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***NEWLY UPDATED!*** The first puzzle was posing some difficulty, so I changed it from strictly riddles to a word jumble with the riddles as hints. If you need an engaging way to review central idea in informational and literary texts, this escape room is perfect for you! During the activity, students collaborate to solve puzzles reviewing central idea and escape a room rapidly filling up with water! WHAT'S INCLUDED: Teacher guide with: Answer KeyLink to Google Slideshow with escape room puz

Help students practice distinguishing between simple and compound sentence types, and identifying coordinating conjunctions all in one activity! This product is a part of the full lesson set complete with a mini-lesson, cloze, notes, and 3 more practice pages for simple, compound, and complex sentences. You can find this resource here!

Teach your students about clauses and 3 sentence types with this lesson and practice activities set! Start off with a mini-lesson complete with printable cloze notes and editable Nearpod link, then spend some time practicing with 4 scaffolded handouts. Students will begin with categorizing simple and compound sentences, then move on to identifying and choosing correct coordinating conjunctions, and finally end with distinguishing between compound and complex sentences. This set is perfect for EL

This presentation gives a quick lesson on the 5 informational text structures. It begins with a review of informational texts vs. literary texts, then explains the text structures (description, cause and effect, order and sequence, problem and solution, and compare and contrast). Each slide has a definition, signal words, and an example of a graphic organizer for each text structure. Since this is normally taught right before winter break in my classes, the presentation has a sweet candy cane th

This daily discovery research activity is perfect for your English/Language Arts classroom! Depending on the way you choose to use this activity, students will spend consistent time throughout February researching up to 25 prominent Black American authors, poets, journalists, and more. Though this activity is ideally used as a daily warm-up or closing activity, it could also be used as: Research practice before a lengthier assignment, such as a biography or news reportA quick sub planMake-up or