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Word Study for Middle School Students - Vocabulary Builder Lessons
By Amanda G
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.
Back to School Language Arts Bundle - Middle School
By Amanda G
This back to school bundle will help you start the new school year with ease! This bundles includes presentations, printable resources, and posters.
⭐️ These resources are aligned with the new 2023 Ontario Language Curriculum.⭐️
Bundle Includes:
Reading and Writing Workshop Bundle - 100 pages of lessons to help you successfully set up your reading and writing lesson blocks. PDF and Slidedeck files included.
Digital Media Literacy Lessons - 60 pages of lesson plans, worksheets, templates, rubrics, and printables that you need! 10 total lessons, plus summative task. PDF files.
Word Study for Middle School Students - Vocabulary Builder Lessons/Activities - 55 pages of vocabulary building lessons and activities. PDF and Powerpoint files included. The Word Study resource will continue to grow, as lessons are developed. There will be 5 units in total.
Click on each resource to learn more!
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.
By Susan Wolfe
Vocabulary Memory Game for Grades 7-10
Increases student vocabulary and understanding
Includes 10 List Words
Includes Definitions for teacher and students
1 Memory Game
By Susan Wolfe
Designed to improve student vocabulary, reading, writing and oral communication.
Includes Unit One Vocabulary
4 Memory Games
Class set of Bingo with matching definitions (30 student cards)
Grade 7-10Vocabulary Unit One Bundle
By Susan Wolfe
Designed to improve student vocabulary, reading, writing and oral communication.
Includes Unit One Vocabulary
4 Memory Games
Class set of Bingo with matching definitions (30 student cards)
BUNDLE-Nutcracker Themed Literature Bundle
By Meggen Loew
Nutcracker Literature Bundle: ($18 value)
Combines The Nutcracker and the Mouse King Picture Book Study and the Nutcracked Novel Study and Vocabulary Unit.
Nutcracker and the Mouse King Picture Book Study ($5 Value)
This study works excellent as an introduction to studying the Nutcracker Ballet.
Using the picture book The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, the original Story by ETA Hoffman, illustrated by Gail de Marcken, and the Story adapted by Wren Mayse. The materials aim to enhance the readers understanding and interpretation of the Story.
What is Included: 23 Pages Total
· Goal and Instructional Pages for Teacher
· Lesson Plans for 10-days of lessons
· Pre-Reading Notes Page (1 page)
· Discussion Questions (9 pages)
· Story Outline (Plot Outline) (2 pages)
· Battle Plan Outline (2 pages)
· Answer Keys (4 pages)
Nutcracked Novel Study and Vocabulary ($8 Value)
Novel Study: These materials for Susan Adrian's novel Nutcracked aim to enhance readers' understanding and interpretation of the Story.
What is Included: 40 Pages
· Goal and Instructional Pages for Teacher
· Lesson Plans for 15-days of lessons- Incorporate vocabulary work in
· Discussion Questions (11 pages)
· Reality vs. Fantasy-Journal (1 page)
· Reality vs. Fantasy-Teaching Worksheet Activity (1 page)
· Reality vs. Fantasy-2 Worksheets (1 page each)
· Georgie's Problems (Conflict Worksheet) (1 page)
· Plot Diagram (1 page)
· Final Test (2 Options) (2 pages each)
· Answer Keys (8 pages)
Vocabulary: -In general, the goal for finding vocabulary words within a novel is to have students encounter words they may not have seen or heard before and then understand their meaning in the text and their everyday lives.
What is Included: 31 Pages
· Goals and Instructional Pages for Teacher
· Master Word Lists (3 pages)
· Student Dictionary (11 pages)
· Crossword Puzzles (3 pages)
· Word Search (1 page)
· Vocabulary in Context Worksheet (2 pages)
· Final Test (1 page)
· Answer Keys (6 pages)
This Bundle also includes a Bundle Guide: 8 Pages ($3 value)
· Goals and Instructions for the Bundle
· Brief Bundle Overview
· Full Bundle Lesson Plans (helps combine the two units into one)
Look to pair this Bundle with other Nutcracker Christmas School Activities. A complete 20-Day Christmas School Unit is available as a bundle through my website or TeachShare storefront.
