These Worksheets with Answer Key are perfect for teaching Reading Comprehension – Free-Verse Poetry - Mother to Son by Langston Hughes. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons. Your students will love these challenging exercises that are well-designed for student engagement. After attempting these activities, your students will be able to: Give/explain the meaning of words in context. Identify/explain how meaning is enhanced through choice of words and phrases. Retrieve and record information/identify key details from the text. Summarise main ideas from the text. Identify how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning. Make comparisons within the text. Predict what might happen from details stated and implied. Evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader. Make inferences from the text/explain and justify inferences with evidence from the text. More Reading Poetry Resources by the same Author: The Song of Hiawatha by W. H. Longfellow Crack-a-Dawn by Brian Morse Views of Winter by Ogden Nash and Emma Barnes The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes The Titanic by Gillian Clarke Geography Lesson by Brian Patten The Giantess by Carol Ann Duffy Mother to Son by Langston Hughes

These Google Slides are perfect for teaching how to write a formal letter. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement. After attempting these activities, your students will be able to: Identify the structure and features of a formal letter. Identify the author’s technique in a formal letter. Plan a formal letter based on the given format. Write the first draft of a formal letter. Peer evaluate a formal letter with constructive feedback. Integrate the peer feedback and write a final draft.

These Scaffolding Notes are perfect for teaching how to write a formal letter. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement. After taking the help of these scaffolders, your students will be able to: Identify the structure and features of a formal letter. Identify the author’s technique in a formal letter. Plan a formal letter based on the given format. Write the first draft of a formal letter. Peer evaluate a formal letter with constructive feedback. Integrate the peer feedback and write a final draft. This download includes: SN 1: Sample Formal Letter SN 2: Structure and Features of a General Formal Letter SN 3: Structure and Features of a Persuasive Formal Letter SN 4: Sample Persuasive Letter SN 5: Author’s Techniques SN 6: Planning Frame SN 7: Sample Plan SN 8: Draft Template SN 9: Draft Prompt SN 10: Checklist and Rubrics SN 11: Rubrics

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Embark on a journey of literary exploration with this resource, “Mastering Literary Devices.” This resource provides a scaffolded approach to guide students through understanding and effectively using comparison devices such as simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and analogy. Aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy and Common Core Standards for Language, it encompasses a range of objectives and success criteria across multiple cognitive domains, ensuring a holistic learning experience. Objectives: This resource aims to achieve various objectives, from recalling and identifying examples of comparison literary devices in provided texts to demonstrating mastery by independently creating original pieces of writing that effectively utilise these devices. Students will comprehend the meaning of comparison devices in different contexts, analyse their impact on the overall meaning and tone of a text, and assess their effectiveness in various literary works.

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