Add a little fun to ANY novel, play, short story, or history unit with this worksheet where students choose a character (or historic figure) and fill a fictional cell phone with email messages, playlist entries, and a wallpaper image.This PDF file and Google Drive version includes a blank form and a completed sample to show students, if you wish. The sample is from my students’ study of To Kill a Mockingbird, showing Scout Finch’s cell phone content, but you could use this worksheet with ANY wor

In this detailed, CCSS-aligned, 10-day unit, students will learn about narrative writing and actively participate in the writing process. Students will write personal narratives about an interesting experience that taught them a lesson. In their personal narratives, students will include key elements of narrative writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency and conventions. Through the study of a mentor text, pre-writing activities, draft guidelines, revision mini-lesso

Argument, narrative, and informative essays are fun and easy to teach when you use strong mentor texts and a step-by-step process. These highly-rated writing units include everything you need, all in one place.Each writing resource is comprehensive and easy to use. The lessons at a glance pages are also included in an editable format for easy insertion into a digital plan-book.This is what awesome teachers like you have said about this resource: "Tons of resources that I go back to again and ag

*EDITABLE* A Year of Journal Prompts Bell Ringers or Exit Slips Bundle includes: Over 400 writing prompts aligned with the ELA Common Core Standards for reading, writing, speaking and listening, language, and history strands. The prompts are provided in Powerpoint and in Microsoft Word, so they are completely editable and perfect for distance learning! NOTE: If you are looking for a version of the prompts already formatted in Google Drive, they are here: JOURNAL PROMPTS in GOOGLE SLIDESThis IS i

Happy 2022! My New Year's Activities pack is updated yearly and includes creative prompts for resolutions, goals, poems, growth mindset, creative activities, a scavenger hunt, and has print-and-go pages as well as interactive notebook activities to promote critical thinking and a growth mindset. This includes DIGITAL versions in Google Slides and in Easel so you can use ALL of the activities for distance learning!Students will enjoy these critical-thinking and creative activities; the activities

There are over 200 pages of resources in this Greek Mythology Interactive Notebook resource, and it is the perfect addition to an Ancient Greece Interactive Notebook or Ancient Greece unit, These mythology activities include full text versions of a variety of Ancient Greek myths, telling the tales of the Olympians and other Greek Gods and Goddesses. It contains all of the resources, foldable activities, graphic organizers, and mythology worksheets you need to teach your students about the gods,

Argument essay writing is easier to teach when you have an EDITABLE unit with well-written mentor texts and a step-by-step process. Students will LOVE this argument essay writing unit, as well as the real-life application and mentor texts included here.Update 1: I included 40 editable pages, a Google Drive link to the entire argumentative essay unit, and an extra rubric! As of January 2021, the digital file is even more interactive.Update 2: Buyers have been asking for at-a-glance lesson plans j

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

OUTSIDERS: This Outsiders Novel Study Unit now includes both a print and digital version for distance learning! Engage your students with standards-based literacy activities as they read S.E. Hinton's classic novel. The Chapter-by-Chapter Response Pages challenge students to dig deep into the text to analyze and make inferences. Perfect for partner work, small groups, or independent study! The Free-Writes topics facilitate great discussions, and students enjoy choice on the essay and creative wr

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During this project, students will first learn about growth mindset by reading an informational article about Carol Dweck’s work. Then, they’ll select a famous person in history with a growth mindset. They’ll choose from 14 famous leaders and pioneers in their fields for the basis of their research. Students will research their famous person as they respond to targeted research questions. While researching, they’ll be on the lookout for ways that the famous person had a growth mindset. Next

GIVER – This Novel Study Unit for The Giver now includes both a print and digital version for distance learning! Engage your students with standards-based literacy activities as they read Lois Lowry’s acclaimed novel. Chapter-by-Chapter Response Pages challenge students to dig deep into the text to analyze and make inferences. Perfect for partner work, small groups, or remote teaching!The DIGITAL version offers colorful, beautifully designed slides that allow students to type their responses i

