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Free adult education literature resources
Jason Reynolds FREE Rhetorical Analysis, Public Speaking, PDF & Google Drive
Use Jason Reynolds’ commencement address at Lesley University to show your students the power of a well-constructed speech. In this one-class period activity, students will discuss the techniques of effective public speaking, view Jason Reynolds’ 10-minute speech, and deconstruct/discuss his use of rhetorical devices. Questions focus on audience, the value of storytelling over lecture, and rhetorical application of poetic devices including foreshadowing and symbolism. These print-and-teach mater
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Famous First Lines, FREE Posters, Decor for High School Classrooms and Teens
Grab your students’ attention and inspire them to investigate a new book with this FREE set of 25 posters featuring the opening lines from well-known novels. The modern black-and-white posters can be used in a variety of ways. Create an all-black poster wall, use the all-white option to frame your bulletin board, mix and match the posters to create a checkerboard pattern, or print the white option with colored paper to customize your classroom, hallway, or library display.Need more free and low-
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Free Posters for High School & Middle School Classrooms, English Class Decor
Celebrate books with these three eye-catching posters, perfect for any English/Language Arts classroom.The high-resolution PDFs come in three different options: 8.5x11 inches, 11x17 inches, and 18x24 inches. Make your own on a color printer or take to a local print shop for a low-cost color photocopy.Need more classroom decor ideas? Check out these bulletin board materials:Tearable PunsEpic Opening LinesGreat Last LinesInspirational QuotesParts of Speech PostersFamous Failures /Growth MindsetTha
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: Poetry Close Reading & Analysis FREEBIE
In this FREEBIE by Bespoke ELA, you will find a close reading activity for Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 that includes an answer key to the close reading questions. This activity also asks students to write their own Shakespearean sonnets in which they compare two things (or nouns) in Shakespearean sonnet form-- including 14 lines of iambic pentameter with a shift and rhyming couplet in question/answer format. A student poem example is included.This is a great addition to any unit on Shakespeare!Che
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Shakespeare: Five Act Structure: Graphic Organizer, Notes, Plot Pyramid
Shakespearean Drama, Five Act Structure: Graphic Organizer, Notes, Plot Pyramid
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One page Student Notes Handout on the Freytag Pyramid and the structure of five acts in a drama
Double Sided Graphic Organizer for ANY 5 Act Play.
Use with- Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Othello, Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Cesar, Twelfth Night, and the rest of Shakespeare's catalog.
Include this organizer in your guided reading, center tasks, choice activity, or even with a strugglin
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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High School English Bulletin Board, Great Last Lines, FREE & Easy to Build
Need an eye-catching interactive bulletin board that’ll grab students’ attention?Don’t have much money or creative energy to spend on classroom decor?A solution is here! Just print these materials and follow the simple step-by-step assembly directions to create an eye-catching bulletin board that’ll introduce students to some of the most compelling closing lines in all of classic and contemporary literature.Materials you’ll need:White and colored printer paperScissorsTapeLooking for more interac
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Spanish Reader's Theater--La Gallinita Roja (The Little Red Hen)
Reader's Theater is a great tool for building fluency in reading. As a bilingual educator I have found that Spanish reader's theater is a valuable tool to get Spanish language learners to practice their oral development. Although I have used these scripts in my First grade classroom, they would also work well for secondary Spanish classes.
The Little Red Hen is easy to follow with its repetitive phrases and familiar storyline. This reader's theater is an excellent way for students who are lear
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K - 12th, Adult Education
Dystopia Vs. Utopia Genre Introduction (The Giver, Hunger Games, 1984, etc.)
My students love this lesson. They learn how societies can be oppressive, read about different types, and then create their own laws to see how they can become oppressive. This lesson provides students with an introduction to the characteristics of a dystopia and dystopia genre. It begins by contrasting utopia vs dystopia, continues with 3 examples of societies (2 dystopian, 1 utopian) and has students underline the characteristics, and ends with students creating their own well-intentioned l
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5th - 8th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Fahrenheit 451 Part One Reading Quiz ("The Hearth and the Salamander")
I searched high and low for a basic, close reading test that would simply show me whether students did their outside-of-class reading of FAHRENHEIT 451, and I found that none existed that met my needs (detailed + easy to grade). I was not striving for higher order thinking...just a basic, Accelerated-Reader-type quiz that would demonstrate completion of the assigned reading. The higher order thinking questions come out after my students have completed the reading--through Socratic Seminar. Thu
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The TQE Method: Discussion Stems
This slide deck is ready to support your students as they discuss everything from pieces of art, texts, and topics!The TQE Method is used in classrooms around the world from kindergarten to grad school. For more information about the TQE Method, start with the We're Killing the Love of Reading, But Here's an Easy Fix Unlimited Teacher post and the Cult of Pedagogy podcast episode. Then search the hashtags #TQE and #UnlimitedTeacher to see examples of how teachers are tailoring it to their studen
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Proactive Planning: Potential Solutions for (Distance) Learning BUNDLE
"Lamb to the Slaughter" Roald Dahl Short Story PDF Text
"Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl is a fun and darkly humorous text to use with students of a variety of ages! Over the years of teaching this fabulous short story, I have noticed that various PDF versions often have many typos, misspellings and grammatical errors that can be distracting and confusing for students. However, I did find a full text version, thanks to classicshorts.com! You can access their version of it here: http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.htmlAll I did was copy
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6th - 9th, Adult Education
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Modern Expanding Expression Tool Visual Organizer & Activity
A modern twist on a classic tool. This updated Expanding Expression Tool has been streamlined to provide visual cues and more visually appealing. This tool can be used to help clients of all ages expand oral and written expression, as well as teach adjectives and expand vocabulary. This updated resource is compatible with teletherapy mediums, such as Zoom, so you can easily annotate on the screen what descriptions your client provides.This PowerPoint includes 9 visual examples for your client to
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Shakespeare Scavenger Hunt
I love William Shakespeare. I love the language, the time-period he lived in, and the timeless themes that his plays have. I tend to teach a lot of Shakespeare. I like to do the Shakespeare Scavenger Hunt in my school’s library but you can do it in the computer lab as well. It’s just a basic series of questions about Shakespeare and his time-period. I like to have my students go to the library because it gives them a chance to move around. Doing a scavenger hunt like this is also more fun than j
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Digital Escape Room Challenge: A Dream Within a Dream!
