English Language Arts: An Epic ELA Secondary Giveaway!

It's the last week of January and I can't think of a better way to chase away winter blues and blahs than with an Epic ELA Giveaway!

I'm super-excited to join up with Mary Beth from Brain Waves Instruction and Jackie from Room 213 for their amazing giveaway featuring top-notch resources from 17 Secondary ELA TpT sellers!

One lucky ELA Teacher will receive a collection of non-text-specific resources including lessons and activities for reading, writing, research, poetry, speech-writing, media literary, and more!

Check out the Winner's Prize Package here:

Room 213:  Close Reading Lessons 

Brain Waves Instruction:  Substitute Teacher Toolkit  

Study All Knight: A Flip Book for the Research Process

The Classroom Sparrow: A Speech Writing Mini-Book

Julie Faulkner: Graphic Organizers for Focused Reading

The Daring English Teacher: Editable English Tests

Presto Plans: Grammar Resource Bundle

The Language Arts Classroom: Write a Tabloid for a Mobile Device

The OCBeach Teacher: Reading Strategies for any Text

Stacey Lloyd: Figurative Language Posters

Brynn Allison: Poetry Constructed Responses

Literary Sherri: Reading Response Journal for any Text

The ELA Buffet: Poetry Close Reading

Tracee Orman: Figurative Language Interactive Reading Notebook

Addie Williams: Media Literacy and Advertising Pack

Juggling ELA: Journal Prompts Task Cards

Secondary Sara: Movie v Text Bundle

The best part of this epic giveaway?!? You get up to 50 chances to win! Just follow each seller on TpT, Facebook, and her blog. Every click gives you a chance to win the amazing bundle of prizes!
The winner (AKA "Luckiest ELA Teacher on Earth!") will be announced on Sunday, February 7th at 5pm EST. Follow a few fabulous Secondary Teacher-Authors here . . . and best of luck!

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Language Arts Resource: Meaningful Prompts for Struggling Readers

Don't miss this blog post for effective tips and strategies to help struggling readers, including setting up a classroom environment in which students don't blurt out challenging words when a reader pauses!

 

 

 

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Language Arts Resource: 180 Review Games and Brain Breaks

Don't miss this blog post about a fun resource I'm bringing out of the deep freeze to help you bring some sizzle into your classroom this January!

 

 

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Language Arts Lesson: Winter Poetry (Interactive)

Warm up your winter with interactive poetry! Students analyze 12 winter poems, then write their own ode to winter in this engaging lesson!

A variety of poems on several reading levels allows you to customize this activity to fit your students’ needs! Students can analyze poems on their individual reading levels, or you can start with simpler poems and progress to more challenging poems! You also have enough poems to start this activity as a whole class, then transition to small groups, pairs, and finally individual work.

This interactive resource can be integrated in Interactive Notebooks (sized to fit composition books!), used as an Interactive File Folder activity, or used as a stand-alone activity!

This resource contains:
-The full text of the following poems . . .
“Funky Snowman” (Calef Brown)
“The Cardinal” (James Hayford)
“Talking in Their Sleep” (Edith Thomas)
“Along the Hard Crust . . .” (Anna Akhmatova)
“Dust of Snow” (Robert Frost)
“January” (John Updike)
“The Sky is Low, the Clouds are Mean” (Emily Dickenson)
“Spellbound” (Emily Jane Bronte)
“The Winter Wind” (Louisa Lawson)
“Winter Time” (Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Winter Song” (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
“Winter Trees” (William Carlos Williams)

- Analysis activities for each poem

-3 additional analysis activities to use with any poem

-Poetry writing assignment with grading rubric

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Happy Winter!
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Language Arts Resource - Valentine Writing Prompts

This Valentine's Day, help your students fall in love with writing with these 14 Valentine Writing Prompt Task Cards containing 28 writing prompts based on historical facts about the origins of Valentine's Day and fun Valentine trivia! Sweet!

The 28 prompts on these Writing Task Cards commemorate and celebrate all things Valentine's! Use 1 card a day for the first two weeks of February, or use all 14 cards on February 14 . . . versatility and flexibility is built in!

Click here for a free sample from this resource!

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Writing Prompts help students become fluent, organized, confident and skilled thinkers and writers! Use these Valentine's Day Writing Task Cards as Warm-Up Work, Bell Ringers, Class Enders, or for Writer’s Workshop . . . or leave as a lifesaver for Substitute Teachers!

All cards are provided in full color and black-and-white.

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