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8th grade english language arts outlines for Microsoft OneDrive $10 and up
Lord of the Flies Unit Plan: Fun Activities, Editable Lesson Plans, Mask, Test
Lord of the Flies by William Golding offers unique insight into human nature, the dangers of unchecked power, and the consequences of a failing society. With this Lord of the Flies Unit Plan, you’ll be able to dig deep into these dark themes while preparing students for a more hopeful future. From Steven King to Suzanne Collins, Lord of the Flies has inspired readers through the ages to explore the ugliness of human nature within the safe pages of a book. In turn, readers use these lessons and i
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8th - 12th
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REFUGEE by Alan Gratz - Novel Study Unit - Print & DIGITAL
REFUGEE - This Refugee Novel Unit will instantly engage your students with thought-provoking, standards-based learning activities. Now includes both a print and digital version! Students will enjoy analyzing the text, discussing important ideas, and acquiring new vocabulary as they read Alan Gratz’s gripping novel!The DIGITAL version offers colorful, beautifully-designed slides that allow students to type their responses into text boxes. Test and all quizzes are accessed with links to Google Fo
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6th - 9th
Literary Analysis Elements Activities using Pixar Shorts Videos or Commercials
Your students are going to love these literary analysis lessons. Add Pixar Shorts, commercials, or cartoon clips and you're ready to teach literary elements. Fun way to engage students as they analyze character, plot, setting, theme, and conflict (coming soon). Then, transfer them to more complex texts like short stories and novels. Your students will love practicing analysis skills with these easy-to-use digital or print lessons! The perfect way for students to truly understand literary el
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5th - 8th
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Public Speaking Unit Impromptu, How-To, Narrative, Informative, and More
Teaching a speech unit or public speaking course can be complex because so many aspects go into making a successful speech lesson. This file has a variety of tools to engage students as they grow as public speakers. It contains every public speaking activity in my store, plus many more speech activities. I also have a detailed (week by week) outline of how I run a public speaking class. NOTE: An eighteen-week (complete semester) outline for everything in this public speaking bundle is in the pre
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7th - 11th
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Analyze Bias Evaluate Websites Fact Check Wikipedia Research Skills Bundle
Print & digital versions! You'll have everything you need to teach the essentials of digital literacy and research skills with this bundled product. Sharpen students' critical thinking skills by engaging them in interesting, real-life learning tasks. Here's what teachers are saying about my Digital Literacy resources:"I think this may be the most thorough and well done resource I have ever purchased on here. THANK YOU. You're attention to detail and thoroughness have made my day so much si
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5th - 10th
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Out of the Dust - Novel Study Unit - Print & DIGITAL
This Out of the Dust Novel Study is sure to engage your students with meaningful, standards-aligned learning activities. Now includes a DIGITAL version! Get students thinking deeply, close reading, acquiring new vocabulary, and discussing meaningful ideas as they read Karen Hesse’s compelling novel. Section-by-Section Response Pages challenge students to dig into the text to explain and make inferences. Perfect for partner work or small groups! The pre-reading Web Search acquaints students with
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6th - 9th
Memoir Writing Personal Narrative Writing Workshop Mini Lessons Print Digital
Print and Digital Formats! No planning needed! These 20 easy-to-use mini lessons have everything you need to make teaching memoir writing a snap! In six weeks, your students will go from generating an idea to writing a thoughtful personal narrative. Because the lessons are already finished, you'll have time to work with them every step of the way! Here's teachers are saying about my mini lessons:"I love how this resource breaks down each step of the process for students to make it more manag
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6th - 9th
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Argumentative, Narrative, & Informative Writing DIGITAL VERSION Bundle
Narrative, Argumentative, and Informational Writing will be so much easier to teach with these DIGITAL step-by-step units that lead your students seamlessly through the process! All three writing units are so convenient for classroom or remote teaching. Grab this bundle at a nice discount and have all three standards-based writing units. You’ll love the scaffolded activities that make the tasks manageable and help students produce strong writing pieces! Original mentor texts that closely model