Common Core Language and Reading Practice Using Song Lyrics: "Roar" by Katy Perry - updated for distance learning!This IS included in Poetry Resources Bundle, Volume 2.This activity uses popular song lyrics ("Roar" By Katy Perry, written by Bonnie McKee) to practice figurative language & poetic devices. It also includes exercises for students to analyze tone/mood and how the devices contribute to the overall meaning. *NEWLY ADDED (Feb. 26, 2014): Activities for analyzing word connotations (n

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

RACE writing strategy to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and evidence from the text, and to provide concluding statements. These informational texts are quick, easy reads, so that your students can focus on writing. Do you have a wide range of readers? This money-saving bundle combines three of best-selling products, giving you 40 passages that range from 4th grade to 9th grade reading level. Perfect for special education,

Do you need an informative writing unit that includes multiple mentor texts and comes with the option of using a print version or an interactive Google version? Do you want an entire unit that's ready to go, so you don't have to scramble to piece it together? (Who has time for that? Right?)This expository essay unit includes EVERYTHING you need to teach informational writing. At-a-glance-instructions, writing prompts, step-by-step instructions, visuals, graphic organizers, and high-interest ment

This product contains 10 ready-to-use passages and short response questions to guide students through the use of the RACE strategy. RACE is a writing strategy to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and text evidence, and to provide concluding statements. → Need a GOOGLE SLIDES compatible version? CLICK HERE!Why use the RACE strategy? This mnemonic device is especially helpful for struggling writers and students with disabilitie

Narrative Writing is fun and easy with the step-by-step instructions and mini-lessons included in this unit! It covers personal narrative writing, fictional narrative writing, and biographical narrative writing. It includes full-length mentor texts AND a 41-page writer's notebook with prompts! Digital and Print versions are included!8/20: You're going to adore the awesome update to this resource! Additional mini lessons, editable daily plans to make your life easy, AND a writer's notebook your s

Have you ever received an email from a student that was written in, well, a not-so-nice tone? Sure. We all have, and it's enough to drive us up the wall! But! What if students have just never been taught (or not taught well) how to professionally address a boss or superior? That realization inspired this unit, which revolutionized the way my students emailed me from that point forward.Every year, I recommend teachers of all subjects in middle and high school teach students either a full unit or

This huge 115 page The Giver Novel Study Package contains a complete novel study on The Giver by Lois Lowry. Everything you need to teach a complete The Giver unit is included. Detailed Giver questions, answer keys, Giver activities, vocabulary words, story element analysis, and engaging Giver final projects are all included in this Giver literature guide. A variety of graphic organizers and Giver worksheets are also included. All activities are classroom tested and include creative handouts, in

Creative Writing Poetry 911: First Aid for Writing Poetry * Now over 50 Formulas for Helping Students Write Original PoemsThis IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my POETRY RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.This student aid and handouts bundle features OVER 50 formulas for writing poetry. If you have students who struggle with creativity (excellent for L.D. students, as well as dominant left-brained thinkers), these formulas are excellent. Even the most uncreative student will be able to write poetry.

This writing project requires students to use traditional fairy tales as a guide to write a new version of that fairy tale. To do this they will write from the perspective of a character who is different than narrator of the original version. Once all of the stories have been written, there are materials included for students to turn their story into a book or for a class book to be made. It's very comprehensive with several teacher and student tools- organizers, rubric, writing paper, and mo

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt Novel Unit: Common Core Aligned! This Print and Go! Tuck Everlasting Novel Unit is a 58-page novel study that includes: • Lesson Plans • Main Idea Chapter Titles • 18 pages of reader response questions • 5 pages of context clue word work with more space for writing all of the information needed • character analysis work • figurative language work • post-reading reflection journals • a character map • End of Novel Project • a table of contents to keep track o

These DIGITAL and PRINT activities will help your students understand the difference between a claim and a statement, be able to identify and find strong and logical evidence from a text to support their claims, and organize their essays in a clear and concise fashion. Practice with claims and evidence are two MAJOR components of literary analysis and argumentative writing and are critical ideas that students need to understand! We've used these exact activities with our students in grades 5-8 a