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8th grade english language arts outlines for parents
Book Tasting: Introduce Your Students to New Books and Genres
Do you want to introduce your students to new genres or new choices of books? Hold a BOOK TASTING in your classroom! This event will get your students motivated and excited about reading! Hold this event 2-3 times a year in your classroom and/or make it an evening event for parents to "sample" new books with their children. Resource includes: book tasting menuplace matsreflection napkinsbookmarkspreviewing a book signgenre signs with definitionsgenre bookmarks with definitionsevent signs, table
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3rd - 8th
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Meet the Teacher Template Editable | Welcome to Our Class Back to School Letters
This editable meet the teacher template is a perfect way to provide your students and their families with some information about you and your classroom at the beginning of the school year. You can send it in the mail in the summer, email it home, provide a copy to each family at an open house, hand out to your students during the first week of school, or upload to google classroom. Click here to SAVE 30% by buying this as part of my Back to School Forms Bundle!What's Included:- Meet the Teacher
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Back to School Forms Bundle | Print + Digital
ELA First Day: Back to School Stations, Meet the Teacher, Syllabus, Icebreaker
Have the best first day EVER in ELA with this bundle of first day stations, slides, and syllabus templates! Whether you like customizing in Canva, PPT, or Google Slides, these templates will make prepping for your first day total breeze. Not only will you be more efficient with your back to school prep, but you'll also set the tone for the rest of the year. Students will be impressed with your visual syllabus and engaged from day one!What you will get:⭐ A super fun, low pressure ice breaker idea
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7th - 12th
Functional Vocabulary File Folder Games for Special Education Matching Activity
These file folder games for special education and autism focus on color matching, picture matching, and word matching for a variety of functional vocabulary words. Activities include multiple options for easy differentiation: matching picture to picture (identical), picture to picture (non-identical) and picture to word, including both real-life photographs and illustrations. These are great for students working on matching and learning real-life functional vocabulary such as those in special e
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PreK - 12th
Back to School Night | Teacher Information Brochure| Meet the Teacher | EDITABLE
Make a great first impression at your Back to School Night with this Editable Teacher Information Brochure! This trifold brochure is the perfect way to communicate essential classroom information to parents and students, helping you start the school year smoothly and professionally.What's Included:Editable PowerPoint Template: Customize the text and layout to fit your classroom needs.Sections for Essential Information: Includes sections for your contact details, classroom rules, daily schedule,
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PreK - 12th, Staff
End of the Year Memory Book Flipbook for Middle School Distance Learning
Send your middle school students home for the summer with a lasting age-appropriate keepsake. UPDATED to include a digital version for distance learning!My "Middle School Memories" flipbook is easy to print and assemble and allows students to reflect on many facets of their school year, ranging from their daily school life, favorite things, best memories, class superlatives, and more. I include an instructional video link for assembling the flipbook.Bonus: each page offers students opportunities
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5th - 8th
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ELA Pacing Guide Curriculum Map Editable and Digital Scope Sequence 6th 7th 8th
This resource includes an editable PowerPoint and digital Google slides ELA pacing guide, curriculum map, and scope and sequence for the entire school year for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. This editable pacing guide, curriculum map, and long-term guide have everything you need to create your own. Use these PowerPoint or Google slides to create pacing guides and curriculum maps for your middle school ELA school years. Use my done-for-you version as a guide, or type right over my curriculum plans. For
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6th - 8th
Middle/High School Informal Language Screener
Throughout the school year I obtain new admissions to my caseload. At times, it can be hard to gage my student's ability levels just from reading their IEP. I have developed an informal screener that hits upon the areas that I feel I would like to see whether my students have mastered or if it's an area where more support is needed.
