Johnston's ELA Gems

Do your students need help with identifying whether a clause is dependent or independent? Do you need to scaffold your sentence structure worksheets because your kids just aren't getting it? This product is perfect! It includes: - 2 pages of notes - 4 practice sheets - a test - answer key for all This product is included in the Middle School Grammar Bundle (which is a growing bundle) for over 20% off. If you need even more grammar help, try my Breaking Down Sentences product. It's great to us

This product is a quick, one-page review of action, linking, and helping verbs. There is a key provided as well. Great for back to school! Try my other grammar products: - Types of Nouns- Review for Middle School- Middle School Grammar Game Bundle- Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases- Editing and Revising Game- Grammar Pre-test- Grammar Practice- Commonly Misspelled/Misused Words- Dependent vs. Independent Clauses- Breaking Down Sentences- Sentence Structure Notes and Practice- Grammar Bu

This product is a quick, one-page review of concrete/abstract and proper/common nouns. There is a key provided as well. Great for back to school! Try my other grammar products: - Types of Verbs- Review for Middle School- Middle School Grammar Game Bundle- Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases- Editing and Revising Game- Grammar Pre-test- Grammar Practice- Commonly Misspelled/Misused Words- Dependent vs. Independent Clauses- Breaking Down Sentences- Sentence Structure Notes and Practice- Gra

30 questions over identifying parts of speech, finding simple subject and verb, identifying sentence types and sentence structures. Great for diagnostic or just practice. Other grammar products you might like: - Editing and Revising Game- Grammar Pre-test- Grammar Notes for Middle School- Commonly Misspelled/Misused Words- Dependent vs. Independent Clauses- Breaking Down Sentences- Sentence Structure Notes and Practice- Grammar Bundle- Grammar Game- Secondary ELA- Image Grammar Brush S

This product is a quick, one-page activity to test where your kids are with parts of speech. There is a key provided as well. Great for back to school! Try my other grammar products: - Types of Nouns- Review for Middle School- Types of Verbs- Review for Middle School- Middle School Grammar Game Bundle- Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases- Editing and Revising Game- Grammar Pre-test- Grammar Practice- Commonly Misspelled/Misused Words- Dependent vs. Independent Clauses- Breaking Down Sentenc

This unit can easily be modified for use with any whole-class novel or student choice novel unit. This product includes: - chapter overview- character dossier with instructions for writing a character biography - illustrated timeline- book tasting menu- vocabulary study- Character One Pager- Thematic Art Project Table of Contents: 1.Chapter Overview- Students choose a chapter from their reading and create their own study guide. 2.Character Dossier- Students collect information about one

This 4 page product includes notes over the 4 types of sentence structure (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex) and uses examples from To Kill a Mockingbird. It also includes a 15 question practice worksheet (and key) on identifying sentence structure using more examples from the novel. For a more scaffolded approach to this lesson, check out my Breaking Down Sentences product. It has four pages of notes, four practice worksheets, and an assessment. After you've finished this set

From dependent and independent clauses to identifying the types of sentence structure, this bundle covers all your needs for teaching sentence structure for secondary English. Includes: Sentence Structure Game Dependent vs. Independent Clauses Identifying Sentence Structure- 2 exercises: 1 from TKAM and 1 from Night Sentence Notes for Reference Splices, Fragments, and Run-ons Exercise

This character dossier is a wonderful way to have students focus on characterization while reading. It has students collect information on a character as they read so that they can write a character biography using this sheet as reference. This product is included in my Novel Study Materials Bundle along with an illustrated timeline, chapter overview, vocabulary study, and a book tasting menu. You might also like my Character One Pager or the ELAmazon to use as an assessment piece for any

Metacognition is so important, but so is artistic fun! Use these templates as a way to get your students sketching, learning, and retaining the information they learn in your class. There are 5 templates in this product: - Quotation Sketchnotes Template - What Do You Know About ____________? Sketchnotes Template - Sequencing (Flowchart) Sketchnotes Template - Topic Overview Sketchnotes Template - K-W-L Sketchnotes Template

This product is a quick, one-page review of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions. There is a key provided as well. Great for back to school! Try my other grammar products: - Parts of Speech- Diagnostic for Middle School- Types of Verbs- Review for Middle School- Types of Nouns- Review for Middle School- Middle School Grammar Game Bundle- Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases- Editing and Revising Game- Grammar Pre-test- Grammar Practice- Commonly Misspelled/Misused Words- Dependent vs.

This product includes a 15 question practice worksheet and key over the 4 types of sentence structure (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex) and uses sentence examples from Night.l. For a more scaffolded approach to this lesson, check out my Breaking Down Sentences product. It has four pages of notes, four practice worksheets, and an assessment. After you've finished this set of exercises, move on to Dependent vs Independent Clauses. This resource also has 4 practice worksheets an

Product Description This product is a quick, one-page review of prepositions. There is a key provided as well. Great for back to school! Try my other grammar products: - Types of Conjunctions- Review for Middle School- Parts of Speech- Diagnostic for Middle School- Types of Verbs- Review for Middle School- Types of Nouns- Review for Middle School- Middle School Grammar Game Bundle- Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases- Editing and Revising Game- Grammar Pre-test- Grammar Practice- Commonly Mis

This is an end of the year activity for any middle school class. It includes an instruction page and a scoring rubric, so it's ready to use! Could be adapted for use with 5th or 9th grade very easily.

This activity is a great way for students to visually represent an assigned Greek or Latin root word. Includes instructions, grading rubric, and a list of roots to get you started! Need more for Greek and Latin Roots? Try these! Greek and Latin Roots List- Core Knowledge 8th GradeGreek and Latin Superhero/Villain Funko POP

This assignment is a good tool for having students create their own list of vocabulary words from a story or novel. It is a chart that has them list the word, the quote from the novel, their definition, and the dictionary definition. This product is included in my Novel Study Materials Bundle along with a chapter overview, character dossier, illustrated timeline, and a book tasting menu. You might also like my Character One Pager or the ELAmazon to use as an assessment piece for any story

This assignment is great for sequencing when studying any short story or novel. It has the timeline on the front and spaces for explanation of each event chosen on the back. This product is included in my Novel Study Materials Bundle along with a chapter overview, character dossier, vocabulary study, and a book tasting menu. You might also like my Character One Pager or the ELAmazon to use as an assessment piece for any story or novel.

For the flipped notes, students visit a TES lesson (formerly BlendSpace) to fill out notes over background material for the novel. The vocabulary study gives students 16 words from the novel to find and define, and asks them to find 5 more words of the same caliber. The vocabulary quiz covers the 16 words they were given in the vocabulary study.

This character sketchnotes page lets students show their thinking about the character of Boo Radley. This is a great way to get kids to annotate or keep a dialectical journal and then compile the information in a visual format.

This character sketchnotes page lets students show their thinking about the character of Mrs. Dubose. This is a great way to get kids to annotate or keep a dialectical journal and then compile the information in a visual format.