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NO PREP classroom management strategy to teach your students about social contracts and how to create their own. After students learn what a social contract is and how they work in a classroom, they will then brainstorm independently before dividing into small group stations to draft their list. Finally, bring your students together as a whole class to write your agreed upon social contract.  Your students will:1. Learn what a social contract is and its place in the classroom 2. Brainstorm what

Build a culture around reading in your classroom with these Gen-Z geared learning stations. Perfect for back-to-school time, these stations will get your students thinking about the importance of reading and setting goals right away! This resource provides students with opportunities to collaborate with their peers or work independently through 6 unique stations with QR codes pre-made to access content relevant to teens and reading. Just print station work out for students (the directions are on

Use this mini unit that has everything you need to teach the short story “Button, Button” by Richard Matheson! Engage your students with an anticipation guide, interactive activities, and writing prompts. Assess their inferencing, annotation, and analysis skills surrounding characterization, conflict, and using text evidence.  This resource has everything you need including teacher slides, a pacing guide, answer keys, and a rubric. Whether your students have access to technology in your classroo

Start your year strong with this no-prep, 4-week 8th Grade Grammar Review Boot Camp—the perfect way to reinforce essential grammar skills while boosting student confidence! Designed with busy ELA teachers in mind, this daily grammar review requires just 10–15 minutes per day and provides students with the foundational knowledge they need for more complex grammar concepts later in the year. This engaging unit is ideal for back-to-school grammar review, bell ringers, warm-ups, or intervention. Ali

Use this mini unit that has everything you need to teach the short story “Ruthless” by William de Mille! Engage your students with an anticipation guide, interactive activities, and discussion prompts. Assess their inferencing, annotation, and analysis skills surrounding characterization, setting, theme, and using text evidence.  This resource has everything you need including teacher slides, a pacing guide, answer keys, and a rubric. Whether your students have access to technology in your class

CER WRITING ANCHOR CHARTS – STRENGTHEN CLAIMS, EVIDENCE, REASONING | Secondary ELA ResourceHelp your middle and high school ELA students write stronger CER responses with this set of 7 CER Writing Anchor Charts! This resource breaks down each part of the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) structure while showing students the difference between weak and strong writing. Whether you're introducing CER writing, reviewing before an assessment, or supporting struggling writers, these charts offer clear

CER Writing Growing Bundle – Slides, Rubrics, Graphic Organizers, Notes & More | Secondary ELAEverything you need to teach, review, and reinforce Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) writing all year long! This comprehensive CER Writing Bundle is packed with engaging and flexible tools for secondary ELA students. Whether you're introducing CER for the first time, differentiating for various learners, or reinforcing strong writing habits, this resource has you covered. With 3 teacher-led Google Slides

Review important elements of a story with this no prep digital or print mini-unit. Students will review plot, setting, conflict, characterization, and theme with the acclaimed animated short Crow: The Legend by Baobab Studios. Interactive student activities and writing prompts are provided for each story element to assess your students’ learning. Use this resource to review before moving onto applying literary elements to longer texts. Complete with teacher slides for instruction, a graphic org

CER Writing Slides, Guided Notes & Sentence Stems – Teach & Review Claim Evidence Reasoning | Secondary ELAHelp your students master Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) writing with this flexible, ready-to-use resource designed for both introductory instruction and review. With two teacher-led Google Slides presentations, guided student notes, and universal sentence stems, this resource gives you everything you need to teach, reinforce, and support CER writing in middle and high school ELA clas

Use this mini unit that has everything you need to teach the short story “The Ingredients" by Jason Reynolds! Engage your students with this culturally responsive short story with pre-reading, during, and post-reading activities and discussion prompts. Assess their annotation, comprehension, and analysis skills surrounding setting, characterization, theme, and using text evidence. This resource has everything you need including teacher slides, activities, and answer keys. Whether your students h

Students review important literary elements with this graphic organizer. Students will review plot, setting, conflict, characterization, and theme by defining the term and what the author does in the text when they use each literary element. Either provide students with the definition for these terms, or have them locate definitions on their own Use this graphic organizer together with my elements of a story mini unit using an animated short found here!Your students will:1. Review important lit

Start your next school year off right with a one-stop Google Sheet to track discipline interventions in your classroom. Electronically keep track of documentation so that it is always at your fingertips whenever you need it. Organized into 8 different classes, you may delete any you do not require and rename them as you need! Discipline interventions are laid out with easy-to-use checkboxes that can be edited to fit your classroom.

Support every learner in your ELA classroom with this leveled CER writing organizer set, designed to help students build strong Claim-Evidence-Reasoning responses to any text. With an advanced version, an on-level version, a scaffolded version for students needing accommodations, and a flexible CER outline, this resource provides differentiated support for fiction, nonfiction, and argument writing. Whether you’re introducing CER writing or reinforcing it throughout the year, these editable

Looking to streamline your grading and help students strengthen their Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) writing? This CER Writing Rubric & Peer Editing Resource for Any Text is perfect for middle and high school ELA classrooms! With two flexible and editable rubrics and a peer review form, this resource supports effective writing instruction, self-assessment, and constructive peer feedback. Great for literary analysis, argument writing, or constructed responses—these tools make expectations clear

FREE CER Writing Review with Doodle Notes – Editable SlideshowLooking for an engaging, no-prep way to review Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) writing with your middle or high school ELA students? This FREE editable slideshow and doodle notes set is the perfect blend of structure, creativity, and flexibility! Students will review the essential parts of a strong CER paragraph— claim, evidence, and reasoning—with clear examples and interactive tasks. Featuring “The Ingredients” by Jason Reynolds as

Assess your students’ learning with these 14 different Literary Elements Worksheets. These worksheets work with ANY text your students read. This NO PREP resource is available in both digital and print versions to make assigning easy.  Each worksheet contains six different questions ranging in complexity with at least one question requiring text evidence. A helpful reminder is provided defining the literary element in student friendly language as well.  Worksheets include topics of:1. Author

Get to know your students with this NO PREP printable activity resource. This engaging back-to-school activity is perfect for the first week of school so you can learn about your students while they reflect on their favorite things and what is important to them. Students will answer 11 different questions that they will then symbolize creatively on their puzzle piece. Five different puzzle piece templates are included for student choice. Your students will:1. Visually represent who they are and

NO PREP final assessment to use at the end of a nonfiction unit for students to demonstrate their learning of the main idea, supporting detail, summary, analysis, and providing text evidence of nonfiction texts. Assess your students reading and writing research skills with this digital or print culminating task where students create their own magazine spread and showcase their research and nonfiction knowledge. Give your students choice in their own final project by allowing them to pick the emo

Get to know your students with this NO PREP digital and printable activity resource. This engaging back-to-school activity is perfect for the first week of school so you can learn about your students while they engage with fun activities AND review ELA concepts! Whether you have technology the first week of school or not, you will be ready to go in your classroom! This product will provide you with useful information about your students, provide them with the opportunity to share and explore the

NO PREP mini-unit to teach your students how to write effective thesis statements. In both digital and print versions, all the work is done for you in this teaching resource to get your students writing quality thesis statements independently and increase their writing skills. Your students will:1. Go through an easy, 5 step process to write a thesis statement  2. Take notes over their learning that they can apply to future writing assignments. 3. Practice writing a thesis statement with a samp