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English language arts Common Core RL.8.2 resources
Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions ELA Test Prep Digital Resources
Are you looking for a way to have your students engaged and ready for class as soon as they walk in the door? These Daily Reading Comprehension Passages make the perfect bell ringer or morning work! These printable and digital bellringers are specifically designed to improve middle school students’ reading skills. This resource includes short and engaging daily reading passages that provide meaningful practice with context clues, main idea, making inferences, determining theme, and more!These pa
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6th - 8th
The GIVER Novel Study Unit - Print & DIGITAL - Standards-Based
GIVER – This Novel Study Unit for The Giver will engage your students with thought-provoking standards-based literacy activities as they read Lois Lowry’s acclaimed novel. Now includes both a print and digital version! Chapter-by-Chapter Response Pages challenge students to dig deep into the text to analyze and make inferences. Perfect for partner work, small groups, or remote teaching!The DIGITAL version offers colorful, beautifully-designed slides that allow students to type their responses
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6th - 8th
Reading Interactive Notebook: Literature Activities | Literary Elements
Reading Interactive Notebooks Literature - Literary Elements for Common Core. This Reading Interactive Notebook is the true original - over 55,000 copies sold!After learning about interactive notebooks two summers ago, I resolved to use this technique for every concept I taught to my 6th, 7th, and 8th grade literature students. Now that I’ve used this in my classroom for over a year, I have compiled all of my reading interactive notebook lessons for teaching literary elements here.Each of the 2
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Interactive Notebook ELA Bundle of 5
The OUTSIDERS Novel Study Unit - Print & DIGITAL - Standards-Based
OUTSIDERS: This Outsiders Novel Study Unit will engage your students with thought-provoking standards-based literacy activities as they read S.E. Hinton's classic novel. Now includes both print and digital versions! The Chapter-by-Chapter Response Pages challenge students to dig deep into the text to analyze and make inferences. Perfect for partner work, small groups, or independent study! The Free-Writes topics facilitate great discussions, and students enjoy choice on the essay and creative wr
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6th - 9th
The Outsiders Unit Plan - S.E. Hinton Novel Study Reading Unit
The Outsiders Unit Plan includes everything you need to teach The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. With more than 250 pages and slides of content, there will be absolutely no prep required. This novel unit includes eye-catching presentation slides, print-ready assignments, questions, vocabulary, quizzes, video journals, and interactive class activities. What Teachers Are Saying About The Outsiders Unit Plan:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I usually never leave feedback from my purchases, and I purchase a lot. And when I do
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7th - 10th
Narrative Writing Unit: Grades 7-12
This unit will take you and your students through the process of planning, drafting, revising, and polishing a narrative piece. These resources will work for personal narratives or fictional short stories, because the skills needed for both forms are the same.The first few days are structured, whole-class lessons. After that, the class moves into a series of writer’s workshop days as students complete mini-lessons and work on developing their own stories.NEW REMOTE TEACHING SUPPLEMENT: If you ar
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7th - 12th
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Of Mice and Men Unit Plan, OMM Bundle of Lessons, John Steinbeck, CCSS
Enjoy this bundle of thoughtful materials designed to take your students through four weeks of lessons covering John Steinbeck’s classic novel, Of Mice and Men. Everything you’ll need is here – just add a class set of novels and you’re good to go.This Of Mice and Men bundle includes:• A day-by-day calendar to follow with helpful details and nightly homework assignments (read this file first when you open the bundle) • An extended metaphor activity that helps familiarize students with John Steinb
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8th - 11th
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Literary Analysis with Sticky Notes - Short Story Unit w/ Activities, Writing
Teaching literary analysis can be fun, engaging, and accessible for all students! Increase student engagement and understanding in your next literary analysis unit (whether it be short stories or novels) with interactive and hands-on close reading organizers and scaffolded writing responses. Students will enjoy using sticky notes in class as they analyze the author's use of various literary devices in complex short stories and novels. This is a complete literature unit in itself!This sticky note
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Sticky Note Analysis Bundle: Literary, Rhetoric, Poetry
GREEK MYTHOLOGY Unit Plan for Teens, Ancient Greece, Five-Week Myth Unit, CCSS
Looking for a Greek mythology unit for an older audience? Take those beloved mythological stories and ramp them up with this bundle of five weeks of complete lesson materials designed for advanced middle school students and high school freshmen/sophomores as they connect their studies of Greek mythology to our modern world and their own lives. Everything you’ll need is included; no textbooks needed.This Greek mythology unit is one of my students’ favorites of the year. I’ve used it successfully