A Midsummer Night's Dream Literature Guide
By Language Arts Excellence
This resource features a comprehensive literature guide for use while reading Shakespeare's most beloved comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. The packet provides an excellent basis for comprehension and vocabulary acquisition for the play and promotes strong reader response by encouraging students to connect and have fun with this highly relatable text! The wide range of activities in this guide from daily journal prompts, illustration activity, and a creative writing assignment to the final essay questions will keep your students engaged throughout and help them to gain a deep understanding of possibly their first interaction with the great William Shakespeare. A full answer key is provided for this guide.
Product Includes:
- Student cover page
- Anticipation guide
- Journal Prompts
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension questions
- Love Arrows Graphic Organizer
- Creative writing journal entry assignment
- MSND artwork assignment
- Essay Prompts & Rubric
- Answer Key
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Also, check out these great products by Language Arts Excellence to complement your unit on A Midsummer Night's Dream:
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⭐ Shakespeare ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ Elizabethan England Differentiated Mini Unit
⭐ A Midsummer Night's Dream ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ A Midsummer Night's Dream Puzzles
⭐ A Midsummer Night's Dream Socratic Lesson Plan and Materials
⭐ A Midsummer Night's Dream Anticipation Activity
⭐ A Midsummer Night's Dream HOT SEAT!
⭐ A Midsummer Night's Dream Social Media Materials
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Figurative Language in 2017 Hit Music PowerPoint
By Language Arts Excellence
Get it while it's H-O-T! Help your students practice identifying figurative language devices with this engaging and totally current powerpoint presentation using only the Top-100 Billboard Hits of 2017! This fun and colorful 34-slide presentation is the perfect print-and-go lesson for any time in the school year. Each slide features lines from the top songs of 2017 with figurative language from artists such as Alessia Cara, Imagine Dragons, Sam Hunt, Ed Sheeran, and The Chainsmokers. Also included is a student answer sheet (both in color and black/white) for students to identify the figurative language exemplified in each lyric. The lesson run time is approximately 30 minutes but will vary on the age of your students and is a great way to have a little fun with your students' favorite music without sacrificing learning. Your students will love seeing how their favorite songs are just brimming with figurative language and will appreciate your willingness to relate to them through contemporary music! Presentation covers: - Metaphor - Simile - Hyperbole - Oxymoron - Idiom - Personification - Onomatopoeia - Allusion - Alliteration Powerpoint also includes directions, a colorful student answer sheet, black/white answer sheet, answer key for teachers, and index card-size word banks in color and black/white. ___________________________________________________________________________________ You can also save 20% by purchasing this product in a bundle along with the Figurative Language in 2017 Hit Music PowerPoint! ⭐ Figurative Language in 2017 Hit Music PowerPoint & Task Card BUNDLE __________________________________________________________________________________ Get more practice with figurative language with these related products by Language Arts Excellence: ⭐ Figurative Language in 2017 Hit Music Task Cards ⭐ Figurative Language in Animated Film Songs PowerPoint
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⭐ Christmas Song Figurative Language PowerPoint Presentation
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A Midsummer Night's Dream Activity BUNDLE
By Language Arts Excellence
Now with newly added material!
This resource features a bundle of all of our best-selling lesson plans, materials, and activities for Shakespeare's beloved comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Each product is thoughtfully crafted and allows students to think outside the box by delving deeply into the play's themes, characters, and plot development. Lessons have all been classroom-tested and allow for differentiation while encouraging optimal student engagement. Comprehension questions, vocabulary words, and journal prompts for each scene are included so that students may achieve a basic level of understanding of the play, however the real winners in this bundle are the rest of the materials that bring the play to life!