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5th - 8th
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Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Writing instruction has never been easier! This download now includes ALL of my writing resources: argument and persuasive, expository (including journalism), and narrative writing. In addition, I added helpful outlines, prompts, and rubrics. The skills practiced are standards-based, aligned with the Common Core State Standards.This is a MEGA BUNDLE of the following products:*ARGUMENT*Argument Writing Mega Bundle (Includes Unit, Editable Handouts, Rubrics, AND Presentation) (This is included in
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7th - 12th
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Paragraph Writing Frames **Bundle**
Paragraph Writing Frames are a wonderful resource to help support struggling writers! This bundle combines my summarizing paragraph writing frames AND the text structure writing frames. That is a whopping selection of over 35 different writing frames to support all learners. Save yourself 12% by purchasing the bundle, instead of buying both products separately! Everyone loves a savings! What are paragraph frames?Paragraph frames are a perfect support for students who have difficulty writing s
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2nd - 12th
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WRITING - Narrative, Persuasive, & Descriptive Writing Bundle -DIGITAL VERSION
WRITING PACK - DIGITAL VERSION - An easy-to-use set of activities, graphic organizers and templates to help students write persuasive, narrative, descriptive and expository paragraphs digitally using online templates!Includes 5 of my digital writing activities with detailed assignment sheets, marking rubrics, brainstorming worksheets and more! Includes 54 slides to help students learn different styles of writing! Easily adapted to different ages and abilities.Can be used with Google™ Drive, Goog
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7th - 9th
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Grammar - Digital Sentence Structure Unit Bundle - Understanding Commas!
This digital unit is ready for online distance learning and e-learning teaching. Looking for a comprehensive, no- plan/no-prep sentence structure unit that includes five fun grammar games, engaging station activities, and beautiful classroom posters? This complete unit bundle includes everything you need to teach sentence structure and comma placement to your students. This is a digital and printable resource. It can be used for distance or e-learning. Each unit will contain a Google File Link P
Mentor Sentences MEGA Bundle - Middle and High School - PAPERLESS
Are your students stuck writing the same boring sentences? Want them to improve their writing using technology? Try these digital mentor sentences! Using engaging examples of fantastic writing, these Mentor Sentences are the best way to teach grammar and improve student writing.Plus, with the bundle, you get a 15% discount over buying them individually!Click here for a digital preview of my Mentor Sentences: Digital Mentor Sentences SampleEngage your teens with writing activities that appeal to
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6th - 11th
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A Long Way From Chicago - Novel Study - Print & DIGITAL
A Long Way From Chicago Novel Study will engage your students with thought-provoking, standards-aligned learning activities. Now includes a digital version! Get students thinking deeply, close reading, writing, and acquiring new vocabulary. In chapter-by-chapter sequence, students examine setting, characters, events, significant quotations, and other important plot details and respond in a variety of attractively-designed formats. The DIGITAL version offers colorful slides that allow students to
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6th - 8th
Bell Ringers for Middle School ELA Bundle - Full Year of Daily Warm-Ups
Bell Ringers for Middle School ELA! Bundle for a Full Year supports Common Core! This set of ELA Daily Warm-Ups includes bell ringers on Sentence Editing, Figurative Language, Sentence Structure (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences), Expository Writing Prompts, Context Clues, and Conventions. Engaging bellringer slides with colorful photographs keep students learning all year long! Each set of bellringers has several slides which review the skills in grammar, punctuation, r
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6th - 8th
Of Mice and Men Unit - Digital & Print Activities and Quizzes Novel Study
Teach John Steinbeck's novella, "Of Mice and Men" with ease with this digital and traditional unit bundle. The flexibility of having both the paperless and traditional versions of the unit allow you more freedom to teach how you want to. There are two unit bundles in this bundle:Of Mice and Men Novel Study: Character Analysis, Quizzes, Vocabulary, ActivitiesSMARTePlans Of Mice and Men Digital Unit BundleThis BUNDLE includes these traditional paper/PDF units:Of Mice and Men Group Research Project
