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This is an OUTSTANDING 100 slide powerpoint TEACHING units that provides the perfect structure for the delivery of a Passion Project experience for middle school aged classes. The preview and the video explanation below only cover 20% of the depth of material offered in this unit. WATCH the video to get just a glimpse of the superb quality of the unit. This will be one of your BEST investments on TpT. Passion Project Preview Video

This unique mnemonic device titled C.O.M.M.A.S. lists, with examples, the six main uses of the comma. Each category has a brief explanation and a few examples for the students to immitate. It is an excellent tool for teaching this confusing grammar topic. When students need to remember how to effectively use the comma, they just need to think C.O.M.M.A.S. Customers who are impressed by this unique memorization tool should check out some of my other mnemonic techniques for grammar, reading, a

This is simply a must have lesson for all classrooms. We monitor students ability to listen and we talk about their inability to maintain lesson focus, but how often do we TEACH how to listen and HOW to focus. This is a wonderfully creative session that models for students what good listening is with a series of 6-7 steps that are so tangible every student from 3rd-8th would easily understand. Students are also taught how to recognize their own distractions and given a strategy to limit these di

For Writer's Workshop teachers covering the fantasy genre, this writing unit is a must. It is a resource containing 14 lessons that carry students all the way through one of the most challenging genres to write. The lessons fit perfectly with both the old and updated version the Columbia Teacher's College Writer's Workshop fantasy series of mini-lessons. The lessons also encourage students to use an amazing tech integration component resource ( a setting and symbolism database blog). Writing ski

Maker Space classrooms are popping up in forward thinking schools around the world. A Maker Space is a designated area of the classroom or common space that is reserved for creative exploration, engineering, building, investigation, prototyping, and inventing. In a Maker Space, students have opportunities to assemble, construct, test, and explore using outside the box thinking. This resource is a 68 slide powerpoint presentation that contains a complete set of resources to get started with a '

This is a BUNDLED version of both my Fantasy Reading Unit AND my Fantasy writing unit offered at a discounted price. Buy all your Reading and Writing lessons for a month for the cost of two cups of coffee! - RECENTLY ADDED - .PDF VERSIONS AND WORD DOC. VERSIONS For Writer's Workshop teachers covering the fantasy genre, this writing unit is a must. It is a resource containing 14 lessons that carry students all the way through one of the most challenging genres to write. The lessons fit perfectl

This is one of the best resources you will find on TpT for the teaching of dystopian fiction to middle and high school students. If you do not agree, you can have your money back! The is a UNIQUE self-paced dystopian fiction book club unit that emphasizes student choice which in turn increases student motivation and engagement. The goal of this unit is that students work completely INDEPENDENTLY of the teacher. The teacher’s work is all upfront, setting up the unit, printing and laminating the

This is the perfect way to begin a course in 5th-8th grade. It was designed for a Language Arts classroom but could be adapted for other subject areas. The resource is an 8 slide powerpoint and 4 page set of inspirational quotes. The lesson would take between 40-60mins to complete. The idea is to inspire students on the very first day to be the very best they can be. The powerpoint contains teacher notes where needed. The lesson begins by getting students to focus on the power of words - having

This is an outstanding 15 page unit that supports the Fantasy Reader's Workshop Unit Book Clubs. It is an entire unit of reading skills that can be used by any 4th-6th grade book club group during a course of study on fantasy. The resource contains 10 graphic organizers that guide students through the preparation and discussion sessions for their book club meetings. Skills include: Nuanced Characters Major themes Multiplicity of Problems Symbolism Elements of Fantasy Archetypes Plot lines and

The is the first in a series of explanation worksheets on sentence fluency and sentence construction. It introduces six techniques showing students how to write more advanced simple sentence openings. It begins by stating which words should be avoided when opening simple sentences; then, it models six techniques for creating more engaging and advancved simple sentence openings (e.g. use of adverbs, participle phrases and infinitives). The recommended use is as a drafting sheet after students ha

This is an outstanding 115 slide powerpoint that perfectly walks teachers and students through the creation of a realistic fiction paper for middle school age range. The video below gives a detailed glimpse of the unit. YOU WILL NOT REGRET WATCHING! Realistic Fiction Writing Unit

BEST SELLING PRODUCT! Ready to inspire your students? This is an amazing 4 week poetry unit. After 20 years of teaching poetry, I have complied the best 14 sessions I have collected from w/shops, professional development, and years of research. The unit is broken into 4 parts (bends). 1) Immersion into Poetry: This bend exposes students to a variety of poems and teaches students a number of different poetic elements. 2) Interpretation of Figurative language. This bend exposes students to a vari

This is an outstanding 14 page unit that supports the Historical Fiction Reader's Workshop Unit. It is an entire unit of reading skills that can be used by any 4th-6th grade student during a course of study on historical fiction The resource begins as a tic-tac-toe menu of 12 unique reading skills that discuss character Reading skill titles include: The Power Role of Supporting Characters Historical Time Period Events from History The BIG Idea Main Character Discussion Backstory Unheard Voices

Teaching SUBJECTS AND PREDICATES? This is the perfect, unique unit that teaches subjects and predicates in an engaging way using images, photos, videos, and sentence building strategies that will truly improve your students' writing. This is a unit of 7 lessons and a digital quiz that GRADES ITSELF! (instructions included). These highly engaging sections, games, and activities will really help your students finally learn this tricky grammar point. These subjects and predicate lessons will sav

Ready to inspire your students? This is an amazing 4 week poetry unit. After 20 years of teaching poetry, I have complied the best 14 sessions I have collected from w/shops, professional development, and years of research. The unit is broken into 4 parts (bends). 1) Immersion into Poetry: This bend exposes students to a variety of poems and teaches students a number of different poetic elements. 2) Interpretation of Figurative language. This bend exposes students to a variety of different types

This is an student tested and success guaranteed resource for improving sentence fluency. This 27 page unit covers a wide variety of sentence construction techniques. The unit is an amazing resource for anybody that teachers sentence fluency, writing, or grammar across 4th-8th grade. Ideally, this unit should be used continually at different intervals throughout the entire academic year for educators that seek to vastly improve their student's written communication and expression The sentence t

This is an outstanding 13 page unit that supports the Fantasy Reader's Workshop Unit. It is an entire unit of reading skills that can be used by any 4th-6th grade student during a course of study on fantasy. The resource begins as a tic-tac-toe menu of 9 unique reading skills that discuss reading skill related to the genre. Skills include: Nuanced Characters Major themes Multiplicity of Problems Learning Curve Symbolism Elements of Fantasy Archetypes Plot lines and backstories Setting of fant

This is an excellet powerpoint slideshow explanation with examples of how to create a flashback paragraph in a narrative story. It shows students through four simple steps that their narratives need not all be in one tense. Great for your advanced story writers. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

INSTANTLY have your students writing like professionals. Professional writers use techniques such as parallel structure. This UNIQUE sentence building strategies are simple to learn and easy to teach. This is a unit of 4 lessons over 17 slides in powerpoint format with a digital quiz that GRADES ITSELF! (instructions included). These highly engaging sessions, links to online videos, and activities will really help your students finally learn this very useful grammar point. Kids will write scrip

If you expect your students to create reading responses, YOU NEED THIS RESOURCE! This is the most unique resource on the web for teaching READING RESPONSE. This unit teaches students to think in abstract terms and use a CRITICAL approach to text. Through a process called 'trans-mediation' students learn how to respond to texts using different media: photograph, art, music, abstract association. The net result is much more deeply sophisticated reading responses and levels of critical thinking.