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Parallel Structure Digital Boom Cards- Distance Learning
By Educate and Create
Digital Task Cards are a great way to help your students practice parallel structure! These cards can work on a computer or mobile device! No printing of cutting just assign the deck to your students and you are ready to go! Boom Learning is free to sign up for. Students get immediate feedback and teachers can take advantage of reporting tools. Easy and effective! Great for distance learning or in a digital classroom. A total of 20 task cards.
*****READ MORE ABOUT BOOM CARDS: Boom Cards are self-grading, DIGITAL resources. They live in the cloud. They can't be printed. They play on most modern browsers, Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. You open a Boom Learning℠ account to play them (to protect the children). Create Fast Play pins to assign your Boom Cards to students.
Boom Learning also has premium accounts. Premium accounts offer advanced assignment tools, individual and whole class performance tracking, and more. If you are a new Boom Learning customer, when you redeem your Boom Cards purchase you get 90-day free trial of a premium account. When your trial ends, you can renew or move to a free account. You may upgrade, downgrade or cancel at any time. Free accounts use purchased Boom Cards with Fast Play pins.
***Did you know??? You can use Boom Cards in Google Classroom™! Just CLICK HERE to find out how!
Pathos, Ethos, and Logos Digital Boom Cards- Distance Learning
By Educate and Create
Digital Task Cards are a great way to help your students practice Pathos, Ethos, and Logos! These cards can work on a computer or mobile device! No printing of cutting just assign the deck to your students and you are ready to go! Boom Learning is free to sign up for. Students get immediate feedback and teachers can take advantage of reporting tools. Easy and effective! Great for distance learning or in a digital classroom. A total of 20 task cards.
*****READ MORE ABOUT BOOM CARDS: Boom Cards are self-grading, DIGITAL resources. They live in the cloud. They can't be printed. They play on most modern browsers, Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. You open a Boom Learning℠ account to play them (to protect the children). Create Fast Play pins to assign your Boom Cards to students.
Boom Learning also has premium accounts. Premium accounts offer advanced assignment tools, individual and whole class performance tracking, and more. If you are a new Boom Learning customer, when you redeem your Boom Cards purchase you get 90-day free trial of a premium account. When your trial ends, you can renew or move to a free account. You may upgrade, downgrade or cancel at any time. Free accounts use purchased Boom Cards with Fast Play pins.
***Did you know??? You can use Boom Cards in Google Classroom™! Just CLICK HERE to find out how!
Writing Prompts | Story Starters - 100 Daily Creative Writing Prompts
By Teach Savvy Store
Enhance collaboration, writing and public speaking skills with Story Starters! This resource provides engaging story starters that encourage AVID or ELA students to finish a story and present it to their peers. This activity fosters collaboration and communication within small groups or whole class settings, while also providing a fun way to improve public speaking skills. Download the Google Slides digital resource today and see the positive impact it can have on your students' teamwork and confidence!
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Halloween / Fall Activity - Finish the Story Narrative Writing Prompts
By KJ Inspired Resources
Get students excited during the Autumn season with these creepy and crawly 15 no-prep Halloween-themed finish-the-scary story narrative writing prompts! These digital prompts provide easy writing activities, collaboration, public speaking practice, writing journals, and more!
Please be sure to review the prompts before purchasing as they are SCARY!
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Sample Slide:
My best friend Jake and I were walking home from a Halloween party. We were walking by an old abandoned factory that stood next to a field. The fact was said to be haunted. When we got to the middle of the field, Jake whispered, "wouldn't it be fun to explore the old factory?"...
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Fall Activity - Finish the Story Narrative Writing Prompts
By KJ Inspired Resources
Increase student engagement and writing skills during the Autumn season with these 15 no-prep and fall-themed finish-the-story editable narrative writing prompts! These digital prompts provide easy writing activities, collaboration, and public speaking practice, are great for daily writing or journaling, and more!
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What's included:
15 finish the story writing prompts!
1 directions slide
1 editable directions slide
1 editable finish the story template
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Sample Slide:
I was sitting on my bed with an old book that I stumbled upon in my grandpa's attic. It was just warm enough for the window to be open. As I began to read, a breeze of crisp air flew through and propelled the pages forward...