The following comprehensive screener includes sections on:
1. Informal Oral Peripheral Exam Checklist
2. Brief Artic, Fluency, and Voice Checklist
3. Spontaneous
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Public Speaking Unit Impromptu, How-To, Narrative, Informative, and More
Teaching a speech unit or public speaking course can be complex because so many aspects go into making a successful speech lesson. This file has a variety of tools to engage students as they grow as public speakers. It contains every public speaking activity in my store, plus many more speech activities. I also have a detailed (week by week) outline of how I run a public speaking class. NOTE: An eighteen-week (complete semester) outline for everything in this public speaking bundle is in the pre
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7th - 11th
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Positive Postcards: 50 Positive Notes Home to Parents, Communication Log, Brag
Help build relationships and open communication by sending a positive note home to parents!One of the BEST classroom routines I ever started was getting in the habit of sending a positive note home every Friday. I appreciate how it trained me to notice more student positivity, and I loved how it helped me end the week on a feel good note.If you would like to start this wholesome routine yourself, this resource has everything you need!You'll get:⭐50 positive note ideas that you can hand write or
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7th - 12th
Editable State Testing Parent Letter Secret Mission to Motivate Students
Encourage your students during your state's standardized tests with the help of their family, friends, and neighbors! Prior to standardized tests, send this letter home with students in a sealed envelope addressed to their parents or caregivers. It asks the parents and caregivers to write a letter or note of encouragement to their child, place the letters in a envelope, and send back to school to the teacher. On test day, the teacher will place the envelopes on the students' desk to open on t
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3rd - 12th
Cornell Notes Introduction - Presentation Slides & Cornell Note-Taking Template
Cornell Notes Introduction - Presentation Slides & Cornell Note-Taking Template: Cornell Notes is an effective note-taking system designed to enhance students' ability to learn and retain essential information. This resource provides a practical and adaptable tool for teaching note-taking success in any subject. Use the included presentation slides to teach students how to take notes and have them practice using the included Cornell Notes Template! Included in This Cornell Notes Lesson: ➡️
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
Life Skills Curriculum Bundle for Special Ed: Print + Digital (14 RESOURCES)
Life Skills Curriculum for Special Ed: Print + Digital Bundle Includes 14 resources: 9 printable + 5 digital Great for distance learning and hybrid caseloads -- this life skills bundle includes 2 sets of year long life skills centers, over 30 adapted books, 20 file folders, a word wall, and more! Digital resources include digital adapted books (as interactive PDFs) and digital file folders on Google Slides™.Teach essential life skills to your students in the classroom or remotely!INCLUDES 14 RES
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PreK - 12th
Paragraph Writing Frames (Text Structure Edition)
Paragraph Writing Frames are a wonderful resource to help support struggling writers. This pack includes 20 different writing frames to support all learners. There are four frames to choose from within each text structure (sequence, cause & effect, compare & contrast, problem & solution, and description.)What are paragraph frames?Paragraph frames are a perfect support for students who have difficulty writing strong paragraphs. Paragraph frames guide students by providing them wit
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2nd - 8th
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Also included in: Paragraph Writing Frames **Bundle**
Informational/Research Writing Graphic Organizers Bundle!
