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Tes: Two Kinda Truth' by Farukh Dhondy
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site provides comprehension and theme-related activities to accompany Farukh Dhondy's short piece "Two Kinda Truth." False stereotypes and evidence of racism will be discussed in the activity.
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Tes: Varieties of English
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer will help student reflect on the similarities and difference among formal and informal word choices. Dialect, idiolect, and verb effectiveness are featured.
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Tes: Forms of Poetry: Haiku. Theme of Winter: Worksheet
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn about the form of a haiku. Students will read several examples of haikus and then write their own haikus about the topic of Christmas or New Year's Eve.
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Tes: Revision: Macbeth, English Literature, Interactive Quiz (Connect 4)
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Power Point interactive presentation is a review over William Shakespeare's Macbeth through a game of "Connect Four."
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Tes: Englicious
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site provides a preview for free website, Englicious.org, a resource that can help students with English and writing skills.
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Blendspace: 3rd Grade Poetry Investigation
A learning module with thirty-one links to texts, videos, images, websites, and slides on different types and forms of poetry as well as poetic imagery, rhyme, figurative language use, and more.
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Blendspace: Similes & Metaphors by Mrs. Wade
A six-part learning module with links to videos and websites about similes and metaphors.
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Tes: Mindfulness Activity
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Mindfulness Activity, students will engage in mini-creative writing tasks. The sheet will simulate each part of the brain as they make lists, draw pictures, and respond to high-interest questions.
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Blendspace: L7.4 Context Clues
A six-part learning module with links to texts and images for a context clues lesson involving four learning stations.
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Tes: Super Scary Halloween Writing Sheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] This downloadable resource provides several sheets of Halloween-themed writing paper. Lines and white spaced accompany each sheet
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Tes: Daily Dazzle E
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site includes a writing warm-up activity for students. Rectangles with key words present direction prompts
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Tes: Best Beginning to a School Year Ever
[Free Registration/Login Required] This learning module engages students in goal setting. A Power Point feauturing "famous failures" and goal setting activities are included.
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Blendspace: Citing Your Sources Using Mla
A twelve-part learning module on using MLA formatting to cite sources including a works cited page, in-text citations, parenthetical citations, plagiarism, and more.
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Blendspace: Elements of Drama for Middle School and High School
A six-part learning module with links to images, videos, texts, and websites to use while learning the elements and types of drama.
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Blendspace: Expository Writing Using Transitions
A seven-part learning module on using transitions in expository writing. Lessons include text, images, a video, and a writing prompt.
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Blendspace: The Hero's Journey
A nine-part learning module with links to images, websites, and videos that demonstrate the theme of a hero's journey in literature.
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Blendspace: The Hero's Journey
An eighteen-part learning module with links to videos, images, and charts to use while learning about the theme of a hero's journey in a literary text.
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Blendspace: What Makes Stories Scary?
A learning module that includes fourteen links to websites, videos, and activities on writing scary stories. Lessons focus on vocabulary, plot and character development, elements of gothic stories, tone and mood, suspense, and more.
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Blendspace: Ela Animal Farm
An eighteen-part learning module with links to texts and slides to use while reading George Orwell's Animal Farm.
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Tes: Schemes of Work: Prose. The Monster Garden by Vivien Alcock.
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan will engage students in a shared reading of Vivien Alcock's novel, The Monster Garden. As a post-reading activity, 6th graders will learn about book review writing. Then students will...
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Blendspace: Gabby Douglas
A learning module with twenty-one links to videos, images, texts, and quizzes with biographical information about Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas.
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Blendspace: Beyond the Book: Monster by Walter Dean Myers
A sixteen-part learning module with links to videos, texts, slides, and websites to use while reading Walter Dean Myers' Monster.
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Blendspace: Monsters of the Odyssey
A learning module that includes links to images of fourteen different monsters found in Homer's The Odyssey.