Halloween Word Wall Vocabulary Words. 48 word wall words for the Halloween holiday and a blank template you can use to add your own. Decorated with pumpkins, a tombstone, and a black cat. Print out on cardstock and laminate for durability. You can place in a writing center, or use as flash cards, too. 2 per page. Editable for your own classroom use. - HappyEdugator

ABC PowerPoint Project for Any Novel. This is a final project that will work with any novel. Promotes higher level thinking, creativity, and helps students incorporate technology. During reading and after reading a novel, students can work to create a PowerPoint presentation using the letters of the alphabet to summarize. Pass out the student handout and explain that they are to make 20 slides using letters from the alphabet that describe different parts of the plot. Each slide has five points each for a total of 100 points. The handout is a checklist they can use to monitor their grade. Great to use with gifted students as well. - HappyEdugator

Writing - Effective Expression in Writing PowerPoint. Practice Revising! Test prep! Effective expression in writing helps students understand the main characteristics of effective writing: being consistent, expressing ideas logically, being clear and precise, and following conventions. Students must revise sentences that have specific problems (such as subject-verb agreement, pronoun shifts, fragments...), then check to see if they were right. Animated effects make this a useful interactive tool. Show them the poorly written sentence, let them see if they can figure out what is wrong and fix it, then show them the correction. 20 animated slides with graphics. Notes for the teacher included. Helps prepare for state tests! - HappyEdugator

Valentine Paper - Valentine Heart Theme. Valentine hearts border lined paper for young at heart writers. Students can write stories and poems on this paper that is great for Valentine's Day. 4 different styles. - HappyEdugator

Position Paper and Rubric. Writing an argument! A writing assignment that defines a position paper and its purpose, possible topics, an outline, and a rubric based on research, format, and requirements. Students must choose a controversial topic and present their argument for their opinion about it. They must research their topic to establish credibility, and provide at least three citations in either MLA or APA format. (You can designate which one, or let them choose.) Aligned to Common Core Standards for ELA Writing. Supports Common Core ELA Writing Standard Grade 7: English Language Arts Standards >> Writing >> Grade 7 Text Types and Purposes: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. Introduce claim(s), acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically. Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text. Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), reasons, and evidence. Establish and maintain a formal style. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.

Confusing Parts of Speech Worksheet. Teaching parts of speech? Students often have trouble identifying the parts of speech. They often confuse possessive nouns and contractions, adverbs and adjectives, prepositions and prepositional phrases, and correlative and coordinating conjunctions. On this sheet, students have to practice with possessive nouns and contractions, adjectives and adverbs, prepositions, and coordinating and correlative conjunctions. -HappyEdugator

A standards based rubric for a character analysis. At the highest level of performance, student must be able to make an in-depth character analysis. He/she used textual evidence to made several statements about character traits, motivations, and emotions that were only vaguely alluded to in the text. He/she also made several general statements about character traits, motivation, and emotions and supported these statements with specific evidence from the text. - HappyEdugator

Clauses - Identifying Clauses Worksheet or Quiz. After reading passage, students will write the letter of the term that correctly identifies the underlined group of words in each sentence. Students will have to be able to differentiate between adjective clauses and adverb clauses, independent clauses, simple sentences, compound sentences and complex sentences. Ten multiple choice questions. This can be used as a practice sheet or as a quiz. Key included.

Children's Book Writing Project - Immigrants. Writing and research project. Students write a children's book about American immigrants. Students must use imagination and research to create a historical fiction book for children. Includes handout, grading rubric and research links. Enjoy. - HappyEdugator

Writing - Writing for the Real World PowerPoint. Writing PowerPoint can be used one slide at a time to engage students in meaningful writing experiences. Ten different real world writing activities students can use to write in their journals, source books, or writing folders. Each slide is a different writing prompt about a real world writing situation, and each writing prompt comes with a word list to help students develop vocabulary and spelling. Students should use five words from each list in their writing assignment. These ten writing activities can be done daily over the course of two weeks, or you can spread them out over a longer period of time.

