If you’re wondering how to help your students tackle standard RI.6.8, look no further. These high-interest argumentative texts will help your students feel confident tracing and evaluating arguments in no time. The engaging and relevant topics combined with scaffolded questions will help your students become well-prepared to analyze (& draft) arguments!
Do your students struggle with tracingandevaluatingarguments? You’ll LOVE this engaging solution! Students will become pros at identifying and evaluating claims, evidence, and reasoning using the podcast Smash Boom — along with these paired listening sheets! Not only are the episodes incredibly engaging to kids, but they also offer the perfect opportunity to trace and analyze arguments.
If your students are ready to dive into the various types of conflict in literature, do yourself a favor and check out this done-for-you lesson! You’ll receive an editable presentation for teaching, a student notetaker, and a kinesthetic task card activity. This all-in-one instructional resource will save you VALUABLE planning time when teaching about the types of conflict!
If your students could use a crash course on all things nouns, you’ll absolutely love this mini-unit that covers it all in a FUN way! Covering the different types of nouns such as common, abstract, proper, possessive, plural, and irregular becomes both EASY & ENJOYABLE with this done-for-you minilesson. You’ll love using the no-prep PowerPoint and watching your students engage with the included digital & printable worksheets and writing activities!
If your students could use a crash course on the different types of pronouns, you’ll absolutely love this mini-unit that covers it all in a FUN way! Covering the six different types of pronouns such as personal, reflexive, relative, interrogative, demonstrative, and indefinite becomes EASY & ENJOYABLE with this done-for-you mini-lesson. You’ll love using the no-prep PowerPoint and watching your students engage with the included digital & printable worksheets and writing activities!
If your students could use a crash course on all things verbs, you’ll absolutely love this mini-unit that covers it all in a FUN way! Covering the different types of verbs such as action verbs, helping verbs, linking verbs, verb phrases, and verb tenses becomes both EASY & ENJOYABLE with these done-for-you resources. You’ll love using the no-prep PowerPoint and watching your students engage with the included digital & printable worksheets and writing activities!
Are you tired of scrambling for engaging vocabulary activities or sub-plans? Look no further than this mini-lesson on the different types of word analogies! With this simple yet effective teaching tool, you’ll have your students expanding their vocabulary and making connections between words in no time. Say goodbye to the stress of last-minute planning and hello to an engaging and interactive lesson that your students will love!
While middle school students might be naturals at arguing, aiding them in understanding argumentative texts is a different story! With this reading toolkit for informational standard 6.8, you’ll get access to several mini-lessons and activities that break down the elements of an argument into easy, digestible chunks. These mini-lessons will help your students with reading and understanding argumentative texts in no time!
Your students are having a BLAST showing their artistic side while analyzing poetry. Why? Because you’ve taught them how to identify and understand theme in poetryusing blackout! It’s like blackout poetry with a twist. Using this no-prep mini-lesson, you’ll guide students through an easy process for peeling back the poem’s theme, then let them unfurl their creativity!
Help your students master the art of naturally using imagery in writing with these creative and engaging writing prompts! With these no-prep quick writes, your students will get practice incorporating sensory details into their narrative writing in authentic and purposeful ways. These writing prompts take just 5-10 minutes per day and make perfect ELA warm-ups, bell-ringers, or stations!
Encourage your students to develop their voice in narratives with these engaging writing prompts that will have them exploring different perspectives and points of view. With just 5-10 minutes per day, your students will practice writing with voice in response to purposeful sentence starters, mentor texts, and visual writing prompts!
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with this Color-by-Analogy vocabulary activity! This print-and-go resource will promote critical thinking in a fun and festive way, with five pages featuring analogies related to the special day. So grab your colored pencils and get ready to help your students build linguistic connections as they bring these color-by-code pages to life!
Understanding verbals is tricky for middle schoolers, but this all-in-one resource will help you teach gerunds, participles, and infinitives in an approachable and fun way! With the guided mini-lesson, you’ll introduce students to the different “imposters.” Then, you’ll break down each one and practice with the various included worksheets. This resource is truly NO PREP, whether you’re assigning it digitally or on paper!
These fun & festive Winter Color-by-Code – Types of Analogies worksheets are the perfect pre-winter break send-off for your ELA students! This print-and-go resource will promote critical thinking in a fun and festive way, with five pages featuring word analogies related to the winter. So grab your colored pencils and get ready to help your students build linguistic connections as they bring these color-by-code pages to life!
Looking for a fun and engaging way to boost your students’ vocabulary skills? Say hello to this bundle of color by code worksheets centered around word analogies for middle school! This unique approach to teaching word relationships offers the perfect blend of education and entertainment. These print-and-go worksheets will have your students thinking critically with their colored pencils in hand. The mini-lesson, task cards, and color-by-codes for various holidays will help you tackle standard L.5. like a pro!
Do your students need help writing dialogue in authentic and purposeful ways? You’ll love these writing prompts that will give your students practice using dialogue in creative and engaging ways with just 5-10 minutes per day. These slides are quick and easy to assign or display, making them perfect ELA warm-ups, bell-ringers, or stations!