7th Grade English Language Arts Activities

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• Thanksgiving Gratitude Toast Writing Unit with Slides and Awards
• Looking for a meaningful and engaging way to bring gratitude into your classroom this Thanksgiving season? This 4-Day Thanksgiving Toast Writing Unit has everything you need to help your students craft heartfelt toasts while building their public speaking and writing skills.
• Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Informational Texts: Central Idea & Author’s Purpose
• This resource features informational texts centered around the iconic Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Students will practice identifying the central idea and author’s purpose using guided activities, perfect for grades 4-6. Includes quizzes and engaging slides to bring the festive event into your classroom!
• Multiple Genre Thanksgiving Writing Fun: Story Starters, Centers, and Activities
  Spark creativity with these 10 engaging Thanksgiving-themed story starters! This freebie offers writing prompts perfect for centers or bell-ringers, allowing students to explore genres while creating their own holiday-inspired tales. Ideal for grades 4 and up!
• Text Features with Thanksgiving Football Text Set, Quizzes, and Slides
  Bring excitement to your lessons with this text feature set using Thanksgiving football articles. Students will analyze and identify different text features while engaging with a fun, seasonal topic. Quizzes and slide presentations are included for easy, interactive learning.
• Thanksgiving Argument Writing Unit: Debate Topics & Lesson Plans for STAAR ECRs
  Help your students master argumentative writing with this resource, complete with four Thanksgiving-themed debate prompts. Perfect for middle school, the unit includes a 75-minute lesson plan, guided notes, and templates for teaching claims, evidence, and rebuttals.
• Thanksgiving Author’s Purpose Reading Unit: Passages, Slides, Guided Notes (Grades 5-7)
  This reading unit features five double-sided Thanksgiving-themed passages that explore different author’s purposes. With interactive slides and guided notes, this resource is great for whole-group instruction, centers, or intervention activities in grades 5-7.
• Thanksgiving Digital Resource: Interactive Slides for Middle School Fall Break Vibes
  This non-academic, interactive slide deck is perfect for building community and having fun the day before Fall Break. Featuring 22 slides with thought-provoking and engaging Thanksgiving prompts, it's a fun, low-prep activity to wrap up the season.
• Thanksgiving Persuasive Writing Activity: Rhetoric for Grades 5-7 (Ethos, Pathos, Logos)
  This resource guides students through persuasive writing with a focus on rhetoric. Using Thanksgiving-themed prompts, students will practice developing strong arguments using ethos, pathos, and logos. Perfect for building writing and critical thinking skills in grades 5-7.
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  Teach text structures in a creative and interactive way with this Thanksgiving coloring activity. Students will learn about different text structures and apply them through sorting and coloring activities, making the lesson both educational and fun.
• 10 Fall Narrative Essay Picture Prompts and Planner: Print and Go & Slides
  This resource includes 10 narrative essay prompts, each with a fall theme, designed to help students craft compelling stories. Perfect for middle school students, the resource includes both print-and-go materials and a slide deck for easy classroom use.

This bundle could cover 20-25 days of classroom instruction, depending on how the resources are paced and implemented. It offers a great variety of activities for both Thanksgiving season and beyond.

As you and I know planning for subs can be time-consuming and tedious. One might say that "it is easier being there than planning for a substitute".

Wouldn't it be great to have a pack of backup lessons from which to pull on short notice? Consider putting these in a binder that you keep as a substitute with other instructions, class rotations, schedules, emergency drills, events, etc. These can be used anytime during the year.

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Each lesson in this bundle has been specifically picked as they are easy to use for almost any substitute. These require very little preparation from the teacher and students can independently work on the lesson without much guidance.

These are great for those days when you don't expect to be out and need a quick backup plan.

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Teaching The War of the Worlds? Don't know where to start? This bundle includes many activities to do before, during, and after reading the novel. This is a complete unit for the classic novel The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells. Don't let the common cold stop you from this deal.

This is the last novel study purchase you’ll ever need to make!  Plus each of these novel studies can be prepped in minutes instead of all weekend. You’ll be ready to engage your students in reading each of these 50+ books using reading comprehension questions that spark deep thinking. 

Each novel study includes vocabulary and reading comprehension questions by chapter. The activities in each novel study also include the opportunity to practice reading strategies, reading comprehension skills, literacy skills, respond to writing prompts, and review language skills. 

The flexible format makes it a breeze to assign reading comprehension skills to match the needs of your students, the literacy concepts most in need of reinforcing, or even the reading and writing skills demanded by the curriculum calendar. 

WHAT’S INSIDE EACH NOVEL STUDY? 

