English Language Essentials

Bundle includes reading guides that walk students through key teaching points and important parts of the chapters. Some skills that are focused on are prefixes and suffixes, making inferences, vocabulary, and making predictions. For chapter 16, there isn't a guide, but instead, directions for an Environmenal Poster project (which corrresponds to the part of the book when George's father participates in an environmental rally). Used this guides successfully with my 5th grade students last year.

These guides help to introduce the novel and guide students through the first 6 chapters. Guides require students to answer questions about plot, track figurative language, record scientific facts included in the novel, and answer open-ended questions.

Powerpoint that walks students through how to write "I Wish" poems. Ppt. includes sample poems and a template for how to write the poem. I've done these poems with kids in 8th grade, 6th, and 4th, and all grade-levels were engaged. There's no age on writing poetry!

I used this game when teaching argument and counterargument with my 5th graders. I cut the strips of paper up (could glue them onto construction paper to make them more sturdy) and distributed them to the class. They had to walk around the room and find their match. When the game ended, students lined up with their match and I called on a few students to share out whether their card was the argument/counterargument. Students had to justify their answers. You can reshuffle cards and play again

The Colonial Jobs project asks students to explore , research, and present on various jobs that existed during Colonial Times. I did this project virtually with students, but could also be done in-person, or in any format you'd like. Project includes a sign-up sheet for Colonial jobs with descriptions, and an example of a completed project.

The first standard I covered in George's Secret Key to the Universe was comparing and contrasting characters. Students recorded notes in Venn Diagrams comparing George and his parents. At the end of the week, our culminating activity was to do a student-directed fishbowl discussion comparing and contrasting George and his parents, and touching on some other discussion points. This was the first time my students did a fishbowl discussion, so the explicit directions on the slides helped direct the

Powerpoint shows students a variety of animal poems and provides a template to create one of their own. I used this lesson successfully with my fifth grade students! Format works virutally as students can write their poem on the last slide and submit.

I made this resource to help my students analyze the effectiveness of figurative language. The resource has students compare the figurative language directly with literal language, pinpoint words and effectively caught their attention and painted images in their minds, and how the language helped them to make inferences. This was a good scaffold tool to help gear the students up for being able to analyze figurative language and its effects.

Bundle includes a figurative language analysis activity (can be used as groupwork or independent work) that breaks down the analysis of figurative language passages from the book, a figurative language quiz, and a figurative language TDA (text dependent analysis) guide that breaks down how to analyze figurative language in essay form. I successfully used these activities with my 5th graders last year. The step-by-step breakdown of the analysis was very helpful to students of all levels.

I've used this PPT both in student teaching in 9th grade and with 7th and 8th graders to introduce a poetry unit and it was equally effective. Includes a voting activity about "What is poetry?" that always gets the students engaged and creates for a good discussion. Would work for any age group.

Activity requires students to read the lyrics to the hypothetical commencement speech "Wear Sunscreen," by columnist Mary Schmich. (The essay was made into a successful spoken word song released in 1999 by Baz Luhrmann. The lyrics offer advice on how to live a happier life and avoid frustrations). Students can then craft their own poem of life advice using a template modeled after the original lyrics. This activity is perfect for graduating students or as an end-of-year reflection. Suggestion: L

This writing prompt requires students to read a passage from Night of the Spadefoot Toad and use the evidence presented in the text to make inferences about what's happening between the characters. I used this assignment as a TDA with my 5th grade students, but it could also be used as a discussion question, or homework assignment.

Bundle includes Intro to Poetry Powerpoint, What is Poetry Powerpoint, Poetry in Song powerpoint, Song Analysis Worksheet, Imagery Powerpoint, Let's Write Some Poetry powerpoint, I Am Poem mini lesson, Animal Poem mini lesson, Haiku Mini Lesson, Digital Poetry Homework assignment, Figurative Language Review, Figurative Language Partner Quiz, Desiderata End of Year Poem Lesson Plan, Desiderata End of Year Lesson Poem Template, Wear Sunscreen End of Year Poem Activity.

This step-by-step guide will help students brainstorm and organize a draft of a "Song of Myself" poem. The poem asks students to write about themselves and their lives right now, to form a metaphor for their lives, and offer a piece of advice.

Items included in this bundle: 1.) Martin Luther King Jr. research activities (to build background) 2.) "Our Friend Martin" Video Response Sheet (to build background) 3.) MLK Figure Language Activity & Quiz 4.) "I Have a Dream," Speech Tone Analysis Chart & Writing Prompts All these activities have been successfully used with students of all ages. I've used activities 2 & 3 with middle school students, and activities 1 & 4 with high school (but they're versatile activities that could be

Understanding By Design Project lesson plan for a unit on Jamestown. I wrote this project outline for a hypothetical lesson for a professional development class I took, but you can use the foundational elements here as a springboard for further developing this project, or use the ideas I have outlined. Learning Objective: Students will be able to create a project about the Colony of Jamestown IOT identify the human characteristics of a place and region using the following criteria: population,

Document features words and pictures for every letter of the alphabet to display on a classroom word wall or to be used as flashcards. Some letters contain more words and pictures than others, but each contains at least 2, with most pictures in color. I've used this word wall in my classroom with great success! I teach grades 6-12 ESL; the word wall is appropriate for those grade levels, but could also be used with younger students, who are first learning to read.

I posted this Haiku poetry powerpoint on Google Classroom for my 5th grade kids to do remotely. Powerpoint walks students through the definition & structure of Haiku, provides examples, link to a video tutorial, and includes scaffolded writing exercises (I do, we do, you do). This activity was successful with my students.

Here is a short quiz I created for analyzing figurative language. Students are asked to compare the effectiveness of the figurative language vs. the literal language, draw the images that are painted in their minds, etc. My students, who usually struggle with figurative language, did very well on this quiz! I loved seeing their drawings of the images that were painted in their minds. This was a fun way for them to interact with the language, instead of just writing about it.

I used this packet to introduce and teach basic phonics rules to my ESL students, but it can be used with any elementary students. (Note: My students already knew what the 5 vowels were, and that they each make two sounds, prior to this packet). I've used this packet for the last two years and it's worked well. It contains foundational prounciation rules with examples and pictures. There are also many practice activities (both teacher-led, and independent).