Included in this bundle:
⭐ A Midsummer Night's Dream Literature Guide
This resource features a comprehensive literature guide for use while reading A Midsummer Night's Dream. The packet provides an excellent basis for comprehension and vocabulary acquisition for the play and promotes strong reader response by encouraging students to connect and have fun with this highly relatable text! The wide range of activities in this guide from daily journal prompts, illustration activity, and a creative writing assignment to the final essay questions will keep your students engaged throughout and help them to gain a deep understanding of possibly their first interaction with the great William Shakespeare. A full answer key is provided for this guide.
⭐ A Midsummer Night's Dream Anticipation Activity
This product features a fun and engaging pre-reading activity for A Midsummer Night's Dream called "Tossing Lines." Give your students a chance to become familiar with the lines before they even begin reading the play. This is a prediction activity that encourages critical thinking and actually gets students excited to start reading Shakespeare! Over the years, this non-intimidating approach to Shakespeare has been the most often requested anticipatory activity that I do with my students.
⭐ A Midsummer Night's Dream Bell-Ringer Prompts
One of my goals in teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream is for my students to be able to easily relate to the play. I begin each day with a reflective bell-ringer journal prompt that allows students to connect with the day's scene. These prompts are tried and true and encourage deep thinking from students but more importantly, they allow students to understand the timelessness of the play and Shakespeare in general.
⭐ A Midsummer Night's Dream Socratic Seminar Lesson Plan and Materials
This resource features lesson plans and materials to conduct a formal set of Socratic Seminars for Shakespeare's most beloved comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Socratic Seminars (or "Fish Bowl" Conversations as referred to in this resource) are higher order ways of assessing whether your students are able to understand and react to your class texts. These seminars rely on the power of inquiry and allow students to take the lead in their learning and discussion. The only problem? They require a great deal of preparation. Fortunately, this student-tested resource includes everything you need to conduct a structured and formal set of Socratic Seminars in your classroom surrounding the play... and no preparation is required by you at all.
⭐ A Midsummer Night's Dream Social Media Materials
This resource features two fun, interactive activities to bring A Midsummer Night's Dream into the current day! In this 50 minute lesson plan with accompanying materials, your classroom will transform into a real life "tweeter-world" in which students will create tweeter accounts for characters in the novel and interact with one another through their tweeter pages. The Snap Chatter worksheet and assignment is perfect for an engaging homework or sub-plan that your students will look forward to working on and sharing with their friends. Your students will thank you for offering such fun ways to connect with the play and will not even realize how much they are learning by digging deep into the text. Both activities work perfectly for a Friday or any day that students need a mental break and a chance to tap into their creativity!
⭐ A Midsummer Night's Dream HOT SEAT!
This resource features all the materials you need to conduct a thoughtful and engaging "HOT SEAT" for A Midsummer Night's Dream. The hot seat is set up essentially like a talk show, however in order to allow for full class participation, there are multiple interviewers and multiple character guests. Through role play, this lesson tests your students' understanding of the play and allows them to showcase their knowledge of the characters and the relationships between them.
⭐ A Midsummer Night's Dream ESCAPE ROOM
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 A Midsummer Night's Dream 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 Escape Room for A Midsummer Night's Dream. 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!
⭐ A Midsummer Night's Dream Human Tic Tac Toe Review Game
This resource features a lesson plan and materials for the Human Tic Tac Toe Review Game, an engaging and competitive way to review A Midsummer Night's Dream. Let's face it, review days can be difficult... and boring... so your students will appreciate you making learning fun with this collaborative game. The resource includes not only a meticulously detailed lesson plan and set-up instructions, but 75 questions on characters, plot, quotations, and vocabulary from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Besides simple set-up, very little preparation is needed for this lesson and if your students are like mine, they will ask for this form of review for every unit of study!