Teaching instructions and ideas for implementing in your classroom

Assignments for vocabulary and comprehension questions by chapter

Reading skills assignments including:

• visualization
• inference
• prediction
• similes and metaphors
• sensory images
• connecting to text
• summarization
• generating questions
• character traits
• main idea and details
• compare and contrast
• cause and effect
• fact and opinion
• figurative language
• elements of plot
• signposts
• plot diagram
• theme
• quest
• fantasy vs. reality

Writing prompts and response pages including:

• response to reading
• letter writing
• poetry
• persuasive writing
• narrative writing
• how-to writing

Language/grammar skills including:

• nouns

• verbs

• adjectives and antonyms

• adverbs

A link to a bonus Google Slides digital version of each novel study is included.

You will absolutely love these novel studies because they work well as a distance learning alternative, in a Daily 5/CAFE setting, as a literature circle reading group log, as well as in a traditionally structured reading class. Or even leave it as a reading activity for the substitute.

Quick and easy…just print and pass out! The ease of prep and format makes each novel study perfect for Read with Someone stations, independent classwork, or send-home packets. Students will be eagerly interacting with the text and growing as readers! The hardest part of this BOOK TITLE novel study will be keeping students from reading ahead.

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Social Emotional Learning and English Language Arts Mega Bundle

About this SEL/ELA Mega Bundle:

★ Social Emotional Learning

★ 147 resources!

★ Includes a COMBINATION of ELA and SEL resources

★ Print and Dgital versions

★ Excellent for Grades 7-12, Home School

★ Approximately 7,130+ pages

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ABOUT THIS MEGA BUNDLE COMBO:

✅ This Mega Bundle features a blend of ELA and Social Skills/Social Emotional Learning resources. It is organized alphabetically, ensuring seamless navigation and easy access to the specific materials you require. :-)

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✅ This incredible MEGA BUNDLE comprises a diverse range of bundled resources designed to elevate rigor in classrooms, boost student engagement, foster critical thinking and reflection, and enrich the overall classroom environment.

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The Essential Yoga Bundle is made for educators, parents, and anyone doing yoga with children!

The Essential Yoga Bundle includes:

1. Sun Salutation Yoga Cards

2. Yamas & Niyamas Lesson Unit

3. Empowerment Series Printable Yoga Cards + Lesson Plans

The Sun Salutation Sequence is a 19-page PDF download that you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper. If printed, we recommend cutting out each card and taping/gluing on a 4x6 index card or card stock. For added durability, laminate each card.

The Yamas and Niyamas Lesson Unit is a 34-page PDF download which you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper. The lesson unit helps children learn the concepts of the yoga philosophy, the context for the Yamas and Niyamas in everyday life, and how to incorporate these values at school, in sports and at home.

The Empowerment Sequence is a 16-page PDF download which you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper. We recommend cutting out each card and taping/gluing on a 4x6 index card or card stock. For added durability, laminate each card.

Teaching vocabulary by using these flashcards can make the students excited and understand the English vocabulary. Instructional media such as flashcards also give a clear concept of the information given. Flashcards can give variations in the teaching-learning process. It is used according to the theme of the lesson.

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Capitalization: 11 pages/4 Google Quizzes

Apostrophes: 8 pages/3 Google Quizzes

I made these after realizing that my students in high school needed practice with the mechanics of how to construct a sentence before I could begin instructing them on best practices for structure in their essays. There are pages for them to practice (on paper) or you can use as a quiz for after instruction! All of the Google quizzes will self-grade and they are editable.

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Printable Fire Safety Week activities are perfect for keeping kids engaged and entertained during OCTOBER . These activities include a variety of fun and educational options that can be easily printed and completed at home or on the go. this bundle contains, Coloring Pages, mazes, Sudoku , mandala coloring sheets .

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This big bundle includes every Ray Bradbury product in my store. It includes materials to teach Fahrenheit 451 as well as 5 different short stories, including:

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2. "There Will Come Soft Rains"

3. "The Veldt"

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5. "All Summer in a Day"

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Make Reading Fun with these Reading Challenges.

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This Figurative Language Short Passage BUNDLE includes every passage set in my shop with 3 close reading and writing worksheets each! ***Answer Keys Included!

Figurative Language Short Passage Sets are a no-prep, printable close reading activity that's perfect for middle school and high school. Each passage has between 206-226 words and is filled with between 14-19 examples of figurative language, such as hyperbole, metaphor, simile, and personification. I’ve found that although my students can tell me the definition of these terms, simile is the only one they can truly pick out in a text. As a result, their writing is filled with overused similes that need work! These figurative language passage sets are rigorous, use higher-level words and phrases, and in addition to merely identifying the different types, students will be asked to discuss the impact it has on the reader, as they’re asked to do on standardized testing. Simply print and go! There is truly no preparation needed, which is why this set is perfect to leave for sub plans, bell ringers, homework, test prep, review or assessment!

Four Corners Figurative Language Activity is a fun whole-group game or review activity. Your students will love moving around the room as you click through the 40 examples of figurative language, such as hyperbole, metaphor, simile, and personification. You will love this well-organized activity that allows students to test their knowledge, get exposure to high-quality examples, and even learn something new! This is an activity I use in my classroom every year during our narrative writing unit and I know your students will love it!

