Writing Interactive Notebooks ~ Sentences and Paragraphs for Common Core 3-8. This Writing Interactive Notebook is a companion to my TpT Best Sellers for Reading Literature and Reading Informational Text.Get the *original* Interactive Writing Notebooks - Over 30,000 copies sold!This resource is now part of an interactive notebook bundle. Find the bundle here.***********************************************Each of the 26 lessons includes a photo of the finished product, teacher’s notes, teacher’s

Parts of Speech Pop Art coloring pages make learning and reviewing grammar a lot of fun! Included are starter, basic, beginner, intermediate and advanced English Language Arts coloring pages to help students (grades 2 to 8) practice parts of speech and review their grammar. This set includes 10 images that are appropriate for different times of the year. With the FIVE levels included you will find that “discreet” differentiation is easy. This parts of speech product is designed to be useful at

Use this MASSIVE bundle of my popular bell ringers/warm-ups/mini-lessons to teach the Common Core-aligned grammar, literary term, and vocabulary skills your high school students need. This FULL YEAR package of materials includes everything you’ll need to keep your students actively engaged at the start of each period. Here’s how it works:With M.U.G. Shot Mondays, students master Mechanics, Usage, and Grammar by working together to proofread real-world writing examples. These 38 weekly grammar ed

Welcome to M.U.G. Shot Monday, where students master Mechanics, Usage, and Grammar by working together to proofread real-world writing examples. These 19 weekly grammar editing sessions address the most common errors made in middle-school and high-school writing. I present these lessons on Mondays because I like alliteration (M.U.G. Shot Monday has a nice ring, no?), but you can use them anytime you want. Most semesters run 18 weeks, but I threw in an extra M.U.G. Shot in case you have an extra

Enjoy this bundle of thoughtful materials designed to take your students through four weeks of lessons covering John Steinbeck’s classic novel, Of Mice and Men. Everything you’ll need is here – just add a class set of novels and you’re good to go.This Of Mice and Men bundle includes:• A day-by-day calendar to follow with helpful details and nightly homework assignments (read this file first when you open the bundle) • An extended metaphor activity that helps familiarize students with John Steinb

This 24-slide "Power of Punctuation" presentation will entertain your students and inspire them to take care with their punctuation marks. Using humorous examples and interactive slides/handout, your class will learn the striking difference in meaning that can occur with one misplaced comma. Examples are sure to fire up your high school and middle school students – expect giggles and outrage.Package also includes a one-page handout (both printable PDF & Google Drive versions) to allow studen

This sentence structure teaching unit includes materials for direct instruction, student practice, and assessment. In this unit, students will learn about the four types of sentence stricture: simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, and compound-complex sentences. This lesson plan includes:- a 42 slide, editable, animated, color-coded PowerPoint- a 42 page, secured PDF file with worksheets, tests, and more- a diagnostic pre test- multiple worksheets- a hands-on classroom activit

The Middle Grades ELA Common Core Toolbox contains 77 learning activities aligned to the CCSS for grades 6-8. It includes printables that can be used multiple times throughout the year to address nearly all of the standards in reading literature and informational texts, and many of the speaking and listening, writing, and language standards. It also has two pages of writing prompts and warm-ups. The Standards Guide at the end details the CCSS that correspond to each printable. Three grade level

Using Humor to Teach the Importance of English Class Presentation and Handouts (Newly Updated!) This IS included in the following mega bundle: ALL of my BACK TO SCHOOL RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE. Most students zone out when it comes to learning English usage, spelling, grammar and mechanics. And the older they get, the more they question the need for taking English classes. This 80+ slide presentation uses humor to prove how essential English class is in the real world. It begins as a serious

Bell Ringers - FULL YEAR Plus! Engage your students at the start of class with these dynamic standards-aligned Bell Ringers! The attractively-designed slides provide 5-7-minute warm-up activities that get students focused and thinking right away! Includes Google Slides digital version and project-able PDF version.Your students will enjoy starting class, and you‘ll love the variety of skills you can keep fresh in front of them all year long. And with the Daily Warm Up Student Response Log (prin

Common Core Reading and Writing Bell Ringers Exit Slips BUNDLE, Volume 1 This IS included in my growing bundle: ALL of My Bell Ringer and Exit Slip Resources. Do you need a collection of ready-to-print bell ringers/exit slips that you can use all year long? Try my bundle of 155 unique activities that can be used more than once throughout the year. *Newly updated to include back-to-school icebreaker activities AND signs to hang on your bulletin board or other display to showcase student work. I

This resource has everything you need to implement Mentor Sentences DIGITALLY or in print in your middle School ELA classroom, by using sentences from popular middle grade and young adult novels. The resources includes mentor sentences for each week, examples and possible answers for each day of the week, teacher lessons and interactive notebooks lessons with all examples and answer keys, weekly assessments, projection slides, and a worksheet, or interactive notebook option for each week's sente

