10th Grade Printables (by date, oldest first)

The ultimate STAAR test writing prep for high school, designed to supercharge your writing skills and propel you towards success!

This file includes everything you need to excel in your STAAR test, from fiction passages to non-fiction passages, paired passages, and multiple writing prompts.

This exercise will enhance your student's ability to synthesize information and develop well-rounded arguments. To help you tackle the writing prompts with confidence, differentiated student rubrics are included that outline clear expectations and criteria for success. These rubrics will guide your students in crafting well-structured, coherent, and persuasive essays.

What's Included:

• Fiction Passages
• Non-fiction passages
• Paired passage
• Multiple writing prompts
• Differentiated Student Rubrics
• Writing Checklist
• Student Resources
• PDF & Word Files

Elevate your students' understanding of text structure with this dynamic and interactive activity! The "Newspaper Text Structure Activity" is designed to immerse students in a fun game while mastering essential ELA skills. This engaging resource provides a hands-on approach to learning text structures through the lens of a newspaper editorial team.

In this comprehensive PowerPoint presentation, students embark on a journey through various text structures.

Key Features:

• Interactive Format: Students actively engage with the content as they manipulate text elements within the newspaper-themed slides, fostering a deeper understanding of text structure concepts. They'll love the hands on approach to learning.
• Editable Slides: Customize the content to suit your classroom's unique needs and curriculum objectives. Add or modify text to align with specific texts or teaching points.
• Visual Appeal: Capture students' interest from start to finish.
• Comprehensive Coverage: Covering a range of text structures, this resource provides a holistic approach to text structure instruction, ensuring students are well-equipped to analyze and compose a variety of texts.

Whether used as an introductory lesson, reinforcement activity, or assessment tool, this "Newspaper Text Structure Activity" is sure to spark enthusiasm and deepen comprehension in your ELA classroom. Prepare your students for success in reading and writing by integrating this innovative resource into your curriculum today!

Boost your students' grammar and writing skills with this comprehensive set of editable paragraphs! Specifically designed for grades 6-12, this resource targets essential grammar topics, including capitalization, apostrophes, commas, semicolons, colons, subject-verb agreement, and commonly confused words. Each paragraph provides a focused practice for isolated skills, helping students identify and correct mistakes while improving their understanding of sentence structure. Perfect for bell ringers, homework, or test prep, these editable paragraphs are a must-have for any English classroom looking to reinforce key writing conventions. Easy to use and aligned with common core standards, this resource supports differentiated learning with varied difficulty levels for emerging and advanced students alike.

Show your students exactly how it should be done with this handy guide. Clear instructions, examples, and a page for their own notes!

This free resource goes perfect with the All Things English for Middle and High School Students book!

And check out these other resources!

• Defending Disney Villains
• Revising & Editing Workbook
• Revising & Editing for Group Lessons
• Bell Ringers for the Semester
• Everything Writing

The S.T.E.A.L. anchor chart is a great visualization for students when making inferences in fiction. Print in color or black and white!

Explore the captivating world of amphibians and reptiles with this comprehensive combo bundle!  This bundle includes detailed reading passages, lesson plans, scope and sequences, assessments, activities, writing prompts, and PowerPoint presentations on amphibians and reptiles.  Delve into these fascinating creatures’ unique characteristics, habitats, survival strategies, and reproductive processes.  This all-in-one bundle is designed to provide a complete and engaging science curriculum, equipping students with a deep understanding of these two important animal groups.

Dive into the excitement of the 2024 Summer Games with this comprehensive, free educational resource!  Perfect for upper middle school to high school students, this package includes a detailed reading passage on the upcoming Paris Games, a set of questions and answers to test comprehension, and note-taking sheets to help students organize their thoughts.  This resource is an excellent way to engage students in the rich history and cultural significance of the Olympics while enhancing their reading and critical thinking skills.

This detailed resource package includes a thorough reading passage on 9/11, exploring the causes, events, and consequences of this pivotal moment in history. It comes with 20 critical questions, an answer key, and note-taking sheets for students making this resource perfect for engaging your upper middle and high school students.

Comprehensive 9/11 two-week, detailed lesson plan, with a detailed two-week scope and sequence, PowerPoint presentation.

Dive deep into the world of reptiles with this comprehensive full-unit study designed for upper-middle to high school students.  This extensive resource includes a detailed reading passage, challenging questions, a 6-part assessment tool, a two-week lesson plan, detailed scope and sequence, writing prompts, a PowerPoint presentation, and engaging activities related to reptiles.  This unit study covers everything from the basics of reptile biology to their ecological roles and conservation efforts, making it a perfect addition to your science curriculum.  It also includes a PowerPoint presentation to enhance classroom learning.