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Printable Worksheets

• Figurative Language Short Passage Set 1

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• Four Corners Figurative Language Game

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► Task 2: Write a Similar Figurative Language Passage Using a Checklist

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Welcome to the ultimate Earth Poetree Education 2023 - 2024 Academic Bundle! This comprehensive bundle includes everything we've created and discussed, tailored for a variety of educational needs. As a Grade 2 teacher and with the collaboration of my partner, a kindergarten teacher, we have crafted resources that cater to elementary students, extra-curricular activities (ECAs), and younger learners. Enjoy a 20% discount on this extensive collection designed to enhance teaching and learning throughout the academic year.

Bundle Highlights:

1. SMART Goals Worksheet:

• Three-page worksheet guiding students to understand and set SMART goals in overall school life, math, and ELA.

1. First Day | Soft Start | Get To Know Your Class | Welcome Packet | Bundle:

• Includes baseline tests, Euro 2024 football worksheet, "Walk Me Through the Life of You" worksheet, getting to know you workpacket, welcome packet template, magical meet the teacher template, design your own planet activity, getting to know the class bingo, and a space-themed registration guide.

1. Magical Meet The Teacher Template Editable | Meet the Teacher Co-teacher Letter:

• Enchanting editable template to introduce teachers and co-teachers with a cover page, introduction, and fun facts.

1. Get To Know You Bingo | Meet the Class | Ice Breakers | Back to School | Summer:

• Interactive 5x5 bingo grid to encourage students to find classmates who match specific prompts.

1. Doctor Dramatic Play | Roleplay - Doctor Pretend Play | My Pretend Hospital Bundle:

• Includes play doctor checklist, tray labels, poster and printables, DIY first aid box, and doctor/nurse ID cards with a fake credit card.

1. Restaurant Dramatic Play Roleplay - Waiter Pretend Play | My Pretend Restaurant Bundle:

• Features station posters, DIY pizza kit, pizza order checklist, pizza shop tray labels, chef/waiter ID cards, and a comprehensive menu with interactive check marks.

1. Restaurant Dramatic Play | Roleplay - Waiter Pretend Restaurant Bunting Italian:

• Vibrant bunting spelling "RISTORANTE" with Italian restaurant symbols.

1. Earth Day Activities:

• Includes a speaking and listening activity where students design their own planet, Earth Day bunting craftivity, and Earth Day escape room.

1. Morning Book:

• A 20-page (one month) morning book with weekly check-in pages, mindful coloring, community activities, word boggle pages, and more.

1. Writing Portfolio Workbook:

• Focused on fable writing, covering narrative standards with activities like idea development, mindmapping, fable structure analysis, and more.

1. Reading Workbook:

• Eight-week workpack covering RL.2.1, RL.2.2, RL.2.3, RL.2.6, and RL.2.9 standards with diverse fables and folktales.

1. Classrooms & Chimeras Resources:

• Includes the Student's Handbook, Chimera Compendium, Classroom Master Guide, interactive presentation for the Portals of Possibilities campaign, character creation templates, premades, and bonus Gorbhash the Feathered Fury card.

1. Classrooms & Chimeras - Monster Card Probability Games:

• Probability dice game trial with 8 monster cards and engaging attributes.

1. Teacher Toolbox Labels:

• Boho pastel and vibrant color labels for organizing classroom supplies.

1. 4th of July Crafts:

• Includes toilet roll streamers, collaborative flag poster, butterfly puppets, and patriotic wind catchers.

1. Juneteenth Coloring Page:

• Features a lively street festival scene with space for students to draw their own interpretation of Juneteenth.

1. Interactive Reading Story Game:

• A Twine-based story game where students solve puzzles to escape a hotel room, promoting reading comprehension and problem-solving skills.

1. Alphabet Flashcards:

• A-Z flashcards with letters on one side and pictures, phrases, and words on the other, including an American 'k' option.

1. Jolly Phonics Roll and Write Printout Centers:

• Worksheets for Groups 1-7, helping students practice phonics through engaging roll and write activities.

1. Create Your Own Pokémon Activity:

• A four-step process for students to design their own Pokémon, including quizzes, drawing, and writing activities.

1. Zones of Regulation Inside Out & Inside Out 2 Poster:

• Teaches emotions through mood monsters, an emotions rollercoaster, and a volcano-themed zones of regulation chart.

1. Earth Poetree Education Blogpost:

• Provides an overview of the resources and their benefits for teachers, parents, and students.

1. Doctor Dramatic Play | Roleplay - Doctor Pretend Play | Hospital Bunting:

• Includes 8 letters spelling out "HOSPITAL" and 2 hospital symbols to enhance the dramatic play environment.

1. Restaurant Dramatic Play | Roleplay - Waiter Pretend Play | My Restaurant Menu:

• Comprehensive menu with drinks, food items, and desserts, each with a picture, flavor text, and check mark circles for interactive play.