Buying this bundle will give you three versions of graphic organizers to help guide your students through writing 5 paragraph essays. It also includes an outline for writing a single paragraph for our developing writers + to reinforce paragraph writing fundamentals.The first version is a simple 5 paragraph outline with reminders to skip a line and indent- perfect for starting your kiddos out and giving them the foundation of organizing a 5 paragraph writing/research piece. The next two versions
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2nd - 9th
Argumentative Writing | Opinion Essay | Graphic Organizer | Outline | Grade 3-6+
Empower your students to master argumentative writing with our comprehensive Argumentative Opinion Essay Graphic Organizer and Outline. Perfect for grades 3-12, this resource provides structured support for students to develop clear and well-organized essays. Whether you are teaching argumentative or opinion writing, this tool will help your students craft compelling arguments with ease.What's Included:Graphic Organizer: Helps students visually organize their thoughts and arguments.Outline Templ
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3rd - 12th
Virtual Parent Teacher Conferences - Editable Google Slides
Virtual Parent-Teacher Conferences - Editable Google Slides & PowerPoint!Parent-teacher conferences are already stressful enough, let alone holding them over Zoom and trying to organize student data virtually! (Ah!) I hope this template helps facilitate successful meetings with all of your parents/guardians and will be something you can use year after year! These slides are also great for student-led conferences - let your students reflect on how the past quarter went! Have them create their
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K - 8th
Essays Sentence Starters for Literary Analysis
Teaching literary analysis or explanatory essay writing? Support struggling writers with this student-choice tool of essay sentence stems! The perfect scaffold, this resource offers several options for students to begin each line of their essay, including "HOT/TOH" introduction & conclusion paragraphs as well as body paragraphs with text evidence and analysis. Using this color-coding method outlined in the notes, students will stay organized and write a well-developed literary anlaysis essay
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Essay Writing Bundle for Literary Analysis
Writing an Introduction Paragraph: Graphic Organizer
Every time my students begin writing their essays, they always get stuck on their introduction paragraphs. They stare at their blinking cursors or unmoving pens and constantly tell me, "I don't know how to start!" It's easy to go over hook sentences, connecting sentences and writing a thesis. It's easy to give practice versions of these three introduction elements (and students seem to get it). But once they are confronted with their own paper, their minds go blank.
This graphic organizer h
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7th - 12th
Weekly and Daily Agenda Slides for Google Classroom
Are you looking for an easy way to organize your daily and weekly agenda for your students? These digital daily agenda Teacher Resource Template slides are so simple to use and can be posted on Google Classroom or presented on PowerPoint. The colors are great for any classroom and work well with lots of grade levels. ➨Includes:1. 3 Weekly Option Layouts (Week at a Glance)2. 3 Weekly Blanks3. 5 Daily Slides (Monday-Friday)4. 3 Daily Slide blanks to fill in as you wish5. Use Remotely or in Person6
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3rd - 8th
Also included in: Daily and Weekly Agendas Bundle Google Slides All Year and All Holidays
Journalism Graphic Organizers - Inverted Pyramid
Journalism Graphic Organizer - Inverted Pyramid: These are the only two journalism/media graphic organizers you will ever need for middle school and high school journalism.This five-page download includes one teacher page, a double-sided interview question graphic organizer, a relevancy organizer, and an inverted pyramid graphic organizer. These journalism graphic organizers will substantially improve your student reporters' news writing ability and interviewing confidence. The journalism interv
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6th - 10th
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Teaching Cursive - Dotted Letters Tracing Font - Handwriting
This letter tracing font is for teachers & learners of any skill level looking to create their own custom cursive handwriting practice sheets to capture the attention of their students and keep them engaged.By including your child’s name, they are more likely to be engaged in learning how to write, read and recognize cursive letters. This will quickly spark an interest in writing by allowing your little students to see their own name (or things they are interested in) on the page.Even if you
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2nd - 8th
Writing Resources Bundle Argument Expository Narrative Journalism
Writing instruction has never been easier! This download now includes ALL of my writing resources: argument and persuasive, expository (including journalism), and narrative writing. In addition, I added helpful outlines, prompts, and rubrics. The skills practiced are standards-based, aligned with the Common Core State Standards.This is a MEGA BUNDLE of the following products:*ARGUMENT*Argument Writing Mega Bundle (Includes Unit, Editable Handouts, Rubrics, AND Presentation) (This is included in
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7th - 12th
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Differentiated Essay Graphic Organizer - Guided Writing - Writing Support
Empower your students in their journey to becoming confident essay writers with our Scaffolded Essay Organizer Toolkit. I understand that students often face challenges when it comes to composing formal essays. That's why I've designed this comprehensive resource to help both educators and learners.This toolkit features THREE meticulously crafted and differentiated guided essay writing graphic organizers, each thoughtfully designed to suit various academic levels. Whether you're working with mid
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5th - 12th
Also included in: Writing Skills Bundle
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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.
Discover printable and digital English language arts resources
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.
Frequently asked questions about teaching English language arts
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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.
How can I make my English language arts lessons fun and engaging?
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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