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8th grade english language arts task cards for Microsoft Word
Sixth Grade Grammar Bundle: Pronouns, Parts of Speech, Parts of a Sentence
The Sixth Grade Grammar Bundle is the perfect way to help meet sixth grade language standards with engaging grammar activities. With this bundle, you can give your students everything they need to excel in ELA for sixth grade. Overview of the Sixth Grade Grammar Bundle:√ You’ll find diverse and hands-on grammar lessons that will have your students feeling confident and excited about their English skills. √ Each lesson includes detailed instructions for maximum understanding, allowing students to
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5th - 8th
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Sentence Variety Task Cards- EOC Readiness Standard
Looking for a way to "spice up" your grammar activities?
These "Sentence Variety" task cards combine two components with sentence variety - critical thinking and group work!
This activity expects students to find the 3 other students who have the same original sentence as they have,then in groups they are to determine which of the 4 sentences is the BEST correction of the original. Finally, they are to determine what is WRONG with the other 3 sentences. (fragments, run ons, comma splices/
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8th - 12th
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Descriptive Writing Interactive Sorting Game, "Show. Don't Tell."
Teach your students to write vividly with this fun and easily adaptable game. With this download, you are receiving paired passages of dull and descriptive examples. They can be used as a matching game, task cards, writing centers, interactive writing notebooks, and more. Just print, cut, and go! Students' writing will be so vividly bright, you will need to wear shades!! Included:-All directions-Suggestions for use-Answers-Fully editable Word file -Two sets of room labels for the human sorting
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5th - 9th
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Also included in:Â Writing Curriculum, Narrative, Explanatory, Argumentative, Research BUNDLE
Argumentative Digital Escape Room
Digital escape activities are an excellent way to ENGAGE your students. I find it most useful for reviewing before a test, but they are versatile and can be used to serve different purposes. This escape room took my 6th graders about 40-50 minutes to complete. How much you help them is up to you. The challenge for my students was not that the material was too difficult, but simply that they were not following instructions. This digital escape room has six tasks in which students complete puzzles
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5th - 8th
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HYPHENS AND DASHES - PUNCTUATION: WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS
These Worksheets with Answer Key are perfect for teaching Punctuation – Hyphens and Dashes. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these ready to use exercises that are well planned for student engagement.After completing these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to:Consider the functions of hyphens and dashes to identify the signs that exemplify the punctuation marks in a text.List the similarities and the differen
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â HYPHENS AND DASHES - PUNCTUATION: TEACHING RESOURCES - BUNDLE
Library Passes 6 Designer Inspired Patterns
Library Passes designer inspired. 6 different patterns included in this library pass set. I have the grade level of the teacher and the teacher name typed in an editable text box. You can change it to fit your teacher names or delete it.
Print these trendy copies and give to classroom teachers to keep track of each patron. :)
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PreK - 12th
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Alphabet Blends Digraph Vowel Letter Tiles Building Words
This product consists of printable letter tiles. These tiles are intended to be printed on cardstock and laminated. This set includes:
Upper-Case Letters
Lower-Case Letters
Extra Vowels
Blends
Diagraphs
Special Vowel Combos
It would be easy to attach magnetic sheeting to these and add to a white board for a literacy centers.
This product is completely editable. There are extra rows at the end if you need add something else.
These are perfect for older students who need to go back and work
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K - 11th
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A Long Walk to Water 30 Discussion Question Cards
30 Discussion Question cards about A Long Walk to Water. Use them for individual work, partner work, or group work. Also great as preparation for a Socratic Seminar! All open ended questions, all requiring supporting evidence, These are great for the day students finish reading the novel or before they write their essays to gather their thoughts. **Over 200 downloads while this was free! Please be the first to write product feedback! Thank you!**
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6th - 9th
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Also included in:Â A Long Walk to Water Bundle- 8 Original Resources- $14 Value
IRONY - VERBAL, SITUATIONAL AND DRAMATIC: WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS
These Worksheets with Answers are perfect for teaching Irony – Verbal, Situational and Dramatic. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement.After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to:Define irony types – verbal, situational and dramatic.Examine the examples of irony and state what is ironic in them.Show examples of irony that use langua
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6th - 10th
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Also included in:Â FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS - BUNDLE
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH STAX Independent Reading Supplement for GATE
These independent reading program cards are designed for use with the STAX Independent Reading Program for Advanced and GATE. This is not the full program but a supplemental starter STAX for use with the program.