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Back to School Activity | Finish the Story Narrative Writing Prompts
By KJ Inspired Resources
Increase student engagement and writing skills during the first week of school with these 15 finish-the-story editable creative writing prompts! These no-prep digital prompts provide easy writing activities, collaboration, and public speaking practice, are great for daily writing or journaling, and more!
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What's included:
15 finish the story writing prompts!
1 directions slide
1 editable directions slide
1 editable finish the story template
Directions:
Sample Slide:
I woke up with the realization that my life was about to change forever. It was my first day at the new school and I had never been so nervous in all my life. After all, this wasn't any ordinary school...
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Writing Bill of Rights Printable Poster for Middle and High School Students
By Geography & Math Made Easy
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High Resolution: 300 DPI
Can be printed assmall or as large as you need.
This Writer's Bill of Rights was created by a group of teachers of 5th-grade highly-gifted students but can be used for middle school and high school students at all levels. A poster that can be used in language arts or other classrooms.
This is a jpg file. The file size is 2.4 megabytes at 300 dpi.
It can be enlarged to a poster size for the classroom.
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One purchase is good for one teacher. If additional teachers would like to use this, please purchase additional licenses.
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Spanish Preterit and Imperfect 6 Activities For Targeted Improvement in Writing
By Specialty Spanish
Spanish students make predictable writing mistakes, especially with the preterite and imperfect. Use this activity to differentiate practice for students. It can be used for distance learning or print it if students are in person. Help students prepare for an end-of-unit writing assessment and move to the next level of ACTFL proficiency!
Use this fully customizable Writing Workshop to target specific writing errors and differentiate for individual needs. The product contains activities to help students improve the following writing errors:
-not conjugating verbs
-not choosing the correct tense
-not choosing the correct ending
-not adding enough detail
-not adding enough sophistication to their sentences
There is also an example of a good writing piece followed by guided questions to help students understand the elements in the writing that make it good.
Which students can use this?
-students learning the preterite and the imperfect
How can this product be used?
-use in class or as a homework assignment
-use one or all of the activities
-have students work individually or collaboratively
-allow students to choose their activity or assign them one for the area in which you know they need to improve
-use these activities as a review before a writing assessment
What this product includes:
-focus on remembering to conjugate the verbs
-focus on using the correct ending for the person/things doing the action
-focus on choosing the right tense (preterite or imperfect)
-focus on adding detail
-focus on adding sophistication (with sequencing words, key words and transition
words)
-focus on understanding the elements of a good piece of writing
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Inferencing and Journalism Writing Activities
By Beth Hammett
Become a news reporter and write your own daily column with these 22 inferencing, journalism writing activities. Newspaper format and great graphics are easy for students to work with. Uses writing process and peer workshopping strategies. Comes with two blank templates for creative fun and one lined page for extra writing space. Includes optional media and technology projects for differentiated classrooms. Excellent for use with relationship words, time order, fact vs. opinion, and more...Meets CCSS.
Dialogue, Inferencing, and Point of View
By Beth Hammett
14 non-fiction and 1 fiction scenarios with speech and thought bubbles for students to make inferences, practice point of view, and practice writing dialogue. Non-Fiction Scenes Include: Skiers Musicians Basketball Player Hiking Art Babysitting Mechanics Friends Salesman Accident Garden Skateboarding Science Parking Lot and Aliens (fiction) Can be used individually or with whole groups for journal writing, writing text evidence based on visual clues, on-demand writing prompts, writing reader's theater/plays, practice grammar skills, spelling, vocabulary, and more.
By Beth Hammett
The 20 slide PowerPoint with peer workshopping activities introduces: Sentences: beginnings, dialogues Proper Nouns: people, I, my Specific Places and Dates: General vs. Specific, Days of Week/Month, Holidays Everyday Life: Organizations, Companies, Institutions, Specific Products, Aircrafts, Ships, Spaceships, Ethnic Names, Languages, Nationalizations, Religions Extra Resources Examples are given so students can follow authors' imitations. Easy explanations of color-coded rules and guidelines for using capital letters sentences and essays. Peer workshopping activities help reinforce capital letter rules.
By Beth Hammett
An easy-to-follow guide to using and writing effective titles: what to capitalize, what to italicize, plus includes examples of effective titles, and discussion slides of famous novels and their alternate titles: 1984 Gone With the Wind The Great Gatsby Treasure Island Vanity Fair Also, includes an activity slide for writing titles with articles, pictures, and essays. There are 12 slides.
