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Poetry Terms Presentation with Song Lyrics Examples: Song lyrics are one of the easiest ways to teach poetry terms/devices such as alliteration, ...
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This is a PDF* with a set of twenty creative writing prompts (plus two bonus prompts) that are aligned to Common Core Writing Anchor Standard 1: ...
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Writing short stories: A complete presentation with printable handouts for students.
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This is a PDF* with a set of three hundred creative writing prompts that are aligned to Common Core Writing Anchor Standards 1,2, and 3. Each pro...
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This is a PDF* with a set of twenty creative writing prompts that are aligned to Common Core Writing Anchor Standard 3.
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This is a PDF* with a set of twenty (plus three bonus prompts, so 23 total) creative writing prompts about history and social studies that are al...
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So many students struggle when it comes to writing poetry. This 98-slide presentation (which includes 13 pages of printable handouts) will have t...
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Cinquain, Haiku, Concrete, Ode, & Quiz Review
This Poetry Presentation is great for middle school, high school, and homeschool students. It ...
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This is a list of seven engaging, thought-provoking, and creative project ideas for Lois Lowry's, The Giver. These projects offer a range in ab...
This lesson was designed to help students break the lazy habit of starting sentences with the word "because." I've provided simple explanations ...
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Broad-based anticipatory set that features a variety of altered book techniques. Art project that can be applied to literacy through the use of c...
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This powerpoint takes the basic punctuation marks and personifies them to help students better understand their function within a sentence. It ca...
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Poems Made Easy describes these various types of poetry: Acrostic, Haiku, Cinquain, Diamante, Limerick, Rhymes.
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This is a group of 4 files that can be used to teach a science/writing lesson that revolves around worms.
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Typed formal less...
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This lesson is an introduction to "onomatopoeia" as a literary device. The lesson uses Note Book Software to provide pictures that students can ...
A slideshow movie (800x600) to help students see that word choice creates a picture in their reader's mind. Click on the slide to advance the mov...
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This is a FREE DOWNLOAD explaining briefly the description of the product and demonstrating the quality of our work! This demo includes 7 PowerPo...
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This project has students create a graphic novel based on the day in the life of either a biotic (living) or abiotic (non-living – rock) factor...
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If the computer you're using is a Mac, you may have Comic Life on your HD and not even know it. (I just found it on mine earlier this year.) Co...
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This project is so much fun for middle school students! They get the opportunity to take the skills we have reviewed in class, such as prediction...
Students will define, understand the purpose, explore, and create similes and metaphors in this richly animated, multimedia presentation. Activ...
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This Keynote presentation can be used on its own, but was intended to be used along with my Autumn Descriptive Writing Unit as an introduction le...
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Teaching the reading strategy: inference? Why not have the students put it into practice. This 10 slide powerpoint presentation provides examples...
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Using a few well-known poems, this unit introduces students to some basic figurative language and allows them to create their own rhythms and poe...
So many students struggle when it comes to writing poetry. This 98-slide presentation (which includes 13 pages of printable handouts) will have t...
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Introduce your students to the process of autobiographical narrative writing. The complete process is shown, from types, choosing a topic, writin...
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Jane Austen is primarily known as a novelist, but she was a poet as well. In this powerpoint, students read the presented poems and then choose o...
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This 13 page lesson gives step by step instructions on how to create a multi media presentation on poetry. Students will learn a great deal about...
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ISH, by Peter H. Reynolds, is an awesome book for art teachers.
This download is a worksheet (PDF) based on the book to encourage your student...
This interactive Grade 7 English Language Arts Lesson integrates language arts and technology by asking students to create a multimedia presentat...
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At the end of each unit that I teach, I try to give students an opportunity to express their ideas about the book we read creatively. I find tha...
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This is an already designed PowerPoint project that I use every year for Open House. The PowerPoint project has open-ended questions for the stu...
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This unit was designed for a creative writing class to incorporate film, art, and writing.
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Full day of Literacy!
Word Wall
Build Background
Amazing Words
Graphic Organizer
How I Became a Pirate Introduction (book needed)
Shared Wr...
Send your students on photography quest! The students will get to use the functions of the camera they are using through this scavenger hunt wher...
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This is an introductory PowerPoint over personification. After giving an example of this literary device, multiple-choice questions follow that a...
This is a complete collection of jounal topics great for the beginning of the school day. All topics are interesting, motivating, and require st...
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These QR codes are so easy! Just cut out the QR code cards, put them in a writing center, and your students can start scanning with any iPhone, i...
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This activity uses QSR scanner (free to DL) to access websites and activities that kids can navigate independently. For each Site I have include...
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This is a 32-page, power point presentation detailing the elements of a science fiction story. It has high impact, visually stunning pictures fr...
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Looking for fun Christmas poems for your elementary students? Look no more! This cute, colorful PowerPoint presentation is perfect for any classr...
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Sentences are complete thoughts. We use an ending punctuation mark to indicate the thought has ended. End punctuation marks are like red...
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This powerpoint presentation gives detailed explanation and examples of the characteristics of epic poetry and the epic hero, displaying still sh...
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This is a 63-page power point.
This power point contains vivid and current examples from movies, TV shows and books that demonstrate each archet...
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Story elements or plot elements powerpoint. It goes slide by slide describing each element, but also takes a story, breaks it up, and shows what ...
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Writing From Imagination™, is an exciting break-through in instructing elementary and middle school aged children how to write. Building upon t...
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This download contains two documents to introduce a 1-week unit in which students will critically listen to a recent album and write a musical re...
10 pages of fun intereactive smartboard lessons on adjectives!
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This is a 2-page study guide for use as students view Shakespeare in Love, the Academy Award-winning film that depicts Shakespeare's time and ins...
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This is the rubric I use to grade the students' creative project for Friday Night Lights.
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