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8th - 10th
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REFUGEE by Alan Gratz - Novel Study Unit - Print & DIGITAL
REFUGEE - This Refugee Novel Unit will instantly engage your students with thought-provoking, standards-based learning activities. Now includes both a print and digital version! Students will enjoy analyzing the text, discussing important ideas, and acquiring new vocabulary as they read Alan Gratz’s gripping novel!The DIGITAL version offers colorful, beautifully-designed slides that allow students to type their responses into text boxes. Test and all quizzes are accessed with links to Google Fo
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6th - 9th
Elements of Poetry Unit for Middle School Students Bundle
Why do we often submit our students to long, dull, (dare I say, torturous) poetry units that they hate? Why not make poetry as fun and exciting as it has the potential to be?This unit does just that! Inside this .pdf file, you will find 10 elements of poetry lesson plans and activities plus a pre and post-test. Each lesson comes with everything you need (from links to engaging Google Slides Presentations to note sheets to assignments to answer keys and rubrics) to make your class's poetry study
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6th - 8th
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The Giver Unit Plan - Lois Lowry Novel Study Reading Unit
The Giver Unit Plan includes everything you need to teach The Giver by Lois Lowry. With more than 340 pages and slides of content, there will be absolutely no prep required. This novel unit includes eye-catching presentation slides, print-ready assignments, questions, vocabulary, quizzes, and interactive class activities.What Teachers Are Saying About The Giver Unit Plan:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This unit plan for The Giver is worth every penny I spent on it! We just did the activity on sharing feelings and t
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7th - 10th
Romeo and Juliet, Complete R&J Unit Plan for Shakespeare's Play, CCSS
Looking for a fresh approach to pull your students into Romeo and Juliet? William Shakespeare’s timeless tale of tragic love will enthrall your students when you use this collection of five weeks of lesson materials designed to challenge and entertain advanced middle school students and high school freshmen/sophomores.This Romeo & Juliet unit is one of my favorites of the year. I’ve used it successfully with eighth graders and both regular and honors freshmen.This bundle includes:• A day-by-
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7th - 10th
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Poetry Music Activities - Song Lyrics Assignments and Presentations Bundle
This poetry music activities, assignments, and presentations bundle will engage all your students in poetry analysis using song lyrics! Students will love this modern bundle of music-inspired poetry resources. Included are eye-catching presentations, poetry song lyrics assignments and projects, engaging activities, ready-to-print worksheets, and much more! By purchasing this bundle, you are saving more than 30% compared to purchasing these items separately! Included in this poetry music activiti
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7th - 10th
Edgar Allan Poe Short Story Unit - The Black Cat - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven
Print and go short story annotations activities and projects for your next Edgar Allan Poe unit, Tell Tale Heart unit, Raven unit, or Black Cat unit! These short stories with comprehension questions contain short story annotations activities, graphic organizers, projects, questions, and answer keys. The included activities ask students to think deeply about text while practicing elements of literacy analysis. This Poe unit is a great addition to a short story unit on classic literature.✅While t
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7th - 10th
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ELA Test Prep STATIONS for ELA Test Practice - Print & Digital
Test Prep means active learning with these EIGHT stations that will have your students practicing all those reading comprehension and analysis skills they need for success on ELA state tests. Now includes a digital version! These stations provide specific standards-based practice, engaging students in discussion, close reading, and deep thinking. Students enjoy group work and movement!Detailed task cards and creative student handouts make the activities both challenging and fun! Clear and specif
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6th - 8th
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A Wrinkle in Time Novel Study { Print & Digital }
This is a novel study for A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. Includes printable and digital versions. 48 pages of student work, plus an answer key! This novel study divides A Wrinkle in Time into six sections for study. The chapters are grouped as follows: Chapter 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12. Includes the following:• A Wrinkle in Time novel study title page for students• Dictionary Look-up sheets (6 total)• Vocabulary Study sheets (6 total)• Understanding the Story comprehension workshe
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: 6th Grade Novel Study Bundle - Print AND Digital
The Giver Novel Study { Print & Digital }
Includes printable and digital versions. This novel study divides The Giver by Lois Lowry into eight sections for study. The chapters are grouped as follows: Chapter 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12, 13-15, 16-18, 19-21, 22-23. The Giver novel study includes the following:• Novel study title page for students• Dictionary Look-up sheets (8 total)• Vocabulary Study sheets (8 total)• Understanding the Story comprehension worksheets (8 total)• Chapter Summary worksheets (8 total)• Time for a Test! assessment sh
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: 6th Grade Novel Study Bundle - Print AND Digital
The HOBBIT Novel Study Unit - Print & DIGITAL - Standards Based
This Hobbit Novel Study Unit will instantly engage your students with thought-provoking learning activities aligned to ELA standards. Now includes both a print and digital version! Get students thinking deeply, close reading, acquiring new vocabulary, and discussing important ideas as they read J.R.R. Tolkien's fascinating novel. The DIGITAL version offers colorful, beautifully-designed slides that allow students to type their responses into text boxes. Test and all quizzes are accessed with lin
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6th - 9th
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Reading Comprehension Mystery Picture Fun ELA Activities Middle School Summer
Help your students practice reading skills in a fun and engaging way! Mystery pictures are the perfect after-testing activities fun!This Reading Comprehension set includes 6 mystery picture activities.The sets have 20 short reading passages with 48 multiple-choice text-dependent questions students have to solve to discover a surprise picture.Once students answer the reading questions they will then self-check by coloring all the numbers on their mystery picture page based on their answer choices
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4th - 8th
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The Hunger Games Novel Study Unit - Activities - Questions - Projects Vocabulary
This comprehensive 150+ page The Hunger Games Unit contains a complete novel study with detailed Hunger Games questions, answer keys, vocabulary, Hunger Games activities, story element analysis, and engaging projects. A variety of Hunger Games graphic organizers are also included. All activities are classroom tested and include creative handouts, information sheets, detailed instructions, foldable activities, templates, and rubrics!Save time planning with these easy to implement NO PREP resource
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6th - 8th
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Reading Literature Interactive Notebook 2 ~ ALL NEW Add-On Pack for Grades 5-9
Interactive Reading Literature Notebooks ALL NEW Add on Pack for Grades 5-9
This Interactive Reading Literature Notebook is full of dynamic lessons and activities for teaching literary elements in grades 5-9 whether or not your district uses Common Core. An alignment is included for Common Core Reading Literature for Grades 5-9. UPDATE: A TEKS alignment is now included as well.
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4th - 9th
Refugee by Alan Gratz Novel Study Unit Bundle
Fall in love with teaching your Refugee Novel Study with this comprehensive, standards-aligned unit, guaranteed to help you review and incorporate a variety of literary skills. With this novel study for Refugee by Alan Gratz, you'll receive ready-to-use novel activities that will guide your students through the book like never before. This resource is perfect for a full-class novel study, but can also be adapted for independent reading, literature circles, station rotations, center activities, a
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6th - 8th
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The Veldt, Ray Bradbury Short Story Worksheets + Multimedia, PDF & Google Drive
If your students can’t go an hour without looking at their phones, they need to read “The Veldt.”Ray Bradbury’s chilling futuristic short story, “The Veldt,” gives us a glimpse of a world where children love their devices more than their families. Sound familiar? This compelling 90-minute lesson will get your students reading, thinking, and discussing the consequences of our tech-dependent culture. The materials (5-page PDF with links to online media and Google Drive versions of all student hand
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8th - 11th
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Importance of learning English language arts
English language arts (ELA) concepts — reading, writing, listening, and speaking — empower students to become effective communicators, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners. They are the foundation for all other types of learning as students must rely on ELA skills to master content from other subject areas and communicate what they’ve learned.
Strong reading skills can help students make sense of written content, and gather information for further analysis. Writing skills can help students articulate their ideas, construct arguments, and synthesize information. And speaking and listening skills empower students to clearly present their ideas, participate in group discussions, and collaborate with their classmates. This is why teaching English language arts is critically important for student’s success in school and beyond.
Benefits of learning English language arts
Learning English language arts offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. It helps students:
- Develop effective communication skills
- Build critical thinking and analytical skills
- Nurture their creativity and imagination
By ensuring that students have a solid foundation in English language arts, teachers can help set them up for future success.
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On TPT, English language arts resources come in various forms: from interactive notebooks and task cards to small-group activities and individual worksheets. They can be used to enhance learning, assess a student’s mastery of ELA concepts, or to reteach a tricky concept. By incorporating ELA resources from TPT into your teaching toolbox, you can create an engaging learning experience that strengthens students’ understanding of ELA concepts.
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