1. Restaurant Dramatic Play | Roleplay - Waiter Pretend Play | My Chef Waiter ID Card:

• Includes male and female chef ID cards, waiter and waitress ID cards, and a fake credit card for roleplay transactions.

1. Thank You Tags:

• Black and white and color tags with customizable spaces for teachers to write personalized messages.

1. St. Patrick's Day Crafts:

• Includes four festive crafts: toilet roll streamers, collaborative flag poster, butterfly puppets, and patriotic wind catchers.

1. April Fools Test:

• Fun and engaging test where the answers spell out "HAPPY APRIL FOOLS," with a trick to only complete the first question and then draw on the back.

1. Aquarium | Terrarium Design Planning Template:

• Planning template for students to design their own aquarium or terrarium, fostering creativity and environmental awareness.

1. Radio Workpack for ECAs:

• Comprehensive workpack for setting up and running a classroom radio station, perfect for ECAs and enhancing speaking and listening skills.

1. Noun Hunt Scavenger Activity:

• Follow-up activity to a 60-second grammar YouTube video, where students hunt for and identify nouns in their environment.

1. Report Card Comment Cheat Sheet:

• Uses ChatGPT 3.5 to generate whole class comments in minutes, covering homeroom, ELA, math, health, science, and social studies.

1. Geometric Maths Sprints:

• Fast-paced and engaging math sprints focusing on geometric concepts to boost students' math skills.

1. Homophone Heartbreaks:

• Match the hearts with the correct homophones in this fun and educational activity with 14 different pairs.

1. Whole Class Human-Sized Monopoly:

• Based on America for International Day, with poster templates for various states and research pages to help students learn about each state.

1. Fallout 4 - Create Your Own Vault Dweller Character:

• Creative writing workbook where students build their character with SPECIAL attributes and write their backstory and adventure.

1. Classrooms & Chimeras Daily Planner:

• Themed daily planner with reminders for meals and water, a lesson plan page with sections for objectives, vocabulary, activities, and assessments.

1. Parts of Speech Posters | Adventure Classroom Decor:

• Includes Article Airport, Adjective Energy, Noun Town, Verb Suburb, Adverb Attractions, and Conjunction Junction, with a map theme to aid in teaching grammar.

1. Juneteenth Coloring Page:

• Lively street festival scene with musical performances, a barbecue area, and flags, with space for students to draw their interpretation of Juneteenth.

1. Get to Know You Football:

• Euro 2024-themed activity where students draw their favorite color, animal, food, football team, film/TV show, game, subject, and their name inside a football.

1. Meditation Video and Rainbow Breathing Activity:

• 2-minute 28-second video with a calm soundtrack, square breathing exercise, and rainbow coloring activity to help students focus and calm down.

1. Create Your Own Fable Project:

• Guides students through crafting their own fables with embedded morals and rules, including a wanted poster in Chinese for their animal character.

1. Quarter 1 Writing Portfolio Workbook:

• Focused on fable writing, covering narrative standards with activities like idea development, mindmapping, fable structure analysis, and more.

1. Blank Fable Template:

• Ready-to-use template for students to plan and write their own fables.

1. Triphase Fable Assessment Rubric:

• A standards-based rubric for assessing students' fable writing at three critical stages: emergence, development, and performance.

1. Earth Day Acrostic Poem Worksheet:

• Features examples of summer acrostic poems and space for students to write and illustrate their own poems.

1. Design Your Own Pokémon Activity:

• A four-step process for students to design their own Pokémon, including quizzes, drawing, and writing activities.

1. Meditation Video and Rainbow Breathing Activity:

• 2-minute 28-second video with a calm soundtrack, square breathing exercise, and rainbow coloring activity to help students focus and calm down.

1. Zones of Regulation Inside Out & Inside Out 2 Poster:

• Teaches emotions through mood monsters, an emotions rollercoaster, and a volcano-themed zones of regulation chart.

1. Alphabet Flashcards:

• A-Z flashcards with letters on one side and pictures, phrases, and words on the other, including an American 'k' option.

1. Get to Know You Football:

• Euro 2024-themed activity where students draw their favorite color, animal, food, football team, film/TV show, game, subject, and their name inside a football.

1. Juneteenth Coloring Page:

• Lively street festival scene with musical performances, a barbecue area, and flags, with space for students to draw their interpretation of Juneteenth.

1. Pizza Checklist Worksheet:

• Students ask customers about their preferred pizza base and toppings, and rate their pizza.

1. Pizza Shop Tray Labels:

• Eight different labels for pizza toppings: peppers, onions, olives, mushrooms, bacon, pepperoni, basil, and pineapple.

1. Restaurant Dramatic Play | Roleplay - Waiter Pretend Play | My Chef Waiter ID Card:

• Includes male and female chef ID cards, waiter and waitress ID cards, and a fake credit card for roleplay transactions.