You can purchase the full program separately at the Portable Gifted and Talented store on TPT.
The STAX Independent Reading Program allows your gifted and advanced readers to create tasks and respond to meaningful critical thinking challenges to any novel. The STAX program invites b
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3rd - 8th
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BOOM! Deck - 100 WH Comprehension Questions from Sentences w/ Picture Choices
Preview here!100 Digital BOOM! Cards, containing a sentence + a wh-question, to use for reading comprehension of simple sentences using wh-questions! Each sentence contains a person, a verb, a thing, a place, and a time.25 questions of each of the following wh-questions:who? (person)what doing? (verb)what? (thing)where? (place)when? (time)Answer choices are presented with the written word as well as a picture to support comprehension.Each wh-question being targeted in each trial is highlighted i
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K - 12th
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SENSORY IMAGERY - AUDITORY, VISUAL, OLFACTORY, GUSTATORY, TACTILE: WORKSHEETS
These Worksheets with Answers are perfect for teaching Sensory Imagery – Auditory, Visual, Olfactory, Gustatory and Tactile. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement.After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to:Identify the correct definition of imagery types – visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory and tactile.Examine word-pictures use
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6th - 10th
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Also included in:Â FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS - BUNDLE
Collaborative Group Roles with Sentence Starters
Group role cards to use in class to help all students work together successfully. There are 10 different group roles each with a description of their job and sentence starters they should be using in their role. It is great for all students but especially for ELL students who need a bit extra language support to participate.
You can also download my free Collaborative Team Work sheet which describes exactly how I use these group roles in my classroom.
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3rd - 12th
MIXED TENSES (Simple-Present - Past Simple-Past Continuous- Will
Worksheet to practice the most common tenses in English (Present Simple-Present Continuous- Past Simple-Past Continuous- Will future- Present Perfect and Past Perfect.FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH ONE OF THE VERBS AT THE END OF EACH PARAGRAPH IN THE RIGHT TENSE. THEN MATCH THE SENTENCES TO THE RIGHT PICTURE.If you like this MIXED TENSES, you might also like:MEGA-Grammar-BUNDLEYou can also find Let's study on InstagramProvide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you ca
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â MEGA Grammar BUNDLE
QR Codes Template - Large Card Size
FREE QR Code Template - for personal use only
QR Codes are the next big thing! QR Codes are a phenomenal way to incorporate technology to make your lessons more engaging. All you need to do is the following:
1) Type the questions on the cards.
2) Go to http://www.qrstuff.com/
3) Choose plain text, write in the answer, and click on download.
4) Copy and paste the QR Code on each correlating question card so when students scan it, they can check their answers.
5) Cut and laminate the cards, and
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PreK - 9th
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Daily Fix-It Proofreading and Quote Analysis for The Lightning Thief by Riordan
These are DO NOW activities to use as a bell ringer to the start of class for Percy Jackson, The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. It gets students editing and proofreading while also staying on topic with the text. The quotes come directly from the text. Students will receive the quote from the text with errors, and teacher has the fixed version to share after students complete. These can be written on the board by the teacher or copied onto a white board program such as a Promethean or Smartboa
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6th - 8th
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SYNECDOCHE VS METONYMY - FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS
These Worksheets with Answers are perfect for teaching Figurative Language - Synecdoche and \metonymy. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement.After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to:Define synecdoche and metonymy with examples.State the difference between synecdoche and metonymy.Examine the examples of synecdoche and metonymy to
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6th - 10th
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Also included in:Â FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS - BUNDLE
Rhetoric Cards (Practice for Ethos, Logos, Pathos - Common Core)
This set has nine scenarios on cards that fit one page and one page with definitions of ethos, logos or pathos. While working in groups students take card from each stack. They persuade their group according to the scenario drawn using the persuasive appeal drawn from the other deck. My students had a great time with this assignment...easy to implement and high impact.