⭐ A Midsummer Night's Dream Essay Prompts & Rubric
This product contains 9 thoughtful essay prompts for A Midsummer Night's Dream, all perfect for a 5 paragraph essay or a short open response for a test (I have used them in both ways). A detailed rubric is also included.
⭐ A Midsummer Night's Dream Puzzles
This resource features 3 fun puzzles that focus on elements from A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is the perfect activity for when a school vacation is coming up and you’re scrounging for lesson ideas or when you need a quick sub plan during your Midsummer Night's Dream unit. I like to use it prior to a break; while so many other classes are watching movies, you have three activities that will keep them busy and challenge their knowledge about the play.
⭐ A Midsummer Night's Dream Quote Posters - newly added!
Make your classroom pop with this set of 30 beautifully-made posters featuring quotes from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Each 7.5 x 7.5 (square) PDF poster contains a noteworthy quote from the play imposed over a stunning photograph that will spruce up your ELA classroom. The square format is reminiscent of Instagram and makes for an eye-catching arrangement on your wall or bulletin board. I suggest laminating the posters and using them not just during your Macbeth unit, but all year long!
Buying this bundle saves OVER 20% off the price of these resources.
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Easter word search with Answer (50 words)
By SheetHub
Engage your students this Easter season with an exciting and educational word search activity! This Easter Word Search is perfect for classrooms, homeschooling, or just as a fun holiday activity at home. Designed with vibrant Easter-themed graphics, this printable puzzle is sure to captivate children's attention while reinforcing their vocabulary and spelling skills.
Features:
Engage your students in the Easter spirit while they develop their language skills with this engaging word search activity! Download now and make learning fun this Easter season!
(3rd) Third Grade Spelling Unit - Lists, Practice, and Assess - First Nine Weeks
By Sassycat Corner
This 3rd grade spelling and program is a COMPLETE resource for NO PREP spelling lessons . Your CLASS will love the fun printables and activities included in this complete third grade spelling unit! Everything you need for a complete spelling curriculum is included: complete and blank weekly lesson plans for the teacher, spelling lists, sample dictation or test sentences, worksheets for practice, puzzles, multiple choice tests, dictation test forms, spelling forms for any list and more! Just PRINT and GO!
Please click on the PREVIEW above to download lists for the first 9 weeks, PLUS all of lesson 1, including answer keys.
This resource contains everything you need to teach 3rd grade spelling for the first nine weeks of the year. It was created after I spent hours this summer studying many various third grade lists, as well as the most important phonics and spelling patterns for third graders. It will help your students master words for specific spelling rules and patterns, as well as touching upon types of words, such as homophones and compound words (4th quarter).
Each list has 20 words that have a common pattern, prefix, suffix, or rule. The words have been well-researched and carefully built to help your third graders develop a stronger vocabulary, as well as spelling mastery.
Each week's list includes the following pages:
• Teacher Help pages: Objectives, spelling rule of the week, optional lesson plans (complete and blank), spelling word list
• Spelling Pre-Test and Post-Test sentences
• Printable Spelling Word List
• Spelling Pre-Test and Post-Test
• 10 worksheets and puzzle pages for plenty of practice to choose from
• Blank spelling activities for any list as well as spelling game / station ideas
• Answer keys
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(3rd) Third Grade Spelling Unit - Lists, Practice, and Assess - First Nine Weeks
By Sassycat Corner
This 3rd grade spelling and program is a COMPLETE resource for NO PREP spelling lessons . Your CLASS will love the fun printables and activities included in this complete third grade spelling unit! Everything you need for a complete spelling curriculum is included: complete and blank weekly lesson plans for the teacher, spelling lists, sample dictation or test sentences, worksheets for practice, puzzles, multiple choice tests, dictation test forms, spelling forms for any list and more! Just PRINT and GO!
Please click on the PREVIEW above to download lists for the first 9 weeks, PLUS all of lesson 1, including answer keys.
