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Higher education english language arts task cards
Real-World Grammar Fails, Proofreading Task Cards, Set #1
This easy prep, multi-functional task card set of real-world grammar mistakes is an excellent modern and engaging activity for bell ringers, grammar practice, review or just for fun! These amusing images are ready-to-go in bright, attractive task card format, which gives you tons of flexibility for using these in class. Students love to spot errors in the unlikeliest places, and an activity like this gets them thinking, collaborating, and editing! All subjects could get involved in the editing
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Media Bias News Articles - Fake News & Media Literacy Analysis Activity Vol. 1
Practice detecting media biases in the news and get your students to decipher the complexities of the media landscape with this set of 15 custom-written fake news articles designed to delve deep into the world of Fake News and Media Bias. Each fake news article is meticulously written with heavy bias to showcase the various kinds in media, including Mudslinging, Slant, Spin, Sensationalism, Opinion Statements, Jumping to Conclusions, Mind Reading, and Unsubstantiated Claims. You'll love how thes
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Famous Love Letters: A Close Reading & Creative Lesson for Valentine's Day
This lesson by Bespoke ELA is a great lesson to use in February to celebrate Valentine's Day in a unique and creative way that is sure to engage students!Task:To analyze how famous love letters use language, literary and rhetorical devices, and imagery to convey a message about love.Enduring Understandings:Students will understand how language, literary and rhetorical devices, and imagery affect a letter's meaning.Students will learn about famous people from history through the lens of their rel
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Reading Response Question Cards for Any Book-- Multi-grade Usage
These 100 question cards for any novel will help your students engage in meaningful and insightful discussions about the books they are reading. The cards address setting, characters, plot, theme, symbolism, point of view, style, and more! Students will need to use reading strategies such as inference, summarizing, comparing and contrasting etc. to dig deeper into the text.These cards work for grades 3 through 12-- seriously! They are universal questions that work in conjunction with any novel
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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Real-World Grammar Fails, Proofreading Task Cards, Set #2
Identify and Correct Grammar Mistakes in Real World Fails. This 2nd set of proofreading task cards for real-world grammar mistakes is an excellent modern and engaging activity to have students take ownership of their learning and make connections to the world around them. In fact, these are all fun images I've spotted along the way somewhere or another!These amusing images are ready to go in bright, attractive task card format, which gives you tons of flexibility for using these in class. Plent
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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ELA Task Card Bundle: Rhetorical Devices, Figurative Language, Diction, Poetry
Help your students test their knowledge and analytical skills with this bundle of 182 task cards -- 6 complete sets, all with recording sheets and answer keys.
Included in the bundle are:
• Diction Boot Camp: Analyzing Diction Task Cards
• Analyzing Syntax in Literature Task Cards -- 32 Cards with Answer Key
• Figurative Language Task Cards for Grades 7-12
• Poetry Task Cards -- 32 Cards Poetic Terms and Prompts
• Rhetorical Devices in American Speeches Task Cards: Quizzes, Bell-Ringers
• First
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Close Reading and Annotation Mini-Unit
Complete close reading and annotation unit with fiction and nonfiction practice**August 2020 Update: This unit is now digital! I created a fiction and nonfiction workbook that is optimized for digital learning. A Google Slides version is included that can be downloaded and used as a PowerPoint as well (directions included).**August 2019 Update: This unit now includes two passages that can be used for nonfiction annotation (complete with an answer key). This is perfect for AP Language and Composi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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IMPROV GAMES with IMPROV PROMPT CARDS BUNDLE (16 sets! Heaps of Improv Games!)
I have compiled DRAMA TRUNK improv cards and games for endless improv prompts. These versatile cards can be used in so many ways and are a MUST HAVE improvisation resource. THIS IMPROV BUNDLE INCLUDES:IMPROV SCENE STARTERS (here)ANIMALISTICS Characterisation Activities + Animal Family Cards (here)SOCIAL SITUATIONS Improv Cards and Improv Activities (here)SCENE THEMES Improvisation Cards and Improvisation Games (here)GROUP FREEZES Improv Cards and Teaching Activities (here)DRAMA SHOES Improvisati
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Real-World Grammar Fails, Journalism/Yearbook Proofreading Task Cards
This set of real-world grammar mistakes is an excellent engaging activity for bell ringers, grammar practice, review or just for fun for your yearbook, newspaper, media, or journalism class! I've collected mistaken-ridden magazine covers, newspaper headlines, yearbook pages, and more to keep things interesting - and to provide plenty of examples!Allow students to take ownership of their learning and make connections to the world around them. Students love to spot errors in the unlikeliest places
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Yearbook Curriculum BUNDLE+ for Student Journalism Publications
Shakespeare's The Tempest Unit
Shakespeare's The Tempest is a fantastic play for exploring ideas of love, family, forgiveness, power, and revenge.