1. Restaurant Dramatic Play | Roleplay - Waiter Pretend Play | My Pretend Restaurant Bundle:

• Comprehensive bundle of all restaurant-related roleplay items, including station posters, DIY pizza kit, pizza order checklist, tray labels, and a menu.

1. Restaurant Dramatic Play | Roleplay - Waiter Pretend Restaurant Bunting Italian:

• Vibrant bunting spelling "RISTORANTE" with Italian restaurant symbols.

1. Earth Day Escape Room:

• Interactive escape room where students solve riddles and puzzles related to the three Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle.

1. Earth Day Speaking and Listening Activity:

• Students design their own planet and present it to the class, enhancing creativity and public speaking skills.

1. Earth Day Bunting Craftivity:

• Printable craft where students write "Recycle, Reduce, Reuse" on a stem with leaves and create a bunting for classroom decoration.

1. St. Patrick's Day Crafts:

• Includes four festive crafts: toilet roll streamers, collaborative flag poster, butterfly puppets, and patriotic wind catchers.

1. St. Patrick's Day Wordsearch:

• Engaging word search activity featuring words related to St. Patrick's Day.

1. St. Patrick's Day Pot of Gold Counting Activity:

• Printable activity where students count coins and place them in a pot of gold.

1. St. Patrick's Day Scavenger Hunt:

• Fun scavenger hunt with six icons related to St. Patrick's Day.

1. Meditation Video and Rainbow Breathing Activity:

• 2-minute 28-second video with a calm soundtrack, square breathing exercise, and rainbow coloring activity to help students focus and calm down.

1. Zones of Regulation Inside Out & Inside Out 2 Poster:

• Teaches emotions through mood monsters, an emotions rollercoaster, and a volcano-themed zones of regulation chart.

1. Alphabet Flashcards:

• A-Z flashcards with letters on one side and pictures, phrases, and words on the other, including an American 'k' option.

1. Get to Know You Football:

• Euro 2024-themed activity where students draw their favorite color, animal, food, football team, film/TV show, game, subject, and their name inside a football.

1. Juneteenth Coloring Page:

• Lively street festival scene with musical performances, a barbecue area, and flags, with space for students to draw their interpretation of Juneteenth.

1. Teacher Toolbox Labels:

• Boho pastel and vibrant color labels for organizing classroom supplies.

1. April Fools Test:

• Fun and engaging test where the answers spell out "HAPPY APRIL FOOLS," with a trick to only complete the first question and then draw on the back.

1. Aquarium | Terrarium Design Planning Template:

• Planning template for students to design their own aquarium or terrarium, fostering creativity and environmental awareness.

1. Radio Workpack for ECAs:

• Comprehensive workpack for setting up and running a classroom radio station, perfect for ECAs and enhancing speaking and listening skills.

1. Noun Hunt Scavenger Activity:

• Follow-up activity to a 60-second grammar YouTube video, where students hunt for and identify nouns in their environment.

1. Report Card Comment Cheat Sheet:

• Uses ChatGPT 3.5 to generate whole class comments in minutes, covering homeroom, ELA, math, health, science, and social studies.

1. Geometric Maths Sprints:

• Fast-paced and engaging math sprints focusing on geometric concepts to boost students' math skills.

1. Homophone Heartbreaks:

• Match the hearts with the correct homophones in this fun and educational activity with 14 different pairs.

1. Whole Class Human-Sized Monopoly:

• Based on America for International Day, with poster templates for various states and research pages to help students learn about each state.

1. Fallout 4 - Create Your Own Vault Dweller Character:

• Creative writing workbook where students build their character with SPECIAL attributes and write their backstory and adventure.

1. Classrooms & Chimeras Daily Planner:

• Themed daily planner with reminders for meals and water, a lesson plan page with sections for objectives, vocabulary, activities, and assessments.

1. Parts of Speech Posters | Adventure Classroom Decor:

• Includes Article Airport, Adjective Energy, Noun Town, Verb Suburb, Adverb Attractions, and Conjunction Junction, with a map theme to aid in teaching grammar.

1. Juneteenth Coloring Page:

• Lively street festival scene with musical performances, a barbecue area, and flags, with space for students to draw their interpretation of Juneteenth.

1. Get to Know You Football:

• Euro 2024-themed activity where students draw their favorite color, animal, food, football team, film/TV show, game, subject, and their name inside a football.

1. Create Your Own Fable Project:

• Guides students through crafting their own fables with embedded morals and rules, including a wanted poster in Chinese for their animal character.

1. Earth Poetree Education Blogpost:

• Provides an overview of the resources and their benefits for teachers, parents, and students.

1. Classrooms & Chimeras - Monster Card Probability Games:

• Probability dice game trial with 8 monster cards and engaging attributes.

1. Teacher Toolbox Labels:

• Boho pastel and vibrant color labels for organizing classroom supplies.

