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This handout has been created to help both teachers and students learn how to develop themes in literature properly.
This handout includes step by step instructions on how to develop a theme in paragraph form.
I hope you enjoy it! It’s teaching made easy!
The goal of this game is to help students memorize and understand FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE through the use of games. Playing rather than memorizing is a fun activity that will engage students in a classroom.
Included in this purchase is the MASTER SHEET, which contains the answers, attractive STUDENT CARDS, which you can print and cut out in colour (on card stock and laminate for sustainable use), and A SET OF RULES explaining how the game works.
This package contains 23 cards and 12 extra blank cards in case you have a bigger class.
It’s teaching made easy!
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This document will help the teacher assess the quality of the novels that were chosen for the literature circles.
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This document has been created as a preamble to the literature circle. In order to ensure success of literature circles, the teacher must first choose novels that will interest students and challenge them academically. This document has been created to do just that.
I hope it helps.
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by The Creative Classroom
5th – 12th Grade
This zip file includes the Facebook Character Profile in three formats: Powerpoint, Keynote, and PDF. Students are able to create a Facebook page for characters they have read about in short stories, poetry, or novels.
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by It’s a Teacher Thing
Kindergarten – 12th Grade
Free! The Positive Thought Posters were created with the idea of spreading just that: POSITIVE THOUGHTS. I wanted something in my classroom that kids could read when their eyes are wandering. I also have them on the door, so when students leave the posters are the last thing they see. Recently, I’ve put them up all over our campus for the entire middle school population to enjoy.
I hope you find them inspiring.
ENJOY! You might also enjoy a few of my other products:
Combined Text Evidence Proof Frame Bundle
Reading Response Fans with Categorized Prompts
Literature Circles Unit for Book Clubs
Bundled Seasonal Figurative Language Task Cards
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This is a great way to teach students how to properly structure their essay.
The Three Paragraph Essay is a resource that is best used for novice essay writers. It is a great way to introduce the expository essay. The 2 page pdf document includes simple step-by-step instructions to teach students how to write an effective three paragraph essay.
I recommend using this document with students who are in grades 7-9. It is an effective and simple way of learning how to write a proper introduction, a one paragraph development, and a conclusion that serves a purpose.
It’s teaching made easy!
by Meg’s Crayons
Pre-Kindergarten – 12th Grade
This freebie is to help those teachers that have used ripped corners from notebooks, sticky notes that don’t stick and coffee stained paper to write a last minute note to send home. These cute-i-fied notes offer the opportunity for you to send home a last minute note that has some pizazz for FREE! Want to add your signature or email?! GO FOR IT! This product is editable and was created to make your life easier.
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This rubric was created to help students understand exactly what is expected of them for this evaluation. It is also an excellent tool to assess students’ progress and final product.
This self assessment rubric is part of bundle as well.
Self-evaluation grids are a great way to guide students in their evaluations. Students will know exactly what is expected of them and will be made responsible for their own success. This package can also easily be changed to be used as peer-evaluations.
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by SpanishPlans
5th – 11th Grade
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Teach grammar in a creative and meaningful way. No more boring grammar. grammar
Simplify your life and make grammar fun and effective.
One of the biggest challenges I had in my English classes was how to fit in grammar with everything else I had to teach. I would give students grammar pages and then we would correct them together. It was tedious and it took forever! What’s more is that students were not learning the way I wanted them to. They wouldn’t apply what they had learned from the grammar pages and activities.
I found a solution!
Grammar Circles. Grammar Circles are very similar to literature circles in the sense that students are teaching one another grammar. It is a fun and functional way to teach and learn grammar. Although, this may be done individually, it can also be completed as a group where students, through a specific process outlined in the package, teach one another grammar. They also correct the work together, so the teacher has very little to do.
The package includes:
1) A Student Packet – which contains the Literature Circle directions, the notes, directions, and activities, and a “Mark Calculation” page to keep track of their marks. (16 pages)
Activities included focus on:
-the logistics of the sentence (the basic parts)
-the prepositional phrase
-the adjective phrase
-the adverb phrase
-the verbal phrase
-the appositive phrase
-the independent and subordinate clauses
-subjects and predicates
-fragments
-run-on sentences
-types of sentences
2) A teacher Guide with easy to follow instructions on how to organize the Grammar Circles.
3) The Answer Key – devised to allow students to correct their own work and learn from one another.
For those who are from Ontario, Canada – this unit adheres to the Grade 9 English Curriculum (academic). The unit can be taught in any grade to about sentences.
