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How to Write a Book Report: What is a Book Report? & Kinds of Book Reports - Google Slides Gr. 5-8 This innovative teaching resource is tailored for educators and homeschoolers catering to students in grades 5-8.
How to Write an Essay: Drafting and Graphic Organizers - Google Slides Gr. 5-8 This unique educational resource is designed especially for teachers looking to empower their students with essential essay writing skills.
How to Write An Essay: What Is an Informative Essay? - FLASH-PC The 'How to Write An Essay: What Is an Informative Essay? - FLASH-PC' resource is the educator's tool that supports effective teaching in a comprehensive manner.
Introduce students to kenning poetry (a compound-metaphor poetic device historically used by Vikings) and have them write their own kenning poems.
Introduce students to narrative poetry as a genre, using video clips, guided discussion, language-device practice, and a full worked example (the poem 'Matilda') plus an independent homework poem.
This is an Introductions to Semi-Colons and Colons. It is an 18-slide PowerPoint that will guide your students through this new skill. The presentation is editable for you to add and remove as you need.
Lesson 1 of a Tempest unit: an analytical close-reading of Act 1 Scene 1 (the opening shipwreck scene), building summary/analysis skills and introducing academic essay-writing technique.
Lesson 10 of a Tempest unit: concludes the analytical reading of the play by examining the meaning and purpose of Prospero's closing epilogue.
Guide KS4 secondary English literature students through an analytical, scene-by-scene reading of Act 1 Scene 2 of Shakespeare's The Tempest, focusing on the relationship between Prospero and his daughter Miranda and his servants Ariel and Caliban, and introducing the play's backstory (Prospero's overthrow, Ariel's imprisonment, Caliban's enslavement).
Guide KS4 secondary English literature students through an analytical reading of Act 2 Scene 1 of Shakespeare's The Tempest, examining the courtiers' differing reactions to being shipwrecked, Gonzalo's utopian 'commonwealth' speech, and the beginning of Antonio and Sebastian's murder plot against Alonso.
Guide KS4 secondary English literature students through an analytical reading of Act 2 Scene 2 of Shakespeare's The Tempest, focusing on the comic introduction of Trinculo and Stephano, Caliban's mistaken worship of Stephano as a god, and the beginnings of the murder plot against Prospero.
Guide KS4 secondary English literature students through an analytical reading of Act 3 Scene 1 of Shakespeare's The Tempest, focusing on the romance between Ferdinand and Miranda, the concept of love at first sight, and Prospero's secret manipulation of their courtship.
Guide KS4 secondary English literature students through an analytical reading of Act 3 Scene 2 of Shakespeare's The Tempest, teaching the literary concept of characterisation through four modern-day mini-scenario tasks and a linked video, then applying it to Caliban, Stephano and Trinculo's drunken plot to murder Prospero.
Guide KS4 secondary English literature students through an analytical reading of Act 3 Scene 3 of Shakespeare's The Tempest, teaching the literary concept of symbolism through several real-world examples before applying it to Prospero's illusory banquet and Ariel's harpy transformation confronting Alonso, Antonio and Sebastian.
Guide KS4 secondary English literature students through an analytical reading of Act 4 Scene 1 of Shakespeare's The Tempest, discussing the concept of slavery via a labeled diagram mapping which characters are enslaved to what (Ariel and Caliban to Prospero; Ferdinand to love; Prospero to isolation; Miranda to innocence, etc.), then applying it to…
Guide KS4 secondary English literature students through an analytical reading of Act 5 Scene 1, the final scene of Shakespeare's The Tempest, teaching a 'Six Paradigms of Human Conflict Resolution' framework (Win/Win, Win/Lose, Lose/Win, Lose/Lose, Win, Win/Win-or-No-Deal) before applying it to Prospero's forgiveness of his enemies, the reunion of Alonso…
How to start your story to grab the reader’s attention by arousing their curiosity so they want to read more, more, more. Each lesson contains a story that illustrates the concept being taught.
Lesson 11: Naming Characters - How to Come up with Great Names - A Zombie Wrote my Narrative Essay with Mr. Butt and Bonefish This teaching aid is an extremely significant resource for educators who cater to middle-grade students.
Product Title: Lesson 12: The Three Howies of Characterization - A Zombie Wrote my Narrative Essay with Mr. Butt and Bonefish This powerful teaching resource, appropriate for fourth , fifth, and sixth graders engaged in Language Arts…
Lesson 13: Revision - The Most Important Step in Writing Great Stories – A Zombie Wrote my Narrative Essay with Mr. Butt and Bonefish This is an engaging and interactive teaching resource tailor-made for grade 4, 5, and 6 students.
Sensory Words: How to write using the five senses to make your narrative come alive for the reader. Each lesson contains a story that illustrates the concept being taught.
Teaches students to distinguish expository from narrative essay prompts (using the 'because' test) and introduces 'explan-a-story writing' - using short personal-experience stories (action-dotes) to connect factual answers to reader emotion in expository essays.
Overview of Lesson 2: Wondrous Whatif In teaching essay writing, one major challenge that educators often face is how to make it engaging and enjoyable for students.
Lesson 3: Adjectives - Choose Just the Right Adjectives to Make Your Story Come to Life - A Zombie Wrote my Narrative Essay with Mr. Butt and Bonefish This teaching tool is skillfully created for students in grades 4 through 6, with a keen…