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Adult education Common Core W.6.3 resources
Guided Poetry Presentation and Handouts Distance Learning
Creative writing doesn't have to be difficult. You can teach your students to write like famous poets with ease! My "Write Like a Poet" presentation and handouts are perfect for all students, but especially for those who struggle with creativity or hate to write (or hate poetry). Aligned with the Common Core State Standards for reading literature and writing. This is a great distance learning activity for your students! You can share it on a secured platform and let them work at their own pace.
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Tell-Tale Heart by Poe. Adapted Close Read Halloween Fun. ESL Beginner Unit.
This bright, colorful and fun adapted text version of The Tell-Tale Heart makes Poe's classic accessible to ESL and ENL beginners and newcomers. The unit includes 5-days of lesson plans, based around an initial and then close read of the text. Please open up the preview for details to make sure the text is right for your classroom -- it will be a challenge for your ELLs, but hopefully worth it.It is easily set up for DISTANCE LEARNING on TPT Digital, shared via Google Classroom. The PDF also pri
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Distance Learning Short Story Passage No Prep ELA Suspense Mystery
This 48 page resource is a 4,500 word short story and meets CCSS for middle school reading and writing. It is the story of a boy discovering his new friend is actually a ghost and she needs his help. This close reading lesson is 99 pages long. This resource is the answered teacher copy (48 pages), with the blank student copy (48 pages), there is also a link for projecting or giving to students that are distance learning. As well - this is a TpT Digital Activity. That means students can complete
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2nd - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Summer Reading Comprehension Context Clues Daily Reading Writing Bundle
Write Your Own Short Story Narrative Creative Writing Project: Distance Learning
Now digital and printable!!This digital and printable product is the perfect writing activity/project for your students in any short story unit! I spent about 2 and a half weeks (block classes) teaching my students short story elements/terms such as plot development, theme, conflict types, indirect/direct characterization etc. in mini lesson form alongside about 5 short stories. As a summative assessment, students were to create their own 2-page short story about anything they wanted (Go student
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Engaging Short Story Unit GROWING Bundle - Distance Learning
Year of Bell Ringers: Motivational Monday Quotes Prompts Expansion Pack #1
Mondays are hard for students and teachers alike. Ease into the period with an inspirational quote and thought-provoking writing prompts. The quotes I used are meaningful and relevant to students; many of my students said they looked forward to reading and writing about the prompts each Monday. And the best part? They promote a positive growth mindset that is reinforced each week and all week long. This pack is an expansion pack to my first resource; however, it can be used alone or with the oth
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Entire SEMESTER of FUN Writing Warm-Ups!!
Save 20% by getting: Entire YEAR of FUN Writing Warmups!Do you need some fresh bell-ringers for your classroom??Your students will be EAGER to get started each day with these FUN warm-ups that promote WRITING and CREATIVITY!! And YOU will have one less item on your to-do list, freeing up your time to work on everything else.I've spent MONTHS perfecting this item, ensuring it has the most RELEVENT and ENGAGING activities for our students (yes, my students will be using this too). Each day of th
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
Tell Tale Heart. Adapted Close Read Halloween Fun. Full Unit for ELA ESL Sp. Ed.
This bright, colorful and fun adapted text version of The Tell-Tale Heart makes Poe's classic accessible to a wider variety of readers, including ESL, ENL and Special Ed. The unit includes 5-days of lesson plans, based around an initial and then close read of the text. See preview for details.It is easily set up for DISTANCE LEARNING on TPT Digital, shared via Google Classroom. The PDF also prints out for in class instruction.Unit includes:An illustrated adapted text of The Tell-Tale Heart by Po
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Narrative Writing: Short Stories - Presentation, Prompts, Handouts for Students
Writing short stories: A complete presentation with printable handouts for students.This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my WRITING RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.This zipped download includes two *editable* Powerpoint files that cover:-Essential components of a story (setting, plot, character development, theme, conflict, point of view)-Story idea generators (ways to generate ideas for stories, which include visual picture prompts, online prompts, and other ways to come up with ideas)-Handouts
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Picture Book Mentor Text List for Upper Grade - VOL. 1
Behold! A complete list of picture books to use as mentor texts in your upper grade classroom!I love reading picture books with my fifth graders. Not only do we share a good story, but students are also motivated to try new strategies in their own writing. From character development to figurative language to dialog to mechanics, we learn so much from the amazing books that we read aloud in class. "By using mentor texts, the reader can virtually position him-or herself to sit beside the author an
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4th - 6th, Adult Education
Also included in: Picture Book Mentor Text Resources - Growing Bundle!
