Teacher Resources
This back to school getting to know you activity will have students using music and their favorite songs to describe themselves to their peers. In this writing activity, students will choose 5 songs that they feel best describe them and add them to their playlist. After choosing their songs, they will be prompted to write a paragraph explaining why they've chosen each song using lyrics as textual evidence. As a teacher, you will get a glimpse of their writing but you will also learn about them as individuals.
Back to school getting to know you activity will have students using music and their favorite songs to describe themselves to their peers. In this writing activity, students will choose 5 songs that they feel best describe them and add them to their playlist. After choosing their songs, they will be prompted to write a paragraph explaining why they've chosen each song using lyrics as textual evidence. As a teacher, you will get a glimpse of their writing but you will also learn about them as individuals.
This resource includes lessons and activities on making inferences. Students will first learn about the inferencing equation and then practice making inferences by looking at photos and reading dialogue in the form of text message conversations. After students have successfully shown that they can combine evidence and background knowledge to make inferences, you can move onto a story of your choice and have them make inferences using either of the two making inferences graphic organizers.
This is a great resource to help your student be engaged in this material free environment. This product has 26 fun and engaging Warm-Up activities to get your students talking, sharing, writing, debating, and working! Most warm-up activities are September or back to school themed and can be used to engage students into sharing, discussing, and even debating. This resource is designed to be shared with students digitally. They will have the ability to complete their warm-up activity right on the slide with clickable textboxes! You just need to choose the slide you want for the day, make a copy of the desired slide, and share it with your students.
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This Rock & Roll themed no prep lesson can be used anytime you want to have students practice identifying literary devices. In this lesson, students will learn about the different types of literary devices and then have an opportunity to practice identifying literary devices in popular rock songs by watching a short Youtube clip. All slides are editable. You can delete the songs I've provided to add your own favorites. This presentation can be posted directly into student's Google Classrooms. On the teacher directions slide, you will find a link to make a copy of the student worksheet. This worksheet can be shared with students digitally or printed as a pdf.