(27 pages total for this unit)
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Parts of Speech Grammar Circles (Superhero Themed)
Super Hero Themed Parts of Speech Posters (FREE)
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by Science Etc
5th – 8th Grade
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
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This “Cheat Sheet” was designed to help students while writing in English. This at a glance 2 page sheet is colorful and has an easy to find layout to help students remember certain important things while they write.
I allow my students to use this in class when writing a test. This is not a grammar lesson, but it will remind students about the grammar they’ve learned in the past.
Some of the reminders included:
– parts of speech
– transitional words
– quotation marks (how and when to use them)
– basic sentence structure
– spelling tips (plurals of nouns and IE rule)
– puncutaion rules (apostrophe, colon, semicolon
The other side of the page has comma rules:
– with coordinate conjunctions
-with introductory elements
– with other elements (dates, parenthetical expression, nouns in a direct address)
– with adjectives
-with apositives
It also contains tips on things to avoid, such as writing a paragraph shorter than 4 sentences. And, it contains a list of things to do, such as make sure that your paragraphs contain at least 2 pieces of evidence.
It’s teaching made easy!
by Jessica Osborne
2nd – 7th Grade
Adjectives! These wheels are used to help students practice creating interesting adjectives to describe nouns. The first page has the nouns listed for the students to describe as well as an example of what choosing an “interesting” adjective looks like. For example, “giant” instead of “big,” and “emerald” instead of “green”. The second page allows their imagination to lead them to choosing their own nouns to describe.
A group discussion after completing the first page would allow students to compare answers and share reasons for their adjective choices before going on to the second page on their own. This often leads to the students striving for even better, higher quality adjective choices on the second page.
Move on toward using adjectives in their writing with Adjectives Exploration!
You may also be interested in:
–Character Analysis Graphic Organizer: SLATE Chart (for any book)
–Prediction Graphic Organizers for any text
– Graphic Organizer: Note Taking for any novel (EEQ-Event/Emotion/Quote)
– Adjectives Games
– Adjectives Exploration: Drawing & Labeling, Writing, Identifying
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by The Lab
6th – 12th Grade
Interactive Notebook activity to summarize the steps in preparing a soluble salt.
This activity works well as a review before or after a lab.
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Preparing Salts (Copper chloride lab)
Preparing Salts (Zinc sulpahte lab)
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by Laura Candler
3rd – 7th Grade
Thankful Writing is a lesson plan and a set of printables for teaching students to write a simple expository paper about the things they are thankful for. You’ll find directions for introducing this easy expository format, leading a brainstorming session, and working with students as they complete Thanksgiving essays. The best part is that they can glue their essays into a folder, decorate them, and share them with their families on Thanksgiving Day!
This lesson is newly revised, but it’s still the same basic lesson. If you’ve used it before and like the updates, please leave feedback. Thanks!
free writing activities, Thanksgiving, thanksgiving, expository writing, writing, creative writing, writing lessons, Thanksgiving writing, Thanksgiving activities, Thanksgiving lessons, expository writing lessons, writing essays, essay writing lessons, Laura Candler
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by JoyceAnna D’Alessandro
7th – 12th Grade
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by Omega English
4th – 12th Grade
Total Numbers of Pages 5
This Omega English Handout product contains a 3 page handout on developing strong research question. To help students focus and develop their questions it also includes a catchy acronym and a 2 page checklist with a comments/reflection section.
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Adaptable Short Story Chart
This short story chart is perfectly adapted to all fiction (short stories, novels, plays….)
The document includes an explanation page as well as pages for students to complete.
It is excellent way to have students identify the different parts of plot.
It includes the following elements:
-narration
-Plot (initial situation, climax…)
-Setting
-Characterization
-Memorable quotes
-Themes
It’s teaching made easy!
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/English-Grammar-Cheat-Sheet-1060635
This “Cheat Sheet” was designed to help students while writing in English. This at a glance 2 page sheet is colorful and has an easy to find layout to help students remember certain important things while they write.
I allow my students to use this in class when writing a test. This is not a grammar lesson, but it will remind students about the grammar they’ve learned in the past.
Some of the reminders included:
– parts of speech
– transitional words
– quotation marks (how and when to use them)
– basic sentence structure
– spelling tips (plurals of nouns and IE rule)
– puncutaion rules (apostrophe, colon, semicolon
The other side of the page has comma rules:
– with coordinate conjunctions
-with introductory elements
– with other elements (dates, parenthetical expression, nouns in a direct address)
– with adjectives
-with apositives
It also contains tips on things to avoid, such as writing a paragraph shorter than 4 sentences. And, it contains a list of things to do, such as make sure that your paragraphs contain at least 2 pieces of evidence.
It’s teaching made easy!