By Beth Hammett
Do your students have trouble determining when to use "I" or "Me"? This easy-to-follow PowerPoint includes: Simplified Rules for Using"I" and "Me" Easy to follow Examples Peer Workshopping Activity This to-the-point presentation is for individual, small, or whole group introduction and review.. Make learning to use "I' or "Me" easy!
Write a Halloween Story with Word Bank/Coloring Images (Gr. 3 and up)
By Beth Hammett
16 Halloween coloring images with holiday word banks that include: Cats Bats Dracula Frankenstein Ghosts Pirate Pumpkins Trick or Treat Witches Zombies and more... Includes Suggestions For Use sheet and template to create your own vocabulary word bank. Upper levels can use for poetry and contest writing. Fun way to assess writing skills in an ELA classroom. Grab a blanket and flashlight, turn on the lighted pumpkin, and have a classroom read-around of Halloween stories!
Winter Holiday Writing Prompts
By Beth Hammett
Journal writing prompts that reflect winter activities(no religious holidays/symbols). 24 Great story starters for journal writes, essay writings, or on-demand practices. Wonderful, engaging visuals with easy-to-understand sentences.
Valentine's Day Figurative Language Fun
By Beth Hammett
13 colorful Valentine's Day themed slides that introduce and help students to use and master figurative language. Includes: Directions with optional activities Alliteration Hyperbole Idioms Imagery Internal Rhyme Metaphor Onomatopoeia Personification Simile Symbolism Valentine's Day Images Writing Activities Each slide includes definition, example(s), and writing practice. Presentation can be used for assessment, flipped classrooms, and all differentiated levels of students. Can also be used for individual reviews of specific terminologies.
By Beth Hammett
Students produce personal narratives from memories with this 21 page guide that used the writing process. Includes: Attributes/Characteristics of Narrative Essay Overview of Writing Process Creating life maps (with student examples) Narrowing topics--prewriting stage with examples Narrative writing examples Online Reading: Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge Peer workshopping with guided questions: Revision and Editing Final Essay Stage Publishing/Sharing Scoring Rubric Extra Resources The 21 page guide is self-explanatory. It includes interactive writing activities along with using the writing process and peer workshopping strategies to teach narrative writing. Weblink to the online narrative book Gordon Wilfred McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox (by Screen Actors Guild) is excellent! Engaging and fun lesson that meets CCSS.
Figurative Language and Writing Activities
By Beth Hammett
Help student writers conquer figurative language terminologies and usages. Includes: Definitions Color Coded Examples Visuals Writing activities Peer Workshopping activities Figurative Language Strategies: Poetry terminologies: Similes, Metaphors, Adjectives, Adverbs, Onomatopoeia Five Senses: Hear, See, Smell, Taste, Touch Appositive phrases Stretching sentences with -ing words. Large download at 17 slides...can be used in pieces. Mind Mapping Handout Figurative Language Checklist handout Use with individual students, small groups, or whole class.Use for introduction, mastery, or assessment. Meets CCSS guidelines.
Fall Thanksgiving Writing Prompts
By Beth Hammett
FREE!!! 21 journal prompts and/or discussion starters with Thanksgiving themed prompts and visuals for ELA and history/social studies. .
Author's Style Writing Activities (Upper Levels)
By Beth Hammett
All writers have it, but do you know what style is and how to recognize it? This 18 page presentation for upper level learners will help students understand and analyze their own writing styles, as well as other authors' styles. Easy to follow format will have students analyzing style in no time! Includes: Checklist for Authors Handout Definitions for Author's Style . Examples of Famous Novels and Poems to Analyze Quotes Extra Style Analysis Activities Author's Style Workshopping Handout Terminologies and definitions include: Audience—listeners, readers, viewers of work Author’s voice—sets writing apart from others; uniqueness of writing Genre—category/organization pattern of writing Purpose—intent of writing Mood—reader’s emotion to the writing Tone—author’s attitude about subject matter Sentence fluency—cadence, flow, transitions used Sentence variety—lengths/mixture of sentences Word choices—descriptions, figurative language, repetitions, synonyms… Excellent for introducing style, writing concepts, standardized testing reviews, class assessments, college readiness, CCSS, literacy centers, and grammar/editing revisions, Students will be able to identify their authors' styles after working through this presentation.