ELA/Writing

100 Creative Drawings to Get Your Kids to Use Their Imaginations Great for Back to School, Holiday Breaks, and Anytime! These simple, engaging exercises will get your kids using the creative sides of their brains. They are great as a morning warm up...

Summer Quiz. End of semester Quiz - Over 10 different rounds and 50 different Questions. End of term Year Quiz.  What specific expectations are addressed? Explore why summer is important  Understand the benefits of team work through...

Teachers can hang these posters in their classroom library, around the room, or print them smaller so that students can have copies to refer back to while reading. 

A presentation that can be used to apply close reading to any text (I used it with articles from Scope and short stories.) It explains each close reading strategy (Connections, Writer's Style, and Analysis) and color codes each strategy. Have students...

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This EDITABLE Class Procedures Scavenger Hunt is a fun way to share your procedures and routines with your students without boring them! Get them up and out of their seats to search your room for information about your class procedures which they can...

20 black and white MLK and related images accompanied by critical thinking journaling or writing prompts. These can be used as debate topics, dialogue starters, story starters, and warm-ups. Can be used as as complete MLK unit (Extra Resources-see below)...

I used this with my yth (special education) reading class with Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, but you can do this project with any book (or an independent reading book).Visualization is an important component to comprehension.This listing includes a...

As a middle school teacher, I believe that teaching students to write a research paper is the most important skill that I can give them. This unit is meant to have students go step by step through The Writing Process in order to write a MLA-Style...