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Argument

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WOW Board: Classroom Motivator – Create-abilities

Classroom Management

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Rubrics

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Check out these four mini-lessons for teaching suspense writing / suspense techniques! #suspensewriting #suspenselessons #teachingsuspense
Chilling stories and writing to BOO in the Halloween spirit. These high interest activities develop reading and writing skills in the secondary classroom while promoting student engagement.

Teaching Suspense

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Mrs Rios Teaches: Effective Vocabulary Strategies and Activities

Teaching Vocabulary

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Teaching biographies
biography
Teaching Biographies in a primary classroom (with 2 fun freebies)- lesson and activities ideas for biographies)

Teaching Biography

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First Day of School: Do NOT read the syllabus out loud! I've been there, done that, and it doesn't work! In this post you'll discover six fun back-to-school activities to try instead, so you can confidently engage your students instead of suffering as their eyes glaze over. #backtoschool #firstdayofschool
My English Curriculum: The First 6 Weeks of High School and Middle School English. #middleschoolELA #highschoolEnglish #secondaryELA #backtoschool

Back to School

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Parent Communication

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Learn all about how you can use Interactive Student Notebooks to facilitate close reading!
HoJos Teaching Adventures: Evaluation Time?! No Sweat! Just Strut Your Stuff!
Close reading

Close Reading

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This is a short story unit works well with grades 9-12. Stories included in this unit are: “Thank You M’am" “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” “The Story of an Hour” “The Necklace”
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson Short Story Unit (includes editable files you can customize to suit your needs)

Teaching Short Stories

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Teaching "A Long Walk to Water"

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Teaching critical thinking using fairytales. Add some depth and complexity to your instruction and student learning. Everything you need to introduce and teach the 11 "Thinking Tools" of critical thinking to your students. $
Fun, printable lists of suggestions that may be picked out of a hat, inspiring students to create their own mixed-up fairy tales!
Fairy Tale and Fable Themes - could be used in reading journal and for writing a fairy tale of their own.

Teaching Fairy Tales

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Why You Need to Be Using Centers in Your Middle School Classroom | Teacher Blogger
Learning centers diversify student experience, encourage student voice, leverage available resources, and give teachers built-in opportunities for formative assessment and critical one-on-one conversations.
Middle School Literacy Centers | Scholastic

Learning Centers

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Opinion Writing for Thanksgiving! Two complete lessons, each with carefully chosen facts included for students to analyze, discuss, and use to support their opinion to two engaging focus questions: "Should turkey be Thanksgiving's main dish?" and "What is the most important part of Thanksgiving?" Complete with lesson plans, printables, and extension activities. Gr 3-5 ($)
Thankful for Kindness Thanksgiving Writing Activity| Help students appreciate all acts of kindness - both big and small. Students identify times when others have shown them kindness, how it made them feel, and then give thanks by writing thank you notes. Perfect for building classroom community and for Thanksgiving gifts. | everythingjustso.org
Thanksgiving Parts of Speech Trashketball Game

November Lessons

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Grading student writing - commenting on student writing?! Here is what to say and how to prepare students for receiving feedback.
20 different feedback strategies for English Teachers to work smarter, not harder, providing meaningful feedback to student writers easily and efficiently while promoting student ownership of the writing and revision process.
Make your students responsible for the feedback you give them.

Student Conferences & Feedback

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A great idea to incorporate more non-fiction reading in the classroom.
Upper Elementary Snapshots: 3 - Respond to Text Printables FREE!
MLK nonfiction text features

Teaching Nonfiction

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We're using Interactive Notebooks in my 9th grade English class this year. I'm so excited to share these ideas and student samples with you! Check out this blog post and get inspired to start using ISNs in your ELA class, too!
TONS of pics to interactive notebooks
Weekly Grammar and Language Activities: Common and Proper Nouns

Interactive Notebooks

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NO PREP FINISH THE PICTURE/ FINISH THE DRAWING... by TEACH-O-LOGY RESOURCES | Teachers Pay Teachers
Beginning of the Year Team Building - Your upper elementary 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade classroom students are going to love the first day and week of school with this great resource. You get 35+ pages of great materials. (Year 3, 4, 5, 6, third, fourth, fifth, sixth graders)
high school ELA version of choice board

Early Finisher Work

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