1. Geometric Maths Sprints:

• Fast-paced and engaging math sprints focusing on geometric concepts to boost students' math skills.

1. Jolly Phonics Roll and Write Printout Centers:

• Worksheets for Groups 1-7, helping students practice phonics through engaging roll and write activities.

1. St. Patrick's Day Pot of Gold Counting Activity:

• Printable activity where students count coins and place them in a pot of gold.

1. St. Patrick's Day Scavenger Hunt:

• Fun scavenger hunt with six icons related to St. Patrick's Day.

1. SMART Goals Worksheet:

• Three-page worksheet guiding students to understand and set SMART goals in overall school life, math, and ELA.

1. Create Your Own Pokémon Activity:

• A four-step process for students to design their own Pokémon, including quizzes, drawing, and writing activities.

1. Thank You Tags:

• Black and white and color tags with customizable spaces for teachers to write personalized messages.

1. Fallout 4 - Create Your Own Vault Dweller Character:

• Creative writing workbook where students build their character with SPECIAL attributes and write their backstory and adventure.

1. Interactive Reading Story Game:

• A Twine-based story game where students solve puzzles to escape a hotel room, promoting reading comprehension and problem-solving skills.

1. Juneteenth Coloring Page:

• Lively street festival scene with musical performances, a barbecue area, and flags, with space for students to draw their interpretation of Juneteenth.

1. Homophone Heartbreaks:

• Match the hearts with the correct homophones in this fun and educational activity with 14 different pairs.

1. Classrooms & Chimeras Resources:

• Includes the Student's Handbook, Chimera Compendium, Classroom Master Guide, interactive presentation for the Portals of Possibilities campaign, character creation templates, premades, and bonus Gorbhash the Feathered Fury card.

1. Morning Book: - A 20-page (one month) morning book with weekly check-in pages, mindful coloring, community activities, word boggle pages, and more.

Why This Bundle Is Essential:

• Comprehensive Coverage: Includes a wide range of activities and assessments to start the school year on a strong note.
• Builds Community: Encourages students to get to know each other and their teachers, fostering a positive and inclusive classroom environment.
• Engages Students: Offers fun and interactive activities that capture students' interest and make the first days of school enjoyable.
• Supports Assessment: Baseline tests help you understand each student's starting point, allowing for tailored instruction from the outset.
• Easy to Use: Ready-to-print and editable resources save you time and effort in preparing for the new school year.
• Valuable Bonus: The Pokémon Go workpack adds extra value and excitement, providing engaging content for a whole week's worth of activities.

Ideal For:

• Teachers looking for a diverse collection of educational resources.
• Educators aiming to create engaging and interactive learning experiences.
• Parents and caregivers wanting to support their children's learning at home.

Enjoy a 20% discount on this extensive bundle and equip your classroom with the ultimate set of educational resources from Earth Poetree Education! This comprehensive resource ensures you have everything you need to make the first days of school productive, engaging, and fun, setting the stage for a successful year ahead.

All the Kickstarter academic content is included in this bundle. Explore the full range of resources from our Kickstarter campaign, "Classrooms & Chimeras," which you can view here. This ensures you have access to all the innovative educational tools and materials we've developed to create engaging and dynamic classroom experiences.

In these products, students will learn the following English words and signs for the following parts of speech: 146 nouns, 33 pronouns, 126 adjectives, 110 verbs, 74 adverbs, 44 prepositions, 42 conjunctions, 20 interjections, and 44 contractions.

These product can be used with students who are learning English and American Sign Language. It can serve as an in class practice, review, or quiz.

In the first section of the nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, and contractions products, students will learn the English word and the sign for each given word. Students will be required to write the word in their native language if a first language has previously been mastered.

In the second section, students will be provided with a dictionary for the nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, and contractions products that are reviewed. Students will be provided with a picture, the word, and the sign to help students make a connection and learn the word and sign.

In the third section of the nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, and contractions products, students will be required to write each given word in English. At the end of this section, students will be required to make up 10 - 20 sentences using the nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, and contractions that were learned. The amount of sentences will vary per product

In the fourth section of the product, students can review what they learned based on the example sentence (if provided), picture, and sign that are included for each word. Students will then be required to make up a sentence using each word in English.

In the fifth section of the product, students can review what they learned based on the example sentence (if provided), picture, and sign that are included for each word. Students will then be required to make up a sentence using each word in their native language.

