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Looking for a way to "spice up" your grammar activities? These "Sentence Variety" task cards combine two components with sentence variety - critical thinking and group work! This activity expects students to find the 3 other students who have the same original sentence as they have,then in groups they are to determine which of the 4 sentences is the BEST correction of the original. Finally, they are to determine what is WRONG with the other 3 sentences. (fragments, run ons, comma splices/

If you need a quick one-pager to teach or review writing concessions and refutations for your argumentative essays, this is the document for you! It is fully editable with the front page being a full example and the second page being a template for students to practice.

Struggling with wordy thesis/claim/position statements from your students? Looking for a NEW way to motivate students to practice thesis writing? This activity provides writing prompts on a fun and familiar Twitter template for students to write their position statement as a tweet! This activity will help drive home the "short and sweet" concept of writing an effective thesis/claim/position statement. This activity includes 5 persuasive prompts and one BLANK template for the teacher to pro

Looking for an engaging activity to help students practice their reading skills or a high quality "back up" lesson to keep for a substitute day? Need some new materials for intervention which aren't from a released test? Want a template and activities to use with reading already in your curriculum? Look no further! This engaging short story ("New School") with reading activities is about a high school senior starting at a new school. There is even a twist at the end. My high school stude

Testing Organizer for School Leaders: Do you struggle with remembering all the little details that go in to effectively planning and administering state and national assessments? #NoJudgement I understand; there are so many moving parts to keep straight. Lunches? Bell Schedule? Blocking off the building? All of that and more is referenced here. Let this 5 page organizer help you remember.

This context clues chart can be used to help students identify and decode new vocabulary words in texts. Teachers can pre-select words OR students can identify new words as they read. Students will use textual evidence to determine the meaning of words, then look up the words to check their accuracy, and finally will track their success. This is perfect for immediate feedback and is used with reading, which is essential for deep understanding and retention. Use with any content where y

Students are to find and analyze figurative language in the novel, Perfect Chemistry. This activity covers the first three chapters of the novel. Page numbers are provided to aid in finding the terms. Then, students must analyze the purpose of the figurative language. Terms include: Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, and Personification.