Middle School Other (ELA) Centers

Shakespeare Ultimate Bundle. Includes resources for the following plays: Hamlet, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, and The Twelfth Night. Great for covering Shakespeare at multiple grade levels or multiple plays. Includes different activities, study guides, games, and more. Works great as a school resource.

• 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.
• Thanksgiving Text Structure Coloring Sort & Lesson
  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.

A Whole School Year Of Daily Writing Prompts for Year 3-6 Students

Transform your classroom with our comprehensive set of daily writing prompts designed specifically for Year 3-6 students. This collection spans the entire US school year, ensuring your students engage in writing activities that are not only fun but also educational and seasonally relevant.

What's Inside:

• Seasonal Prompts: Reflect the changing seasons and keep students excited about their writing. From the vibrant colours of fall to the blossoming flowers of spring, each prompt captures the essence of the time of year.
• Holiday Themed Writing: Celebrate and explore major holidays with prompts that spark creativity and deepen understanding. Students can write about Thanksgiving traditions, New Year resolutions, and more.
• Variety of Writing Styles: Keep your students engaged with a mix of writing styles. They can craft imaginative stories, write heartfelt poems, recount personal experiences, stories, letters and engage in thoughtful self reflection.
• Personal Recounts: Help students develop their narrative skills by writing about their own experiences and sharing their unique perspectives.
• Self Reflection: Encourage introspection with prompts that ask students to reflect on their thoughts, feelings, and growth throughout the year.

Additional Features:

• PDF and PowerPoint Versions: Receive the daily writing prompts for each month as a PDF version for easy printing and a PowerPoint version for digital use, making it simple to display the prompts in your classroom.
• Engaging and Diverse: Each writing prompt is designed to captivate students’ interest and cater to different learning styles.
• Aligned with the US School Year: Ensures that daily writing prompts are relevant and timely, enhancing students’ connection with their writing.
• Boosts Writing Skills: Regular writing practice helps improve literacy, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills.
• Easy to Use: Simply print and distribute the prompts, or display them on your classroom board for daily use.

Make writing an exciting daily adventure for your Year 3-6 students with our year-long collection of daily writing prompts. Perfect for morning work, journal entries, or creative writing assignments, this resource is a must-have for any elementary classroom.

** August, September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May and June Writing Prompts **

Check out some of the individual resources

August Writing Prompts

September Writing Prompts

October Writing Prompts

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Looking to differentiate instruction? Get students excited and moving? All while teaching Shakespeare. Look no further.

The Midsummer Night's Dream Complete Teaching Unit includes everything you need for a fun, interactive, and student-centered unit around this play. It includes a flip book study guide, flip book characterization book, an escape room, an introduction to Shakespearean comedies power point, a quiz for each Act, and two soliloquy analysis worksheets . Answer keys are also included.

Studying The Tempest? Don't know where to get started? We have you covered from start to finish with this bundle.

Everything you need for a fun and successful unit on Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

Great for differentiation! Suits the needs of multiple learners.

Includes:

The Tempest Interactive Flip book Study Guide

The Tempest Interactive Characterization Flip book

The Tempest Acts 1-5 Quizzes

The Tempest: Epilogue Analysis

The Tempest Escape Room

Shakespeare Comedies Power point

Doing a novel unit on The Outsiders? Don't know where to get started? This bundle is for you! It includes a flip book study guide, Characterization flip book, and Introduction power point.

Unlock the magic of word-building and enhance your students' vocabulary skills with our comprehensive Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes Puzzle Bundle! This versatile resource is perfect for various educational settings and learning styles.

What's Inside:

• Prefixes Included: un-, in-, ex-, con-, sub-, dis-, mid-, mis-, per-, trans-, inter-, non-, re-, pre-, pro-, de-, ab-, ad-, ambi-, ante-, anti-, contra-, em-, en-, fore-, infra-, with-, ob-, omni-, out-, over-, post-, retro-, ultra-, super-, syn-
• Roots Included: cur, form, flect/flex, tract, act, port, sect, struct, tort, pel/pulse, duct/duc(e), spir(e), ject, rupt, mit/miss, scrib/script, fer, vent/ven(e)
• Suffixes Included: -ed, -er, -ly, -ful, -ing, -y, -s, -est, -less, -ness, -ment, -age, -al, -eer, -ee, -ess, -hood, -ship, -ish, -ive, -ize, -ling, -ward, -ism, -let, -ous, -tion, -sion, -mony, -most, -ic, -or, -ade, -dom, -th, -tude, -ation, -some, -ture, -ate, -fy

Versatile Use:

• Centers or Morning Work: Cut the puzzle pieces apart and create engaging centers or morning work activities. Students will love the hands-on experience of matching prefixes, roots, and suffixes to form new words.
• Morphology Wall Display: Keep the puzzle together and add it to your morphology wall display. This visual aid helps students understand the structure of words and see the connections between different morphemes.

