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High school english language arts lesson videos
Grammar Gap Fillers: Bundle 1-12
How many times have your students made errors in their spelling, mechanics, or usage, even though they have been taught the rules for years? Many teachers are tempted to “get back to basics” and teach everyone the concepts again, but that’s not a good use of your time, and it forces too many students to sit through instruction they simply don’t need.What’s more effective is to teach these conventions in the context of meaningful writing, giving each student the exact instruction they need. But t
A Charlie Brown Christmas Lesson Plan
"Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!"
Is there any better way to start a discussion of a holiday than by watching the Charlie Brown special about it? I use this in my ESL and EFL classroom every year to teach international students about the holiday and to get my students thinking about Christmas and the meaning of the holiday. Plus it's just fun to watch!
This comprehension and discussion lesson plan (with complete Teacher Notes, Answer Keys, and differentiated questions) involves a critical watc
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1st - 10th, Adult Education
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Video Journal Writing Prompts - Video Clip Opinion and Personal Writing Volume 1
Video Journal Writing Prompts - Video Clip Opinion and Personal Writing Volume 1: Transform journal writing in your classroom with these captivating Video Journal Writing Prompts! Designed to connect with the modern student, this resource features a curated collection of video clips paired with thought-provoking opinion and personal writing prompts. These high-interest videos will inspire students to share their opinions, reflections, and personal thoughts in response to a prompt related to the
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7th - 10th
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Grammar Gap Fillers: Bundle 13-24
How many times have your students made errors in their spelling, mechanics, or usage, even though they have been taught the rules for years? Many teachers are tempted to “get back to basics” and teach everyone the concepts again, but that’s not a good use of your time, and it forces too many students to sit through instruction they simply don’t need.What’s more effective is to teach these conventions in the context of meaningful writing, giving each student the exact instruction they need. But t
Creative Writing Assignments With Video Introductions - 5 Writing Activities
Transform your writing instruction with this innovative bundle featuring five captivating writing assignments designed to ignite creativity in your students. Each assignment is accompanied by an engaging hand-drawn video introduction crafted by the talented John Spencer, ensuring student engagement from the start. With topics ranging from personal narratives to school activity design and passion projects, these assignments offer diverse opportunities for students to express themselves and showca
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6th - 10th
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Grammar Gap Filler 23: Run-Ons & Comma Splices
How many times have your students made errors in their spelling, mechanics, or usage, even though they have been taught the rules for years? Many teachers are tempted to “get back to basics” and teach everyone the concepts again, but that’s not a good use of your time, and it forces too many students to sit through instruction they simply don’t need.What’s more effective is to teach these conventions in the context of meaningful writing, giving each student the exact instruction they need. But t
Grammar Gap Filler 1: There | Their | They're
How many times have your students made errors in their spelling, mechanics, or usage, even though they have been taught the rules for years? Many teachers are tempted to “get back to basics” and teach everyone the concepts again, but that’s not a good use of your time, and it forces too many students to sit through instruction they simply don’t need.What’s more effective is to teach these conventions in the context of meaningful writing, giving each student the exact instruction they need. But t
Plot Diagram with Pixar's Digital Short
This is a video that uses Pixar's Digital short, "Lifted," to teach plot diagram. Within the 8 minute video, you'll see the entire Disney cartoon played out while a plot diagram is carefully being built around the action of the plot. Students can see the action of the story and where it fits in precisely on the plot diagram. See the sample for specific format.
At the end of the video, there is a list of student tips for how to effectively organize a short story on a plot diagram.
In additio
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5th - 12th
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Word Choice - Writing Lab BUNDLE
Save $10 with this HUGE BUNDLE review unit provides a full trimester of revision and language curriculum with 196 PowerPoint slides and over 120 printable pages. It includes seven of my Revision Module products as well as a load of additional review materials. Writing Lab Modules are designed as a way to teach specific writing and revision strategies that can be put to use immediately in students’ writing. Many of these concepts don’t have right or wrong answers, but there are some revision rule
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7th - 12th
Novel in Verse Unit for ANY Text/Literature Circles - Engaging Activities
Engage your students during a study of ANY novel in verse, book clubs, or literature circles with this growing bundle of resources designed for verse novels.This bundle currently includes pre-reading & post-reading resources, as well as question trails and book recommendation brochures. It will be updated shortly to include editable during-reading activities that adapt to ANY text. Includes:Novels in Verse: What Do You Notice? Introduction Activity/Book TastingNovel in Verse: Mentor Text Sta
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6th - 12th
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Grammar Gap Filler 22: Sentence Fragments
How many times have your students made errors in their spelling, mechanics, or usage, even though they have been taught the rules for years? Many teachers are tempted to “get back to basics” and teach everyone the concepts again, but that’s not a good use of your time, and it forces too many students to sit through instruction they simply don’t need.What’s more effective is to teach these conventions in the context of meaningful writing, giving each student the exact instruction they need. But t
Grammar Gap Filler 21: Subject-Verb Agreement
How many times have your students made errors in their spelling, mechanics, or usage, even though they have been taught the rules for years? Many teachers are tempted to “get back to basics” and teach everyone the concepts again, but that’s not a good use of your time, and it forces too many students to sit through instruction they simply don’t need.What’s more effective is to teach these conventions in the context of meaningful writing, giving each student the exact instruction they need. But t
Mastering Close Reading: A Virtual Professional Development Workshop
This bundle is a series of workshop trainings designed to support teachers in mastering their instructional skills in teaching Close Reading. All videos from the workshop are included in this bundle and you retain access to this course for a lifetime. Watch the videos in this order for the best experience:Training One: An OverviewTraining Two: Selecting the Passage (Part 1)Training Three: Selecting the Passage (Part 2)Training Four: Writing Annotation Guidelines and Choosing SkillsTraining
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7th - 12th
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*DIGITAL* Summarizing Fiction & Nonfiction Mini Lesson EDITABLE
This product includes a 12-slide Google Slides presentation that explains how to use SWBST (Someone Wanted But So Then) to summarize fictional text/videos and the MIDAS approach to summarize non-fiction texts. Fully editable!This product has two embedded animated shorts (both less than 5 minutes each) as well as two embedded (with screenshots) one-page nonfiction resources to practice summarization skills.