Posted by Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern
It’s BOO-tober and time for October Teacher Talk. Getting ready for Halloween and other Autumn holidays, you don’t want to miss this issue of Teacher Talk. So hurry on over to see what these creative educators have to say for this month.
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Journals: From a Kid’s Point of View
By Retta London of Rainbow City Learning
Part one of a blog series about journaling, as told by fourth graders!
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BOO-Tober Time for Sensory Poetry
By Deann Marin of Socrates Lantern
It’s BOOtober and the perfect time to get those creative juices flowing in your 5-8 grade students. Fall is the perfect season for this. Can’t you just hear the rustling of leaves under your feet, or the howling wind as the days begin to grow colder. How about biting into that first crisp red apple of the season. I just love Macouns, my tongue waters as I think about the tart sweetness of my favorite fruit.
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BOO! MEOW! EEK! WHHOO! HA-HA-HA!
By Gini Musmanno of Reading Spotlight
The natural rhythm of songs and poetry enhances fluency, especially for beginning and struggling readings. Add fun with sound effects and then add even more fun by recording the results!
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Multiply the Fun
By Kathie Yonemura of Tried and True Teaching Tools
Combine task cards with QR code and students BEG to practice multiplication!
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Make Math FUN this Halloween!
By Sara Snyder of Snyder Classroom
Make Math FUN this Halloween with these engaging Math Riddles! Each problem corresponds to a letter that helps to solve the riddle at the bottom of the page. My students love these!
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3 Ways for AAC Users to Get their Game Face On
By Susan Berkowitz of Susan Berkowitz
If you’re looking for some fun and spooky Halloween activities for speech-language therapy, here are some ideas for you, and a free resource, too.
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Halloween STEM Challenge: Ghosts in the Graveyard
Keep your kids engaged this Halloween with spooky STEM challenges!
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Pumpkin Themed Activities and Resources
By Alison Monk of the Literacy Garden
It’s that time of year again! Pumpkin mania!! Yes, I am also quite a fan of everything PUMPKIN. I love the soothing taste of a Pumpkin Spice Chai Tea or the delightful aroma of pumpkin scented soaps and air fragrances. And don’t forget the pumpkin roll with the cream cheese filling!!! So, now that you are drooling with me, how about some pumpkin ideas for your home and classroom?
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Math Routines to Boost Student Achievement
By Shametria Routt of The Routty Math Teacher
Check out four classroom routines that will allow you to use your time both effectively and efficiently, increase critical thinking skills, and boost student achievement at the same time. This series highlights four of my favorite routines: starters, number talks, math talks, and daily problem solving. These routines are tried and true and through this series I share how I made them work for me and my students in my own classroom.
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Positive Behavioral Supports for PreK Classrooms
As I began working on a new Visual Schedule project for PreK, I did a little digging into research-based practices to support positive behaviors in preschool classrooms. What did I find?
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Setting Up Captivating Stations
By Mary Moore of Moore Resources
As I was considering how to do these and captivate interest, I decided to utilize my new ‘math stations idea’ and create ” Colorful Captivating Station Bags”. To create these great engaging station bags….read more at MMooreEducationalResources.com/blog
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Be sure to visit the blog posts in the linky for more details about these awesome ideas for the month of October.
The Fishbowl activity is mostly useful during literature circles or in a novel study. Quite literally, the group in the center is being watched by the rest of the class, while they are discussing elements of fiction. This activity is a very important tool in order to teach students how group discussions should run, what is to be said, and how it is to be said. Many times the leader of the discussion doesn’t know how to prompt members to elaborate upon their contributions. This will certainly help.
In addition, it is often difficult for a teacher to evaluate these discussions, which is the reason I have created this package. It is easy to use and you can merely check boxes to quickly assess each member of the groups.
This package contains:
• An explanation of The Fishbowl Activity
• How to run a Fishbowl Activity (within the realm of a literature circle)
• Why such an activity is important
• Evaluation sheets one can use to easily evaluate the discussions and roles of students
It’s teaching made easy!
The goal of this game is to help students memorize and understand FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE through the use of games. Playing rather than memorizing is a fun activity that will engage students in a classroom.
Included in this purchase is the MASTER SHEET, which contains the answers, attractive STUDENT CARDS, which you can print and cut out in colour (on card stock and laminate for sustainable use), and A SET OF RULES explaining how the game works.
This package contains 23 cards and 12 extra blank cards in case you have a bigger class.
It’s teaching made easy!
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This is a great way to teach students how to properly structure their essay.
The Three Paragraph Essay is a resource that is best used for novice essay writers. It is a great way to introduce the expository essay. The 2 page pdf document includes simple step-by-step instructions to teach students how to write an effective three paragraph essay.