Table of contents in the product are as follows:

•Nouns, pages 3 - 262

•Pronouns, pages 263 - 363

•Adjectives, pages 364 - 700

•Verbs, pages 701 - 989

•Adverbs, pages 990 - 1200

•Prepositions, pages 1201 - 1325

•Conjunctions, pages 1326 – 1446

•Interjections, pages 1447 - 1521

•Contractions, pages 1522 - 1645

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The novel, Baseball in April , contains 12 superb short stories by Gary Soto:

The 12 introductory Google Slide lessons provide digital and printable pre-reading information for the author, genre, and setting. The lessons also include vocabulary study, practice, and assessment for the following:

Baseball in April

Barbie

No Guitar Blues

Seventh Grade

Mother and Daughter

The Karate Kid

La Bamba

Growing Up

The Marble Champ

Broken Chain

Two Dreamers

The Jacket-Included as a bonus.....no extra charge

GOAL: to prepare each student to read rigorous literature by front-loading story elements critical to comprehension aligned to standards

AUDIENCE: whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual classrooms

PDF FILE. Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 8 printable worksheets to be used with the Google Slide lesson! These printables include Connotation and Grammar sort, Word Study, and Vocabulary Quiz with optional word bank and answer key.

EACH Google Slide:

1. **Author Bio:** To connect vocabulary with real-world context, we provide author biographies related to each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the words in the context of the author's life experience.

2. **Setting**: highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links to prepare students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.

3. **Vocab with Concise Definitions :** Our Google Slide lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context as it appears in the text.

4.**Bold Photos:** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.

5.**Parts of Speech:** Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for effective language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.

6. **Grammar Review & Sort** Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.

7. **Connotation Review & Sort** Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.

8.**Context Clues Sentences:** Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.

9.**Quizlet Practice:** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice sets tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.

10**PDF file** 9 organizers, activities, and quizzes

11 **Fun Fact** photos and video links are inserted throughout to bring important elements of the story into context and aid comprehension

DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:

· Introduce new story

· Provide backstory to text

· Stimulate group discussion/prediction

· Create predictions about text

· Use as distance learning resource

· Post on webpage for review

· Add to electronic notebooks

· Provide test review

· Prompt Writing or Research assignments

· Grammar study / parts of speech

· Discuss Word Connotation

PRINTABLE USES: word walls and interactive notebooks

THIS BUNDLE IS ALSO AVAILABLE IN POWERPOINT.

Enjoy

-from Kiwious About Vocab!

Help your reluctant writers practice their grammar through building and punctuating sentences, expanding sentences with parts of speech, and combining sentences with this activity bundle of 9 printable and digital activities. Ideal for both GenEd and SpEd teachers with struggling and reluctant writers.

Students also begin writing pieces by building word banks in order to tell a short story or write expository and opinion writing pieces. Throughout each of the activities, students communicate their ideas and collaborate with peers while giving and accepting peer feedback during the revision process.

I have used each of these resources with my students over the years. I have found that low-stakes writing activities that include an element of game-like fun and peer collaboration work best. It turns the most reluctant of writers into a writing enthusiast.

Bundle Includes:

• Sentence Combining Task Cards
• Writing Intervention: Activities to Help Reluctant Writers
• Expanding Paragraph Practice
• Picture Writing Prompts with Word Banks
• Build a Sentence: Comma Rules
• Editable Digital Picture Prompts with Buildable Word Banks
• Writing Revision Tools: Peer Feedback
• Parts of Speech Activities: Word Tiles for Sentence Building, Bingo, Bookmark
• Parts of Speech Games for Grammar Review

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This resource features a bundle of all of our lesson plans, materials, and activities for Edgar Allan Poe's gruesome tale, The Tell-Tale Heart. Each product is thoughtfully crafted and allows students to think outside the box by delving deeply into the story's themes, characters, vocabulary, and plot development. Lessons have all been classroom-tested and allow for differentiation while encouraging optimal student engagement. This activity bundle provides more than a week's worth of material to bring the story to life!

Included in this Bundle:

• The Tell-Tale Heart Literature Guide: This product features a comprehensive literature guide for use while reading Edgar Allan Poe's gruesome tale, The Tell-Tale Heart. The activity bundle provides an excellent basis for comprehension and vocabulary acquisition for the short story and encourages students to think critically about plot structure, literary elements, perspective, and figurative language within the story. With newly added material like the Snap Chat graphic organizer and Figurative Language Challenge, the wide range of activities in this guide will keep your students engaged and help them to delve into the mind of one of the most notorious unreliable narrators of all time.

• The Tell-Tale Heart Anticipation Guide and Lesson Plan: This resource features an anticipation guide for Edgar Allan Poe's chilling tale of murder and mutilation, The Tell-Tale Heart, and a meticulously-explained lesson plan that I believe is the absolute best way to approach a new story. Using a non-intimidating method called "Numbered Heads", this activity will get your students thinking, writing, conversing, and reporting about themes you will be encountering during your study of The Tell-Tale Heart and your overall Poe unit. This lesson is particularly useful for Poe's tale which can be difficult for students to understand at first, thus going in with knowledge of themes will help them connect. I am confident that your students will enjoy this thoughtful, engaging activity and beg you to begin reading one of the most notoriously gruesome stories in American literature.

