ELA/Writing

DOWNLOAD THE FREE PREVIEW HERE Students love learning when learning is fun! This Crosswords Puzzle allows students to review their knowledge of key parts of speech and grammar vocabulary while enjoying the challenge of completing an individual puzzle...

Students will look up an adjective or verb that can be used to describe a positive characteristic that has been displayed in history. Students will be researching examples in history and will be drawing a poster to illustrate what this word means. There...

Purpose: The purpose of this FRAME is to give students an outline in writing informational essays. By incorporating sentence stems into the FRAME model, we are also providing differentiation and support to EL students, as well as our native speakers...

Anyone ever ask their students to write a "Character Sketch" and gotten a drawing handed to them? No? Just me?? This Graphic Organizer helps students understand what a "Character Sketch" is by outlining the connections between Indirect and Direct...

Scared to introduce Socratic Seminars to your class? Or just looking to take your Socratic Seminars to the next level? This Supplement Pack will instantly simplify your Seminars! Includes: Detailed Socratic Seminar Teacher directions for anyone new...

Whatever happened to the kids going home exhausted at the end of the day, instead of the teachers?   Put the "heavy lifting" on the kids with this fun and easy Figurative Language BINGO Review! Perfect for Middle & High School!...

When BARTHOLOMEW BUNDT receives a new house for Christmas, he's overjoyed. The timing couldn't be more perfect, thanks to a certain crazy frog and his explosive appetite for monster pizza. But when Bartholomew realizes that his new house is built near...

Do you want more no-prep reading passages? This is a non-fiction reading passage for middle school or high school that includes critical thinking questions about the history of Pancake Tuesday. As I create reading passage sets, I make sure...

These 42 unique Pragmatic Scenarios for Middle & High School can be used in a multiple of ways: hand them out as task cards, use the 6-block form and have students answer six at stations; pose them as discussion questions in small or large groups-...

These 28 task cards each have an AP style- question stem that your students can use with any piece of literature or nonfiction reading. Use these cards to help students write their own questions and answer their peers questions. Great practice for the...

The ACE writing strategy helps writers focus on Answering the question in their claim, Citing examples form the text and Explaining the examples they picked. This package includes two posters (one written as statements and one as questions), two half...

This product includes a graphic organizer (found in the previews) in which students are responsible for researching a current events article or topic. This activity is designed to be completed in groups of 3-5. Instructions for grouping is included with...