Daley Howard

This is a sorting game that can be played as part of a station activity *see my SOL Bootcamp Ultimate Challenge Competition Bundle on TpT* or it could be used as a small group or individual scaffolding game for students struggling to identify parts of speech.  The goal for the students is to create a symmetrical, visual pattern on a grid by identifying the parts of speech on the cards, and then placing them correctly under their part of speech and in the appropriate row.  They will be working to

This is a hands-on, group station activity that has students use large color-coded strips of paper to build sentences. They begin by creating prepositional phrases, independent and dependent clauses, and then they build and label the sentences other groups make afterwards. This allows the students to "see" the structural patterns of sentences, and gets them out of their seats to move about. This takes about 45 minutes, and I have included specific directions and pictures of the activity for you

This is a station/gallery walk activity I created that gets students up and moving, doing high-level textual analysis and close reading of selected passages, making predictions, and reflecting on the themes of the novel to connect them to their own lives and experiences. It deals with the themes of: Racism/Identity, Social Status, Toxic Femininity and Toxic Masculinity, Poverty, Bullying, and Addiction. It is also color coded so the answer sheet can be directly related to each station. I usually