• Unreliable Narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart Lesson Plan: This resource features a full-length lesson plan, accompanying materials, and creative writing assignment that asks students to delve into the crazed mind of the narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart. Through an engaging "True/Untrue Storytelling" activity, precise mini-lecture on the unreliable narrator, guiding questions, and follow-up assignment, your students will be able to understand the sometimes daunting concept of the unreliable narrator and discuss how a story is affected when told through the eyes of one. This lesson plan opens up a new world for students as they realize that many of the books, movies, and tv shows that they have read or seen in the past may have been influenced by an unreliable narrator. Thus, not only is this lesson important, it is intrinsically fascinating to students and the "oohs" and "aha" moments that tend to arise from the discussion make it a blast to teach! I am confident that you and your students will love this lesson as much as mine have for years.

• The Tell-Tale Heart Creative Writing Assignment on Perspective (also included within Literature Guide): This engaging assignment asks students to think critically about the events detailed by an unreliable narrator in Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart. Did the old man truly have no inkling of the narrator's hatred of him? Did the police officers really "chat pleasantly" as they interrogated the increasingly agitated man? In the assignment, students must consider these questions and more, then write a short narrative through the perspective of either the old man or a police officer at the scene. The assignment is fun but more importantly, it leads to sophisticated discussion about the concept of an unreliable narrator. This is a perfect supplement for any unit on Edgar Allan Poe!

• The Tell-Tale Heart Socratic Seminar Materials: A Socratic Seminar (or a "Fish Bowl" Conversation as I like to call them with my students) is a higher order way of assessing whether your students are able to understand and react to your class texts. These seminars rely on the power of inquiry and allow students to take the lead in their learning and discussion. The only problem? They require a great deal of preparation. Fortunately, this student-tested resource includes everything you need to conduct a structured and formal set of Socratic Seminars in your classroom surrounding the short stories, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe... with very little preparation required on your end.

• The Tell-Tale Heart ESCAPE ROOM: This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Escape Room for The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task (and it is!), but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. It is the perfect activity for Halloween or any day you want to shake it up with your students without sacrificing learning. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game.

• The Tell-Tale Heart Human Tic Tac Toe Review Game: This resource features a lesson plan and materials for the Human Tic Tac Toe Review Game, an engaging and competitive way to review Edgar Allan Poe's chilling tale of cold-blooded murder, The Tell-Tale Heart. Let's face it, review days can be boring for both teachers and students, so liven them up with this collaborative game. The resource includes not only a meticulously detailed lesson plan and set-up instructions, but over 40 questions on plot, literary elements, vocabulary, and figurative language from The Tell-Tale Heart, as well as questions about Poe himself. Besides simple set-up, very little preparation is needed for this lesson and if your students are like mine, they will ask for this form of review for every unit of study.

• The Tell-Tale Heart Figurative Language Challenge Activity (also included within Literature Guide): I created this "Figurative Language Challenge" activity and lesson plan several years ago for my middle school students as they were studying Poe's chilling story of murder and mutilation, The Tell-Tale Heart. Little did I know that it would become the most requested game among my students of all time. This resource includes a meticulously-detailed lesson plan using warm-up, explanation, application, and synthesis, and a one-of-a-kind game that will get your students excited about identifying the copious amount of figurative language that pervades the text. This is the perfect lesson plan for a Friday, on Halloween, or any time you need to amp up the energy in your classroom without sacrificing learning... and of course, it is Common Core aligned!

**BONUS FILE: Intro to Edgar Allan Poe PowerPoint: This product features a highly-engaging introductory PowerPoint Presentation for the Father of Horror himself, Edgar Allan Poe. A unit of study on Poe is not complete without learning the gory and heartbreaking details of his life and what made him into the master poet and writer whom we continue to marvel at today. This 20-slide powerpoint runs through his tragic family life and childhood, relationships, early occupations (before he was the Poe that you know), synopses of some of his most famous works, death theories, and current pop culture references. It concludes with a 10 question quiz to see how well students listened... and trust me, they will be hanging on your every word! This powerpoint encourages class participation, is fully editable to suit your class' needs, and lasts about 30-40 minutes to run through. I suggest presenting this on the very first day of your unit on Edgar Allan Poe. Enjoy and let the horror begin!

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This ESL English bundle contains a over 440 slides which work well for questions of the day or bell ringers. This is a low prep way to bring routine into your classroom.

Topics included in the following 13 resources:

Basic ESL review- includes movable calendar and weather chart

Winter activities and sports

Hobbies and sports

Things we love to hate

Four corners- (feelings) Talking about how we feel when...

Let's talk pranks

Halloween- What scares you? What do you prefer?

Clothes and fashion preferences

Personal preferences

December Holiday questions

School Themed questions

Adverbs of frequency (How often do you....?)

Vacation and Travel preferences

** Please note that the writing and images on this Google slide resource have been flattened and secured to protect my work (therefore not editable). As with every Google slide, buyers can add text boxes to write their own information or insert images.**

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