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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

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!

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!

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

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!

Middle schoolers love the DRAMA and the MUSIC! Introduce argument with arguments, claims, and counterclaims in music! Can be used for whole group, small group, or individual 1. This resource focuses on the songs "Driver's License" by Olivia Rodrigo, "Skin" by Sabrina Carpenter, and "Crisis" by Joshua Bassett. 2. The second page is ready for you to write in your own songs!

Pick a scene! Need a helpful handout for a movie after a book? This is the perfect, simple handout to get students engaged in comparing and contrasting! This activity is a generic handout to work for any book/movie. Students can list the scene they want to focus on and fill in the venn diagram during or after the movie!

Ready to print! Print this page, add the title of the song you want to use, and you are ready to go for an easy, fun lesson! I suggest using the song "Just the Two of Us" by Will Smith (clean lyrics and loved by all of my students)!

Need help engaging your visual learners or struggling readers? This visual aid character diagram is a great place to start!