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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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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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Figurative Language Drawing
This is an assignment that has students create and draw their own figurative language examples. Simile, Metaphor, Personification, and Hyperbole.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 0
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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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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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Context Clues - Vocabulary Chart/ Graphic Organizer
This chart/graphic organizer can work with ANY text. Pair it with your favorite story, article, or any class novel. It�s completely editable. The teacher can choose up to 11 words (per chart) from the text of their choice to have students practice their context clue skills. Students will write down: what they think the word means, and the text ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 3-17
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 2
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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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Paragraph Organization Practice
Students will cut out the eight sentences at the top of the page. Next, they will paste them in the correct order on the lines at the bottom of the page. Finally, the students will explain in the box how each sentence connects to the previous sentence and why they put them in the order that they did.
Students enjoy this activity because they ...
Level: advanced
Age: 13-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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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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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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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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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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