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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

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!!!

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

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

Dig deep and make connections! This activity works for any novel, and students can complete it individually, in small groups, in pairs, or whole class! Choose 4 characters (or have students choose) and fill in the circles with text evidence that links them together. Instructions for what characters to connect in the circles are included!

Juvenile Delinquents Turn Heroes! Turn your students into newspaper writers to fill in the editorial about the greasers that was featured in the paper! Use this as an outline example or as the newspaper for them to complete.

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!