This bundle of over 200+ pages and 15 hours of lessons will guide your students through the play step-by-step. This resources contains detailed explanation and analysis for each Act of the play, focusing on Shakespeare's ideas, language, and stage craft. In addition to this detailed close analysis of Shakespeare's play there is also in depth historical factual information regard
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Shakespeare Curriculum Teaching Activities Bundle
Poetry Cafe Analysis Stations
**Redesigned with digital option in August 2020**OVERVIEWThis Poetry Café Stations activity is a versatile resource for teaching any poem! Not only will it introduce your students to important literary perspectives, but it also will engage your students in valuable poetic analysis. Now, this activity includes an interactive digital stations option too! Best of all, the content on the slides is editable! This means you can edit the poetry tasks to meet the needs of your students.*These stations t
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Literary Analysis | Literary Lenses Activities Curriculum Bundle
Drama Cards : BUNDLED 17 SETS (with Drama Activities & Games)
I have compiled classic DRAMA TRUNK drama card sets together with suggested activities for an endless amount of drama fun! Never be stuck for a drama or on the spot English activity again – these versatile drama cards can be used in so many ways and are a MUST HAVE drama resource for any drama teacher or anyone else who wants to bring some drama or character fun into the classroom. Students love picking random cards for planned and even on-the-spot improv activities but the drama cards can be us
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Media Literacy & Analysis Activities & Tasks for Studying Media Bias & Fake News
Give your media studies students the skills to decipher media bias, spot fake news, and think critically about the information from the media they encounter. This comprehensive bundle of media literacy resources is an essential teaching tool for getting your students to learn and understand bias in the media. A collection of lesson plans, activities, tasks, handouts, task cards, and PowerPoints all about media, it’s the perfect package for teachers looking to increase their students’ media liter
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter Summaries - Plot Cards for Harper Lee's Novel
To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter Summary Cards are an excellent classroom reference for both teacher and student. These 29 printable chapter summary cards outline the most important plot moments from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Simply print and cut out the cards, and you have a resource available that can be used as a tool for struggling readers, as a quick way to find plot moments, or as a tool to find text evidence during essay writing. Included in The To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter Summa
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" Mock Trial Bundle - Engaging Activity
Engage your students with Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" by facilitating a mock trial while practicing close reading, citing strong and thorough textual evidence, analyzing evidence, persuasion/argumentation/debate, writing, and speaking/listening. This is truly an authentic learning experience that covers a wide range of essential skills and gets every student involved! This bundle contains the discussion cards I use to activate students' thinking before the mock trial, as well as the comple
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Paraphrasing Practice Task Cards
60 Inspirational Quotes to practice paraphrasing every day! Task cards, PowerPoint slides, Google slides and answer key included. Perfect for distance learning!Perfect English bell ringer or task card activity for middle or high school students to strengthen reading comprehension, analysis, and paraphrase skills for CCSS-aligned reading and writing standards. Don't stress about creating engaging English Bell Ringers or Reading & Writing Activities to strengthen comprehension. Use these 60 in
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in: English Bell Ringers for Middle School and High School
Shakespearean Insults Task Cards: Fun Translation Activity, Bell-Ringers
Bring some excitement to your Shakespeare unit with these insult task cards. With 32 task cares featuring different insults from Shakespeare's plays, these cards can be used in a variety of ways. Put students in group, giving them a bunch of cards with instructions to translate as many insults as possible. Use them as bell-ringers or exit slips, or even as an emergency lesson plan.
These activities can be used at the beginning of or throughout your Shakespeare unit and work especially well fo
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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DIGITAL Back to School Escape Room Ice Breaker (Paper Version Included Too)
Turn your course syllabus into a memorable game! Whether you are beginning the year in the physical classroom or learning via distance, this back-to-school DIGITAL escape room will:Set an engaging tone from the start;Encourage student collaboration; and Help kids become familiar with your class routines and policies. * * * * *This Escape Room consists of 3 tasks...Task 1: Here students will decode your encrypted classroom rules. (This activity is based on your course syllabus and/or class websit
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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BUNDLE (GROWING): The complete colourful (colorful) semantics set
Jump onboard the Colourful Semantics Train! This bundle includes ALL colourful semantics worksheets, task cards, activities and digital products in my TPT store. Yes that's right all of them! This HUGE bundle offers colourful semantics activities on a range of topics. INCLUDES:Printables,Interactive Books,No Prep Worksheets,Task CardsPowerPoints Boom Cards+ More This bundle provides a wide range of activities to develop writing and communication skills using the colourful semantics approach. Thi
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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180 Reading/Writing Task Card BUNDLE
Save over 20% by purchasing this BUNDLE pack of task cards!
You will receive 180 task cards that address sentence types, point of view, verb tenses, spelling, close reading, citing evidence, editing, and fluency.
You will also receive an answer keys for the 48 Sentence Type Task Cards, an editable template for the 24 Editing Task Cards, a fluency rubric with the 24 Fluency Task Cards, and more!
These are great for warm-ups, classwork, quiz review, early finishers, and more!
Check out the pre
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Improvisation Scene Starters (Improvisation Scenarios) with Improv Games
Improvisation scenarios by Drama Trunk. Looking for improvisation resources that are ready to print and go? Use these improv scene starters for any drama game where a simple scenario is needed. These improv scene starters are suitable for scenes where 1 person starts or where there are 2 or more players.Use Drama Trunk ‘Improv Scene Starter’ Cards with the following suggested improv games (instructions included in resource), use them to start scenes or to start any improvisation.• Space Jump• Wh
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Task Cards for The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Are you tired of using handouts? Are you looking for a good way to differentiate? Have you tried using task cards? Task Cards are a great teaching tool that can be used in a variety of ways.
You can:
1) Put all the cards on a ring and give each student (or group) a set of cards.
2) Leave the cards loose and give different students (or groups) different cards depending upon their level.
3) Give students a choice (Pick 28 out of the 32 cards to complete by the end of the memoir.)
There are 32 ca
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: ELA Task Cards Bundle
Drama / Role Play Cards MEGA BUNDLE (Drama Cards + Suggested Drama Activities)
I have compiled 34 Drama Card Sets together with suggested activities into this DRAMA CARD MEGA BUNDLE for an endless amount of drama fun! Never be stuck for a drama activity again – these versatile cards can be used in so many ways and are a MUST HAVE for any drama teacher or anyone else who wants to bring some drama or character fun into the classroom. Students love picking random cards for planned and even on-the-spot improvisation activities but the cards can be used in so many ways!CHECK OU
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Fluency Task Cards {Wacky Weather Facts}
This set now available in a Big Science Bundle.
I have enjoyed getting fluency centers up and running in my classroom so much, that I have decided to try making some of my own fluency resources...although there are a lot of great fluency center resources out there. This packet includes a sheet on the research base for including fluency instruction and fluency (practice & reinforcement) stations in your classroom.
This is a set of fluency task cards based on wacky & wild information
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2nd - 6th, Higher Education, Staff
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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.
If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable and digital English language arts worksheets, TPT has an extensive collection of resources across topics and grade levels. No matter what ELA topic your students are working on — whether you’re teaching the parts of speech to 1st graders or argumentative essay writing to 10th graders — TPT has instructional materials that are designed to help with any ELA learning need. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, teaching and learning ELA will be so much easier.
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There are many different types of English language arts resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular ELA lessons include reading, writing, phonics, vocabulary, spelling, and creative writing.
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Educators can save time preparing English language arts lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for ELA resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of ELA lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
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Students learn best when they're engaged! Sprinkle a little fun into your English Language Arts lessons by using manipulatives, pairing unusual texts like poems and short films together, or doing an escape room activity.
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