$5 - $10 8th Grade Grammar Resources (by date, oldest first)

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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• ELA Test Prep, Study Guide & Activities Bundle (new)
• All Things English For Middle & High School Students (best seller)
• Once Upon A Crime
• Bell Ringers for the Semester
• Everything Writing

• Need to work in revising and editing skills daily?
• Need pre-made warmups or homework?
• Available as a workbook or individual pages (PDF) PLUS an accompanying PowerPoint Guide

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!

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:

• Commas
• Apostrophes
• Capitalization
• Appositives
• Run on sentences
• Colons and more!

Check out these other resources!

• ELA Test Prep, Study Guide & Activities Bundle (new)
• All Things English For Middle & High School Students (best seller)
• Once Upon A Crime
• Revising & Editing Workbook
• Revising & Editing for Group Lessons
• Bell Ringers for the Semester
• Everything Writing

Two products in one bundle for even more practice and test prep!

The first product gives you a class lesson with group practice, individual practice and a summative assessment over revising and combing sentences. Because these are closely connected skills that require similar skill sets, your students will have one lesson that can prep them for these areas in testing and writing.

Use the second product for reinforcement, practice or quizzes on combining sentences. This includes a refresher page that students can use for self-guided learning or reference.

*Isolated practice for Revising Sentences coming soon!

Looking for a fun way to engage your students? Look no further. Our Parts of Speech Escape Room has students going through all 8 parts of speech recognizing definitions, examples, and usage. This is a group activity which provides an excellent review for an exam or simply as a review.

This is a good interactive power point on sentence structure, namely simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. It comes complete with explanations, activities to have the students name the structure, and ends with students making their own sentences.

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Interactive Essay Writing Flipbook

Argumentative Essay

Essay prompt and articles :Narcissism

Essay prompt and articles: Hurricanes

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Vocabulary building word study lessons for 7th and 8th grade. Students will consolidate previous knowledge of: Parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs), synonyms, morphemes (prefixes and suffixes), syllables and heteronyms/homonyms. Everything you need to teach your students the vocabulary building language foundations for reading and writing in a middle school classroom.

This unit is aligned with the new 2023 Ontario Language Curriculum.

This unit includes a Powerpoint presentation (uneditable), a PDF version and student printables formatted for letter size paper.

Lessons are intended to take between 5-15 minutes to complete, plus student work time.

⭐️IMPORTANT!⭐️

The Powerpoint file is uneditable and you may need to click "READ ONLY" when opening the file. You will not be provided with a password to allow for editing of the resource.

Copyright © Mrs Gray's Place.

All rights reserved by author.

Permission to copy for single classroom use only.

Not for public display.

Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.

Get ready to have the most fun you'll have teaching with a lesson that your students will be talking about for years to come with the St. Patrick's Day ESCAPE ROOM for ELA!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length St. Patrick's Day-themed Escape Room. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with this exciting lesson, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!

How does it work?

Your students are stuck in your classroom on St. Patrick's Day and cannot leave until they solve 5 challenging Language Arts skills-based tasks that will teach them about St. Patrick's Day, St. Patrick himself, and Irish culture!

• In the first task, students will read 8 fun facts about St. Patrick's Day and must identify the incorrectly spelled word in each passage. They must write the correctly spelled word in their student answer booklet. Shaded boxes within the answers reveal their first code.
• In the second task, students will read 8 facts about St. Patrick and must identify the parts of speech of underlined words within the passages. When matched correctly, shaded boxes will reveal the second code.
• In the third task, students will perform a close reading of one of Ireland's most beloved poems, Raglan Road, by Patrick Kavanagh. Then, they will answer multiple choice questions about the poem. Letters of the correct answers reveal their third code.
• In the fourth task, students must solve a word maze. Letters collected along the way form the fourth code.
• In the final task, students will be quizzed on what they learned throughout the first four tasks and enter their answers to St. Paddy's Day trivia questions in a fun crossword puzzle. Circled boxes within the puzzle will reveal their final code. Students must act out this word in order to escape.