ESSAYS: How to Write Informational Essays ~ It Begins Here...
A HOW-TO for writing strong essays for students in grades 5–10.Students research using two paired, high-interest, leveled articles."The Life in Antarctica""The Marvelous Manta"This is your definitive guide for teaching how to research and write essays and paragraphs;using a step-by-step process; building strong, independent writers.Do your students need a little more work on stand-alone paragraphs? This guide also explains how to write strong paragraphs.This writing resource has:125 pages of pro
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5th - 11th, Adult Education
Theater Improv Warm-Ups and Games FOR EVERYONE
Young people LOVE theater improvisation, and so will you. Improv can help you create a cohesive class culture, spark creative writing, and make your students 100% engaged!Using this 4-page handout, you can explore many Improv WARM-UPS, EXERCISES and GAMES with your students - no previous improv experience required. The first page can turn into an easy anchor chart of what skills are necessary for improv (and serves as great justification for using improv in your classroom - these are important
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Opinion Narrative and Informative Writing Prompts for Quick Writes - Easel
Do your students need time after recess to calm themselves and do a quick write? Or do your students need more informative, narrative, and opinion writing practice? This bundle of prompts resource is perfect for upper elementary students' quickwrites, writing centers, or early finisher work. You will find 75 engaging prompts and cover pages to turn this into a journal.Digital Easel activities have been created to send these opinion, narrative, and expository journal prompts as Google Classroom a
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4th - 6th, Adult Education
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Stories Without End: 24 open-ended stories to teach reading and creative writing
What's a story starter?It's just what it sounds like, a story that starts but has no end. More developed than a short writing prompt, this story prompt gives students the first part of a story that ends on a cliff-hanger. Because the story has no end, students will have to create their own drawing on their creativity. Even the most reluctant writer will find themselves sucked in with this deceptively simple method of getting students to write! Each story is also supported with questions and voca
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Digital End of Year Writing Activities Reflections Distance Learning
NO PREP Editable Questions! This is the time of the year – especially THIS year – that we as teachers need to remind ourselves to take deep breaths and push through. We’re almost at the finish line! With these digital end-of-year writing prompts, students can make meaningful reflections while practicing important writing skills. This is a great way to end the year with some reflective thinking and writing with these open-ended questions that will make students reminisce and reflect about some of
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3rd - 8th, Adult Education
Conversation Starters Package on Humor
Generate inspiring class discussions with these thought-provoking conversation questions on humor.What's included:A list of 10 thought-provoking questions for middle school students on the subject of humorActivities to fill in before and after discussion (Ensuring students know what is expected of them and what constitutes an effective and productive discussion) Useful expressions and transitions pages (Encouraging students to use and record a variety of useful expressions and transitional phras
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5th - 8th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in: Conversation Starters Packages: Growing Bundle
30 READING STRATEGIES - BUNDLE - DIGITAL AND PRINT - GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
30 READING STRATEGIES - DIGITAL AND PRINT - GRAPHIC ORGANIZERSSAVE $15 with this BUNDLE of 30 Reading Strategies Graphic Organizers!Empower your students to become proficient readers with this comprehensive bundle, set of 30 Reading Strategies Graphic Organizers. Designed to foster critical thinking, improve comprehension, and enhance reading fluency, this pack is an invaluable resource for educators striving to cultivate strong literacy skills in their students. All resources contains both a PD
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Wizard of Oz and the Perseverance Road - Whole Group Reader's Theater
This is a Reader's Theater for the entire class. It was designed to be read or used as a play - depending on the time you have. There are 18 speaking parts but opportunities to double up or expand them allow you to fit it to your class/group. It is based on the Wizard of Oz. In the script, Dorothy is the type of girl who always gives up when things get tough until a tornado comes and whisks her away to the Land of Oz She’s ready to give up there until the munchkins volunteer to take her to see t
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
A Writer's Guide, 3rd Edition: What makes writing great?
