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Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases Review Game - Parts of Speech Activity

By OCBeachTeacher

Review prepositions with this engaging activity! Throughout this PowerPoint presentation, teams of students review prepositional phrases, including prepositions and their objects; then they compete to shoot baskets into a trash can. (Updated

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Games, Google Apps

CCSS:

L.4.1e, L.5.1a, L.5.3, L.6.2a, L.6.5b, L.7.1a, L.7.1c, L.7.3, L.8.1, L.8.2a, L.8.3...

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Parts of Speech Review Game - Nouns, Verbs, & Adjectives - Trashketball Activity

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Engage your students with a game of Parts of Speech (Nouns, Verbs & Adjectives) Trashketball. In this game, there are three rounds. In the first round, students identify nouns in the context of each sentence; the sentences increase in

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Informational Text

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Google Apps

CCSS:

L.3.1a, L.3.1c, L.3.3, L.3.4, L.3.5, L.3.6, L.4.1d, L.4.3, L.4.6, L.5.1c, L.5.3...

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Pronouns and Antecedents Agreement Trashketball Review Game - Grammar Activity

By OCBeachTeacher

This grammar game helps your students review pronouns and antecedents; students will also identify correct pronoun agreement. To start, the PowerPoint presentation briefly reviews indefinite pronouns, subject and object pronouns, and pronoun

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, EFL - ESL - ELD

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Games

CCSS:

L.6.1, L.6.1a, L.6.1c, L.6.1d, L.6.3, L.6.6, L.7.1, L.7.3, L.7.6, L.8.1, L.8.3...

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The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin with Nonfiction Text - Short Story Analysis

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Students complete close readings of two texts: Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and The Washington Post article “Study Suggests You Can Die of a Broken Heart” to make relevant connections. Students begin by completing an anticipation guide with

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Informational Text

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

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RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3, RL.9-10.4, RL.9-10.5, RL.9-10.6, RL.9-10.7, RL.9-10.10, RI.9-10.1, RI.9-10.2, RI.9-10.3...

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Grammar Trashketball Games Bundle - Grammar Practice Activities (16 Games)

By OCBeachTeacher

Teach grammar concepts and skills with these grammar trashketball games that will excite your students! These language games use active learning to help you improve student writing and to make "boring" grammar engaging. The pre-made games save you

Subjects:

Grammar, EFL - ESL - ELD, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Games

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L.4.1a, L.4.1f, L.4.1g, L.4.2c, L.5.1a, L.5.2a, L.5.2b, L.5.3a, L.6.1, L.6.1c, L.6.1d...

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Comma Rules Trashketball Review Game - Punctuation Activity - Commas Power Point

By OCBeachTeacher

Review commas with this fun Trashketball game! This PowerPoint presentation will reinforce student learning of correct comma use for the following: commas in compound sentences, commas in a series, commas for introductory phrases and clauses, and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, EFL - ESL - ELD

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Games

CCSS:

SL.8.1, L.6.1, L.6.2, L.6.2a, L.6.3, L.7.1, L.7.2, L.7.2a, L.7.3, L.8.1, L.8.2...

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Appositives and Appositive Phrases Trashketball Review Game - Grammar Activity

By OCBeachTeacher

Review appositives and engage your students with this game! During the activity, teams of students review appositive phrases and compete to shoot baskets into a trash can. For the first two rounds, students identify the appositive phrases in each

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, Homeschool

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Games

CCSS:

SL.9-10.1, L.7.1, L.7.1a, L.7.1c, L.7.2, L.7.3, L.7.3a, L.7.6, L.8.1, L.8.2, L.8.2a...

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Subject Verb Agreement Game - Grammar Activity - Power Point and Google Slides

By OCBeachTeacher

Review subject and verb agreement with this fun game! Throughout this activity, students identify correct verb forms and subjects in the context of sentences. The sentences increase in difficulty with the use of compound subjects, intervening

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, EFL - ESL - ELD

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Games, Google Apps

CCSS:

L.6.1, L.6.3, L.6.3b, L.7.1, L.7.1a, L.7.2, L.7.3, L.8.1, L.8.1d, L.8.3, L.8.5b...

