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Say hello to a platform dedicated to industrious, yet overtasked teachers like you. Say goodbye to countless hours spent developing relevant and engaging ELA lessons. Whether you are teaching the fundamentals of grammar, creative writing skills, classic literature, or contemporary fiction, you will find thousands of activities and assessments to help you achieve a healthier work-life balance without sacrificing academic rigor.
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement “The Doll’s House” by Katherine Mansfield. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, the public domain text, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: clamber, congeal, flatteringly, ghastly, mutton, paddock, pane, pinafore, scarcely, shun, sneer, solemn, spitefully, sprawl, stout, and titter.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Evaluate general reading comprehension, facilitate vocabulary development, and sharpen critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of activities for teaching the short story “The Imp of the Perverse” by Edgar Allan Poe, piece of horror and psychological fiction that explores the impulse to do wrong for wrong’s sake alone. A plot-based quiz, a close reading analysis worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, the public domain narrative, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will:
Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Determine the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Infer the intended effects of the author’s word choices and narrative techniques
Discern the tone of a given paragraph
Determine the function of a given paragraph
Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop
Apply knowledge of literary devices with emphasis on situational irony
Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence
Write about fiction with clarity, accuracy, and precision
Come to class better prepared to discuss literature
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement the short story “The Imp of the Perverse” by Edgar Allan Poe, a piece of horror and psychological fiction that explores the impulse to do wrong for wrong’s sake alone. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, the public domain text, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: alimentiveness, beckon, circumlocution, commence, deprecate, earnest, engender, fallacy, fetter, forbear, giddy, impel, impetuously, intelligible, irreducible, meritorious, obtrude, pang, paradoxical, perpetually, petulance, principle, prolix, saunter, scarcely, scourge, shudder, sophistry, supererogation, swoon, ulterior, and vex.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Evaluate general reading comprehension and eliminate assessment planning responsibilities with this plot-based quiz covering the short story “The Imp of the Perverse” by Edgar Allan Poe, a piece of horror and psychological fiction that explores the impulse to do wrong for wrong’s sake alone. The assessment may double as a guided reading handout to facilitate engagement with the text. An answer key and copy of the public domain narrative, which is especially fitting for the Halloween season, are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the following:
The principles of phrenology
The narrator’s assessment of phrenology
The narrator’s understanding of perverseness
The location from which the narrator shares his account
The means by which the narrator committed his crime
How the narrator learned of the murder method
The immediate results of the murder
How the narrator’s mind shifts over time
The narrator’s repeated motto
How the public comes to learn of the narrator’s crime
The narrator’s ponderings in the resolution
Help high school students go beyond basic reading comprehension and support the development of critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this close reading worksheet covering the short story “The Imp of the Perverse” by Edgar Allan Poe, a piece of horror and psychological fiction that explores the impulse to do wrong for wrong’s sake alone. An answer key and copy of the public domain narrative, which is especially fitting for the Halloween season, are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with this close reading activity, students will:
Consult reference materials as needed to verify word meanings
Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly
Infer the intended effects of the author’s stylistic choices and narrative techniques
Discern the tone of a given paragraph
Determine the function of a given paragraph
Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop
Apply knowledge of literary devices with emphasis on situational irony
Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence
Write about fiction with clarity, accuracy, and precision
Come to class better prepared to discuss literature
Evaluate general reading comprehension, facilitate vocabulary development, and sharpen critical thinking skills with this bundle of materials for teaching the classic Grimm’s fairy tale “The Twelve Huntsmen.” A plot-based quiz, a close reading worksheet, vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, the short story, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will:
Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly
Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Infer the intended effects of the author’s stylistic choices and narrative techniques
Examine how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop
Apply knowledge of literary devices with emphasis on anthropomorphism, assonance, dramatic irony, foreshadowing, hyperbole, metaphor, sibilance, simile, and situational irony
Consider themes in context
Argue whether the narrative perpetuates stereotypes about women or fights against stereotypes about women
Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence
Write about fiction with clarity, accuracy, and precision
Come to class better prepared to discuss literature
Evaluate general reading comprehension and eliminate assessment planning responsibilities with this plot-based quiz covering the short story “Winter Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The assessment may double as a guided reading worksheet to facilitate active engagement with fiction. An answer key is included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the following:
The setting of the narrative
The duration of time covered in the narrative
The general disposition of the protagonist, Dexter, as a teen
The protagonist’s business endeavor
