LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - "Compound Words"

by Fourth Grade Frenzy
Grades 2 to 4

You can get this Compound Words Activity HERE!

VOCABULARY FREE LESSON-Earth Day Vocabulary Pages

Earth Day Vocabulary

by First Grade Diva Creations

Looking for Earth Day free activities? This Earth Day free activity will give your students a deeper understanding of what it means to reuse, reduce, and recycle. 

These vocabulary pages are meant to teach the words reuse, reduce, and recycle deeply.

I like to model technology, so I show my students how to use an online dictionary or thesaurus. As we research the meaning of these words as a class, I have students practice their speaking and listening skills by sharing their thinking. My students love to share the sentences that they write using a synonym. 

Students can then use these pages as a springboard for writing about ways they can reduce, reuse, and recycle.

First Grade Diva Creations

English Language Arts Lessons~Inference & Writing Lessons

Picture This!

Inference & Writing Lessons

by First Grade Diva Creations

This resource encourages students to access their background knowledge, make inferences, and write stories where the illustration supports the text. These are all very important reading strategies that will help your students in the area of reading comprehension. 
The seven pictures are full of spring whimsy! They are sure to keep your students engaged!

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Included
1. Seven illustrations. Each illustration is intended to be used as a standalone activity. As students progress through the illustrations, they gain a deeper understanding of how illustrations support the story. The detail in the illustrations leads to great class discussion. (This resource is potentially seven lessons.)

2. There are two graphic organizers designed to focus on activating a student’s schema and their ability to look for evidence in the illustrations.

3. Two additional graphic organizers are provided to assist students in describing characters, settings, and events in their stories before they begin writing.

4. Themed writing paper can be printed to go with any/all of the illustrations.

This resource is low prep, high engagement, and wildly creative for your students. It’s perfect for shaking off the winter blues this spring. You will love watching as students use their critical thinking skills.

First Grade Diva Creations

LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - "May Reading Passages with Reading Comprehension"

By Christina L.
Grades 2-5

Here are some non-fiction reading passages filled with lots of fun facts about the month of May. Use them as warm up activity, for early finishers or in a reading center.

Includes
• 8 May themed reading passage, each with 3 comprehension questions
• Worksheet for recalling 4 May facts that students have learned
• Template for writing a limerick (for Limerick Day)

The 8 passages include the following titles:
• Happy Mother's Day
• Memorial Day
• Cinco de Mayo
• Happy Birthday, Sally Ride!
• Limerick Day (Includes a template for students to create their own limerick.)
• The Kentucky Derby
• Florence Nightingale (for National Nurses Week)
• Amelia Earhart

Have a better look here.

Thanks for looking!

Christina L

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Spring Bundle

Spring Visual Arts - LanguageART Bundle

Grades 1-5

LanguageART, Visual Art Craftivities, writing challenges, questionaires

Art Action - Laurie Carpenter

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Many "easy-art" Spring projects for your classroom...teach language arts through a fun art activity. Spring is a new beginning time of the year, and so are these lessons. Fun, coloring, imagination, creativity, vocabulary development, math skills, small muscle development, group discussion, and much more come in to play in this assortment of bundled art lessons for your classrooms. Integrate art into your academic program. It is so much fun and your kids will learn at the same time! Save $3 by buying them as a bundle!
Download includes:
4 PDF lesson plans
28 pages of printables, patterns, worksheets, samples, and photos

Go to the individual projects listed below for details on each one:
Spring ThingsCraftivity
SpringColoringSheets
SpringSwing
Spring Bouquet

Spring is in the Air - Part Two

Welcome Robins, Welcome Spring!

It has been a tradition for many years to report the first robin seen of the year! Robins migrate south for the winter so their return is a favorite sign that Spring is here!  

Part Two includes informational articles with real life photos about robins, comprehension and connection questions, vocabulary flip-flap book, robin coloring page, and posters. 

Click Here for Part Two of my Spring is in the Air Activity Pack!

Signs of Spring: Welcome Robins!

See you Tomorrow for Part Three 

Signs of Spring: Buds & Blossoms

Spring Activity Pack Freebie: Part One!

With only five days till Spring officially starts, I am celebrating by offering a new Spring Activity Freebie everyday this week!  

All week I will be sharing new Spring activities for educators to use in their classrooms to welcome in Spring. It's a new process I'm trying out that I call "Build a Bundle."  

Here's how it works: Everyday this week on my blog I will post about the new Spring Activity that's being offered for free for that day. Included will be a link to the product in my TPT Store so you can download it for free!  

Just download the "Spring is in the Air Activity Pack" each day as we "Build Our Spring-tastic Bundle" together. This way you can pick and choose which activities will work for your class and grade level. 

On Friday March 20, I will leave the entire Spring is in the Air Activity Pack up to download for free for the first 24 hours of Spring. 

Follow me on my blog and my TPT store to make sure you don't miss any Spring freebies! All I ask in return is for you to rate the product! Let the great countdown begin!

Happy Spring! 

Here's Part One: The Spring Equinox

Helen Keller - Celebrate Women's History Month

Helen Keller was an extraordinary example of how hard work and determination can lead to great accomplishments. Helen persevered and overcame difficult conditions and went on to become an inspirational leader who helped many people all across the world. 

In this unit, students will learn all about Helen Keller's incredible life story through high interest informational articles and engaging learning activities including:
*Informational Articles about Helen's Life Story and All About Braille
*Make a Mini-File Book—great for interactive notebooks!
*Complete the All About Helen Keller Organizer 
*Three Primary Sources and Constructed Responses Question (CRQ’s)
*Fact and Opinion: Show What You Know!
*Puzzle Facts Activity
*Words are Powerful Writing Activity
*Two Expository Writing Prompts
*Hands-on Activity: Star Biography Poster and Research Report
*Timeline Sequencing Activity
*Venn diagram for students to compare/contrast Helen to themselves
*Vocabulary Posters--great for bulletin boards!

Language Arts - "April Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions"

By Christina L
Grades 2-5

April is National Poetry Month

April Fool's!

Earth Day

Cover all the important days in April with these non-fiction reading passages. They are filled with lots of fun facts. Use them as a quick warm up activity, for early finishers or in a reading center.

Includes
• 8 April themed reading passage, each with 3 comprehension questions
• Worksheet for recalling 4 April facts that students have learned

The 8 passages include the following titles:
• Happy Earth Day!
• Jackie Robinson Day
• April Fool's Day
• The Titanic Sinks
• National Poetry Month
• National Arbor Day
• Easter Egg Roll
• Drop Everything and Read

Click here for a preview.

***Buy 2, get 1 Free! Save with this Spring Bundle***
Spring Bundle: Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions

Thanks for looking!
Christina
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Language Arts: "Prefixes, Suffixes and Roots: Worksheets, Handouts and Posters"

By Christina L
Grades 3-6

Teaching prefixes, suffixes and roots?  Here is all you need to get started.

It includes mini posters, handouts, worksheets (some differentiated) and even a fun prefix challenge.

Pages 1-3: 3 mini posters to hang in your classroom (“Prefixes”, “Suffixes”, “Roots”)

Page 4-6: 3 Handouts that introduce prefixes, suffixes and roots. They also provide space for students to practice by writing their own examples.

Pages 7-8: Prefix Worksheets: “Read each sentence and find the word with the prefix. Underline the word and then write its definition.”

Pages 9: Prefixes Worksheets: Guess the Definition: “After reading each definition, write a word with a prefix to match it. Use one of the following prefixes: il-, un-, mid-, mis-, sub-”

Page 10: Same as page 9, but with a word bank.

Pages 11 -12: Suffix Worksheets: “Read each sentence and find the word with the suffix. Underline the word and then write its definition.”

Pages 13: Suffixes Worksheets: Guess the Definition: "After reading each definition, write a word with a suffix to match it. Use one of the following suffixes: -ist, -ment, -ible, -er, less, -ful."

Page 14: Same as page 13, but with a word bank.

Page 15: Root Words Worksheet: "Read the words below. Find the common root and then write its definition."

Page 16: Root Words Worksheet: "After reading each root and its meaning, write a word that contains the root."

Page 17: Numerical Prefix Challenge: "Many prefixes represent numbers to show how many there is of something. Using a word with a numerical prefix, see if you can figure out the definitions below."

Click here for a better look!

Thanks for looking!

Christina L

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Language Arts Lesson - "Creative Writing Activities"

Created by Dianne Mason

Grades 9-12

These fun-filled, beneficial activities will help your students become more creative writers. These classroom-proven activities will ensure that students know how to add pertinent details and descriptions to all of their writing, to create fresh similes and metaphors, and to develop a narrative that is well-structured and interesting to read.

The package includes the following:
• Mixed-up Stories Exercise
• Finish the Story Exercise
• Start and Stop Exercise
• Clever Clichés Exercise
• Descriptive Writing to Create a Dominant Impression
• Peer Editing Guidelines for Creative Writing
• Rubric for Grading Creative Writing Papers

The time varies for each activity and for each class. Most of the activities can be done in 30 minutes to one hour. I've never done them all at one time.

To see a preview of this lesson as well as other high school English resources, please visit my TpT store at the following:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Creative-Writing-Activities-803540

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What is a Hero? A Special Discovery Lesson

Some might say that a hero is someone who does amazing feats like winning an Olympic gold medal or the Noble Peace Prize. Others say that being a hero is someone who performs a brave act like a firefighter who goes into a burning building to save a child. Everyone has different ideas and opinions about what a hero is. This is a lesson that students will never forget!

In this product, donated to heroes everywhere, students will learn about 3 heroes: Clara Barton, Jackie Robinson, and Helen Keller. Then they will dig deeper to figure out what makes a hero a hero. Lastly, after coming up their own definition about heroes, students will determine who is their hero and write that special person a thank you card or letter. The templates are provided. 

Heroes are everywhere, everyone has someone who has positively influenced, let's honor them! Click below for this amazing freebie!

St. Patrick's Day Literacy Activities

St. Patrick's Day Literacy Activities

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Language Arts Lesson - "Emily Dickinson Poetry Study"

Created by Dianne Mason

Grades 10-12

In this poetry lesson, students closely read poems by 19th Century American poet Emily Dickinson with a focus on diction, figurative language, and theme. Included are the following items:

• Brief biography
• Historical context
• Suggestions for teachers
• Copies of poems
• Vocabulary study and quiz with answer key
• Suggested activities and essay assignments

To see a preview of this lesson and to find more of my high school English products, please visit my TpT store by clicking on this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Emily-Dickinson-Poetry-Study-1696301

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English Language Arts Grammar and Writing Activities - "Banish Those Dialogue Demons"

by: Connie Casserly
Grades 6-12
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This concept was born out of frustration after I read yet another student-written short story that showed very little understanding of proper dialogue format. I used this lesson in all secondary English classes and creative writing classes with much success. 

The student duos really enjoy creating conversations and conflicts after each person chooses a character and one setting per group (example: a logger, and an astronaut meet in a cafe in Marrakesh). They don't even complain during the proofreading and revision stages. Character (30) and Setting (15) cards are included.

This 13-page product is aligned with Common Core Standards and Bloom's Taxonomy.

See page images, the How to Teach details in my blog: http://teachitwrite.blogspot.com/2013/04/write-right-banish-those-dialogue-demons.html

After that, download the lesson from https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Grammar-Banish-Those-Dialogue-Demons-664964 ($)

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English Language Arts – “Comprehension & Writing Activity: Presenting the Academic Awards for Literature"

By: Connie Casserly
Grades 6-12
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Hook the students' interest about the Academy Awards. For this activity, Presenting the Academic Awards for Literature, the students' mission is to choose the best literature, from both fiction and non-fiction, for this year’s awards. The categories for the awards are based on the elements of literature (characters, settings, plots/conflicts, symbols, themes and point of views).

Student Directions:

1. Write the Category title and your Choice for the Best in that category in the given spaces on the certificate.

2. Under that information on the awards certificate, explain and support your choice in a paragraph, following the points under Writing Criteria.

3. Make sure that your writing specifically addresses the criteria for each category.

4. After the writing segment is finished, you will defend one or more of your selections during a class discussion.

The criteria for Fiction and Non-fiction offers students points to ponder about each element of literature as they consider how to explain the who, what, where, when and why behind their choices.

Example: Characters (Types of characters are in the parentheses): Does the character grow and change (dynamic), show different sides to his/her personality (round), stay one-dimensional in his/her personality (flat) or show no mental/emotional and/or spiritual growth (static)? Is the character: major, minor, the protagonist or the antagonist? Are the characters believable and or sympathetic? Do you care what happens to them?

After they choose their recipients for each award students are to fill in the certificates. Here are a few of the twenty categories 

•Best Fictional Female Character

•Best Fictional Male Character

•Best Supporting Fictional Female Character

•Best Supporting Fictional Male Character

•Best Non- Fictional Female Character

•Best Non-Fictional Male Character

For their explanation paragraphs, students must state the award recipient and the title and author of the text. To defend their choices, the explanation must include three examples along with supporting details that justify each choice and that add clarity to the reasoning behind it.

The Teacher Notes page lists the Common Core Standards that pertain to this activity as well as the Bloom's Taxonomy terms students will utilize.

Use this activity any time during the school year, but it will really hook students’ attention with the 2015 Academy Awards on February22nd. Download it from 
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Comprehension-Writing-Activity-Presenting-the-Academic-Awards-for-Literature-523512

 For an engaging activity for books that have been turned into movies, try - Comprehension, Thinking & Writing Activity: Comparing Books and Movies Worksheet

Happy Teaching,

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English Language Arts Lesson – “Mob Mentality Activity”

By: Connie Casserly

Grades 6-12

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Although this activity is one lesson in my The Crucible (Arthur Miller) Unit Plan, here is a version of it that is more generic so teachers can use it with any literature where mob mentality plays an active role.

This lesson will engage Middle and High School students while they strengthen their critical thinking skills as well as their writing and speaking skills. 

Is mob mentality always negative? Can it have a positive impact on society? Is the media a perpetrator or a victim of this type of action? These are just a few of the questions that students will explore individually and as a group during this lesson.

Download this engaging activity from https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Mob-Mentality-Activity-1440378 ($)

For the compete 52-page unit plan for The Crucible, check out
The Crucible Unit Plan


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