Irregular Verbs Common in English PowerPoint. 41 slide presentation on the most common irregular verbs in English. Each slide gives the infinitive form of the verb and a short definition, and an example of the past tense and past participle forms of the verbs in a sentence. The slides have fun graphics, sounds, and animations. This is useful for English Language Learners as well as for regular students who want to brush up for standardized tests. Note that thumbnails do not come out accurately- free preview is available. - Happyedugator

Lions - Fun Facts About Lions PowerPoint. Learn about lions! 18 slides of fun facts about lions, which can be used to introduce a animal theme unit of study. Informational text for reading practice. Lots of animated graphics. Learn the differences between African lions and Asian lions. What do lions eat? Where do lions live? Fun for March, which comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. Engage students and grab their attention, or build background knowledge for reading books with lions, like Born Free (nonfiction), Lion Boy (fiction), or The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (fiction).

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction short story that is rich in figurative language and theme. This PowerPoint with animated graphics introduces three common types of figurative language- similes, metaphors, personification- in before reading activities. Then, during reading, students can look for these types of figurative language and write them down in the chart shown on the screen. (Also available separately as a printable) After reading activities include discussion questions and writing activities. The last slide has links to the online video, and students can make a Venn diagram to compare the movie to the short story

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Test on Strunk and White -The Elements of Style. This test has students apply the principles of writing English as discussed in The Elements of Style by Strunk and White, the classic writing manual used in high school and college English classes for years. The contents of the book is on Bartlby's website as well. This test has students punctuate sentences, correct errors in usage in sentences, make sentences more interesting by revising, eliminate wordiness by revising, and identify words and phrases that are generally considered not good usage.

Commonly Confused Words TEST. Good spelling help and standardized test prep. Fifty questions of commonly confused words that are often seen on state tests. Includes common homophones like there, they're and their; usage errors such as its, and it's and should have vs. should of; as well as words such as sit and set and lie and lay. Should really make them think. - HappyEdugator

Business Letter Writing. How to Write a Business Letter Handout. This technical writing handout is a handy guide on how to write a business letter. Shows how a business letter is formatted, and the six main parts of a business letter: heading, inside address, salutation, body, closing, signature. Includes a blank template, a handout on writing strategies, a persuasive map, and rubric.

Valentine's Day Writing Fun! Ten creative writing prompts to help students write from the heart notes for Valentine's Day! Enjoy! - HappyEdugator

Verb Suffixes Vocabulary and Spelling Worksheet. This worksheet has a 21 word spelling and vocabulary list with words that all end in either -ize, -ise, or -yze. Four different practice sets to use with the words. - HappyEdugator

Nursery Rhymes - Poetry You Should Know PowerPoint. 25 nursery rhymes from Mother Goose to teach students of all ages who may not be familiar with them. Promotes cultural literacy. This can be a great introduction to a poetry unit, and students can research some of the history and meanings of the old rhymes. Some of the poems had religious and other historical meanings. The slides have illustrations, and some of the rhymes have tunes associated with the slides. I have read aloud some of the rhymes. Younger students will enjoy the rhymes, and this projected on your whiteboard can supplement your nursery rhyme unit. Also use with older students to teach alliteration, repetition, and other sound devices and figurative language used in poetry. Updated July 2015. Includes the following rhymes: Baa Baa Black Sheep Banbury Cross Diddle Diddle Dumpling Georgy Porgy Hey Diddle Diddle Humpty Dumpty Jack and Jill Jack Sprat Little Boy Blue Little Bo Peep Little Polly Flinders Mary Mary Quite Contrary One Misty Moisty Morning Polly Put the Kettle On Pussy-Cat and the Queen Rain Rain Rock-a-bye Baby Simple Simon Sing a Song of Sixpence Solomon Grundy Three Blind Mice To Market To Market Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee Wee Willie Winkie

Golf Vocabulary and Quiz. Learn golf vocabulary! Includes a handout for basic vocabulary for the game of golf, like birdie, bogey, eagle, etc., and a short matching quiz over the basic terms. Useful in as a summer golf camp activity or in physical education. Also great for building background knowledge for reading selections that involve the game of golf or when reading biographies of famous players of the game. Key is included. Enjoy! - HappyEdugator