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🏀 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.

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

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!

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

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.

This is to be used for St. Patrick's Day celebrations. It is a center activity. You should laminate or place this page in a sheet protector so that you can use dry erase markers to write on it. On each clover I placed a math fact. This game is to be played against a classmate. You move from clover to clover by answering the math fact correctly. When you reach the pot of gold you get a gold token. The person with the most gold coins "wins". This game could be used with high frequency word

This is a checklist made so that students are responsible for keeping track of how many times they are redirected for a problem behavior. This is customizable and can be adapted for a specific behavior.

This is a worksheet for students to use when they are peer editing. Students are required to determine glows (area of their peer's writing that is great) and grows (areas that their peer can work on).

These are classroom reference posters to help guide students through writing a body paragraph for a research-based response or text-dependent analysis. These posters use the TRIQAP method where each letter represents a different sentence or two in the paragraph.

This is an outline for compare and contrast writing. It is in the structure of an introduction, body (compare), body (contrast), and conclusion.

These Greek and Latin word roots, suffixes, and prefixes word cards can be used in a variety of ways. It was created with the idea of having students use them for a matching game or go-fish type of game, but can really be adapted to fit many different games.

Assessment used to identify students' ability to solve exponents in various forms.

These stations are designed to get to know your new English Language Arts students and get them set up with your Google Classroom. Includes: -Station Slides -About Me Survey -Syllabus Hunt -My Year in One Word Activity

This is a simple bathroom log to use when documenting when and how often students leave your room for the restroom.