Hangouts Template (Editable on Google Slides)
Give students an editable, familiar phone-messaging-app template to write out conversations for a creative writing or comprehension activity.
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Give students an editable, familiar phone-messaging-app template to write out conversations for a creative writing or comprehension activity.
A countdown-themed (10 to 1) end-of-year writing packet giving students a different reflective or creative writing/drawing prompt for each number.
An editable chat-app template (Skype-style) that lets students compose simulated text-message conversations for creative writing, historical roleplay, or novel-character dialogue.
A 90-minute English lesson plan on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby covering themes, characters, symbolism, and the American Dream.
An editable messaging-app mockup template that students use to write out fictional or role-play conversations (e.g. between novel characters, historical figures, or a creative writing scenario).
This resource is a The Lottery by Shirley Jackson - Simulation & Writing Activity. This is a great comprehension activity that will keep students engaged and excited! Students will write a reaction to the story using their feelings and emotions from the simulation. The goal is to use strong word choice and voice. This can be accessed as…
A Google Slides template styled after the Houseparty video-chat app, letting students design and fill in a mock video-chat conversation for a creative-writing or role-play activity.
Autumn-themed 'dot and write' activity pages combining coloring/painting (dotting an image with a q-tip or paint) with a short writing prompt about the picture, for fine motor and creative practice.
A high-school reflective/personal-narrative writing prompt set themed around winter-to-spring seasonal metaphors for growth and resilience, with supporting note-taking sheets and a grading rubric.
Build ESL/EFL reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills using a nonfiction passage about the science and cultural history of the winter solstice.
Provide daily ELA 'bell ringer' warm-up activities for April covering grammar correction, vocabulary usage, descriptive/creative writing, reflection, and poetry analysis.
Post-viewing ESL/EFL comprehension and creative-writing worksheet built around the film "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation", combining basic film-info recall, a vocabulary log, character description, reflection prompts, and a character-diary writing task for English language learners.
A quarter's worth (April, May, June 2025) of daily ELA "bell ringer" warm-up prompts covering grammar, creative writing, vocabulary, and literary/poetry analysis for middle and high school ELA classrooms.
ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing practice built around a nonfiction passage about fall-foliage viewing traditions and destinations around the world, paired with comprehension questions, vocabulary/definition work, true/false reasoning, and personal/travel-diary writing prompts.
Daily short warm-up (bell ringer) activities for high school ELA class time, one per school day in May.
ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet for teen/adult English learners, using a short nonfiction-style article about the Winter Olympic Games to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and essay-writing skills.
Give ESL/EFL students a three-page nonfiction reading passage about Harbin, China (the 'Ice City') - its history, Chinese-Russian cultural mix, and winter festival culture, paired with comprehension, vocabulary, and extended-writing tasks to build English reading and writing skills.
Give ESL/EFL students a three-page nonfiction reading passage about Hokkaido, Japan - its geography, Ainu heritage, and winter culture including the Sapporo Winter Festival, paired with comprehension, vocabulary, and extended-writing tasks to build English reading and writing skills.
Fall/autumn-themed creative writing prompts for high school ELA, paired with note-taking sheets.
Winter-themed high school ELA writing prompts focused on argumentation, rhetorical analysis, and literary synthesis, paired with note-taking sheets.
A month's worth of daily ELA "bell ringer" warm-up writing prompts for February 2025, for middle and high school ELA classrooms.
Thirty numbered bell-ringer prompts ask high school students to reflect on academic growth, choices and learning strategies. Fifteen themes recur across the set, including goals, collaboration, resilience and adaptability. Later prompts revisit those themes with shorter questions. The instructions suggest 5–7 minutes and complete sentences, with evidence or examples when required. The download supplies an editable 34-slide PowerPoint and a matching 34-page PDF. Use selected prompts or schedule all 30 across the final weeks of school.
Awakening Creativity in the English – Language Arts Classroom Part 2 is a teaching resource for educators to ignite creative thinking during English and Language Arts lessons.
High-school-level St. Patrick's Day themed research/writing resource pairing 20 analytical writing prompts about the history, cultural significance, and modern observance of the holiday with 20 accompanying note-taking sheets.