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8th grade english language arts thematic unit plan interactive whiteboards
Myths and Legends Short Story Unit - Updated!
Step into the Shoes of a Storyteller! This engaging, 6-week junior high short story unit is a great way to teach short story analysis and writing!This listing is for the COMPLETE unit, including:Unit Plan and Updated Resource ListLesson PlansAssessment PlanStudent PackageProject-Based AssessmentsActivity HandoutsUnit Exam with Answer KeyEDITABLE Smart Notebook filePDF version of Smart Notebook filesFill-in-the-Blank Student Notes (color and B&W)Texts Featured:- Aesop's Fables- King Arthur- F
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7th - 10th
Historical Fiction Writing Unit
Looking for a step-by-step way to teach a historical fiction writing unit with your students? This unit is one that I have used with my students for the past few years. It includes a list of historical fiction picture books, a "noticing chart" to help guide your students to read like writers, a SMART Board presentation or Power Point presentation) that you can use as a step-by-step guide through the learning/process, a ten day written lesson guide-for you the teacher, and a copy of the grade she
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4th - 8th
There's a Giraffe in My Soup: Themed Unit Power Point
Dive into the delightful world of "There's A Giraffe in My Soup" with this engaging Themed Unit PowerPoint, designed to captivate your students' imaginations and spark their love for learning! This digital resource is perfect for teachers seeking a unique and interactive way to explore this whimsical tale in their classrooms.Key Features:1. Comprehensive Content: This Themed Unit PowerPoint is jam-packed with carefully crafted slides that cover every aspect of the story, ensuring a comprehensive
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PreK - 8th
Christmas Ads Part 1
This resource is the first of a series of resources I've been wanting to create. I love looking at 'Media' and 'Persuasive Writing' in the month of December. This resource is interactive, can be used in a whole class setting or in groups or individually. Part One delves into the life of Aldi's 'Kevin the Carrot'. We track his journey from 2016 all the way to 2023. Kevin has become an integral part of Christmas and I thought he would make a lovely introduction to the world of Media and Advertisem
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4th - 8th
Fantasy Book Club Unit - Smartboard
This Smartboard presentation can be used to supplement and guide a fantasy book club unit in reading. The Smartboard introduces the genre of fantasy/science fiction and lays out the expectations for book clubs. Students will also be making a "strategy log" to track their progress as they read. The focus of this unit is on comprehension skills so there are lessons on making connections, visualizing, determining importance, quote analysis, synthesis, and questioning.
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5th - 8th
Community Helper Speech and Language Pack
Hi ho! Hi ho! It's off to work we go! Help your students learn about members of their community with this fun pack of activities. Colored and black/white versions are provided for your convenience. Skills addressed include the following: Parts of SpeechSubject/PredicateEditing FragmentsSynonyms (leveled K-2 and 3-5)Antonyms (leveled K-2 and 3-5)Multiple Meaning WordsMixed Past Tense (both regular and irregular) Irregular Past TenseWriting Using Past TenseIrregular PluralsSubject PronounsObject P
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PreK - 8th
Winter Olympics Unit for Smartboard or Literacy Center
Wanting to get your students ready for the upcoming Winter Olympics and teach them about all of the events? Here is the activity/unit for you! This activity includes a Smartboard file to go over all of the events with descriptions and vocabulary necessary to understand all of the events. For those of you that do not have access to Smartboard software, the events are also given to you in a .pdf format. Your students can read these events or be taught what each of these events include. Also i
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K - 8th
Travel: Compare and Contrast
Oh, the places you will go! Discuss the similarities and differences of paired items with your students. This is designed for easy display on a computer screen or Smart Board, but can also be printed and laminated. If you download, please leave a comment below. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Enjoy!
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PreK - 8th
Fiction Book Club Reading Comprehension Slides
18 Fiction Book Club Reading Comprehension questions in slides form. The questions are reading comp questions that ask students to think about their chosen book. Broad enough for book clubs or independent reading. I use them as exit tickets each day, but they can be used as warm-ups or group work.
