This fun, interactive 20-question activity will give students practice in identifying sentence fragments. Each question gives immediate feedback on whether your answer was correct or not and fun cyber prizes for correct answers.
In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
The hero's journey is an ancient story pattern that can be found in texts from thousands of years ago or in newly released Hollywood blockbusters. This interactive tool will provide students with background on the hero's journey and give them a chance to explore several of the journey's key elements. Students can use the tool to record examples from a hero's journey they have read or viewed or to plan out a hero's journey of their own.
This resource includes informational paried passage mini-assessment that includes two articles and one accompanying recording, thirteen text-dependent questions (including one optional constructed-response prompt for students), and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS. Articles included are “High Schools Starting Later to Help Sleepy Teens,†by Michelle Trudeau and “High schools will keep starting too early. Here’s why" by Dan Weissman.
This TED video teaches students how modifiers are words, phrases, and clauses that add information about other parts of a sentences which is usually helpful. But when modifiers aren't linked clearly enough to the words they're actually referring to, they can create unintentional ambiguity. Emma Bryce navigates the sticky world of misplaced, dangling and squinting modifiers.
Featuring the India Arie song "I Am Not My Hair," this lesson takes students through the pre-writing, production, and editing phases of an informative essay.
In this reflective essay, Chief Dan George compares his native North American culture with that of white culture. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this essay through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
Worksheets and lessons on the correct use of interjections for various reading levels.
Through multiple lessons, students will explore career choices, set educational goals, and create a media project in which they share information about their chosen career.
Jabberwocky is an epic poem told through nonsense words. The poem relates a father’s quest for his son that involves the slaying of a beast (The Jabberwock). The poem charts the son’s progress from his departure to his successful return. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this poem through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
This autobiographical piece tells what a neat, tidy rule-follower this author was in his youth—except for his yo-yo. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
Students will read information about appositivies and will read sentences in order to rewrite them by adding appositives. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
This resource supports English language development for English language learners. In this activity, students will read information about appositives, and will then rewrite sentences by adding appositives.
Students will read an explanation and example of an adverb clause. Students will then read sentences that contain adverb clauses and will identify them. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will read a brief description of appositives, and will read a passage to locate and write the appositives from the text. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will read nouns and match them with appositive phrases, and then write sentences using the matched noun and appositive phrase. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will read sentences and locate the appositives and nouns they are modifying. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will read sentences and write them by combining them using appositives. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will read sentences and write them to contain appositives. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will read an explanation and examples of complex direct objects. Students will then read sentences and identify the complex direct objects in the sentences. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.