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Tired of hunting for high-quality PSSA prep? This massive 150-slide resource is your "set it and forget it" solution for daily bell ringers. Specifically aligned to the PA Core Standards and PSSA Assessment Anchors, these slides provide consistent, rigorous practice to ensure your students are ready for the CDT and spring testing. Each slide is designed to take 5–8 minutes, making it the perfect routine to start your ELA block while building student stamina and mastery of Eligible Content. P

🏀 iReady March Madness: 14-Team Tournament Kit Turn iReady data into a high-stakes competition with this complete 5-week March Madness Tournament kit! Designed for middle school (7th grade), this resource levels the playing field by using passing percentages rather than lesson volume, ensuring every student’s accuracy impacts their team’s fate. This kit includes everything you need to launch a "Selection Sunday" style event, track weekly progress, and crown a classroom champion with a pizza pa

Product DescriptionTurn your ELA classroom into a stadium! 🏀 Are you struggling to get your middle schoolers engaged with poetry? This Poetry March Madness Tournament transforms literary analysis into a high-stakes competition. From "The Rose That Grew from Concrete" to "A Poison Tree," your students will scout, analyze, and vote for their favorite poems until one is crowned the Tournament Champion.This resource is designed to be a "mini-lesson" series—perfect for bell-ringers or 20-minute cl

This product is to be used as a center activity to practice the skill of identifying author's purpose. It is three different centers at three grade levels (3-5) and all practicing the skill of author's purpose. There are 5 different levels included in this center activity. It starts with sorting book covers into "for fun" or "to teach you something." In the final center activity, they are reading quotes and sorting into to entertain, to inform, to persuade, or to express.

Turn independent reading into a high-stakes challenge! This Reading Bingo resource moves beyond basic plot summaries, requiring students to hunt for specific literary devices, grammatical structures, and character motivations. With a built-in "Evidence Log," it ensures accountability while giving students the freedom to choose their path. Key Skills Covered: Literary Devices: Metaphors, similes, hyperboles, and personification.Grammar in Context: Semicolons, appositives, and Greek/Latin roots.De

This activity was originally made as a work box for a life skills classroom. I created envelopes with different food categories written on the front (these correlating to what you would see in your grocery store-produce, dairy, snacks, etc.). The students would practice sorting these cards into the appropriate envelope or "aisle" of the grocery store. This was used to help students with disabilities get ready for the workplace and living life independently. *An answer key, directions, and an a

Need a beginning of the year activity? Have your students design a cover for their English Language Arts composition book! Students can color the cover, do the word search (filled with ELA terms), and track their reading through the year using the bookshelf. It is a great time-filler for the beginning of the year that also helps to make your classroom notebooks special and unique.

Use Kendrick Lamar's lyrics to review figurative language with your students! Review of hyperbole, simile, metaphor, and personification using some of Kendrick Lamar's popular lyrics. This slides presentation includes 12 lyric slides that help students identify some of the most popular types of figurative language. After identifying, get students discussing the meaning behind the figurative phrases!

Do you struggle to get your students to do a good job when editing and revising? Me too! There are so many things to think about when revising and editing that sometimes it is simply too overwhelming. This resource was designed to help students focus on a specific task at a time when going through the revising and editing process. Each station has a specific goal for revision and editing. In groups, students revise and edit their peers' (group members) papers by focusing on one aspect at a tim

Short stories are one of my favorite ways to celebrate the day before Thanksgiving break! This is a study of the short story, "Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen" by O.Henry including an analysis of Norman Rockwell’s famous painting, “Freedom from Want." It includes connections with reading comprehension, art analysis, irony, and theme.

Identifying verb complements and direct objects in a sentence can be difficult! There are so many questions for students to ask themselves, and it can be quite overwhelming. I made this flow chart to help guide my students through mapping out sentences.

Have you seen the viral "It's Corn" TikTok video? I can guarantee your students have! Use what they know to teach them something new! This is a self-paced exploration of finding the main idea in a text using resources from TikTok, YouTube, and NewsELA.

This is a graphic organizer to help your students organize a three-paragraph text dependent analysis using the STARTS acronym for the introduction and TRIQAP for body paragraphs. The organizer is completely editable, so if more body paragraphs are needed, you can just copy and paste to fit your needs!

This workbook will guide your students through reading an excerpt from "Growing Up" by Russell Baker. The book includes work from the McDougal/Littell literature book and additional guided reading containing: Word/Vocabulary Work (Synonyms/Antonyms)Irony: Exaggeration, Sarcasm, UnderstatementHistorical Word and Time Period ExplorationComprehension and Deeper Connection QuestionsCharacterizationText Structure (On this page students should determine that the text structure as compare and contrast

These classroom posters are a great reference for students to identify literary elements and figurative language.

If you are finding yourself going through seemingly 100s of pencils only for your students to keep losing them, give this strategy a try. Simply hang this poster along with 4 pencils on your whiteboard. I like to use magnetic clips! Students will take a pencil if they find themselves needing one, and leave behind their written name. This becomes an easy check for you at the end of the class to make sure those who borrowed pencils return them at the end of class!

As a teacher, you know how important it is to keep students engaged and organized during video lessons. That’s why I created this Informational Video Recording Sheet—designed to help students actively track key points and stay focused while watching educational videos. This printable and editable recording sheet is perfect for any subject and can be used for online lessons, flipped classrooms, or video-based assignments. It encourages students to take organized notes, summarize information, and

Solving order of operations with a fraction bar worksheet.

These depth and complexity cards will help both you and your students to dive deeper into their comprehension of what you are learning in class. It is meant to extend thinking into higher-order thinking skills to really challenge those accelerated learners.

Need a no-prep activity for tomorrow? Here is a spooky short story for your students to read paired with common core aligned comprehension questions.