MuchAdoAboutELA

This activity does not focus solely on sports! This activity encourages students to explore their personal passions, share gratitude, and embrace their creativity! 2 options of choice boards: 1. More easily accommodated activities, focused more on arts 2. Better for gifted/advanced students, focused more on writing Also includes pre-reading questions for "Dear Basketball" by Kobe Bryant. Pairs well with "Dear Basketball" by Kobe Bryant, "I'm Coming Home" Lebron James' letter to Cleveland, The C

The perfect classroom posters to add inspiration and thoughtful advice! 30 total quotes available in both color, black/white, and pastel prints to fit your classroom needs and decor. 150 total pages - 5 options each for 31 total quotes Featuring authors, presidents, entrepreneurs, scientists, and more! Ready to print!

Do your students love visual aids? This is a chart to show how each character is connected to Chase Ambrose with images representing their age/group. This is a helpful resource to show students when reading Restart by Gordon Korman to show visual relationships between characters!

I use this resource for introduction to poetry or introduction to narrative writing. It is so easy for students to engage into their own story with these sentence starters or head off with their own imagination on the blank line template. Easy, ready to use template for your beginner poets! No prep for you! 3 template options for varied levels of learners - ready to DIFFERENTIATE!!!

In the novel Restart, Chase wakes up with amnesia! Ask your students to make a text-to-self connection and put themselves in Chase's shoes to think about what they would want to know about themselves if they woke up with no memories. As a bonus, they also feature the "of course" trend from TikTok as a theme! These slides include: InstructionsA letter to myselfBasic about me infoSchool infoStudent favoritesGoalsFamilyFriendsiPhone template

Ready to print one pager for "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"! 2 versions of the assignment:Includes speech/thought bubbles for students to fill in reasoning and text evidence. Includes human figure for students to decorate to represent the chosen 'monster' character. **Perfect for accommodations and students who struggle to get started!Includes sentence stems to direct writing. Includes empty middle section to promote personal creativity!

Perfect for back to school, end of school, community building, and more! This is the perfect assignment for any unit with the theme of community. Ready to print, perfect for creative expression! Pairs well with any A+ College Ready Unit for 7th grade ELA

Help your students organize fossil research with this ready to print one pager! Perfect for organizing information and promoting creative expressionHelps students practice research skills2Works great with fossil dig kits, with a set of fossils, or with pictures of fossilsPairs with A+ College Ready 7th Grade Unit 1 and the book Written in Bone

Help your students practice parts of speech, add details, put sentences in a logical order, and expand on simple ideas! Easily accommodated by adding lists of example words!

Ready to print reward ticket! Perfect for offering free admission to any type of school/community event. Can be printed on any color sheet of paper to best represent your school!

Updated 4/20/2023 to fix an error on the planner page! A great way to introduce the dystopian genre! Students work in groups to create their own utopian or dystopian society, including the government, the people, the look, the backstory, etc.! This is READY TO PRINT, but you can make it as simple or elaborate as you would like. As it is, it took my students 3-4 days to complete. This can also be turned into a cross-curriculum assignment!

Google form for students in a group to discuss their part in the project and how they feel other students in the group performed. Rubric included for rating group members! Ready to send out to students!

Students love choices! This activity allows you to teach one type of writing but lets students choose their own prompt! 4 prompt choices to write about the story! Encourages students to find text evidence, think deeply about the characters, and search for details! These prompts can be answered in a paragraph or in an essay!

This can be used as a informative one pager or a test prep packet! This is NOT TEST SPECIFIC (can be used for ANY state, ANY test)! Help your students prepare for standardized testing by covering the task and key words for 12 different terms to know to best prepare for standardized testing: recall, citing evidence, vocabulary, opinion, text structure, context clues, multiple choice, multiple select, true/false, matching, essay, and short answer. Editable page included for you to customize the o

Informational Writing Packet - ready to print and teach! Resource includes Key TermsExample essay with discussion questionsDescription of each part of an informational essay with examples Transition word/phrase suggestionsSentence StartersOutlineStep by Step DraftPeer-Editing Checklist (3 options)

Need a revise and edit checklist for your kids to keep in their notebooks? This handout covers revising on one side and editing on the other! Perfect for folding to put into a composition book or keep in a binder. It works great for individual editing or peer-reviewing!

This version of "My Memory Book" is not novel specific, so it is excellent for any time of the school year! It is ready to assign or can be edited to meet your current unit! These slides include: Letter to myselfBasic about me infoSchool year infoStudent favoritesGoalsFamily Friends

Quick, ready to print resource for any argument! This resource is intended for a 5 paragraph essay but is also a great resource to introduce argument writing! What's included: Introduction to argument (key terms, example with questions, etc.)How to Write an Argument step-by-step guideSentence StartersAssignment SheetOutlineFirst-Draft HandoutPeer-Editing Checklist**Editable rubric sold separately!

This is a lesson plan template made in Google sheets! It includes dependent drop down menus, choose your grade (4-8), choose your subject, and then the standards for your class appear in the last drop down menu. These are updated for the 2021 ELA standards! This template is EDITABLE for YOUR needs! Message me if you need the drop down menus changed or need something specific!

Challenge students to make an argument from the point of view of a character from a novel! This activity asks students to choose a character and an opinionated statement; then, they use text evidence to argue for or against the opinion from the point of view of the chosen character. This is set up as a group activity but can be completed as an individual, pair, or small group!