Why You'll Love It:

• Engaging and Interactive: The puzzle format turns learning into a fun and interactive activity, making it easier for students to grasp the concepts of prefixes, roots, and suffixes.
• Reinforces Vocabulary Skills: By matching and combining different parts of words, students will deepen their understanding of word meanings and improve their vocabulary.
• Flexible Implementation: Whether you use it for individual practice, small group work, or a whole-class display, this bundle adapts to your teaching needs and enhances your literacy instruction.

Perfect for grades 3-8, our Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes Puzzle Bundle is an essential addition to any classroom. Help your students become word detectives and unlock the power of morphology with this engaging resource!

Keywords: morphology, prefixes, roots, suffixes, vocabulary, literacy, word-building, educational puzzles, interactive learning, centers, morning work, classroom display

Get your Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes Puzzle Bundle today and watch your students' vocabulary skills soar!

Add some seasonal fun to word-solving with these spring and summer words! If you have used the Just Words set, here's a way to extend the work!

This seasonal set is perfect for students to practice applying their syllable and decoding skills from March through August. They include familiar and unfamiliar words, so students are not just working from memory. This also provides opportunities for vocabulary practice.

The PDF includes 300 words ready to be printed, laminated, and cut apart:

Spring Words

• 60 2-syllable words
• 40 3-syllable words
• 30 4-syllable words
• 5 5-syllable words

Summer Words

• 90 2-syllable words
• 50 3-syllable words
• 20 4-syllable words
• 5 5-syllable words

Or access them on Google Slides or Canva slides! The links are included with a word guide that helps validate syllable splits and therefore, pronunciation!

And 22 ideas for using the words, including

• sorting by number of syllables,
• sorting by affixes,
• sorting by types of syllables in the words,
• grouping words by common themes (such as all the words that are types of flowers)
• dictionary races,
• vocabulary activities,
• to read before taking turns in a game,
• and so many more!

The uses are endless!

Help students master essential reading skills with this Text Structure Spin and Match Activity! Perfect for grades 3-6, this interactive game provides hands-on practice with key text structures, including compare/contrast, cause/effect, sequence, problem/solution, and description. It’s designed to make learning fun, engaging, and memorable!

What’s Included:

• 37 pages of text structure practice
• 12 game card sets with mini stories to match to one of five text structure types (cause and effect, compare and contrast, description, sequence, problem and solution)
• 5 game board options for a variety of play
• Labels for each game card set for easy storage and year-after-year use
• Teacher implementation directions for quick setup
• Student playing directions for easy, independent learning

How It Works: Students spin and match the text structure from the mini stories to one of the five text structure types, making this a great addition to literacy centers, small group instruction, or review sessions. The included labels make organization simple, so you can reuse this game for years to come!

This resource is perfect for reinforcing text structure skills in a hands-on, engaging way. Just print, laminate, and let the fun begin!

Ideas for Use: This resource is perfect for small group activities, literacy centers, and partner work. Use it as a review game before an assessment or integrate it into daily lessons for ongoing practice. Ideal for mixed-ability classrooms, this activity is designed to engage and challenge all students!

Why They’ll Love It: Teachers will love the ease of this print-and-go resource, while students will enjoy learning in a game format that reinforces comprehension skills. No prep is needed—just print, cut, and get ready to sort and match! Plus, it’s adaptable for various learning styles and perfect for skill-building.

I hope you find this resource just as helpful for your students as it has been for mine!

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This flip book goes through all 12 chapters of the novel The Outsiders. It also include a character map and Information on the author to help your students successfully navigate through the text. Answer key is included and the questions are easy to answer while reading the chapters or after the novel is done. Easy to use and easy to grade. It makes a great study guide for students. UPDATE: Google Drive Version Available

Transform your classroom's writing sessions with our Daily Writing Prompts for Year 3-6 students, specially designed for the month of August. This resource is meticulously crafted to engage students' creativity and enhance their writing skills through a variety of fun and thought-provoking prompts. Ideal for the Daily 5 writing block, this collection offers a seamless integration into your daily routine, ensuring your students have a structured and stimulating writing experience every day.

