Collaborative Lessons

Crafted using Google Slides, these online grammar resources are perfect for distance learning and/or face-to-face instruction. This interactive grammar notebook includes templates that are drag and drop pieces, so you don't have to worry about students deleting important items on the slides. This Resource Includes:8 parts of speechSubject / Verb agreementTypes of sentencesPrepositionsConjunctionsAppositivesParticiple phrasesGerunds phrases8 common comma rulesCompound sentencesComplex sentences

Created with google slides, the dialogue task cards are perfect for distance learning. This set includes 24 dialogue task cards. The dialogue task cards focus on correctly punctuating dialogue. There are 10 multiple choice task cards, 11 task cards that require students to drag and drop punctuation and sentence pieces into the correct order, and 3 task cards that require students to retype dialogue with correct punctuation. The level of rigor increases as students progress through the dialogue

Are you looking to bring The Crossover to life in your classroom with resources that truly engage your students? This comprehensive teaching guide offers everything you need to inspire critical thinking, spark creativity, and foster collaboration, all while aligning with educational standards. What’s Inside?Engaging Collaborative Practice:Encourage your students to work together, sharing insights and building on each other’s ideas. Our collaborative activities are designed to deepen understandi

Created with google slides, this digital interactive grammar notebook is designed for distance learning or face-to-face instruction. It covers concepts like parts of speech, subject verb agreement, and types of sentences. More complex concepts like combining sentences, conjunctions, appositives, participial phrases, and gerund phrases are included in this grammar notebook as well.Go paperless, or print out! The digital interactive grammar notebook provides notes to assist with instruction. It al

This bundle include brainstorming pages, drafting templates, hooks, connections, and outlines for narrative writing, persuasive writing, argumentative writing, and informative writing. The backgrounds are not editable. Each notebook is designed to take students through the writing process one step at a time.

Created in google slides, this compound sentences activity is perfect for virtual learning or face-to-face instruction. Students will practice identifying subjects, predicates, and conjunctions in compound sentences, choosing the best conjunction to combine sentences, insert punctuation in combined sentences, and create a compound sentence from two independent clauses. All the sentences are inspired by Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to make the grammar slides more engaging and sustain studen

Learn all about subject-verb agreements using fairy tales. Perfect for distance learning or face-to face-learning environments! Created with google slides, this resource includes 40 sentences for students to practice subject-verb agreement with, as well as tips to get students started. Students will practice identifying subjects and verbs, then they will practice determining whether the subjects/verbs are plural or singular. Finally, students will practice selecting the verb that agrees with t

Created with google slides, this "Mythical Appositives" online resource is perfect for distance learning. This ELA handout is also printer friendly, so you can print slides four to a page to use them as appositive task cards. Appositives are very challenging, especially for middle school students, so this ELA handout starts simple and increases rigor towards the end. Students will start by identifying the best appositive and filling in the blank. Next, students will insert commas in the correc

This middle school resource includes a mini lesson on combining independent clauses as well as 15 sentences inspired by a popular anime show for student practice.  Students will drag circles over conjunctions, label compound and simple sentences, and choose a conjunction to combine independent clauses. This resource can work for online or face to face learning environments. The backgrounds are not editable. In this ELA lesson: simple sentences and coordinating conjunctions

Created with google slides, this ELA resource will allow middle school students  to practice everything they need to know about complex sentences. This resource includes 4 different practice slides. First, students will practice identifying subordinating conjunctions. Next, students will identify dependent clauses.  Middle school Students will also practice inserting commas where necessary in sentences. Finally, students will differentiate between simple and compound sentences.  This mini lesson

Great for online teaching or face to face, these fiction vocabulary google slides ask students to drag definitions and match them to the correct vocabulary term. There are 24 terms and definitions, and the answer key is included.  The definitions included in these fiction vocabulary google slides will help students understand the elements of fiction. Concepts like plot, theme, and point-of-view are necessary for dissecting and analyzing great fiction; by equipping your students with these fict

A strong thesis statement creates a clear and focused idea for the entire paper, where the writer sets the stage both for themself and the reader to clearly understand the topic of discussion. This middle school resource includes a matching activity for students to match the best thesis statement to a prompt. It also includes 5 prompts to allow students to practice writing strong thesis statements. This resource is created with google slides making it perfect for virtual classrooms and face to

This free resource can be used for interactive distance learning as a tool to teach compound sentences or to review the rules of compound sentences. It provides a quick drag and drop activity that allows students to practice what they learned. It can be printed and glued into a journal or assigned digitally, allowing middle school students to master compound sentences.