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Hexagonal thinking is a creative way to get students making connections with one pagers. BUT, it's a lot of work for you, as the teacher, to create and cut out dozens of hexagons for your students to connect, arrange, and discuss. Why not get the students brainstorming and designing their own hexagons with hexagonal one-pagers? In this activity, groups of students use critical thinking, close reading, and design skills to create hexagonal one-pagers for characters, style elements, connections t

Help your students build stronger word knowledge with these Vocabulary One Pager Templates—ideal for high school and middle school vocabulary activities. Whether you're teaching Greek and Latin roots, prepping for a vocabulary review, or replacing a traditional vocabulary notebook, these creative templates promote deeper thinking through sketching and visual learning. Students use the templates to represent each vocabulary word with a combination of definitions, visuals, and context. This

Make MLA citations clear and engaging with this comprehensive MLA format citation activities resource. Ideal for middle and high school English classes, these materials offer visual support and hands-on practice to help students master citation with confidence. Whether you're introducing basic source formats or guiding students through more complex references like podcasts and translated interviews, this resource simplifies the process and supports independent learning. What’s Included: 8 Clas

Embedding and Integrating Quotes in Writing: Quotation Burgers Graphic Organizer is a targeted resource designed to help middle and high school students master one of the trickiest writing skills— embedding quotations effectively in literary analysis and argumentative writing. By using the memorable “quotation burger” metaphor, students learn to introduce, integrate, and analyze textual evidence in a structured, meaningful way. Whether you're teaching literary essays, research papers, or cross-

Looking for a fresh, creative way to explore characterization with your students? This Characterization One-Pager Worksheet invites students to dig deep into character analysis while expressing their understanding through an engaging, visual format. It’s more than just a graphic organizer—it’s a complete, guided activity that supports meaningful literary analysis and creative thinking. This one-pager is a great alternative to traditional character trait charts and written summaries. Student

Kick off your independent reading program with this creative Student Reading Profile One-Pager—an engaging alternative to traditional reading interest surveys. Designed to support choice reading in middle and high school ELA classrooms, this activity helps you quickly get to know your students as readers. Instead of filling out a standard questionnaire, students create a visual one-pager that captures their reading habits, preferences, and personality. This reading interest survey, presented

Short story one-pagers are a great way to get students creatively analyzing and interpreting what they've read. These one-pagers would be a great no-prep final project for any short story unit, or an engaging class activity with any single short story. One-pagers help unlock student creativity, allowing them to combine their visual and verbal skills to showcase what they discover and make it more memorable. Yet it's easy for students wary of art to turn up their noses at one-pagers. That's wh

This storyboard project for any novel is an engaging way to bring the scenes of your text to life for your students. In this curriculum set, you’ll find everything you need to introduce students to the concept of storyboarding and help them to storyboard an important scene from your current text. I've used the storyboarding project with 1984 and The Great Gatsby with wonderful success. Students love making the connection from literature to film. These storyboards make great displays in class

One-act play projects are a great way to bring creativity and performance into your ELA curriculum. With this one-act mini-unit, invite students to draft, rehearse and perform one-act plays in your own class one-act festival! In this curriculum set, you'll find...clear project guidelineshelpful theater termsscriptwriting 101 and script formatting examplestudent viewing ballots for performance dayan editable grading rubric to make life easy Allow at least a week for this entertaining, no-prep pr

Looking for an engaging way to explore characterization in Fahrenheit 451?This Characterization in Fahrenheit 451 One-Pager Characterization Activity is a creative and critical thinking tool that will challenge your students to analyze the characters of Montag, Mildred, Beatty, and Faber in a meaningful and artistic way. Instead of traditional characterization worksheets or trait charts, this guided one-pager helps students synthesize their understanding of character development and author inte

Looking for an engaging Thanksgiving creative writing assignment that builds narrative writing skills without adding prep to your plate? This flexible, student-centered activity gives middle and high school students the chance to write imaginative Thanksgiving stories using a mix-and-match approach to characters, settings, and conflicts. Students will draw from a themed menu of creative writing elements to craft a unique holiday story—and the unexpected combinations keep things fun, fresh, and

Short stories are a great way to bring many voices and themes into your English class. They're nice and snackable - easy to fit in between other units or right before holidays, and easily combined into a quality unit with something for everyone. But what do you do to keep the discussion of each new story engaging for your students? These short story stations give you five ways to approach any short story or short story unit. The stations get students examining characterization, setting, and st

These engaging activities for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn can fit seamlessly anywhere within your unit. Use them as whole-class tasks, partner work, small-group activities, or independent homework to check for understanding as students move through the novel. Each assignment is designed to increase engagement by helping students make meaningful, modern connections to Twain’s text. The activities are flexible, easy to implement, and adaptable to a wide range of classroom needs, perfect

When it comes to careers, it's easy for students to get stuck thinking of just the most famous options. For this career flip book, guide them in thinking outside the box, exploring ten different careers they might be interested in and creating colorful pages for a career flip book. After students research their career ideas and create their pages, bring everyone together into a gallery walk. Each student will end up learning about hundreds of careers as they examine the final books. Finally, g

Blackout poetry is such an easy way to take the fear factor out of writing poetry. Instead of staring at a blank page, students get to choose the words they want from a page that is already full. Less pressure = more creativity! You've probably seen the striking final product of blackout poetry assignments around Instagram and Pinterest. With their writer's block is out of the way, students can use the blackout poetry form to create powerful poetic AND visual images. They will amaze themselves

Bring fresh energy to your unit on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter with these 9 creative ELA activities, designed to be used anytime throughout your novel study. These flexible, student-friendly lessons can be assigned as in-class tasks, partner or group work, or engaging homework that checks for comprehension and critical thinking. Each activity helps students make modern connections to the text while exploring key themes, symbols, and characters. Whether you’re teaching a full novel

Transport your students around the world while building their descriptive writing skills with this creative postcard writing assignment focused on descriptive writing using the 5 senses. Designed to strengthen students’ use of sensory details, this activity invites them to write vivid postcards as if they were traveling through iconic European cities. With visual prompts and place-specific scenarios, students will practice describing sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and textures—turning basic

ELA Discussions can be GREAT, but they an also be... awkward, difficult, WORK. I know it and you know it. When students struggle to voice their opinion during discussion, sometimes all they need is a little warm-up. From the Reviews:"Such a great resource! It is really helpful to have all these types of prompts in one place. I printed stacks of several for just-in-case days and quizzes too.""Great discussion prep, thanks!" "Can't wait to use these!" These pre-discussion activities are designed

Ready for peer editing success? Getting students to provide each other with truly valuable feedback can be tricky. With these four guiding handouts, you can help students help each other in varied formats throughout the year. Whether you're looking for a quick and easy ten minute feedback session or a deep dive, you'll find it here. You'll find options students can use with every different kind of writing they are doing in your class. What's Inside:Peer Editing: EssayThis is a great sheet to

Want your students to think deeply about the main characters in The Hate U Give? Give them a chance to sketch out key characteristics, motivations, desires and history for Starr, Khalil, Kenya, Maverick, Uncle Carlos, and Seven. These handouts give students a great jumping off point for discussion, and they turn into a great display if you let your students fill them out with colored pencils or marker! Or, if you wish, use the provided Canva template link to work through the activity digitally.