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7th - 11th
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Debating Cue Cards
Students will be ready for their debate with these cue cards. They can be printed for students to write on or can be typed into to make it easier to read while giving a stressful speech. There are spare note cards for students to take notes on while listening to the other team so rebuttals can be easily formed.
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4th - 10th
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STAAR Wars 7th Grade Writing Review - Breakout Activity
This Breakout EDU activity was designed to review STAAR grammar concepts that we have been covering in class this year. It takes each group about 35-45 minutes to complete the activity on average. The kids LOVED it, and they asked if we could do stuff like this every day in class. It required them to use a lot of different grammar skills and to work together as a team. The entire breakout activity is Star Wars themed. The full list of required materials for this activity, the writing skills need
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7th - 8th
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Speech Writing Graphic Organizers
This is a set of differentiated graphic organizers do use if your class is writing a speech. This works with Unit 2 of the 5th grade Readygen Curriculum, but also with any speech writing. There are three different versions of the organizer for you to use with your differentiated writing groups. Enjoy!
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3rd - 8th
"A Possibility of Evil" Task Cards
Engage your students with higher-order thinking skills using these 35 task cards inspired by Shirley Jackson's captivating short story, 'A Possibility of Evil.' Each card presents thought-provoking questions and prompts that delve into key themes, character motivations, literary devices, and the deeper meaning behind the narrative. From analyzing symbolism to exploring character growth, these task cards are designed to stimulate critical thinking and foster lively discussions in your classroom.
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8th - 10th
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"Lamb to the Slaughter" Task Cards
Engage your students in deep critical thinking and literary analysis with these "Lamb to the Slaughter" Higher-Order Thinking Task Cards! This comprehensive set of 34 thought-provoking task cards is designed to accompany Roald Dahl's captivating short story, "Lamb to the Slaughter." Each task card challenges students to delve into the story's themes, characters, and literary elements, fostering a deeper understanding of the text while honing their analytical skills.These task cards cover a wide
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8th - 10th
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"A Sound of Thunder" Task Cards
Engage your students with these 35 thought-provoking multiple-choice task cards based on Ray Bradbury's classic science fiction tale, 'A Sound of Thunder.' Designed to challenge higher-order thinking skills, these task cards delve into the story's themes, characters, literary devices, and more. Perfect for literature circles, classroom discussions, or individual study, each card encourages critical analysis and deep comprehension. With an included answer key, these task cards provide educators w
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8th - 10th
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Importance of learning English language arts
English language arts (ELA) concepts — reading, writing, listening, and speaking — empower students to become effective communicators, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners. They are the foundation for all other types of learning as students must rely on ELA skills to master content from other subject areas and communicate what they’ve learned.
Strong reading skills can help students make sense of written content, and gather information for further analysis. Writing skills can help students articulate their ideas, construct arguments, and synthesize information. And speaking and listening skills empower students to clearly present their ideas, participate in group discussions, and collaborate with their classmates. This is why teaching English language arts is critically important for student’s success in school and beyond.
Benefits of learning English language arts
Learning English language arts offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. It helps students:
- Develop effective communication skills
- Build critical thinking and analytical skills
- Nurture their creativity and imagination
By ensuring that students have a solid foundation in English language arts, teachers can help set them up for future success.
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On TPT, English language arts resources come in various forms: from interactive notebooks and task cards to small-group activities and individual worksheets. They can be used to enhance learning, assess a student’s mastery of ELA concepts, or to reteach a tricky concept. By incorporating ELA resources from TPT into your teaching toolbox, you can create an engaging learning experience that strengthens students’ understanding of ELA concepts.
If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable and digital English language arts worksheets, TPT has an extensive collection of resources across topics and grade levels. No matter what ELA topic your students are working on — whether you’re teaching the parts of speech to 1st graders or argumentative essay writing to 10th graders — TPT has instructional materials that are designed to help with any ELA learning need. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, teaching and learning ELA will be so much easier.
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Students learn best when they're engaged! Sprinkle a little fun into your English Language Arts lessons by using manipulatives, pairing unusual texts like poems and short films together, or doing an escape room activity.
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