The speculation concerning the protagonist’s romantic interest, Judy
The nature of the relationship between Dexter and Judy
Dexter’s significant life events as an adult
The resolution
An interpretation of “winter dreams”
And more
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement “Winter Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, the public domain text, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: ajar, apprehension, attune, beckon, denouement, desolate, eccentricity, elation, fleeting, furtively, haughty, incorrigible, interminably, malice, melancholy, mundane, perturbation, petulance, plaintive, poignant, precarious, pugilistic, recede, relinquish, riotous, scarcely, sinuous, smirk, somnolent, squint, surfeit, tarry, and veranda.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 2 of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: benison, brainsickly, consort, entreat, gild, gout, groom, husbandry, incarnadine, infirm, largess, malice, multitudinous, obscure, palpable, posset, repose, stealthy, stern, suborn, summon, thither, thriftless, timely, and woeful.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 1 of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: anon, broil, chastise, cherubin, clamor, compunctious, dun, ere, fantastical, haste, hie, hurlyburly, implore, metaphysical, mettle, pain, pine, prithee, quarrel, quoth, rapt, scarcely, spongy, and swift.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 3 of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: affront, boisterous, chide, contumely, ere, fair, fetters, hasten, incorporal, insolence, massy, orison, pang, pious, rash, reechy, reign, repose, robustious, rub, scourge, stonish, tristful, and wonted.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 5 of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: base, bravery, chapless, charge, cudgel, dearth, effect, felicity, forbear, fordo, gambol, gibe, gorge, infallibly, palpable, prate, profane, skyish, springe, sultry, wander, and wittingly.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Help high school students go beyond basic reading comprehension and support the development of critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this close reading worksheet covering Act 5, scene 2, of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. An answer key is included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. More specifically, students will do the following:
Identify what the text states explicitly as well as implicitly
Utilize dictionaries to ensure knowledge of word meanings
Infer the intended effects of Shakespeare’s word choices and dramatic techniques
Describe tone in context
Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop
Consider themes in context
Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence
Write about Shakespearean drama with clarity, accuracy, and precision
Come to class better prepared to discuss works of Shakespeare
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 4 of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: bough, brainish, cherub, cicatrice, counsel, craven, discord, divulge, dup, glean, greenly, heaves, imminent, importunate, incensed, lard, melodious, needful, ostentation, prologue, remiss, softly, superfluous, and tender.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Help high school students navigate William Shakespeare’s language with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of Othello. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book during unexpected teacher absences. Included are 5 vocabulary application activities, 5 crossword puzzles, 5 word search games, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
A total of 121 words are addressed: abode, affliction, alarum, amorous, anon, balmy, base, beckon, begrimed, beguile, beseech, beshrew, bestow, boast, boon, bound, chide, chuck, clamor, conjunctive, construe, counsel, coxcomb, credulous, cudgel, dames, defunct, designment, direful, discern, discord, dispatch, dote, dull, earnestness, ebb, eminent, encave, enchafed, exhibition, exsufflicate, fain, fair, filch, forbear, forfend, forsooth, frailty, fulsome, galls, gastness, gorge, grievously, gull, haste, heartily, heathenish, hie, hither, humors, hungerly, imminent, imperious, importunity, impudent, insolent, languish, light, lip, malice, mar, mischance, murmur, mutiny, mutter, obscure, odious, oft, pains, penitent, perchance, perdition, peril, perjured, pernicious, plead, pox, prate, prologue, quarrel, quench, rash, rebuke, relish, repent, reproach, reverence, ruminate, sans, saucy, sirrah, slander, slubber, smote, solemn, strumpet, subdue, summon, thrice, timorous, treachery, trifle, unbookish, valiant, vehement, voluble, votarist, wary, wherefore, woo, and yerk.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 1 of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: affable, alarum, beguile, beseech, chide, counsel, countenance, din, dole, dowry, fair, fray, gale, hither, irksome, knavery, largess, noddle, pine, plead, quaff, quench, thrall, and woo.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 4 of William Shakespeare’s Othello. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: abode, affliction, beckon, construe, credulous, dames, dispatch, encave, exhibition, frailty, fulsome, galls, hie, impudent, light, lip, murmur, reproach, slander, strumpet, summon, treachery, unbookish, and votarist.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 5 of William Shakespeare’s Othello. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: amorous, anon, balmy, coxcomb, direful, dull, earnestness, forfend, gastness, grievously, gull, heathenish, mar, mischance, odious, peril, perjured, pernicious, quench, smote, solemn, trifle, and valiant.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 2 of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: bestow, bondmaid, bonny, coxcomb, coy, disdain, dissemble, ducat, fain, flout, gamesome, graybeard, haste, insolence, lusty, madcap, meddle, pate, perpetually, raiment, sullen, tarry, volubility, and wane.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 1 of William Shakespeare’s Othello. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: beguile, beseech, boast, conjunctive, counsel, defunct, forbear, forsooth, haste, hither, imminent, insolent, pains, pox, prate, rebuke, sans, saucy, slubber, subdue, thrice, timorous, wherefore, woo, and yerk.
By engaging with these activities, students will:
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences