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-----🤸Learning While Moving
By UPBEAT ELA
Public speaking can seem like an impossible task to many students, but it doesn’t have to feel that way! Students can tolerate – and even enjoy – public speaking when they learn it in a fun and engaging way. These 4 hilarious public speaking games
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Drama, Oral Communication
Grades:
6th, 7th, 8th, 9th
Types:
Activities, Printables, Games
CCSS:
CCRA.SL.6
$6.25
407
Digital Download PDF (10.89 MB)
By UPBEAT ELA
Rather than read a long list of classroom rules and procedures, I play this fun game with my students on the first day of school. It completely changes the tone of our first week of school! First I pass out cards to my students and tell them that
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Reading, Writing
Grades:
6th, 7th, 8th
Types:
Activities, Games
$3.00
134
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By UPBEAT ELA
Students need to learn the important skill of analyzing texts to determine the author's tone, but terms like author's tone can sound intimidating to students at first. This fun game gives them the opportunity to act out a variety of literary tones
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Reading, Literature
Grades:
7th, 8th, 9th, 10th
Types:
Activities, Games
CCSS:
RI.7.4, RI.8.4, RI.9-10.4
$3.75
14
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By UPBEAT ELA
Character analysis is taken to the next level when students recognize and understand common character archetypes in the literature they read. This game gives students a fun, interactive opportunity to review thirty of these archetypes with their
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Reading, Literature
Grades:
6th, 7th, 8th
Types:
Activities
CCSS:
RL.8.9
$3.00
9
Digital Download PDF (0.89 MB)
By UPBEAT ELA
The word archetype can sound overwhelming or stuffy to students, but the concept certainly doesn't have to be! These activities will have students laughing AND learning in no time.In the Literary Character Archetype Game, students receive cards with
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Reading, Literature
Grades:
7th, 8th, 9th
Types:
Projects, Activities, Games
CCSS:
RL.8.9
$13.00
$11.70
3
Bundle
By UPBEAT ELA
Are you stuck in a rut and looking to break up your classroom routine? This fun event is one that your students won’t soon forget! It is so important for our students to learn basic character archetypes so they have the background knowledge they
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Reading, Literature
Grades:
7th, 8th, 9th
Types:
Projects, Activities, Printables
CCSS:
RL.8.9, RL.9-10.9
$9.99
1
Digital Download PDF (10.47 MB)
By UPBEAT ELA
One of my favorite things about teaching English is helping my students fall in love with books, but as a new teacher, I didn't know how to discover what kind of readers my students even were! One way I learned to get in touch with my students'
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Reading, Literature
Grades:
6th, 7th, 8th, 9th
Types:
Activities, Handouts
$1.50
1
Digital Download PDF (0.68 MB)
By UPBEAT ELA
If your students think poetry is boring, they need to think again. This fun and interactive poetry project helps middle school students understand the imagery in the poems they read and experience poetry in an unforgettable way!
Subjects:
English Language Arts, Literature, Poetry
Grades:
6th, 7th, 8th
Types:
Projects, Activities
$6.25
Digital Download PDF (2.69 MB)
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have taught Reading, Language Arts, Composition, American Literature, British Literature, Public Speaking, Journalism, and Greek & Latin Etymology to over 800 students in grades 7-12.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I love bringing learning to life with games, projects, and out-of-the-box essay prompts!

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

I feel honored to have helped over 90,000 fellow teachers bring life and laughter to their classrooms over the past 10 years.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English with teaching certification for grades 7-12.

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

I am a teacher, an author, a wife, and a mother by both birth and adoption. My family lives on a tiny Florida hobby farm with two dogs, six cats, two sheep, four ducks, a handful of hens and roosters, and one miniature zebu.