Key Features:

• Engaging Prompts: Includes exciting prompts such as "Describe your ideal summer vacation" and "If you could have any animal, what would it be and why?" These prompts are designed to spark imagination and encourage detailed, creative responses from students.
• Versatile Formats: Available in both PowerPoint and PDF formats, making it easy to use with different teaching tools and preferences. Whether you're projecting the prompts on a screen or distributing printed copies, we've got you covered.
• Daily 5 Writing Integration: Perfectly aligns with the Daily 5 writing framework, helping students develop their writing skills through consistent practice and varied prompts. Each day's prompt is designed to fit seamlessly into your Daily 5 routine.
• Month Long Coverage: With 31 unique prompts, you'll have a fresh and engaging writing activity for every school day in August. This ensures your students remain motivated and excited about writing throughout the month.

Benefits:

• Enhances Writing Skills: Regular practice with diverse prompts helps students improve their writing abilities, expand their vocabulary, and develop their storytelling techniques.
• Promotes Creativity: Each prompt is crafted to inspire creativity and critical thinking, allowing students to express themselves freely and imaginatively.
• Easy to Implement: The ready-to-use PowerPoint and PDF formats make it simple to incorporate into your lesson plans, saving you valuable preparation time.

Perfect for Year 3-6 Students:

These Daily Writing Prompts are tailored specifically for students in years 3-6, ensuring that the content is age-appropriate and engaging for this developmental stage. Whether used as a morning warm up, part of your writing centre, or an end-of-day activity, these prompts are designed to make writing fun and accessible for all students.

Upgrade your classroom writing sessions with our August Daily Writing Prompts and watch your students' writing skills flourish!

Want an entire school year of writing prompts for years 3 - 6? Check out this...

Daily Writing Prompts Bundle - An Entire School Year

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Life Cycle of a Tree Reading Comprehension Activity (Year 3-5)

Bring the beauty of autumn into your literacy centres with this engaging Life Cycle of a Tree reading comprehension activity! Perfectly designed for Year 3-5 students, this resource offers a text about the fascinating changes that trees go through during autumn. Students will explore why leaves change colour, how trees prepare for winter, and the importance of the tree's life cycle.

What’s included:

• A written text about the Life Cycle of a Tree with a focus on autumn.
• Reading Comprehension questions that encourage students to think critically and answer in their own words, reinforcing their understanding of the life cycle.
• A research section for early finishers, students can research deciduous trees and evergreen trees and what their differences are.
• Answer key for easy marking.

This versatile resource is ideal for use in literacy centres, reading groups, or as part of an autumn themed unit. It promotes reading comprehension, critical thinking, and independent research skills. Whether used for whole class instruction or individual learning, students will love discovering the magic of trees during autumn while strengthening their literacy skills.

Looking for more Autumn themed literacy centre resources?

Synonyms and Antonyms

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Digital Task Cards are a great way to help your students practice The Parts of Speech! Includes all 8 parts of speech: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. These cards can work on a computer or mobile device! No printing of cutting just assign the deck to your students and you are ready to go! Boom Learning is free to sign up for. Students get immediate feedback and teachers can take advantage of reporting tools. Easy and effective! Great for distance learning or in a digital classroom. A total of 20 task cards.

*****READ MORE ABOUT BOOM CARDS: Boom Cards are self-grading, DIGITAL resources. They live in the cloud. They can't be printed. They play on most modern browsers, Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. You open a Boom Learning℠ account to play them (to protect the children). Create Fast Play pins to assign your Boom Cards to students.

Boom Learning also has premium accounts. Premium accounts offer advanced assignment tools, individual and whole class performance tracking, and more. If you are a new Boom Learning customer, when you redeem your Boom Cards purchase you get 90-day free trial of a premium account. When your trial ends, you can renew or move to a free account. You may upgrade, downgrade or cancel at any time. Free accounts use purchased Boom Cards with Fast Play pins.

***Did you know??? You can use Boom Cards in Google Classroom™! Just CLICK HERE to find out how!

Autumn-Themed Synonym and Antonym Challenge for Literacy Centres

Bring the vibrant spirit of autumn into your Year 3-5 classroom with our Autumn-Themed Synonym and Antonym Challenge, a perfect addition to your literacy centres! This carefully designed activity helps students build and strengthen their vocabulary by engaging with words that capture the essence of the season, such as "crisp," "amber," "harvest," and more.

What's Included:

• Autumn-Themed Word List: A curated list of autumn related words.
• Activity Instructions: Clear guidelines for students to select five words from the list and write both synonyms and antonyms for each.
• Worksheet Template: A printable template where students can neatly record their chosen words, synonyms, and antonyms.

