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Context Clues Worksheets Determining Meaning of Unknown Words
By Blooming Through High School
THIS IS A PDF FILE
Why teach word meaning through nonsense words?
All of these are things we want every student to do! This is something that is already adapted for high and low learners.
Starting with three nonsense words gets students going so they can work in groups or independently to decode the meaning of 7 REAL words (selected from the SAT vocabulary list).
This is a perfect activity for group problem solving and critical thinking!
ELA Book for Student Reference/Writing/Literature/Grammar/Organizers
By Blooming Through High School
Perfect for learners who have IEP's requiring class notes, correctly completed examples, and graphic organizers.
Bundle and save with the All Things English Revising & Editing Workbook
I was tired of writing things on the board over and over again. I was tired of printing out pages that students threw away. I was also tired of answering questions that students could find for themselves. So I made a book to make sure I wouldn't have to anymore.
Over the course of 2 months, I thought of everything that I would have to teach, explain, write examples of, and print, and I put all my tips and tricks into ONE BOOK. I printed this out and spiral bound all the pages for each of my students. Every time my students ask me to repeat something, I point them to the book.
I also use this in my class for reference during specific lessons as well. It's a game changer! I save time and I save my sanity.
It's the MOST helpful for all the little pieces students need to know for all the stages of writing: brainstorming, pre-writing, paragraphs, citations, plagiarism, and much, much more.
WANT TO REVISE THIS TO MAKE IT YOUR OWN? I've added the Word document for teachers to modify to fit their teaching style!
Sections:
Key Features: ELA, English Language Arts, Writing Guide, Revising & Editing, Class Notes, Completed Examples, Graphic Organizers, IEP Accommodations, Teacher-Editable Word Document.
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Revising Editing ELA Fun Group Work for Writing Practice
By Blooming Through High School
Students practice their editing skills and have some fun along the way! They will all connect with how one comma changes the meaning of a sentence in the funniest way.
19 tweets, signs, and one magazine cover are included in this fun-filled student activity that will have your kids thinking about how they write online.
Editing skills they practice through the activity include:
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Interactive Reading Project for Middle and High School Digital Resources
By Blooming Through High School
Wondering what to do with students after testing?
Need to keep them reading and writing?
Want them to have fun while they're doing it?
I took a page from the Choose Your Own Adventure books and made the best selling books digital. Now students can read a story of their choice and write their own alternate story endings with this digital resource. Perfect after testing activity, reading projects, summer reading projects, and more.
Everything you need is included for your students to have fun thinking, creating, writing and playing through this activity!
Students will love being able to write new story lines based on the character’s choices!
SMART Charting Student Progress Test Data Tracking with Excel&Word
By Blooming Through High School
Are you ready to track student data the easy way? You can use this awesome spreadsheet to communicate with parents & students as well as being on top of where students stand on their scores!!
It's so easy and it populates (nearly) everything. It's all linked in the spreadsheet and tied to the Word documents so all you have to do is insert student names and test scores! It's SMART.
If you're not so sure about how this works, check out the preview video. I have also included how-to videos for easy implementation. It's all editable and adaptable!
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Learning English for Spanish Speakers Book 3 - Intermediate/Advanced
By Blooming Through High School
***Get all three books in the bundle!***A workbook for intermediate and advanced Spanish speaking English Language Learners to extend their knowledge of the English language and practice. 95 pages for your students to use as in-class practice, homework or as independent activities.
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All Things English Revising & Editing Student Workbook
By Blooming Through High School
A workbook for students that moves them through the 6 stages of Bloom's with Revising and Editing Questions! Each question is thoughtfully crafted for the teacher to ascertain the student's understanding of each topic. With 38 pages and an answer key included to help your students truly understand the rules of English and how to use each one.
This workbook aligns with the All Things English For Middle & High School Students. Bundle and save with the Book and Workbook.
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Daily Paragraph Revising & Editing Practice for ELA - Warmups or Homework
By Blooming Through High School
Are you searching for an engaging and effective way to help high school or middle school students master essential writing skills? A workbook or individual pages designed to elevate students' proficiency in editing and revising written passages with PowerPoint! Everything you need is here.
**What's Included:**
**50 Engaging Passages:** With a diverse range of topics and themes, these passages are carefully crafted to captivate students' interest while providing ample opportunities for skill development.
**125 Questions:** Each passage has 2-3 questions on mixed revising and editing skills, totaling 125 in all. These questions target crucial editing and revising skills, ensuring thorough practice and understanding.
**Flexible Formats:** Whether you prefer a comprehensive workbook or individual pages for easy distribution, this has got you covered. Choose the format that best suits your classroom needs.