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4th - 10th
ELA Mini-Lesson Instructional Videos instead of Lectures!
80 ELA instructional videos to replace traditional ELA mini-lessons or lectures (URL video links included) - Perfect for distance learning or Google Classroom!Never plan another mini-lesson! Never have disengaged students or classroom management stress again! Simply play videos to teach ELA skills!Instead of boring lectures that students tune out, introduce or review EVERY secondary reading literature, reading informational text and grammar common core state standards using informative and engag
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6th - 12th
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How to Introduce Quotations with the Quote Sandwich No Prep Digital Lesson
Do your students struggle with introducing quotations, embedding quotations or integrating quotations? Teach them how to properly cite text evidence and analyze with quote sandwiches! This NO PREP digital lesson can be used for your students in high school, middle school, or upper elementary school. This lesson includes a teaching video for students, a visual anchor chart for teaching the skill of embedding quotations as well as including a citation. There is also an anchor chart that includes s
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: High School Writing Skills Digital Lessons & Activities NO PREP Bundle
Grammar Gap Filler 20: Misplaced & Dangling Modifiers
How many times have your students made errors in their spelling, mechanics, or usage, even though they have been taught the rules for years? Many teachers are tempted to “get back to basics” and teach everyone the concepts again, but that’s not a good use of your time, and it forces too many students to sit through instruction they simply don’t need.What’s more effective is to teach these conventions in the context of meaningful writing, giving each student the exact instruction they need. But t
Disney Pixar-- Topic vs. Theme (Dug's Special Mission)
For this activity, students will be watching a Disney Pixar short film in order to apply their knowledge of topic vs. theme. This is such a fun way to get students engaged and apply their knowledge to a visual text. Great way to assess introductory theme vs. topic skills.Students will need to take notes and track topics during the mini-movie, and then eventually turn it into a thematic statement. They will also need to support their theme with specific evidence from the mini-movie. The link to t
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5th - 9th
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Essay Writing - Writing Lab BUNDLE
Save over $20 with this HUGE BUNDLE review unit provides a full trimester of revision and language curriculum with 219 PowerPoint slides, 144 printable pages, and 2 and a half hours of video. It includes TEN of my Revision Module products focused on writing the traditional essay.Writing Lab Modules are designed as a way to teach specific writing and revision strategies that can be put to use immediately in students’ writing. Many of these concepts don’t have right or wrong answers, but there are
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7th - 12th
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Paraphrasing Lesson & Activity for High School Writing Skills
Do you want to help your students improve comprehension, build writing skills and avoid plagiarism? Teach students how to paraphrase with this NO PREP digital and interactive lesson that focuses on both reading and writing skills for paraphrasing by providing students with context for paraphrasing and the 4 R’s strategy and multiple examples. This can be used for your students in high school or middle school, especially for struggling readers and writers. This lesson includes a teaching video in
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: High School Writing Skills Digital Lessons & Activities NO PREP Bundle
Ugly Dolls Lesson, Powerpoint, worksheet, scoring guide, sewing tutorial video
My students love when we do a project that involves sewing. Ugly Dolls are a perfect subject because you can also incorporate character education with it. The slide show introduces the Ugly Doll history and stories about some of the characters. Included is a lesson typed up the way my district wants, but you can alter it as needed. There is an Ugly Doll Lab worksheet that I have my students work on before they start sewing. It's a great way to tie in Language Arts. Last is a scoring guide I
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4th - 12th
Grammar Gap Filler 24: Possessive vs. Plural
How many times have your students made errors in their spelling, mechanics, or usage, even though they have been taught the rules for years? Many teachers are tempted to “get back to basics” and teach everyone the concepts again, but that’s not a good use of your time, and it forces too many students to sit through instruction they simply don’t need.What’s more effective is to teach these conventions in the context of meaningful writing, giving each student the exact instruction they need. But t
Word of the Year Digital Vision Board New Year for Middle or High School
Set your students up with success for the year with this engaging and intentional back from break or start of the school year no prep activity: a Digital Activity to Set Intentions for the New Year. This is the perfect New Year or Back to School lesson that can be used for any subject area and for your students in high school, middle school, or upper elementary school. These slides work for in person or online learning! Videos allow the activity to be done asynchronous or in centers and allows f
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8th - 11th
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Video Bell-Ringer Writing Prompts
Looking to incorporate writing prompts into your classroom, but wanting to spice it up by using technology? These inspirational video writing prompts are an effective method for assessing a student's writing ability, comprehension, and critical thinking skills. A total of eight prompts are included, but more videos and prompts will be continually added as appropriate videos are found for this activity.
These video prompts can be used in many different ways:
• As bell ringers to get students e
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5th - 12th
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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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