Key Benefits:

• Vocabulary Building: Helps students expand their understanding of synonyms and antonyms, strengthening their language skills.
• Critical Thinking: Encourages students to think deeply about word meanings and how they relate to one another.
• Seasonal Engagement: Ties learning to the autumn season, making vocabulary practice both relevant and enjoyable.
• Versatile Use: Perfect for literacy centres, homework assignments, or classroom activities.

Ideal for use in literacy centres, this activity is a versatile tool for teachers looking to reinforce vocabulary building in a fun and thematic way. Whether used as a literacy centre task, a homework assignment, or a classroom activity, the Autumn-Themed Synonym and Antonym Challenge offers an engaging and educational experience that students will enjoy. By incorporating seasonal elements, this activity makes learning about synonyms and antonyms both relevant and enjoyable, helping to keep students motivated and excited about expanding their language skills.

Equip your literacy centres with this autumn-themed challenge and watch your students' vocabulary blossom as they explore the colourful world of synonyms and antonyms!

Digital Task Cards are a great way to help your students practice Greek and Latin Roots! These cards can work on a computer or mobile device! No printing of cutting just assign the deck to your students and you are ready to go! Boom Learning is free to sign up for. Students get immediate feedback and teachers can take advantage of reporting tools. Easy and effective! Great for distance learning or in a digital classroom. A total of 24 task cards.

*****READ MORE ABOUT BOOM CARDS: Boom Cards are self-grading, DIGITAL resources. They live in the cloud. They can't be printed. They play on most modern browsers, Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. You open a Boom Learning℠ account to play them (to protect the children). Create Fast Play pins to assign your Boom Cards to students.

Boom Learning also has premium accounts. Premium accounts offer advanced assignment tools, individual and whole class performance tracking, and more. If you are a new Boom Learning customer, when you redeem your Boom Cards purchase you get 90-day free trial of a premium account. When your trial ends, you can renew or move to a free account. You may upgrade, downgrade or cancel at any time. Free accounts use purchased Boom Cards with Fast Play pins.

***Did you know??? You can use Boom Cards in Google Classroom™! Just CLICK HERE to find out how!

Enhance your students' vocabulary with morphology and unlock the power of words with these engaging Suffix Puzzles! Designed to make learning suffixes enjoyable and effective, this suffix activity is perfect for students mastering the art of morphology.

What's Included:

• 30 middle level suffix puzzles
• Recording sheet
• Frayer Model graphic organizer

Uses:

• Cut puzzle apart and use for centers, small groups, or morning work
• Leave puzzle together and add to morphology wall display

Suffixes included in this product:

-age, -al, -eer, -ee, -ess, -hood, -ship, -ish, -ive, -ize, -ling, -ward, -ism, -let, -ous, -tion, -sion, -mony, -most, -ic, -or, -ade, -dom, -th, -tude, -ation, -some, -ture, -ate, -fy

This flip book goes through all the main characters of the novel. It includes graphic organizers for your students to fill out in order to better understand character development. It makes a great study guide and a good way to have your students understand the differences and similarities between the different characters of the novel. Offers differentiated instruction to meet the needs of all your students!

Digital Task Cards are a great way to help your students practice Pathos, Ethos, and Logos! These cards can work on a computer or mobile device! No printing of cutting just assign the deck to your students and you are ready to go! Boom Learning is free to sign up for. Students get immediate feedback and teachers can take advantage of reporting tools. Easy and effective! Great for distance learning or in a digital classroom. A total of 20 task cards.

*****READ MORE ABOUT BOOM CARDS: Boom Cards are self-grading, DIGITAL resources. They live in the cloud. They can't be printed. They play on most modern browsers, Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. You open a Boom Learning℠ account to play them (to protect the children). Create Fast Play pins to assign your Boom Cards to students.

Boom Learning also has premium accounts. Premium accounts offer advanced assignment tools, individual and whole class performance tracking, and more. If you are a new Boom Learning customer, when you redeem your Boom Cards purchase you get 90-day free trial of a premium account. When your trial ends, you can renew or move to a free account. You may upgrade, downgrade or cancel at any time. Free accounts use purchased Boom Cards with Fast Play pins.

***Did you know??? You can use Boom Cards in Google Classroom™! Just CLICK HERE to find out how!

This flip book goes through all the main characters of the novel. It includes graphic organizers for your students to fill out in order to better understand character development. It makes a great study guide and a good way to have your students understand the differences and similarities between the different characters of the novel. Offers differentiated instruction to meet the needs of all your students

Archetype Web Quest! Started Web Quests this year and my students love them and so do I. Students must define and find examples for different archetypes. Great release of accountability. Requires students have access to a computer and internet. Includes resources and answer key.