ELA

Have you explicitly taught the steps to write informative, opinion, and narrative writing, and your kids are still not ready to write independently? Use these interactive writing puzzles for test prep to help remind your class with words, pictures, and...

Before I began using the SPADE Close Reading Strategies, my students really struggled with annotating informational text.  They often used different colored highlighters to cover the page with pretty colors. Needless to say, this strategy did not...

Before I began using the SPADE Close Reading Strategies, my students really struggled with annotating informational text.  They often used different colored highlighters to cover the page with pretty colors. Needless to say, this strategy did not...

41 page across-curriculum Comic Book Writing lesson plan has guidelines and materials needed for classroom comic book writing. Revised to Include:Conquering the "I Can't Draw" SyndromeColorful student examplesSupply listComics timeline (history of...

Are your students struggling to develop a greater meaning behind the text? This Mardi Gras Close Reading Passage is perfect to help students learn about the history of Mardi Gras and develop deeper reading comprehension skills. This set includes 2...

This set of St. Patrick's Day math review and ELA practice activities and is wonderful for 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade. Use it this March to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication (factors, products, and multiples), order of operations, data...

This resources contains 152 pages of worksheets, answer keys, games, and other fun English language arts practice based on grade 2 common core ELA standards. The worksheets can be used throughout the school year and are conveniently organized into...

This product takes the novel "Holes" by Louis Sachar, and working through each of the fifty chapters through the three parts of the novel, sets a range of comprehension questions to explore the novel and develop the reading and comprehension skills of...

This product takes the novel "Pugs of the Frozen North" by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre, and working through each of the fourteen chapters, sets a range of comprehension questions to explore the novel and develop the reading and comprehension skills...

This 30 page reading and activity packet was designed for use with Emma Kate by Patricia Polacco. It includes: . character comparisons . graphic organizers . vocabulary work .reading comprehension .story mapping and retelling .text-to-self...

This product has been designed to support our students use better vocabulary in their writing. We have been encouraging our students to remove informal language from their formal writing activities and genres and have been introducing formal language...

This product uses Powerpoint to introduce students to 103 different informal words and their formal counterparts. We designed this product to support the formal elements of writing within our students fiction and non-fiction writing. The aim of the...