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Argument Writing Bell Ringers - Claim, Evidence, Counterargument & Refutation

By OCBeachTeacher

Students practice argumentative writing with these bell-ringer handouts that require them to consider evidence for claims, brainstorm counterarguments, and provide possible refutation. Each handout starts with an engaging topic for adolescents,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Writing

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Handouts

CCSS:

W.9-10.1, W.9-10.1a, W.9-10.1b, W.9-10.1e, W.9-10.4, W.9-10.5, W.9-10.10, W.11-12.1, W.11-12.1a, W.11-12.1b, W.11-12.1e...

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Types of Sentences - Sentence Structure - Simple, Compound, Complex Review Game

By OCBeachTeacher

This trashketball game reviews the four sentence structures: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. Beginning slides review clauses, coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions, and relative pronouns before trashketball play.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Games

CCSS:

L.3.1h, L.3.1i, L.4.1, L.4.2c, L.5.1, L.5.2, L.5.3, L.5.3a, L.6.1, L.6.2, L.6.3...

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Active and Passive Voice Trashketball Game - Grammar Activity

By OCBeachTeacher

Help your students review active and passive voice in this engaging Trashketball game! In the first round, students write whether the sentences are in active or passive voice. In round two, they write whether the sentences are in active or passive

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Games

CCSS:

L.8.1, L.8.1b, L.8.3, L.8.3a, L.8.6

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Writing a Shape or Concrete Poem - Creative Writing - Mentor Texts

By OCBeachTeacher

Make reading and writing poetry fun with this lesson for Shape (Concrete) Poems. After reading poems, students use mentor texts as models for their own writing as they take their creative ideas through the writing process with a focus on the six

Subjects:

Reading, Writing, Poetry

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.6.1, RL.6.2, RL.6.4, RL.6.10, RL.7.1, RL.7.2, RL.7.4, RL.7.5, RL.7.10, RL.8.1, RL.8.2...

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Apostrophes, Possessives and Contractions - Trashketball Game - Grammar Activity

By OCBeachTeacher

Review apostrophes for contractions and possessive nouns in this engaging review game! Students compete to shoot baskets into your classroom trash can. In the first round of this grammar game, students write the contractions. In round two, they

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, EFL - ESL - ELD

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Games, Google Apps

CCSS:

L.5.1, L.5.3, L.5.6, L.6.1, L.6.1e, L.6.2, L.6.3, L.6.6, L.7.1, L.7.2, L.7.3...

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Titles - Punctuation & Capitalization - Grammar Trashketball Game and Activity

By OCBeachTeacher

Use this engaging game to help students correctly punctuate and capitalize the titles of books, plays, websites, stories, songs, poems, and more! All you need to use this activity in your classroom is the ability to project a PowerPoint

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities, Games, Google Apps

CCSS:

L.5.1, L.5.2, L.5.2d, L.5.3, L.6.1, L.6.2, L.6.3, L.7.1, L.7.2, L.7.3

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Memoirs in 100 Words - Writing with Mentor Texts - Personal Narrative Writing

By OCBeachTeacher

Students use precise word choice and eliminate redundancy in their writing with this memoir lesson. Originally inspired by The Washington Post feature, “Life is Short: Autobiography as Haiku,” students write memoirs in 100 words or fewer. This

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing, Back to School

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Google Apps

CCSS:

W.8.3, W.8.3a, W.8.3b, W.8.3c, W.8.3d, W.8.3e, W.8.4, W.8.5, W.8.6, W.8.10, W.9-10.3...

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Parts of Speech (Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs & Prepositions) Review Game

By OCBeachTeacher

Engage students with this game that reviews nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions while reading about inspiring women from around the world. In each round, students identify a part of speech in the context of a sentence; the sentences

Subjects:

Grammar, ELA Test Prep, Women's History Month

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Games, Google Apps

CCSS:

SL.8.1, SL.8.1b, SL.8.6, L.3.1a, L.3.1c, L.4.1d, L.4.1e, L.4.3, L.5.1a, L.5.1c, L.5.3...