This free, single digital escape room challenge is an engaging way for students to display their understanding of figurative language. This Escape Room challenge is based on Edgar Allan Poe's "A Dream Within a Dream." In this challenge, students fall asleep after reading "A Dream within a Dream" only to find themselves locked in a Gothic mansion in their dreams. Students will read the poem and must use their knowledge of stanzas, metaphors, personification, and alliteration to escape! This resou
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Language Arts Comprehension Check:Ten Sentence Format CCSS
Should educators tweet, "Good Bye" to proper paragraphs? Are these backbones of formal and informal writing becoming an endangered specie? Do students need to reinforce their basic understanding of the elements of a good paragraph in order to write and develop more in-depth essays? Do students need to learn how to write about the literature that they are reading?This Ten Sentence Format will accomplish all of that. It is perfect for clarifying and reinforcing the parts of an essay, for using a
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Macbeth FREEBIE: Three Levels of Questioning with 145 Questions for Inquiry
If you like this freebie, click the green star to follow Bespoke ELA for product alerts, more freebies, and giveaways! This FREE PRODUCT by Bespoke ELA contains 145 questions for studying Shakespeare's play Macbeth. The questions are divided into the three different levels of questioning: recall, interpretation & analysis, and synthesis. These questions can serve a variety of uses for your Macbeth unit including:--Reading Checks & Quizzes--Discussion Stems--Essay PromptsWith 145 ques
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
WACKY Wednesday Animals (Dr. Seuss)!!
FUNNY activity to pair with Dr. Seuss' Wacky Wednesday book! 3 target slides. Enjoy!***The TpT thumbnails are condensed. When downloaded, the text is aligned!***
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PreK - 2nd, Adult Education
Cause & Effect Graphic Organizer
This cause and effect graphic organizer was designed to be used as a critical thinking activity related to a literature story, but it could also be used in many other subject areas, including science and social studies/history. Take a look and see how you might be able to use it!
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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"Romeo and Juliet" PDF No Fear Shakespeare
This is a free resource of the "Romeo and Juliet" text in the No Fear Shakespeare format.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Read Aloud Activities - 45 Picture Book Activities
Read Aloud Activities - 45 picture book activities using free read along activity videos!Play the read along videos to use picture books to teach inference, characterization, theme, conflict, plot, sequence, summary, main idea and every common core skill for reading literature and informational texts! NO PREP PICTURE BOOK LESSON PLAN IDEASInstruct students (of ANY age) to watch the picture book video(s), and write a paragraph analyzing one or more of the following common core reading skills: Inf
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education
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FREE The Great Gatsby Character Map Printable Worksheet
Free Great Gatsby Printable Character Map!Use this great character map worksheet to engage your students in the classroom. Have students track various character traits, important quotes, and more while reading! This worksheet is adaptable to suit your specific needs in the classroom. Looking for more? Check out our array of resources for The Great Gatsby:✎ Great Gatsby: Character vs. Society✎ Great Gatsby: Character vs. Man✎ Great Gatsby: Character vs. Self✎ Jay Gatsby as Antihero Classroom Pos
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 Vocabulary in Context Practice Worksheet
Instead of ASSIGNING vocabulary, TEACH it in context! This worksheet will help students practice the essential skill of determining vocabulary in context using key passages from Chapter 1 of F. Scott Fitzgerald's American classic The Great Gatsby.This 2-page worksheet includes 5 key excerpts. For each, students must explain what they THINK the bold vocabulary word means (using context clues) and then explain what the word ACTUALLY means (by looking it up). At the bottom of the worksheet, there i
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Act 1 Quiz: The Crucible
This 30-question quiz includes 15 matching questions about characters encountered in Act 1 of The Crucible, and 15 multiple choice questions addressing plot, setting, and analysis of Act 1. An answer key is provided at the bottom of the document.
This work by Rebecca Malone is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Macbeth Anticipation Guide FREEBIE
An anticipation guide to be used before a study of Shakespeare's Macbeth. It introduces students to some of the major themes of the play including the supernatural, greed, karma, success, superstition, loyalty, power, and feminism. After students fill out the guide independently, I suggest facilitating a discussion of some of the more controversial statements in order to begin students thinking critically about some of the themes that they will encounter in the play.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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