A $120.00 value, this GIGANTIC bundle download of thirty products: a nine-month program covering a wide range of grammar concepts complete with daily bell ringers, worksheets, quizzes, final exams, teacher's guides, and more! Ten-Minute Grammar is a comprehensive grammar curriculum based on the Common Core Standards for seventh-grade, eighth-grade, or ninth-grade students. Using only the first ten minutes of each day, a series of twenty-seven individual units will help students learn a range of

Daily Language Review: This spiral review is one of the easiest ways to make sure you are covering all of the important grammar and vocabulary standards that your students need to know. PREVIEW and REVIEW all year long!This resource is now EDITABLE!!! Easily edit the student pages using PowerPointThis resource is designed to be used on a daily basis (Monday-Thursday) for up to 36 weeks. Each week has 20 (“5 a Day”) language skill items that can be done in class or assigned for homework and then

Use the dark humor of Roald Dahl’s well-known short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter," to teach your students the elements of literary analysis. This one-day lesson plan includes links to the full text of the story, detailed instructions, a 9-question deep-thinking handout (with detailed answer key, of course), and a writing activity that creatively uses an official-looking police report for students to summarize the elements of the story. The lesson also includes a police sketch portion (my high s

English Bell Ringers: Grammar, Reading, Writing, and Speaking: These engaging English warm-ups / bell ringers are an excellent way to motivate your students, manage your classroom, and assess student understanding of the curriculum standards! There are 120 tasks for students to complete to help them improve their grammar, writing, reading strategies, figurative language & much more! All you have to do is have the screen on the projector when students walk in and your prep is done! Each of

Every unit is all ninja, all the time. Ninja jokes, ninja facts, ninja stories. Learners will have a riot of a time learning about parts of speech. Of all things! Parts of Speech! So check out the best idea to ever hit the grammar world, 300+ pages/slides of parts of speech learning and practice!!! (resources are .pdf or PowerPoint) COMMON CORE: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2 "I hate grammar," students too often say. "Why do we have to learn this stuff?" Now, for once, a grammar

This is a second semester’s worth of M.U.G. Shot Monday lessons, where students master Mechanics, Usage, and Grammar by working together to proofread real-world writing examples. These 19 weekly grammar editing sessions address the most common errors made in middle-school and high-school writing. Match with this Semester 1 bundle and you’ll have a full year of effective, easy-to-deliver grammar lessons.I present these lessons on Mondays because I like alliteration (M.U.G. Shot Monday has a nice

End of the Year Memes: Advice to Future Classes - includes an editable Google Slides presentation that can be shared with students for distance learning or paperless activities.Students will create "advice" memes to your future students/classes as an end-of-the-year fun activity.The memes serve several purposes:1. It's a fun end-of-the-year activity for your current students.2. You will have ready-made visual aids for your classes when it's back-to-school time.3. Your students will give you feed

Writing Sentences NO-Prep, "print and go" Bundle! 47-page Sentence Types, Sentence Construction Writing & Grammar Practice bundle includes lesson handouts and worksheet practice on the basic grammatical elements of sentence structure (fragments, main and subordinate clauses, noun, adjective and adverb clauses, sentence types, using and punctuating modifiers, sentence combining, varying sentence beginnings, and MORE). Classroom-tested by over 1500 teachers - with over 350 FIVE-STAR ratings!I

Use the classic short story, “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, to teach your students the elements of literary analysis. This two-day lesson plan includes a full-text copy of this public domain story, an 8-question student handout (with detailed answer key, of course), an interactive slide lecture (both Prezi Next and Google Slides versions included) to help your students learn how to analyze text as they connect the author’s setting to the character development of Mathilde Loisel, and an opt

Use this visually dynamic tool to get students excited about poetry. No, really, my teens LOVE this blackout poetry creative writing activity. View the 10-slide overview lecture (includes both Prezi Next and Google Slides versions) and imagine all of the possibilities your students could create.All you’ll need to fill an entire class session is the slide deck, dark markers or crayons, and a few newspaper pages or photocopies of a few pages from any novel you’re currently teaching.This item is pa

Mentor Sentences are perfect for teaching grammar and writing, providing visually appealing activities, and offering the consistency that students crave. Who doesn't want an easy way to improve student writing? One that will last all year? **This amazing resource NOW CONTAINS 13 UNITS!! The BUNDLE provide you great savings--25% off the individual price!**Each resource in the bundle includes a mini-book (plus answer key), plus a PowerPoint of stimulus pictures to give students inspiration for t

A $40.00 value, this MASSIVE three-month unit covering a wide range of grammar concepts complete with daily bell ringers, worksheets, quizzes, a final exam, a teacher's guide, and more! Ten-Minute Grammar is a comprehensive grammar curriculum based on the Common Core Standards for seventh-grade, eighth-grade, or ninth-grade students. Using only the first ten minutes of each day, a series of nine individual units will help students learn a range of grammar skills that build on one another. Conce