Use popular boy band One Direction's songs "One Thing" and "What Makes You Beautiful" to teach and practice figurative language, sound devices, a...
Included in the Nonfiction Text Features Unit of Study are:
- 14 posters featuring different text features
- mini-lesson handout
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NEWLY REVISED 7th Edition MLA Format and Style. A succinct overview of the types of sources and how to cite each. Also includes a complete samp...
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This is a fun 40 slide PowerPoint to teach the preposition words in Spanish showing where a mouse is in relations to a big piece of cheese before...
This PG-13 film is a wonderful way to open the dialogue of illegal immigrants and the difficulties they encounter. Under the same moon tells the...
10 Reading Workshop Lessons - POETRY
Lessons are in TC Teacher's College Format
(Teaching Point, Connect, Teach, Active Engagement, Link, Sha...
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There are many good ways to "see" the relationship among the different sets of real numbers, but most are pictorial. Few visual representations t...
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Let's dispel the myth of the "ignorant American" by allowing an opportunity for our students to study current events in other countries on a regu...
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This program is designed to retrain the students tongue to stay behind their teeth. This is accomplished by repeating a variety of alveolar ridg...
A creative and colorful power point on the Spanish differences between Por and Para. This power point speaks to students by using Mario (por) and...
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This powerpoint teaches students to make inferences while reading, by allowing them to "play detective." Using the clues, students can determine...
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This one page reading plus one page of questions summarizes the development of the Factory System in Britain and how it revolutionized production...
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September 11 PowerPoint Show. This PowerPoint on September 11, 2001 has over a hundred slides with photos of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon...
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This mini lesson introduced the students to a Reader's Workshop. It explains it purpose, elements, and expectations.
This packet includes 7 reading selections followed by several questions to check for understanding and prompt discussion. All of the readings ar...
This packet was designed to address multiple language goals. I designed for use in my speech therapy sessions. I hope this helps you with this ...
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Research shows that readers who can activate schema or make connections to prior knowledge have good comprehension. When a student can connect an...
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This is a fun and easy version of the popular game of Clue for Spanish class. The cards are colorful and funny. The vocabluary used to play thi...
A complete school year's worth (120 slides!) of daily warm up or bell-ringer questions for American History! The slides start with Jamestown and ...
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Cognates are such an important lesson to teach to new language students. Although they may have little to no experience with the language - there...
Follow Roger the elf as he applies the Scientific Method to question the origin of the red-nosed reindeer.
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The Reading Fluency and Comprehension Toolkit provides 43 expository animal fluency articles and 43 corresponding animal comprehension worksheets...
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This resource offers teachers powerful questions to use with students to interrogate texts, to help students recognize injustice and imagine a mo...
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This one page reading plus one page of questions gives an overview of apartheid and the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. The reading desc...
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Work on recall of stories and expressing summaries with this fun activity pack!
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Your students will enjoy learning and practicing how to find the circumference and area of circles with this fun, animated Pow...
Irregular past tense verbs are tricky! They require the act of memorization because they go against all of the normal rules on how to make a ver...
Work on verbal and written expression of the conjunctions: however, although, and but with this fun activity pack!
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-Visual to teac...
There are restrictions on many "real life" things. Speed limits, weight, height and age restrictions are a part of "real life" whether you're an...
This one page reading plus one page of questions summarizes the impact of European imperialism in Africa. It includes a definition of imperialism...
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Pirate themed prepositions unit! All you need to teach prepositions!!! This unit even teaches concepts most commonly confused with prepositional ...
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Alien Text Talk is a fun new take on daily oral language exercises. Instead of just proofreading and correcting punctuation, grammar, and spellin...
Special Education - Sorting and Classifying Words. Some students have a difficult time making lists associated with categories. A list of 33 ...
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This mini lesson reviews the different types of conflicts.
It provides definitions & examples.
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Every year on November 5th, Britain celebrates the event known as 'Bonfire Night' or sometimes 'Guy Fawkes Night' with fireworks and bonfires all...
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This mini discusses theme, moral, motif, and topic. It includes a graphic organizer with the definitions and examples of the above.
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Social Stories are a visual guide to describe social interactions, situations, behaviors, skills, or concepts. This book is about The Last Day O...
"Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink." Do students really understand how true this statement might be? This 22 slide power point talk...
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These are 25 authentic menus in Spanish taken from the internet that you can use for class activities for food, comparing and contrasting, superl...
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This mini lesson includes 3 letters.
One letter explaines and breaks down for students what to include in a reader's journal and how to write o...
Following the engaging, interactive style of my other PowerPoints this one introduces the concept of the thesis statement. It includes specific e...
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Sentence Structure PowerPoint presentation to help your students understand sentence structure and the importance of varying sentences in writing...
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These Costa Rica notes and questions accompany the Costa Rica Power Point which is available FREE at www.sparkenthusiasm.com in the Teacher Resou...
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Continents and Oceans Song MP3 from Geography Songs CD - Kathy Troxel/Audio Memory (updated 2010)
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This presentation addesses the proper way to attack a prompt or comprehension question, and then details the 3-part strategy for answering it. C...
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A perfect activity to use when discussing classroom rules, procedures, and expectations. An excellent way to bring up the topic of showing respe...
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This one page reading plus one page of questions summarizes the series of events that led to the establishment of Feudalism in Western Europe. It...
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This 25 slide Powerpoint has background on the penal laws and the impetus for Swift to write A Modest Proposal. It touches on what satire is, wh...
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