Product Includes:

- Escape Room Basics

- Detailed Day-Of Instructions

- Escape Room Print Checklist

- Student Teams Chart

- Welcome Sign for Your Door

- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations

- Student Answer Booklet

- Teacher Answer Keys

- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity

This escape room is suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal on St. Patrick's Day or any time during the month of March.

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Can't get enough escape rooms? Check out more by Language Arts Excellence here:

⭐ Halloween ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Thanksgiving ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Christmas ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ New Year's ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Valentine's Day ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Easter ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Shakespeare ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Escape from Dystopia ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Edgar Allan Poe ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ The Handmaid's Tale ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Back to School ELA ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ End of Year ELA ESCAPE ROOM

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Get ready to have the most fun you'll have teaching with a lesson that your students will be talking about for years to come with the Halloween Grammar Escape Room!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Halloween-themed Escape Room about grammar. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are grammar skills-based so that with this fun lesson on a sugar-filled holiday, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!

How does it work?

Your room has been transformed into a haunted house of horrors and your students can only escape by solving 5 challenging grammar skills-based tasks about Halloween!

• Here, Kitty Kitty: In the first task, students will read a passage about black cats and correct incorrectly used homophones.
• Witch Sentence?: In the second task, students must identify each type of scary sentences (indicative, imperative, subjunctive, etc.) in a matching game.
• In Cold Blood: In the third task, students must identify incorrectly used past tense verbs in a passage about vampires then unscramble letters to solve the code.
• Zombie Escape: In the fourth task, students must solve a zombie word maze.
• Sentence Skeleton: In the fifth task, students must identify the parts of speech of words within a Halloween quote in a matching game. Once complete, they must input all codes into a sentence to escape the haunted house!

Product Includes:

- Escape Room Basics

- Detailed Day-Of Instructions

- Escape Room Print & Set-Up Checklist

- Student Teams Chart

- Welcome Sign for Your Door

- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and supplementary materials to be kept at stations

- Student Answer Sheet

- Teacher Answer Keys

- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity

This escape room is suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal during the month of October or any time you want to give your students a fright!

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Enjoy more Halloween resources by Language Arts Excellence:

⭐ Halloween ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Halloween Poetry ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Halloween ELA Digital Escape Room

⭐ Halloween Collaborative Writing Activity

⭐ Halloween Figurative Language Practice

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Get ready to have the most fun you'll have teaching grammar with a lesson that your students will be talking about all year with the Grammar ESCAPE ROOM!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Grammar Escape Room. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are skills-based so that with the escape room, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!

How does it work?

"Let's eat Grandpa!" Your students' challenge is to find the missing comma from this sentence to save Grandpa from becoming dinner. In order to do this, they must complete 5 grammar-based tasks, discover a hidden message, and find clues along the way.

• Comma Drama: In the first task, students must identify comma rules used in 6 quotes about grammar. When matched correctly on a mat puzzle, shaded boxes reveal the first code.
• Idiomadness: In the second task, students must complete a crossword puzzle for which each clue is an education idiom. Shaded boxes within the puzzle reveal the code.
• Devil Cat: In the third task, students must closely read a passage about the Devil Cat that allegedly roams the basement of the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. and find the incorrect homophones within the article. Shaded letters within the answers form the third code.
• R U Kidding Me?: In the fourth task, students read 8 funny (well, in a Dad joke kind of way) jokes about grammar. Students must determine the part of speech of the underlined word in each joke. Shaded boxes within the answers reveal the code.
• Jig Saw Quote: In the final task, students must assemble a jig saw puzzle that forms a quote about grammar. Once the puzzle is assembled and students bring the quote to you, they obtain the missing comma to save Grandpa!

Product Includes:

- Escape Room Basics

- Detailed Day-Of Instructions

- Escape Room Print Checklist

- Student Teams Chart

- Giant Comma Sign

- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations

- Student Answer Sheet

- Teacher Answer Keys

- Code Word Reflection Extension Activity

- Escape Room Reflection Extension Activity

This escape room is suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal at any time of the year when your students need a fun refresher on grammar!

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We've gone digital! Check out the digital version to support distance learning:

⭐ Back to School Grammar Digital Escape Room

Check out these related resources by Language Arts Excellence to start your year in ELA off strong:

⭐ Back to School ELA Escape Room

⭐ First Day of ELA "Book Talk" Activity

⭐ Back to School "Don't Judge a Book by its Cover" Activity

⭐ Back to School Effective Effort Lesson Plan

⭐ First Day of School Powerpoint Presentation

⭐ Back to School ELA Bundle

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If you are looking for the perfect way to celebrate the March college basketball tournament with a rigorous yet engaging, skills-based activity, look no further than this March Basketball Escape Room for ELA!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length ELA Escape Room to celebrate March basketball. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!

How does it work?

Your students must learn to collaborate with their peers to escape your classroom by solving 5 different Language Arts skills-based puzzles about the big tournament.

• March Basketball Fun Facts: In the first task, students will read fun facts about the tournament. In each passage is an incorrectly used homophone. Students must identify and correct the homophone. Shaded boxes in the correct answers will reveal their code.
• Bball Quotes: In the second task, students will read 8 inspirational quotes from famous basketball players and identify parts of speech within the quotes. Once assembled correctly on a chart, shaded boxes will reveal the code.
• Catch: In the third task, students must perform a close reading of the poem, Catch by Samiya Bashir and answer multiple choice questions about the selection that when correct, will reveal the code.
• History of the Madness: In the fourth task, students will read about the origins of the basketball tournament. Within each paragraph, there is one commonly misspelled word. Students must identify the word and write it correctly on their answer sheet. Shaded letters within the correct answers will form their third code.
• Bball Trivia: In the final task, students will be quizzed on what they learned throughout the first four tasks and enter their answers to trivia questions in a fun crossword puzzle. Circled boxes within the puzzle will reveal their final code.

Product Includes:

• Escape Room Basics
• Detailed Day-Of Instructions
• Escape Room Print Checklist
• Student Teams Chart
• Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and supplementary information to be kept at stations
• Student Answer Sheet
• Teacher Answer Keys
• Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity

Although this escape room is ideal for March, it can be used at any time throughout the year without modification, particularly if you have a sports-obsessed class!

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Can't get enough escape rooms? Check out more by Language Arts Excellence here:

⭐ Halloween ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Thanksgiving ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Christmas ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ New Year's ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Valentine's Day ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ 100th Day of School ELA Escape Room

⭐ Escape to Spring Break ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Back to School ELA ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ End of Year ELA ESCAPE ROOM

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Whether you are starting school in the classroom or teaching virtually, start your year off strong with the Back to School Grammar Digital Escape Room for use with Google Drive!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! Now, you can facilitate our Back to School Grammar Escape Room at home for distance learning or in the classroom using your school's technology (thereby cutting down on paper and valuable prep time) with this meticulously-crafted resource. Each task is skills-based so that with this fun activity, learning is not sacrificed. Distance learning can certainly be a struggle for both students and teachers, so this escape room aims to provide a welcome break from the monotony while encouraging higher order thinking skills and a fun review of English grammar.

How does it work?

"Let's eat Grandpa!" Your students' challenge is to find the missing comma from this sentence to save Grandpa from becoming dinner. In order to do this, they must complete 5 grammar-based tasks, discover a hidden message, and find clues along the way.

• Comma Drama: In the first task, students must identify comma rules used in 6 quotes about grammar. When matched correctly on a mat puzzle, shaded boxes reveal the first code.
• Idiomadness: In the second task, students must complete a crossword puzzle for which each clue is an education idiom. Shaded boxes within the puzzle reveal the code.
• Devil Cat: In the third task, students must closely read a passage about the Devil Cat that allegedly roams the basement of the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. and find the incorrect homophones within the article. Shaded letters within the answers form the third code.
• R U Kidding Me?: In the fourth task, students read 8 funny (well, in a Dad joke kind of way) jokes about grammar. Students must determine the part of speech of the underlined word in each joke. Shaded boxes within the answers reveal the code.
• Jig Saw Quote: In the final task, students must assemble a jig saw puzzle that forms a quote about grammar. Once the puzzle is assembled students earn the missing comma to save Grandpa!

Product Includes:

- Instructions for how to access and share escape room and answer key through Google Drive

- Materials for 5 Tasks: digital task signs, detailed task instructions, and digital worksheets

- Digital Student Answer Booklet

- Digital Teacher Answer Key

This product requires free accounts through Google Drive and is completely paperless.

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The original, paper version can be found here: Back to School Grammar Escape Room

Check out more great digital escape rooms by Language Arts Excellence:

⭐ Back to School ELA Digital Escape Room for Distance Learning

⭐ Back to School ELA Digital Escape Room for Distance Learning - Pop Culture Edition

⭐ Escape from Dystopia Digital ESCAPE ROOM & PowerPoint for Distance Learning

⭐ Digital Poetry Escape Room for Distance Learning

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Get ready to have the most fun you'll have teaching with a lesson that your students will be talking about for years to come with the Christmas Grammar ESCAPE ROOM!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Christmas-themed Grammar Escape Room. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with this fun lesson on a sugar-filled holiday, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize how many grammar skills they are practicing they are applying in the playing of this game!

**Please note that although this activity is informative about the Christian holiday, it is a secular lesson and can be used for students of all backgrounds and religions. Students do not need any prior knowledge about Christmas in order to complete this lesson and have fun with it!**

How does it work?

Your students are stuck in your classroom and cannot leave for Christmas vacation until they solve 5 challenging grammar-based tasks about Christmas!

• Santa! I Know Him!: In the first task, students must identify the parts of the speech of words in facts about the origins of Santa Claus.
• Bah Humbug!: In the second task, students must identify homophones within a passage from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
• Belsnickel: In the third task, students must identify commonly misspelled words within a passage about Belsnickel, a character from German folklore that visits children around Christmas.
• 12 Days of Christmas: In the fourth task, students must the verb tense of verbs inspired by the 12 days of Christmas.
• Word Search: In the final task, students must complete the word search containing the names of Santa’s nine reindeer. Once they have found all of the words, the remaining letters spell out a question that they must answer to escape the room.

Product Includes:

- Escape Room Basics

- Detailed Day-Of Instructions

- Escape Room Print Checklist

- Student Teams Chart

- Welcome Sign for Your Door

- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations

- Student Answer Booklet

- Teacher Answer Keys

- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity

This escape room is suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal for any time during the month of December.

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Also, check out more great holiday products by Language Arts Excellence:

⭐ Christmas ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Christmas Poetry ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ A Christmas Carol ESCAPE ROOM

⭐"Christmas Talk" Lesson Plan

Can't get enough escape rooms? Check out more by Language Arts Excellence here:

⭐ Easter ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Halloween ESCAPE ROOM

⭐Thanksgiving ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Hanukkah Kwanzaa Christmas Diwali ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ New Year's ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Valentine's Day ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ St. Patrick's Day ESCAPE ROOM

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Show your students how much you love them with the rigorous yet fun Valentine's Day Grammar Escape Room!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Valentine's Day-themed Escape Room about grammar. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are grammar skills-based so that with this fun lesson on a sugar-filled holiday, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!

How does it work?

Your students are stuck in your classroom on Valentine's Day and cannot leave until they solve 5 challenging grammar-based tasks about the holiday of love!

• The OG Valentine's Day: In the first task, students must pick out sentence fragments and run-ons within a passage about the origins of Valentine's Day.
• What's Funny, Honey?: In the second task, students will read through 8 funny quotes about love and identify the parts of speech of words within each quote.
• Ah-Mazing: In the third task, students must solve four word mazes.
• What is Love? Baby Don't Hurt Me: In the fourth task, students must correct past tense verbs within a passage about love.
• How Will I Know?: In the final task, students must identify the parts of speech within a question. Then, they must input all 5 codes into a famous quote about love. Once complete, they must bring to you to escape!

Product Includes:

- Escape Room Basics

- Detailed Day-Of Instructions

- Escape Room Print & Set-Up Checklist

- Student Teams Chart

- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and supplementary materials to be kept at stations

- Student Answer Sheet

- Teacher Answer Keys

- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity

This escape room is suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal for any time during the month of February.

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Enjoy more Valentine's Day resources by Language Arts Excellence:

⭐ Valentine's Day ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Valentine's Day ELA Digital Escape Room

⭐ Valentine's Day Poetry Escape Room

⭐ Valentine's Day "Love Talk" Lesson Plan

⭐ Valentine's Day Collaborative Writing Activity

⭐ Valentine's Day Figurative Language Practice

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Looking to have a little fun with your students on April Fool's Day? Pretend you're giving them a test and fool them with this fun yet rigorous grammar-based escape room!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length April Fool's-themed Escape Room. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with this fun lesson, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!

How does it work?

Your students thought they had a grammar test today, instead, you fooled them with an escape room! They are stuck in your classroom until they solve 5 grammar-based tasks about April Fool's Day!

• Don't Be a Crank, It's Just a Prank: In the first task, students will read 8 fun prank ideas (like the classic cream cheese on the toothbrush trick). In each passage, one word is underlined. Students must identify the part of speech of the underlined word by assembling a mat puzzle that, when assembled correctly, will reveal their first code.
• Spaghetti Tree: In the second task, students will read about the epic "Spaghetti Tree" prank done by the British media. In each paragraph there is an incorrect homophone. Students must identify the homophones and write them correctly on their answer sheet. Shaded boxes within each answer will form their code.
• April Foolin' Around the World: In the third task, students must match facts about April Fool's Day around the world to the type of sentence it is (declarative, interrogative, subjunctive, imperative, conditional) by drawing a line connecting the sentence with its type. Letters not intersected by these lines will form their third code.
• Fool Me Once: In the fourth task, students will read 8 "fool" quotes. Each one is missing a comma. Students must insert the comma in the correct place, then write down the word before it. Shaded boxes within each answer reveal the fourth code.
• Encrypted Message: In the final task, students must decode an encrypted message (a Shakespeare quote about the joy of April) from the codes they collected along the way.

Product Includes:

• Escape Room Basics
• Detailed Day-Of Instructions
• Escape Room Print Checklist
• Student Teams Chart
• Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs, task instructions, and supplementary materials
• Opportunities for Differentiation
• Student Answer Sheet
• Teacher Answer Keys
• Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity

This escape room is suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal for use at the beginning of April.

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This resource features an exciting and meaningful ELA Escape Room meant to supplement your child's language arts curriculum while more time is spent at home with distance learning.

This meticulously-crafted resource contains all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length ELA Escape Room for your child at home. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy and creative thinking. Your kid(s) will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they applying in the playing of this game!

How does it work?

The ghosts of William Shakespeare, Maya Angelou, Jane Austen, Walt Whitman, and Langston Hughes have risen from the grave to lock your child inside your home! They are upset because they believe that teenagers these days spend too much time making TikToks and not enough time practicing their grammar, poetry, and other ELA skills. In order to appease them, your child must solve 5 different Language Arts skills-based puzzles which lead them to 6 locations through the home and ultimately, to a final prize.

• Figuratively Speaking: In the first task, your child must identify the figurative language device used in popular 2020 songs. Shaded boxes in the correct answers form the first code which leads to the next task.
• Lit Match: In the second task, your child must match literary terms with their definitions by drawing a line connecting them. Letters not intersected by the lines form their second code leading to the next task..
• Where The Heart Is: In the third task, your child must identify the part of speech used in inspirational quotes about home. Shaded letters within the correct answers form the third code which leads to the next task.
• Ah-Mazing: In the fourth task, your child must solve a word maze. Letters collected along the way form the fourth code leading to the next task.
• What's The Word?: In the final task, your child must complete the multiple choice quiz. Once he/she puts the correct words together, he/she must travel to that location in the home to escape and claim the prize.

Product Includes:

- Escape Room Basics

- Detailed Day-Of Instructions

- Set-Up Checklist

- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary materials to be kept at stations

- Congratulations Sign

- Answer Sheet

- Answer Keys

This escape room is meant to supplement your child's ELA curriculum. I would not recommend for teachers to assign this without parents' cooperation as it requires home set-up.

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Engage your students and strengthen their reading comprehension with this comprehensive set of 30 daily warm-ups.

I'm always looking for short, effective practice pieces for high-frequency skills that I can use with my students, but the nature of RLA is that most texts tend to be longer--so I created my own set of warm ups!

These warms-ups address high-frequency skills and spiral multiple times over the course of 6 weeks to give students multiple attempts to show growth on each skill.

What's Included:

• 30 engaging warm-up activities (enough for 6 full school weeks!)
• A variety of skills spiraled throughout the six-week program
• Gradual increase in difficulty to challenge students
• Clear and concise instructions for easy implementation
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Watch your students' reading skills soar as they master key concepts through repeated practice and application. These warm-ups are perfect for independent work, small group instruction, or homework.

Save time and energy while providing your students with the best possible reading support.

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Are you looking for ways to encourage your students to read in your classroom or at your school? This bundle has everything that you need!

Encourage reading with little competition in the Dewey Decimal Reading Race. Students earn racing points and move along the race track by reading books from different Dewey categories.

Create a new book report experience and add student work to you classroom with the Word Cube Book Reports. This one includes an electronic scoring rubric with formulas already calculated!

Encourage reading and comprehension by using the 180-day A Reader's Journey ~ A Reading Journal!! 180 days worth of reading journal topics. Includes page documentation, title and author information, and a journal prompt to reflect on what students have read for the day.

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Introducing how to use transition words and phrases in writing has never been easier! This resource includes identifying types of transition words activities and how they can be used in different types of writing with numerous examples. From the struggling writer to the advanced writer, this resource offers something for everyone.

A handy Helpful Hints page provides students with a list of transition words and phrases and the types of transitions they are. This page can be used as a poster in the classroom.

This resource explains the entire process of identifying type of transition and using and transition words and phrases in writing. The video, PowerPoint, worksheets, and Helpful Hints page allow students to practice and develop their writing skills. The detailed lesson plans make implementing the lesson easy for teachers.

This no-prep lesson is adaptable for in-class instruction, distance learning, or independent student work. The instructional video with step-by-step guided note-taking can be presented as whole class instruction or assigned for students to complete at home. From the struggling writer to the advanced writer, this resource offers something for everyone.

All materials are available in both Google Drive™ and print formats, ensuring easy access for all students.

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This lesson about how to use Transition Words and Phrases in Writing includes:

Entertaining Instructional Video with:

• Definitions of various types of transitions
• Transition identification and usage
• Paragraph development using transitions
• Anchor paragraphs using transitions
• Step-by-step Instructions for completing the worksheets

Lesson Plan with:

• Common Core State Standards indicated on lesson plan
• Instructional Focus
• Instructional Procedures
• Objectives/Goals
• Direct Instruction
• Guided Practice
• Enrichment
• Differentiation
• I Can Statement
• Essential Question
• ESE Strategies
• ELL Strategies

Worksheets with:

• When to use different types of transition words and phrases
• Explanations and examples of the different methods for incorporating transition words and phrases in writing
• Opportunities for students to practice guided note-taking
• Step-by-step instructions
• “Now It's Your Turn” section for students to practice skills learned

Helpful Hints Page with:

• List of transition words and phrases
• Identification of types of transition words and phrases
• Can't Miss transition words and phrases

PowerPoint Presentation with:

• Introduction slides with explanations of transition words and phrases
• Guided note-taking sections
• Step-by-step instructions
• Examples of transition words and phrases
• Interactive slides for student participation

Google Slides

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The lessons in the Middle School Sentence Structure - Parts of Speech & Grammar Unit include:

• Adverbs
• Identify and Correct Comma Splices
• Fragments and Run-On Sentences
• Commas in a Series
• Complex Sentences
• Complex Sentences as Transitions
• Compound Sentences
• Gerunds / Verbals
• Prepositional Phrases
• Transition Words and Phrases

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• Transition Words / Transitional Phrases in Grammar
• Transition Words in Writing
• Transition Words List
• Differentiated Activities for Transition Words and Transitional Phrases
• Enrichment Activities for Transition Words and Transitional Phrases

Introducing the Six Traits of Writing™ has never been easier! This comprehensive lesson offers a detailed introduction and explanation of each trait, highlighting their essential roles in effective writing. An anchor essay featuring clear examples of each trait within the paragraphs provides a hands-on opportunity to practice and master writing skills. Enhance your students' writing abilities with this engaging and practical lesson on the Six Traits of Writing™.

This resource explains the entire process of identifying each trait of the six traits and using them in their writing. The instructional video with step-by-step guided note-taking can be presented as whole class instruction or assigned for students to complete at home. The PowerPoint, and worksheets allow students to practice and develop their writing skills. The detailed lesson plans make implementing the lesson easy for teachers.

This no-prep lesson is adaptable for in-class instruction, distance learning, or independent student work. The PowerPoint can be presented as whole class instruction or assigned for students to complete at home.

All materials are available in both Google Drive™ and print formats, ensuring easy access for all students.

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This lesson about how to identify and use the Six Traits of Writing™ includes:

Entertaining Instructional Video with:

• Identifying and evaluating each of the six traits of writing™
• Defining what each of the traits should accomplish
• Determining if each trait is helping the writer achieve their goal
• Identifying examples of the six traits™ in an anchor essay
• Revision techniques
• Individual practice with the 6 traits of writing™
• Step-by-step instructions for completing the worksheets

Lesson Plan with:

• Common Core State Standards indicated on lesson plan
• Instructional Focus
• Instructional Procedures
• Objectives/Goals
• Direct Instruction
• Guided Practice
• Enrichment
• Differentiation
• I Can Statement
• Essential Question
• ESE Strategies
• ELL Strategies

Worksheets with:

• Explanations and examples of the six traits of writing™
• Practice identifying ideas, organization, word choice, voice, sentence fluency, and conventions™.
• Anchor essay with six traits of writing™ identified
• Opportunities for students to practice guided note-taking
• “Now It's Your Turn” section for students to practice skills learned

PowerPoint Presentation with:

• Introduction slides with explanations each individual trait
• Guided note-taking sections
• Examples of questions to ask to determine each trait
• Anchor essay with The Six Traits of Writing identified

Google Slides™

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The lessons in the Middle School Introduction to Writing Unit include:

• Multiple Choice Writing Tests Unit - 3 Lessons
• 6 Traits of Writing™
• How to Write a 4 Paragraph Essay
• How to Write a 5 Paragraph Essay
• General Statement and Detail Statements
• Thesis Statements
• Writing for Standardized Tests
• The Writing Process

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Connect with me for the latest Write On! with Jamie news:

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Write On!

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Copyright © Write On! with Jamie. All rights reserved by author. All components of this product are to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited unless additional licenses are purchased. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this product are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY.