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The 5 Creepest Urban Legends that Happen to be True!
The 5 Creepest Urban Legends that Happen to be True! I got the information for this reading from cracked.com. It�s really interesting reading and has challenging vocabulary. The last page is a chart where students write what they think various underlined words mean and what text made them think that. Then students look up the words to see if the...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 52
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Halloween Readings-- 3 Short Stories and Fun Assessment!
This assignment is one I do every Halloween with my students, and they love it!
There are three short Halloween stories (Bloody Mary, Dancing with the Devil, and The Golden Hand). These stories have elevated vocabulary and are scary without being inappropriate.
Once students have read the stories, they pick the one they liked best and illu...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 48
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Literary Terms Dominoes
This is a set of literary term dominoes which include many types of figurative language. The dominoes have 20 terms on one side and mixed up definitions on the other side.
This game can be played in pairs. Students must match the term to the correct definition.
Some of the terms are: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, setting, c...
Level: advanced
Age: 13-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 40
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Cutter- a scary reading comprehension!
This short story comes with reading comp. questions, short answer questions, and a vocabulary/ context clues activity. It�s recommended for mature readers!
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 30
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Eliza- Murderer- reading comprehension
This is a two page reading comprehension with 4 pages of activities. The first activity page is a graphic organizer, the second is a context clues/ vocabulary chart, the third is a set of short answer questions and the 4th is reading comprehension and literary term questions. The story is for mature readers-- it�s about a woman who fakes her own p...
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 23
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Dancing with the Devil Reading Comprehension
My students really like this story! This is a reading exercise of a Mexican folk-tale called "Dancing with the Devil". The one page story comes with six short answer response questions. At the bottom of each of the questions page is a reminder of how to respond to short answers using citations from the text.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 17
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Literary Terms / Figurative Language Quiz
This is a quiz that tests: alliteration, allusion, hyperbole, genre, personification, symbol, simile, and metaphor.
First, students must match the term with its correct definition. Next, students must match the term with an example of the term.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 17
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Prefix and Suffix Handout and Practice
The first page has two lists. The first list contains common prefixes and their meanings. The second list has common suffixes and their meanings. The next page has an assignment where students find prefixes and suffixes in words and underline them.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 15
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Eight Parts of Speech Handout
This is a basic handout to help students with the eight parts of speech. It includes the word, a basic definition, and a few examples. I use this as a reference handout.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-14
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 10
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Analyzing and Creating Compound and Complex Sentences
Worksheet for students to analyze sentences where they label the clauses as independent or dependent, add the punctuation, and determine the sentence type. Also, an opportunity for students to create sentences from the images.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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Classroom Games & Activities
This is a collection of 15 games/activities to make learning fun in the classroom! Most of these center around grammar and vocabulary development, but you can modify them to whatever you are covering.
I have compiled these from my 4 years of teaching, and my students LOVE them! Some are technolo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-17
Downloads: 73
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Grammar Mistakes in Songs
This is a powerpoint that has different song lyrics that are grammatically incorrect in some way. Have students identify the errors. Some of the errors include: subject verb agreement, double negatives, pronoun antecedent agreement, irregular verb mistakes, etc.
Enjoy!
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 36
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Making Predictions Based on Clues in the Text
This PowerPoint includes three stories taken from a book called, The Worlds Shortest Stories. Each slide gives the students a sentence from a story and then asks them to make predictions based on the text. My high schoolers love this lesson because of the twists at the end of each story!
Level: advanced
Age: 14-17
Downloads: 33
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Common Mistakes in Writing- Correct Word Choice
This PowerPoint teaches students the correct uses for words that are commonly used incorrectly.
Lessons include: there/their/they�re, your/you�re, to/too/two, than/then, its/it�s, buy/by, chose/choose, passed/past, good/well.
After each explanation, there is a mini quiz (3 to 5 questions) t...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-17
Downloads: 8
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