This is an EDITABLE 3" x 3" Post-It Note Templates that are re-usable.

In this download, I have included step-by-step directions on how to print on Post-It notes on the template. A template for the 3" x 3" square-sized sticky notes is included and is EDITABLE for you to use while creating your own printable post-it note designs.

These post-it note templates can be used for motivational inspiration for your class/children, or any way that you feel your class/children would need support and guidance.

Thank you so much for your continued support!

Tina Arozena

Big Easy Homeschooling Mom

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This word sleuth will provide your students/children with a fun journey through Geometry with key vocabulary words. It can be done in class, centers, or as a fun homework assignment.

Word sleuth is in PPTX format along with the answer key.

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Tina

Big Easy Homeschooling Mom

Ignite your students’ creativity this Halloween season with 20 engaging writing prompts and 20 note-taking sheets.  Perfect for middle and high school students, these prompts cover a wide range of Halloween topics, from spooky storytelling to exploring the history and symbolism behind the holiday. The accompanying note-taking sheets are designed to help students organize their thoughts, enhancing their critical thinking and writing skills.  Whether for creative writing assignments, classroom discussions, or independent projects, this resource is ideal for incorporating Halloween into your lessons in a fun and meaningful way.

This word sleuth will provide your students/children with a fun journey of Christmas Around The World with key vocabulary words. It can be done in class, centers, or as a fun homework assignment.

Word sleuth is in PPTX format along with the answer key.

If you and your students/children, enjoy this activity, please go to your purchases and let me a review.

Tina

Big Easy Homeschooling Mom

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Unlock a comprehensive understanding of the U.S. presidential election process with this all-inclusive educational bundle.  Designed for upper middle to high school students, this bundle includes a detailed reading passage and Q&A, a structured lesson plan, an engaging PowerPoint presentation, a 6-part assessment tool, a collection of writing prompts, and interactive student activities. Covering the political spectrum of the Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian parties, the significance of voting, the workings of the Electoral College, the role of political polls, and the importance of research and analysis, this resource provides everything you need to teach and engage students in a thorough exploration of the election process.

Maximize your biology teaching resources with my plant and fungi life cycle reading passages.  Designed for middle and high school students, this comprehensive FREEBIE includes detailed reading passages, comprehension questions, and organized note-taking pages.

Dive into the complexities of the U.S. presidential election process with this comprehensive reading passage and Q&A set.  Ideal for upper middle to high school students, this educational resource covers the political spectrum of the Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian parties, the significance of voting, the workings of the Electoral College, the importance of political polls, and the role of research and analysis in making informed decisions.  Perfect for classroom use, this resource helps students understand key concepts and develop critical thinking skills through detailed questions and answers.

If you enjoyed this resource, please check out my full unit study:

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Comprehensive-US-Presidential-Election-Unit-Study-11921121

Graphic organizers can be helpful as a visual aid when students are writing.

• Helps students focus on their thoughts for planning, decision-making, and writing an essay

• Helps students see the connections, patterns, and relationships between facts, concepts, and ideas 

• Organizers provide a visual depiction for writers by showing them where each piece of the essay is placed within an essay

Narrative plot graphic organizer:

• Starts with the introduction or exposition
• Followed by the rising action of the story
• Rising action hits a climax
• After the climax is the falling action
• From the falling action, we come to the conclusion

I hope your students/children enjoy this concept map by understanding the importance of why a graphic organizer is needed, as well as understanding the variables of a concept map.

The Narrative Plot Graphic Organizer is in Google Slides, Powerpoint, and PDF formats.

Happy Writing!

Tina Arozena

Big Easy Homeschooling Mom

This word sleuth will provide your students/children with a fun journey through Greek Mythology with key vocabulary words. It can be done in class, centers, or as a fun homework assignment.

Word sleuth is in PPTX format along with the answer key.

If you and your students/children, enjoy this activity, please go to your purchases and let me a review.

Tina

Big Easy Homeschooling Mom

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This word sleuth will provide your students/children with a fun journey in the world of Science with key vocabulary words. It can be done in class, centers, or as a fun homework assignment.

Word sleuth is in PPTX format along with the answer key.

If you and your students/children, enjoy this activity, please go to your purchases and let me a review.

Tina

Big Easy Homeschooling Mom

Please follow me on social media: linktr.ee/tidewindacademy