**PowerPoint Guide:** Reinforce learning and encourage collaborative discussion with accompanying PowerPoint guide. Perfect for group review sessions, these presentations offer dynamic visuals and interactive activities to deepen students' understanding.
**Key Skills Covered:** (multiple choice format)
✨ **Combining Sentences**
✨ **Adding Sentences**
✨ **Deleting Sentences**
✨ **Revising Sentences**
✨ **Capitalization**
✨ **Commas**
✨ **Colons**
✨ **Semicolons**
✨ **Fragments**
✨ **Run-Ons**
✨ **Apostrophes**
✨ **Subject-Verb Agreement**
✨ **Parallel Structure**
✨ **Commonly Confused Words**
✨ **Spelling**
AND MORE!
**Versatile Usage:**
Whether utilized as engaging class warm-ups or assigned as meaningful homework exercises, this Daily Paragraph Editing and Revising Practice is adaptable to various instructional settings. It's the perfect tool to reinforce classroom learning, boost writing skills!
Sentence Auction|Editing|ELAR|Grammar|FUN LEARNING!
By Blooming Through High School
This Sentence Auction Game is the perfect classroom activity to engage students while reinforcing essential grammar skills. In this interactive grammar game, students use fake money to bid on sentences. Some sentences are perfectly correct, while others contain common errors like missing commas, misplaced apostrophes, spelling mistakes, comma splices, subject-verb agreement errors, capitalization errors, and commonly confused words.
Students must identify and correct the mistakes to maximize the value of their sentences. The game ends with a winner declared based on the total value of the sentences they’ve collected.
This sentence editing game is an excellent tool for grammar practice, sentence correction, and peer learning. Ideal for middle school and high school classrooms, it’s a fun way to improve your students' writing and editing skills!
Word Meaning w/Greek & Latin Words - Worksheet/Quiz/Task Cards - English
By Blooming Through High School
✔️Need to teach Greek & Latin along with Context Clues?
✔️Looking for way to get your students thinking critically & making connections?
✔️Need to integrate vocabulary in a meaningful way?
This activity includes worksheets, task cards and Google Quizzes for vocab practice
Students will use key words from the definitions in the first activity to determine the meaning of the Greek or Latin prefix. By recognizing the prefixes in words they recognize (and some they won't) students will begin making connections to other words they hear and read. This is a natural way to build in vocabulary to daily instruction that includes context clues and the Greek and Latin.
Included:
Short Constructed Response Writing for STAAR - Test Prep for ELAR High SCR
By Blooming Through High School
Elevate your students' short response writing skills and prepare them for success on the STAAR test with this comprehensive Short Constructed Response (SCR) lesson designed for middle and high school classrooms. This engaging PowerPoint lesson offers educators a valuable tool to assess and guide student learning effectively.
Key Features:
Why Choose This Lesson:
Rigorous and standards-aligned content designed to meet the needs of middle and high school students.
Engaging and interactive activities that promote student engagement and academic growth.
Easy-to-use resources and materials for seamless lesson implementation and classroom management.
Comprehensive preparation for the STAAR test, ensuring that students feel confident and capable on exam day.
Empower your students to excel in short response writing and conquer the challenges of the STAAR test with this dynamic and comprehensive lesson. Elevate your teaching and ignite a passion for learning with these innovative instructional materials. Download this lesson today and watch your students thrive!
SMART Lesson Planning template for MS & HS 24-25 School Year
By Blooming Through High School
Smart Lesson Planning Template - Streamline Your Teaching Year with Ease!
Are you a teacher looking to simplify your lesson planning process? The Smart Lesson Planning template is designed to make your planning more efficient and effective. Here’s how it can help you:
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Simplify your teaching and enhance your lesson planning efficiency with the Smart Lesson Planning template. Purchase now and transform your planning process!
Extended Constructed Response Writing for STAAR - Test Prep for ELAR ECR
By Blooming Through High School
Elevate your students' short response writing skills and prepare them for success on the STAAR test with this comprehensive Extended Constructed Response (ECR) lesson designed for middle and high school classrooms. This engaging PowerPoint lesson offers educators a valuable tool to assess and guide student learning effectively.
Key Features:
Why Choose This Lesson:
Rigorous and standards-aligned content designed to meet the needs of middle and high school students.
Engaging and interactive activities that promote student engagement and academic growth.
Easy-to-use resources and materials for seamless lesson implementation and classroom management.
Comprehensive preparation for the STAAR test, ensuring that students feel confident and capable on exam day.
Empower your students to excel in short response writing and conquer the challenges of the STAAR test with this dynamic and comprehensive lesson. Elevate your teaching and ignite a passion for learning with these innovative instructional materials. Download this lesson today and watch your students thrive!
