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If you are reading The Crossover by Kwame Alexander. Here is a quiz for the warm-up and first quarter of the novel (pages 1 - 85). It is in word format and can be easily edited. Answers are at the bottom.

This worksheet has four blog post ideas for the novel "Egghead". It includes blog post rules as well as a rubric for the activity.

This can be used as a reference sheet or information sheet about "How to Read a Textbook" and the components in the textbook. I will provide the follow up student activity that includes going through a textbook and identifying important parts. Any feedback is welcomed!

This is a unit plan that includes worksheets, learning goals, and success criteria. I have created it as a word document so it can be easily edited and adaptable for many grades. There are lessons and activities after the 12 day unit plan description and ideas.

This is a presentation on a variety of ways to incorporate fun vocabulary activities in the classroom. If you need further guidance and lessons, I am happy to share those with you, free of charge! These vocabulary activities can be easily adapted for a variety of grades and levels with appropriate word choice.

This has keywords, comprehension, and short answer questions based on chapters 1 and 2 from The Giver. This could be easily adapted for a quiz or test.

Can be used for most junior and intermediate grades. This worksheet provides prompting questions about the plot, characters, setting, and resolution. It also asks students to give their opinion of the story.

This is a versatile rubric and success criteria teachers can use for story writing in their English classes. This follows the Knowledge, Thinking, Communication, and Application categories (KTCA). There are success criteria and a checklist for students to use in the writing process.

What is the purpose of an advertisement? Features of a good advertisement?

Comprehension questions and answers for chapters 3 to 5 of "The Giver".

This poster provides six ways for a reader to respond to the text. It also provides two sentence starters for each example.

Informative Sheet. No activities. Follow-up activities will be posted soon.

This is a checklist for a variety of items students can peer assess one another for.

This poster provides thoughtful questions and examples for asking students how to respond to a text i.e. sentence starters and idea generation.

Students can practice analyzing and critically looking at their textbook. It may help them become familiar with the textbook at the start of the school year. This is also an introductory activity I use with my students that are enrolled in the OSSLC course.

This is a worksheet with four parts for students to practice their understanding of similes and metaphors.

This is an infographic with a variety of assessments ideas and ways to adapt existing lessons to be suitable for ESL and ELL students in the classroom. It is also helpful in providing information if this is your first time teaching ESL and ELLs.

This sheet has information on summary writing with purpose, characteristics and features. It gives information and a bit of space for a student to add notes about the book, movie, or article you are trying to summarize.

This informative sheet allows students to review the criteria necessary for writing an opinion on any topic of their choice.

Here is an example of a final poem that incorporates many aspects from the poetry unit (simile, alliteration, personification, repetition, onomatopoeia). It also shows a haiku, acrostic, and poem with stanzas and different verses. Students will then present their poems and the checklist marking scheme incorporates all these aspects.