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8th - 11th
Informational Writing DIGITAL: 5 Informative Essays for Google Distance Learning
Writing informational essays will be exciting with this complete digital resource that breaks the process down into manageable steps! Easy to follow writing templates guide students in drafting their introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. Five original mentor texts are included for modeling, along with topic suggestions, pre-writing organizers, and rubrics. And with five different types of essays, you’ll have everything you need to teach informative writing with differentiation. Perfect
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Argumentative, Narrative, & Informative Writing DIGITAL VERSION Bundle
Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
From opinion writing to research -- this bundle contains eight digital writing notebook activities that will keep your students engaged in meaningful writing all year long!This big ol’ bundle includes these eight digital “notebooks”:⚬ The Writing Process: Idea Boards⚬ Personal Narrative: Write your Autobiography⚬ Write an Opinion: Book Report & Review⚬ Expository Writing Notebook⚬ Persuasive Writing: Create a Public Service Announcement⚬ Research Writing Journal⚬ Creative Writing: Write
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5th - 8th
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DIVERGENT Novel Study Unit Plan Activities DIGITAL Pre-reading Quizzes Projects
Your learners will enjoy the rigor and creativity of our engaging Divergent activities built from best teaching practices. We want to make your lesson planning journey easy, so you can focus on your expertise. This novel study includes a curriculum map pacing guide that offers our day-by-day suggestion for how to plan out your weeks of lessons. Our pedagogy section explains the instructive idea behind the activity, gives ideas for implementation, and aligns it to the standards. We've filmed some
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7th - 9th
MEDIA LITERACY ACTIVITIES - Advertising & Social Media DIGITAL Bundle
Are you looking for DIGITAL media literacy activities that will engage your students? This bundle includes 5 different resources and includes activities such as writing prompts, discussion topics, ad techniques, student social media use, and more! My students have always enjoyed working on a Media Unit and some of my best classroom discussions have related to media, social media, and advertising.Includes activities designed to stimulate discussion, encourage writing, and promote active engagemen
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6th - 9th
UNWIND Novel Study Unit Plan Activities DIGITAL Pre-reading Project Shusterman
Your learners will enjoy the rigor and creativity of our engaging Unwind activities built from best teaching practices. We want to make your lesson planning journey easy, so you can focus on your expertise. This novel study includes a curriculum map pacing guide that offers our day-by-day suggestion for how to plan out your weeks of lessons. Our pedagogy section explains the instructive idea behind the activity, gives ideas for implementation, and aligns it to the standards. We've filmed some tr
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7th - 9th
Novel Activities for any Text (Digital & Print)
This paperless and traditional novel study unit for any novel my traditional novel unit plan and my digital novel study unit that works with Google Drive! The resources in these files can be used with any novel.The digital SMARTePlans version includes:- ePlan teacher instructions (GoogleDrive and Microsoft OneDrive) - a link to 40 slides of usable paperless content for any novelThe traditional research writing teaching unit includes:- 99 pages of resources for before, during, and after reading-
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6th - 10th
Of Mice and Men Digital Teaching Unit Bundle - Distance Learning
Teach John Steinbeck's novella, "Of Mice and Men" digitally with this paperless novel study! This resource includes a digital novel introduction activity, digital character analysis notebook, digital Of Mice and Men notebook, and self-grading chapter quizzes for each chapter.
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SMARTePlans Of Mice and Men Novel Introduction for Google Drive
This 5 slide introduction activity allows students to work at their own pace and individually or collaboratively on a
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8th - 11th
QRI-5 (Qualitative Reading Inventory) Narrative Report
This is a narrative report that I compiled after I tested a 5th grader in a local school. Writing a QRI report is tedious and difficult. I included this report to give you an example of the format you can follow when writing a report such as this, as well as getting some ideas about things to focus on when testing students.Feel free to view and share!QRI-5 Narrative Report by E. Doher is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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PreK - 8th
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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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