English Language Arts Instruction

Figurative Language Bundle: Notes Booklet, Scoot Task Cards, Printable Card Game

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iTeach & iWrite

This engaging figurative language printable activity bundle includes a note-taking booklet that can be used as standalone graphic organizer worksheets, scoot station task cards, and a printable interactive card game. You'll get everything you need to teach, practice, and review alliteration, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, similes, metaphors, personification, adages, and idioms.

4th - 7th Creative Writing, ELA Test Prep, Reading

Narrative Writing Graphic Organizers Worksheets 4th-5th Gr. Note-Taking Booklet

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iTeach & iWrite

This Narrative Writing Note-Taking Booklet is designed to help kids learn and practice key story elements such as setting, characters, plot structure, beginning-middle-end, conflict, dialogue, and show don’t tell—all in one organized, student-friendly handbook.

3rd - 6th English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing

Also included in: Narrative Writing Unit Activities Bundle for Gr. 3-8: SBAC and CAASPP Test Prep

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Narrative Writing Unit Activities Bundle for Gr. 3-8: SBAC and CAASPP Test Prep

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iTeach & iWrite

If you’re teaching a narrative writing unit in grades 3–8, this Narrative Writing Activity Bundle has everything you need to help students plan, draft, elaborate, and polish their creative writing stories with confidence.

3rd - 6th Creative Writing, Writing, Other (ELA)

Narrative Writing Mini Performance Task ELA SBAC Test Prep Gr. 3-6: SPACE

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iTeach & iWrite

Prepare for the SBAC test performance task with a journey through the stars! This Narrative Writing Mini Performance Task is designed to mimic the format and rigor of the CAASPP or SBAC end of year state test while keeping students engaged with a "Grand Tour" of our solar system!

3rd - 6th Creative Writing, ELA Test Prep, Writing

Narrative Writing Mini Performance Task ELA SBAC Test Prep: HELPFUL ROBOTS

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iTeach & iWrite

Prepare for the SBAC test performance task with a high-tech rescue mission! This Narrative Writing Mini Performance Task is designed to mimic the format and rigor of the CAASPP or SBAC end-of-year state test while keeping students engaged with the world of Helpful Robots.

3rd - 6th Creative Writing, ELA Test Prep, Writing

American Revolution Spies Narrative Writing Performance Task ELA SBAC Test Prep

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iTeach & iWrite

Prepare for the SBAC test performance task with a high-stakes mission into the shadows! This Narrative Writing Mini Performance Task is designed to mimic the format and rigor of the CAASPP or SBAC end-of-year state test while keeping students engaged with the world of the Revolutionary War.

3rd - 6th Creative Writing, ELA Test Prep, Writing

Poetry Elements Note-Taking Booklet: Print Digital Graphic Organizers Worksheets

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iTeach & iWrite

This printable and digital Poetry Terms guided note-taking booklet is ideal for your upcoming poetry unit. It covers poetry elements such as lines, stanzas, rhyme, rhyme scheme, rhythm, meter, repetition, figurative language, alliteration, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, personification, simile, metaphor,

3rd - 6th English Language Arts, Poetry, Writing

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Learn the Alphabet Coloring Pages for letters A-Z for Pre-K, K, 1st, 2nd grade

Created by
Mindfully Creative Kids

Are you looking for a fun and creative way to help students learn the alphabet? My resource is a great activity for in class or homework. This bundle contains the letters of the alphabet and is also a fun art activity that encourages students to either choose from 7 colors, choose colors of their ow

Preschool - 2nd Visual Arts, Reading, Writing

The Great Gatsby Character Analysis Mini-Unit | Literary Analysis & Writing

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Plotting Something

Once students know the characters well enough to move beyond first impressions, this mini-unit helps them turn what they notice into literary analysis.Students choose one major character—Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Jordan Baker, Myrtle Wilson, or George Wilson—and look closely at motiv

9th - 12th Literature, Writing Essays

Murder on the Orient Express Novel Study | Reading Guide, Vocabulary, Activities

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Plotting Something

Bring structure, discussion, and evidence-based thinking to your study of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express without piecing together materials from multiple sources.This complete high school ELA novel study includes reading support, vocabulary practice, suspect and evidence tracking, hi

9th - 12th English Language Arts, Literature, Vocabulary

Comma Rules Review Lesson | Guided Notes, Practice, Slides & Exit Ticket

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Plotting Something

Comma Rules Review LessonReview seven essential comma rules with a complete, low-prep lesson designed for secondary ELA. This resource gives you the materials you need to teach or reteach common comma conventions, guide students through examples, provide meaningful practice, and quickly check unders

7th - 11th English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Comma Rules Guided Notes | FREE Grammar & Punctuation Review

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Plotting Something

Free Comma Rules Guided NotesHelp students follow along with comma instruction using these free guided notes covering seven common comma rules.Students fill in key terms, complete quick checks, and add commas directly to examples as they work through the notes. The format gives students enough struc

7th - 11th English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Rhetorical Appeals & Devices Mini Unit | Ethos, Logos, Pathos Activities

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Plotting Something

Teach rhetorical appeals and devices without stopping at simple identification.The Art of Persuasion is a ready-to-use secondary ELA mini-unit that helps students understand how speakers and writers influence an audience—and why their rhetorical choices matter.Students begin with an accessible Feel

9th - 12th English Language Arts, Reading, Writing

Antigone test prefix suffix and roots

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Plotting Something

Sixty question comprehensive test on prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Meant to accompany a unit on Antigone, but could be used any time to teach prefix, suffix and roots. Common core aligned, Also helpful for SAT prep. Included is a chart with many different roots.

8th - 10th English Language Arts, Vocabulary

Greek Theater & Tragedy Background | PowerPoint, Guided Notes & Teacher Guide

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Plotting Something

Give students the background they need to understand how Greek tragedy worked before they begin reading the play itself. This classroom-ready lesson introduces the performance space, actors and masks, the chorus, dramatic structure, and essential tragedy terms through a coordinated presentation and

9th - 12th Literature, Drama

Also included in: Antigone Bundle | Greek Tragedy, Mythology, Context & Analysis

First Day of School Activities | All About Me + Letter of Introduction | ELA

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Plotting Something

Start the year with two getting-to-know-you activities that feel appropriate for secondary students and give you information you can actually use.Students begin with a quick All About Me page covering interests, learning preferences, and attitudes toward reading, writing, and discussion. They then w

9th - 12th Writing, Classroom Community

Antigone Pre-Reading Background | Oedipus Family Tree, Context, Guided Notes

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Plotting Something

If your students jump into Antigone without enough context, the opening scene can feel confusing from the start. This resource gives them the background that matters most—without turning pre-reading into an overlong mythology lecture.Students work through the House of Thebes family tree, the key Oed

9th - 12th Literature, Drama

Also included in: Antigone Bundle | Greek Tragedy, Mythology, Context & Analysis

Edgar Allan Poe Biography & Background | PowerPoint, Guided Notes, Themes & Work

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Plotting Something

Introduce Edgar Allan Poe with a concise biography and background lesson that gives students the literary context they need before reading his stories and poems. Rather than turning Poe’s life into a list of sensational facts, this lesson connects his biography to the themes, techniques, and literar

8th - 12th Literature, Poetry, Reading

Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Unit Bundle | Background, The Raven & House of Usher

Antigone Tragic Hero Analysis | Antigone vs Creon | Literary Analysis Lesson

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Plotting Something

Which character best fits the tragic-hero idea in Sophocles' Antigone? This post-reading lesson asks students to build the strongest case for both Antigone and Creon before they decide. Students compare the characters' choices, warnings, reversals, recognition, responsibility, and final costs, then

9th - 12th Literature

Also included in: Antigone Bundle | Greek Tragedy, Mythology, Context & Analysis

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe | Close Reading Mini Unit, Analysis & Quizzes

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Plotting Something

Help students understand what happens in “The Raven” before asking them to interpret its symbolism and psychological horror.This close reading mini-unit follows Poe’s poem chronologically, with a stanza-numbered reading text, vocabulary support, a student analysis packet, and coordinated lesson slid

8th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Poetry

Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Unit Bundle | Background, The Raven & House of Usher

Antigone Bundle | Greek Tragedy, Mythology, Context & Analysis

Created by
Plotting Something

Give students the background they actually need to enter Sophocles’ Antigone, then bring them back to the text for allusions and post-reading analysis.This four-resource bundle combines Greek theater and tragedy background, story-specific pre-reading context, a collaborative mythology/allusions proj

9th - 12th Literature, Writing, Drama

Edgar Allan Poe Unit Bundle | Background, The Raven & House of Usher

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Plotting Something

Teach a complete Edgar Allan Poe sequence with three coordinated resources that move from author background into close reading of “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Raven.” Together, the resources provide approximately 2½–3 weeks of instruction for grades 9–12, depending on class length and h

9th - 12th Literature, Poetry, Short Stories

House Taken Over by Julio Cortázar | Close Reading, Ice Age Comparison & Quizzes

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Plotting Something

Students can follow what happens in “House Taken Over” and still miss the strangest part: Irene and the narrator barely resist as their world gets smaller. This lesson sequence slows the story down, makes the house and both takeovers concrete, and then moves students into ambiguity, evidence, and in

9th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Short Stories

College Essay Unit | Personal Statement Writing Lessons & Rubric

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Plotting Something

Teaching the college essay can be frustrating. Students often think they need a dramatic story, choose a prompt before they have anything meaningful to say, or end up writing the same version of “this experience taught me to never give up.”This unit takes a different approach.The College Essay: Find

11th - 12th Writing, Writing Essays