$4.19

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Grammar Bundle - Grammar Practice Activities - 36 Trashketball Games

By OCBeachTeacher

Use formative assessment to review grammar and language concepts with this bundle that includes Trashketball games for standard English grammar and usage. These games will save your valuable time as they already include concept review slides,

Subjects:

Grammar, ELA Test Prep, Writing

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Games, Lesson

CCSS:

L.5.1, L.5.1a, L.5.1b, L.5.1c, L.5.1d, L.5.2a, L.5.2b, L.5.2d, L.5.3, L.5.3a, L.6.1...

$138.69

$69.00

Bundle

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Combining Sentences - Sentence Combining - Trashketball Review Game

By OCBeachTeacher

Students review sentence structures and practice sentence combining to improve sentence fluency in this fun game! With a back-to-school theme, the game also reviews study skills and learning habits. All that you need to play is the ability to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Back to School

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Games, Google Apps

CCSS:

L.4.1a, L.5.1a, L.5.3a, L.6.1, L.6.3, L.6.3a, L.7.1, L.7.1a, L.7.1b, L.7.3a, L.8.1...

$3.99

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Fragments, Run-Ons, Comma Splices Review Game - Sentence Writing Problems

By OCBeachTeacher

Help your students review run-ons, comma splices, and fragments with this fun Trashketball game. This PowerPoint presentation will reinforce their learning of correct sentence structures and help them edit their own writing for sentence

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, ELA Test Prep

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Games

CCSS:

L.4.1f, L.6.1, L.6.2, L.6.3, L.6.3a, L.6.6, L.7.1, L.7.1a, L.7.2, L.7.3, L.7.6...

$4.00

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Rhetorical Appeals Analysis (Ethos, Logos, Pathos) Trashketball Review Game

By OCBeachTeacher

This interactive game helps students review rhetorical appeals (ethos, logos, and pathos) in the context of classic speeches and texts. Texts referenced include Sojourner Truth’s “And Ain’t I a Woman?”, Patrick Henry’s “The Speech to the Second

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Informational Text

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Games

CCSS:

RI.9-10.1, RI.9-10.2, RI.9-10.6, RI.9-10.8, RI.9-10.9, RI.9-10.10, RI.11-12.1, RI.11-12.2, RI.11-12.6, RI.11-12.9, RI.11-12.10...

$4.50

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

National Board Certified in English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood, I have been teaching for 22+ years. I've taught diverse English classes in grades 6 -12 and English electives including Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition, Creative Writing, and Journalism. In addition to teaching full-time at a public high school, I have also taught English 101 at the local community college.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I want my students to be critical thinkers, readers, and writers so they can confidently face the many challenges in our complex society. To help students achieve this goal, I try to make learning relevant and fun, taking into consideration each student's strengths and needs. Many of my lessons feature cooperative learning, differentiation, and address the demands of the Common Core State Standards. Please visit my Facebook page if you would like to get tips for your classroom.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Outstanding Professional Development School Mentor Award, Teacher Consultant for Eastern Shore Writing Project

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Master of Education in Secondary English, Bachelor of Science in Journalism

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Questions? Email me at ocbeachteacher@gmail.com. Thanks to Laine Sutherland for custom store banners and updated logo.code: Laine Sutherland To Danielle Knight for my store logo: Danielle Knight and KimberlyGeswein for the font

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3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Homeschool

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Science, Social Studies, U.S. History, Arts & Music, Visual Arts, Music, Drama, ESL-EFL-ELL, ELA Test Prep, Life Skills, Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Character Education, Short Stories, Writing, Oral Communication, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Halloween, Valentine's Day, Presidents' Day, Black History Month, Tools for Common Core, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, Test Preparation, End of Year, Close Reading, Women's History Month, Classroom Community