This activity offers a variety of worksheets designed to engage students while helping them thoughtfully plan their goals for the upcoming year. Teachers can tailor the goals to be subject-specific if desired.
What’s included:
Teaching Guide
Pre-Activity Questions
Celebrities Who Set Goals Reading
Vision Board Worksheet
SMART Goals Overview
SMART Goals Worksheet
Step-by-Step Planner Worksheet
In this engaging activity, students write the beginning of a story before crumpling it up, like a snowball, and throwing it to the front of the class. They will then pick up a random snowball and continue the story. It is perfect for a first-week-back activity or to begin a unit of fictional writing.
The resource includes a teaching guide, rules, writing space, and story prompts.
These 10 games are perfect for any classroom to enhance peer camaraderie. They are easy to set up, at most requiring a pencil, page, or blindfold to carry out.
Games included:
Human Knot
Silent Line Up
Question Mingle
Blind Count
Tournament Showdown
Pass the Move
Secret Wink
Blind Navigation
Zip Zap Boing
What Would You Bring to the Island?
Equip your students with essential tools and tips for a smooth transition to middle / secondary school. This is the perfect activity for their first week in middle / secondary school. Students will complete a middle school map, class schedule hacks, inside tips, and locker management activities.
What’s included:
Teaching Guide
Pre-Activity Questions
Instructions
Map Creation Space
Class Schedule Hacks Document and Template
Inside Tips Document
Locker Management Documents
This activity is an ideal first week back activity, specifically for middle schoolers whom you will need to get to know. The poster is designed to give you plenty of information about their likes and preferences, which will help with future lesson planning and to build rapport.
Imagine walking into your classroom and finding Pandora’s Box on display next to Achilles’ winged shoes. Transform your classroom into an interactive museum where ancient Greek legends come to life! Students will create artwork, an artifact replica, and a placard of their chosen mythological figure.
What’s included:
Teaching Guide
Pre-Activity Questions
Greek Mythological Figures List
Exhibit Guide and Examples
Placard Guide and Example
Questioning Guide
Rubric
Invitations
Posters
**What’s included: **
Introduction and worksheets on the following: types of pronouns, pronoun consistency, vague pronouns, and intensive pronouns.
Review quiz
Sample answers
This ready-to-print activity gradually introduces students to nonrestrictive, restrictive, and parenthetical elements, before allowing free practice with speaking and writing activities. This resource comprehensively covers Common Core 6th grade standard L.6.2.A.
What’s included:
Teaching Guide
Definitions
Nonrestrictive Elements Introduction, Examples, and Worksheets
Restrictive Clauses Introduction, Examples, and Worksheets
Parenthetical Elements Introduction, Examples, and Worksheets
Speaking Game
Short Story Writing Activity + Checklist
Answers
This lesson plan is the perfect introduction to denotations and connotations for 6th grade students. Activities gradually increase in complexity to keep them both engaged and challenged.
What’s included:
Teaching Guide
Introduction to Denotations and Connotations
Connotation Spectrum Game
Denotations and Connotations Table
Analyze the Sentence Activity
Answers
This resource includes a variety of activities, such as a mix and match game and a review exam. Root words and affixes have been carefully selected for grade 6 students.
What’s included:
Teaching Guide
Root Words Guide
Root Words Matching Activity
Prefixes Guide
Prefixes Gap Fill
Suffixes Guide
Suffixes Gap Fill
Mix & Match Activity
Exam
Answers
This ‘rewrite the sentences’ lesson works perfectly as an engaging 7th year / 6th grade grammar baseline activity. Students read sentences about their favorite celebrities, marking grammar errors and rewriting the sentences.
What’s included:
Teaching Guide
Common Errors Document
Rewrite the Sentence Activity (9 Celebrity Texts)
Answers
The following grammatical areas are targeted:
Subject-Verb Agreement Errors
Pronoun Usage Errors
Verb Tense Errors
Punctuation Errors
Capitalization Errors
Sentence Fragment Errors
Run-On Sentences
This ready-to-print spelling resource has a variety of different activities to engage students. This includes comprehensive spelling bee resources.
What’s included:
Teaching Guide
Homophones (List of 10 homophones + a fill in the blank worksheet)
Difficult Spelling Words (List of 10 words + a crossword to practice)
Spelling Rule (Document explaining the double consonant rule + a practice worksheet)
Spelling Bee (spelling bee rules/104 words/definitions, part of speech, and word in a sentence document for teacher/winner’s certificate)
Students master 100 7th year / 6th grade-level vocabulary words with this comprehensive resource. Words are taught in blocks of 10 with posters, definitions, quizzes, gap-fill exercises, and word mastery challenges.
What’s included?
Teaching Guide
Vocabulary Posters
Word + Definitions Handouts
Word Wizardry Worksheet
Word Mastery Challenges
Definitions Quizzes
Gap-Fills
Answer Keys
This lesson is designed to cover standard SL.6.2 (Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats…). Students will watch videos, view graphs, and listen to texts on the engaging topic of electric cars. They will complete worksheets, engage in discussions, and complete their own presentation focused on presenting information through different formats.
What’s Included:
Teaching Guide
Worksheets x 2
Video Links
Charts and Graphs
Texts
Topic Ideas
Instructions for ChartGo
Rubric
Students will reimagine classic fairytales with unique twists, practicing valuable narrative writing and public speaking skills. This comprehensive resource includes guides, worksheets, rubrics, games, and 16 classic fairytales!
What’s included:
Teaching Guide
Pre-Activity Games (Collaborative Stories & Impromptu Stories)
Fairytales for Public Speaking Guides x 3
Classic Fairytales x 16
Fairytales with a Twist (Guides, Worksheets, Examples, & Rubrics)
Reflection Questions
Public speaking can be daunting, but this lesson plan will transform students’ nerves into confidence! Break the ice with amusing warm up games, before equipping students with all the skills to master the invaluable skill of public speaking. This resource also fosters empathy and respect between students.
What’s included:
Teaching Guide
Introduction to Public Speaking Document
‘Funny Feelings’ Game
Impromptu Speaking Game
Do’s and Don’ts for Public Speaking
Speech Layout
Speech Ideas
Adding Visuals Document
Canva Presentations Document
Rubric
This lesson plan guides students through the complete debate process from preperation to reflection. There are also other fun activities related to the topic of AI such as a meme creation activity.
What’s included:
Teaching Guide
Pre-activity Questions
Debate Name Tags
Debate Preperation Guide
Debate Sentence Structures
Debate Format
Debate Reflection Worksheet
Post-activity Questions
Memes (students create their own memes online)
Students are sure to have plenty to say on this topic! Creative worksheets get students engaged in the topic before assigning each student a character to research and represent in the debate.
What’s included:
Teaching Guide
Pre-Activity Questions
Eating Habits Survey
School Menu Worksheet
Debate Character Name Tags
Character Research Perparation Worksheet
Debate Sentence Structures
Debate Format
Debate Reflection Survey
Post-Activity Questions
Rubric
Tim Urban’s TED talk is relatable, humorous, and engaging. Our ready-to-print lesson plan is designed to maximize students’ engagement and ensure they fully reflect on tactics to combat their own procrastination.
What’s included:
Teaching Guide
Pre-Activity Worksheet
Claims and Evidence Worksheet
Multiple Choice Comprehension Quiz
Character Map Worksheet
Self-Evaluation Worksheet
Evidence Evaluation Checklist
Answers