English Language Arts Student Practice

Run-On Sentences Grammar Activity Find & Fix Run-Ons in Texts Level 1 Grades 3-5

Created by
iTeach & iWrite

If your upper-elementary students struggle to write in complete sentences, you’ll love The Grammar Police Traffic Patrol: Run-On Sentences LEVEL 1 grammar activity. In this printable and digital room transformation activity, students step into the shoes of Traffic Patrol Officers.

3rd - 5th Grammar, Writing, Other (ELA)

Also included in: Fragments and Run-On Sentences Bundle: Grammar Activities & Practice 4th-6th Gr.

English/ELA/ESL Creative Writing, Sequencing & Cause-and-Effect Activities

Created by
Frenchified

Turn creative writing for your ELA/ESL/English classes into an engaging logic challenge with these Story Steps communication activities!Each story gives students a starting point and an ending point—but what happens in between is entirely up to them. Students must create four logical events that con

Not Grade Specific Creative Writing, Short Stories, Writing

English/ELA/ESL Creative Writing, Sequencing & Cause-and-Effect Activities

Created by
Frenchified

Turn creative writing for your ELA/ESL/English classes into an engaging logic challenge with these Story Steps communication activities!Each story gives students a starting point and an ending point—but what happens in between is entirely up to them. Students must create four logical events that con

Not Grade Specific Creative Writing, Short Stories, Writing

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

I can learn the alphabet and my numbers worksheets, Pre-K, K, First grade

Created by
Mindfully Creative Kids

This bundle has colorful worksheets that are a great way for students to learn, write and practice the alphabet and their numbers. Each worksheet contains colorfully illustrated bubbles for each letter of the alphabet and the numbers 1 to 30. This activity is great for morning work, homework or fun

Preschool - 1st Balanced Literacy, Reading, Writing

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

Created by
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

Antigone Greek Mythology Background Project | Allusions Research & Presentations

Created by
Plotting Something

Give students the mythological background they actually need for Sophocles' Antigone without turning the unit into ten unrelated mythology reports. In this collaborative research project, groups investigate one focused topic, teach the class the most useful background, and then students keep using a

9th - 12th English Language Arts, Literature

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

The Princess Bride Novel Quizzes | Reading Checks, Analysis & Answer Keys

Created by
Plotting Something

Need a quick way to see whether students are actually keeping up with William Goldman’s The Princess Bride—without turning every reading check into a full test?This set includes five open-response novel quizzes that can stay simple or go a little deeper when you need them to. Use the Reading Check p

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

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 Fall of the House of Usher Unit | Edgar Allan Poe Reading Guide & Quizzes

Created by
Plotting Something

Teaching “The Fall of the House of Usher” is difficult for one simple reason: students cannot analyze what they cannot follow. Poe’s prose is dense, the plot is strange, and the story’s best ideas only land when students know what is actually happening.This 8–9 day guided-reading unit gives students

9th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Reading

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

Created by
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

Created by
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 Brainstorming Mini-Unit | Find Your Story

Created by
Plotting Something

Teaching the college essay often gets stuck before students ever begin drafting. They insist nothing important has happened to them, assume they need a dramatic life event, or grab the first familiar topic they can think of and immediately turn it into a generic life lesson.Find Your College Essay S

11th - 12th Writing, Writing Essays

For Use with Strawberry Spring by Stephen King | AP Lit Halloween Case File

Created by
Plotting Something

Bring a little fog into your AP Literature classroom. This two-day case-file lesson for Stephen King's “Strawberry Spring” asks students to investigate the evidence, commit to a theory, and reconsider what they thought they knew after the ending.The Halloween atmosphere gives students a reason to le

10th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Short Stories

The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe | Drawing & Extended Metaphor Activity

Created by
Plotting Something

Let students picture Poe's palace before they decide what it means. In this two-part lesson, students closely read and draw "The Haunted Palace," then return to the poem to trace its tonal shift, identify its human features, and discover how the palace becomes a picture of Roderick Usher's mind.FULL

8th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Poetry

Gothic Literature FREE Activity | Poe Close Reading & Gothic Elements

Created by
Plotting Something

Need a quick way to introduce Gothic literature without turning it into an elements checklist? This free Gothic literature activity pairs a student-friendly field guide with a continuous public-domain excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Students identify details that cre

8th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Reading

ABC, Alphabet Tracing Worksheet, Animal Alphabet Tracing Worksheet.

Created by
Koco Kyo

If you are looking for some fun worksheets to help your students identify, write and recognize letter sounds look no further. This packet contains worksheets for each letter of the alphabet!

Preschool - 1st English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Phonics & Phonemic Awareness

Place the letters in right order. Words puzzle educational game for children.

Created by
Koco Kyo

Worksheet for preschool kids. Words puzzle educational game for children. Place the letters in right order.

Preschool - Kindergarten English Language Arts, Spelling, Writing

Write The Missing Letter. Build your child's phonics skills

Created by
Koco Kyo

In this worksheet, your child will say the name of each picture, listening to the beginning sound, then write the missing letter that completes the word.Build your child's phonics skills with this reading and writing worksheet that challenges her to complete each word with the correct beginning lett

Preschool - 1st English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Phonics & Phonemic Awareness

Short Vowel, Digraph & Blend Decodable Passages | No-Prep Phonics Reading K-2

Created by
Koco Kyo

Give Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade readers real practice decoding in connected text, not just isolated word lists.This no-prep digital PDF includes 11 original decodable passages that take students through a structured phonics progression:Short vowels: a, e, i, o, uDigraphs: sh, ch, thBlend

Kindergarten - 3rd Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Phonics & Phonemic Awareness, Science of Reading

Kindergarten Decodable Reader - UFLI Scope Lessons 11 - Small Group Activities

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Shifting to Science of Reading - JD's Rockin' Readers

Help your students feel confident as readers with this decodable reader designed to follow UFLI Lesson 11. It includes an editable lesson plan, decodable book, leveled passages, word mapping, word work, comprehension, and extension activities for no-prep small reading groups.

Kindergarten Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Phonics & Phonemic Awareness, Science of Reading

Also included in: Kindergarten Decodable Readers - Small Group Activities - UFLI Scope - Bundle

Kindergarten Decodable Reader - UFLI Scope Lesson 12 - Small Group Activities

Created by
Shifting to Science of Reading - JD's Rockin' Readers

Help your students feel confident as readers with this decodable reader designed to follow UFLI Lesson 12. It includes an editable lesson plan, decodable book, leveled passages, word mapping, word work, comprehension, and extension activities for no-prep small reading groups.

Kindergarten Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Phonics & Phonemic Awareness, Science of Reading

Also included in: Kindergarten Decodable Readers - Small Group Activities - UFLI Scope - Bundle

Kindergarten Decodable Reader - UFLI Scope Lesson 13 - Small Group Activities

Created by
Shifting to Science of Reading - JD's Rockin' Readers

Help your students feel confident as readers with this decodable reader designed to follow UFLI Lesson 13. It includes an editable lesson plan, decodable book, leveled passages, word mapping, word work, comprehension, and extension activities for no-prep small reading groups.

Kindergarten Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Phonics & Phonemic Awareness, Science of Reading

Also included in: Kindergarten Decodable Readers - Small Group Activities - UFLI Scope - Bundle