What's Included:
Revising & Editing For Group Lessons
By Blooming Through High School
The ultimate English Skills Workbook and Slides Bundle – a comprehensive solution to engage and educate middle and high school students! Whether utilized as homework assignments or dynamic warm-up activities at the start of class, this bundle is designed to maximize group lessons and boost academic performance.
The workbook and slides are perfectly aligned, ensuring a seamless learning experience that captivates students' attention. These incredible resources have been meticulously crafted to complement the All Things English For Middle and High School book.
With this comprehensive bundle, teachers possess the key to effectively teach and reinforce essential English skills.
The workbook comprises an extensive collection of 200 thought-provoking questions, encompassing 11 comprehensive sections expertly aligned with state standards for grades 6-12.
Immerse students in a transformative learning experience as they tackle critical topics such as: appositives, apostrophes, capitalization, commonly confused words, clauses, colons, combining sentences, commas, quotation marks & commas, semicolons, and pronoun-antecedent agreement. This all-encompassing workbook ensures thorough coverage of the skills required for academic excellence.
Empower students to excel in English language arts with workbook and slides bundle.
200 questions across 11 sections all aligning with state standards for grades 6-12.
1.Appositives
2.Apostrophes
3.Capitalization
4.Commonly Confused Words
5.Clauses
6.Colons
7.Combining Sentences
8.Commas
9.Quotation Marks & Commas
10.Semicolons
11.Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
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The Smart Seating Chart - Never Write a Seating Chart Again!
By Blooming Through High School
How Does It Work?
It’s Magic!
Actually it’s all Made Using Excel Formulas and Cell References.
I HATE writing seating charts and I made these so I wouldn’t have to anymore.
But I didn’t stop there... I wanted a way to organize students more efficiently for checking work and giving feedback, as well as having a way to modify my seating chart based on my instructional needs, so I made all kinds of seating charts and used my knowledge of Excel to make this SMART. (How to instructions and videos are included!!)
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Reading Passages With Extended Constructed Response Prompt & Resources Digital
By Blooming Through High School
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:
Learning English for Spanish Speakers Book 2 - Beginner/Intermediate
By Blooming Through High School
Newcomer English Workbook for Spanish-Speaking Students: Your Essential Guide to Learning English
Welcome, newcomers! This comprehensive workbook is designed especially for Spanish-speaking students who are embarking on their journey to master English. Packed with vibrant visuals, essential vocabulary, and engaging activities, this resource is your go-to companion for building a strong foundation in English proficiency.
What's Included:
Whether you're a student embarking on your language journey or an educator guiding newcomers, this workbook is an invaluable resource for accelerating English proficiency and fostering confidence in communication.
Start your English learning adventure today!
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ELL/EB Newcomer Workbook 1 & 2
Once Upon a Crime - ELA Debate Argument Unit
By Blooming Through High School
My students had so much fun doing this, they didn't want it to end! Four Disney villains are being brought to court with charges and your students will either prosecute or defend them in "court":
Ursula - The Little Mermaid: Fraud & Exploitation
Scar - The Lion King: Manslaughter & Environmental Crimes
Gaston - Beauty & The Beast: Attempted Murder & Inciting a Riot
Lady Tremaine - Cinderella: Emotional Abuse/Neglect & Exploitation
Assign your students to be prosecutors and defenders with their own custom files. Each team has their own responsibilities and will need to craft their argument well to win the judge & jury.
-Reinforce learning of claim, support, point of view and more!
- Students need to support their claims with facts from the movie. Perfect for an argumentative unit!
*Lesson has been adapted with extensive sentence stems and examples. Teacher made examples are also included. This is a scaled activity that all students can do without too much teacher intervention.
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The Tell Tale Heart | PPT Guide | 8 Activities | Fiction Skills
By Blooming Through High School
DEEP DIVE into literature with Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart"
Perfect for Horror/Gothic Literature units in English
8 activities focusing on skills for fiction with this masterful text. Students will have the opportunity to practice comprehension, questioning the text, engage in class discussions, and respond.
What's Included:
**All documents are in Word with a PDF - Also translated for Spanish speaking students - Answer Keys included (including sample responses for the constructed response)**
Depth not Breadth
The benefits of 'depth not breadth' are seen in many scholarly journals. When teachers & students spend more time with a text, they have more opportunities to interact and respond to literature.
Commas: No Prep Test Prep - Grammar/Revising & Editing for English/ELA
By Blooming Through High School
I spent two weeks teaching my students revising skills explicitly before it hit me... all the answer choices had SOMETHING to do with knowing how to use a comma!
It's an area where students feel the least confident and it can be fixed. Before your students go into a test or a state exam, make sure they know how to use a comma.
INCLUDED: 13 self-grading Google Form Quizzes, Word Doc, PDF!
BUNDLE and SAVE: ELA Test Prep, Study Guide & Activities Bundle
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