Get every student talking - even the quiet ones.

This zero-prep PowerPoint delivers 40 "pick a side" debates built just for ELA: Book or Movie? Hero with a flaw or Villain with a reason? Oxford comma or chaos? There are no right answers - only defended ones - so every student can jump in, no matter their reading level. Each debate comes a

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Gettin' Gritty With It!

Give your secondary ELA students the same validated 12-item Grit Scale used in Dr. Angela Duckworth's research — beautifully redesigned for the classroom, complete with directions, reverse-scoring made simple, and an interpretation guide that turns the score into a starting point for growth.💪

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Students still savoring summer?

🌞This bundle pairs two fully-designed, print-and-go stations activities — one poetry, one nonfiction — that together give students a complete close reading experience across literary and informational texts. Both are built on the same easy-to-run, 45-minute, four-station structure, so your planning

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Enchanting & Rigorous Nonfiction

🌞Give students rigorous nonfiction practice with a Summer twist. This fully-designed, print-and-go stations activity has students rotate through four original informational passages about Summer, analyzing central idea, text structure, word choice, author's purpose, and argument — then respond

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Summer Poetry Activity

🌞This fully-designed, print-and-go stations activity has students rotate through four published summer poems, analyzing how different writers use imagery, figurative language, tone, and form to capture a single season — then practice the craft themselves. Everything is built for one to two class pe

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NYS Regents 2026 Next Gen ELA Prep Bundle: Teacher Guide, Study Guide, Workbook

Get your students exam-ready for the redesigned New York State English Regents with this complete 3-part prep bundle. Aligned to the June/August 2026 Next Generation ELA exam, it includes everything you need to teach the format, build the skills, and run a full review unit — no prep required.

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This is a valuable time saver!

Keep it on your desktop and choose one of the four exit tickets to attach to the end of your power point presentation. Works well for all subject areas and any lesson.

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Demand their full attention!

Does your class need a text that actually demands their full attention? Kendrick Lamar's lyrics are among the most lyrically sophisticated in contemporary music — layered with allusion, allegory, extended metaphor, and paradox — and this unit treats them exactly the way they deserve: as literat

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Spark thoughtful discussion!

Looking for an unforgettable, dialogue-free animated short that sparks the kind of ELA discussion you can't plan for? This 27-page Comprehensive Film Study Guide for the Goya Award-winning Spanish animated short Alike (Pepe School Land, 2015) gives you everything you need to teach theme, char

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Decor that inspires!

🏁Bring your ELA walls to life with these 20 print-and-go classroom quote signs! Each sign features a famous quote from a well-known author, thinker, or public figure — organized by the four ELA strands: Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking. 📓Designed with a clean, elegant black-and-white serif

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Teach satire with these slides!

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Decor with double duty is more meaningful!

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Preparing for September?

Stations activities offer reading and writing, speaking and listening, and movement! #MsNelsonIsNotMissing #elateacher #tptseller #educationalactivity

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Create community in your classroom from the start!

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Teaching Summer School?

✈️ Research + persuasive writing wrapped in a project they'll actually want to do.

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Perfect for Father's Day!

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Literary analysis students enjoy!

Does your class light up the moment music enters the room? This modular Taylor Swift ELA unit turns that energy into rigorous literary analysis — meeting students where they are while hitting the skills that matter most. Students will close-read lyrics from across Taylor Swift's discography (F

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Character analysis students enjoy!

What does Atticus's playlist look like? What's in Montag's backpack? What text would be on Romeo's phone? What sits on Lady Macbeth's dinner plate? This visual character study packet transforms textual evidence into design choices. Students translate quotes — both direct and ind

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Summer Stations Activities

This bundle pairs two fully-designed, print-and-go stations activities — one poetry, one nonfiction — that together give students a complete close reading experience across literary and informational texts. Both are built on the same easy-to-run, 45-minute, four-station structure, so your planning

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Thank you!

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