Bonus Lesson ~ Citing Text EvidenceCite text evidence with this free interactive notebook activity.This freebie includes a complete interactive writing notebook lesson that provides students with a formula for short response to literature questions.If you've already purchased my Interactive Writing Notebooks, be sure to download this freebie since there's an interactive notebook template here that's not included in the paid product.Get the full Interactive Wr
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3rd - 9th
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Free English Bell Ringers Vol 1 Sample - Lit Devices, Discussion, Writing, Video
Free English Bell Ringers Vol 1 Sample - Lit Devices, Discussion, Writing, Video: Try a free sample of our best-selling English bell ringers. This 2-week sample is from our comprehensive full-year resource that includes everything you need to start each class with an engaging bell ringer activity. With tasks related to writing, grammar, word choice, debates, and video journals, you'll have what you need to engage your students and improve their ELA skills with the full-year bundle. All you have
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6th - 10th
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FREE WRITING LESSON: Writing A Summary
Summary writing is a vital skill, which any English Language Arts student should acquire; learning to summarize will help them learn to analyze what they read, write concisely and paraphrase. This lesson will work well as part of a larger writing unit, or when studying writing. However, it would also be perfect as a one-off substitute lesson!**************************************************************************OTHER WAYS TO BUY THIS LESSON1) Get this in my 15 Writing Lessons BUNDLE & * S
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7th - 10th
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Also included in:Â 15 Writing Lessons BUNDLE
Memorial Day FREE Unit: Arlington
Memorial Day FREE Unit
Arlington: A Memorial Day Unit for Grades 4-8 ~ Freebie!
I created this freebie unit both as a thank-you to my wonderful followers and as a tribute to the soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice. I hope that you will share these activities with your students so that they may appreciate this sacrifice as well.
In this unit, students will analyze song lyrics from "Arlington" by Trace Adkins. Then, they'll watch a documentary on Arlington National Cemetery while compl
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4th - 9th
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Free Comma Rules Task Card Activity - Correcting Comma Errors in Text Messages
Free Comma Rules Task Card Activity - Correcting Comma Errors in Text Messages: Make learning basic comma rules engaging for your middle and high school students with this interactive and modern activity. In this fun exercise, students will identify and correct comma errors in text message conversations. By applying comma rules in a familiar context, students will reinforce their understanding of proper comma usage while also honing their editing skills. Included is a useful informational handou
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6th - 10th
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Close Reading Mystery Inference Text Evidence Activity - Who Stole the Gnome?
Close Reading Mystery Inference Text Evidence Activity - Who Stole the Gnome?: Engage your students with a captivating close reading inference activity that challenges them to explore and find text evidence, make inferences, and read more closely. This resource provides all the necessary materials to facilitate this fun and creative reading activity in your classroom. Students will have the opportunity to work collaboratively, enhancing their problem-solving and critical-thinking skills as they
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6th - 9th
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Also included in:Â READING MYSTERIES FULL-YEAR ELA PROGRAM | PRINT
Grammar color notes FREEBIE: Parts of speech
By incorporating coloring and drawing into note-taking, students engage both sides of their brain, increasing their likelihood to remember what they learned. This lesson has students color-code their notes and mad-lib style review at the bottom.Included in this FREEBIE .zip file: • Blank color notes for students (2 per page) • Larger blank color notes for students (1 per page) • Teacher copy with a blank copy on one half and a key on the other half • Presentation slide (editable) wit
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5th - 10th
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Also included in:Â BUNDLE 1! Grammar color notes: Unit 1 - Sentence structure
FREE Templates for Creating Adapted Books for Special Education
This FREE pack includes four templates for creating adapted & interactive books that are perfect for students with Autism or other disabilities. With this product, you will use PowerPoint to easily edit the text and add pictures to create a simple book. Please note: you need Powerpoint to edit/ create these books.Book template #1: Is a half-page interactive bookIncludes cards for matchingIncludes pages for comprehension questionsBook template #2: Is a half-page interactive bookIncludes cards
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PreK - 12th
Inference with Pixar Animated Short Film:One Man Band Video Teach Theme & Plot
Common Core ELA Test Prep is fun with "One Man Band" Pixar video clip activities!Perfect for reluctant readers and students with disabilities. PIXAR "ONE MAN BAND" FILM CLIP LESSON INCLUDES: - Common Core Standard- Focus Question- Mini Lesson- Guided Practice- Independent Practice- One Man Band Video Link- Student HandoutsWant 100 pages of lesson plans, student handouts & video links to teach EVERY single reading literature & reading informational text skill using short films? Download m
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3rd - 12th
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Art History Van Gogh Free lesson
This is a BONUS lesson add-on to my top-selling 140-page
*Art History For Little Ones* Unit.
*If you've already purchased that unit, consider this to be Lesson 11!
If you purchased it a while ago, check for notifications of recent updates - I've added two bonus lessons and updated with more pictures of student work!
This bonus free lesson has:
-10 pages
-script for teachers to read aloud to the class with no prep needed
-questions embedded in the script to guide the conversation
-child-frie
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K - 12th
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FREE! Analyzing Theme: a common core essay for ANY novel
This essay is aligned with the common core standards and works as a final essay for any novel or fictional text. This essay asks students to analyze how the theme of the story emerges, how it is refined, and how it is fully developed by the end of the novel.
This download includes a student handout sheet with room for brainstorming, an essay outline, and a graphic organizer.
This essay is CCSS aligned and covers the below standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy W2a.b.c.d.e (grades 7-12)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy
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7th - 12th
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Descriptive Writing Picture Prompts
Descriptive Writing Picture Prompts. Using writing prompts with photos to teach descriptive writing is an effective exercise. Teach your students to use concrete, or sensory, detail with three thought-provoking photos with writing prompts and notes on using sensory detail. This is part of my complete unit on Writing a Narrative Essay.Writing a Narrative Essay - Complete UnitYou might also likeWriting Prompts for Research and Response PapersWriting a Persuasive Essay - Complete UnitWriting a Rese
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7th - 10th
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Phonics Older Students Reading Intervention SOR Dyslexia FREE Summer Tutoring
FREE! long -a sounds (vowels) activities for older students. Get your summer tutoring students where they need to be in their reading. Struggling readers, dyslexic students and English language learners will gain confidence and reading fluency from this resource. Instructions included.This is a FREE bite-size sample. These passages are BRAND NEW and just released They focus on all spellings of long vowel sounds. You can get them here.These activities were created after my very successful phonics
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6th - 9th
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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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