Resource Round-Up: Differentiated Reading Station Activities, ELA Movie Guides, and More!

By

Clif Wallace

This week’s round-up features resources that will help students practice skills using various formats. We’re featuring differentiated reading station activities, ELA movie guides, heat and energy activity bundles, and so much more! Solidify your students’ skill development by taking advantage of these multimodal resources. Half of them are free!

Rhetorical Appeals Handouts and Worksheets for Ethos, Pathos, and Logos by Lindsay Ann Learning	It’s FREE! “These student-friendly informational handouts on rhetorical appeals – ethos, pathos, and logos – with tips for building effective persuasion will help students build a foundation for future rhetorical analysis and argumentative writing and speaking.”
Reading Stations Activity for Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry by Lindsay Ann Learning	“This fun reading activity ‘progressive dinner’ helps students to practice close reading skills in a hands-on and interactive way. Students will be engaged while reading different fiction, nonfiction, and poetry texts or excerpts of your choosing, taking notes, and engaging in small group discussion.”
FREE: Lord of the Flies Movie Guide + Extra Activity – Answer Key Included by Mr Hull’s Movie Guides	It’s FREE! “This free 7-page movie guide includes 23 comprehension questions in chronological order, 3 additional short answer extension questions, and a creativity task for a group of 4.”
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Movie Guide + Activities – Answer Key Inc. by Mr Hull’s Movie Guides	“This 15 page movie guide for ELA includes 3 sets of comprehension questions for differentiation with answers. Also includes creative writing and essay writing as well as a recount task. Great follow on for the book.”
$Special Education Math Assessments (K-8 FREEBIE)$ Special Education Math Assessments (K-8 FREEBIE) by Resources From Rachel	It’s FREE! “This PRE-Assessment will help gather a quick estimate of the average math grade level and abilities of your student (K-8th). This is aligned with Common Core Standards and includes an ANSWER KEY and a teacher data recording/progress monitoring/tracking sheet.”
$Special Education Math Assessments (K-8)$ “Special Education Math Assessments (K-8)” by Resources From Rachel	“These K-8th Math Assessments aligned with Common Core Standards will help you determine the average math grade level and abilities of your student. These assessments are most EFFECTIVE and GREAT for: Teachers/Resource Specialists/Special Education Teachers to use for progress monitoring, baseline data, IEP information, or for incoming students who need to be placed in appropriate grade level math curriculum.”
Building Sentences Word Cards Present Simple Tense – ESL Adults by ESL World Store	It’s FREE! “ESL learners need so much repetition and practice in developing their sentence word order and structure. These interactive sentence word cards will help them achieve this.”
Would You Rather Writing Prompts and Task Cards by ESL World Store	“Fantastic ice breakers or writing activities! Help develop ESL students’ writing skills with these fun Would You Rather.. writing prompts. This set includes over 50 printable writing prompts along with editable blanks so you can include your own prompts if you wish! The file also includes 32 task cards of different prompts that you can also use for speaking activities, group activities, or even writing prompts!”
Analyzing Mood and Tone using Movie Trailer Remixes by Engaging and Effective	It’s FREE! “To add a little humor to your tone and mood lessons, have students analyze three sets of movie trailers; each set contains the original trailer and one professionally created remake. Students complete a graphic organizer which focuses on how music, filters, dialogue, and inclusion/exclusion of scenes all impact tone, mood, and characterization.”
Ultimate Ted Talk Bundle by Engaging and Effective	“This bundle is full of guide sheets for the most engaging and relevant Ted Talks for students. Perfect for Ted Talk Tuesdays, between units, sub plans, or any time you need to shake things up!”
Calculate Speed Worksheet w/REAL World Record Runner Data NGSS MS-PS3-1 by Next Generation Science Source	It’s FREE! “Engaged students are learning students! This resource provides actual world record times and distances for the fastest humans on Earth. Students use this data to practice calculating and graphing speed.”
NGSS Energy & Heat Unit ACTIVITY BUNDLE for Middle School SAVE 30%! by Next Generation Science Source	“Engaging, easy to implement, and standards-based, the wide variety of resources in this bundle add FUN and RIGOR to NGSS heat and energy units!”

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