I recommend using this document with students who are in grades 7-9. It is an effective and simple way of learning how to write a proper introduction, a one paragraph development, and a conclusion that serves a purpose.
It’s teaching made easy!
Self-evaluation grids are a great way to guide students in their evaluations. Students will know exactly what is expected of them and will be made responsible for their own success. This package can also easily be changed to be used as peer evaluations.
Included within this document are over 20 different self-evaluation grids.
These self-evaluation grids are also very helpful to teachers:
Helps the teacher justify the final mark;
Helps the teacher create meaningful evaluation grids;
Helps to identify students’ weaknesses and strengths;
Helps parents and students better understand the task required;
Helps teachers create rubrics for the final evaluation.
This package was created in a Word document in order to be easily modified and changed according to the individual teacher’s needs.
This self-evaluation package contains self-evaluation grids for:
Newspaper article
Short story writing (intermediate and senior)
Essay writing (various different types)
Essay evaluation rubrics (for teacher –with and without sources)
Independent study unit
Research paper
Skits
Board game
Group work
Opinion piece
Editorial
Friendly letter
Debate
Movie review
Journals
Scrapbook
Seminar
Speech
Riddle writing
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by Positively Pre-Algebra Plus
7th – 9th Grade
Equivalent Ratios, fraction decimal percent conversions – here are two FREE fall-themed worksheets to help students review these concepts! Use these printables as warmups, math centers, holiday activity, concept review, as sub work, with a partner or a formative assessment. A full answer key is provided.
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Real Number System Task Cards
Unit Rates Proportional Thinking and Models Unit
Multiple Representations of Linear Functions
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Automated Comment Generator for SPEECHES
This document has been created to help teachers evaluate students during the speech evaluation. It is created in a Microsoft Word document so that you can easily modify it to suit your particular classroom needs. (You also have the option to copy and paste the entire page, or certain elements.) The document is completely modifiable, even the comments. The “grunt work” has been done for you.
This quickens the evaluation process and will help the teacher to write down information more quickly. This particular document has been embedded with drop down boxes with comments on: elements of persuasion and argumentation, communication, the quality of information, the quality of sources, and the quality of visual aids.
Please see the preview for a better idea of how this product can help you to assess your students.It’s teaching made easy!
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Essay Evaluation Comments with Drop Down Boxes
FREE Group Work Comment Sheet with Drop Down Boxes
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Superhero themed Parts of speech Grammar Circle Unit
One of the biggest challenges I had in my English classes was how to fit grammar in with everything else I had to teach. I would give students grammar pages and then we would correct them together. It was tedious and it took forever! What’s more is that students were not learning the way I wanted them to. They wouldn’t apply what they had learned from the grammar pages and activities.
I found a solution!
Grammar Circles. Grammar Circles are very similar to literature circles in the sense that students are teaching one another grammar. It is a fun and functional way to teach and Learn grammar. Although, this may be done individually, it can also be completed as a group where students, through a specific process outlined in the package, teach one another grammar. They also correct the work together, so the teacher has very little to do other than to facilitate and supervise.
Once these circles have been implimented and students know who their group members are and what they are supposed to do, it is a great prep to leave a supply teacher.
The package includes:
1) A Student Packet – which contains the Literature Circle directions, the notes and activities, and a “Mark Calculation” page to keep track of their marks. (27 pages)
Activities included focus on:
-nouns
-adjectives
-verbs
-adverbs
-prepositions
-conjunctions
-putting in all together
-correct use of pronouns
-who and whom
-that and which
-who’s and whose
-that and who
-pronoun case
-pronoun agreement
-active and passive voice
-verb tenses (present, past, future)
-verb uses (consistency in verb tenses)
2) A teacher Guide with easy to follow instructions on how to organize the Grammar Circles.
3) The Answer Key – devised to allow students to correct their own work and learn from one another.
Also included are free Superhero Themed Parts of Speech Posters to decorate your class.
For those who are from Ontario, Canada – this unit adheres to the Grade 9 English Curriculum (academic). The unit can be taught in any grade to learn parts of speech.
(51 pages total for this unit)
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by Activities by Jill
5th – 8th Grade
Welcome autumn with this fall freebie!
Your students will add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions to figure out the Halloween joke.
“What do you use to fix a jack-o-lantern?”
You might like to pair this activity with one of the following:
– Fraction Calculation Puzzle
– Fraction Calculation Bundle (Individualized)
– Fraction Operations MATHO
– Fraction Task Cards
– Festive Fractions QR Code Task Cards
CCSS 5.NF
CCSS 6.NS
CCSS 7.NS
Jack O Lantern Fraction Freebie by Activities by Jill is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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