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8th - 11th
Among the Hidden Unit
This is a 44 slide unit focused on the book Among the Hidden. It covers topics such as: point of view, propaganda, character traits, writing an autobiographical poem, having a BRAWL discussion (class dicsussion), doing a research project or essay, totalitarian government, and review questions at the end. It also includes a chart where you can compare the population law in the book to the population policy in China (video clip link and text included to use). I have attached all Microsoft workshee
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6th - 8th
Dynamic Diary Writing
Love Teaching Writing’s first non-fiction pack looks at diary writing. Like our other packs, pupils are taken on a literary journey which explores the diaries of, amongst others, Anne Frank and Samuel Pepys. In addition, children will explore the race to the South Pole between Captain Scott and Roald Amundsen. They do this through the eyes of Edmund Wilson – a lesser-known member of Scott’s party. Here, they get an opportunity to critique the mission, giving readers a fly-on-the-wall insight in
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3rd - 8th
Wonder Thematic Unit
I have spent a full summer working on this thematic unit and I’m excited to share it with you! Students typically would use a spiral notebook as their “journal” to use every day of the unit. It’s organized, engaging, and most of all, encourages students to think, discuss among their peers, and be creative while being critical thinkers!
Included in the thematic unit:
- Author review with videos (click on bottom left globe)
- Literature Circle directions
- Daily Journal Writing
- Daily Literature
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4th - 8th
Lesson Two - Insects, Developing Metacognitive Skills
Supplemental slides to accompany the lessons in Developing Metacognitive SkillsThese colorful, engaging slides will add richness and excitement to the lessons for your students and will “build foundational skills such as oral language, vocabulary, world knowledge, and working memory and will develop metacognitive skills that will help students think about thinking.” Each slide presentation coincides with the lesson cycles for each of the lessons in the Developing Metacognitive Skills manual. The
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3rd - 8th
Lesson Eight - Greed, Developing Metacognitive Skills
Supplemental slides to accompany the lessons in Developing Metacognitive SkillsThese colorful, engaging slides will add richness and excitement to the lessons for your students and will “build foundational skills such as oral language, vocabulary, world knowledge, and working memory and will develop metacognitive skills that will help students think about thinking.” Each slide presentation coincides with the lesson cycles for each of the lessons in the Developing Metacognitive Skills manual. The
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3rd - 12th
Lesson Six - Perseverance, Developing Metacognitive Skills
Supplemental slides to accompany the lessons in Developing Metacognitive SkillsThese colorful, engaging slides will add richness and excitement to the lessons for your students and will “build foundational skills such as oral language, vocabulary, world knowledge, and working memory and will develop metacognitive skills that will help students think about thinking.” Each slide presentation coincides with the lesson cycles for each of the lessons in the Developing Metacognitive Skills manual. The
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3rd - 8th
MEMORIAL DAY-LANGUAGE
It is good for our students to know important American symbols and people that made this country great. Work on their language simultaneously while teaching them critical pieces of America. You can target one thing specifically- plurals, present progressive, possessives, or WH questions because they are separated. Or you can breeze through the PowerPoint and work on everything.
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1st - 8th
Smartboard presentation Genre elements of Gothic Horror Romanticism
Smartboard presentation for Unit Plan Introduction to Gothic Literature This presentation covers the elements, their definitions with activities that help students identify and retain their meanings and significance in creating an atmosphere of mystery, horror and dread. Perfect for use as a prerequisite for the Unit plan for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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8th - 12th
Literary Devices: Flashback Timeline - MAC Gr. 3-8
**THIS is a MAC Version that will ONLY work on MAC OS 10.9.5 Mavericks or earlier.**View this video by copying this link and pasting it into a web browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B2eJfdQMXMIn this Flashback Timeline Graphic Organizer mini, students will learn to identify flashback and foreshadowing from the provided reading passage. Students drag the events of the story to their correct position on the timeline in chronological order to reveal an explanation.----------------------------
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4th - 8th
Seedfolks Thematic Unit
I have spent a full summer working on this thematic unit and I’m excited to share it with you! Students typically would use a spiral notebook as their “journal” to use every day of the unit. It’s organized, engaging, and most of all, encourages students to think, discuss among their peers, and be creative while being critical thinkers!
Included in the thematic unit:
- Author review with videos (click on bottom left globe)
- Literature Circle directions
- Daily Journal Writing
- Daily Literature
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Christmas Prepositions - Adapted!
ENGAGING activity for instruction with prepositions! Students move the preposition pictures to the associated fill-in-the-blank. 5 slides (4 have two statements). Have fun!***The TpT thumbnails are condensed. When downloaded, the text is aligned!***
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PreK - 8th, Staff
What is moral courage?
What is moral courage? Students identify and define moral courage using graphics and the moral courage website. We teach this unit in the beginning of the year and then incorporate the idea of moral courage all year. For example, which characters have moral courage? How do you (the student) demonstrate moral courage?
Grades:
7th - 9th
FREE Christmas Bundle from WebEnglish.se
Three Theme Pages with lesson materials for beginner, elementary och intermediate students, a Theme Page about A Christmas Carol and five leveled Advent Calendars for your students. All FREE!
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K - 12th, Adult Education
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