This Writer's Guide (3rd Edition) has earned field-test approval from University of South Florida and Professors of Education, Pinellas County School District and Educators, the State of Florida Corrections Department for adult and youth literacy instruction, Chester Pennsylvania School District Stetser Elementary 4th and 5th-grade thematic study writing programs in league with Widener University and Dr. Dale Green of Morgan State University.The book is written for the learners so they can teach
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Free Twitter Tweet Story or Chapter Summary
Fiction & Non-Fiction Twitter Tweet Common Core Activity: Use the Twitter Concept to Make Connections to the TextUsing Twitter to Make Connections: Do you want to see if your students grasp the main idea or big event in a chapter or story but don't want to assign a boring chapter review? Use this creative "Tweet" activity--it's fun, fast, and you'll be able to tell right away if they read it/got it!Use in social studies for historical figures, science for chapter summary, and so many other
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Literature & Nonfiction Creative Reading Activities, Vol 2 Bundle
Book Report Ride
Book Reports can be kind of a drag. So, let’s make it into a ride. Using Minecraft or any other form of visual presentation – stop-motion, animation, live action video or graphic stills – take us on a roller coaster-like journey through three seminal scenes in your book. You pick the scenes, write the narration for this journey (only one voice), and bring us to a place where we won’t be able to resist reading the book ourselves.
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
Academic Writing, Lesson 4 Part 3: Compound Words, Hyphenations, Dashes
One of 30+ lesson plans that make up a middle school advanced placement and high school writing curriculum that prepares and leverages students for collegiate level writing. Note that this 1-30 academic writing curriculum will cover all of the writing standards from 5th to 12th grades as a whole, not individually. The whole is engineered to cover all aspects of writing and relative language mastery expected at the college level.This lesson dives into compound words, hyphens, and dashes and how t
Academic Writing, Lesson 4 Part 2: Contractions, Capitalizations, Homophones...
One of 30+ lesson plans that make up a middle school advanced placement and high school writing curriculum that prepares and leverages students for collegiate level writing. Note that this 1-30 academic writing curriculum will cover all of the writing standards from 5th to 12th grades as a whole, not individually. The whole is engineered to cover all aspects of writing and relative language mastery expected at the college level.This lesson dives into contractions, the apostrophe, capitalizations
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Weekly Reading Passage Reading Comprehension Writing ELL Reading Context Clues
Two friends discover the find of a lifetime at an estate sale... But will they live to tell about it?This suspenseful story about two friends and a mysterious camera is sure to engage your students! Whether you use these reading passages as homework, part of a larger lesson, part of a reading center, or as daily bell ringers or warm-ups they are sure to build your students' reading comprehension skills.While these are designed with middle schoolers in mind, 4th through 10th grades can benefit fr
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2nd - 10th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Summer Reading Comprehension Context Clues Daily Reading Writing Bundle
Creative Writing Workshop Lesson 4: Plot
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Lesson four is about plot. What drives a plot and keeps the reader engaged? Students will learn basic plot structure, from inciting incident to climax, as well as tips for organizing everything in between. Then, they’ll draw plot charts for their own stories.
This unit is part of a multi-installment series on creative writing, but it can also stand alone. The writing exercises do assume that the students already have some idea of the story they wish
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: Creative Writing Workshop Complete Bundle
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