This resource contains everything you need to teach 3rd grade spelling for the first nine weeks of the year. It was created after I spent hours this summer studying many various third grade lists, as well as the most important phonics and spelling patterns for third graders. It will help your students master words for specific spelling rules and patterns, as well as touching upon types of words, such as homophones and compound words (4th quarter).
Each list has 20 words that have a common pattern, prefix, suffix, or rule. The words have been well-researched and carefully built to help your third graders develop a stronger vocabulary, as well as spelling mastery.
Each week's list includes the following pages:
• Teacher Help pages: Objectives, spelling rule of the week, optional lesson plans (complete and blank), spelling word list
• Spelling Pre-Test and Post-Test sentences
• Printable Spelling Word List
• Spelling Pre-Test and Post-Test
• 10 worksheets and puzzle pages for plenty of practice to choose from
• Blank spelling activities for any list as well as spelling game / station ideas
• Answer keys
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FOLLOW ME to be notified when new products are uploaded. New products are always 50% off for the first 48 hours they are posted.
Where Question FREEBIE - Inside & Outside - WH- Question NO PREP Speech Activity
By The SLP Curriculum
This resource serves as a great way to teach speech language therapy students or English language learners how to answer WHERE questions. The explicit instruction of INSIDE or OUTSIDE is essential for children to be able to answer certain WHERE questions, while also providing opportunity for vocabulary development. This coloring worksheets help with repeated practice of the wh- question "where" that is often difficult for our students.
Included in this resource:
Where Question Information Sheet
NO PREP coloring worksheets for younger students
Follow The SLP Curriculum for start-to-finish resources!
Is your student stuck on Before and After? Try this!
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When Question FREEBIE - Morning, Afternoon, Night - NO PREP - Time of the Day
By The SLP Curriculum
This resource serves as a great way to teach speech language therapy students or English language learners how to answer WHEN questions. The explicit instruction of time of day (Morning, Afternoon, Night) and time on a clock is essential for children to be able to answer certain WHEN questions, while also providing opportunity for vocabulary development. These visual aids, task cards, sentence model strips, sorting worksheets, and coloring worksheets will walk you through the instruction of beginner WHEN questions step-by-step.
Included in this resource:
NO PREP coloring worksheets for younger students.
Sentence Frames for guided production of complete sentences.
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5th Grade Spelling Words School Year List review and test list included
By Tomorrowcomes
Spelling words for fifth grade students. This contains 30 lists of 15 words each, 6 lists of 20 words for review, which can be divided out over the course of the year, and 3 lists of final review containing 25 words. Check out more 5th grade spelling worksheets which will be coming soon and book reviews from my store.
5th Grade spelling 30 weeks of new words plus review and test weeks
By Tomorrowcomes
Printable spelling words for fifth grade students. This contains 30 lists of 15 words each, 6 lists of 20 words for review, which can be divided out over the course of the year, and 3 lists of final review containing 25 words. Also included practice worksheets for students to engage and interact with the spelling words.
Look What Came From Mexico by Miles Harvey Comprehension Packet
By Sarah Anderson
This packet goes along with the book " Look What Came From Mexico" by Michael Harvey.
I used this resource with one of my guided reading groups. They work for the most part independently and are given a to do list and an activity packet to do throughout the week. The last thing I had students do was have them create a basic travel brochure to Mexico using the things they learned.
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Just Juice by Karen Hesse Comprehension Packet
By Sarah Anderson
I used this resource with one of my guided reading groups. They completed the packet as they read the story "Just Juice" by Karen Hesse. If they finished they could choose from the extra activities. Answer key is included!
Lexile: 690L
Guided Reading Level: Q
AR Level: 3.8
AR Quiz Number: 30692
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Great Americans Series of Biographies Fun History - Thomas Jefferson
By Iconic History
As time moves on, 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 worksheet 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 the quote 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.
Great Americans Series of Biographies Fun History - Sandra Day O'Connor
By Iconic History
As time moves on, 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 worksheet 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 the quote 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.