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RACE - All Things English Addendum
By Blooming Through High School
An easy to read format to get your students writing!
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Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases in Writing
By Beth Hammett
Make learning prepositions and prepositional phrases fun and easy with this visual writing presentation. 13 pages/slides of active learning strategies for understanding and using prepositions and prepositional phrases along with commas. Includes: Definitions Poem Preposition List Preposition Chair Activity Preposition Walk around the School Campus Easy to use tips Prepositional Phrases Commas and Prepositions Lots of color coded, visual writing examples Practice activities for individual/small/whole group Peer Workshopping Easy for students to follow and use. Great for fllipped classrooms and homeschools. Activities can be used individually or in small or whole group settings. A stimulating visual learning approach to help students understand prepositions and phrases.
By Beth Hammett
Fun and interactive activity for students to relate real life writing to the use of comma rules. Have plenty of magazines, brochures, or newspapers on hand for students/small groups to cut out comma examples and paste them under the correct comma rule headings. Group or individual activity is enjoyable to students, who will discuss rules as they work! (Reminder: review the 3 Kinds of Writing PowerPoint and Using Commas in Writing to help students understand the different guidelines for academic, creative, and journalism writing, along with comma rules).
MLA Formatting - All Things English for Middle and High School Students
By Blooming Through High School
Show your students exactly how it should be done with this handy guide. Clear instructions, examples, and a page for their own notes!
This free resource goes perfect with the All Things English for Middle and High School Students book!
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Graphic Organizer for ACT/SAT and Expository
By Beth Hammett
New standardized tests, such as ACT and SAT, ask students to define the problem, sort through solutions, find the best solution, and explain why they chose their answers. This free graphic organizer will help students with working through the process!
By Educate and Create
A short 20 question multiple choice quiz. Comes complete with answer key. Easy to administer after teaching sentence structure.
The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander Reading Journal
By Ms. J's ELA
This resource should accompany Kwame Alexander's novel The Door of No Return. There are 8 journal prompts total. One should be completed before starting the story, and one after finishing the story. Cover pages are included. This resource contains 18 PDF pages. 9 sheets are in color, and 9 are black/white.
The questions in this journal are related to the story. They ask students to predict, characterize, think about text structure and author's choice, and compare this story to others about slavery. There are many lines for students to use while journaling to organize their writing.
Great Americans Series of Biographies - Fun History - Wyatt Earp
By Iconic History
As time passes, many great Americans who have shaped the arts, sciences, sports, and history of our nation and culture get lost in time. The Great Americans Series of Biographies and Worksheets is an easy-to-read 200-word Biography of just the highlights of each subject's life designed to keep young readers engaged. The Questions page ensures student reading comprehension and grasp of key points. The Vocabulary page introduces and explains new words, phrases, and/or institutions students may not have been familiar with. The Quotes page challenges students to write what a famous quote by the subject means to them. The Great Americans Series is available individually or in bundles, making great bell work. An Answer Key is provided with each worksheet.
The Great Gatsby CHARACTER ANALYSIS WORKSHEETS | 18 Worksheets (2 Per Chapter)!!
By Rigorous Resources for High School English
NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Engaging! Thought-provoking! This 20-page EDITABLE document will invite your students to analyze the complex characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. These daily writing activities promise to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising on intellectual rigor. The worksheets will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and generate profound interpretive insights!
As you know, studying Fitzgerald’s nuanced construction of the characters is crucial for understanding this character-driven novel. These handouts will help students to develop a much deeper understanding of the characters while building skills in close reading!
What you'll get are 18 worksheets — two for each of the novel's 9 chapters — that invite students to analyze the main characters in The Great Gatsby. Each handout features a carefully selected passage that reveals key details about a character. Invite your students to write short paragraphs in which they analyze what the textual details reveal about the main characters. The worksheets focus on the following characters:
Nick Carraway
Jay Gatsby
Myrtle Wilson
George Wilson
Daisy Buchanan
Tom Buchanan
Jordan Baker
Henry Gatz
Because two worksheets are provided for each chapter, you can either select which worksheet to distribute or else allow students to choose which characters they wish to analyze. Admins and students alike will be thrilled to see you expanding students' voice and choice!
These worksheets will come to you in a 20-page EDITABLE Word document which you can customize to the needs of your students! The previews for my resources provide access to dozens of pages of actual content. Click on the green “PREVIEW” button to see what you’ll get. . . .
Thank you for choosing “Rigorous Resources”!!
Happy teaching!
Adam Jernigan, Ph.D.
Note: These character analysis worksheets are also included in my Gatsby MEGA-Bundle. The bundle contains everything you'll need to deliver amazing and comprehensive lessons on Fitzgerald's novel: over 40 slides plus over 240 pages of content-rich handouts and activities. If you've already purchased the bundle, you don't need to purchase these worksheets. Thanks!
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Guess Your Grade - Effective Effort Form
By Language Arts Excellence
This 3-page form asks students to specifically rate their performance on the 6 components of effective effort on a given essay: TIME, FOCUS, RESOURCEFULNESS, USE OF STRATEGIES, USE OF FEEDBACK, and COMMITMENT. This product is modeled after teachings from The Skillful Teacher by Jon Saphier, Mary Ann Haley-Speca, and Robert Gower and encourages a growth mindset in students. I provide this form to my students every single time I assign a paper and am always pleasantly surprised at how honest they are in their responses, especially as the incentive for guessing their grade is 2 bonus points! ____________________________________________________________________________ Also, check out this great lesson plan for teaching Effective Effort by Language Arts Excellence: ⭐Effective Effort Lesson Plan ____________________________________________________________________________ ⭐Click to Follow Language Arts Excellence⭐
MLA Format Checklist Handout for Google Docs with Visual Examples
By Christina Bush
It's one thing to tell students that their papers need to be in MLA format, but it's another to actually give them an example AND the steps to make those adjustments. This comprehensive checklist is a perfect tool to help your students learn for themselves in our digital world - starting with adjusting their essays to MLA format on Google Docs!
What is this resource?
This resource provides students with a labeled example of an essay written in MLA format, as well as a step-by-step guide on how to make each adjustment in Google Docs. This guide even includes icon images so students can get a visual of what these tools look like!
How do I use this in my classroom?
In my writing units, I format the students' rough drafts before I assign it to them on Google Classroom, but they have to format their papers themselves when it comes time for them to type up their final drafts. I give them this checklist when I first assign the Final Draft assignment and give them time to follow the steps themselves. I facilitate and answer questions as needed.
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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.
The Difficult Path by Grace Lin Short Story Lesson
By Ms. J's ELA
This lesson should accompany Grace Lin's short story The Difficult Path. This resource includes a 12 page slides presentation with pre-reading questions, 7 vocabulary words from the story, tiered reading questions, and questions focused on one particular standard: Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from other stories. The presentation includes an answer key.
This resource also includes student handouts with the same activities. You will see these in the preview. You will get a colored copy along with a b/w printer friendly copy.
Guess Your Grade - Effective Effort Form
By Language Arts Excellence
This 3-page form asks students to specifically rate their performance on the 6 components of effective effort on a given essay: TIME, FOCUS, RESOURCEFULNESS, USE OF STRATEGIES, USE OF FEEDBACK, and COMMITMENT. This product is modeled after teachings from The Skillful Teacher by Jon Saphier, Mary Ann Haley-Speca, and Robert Gower and encourages a growth mindset in students. I provide this form to my students every single time I assign a paper and am always pleasantly surprised at how honest they are in their responses, especially as the incentive for guessing their grade is 2 bonus points! ____________________________________________________________________________ Also, check out this great lesson plan for teaching Effective Effort by Language Arts Excellence: ⭐Effective Effort Lesson Plan ____________________________________________________________________________ ⭐Click to Follow Language Arts Excellence⭐
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.
Argumentative Writing - Argue with Historical Quotes
By Shy's Sunshine Room
Description:
Includes:
Student will be asked to contend with the following questions as they argue for or against quotes:
✬Do you believe it to be true?
✬Was it true at one time, or has it changed throughout history?
✬Is it applicable to your life?
✬Are the words even worth being quoted?
Your feedback is appreciated!
Julius Caesar: Marc Anthony/ Brutus speeches Compare and Contrast.
By Educate and Create
Great way to analyze persuasive speech.
Works with the play Julius Caesar or on it's own.
Students analyze persuasive techniques in two contrasting points of view in two different speeches.
Students must compare and contrast the two speeches.
Comes complete with answer key.
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By Beth Hammett
Interactive, peer workshopping approach to teaching Descriptive Writing. The PowerPoint has 21 slides and includes: Includes: Interactive Activities Descriptive Assignments Frequent checks for comprehension Crossword Puzzle Examples Figurative Language/Senses Peer Workshopping Resources Slide It defines, explains, introduces, and encourages descriptive writing through figurative language, five senses, tone, mood, show not tell, and visualization. Writing activities and handouts for scaffodling, assessment and comprehension of descriptive writing are included.
By Beth Hammett
Encourage empathy, gratitude, and kindness by having students complete these black and white cards to make and give for appreciating teachers. Includes: Many variations of foldable cards Directions Diverse ethnicities Black and white images to color Spaces for written messages Quotes pages (use alone or as inside of cards) Increase emotional intelligence skills with these reflective make and give cards. Use for ELA centers, building character education, critical thinking, fact based writing, and writing process. Great for Teacher Appreciation Week!
Social Skills Activities and Worksheets | Brainstorm Graphic Organizer | SEL
By Queen's Educational Resources
Social Skills Activities and Worksheets | Brainstorm Graphic Organizer | SEL
About This Resource
**★ Topic - **Social Skills
**★ **Brainstorming Social Skills Activity Worksheets
**★ **10 pages
**★ **PDF file
**★ **Suitable for Upper Elementary, Middle School, and High School
**★ **Social Emotional Learning
**★ **Detailed Suggested Responses included
This resource includes:
**★ **1 General Note-Taking Sheet
**★ **1 Social Skills Word Dissection Worksheet
**★ **1 Good vs. Poor Social Skills Brainstorming Worksheet
**★ **1 Social Skills Word Web Worksheet
**★ **3 Bulletin Board Display Pages to showcase student work
**★ **Sample Responses for all activities to support instruction
Help your students develop a deeper understanding of social skills with this engaging and interactive note-taking worksheet! This resource guides students to break down the concept of social skills by brainstorming and reflecting on the meanings of “social” and “skills.” Through this activity, students will analyze each term, connect their ideas, and develop a clear, personal definition of social skills.
Additionally, they will reflect on their own experiences to identify examples of good and poor social skills, fostering meaningful discussions and self-awareness.
Bulletin Board Task Display Pages are included to showcase student work and definitions on your classroom bulletin board to reinforce learning and create a visual display of their efforts.
Sample Responses | Answer Keys Included: Provide guidance for brainstorming activities and examples of good and poor social skills, making it easy for teachers to facilitate discussions or support students as needed.
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❌ Lesson plans are not included. This product can be used in addition to your own lesson plans and in such a way that best meets the needs of your students.
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Created by © Queen's Educational Resources | All Rights Reserved
Your purchase includes one copy to be used in a single classroom. If you are looking for multiple copies, please be sure to purchase additional licenses.
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queenseducationalresources@gmail.com
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