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Logical Fallacies & Rhetorical Devices - Lesson & Activities - HS - ELA
By Blooming Through High School
Get ready for argumentative units with this engaging activity centered around persuasive techniques in rhetorical devices, and logical fallacies.
Teacher students what makes a good and bad argument with a short lesson and 5 practice paragraphs to evaluate for effectiveness. Afterwards, students can practice rhetorical devices in advertisements and analyze why the device was chosen (author's purpose).
ALSO INCLUDED IS AN EXTENSION ACTIVITY where students can get creative and make their own ads.
- Teacher directions
- Grading Rubric
- Student instructions
- Research and Brainstorm document
(no templates for creation are included)
PROVIDED IN WORD/POWERPOINT & PDF
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 Stems/Frames for ELA Writing - English & Spanish
By Blooming Through High School
Sentence stems and frames are invaluable tools for English Language Learners (ELLs), providing the support they need to structure their thoughts and express ideas more confidently. T_his resource is designed with ELLs in mind_, offering content in both Spanish and English to enhance comprehension and language development. It's differentiated to meet the needs of learners at different proficiency levels—beginner, intermediate, and advanced—helping them express themselves effectively.
Included are 35 editable pages, organized into 23 specific ELAR areas:
Test Prep: Bullseye Strategy/Practice/ELA/ Critical Thinking
By Blooming Through High School
What is it?
Micro texts are made with the intention of getting to the skill or the practice students need FASTER. Each text is less than 400 words. All of the 16 questions is aligned to finding the "bullseye" and helping students think critically about the answer choices and how they can apply critical thinking to get the right answer every time. It also encourages students to read each question and not choose an answer that "feels right".
What's included?
Google Slides (56 slides)
PowerPoint (56 slides)
PDF (26 pages)
Editable Word file
Four total passage
Two micro argumentative texts
Two micro informational passages
16 questions
Teaching Slides
Bullseye for students to practice the strategy
A simple answer key is included as well as a detailed rationale page.
Who's it for?
- Middle and high school
- Teachers who want to teach test strategies before exams
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Research | Project Based Learning | Any Subject | High School
By Blooming Through High School
Integrated research and project based learning for Middle and High School
Your students will love forming a question and seeing where it takes them. This is SUPER FUN LEARNING that will keep engagement high for the middle or end of the semester.
You will love that that everything is set up for you to monitor students while they research and create.
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!
Revising & Combining Sentences for HS/MS English - Test Prep, worksheets, group
By Blooming Through High School
Unlock the power of sentence revision and combination with this comprehensive resource tailored for both high school and middle school English students. Designed to enhance critical thinking skills while honing essential writing abilities, this teaching tool offers a dynamic blend of test preparation materials, engaging worksheets, and collaborative group activities.
What's Inside:
Benefits:
Whether you're gearing up for standardized testing or seeking to bolster writing skills in the classroom, this resource offers a comprehensive toolkit for educators and students alike. Get ready to elevate your English curriculum with engaging activities that inspire growth, mastery, and creativity.
Interactive Learning:Compound/Complex Sentences Lesson & Templates ELA Test Prep
By Blooming Through High School
DO IT WITH SENTENCE BURGERS!
By taking something they already understand and combining it with a manipulative made for ELA, you've got Sentence Burgers.
I've included many variations on this for:
Through fun templates, opportunities for increased complex thinking as well as ways for teachers to measure learning through leveled/scaffolded practice and assessments.
Make Sentence Burgers the BEST and LAST way you teach compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences through FUN LEARNING
included:
- PDF (53 pages includes 20+ pages of templates + student reference pages)
-PowerPoint Lesson (11 slides)
-Google Quizzes (4 links)
- Practice Pages (4 areas in PDF)
- Quizzes (4 areas - replicated on Google Quizzes)
- Pics of completed templates (in folder)
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!
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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Ultimate Inferencing for Middle & High School - Lesson & Activities
By Blooming Through High School
Unlock the power of inferencing with this comprehensive resource pack tailored for middle and high school students. Dive into the world of critical thinking and analysis with 19 unique files, carefully curated to enhance inferencing skills across various mediums.
Delve into captivating texts with a selection of short stories and poems, including "The Chaser," "Rose from the Concrete," "Rolling in the Deep," and "Cry me a River." Each file comes with detailed summaries and thought-provoking questions to stimulate deep comprehension and inferencing abilities.
Equip your students with the tools they need to excel in inferencing with supplementary materials, such as checking account statements for real-world application and a list of words describing tone to aid in textual analysis.
Explore the intricacies of inferencing through engaging activities, including an Inferencing Lesson with 26 slides designed for both group instruction and individual practice. With meticulously crafted lessons, students will develop a keen eye for detail and learn to draw insightful conclusions from diverse sources.
Unleash the power of music, poetry, literature, and more as students analyze and infer meaning through a variety of mediums. Whether used for group lessons, individual practice, or assessments, this resource pack provides all the materials you need for rapid inferencing success.
Plus, with answer keys included for all activities, you can streamline your grading process and focus on what matters most: empowering your students to become master inferencers. Elevate your teaching and transform your classroom into a hub of critical thinking and discovery with this inferencing activity!
Test Prep Class Games with Revising and Editing for ELAR
By Blooming Through High School
Make test prep fun with 3 interactive PowerPoint games covering revising and editing skills.
This has a little bit of everything for a light review before a big test.
- 26 pages
- 60 Slides
- 3 games
Covering:
√Commas
√ Passive Voice
√ Commonly Confused Words
√ Transitions
√ Apostrophes
√ Semicolons/Colons
√ Capitalization
√ Revising Sentences
√ Combining Sentences
√ Subject Verb Agreement
√ Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
√ Complete Sentences
Parts of Speech Middle/High School ELAR | Lesson | Quiz | Activities | Games
By Blooming Through High School
Learning the Parts of Speech for High School and Middle School - while this might one of those building blocks for lower levels, students still need a refresher.
Why is this important?
What's Included:
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.
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!
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:
Organize Text Structures PPT, English Language Arts, Editable, Powerpoint
By Blooming Through High School
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:
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!
Teach Tone Through Greeting Cards | PPT Lesson | Notes | Activity
By Blooming Through High School
Need to teach tone? Do it in a way your students will immediately understand through greeting cards! This is such a great way to also introduce non-fiction elements such as audience, message, and purpose.
The cards are simple to understand but require a little inferencing too. Using greeting cards means it's a lesson where students can learn and practice quickly.
The lesson has increased complexity, gradual release through group and independent work, and is adapted with a word bank.
What's Included:
ECR & SCR Bundle: Constructed Response Group Practice for STAAR Testing
By Blooming Through High School
Elevate your students' short response writing skills and prepare them for success on the STAAR test with these comprehensive Extended Constructed Response (ECR) and Short Constructed Response (SCR) lessons designed for middle and high school classrooms. The engaging PowerPoint lessons offer 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:
Learn & Write in English - ELL/EB Bundle (Frames, stems, workbooks)
By Blooming Through High School
Give your new to the country students the best start with this bundle!
A comprehensive bundle of resources designed specifically for Spanish-speaking students learning English! Whether your students are newcomers beginning their English language journey or intermediate/advanced learners looking to extend their knowledge, this has you covered with three essential workbooks packed with engaging activities and expertly crafted content.
Book 1: "Beginning English Workbook for Newly Immigrated Spanish-Speaking Students" Perfect for students who are just starting their English learning journey, this workbook provides essential support with:
Book 2: "Newcomer English Workbook for Spanish-Speaking Students" Ideal for newcomers seeking to build a strong foundation in English, this workbook offers:
Sentence stems and frames are invaluable tools for English Language Learners (ELLs), providing the support they need to structure their thoughts and express ideas more confidently. T_his resource is designed with ELLs in mind_, offering content in both Spanish and English to enhance comprehension and language development. It's differentiated to meet the needs of learners at different proficiency levels—beginner, intermediate, and advanced—helping them express themselves effectively.
Included are 35 editable pages, organized into 23 specific ELAR areas: