Engage your students and practice core ELA skills with these engaging, relevant tasks!
What is an Essential?
Essentials are short activities linked to basic reading, writing or language skills. In these activities, students practice these basic skills in authentic situations that feature topics they know and love. We include final questions that help students develop critical thinking skills.
Each Essential also includes a complete teacher guide, answer key and rubric.
In Story Submissions, students use their favorite or home state to practice editing and revising writing. They edit a given story and add details to strengthen the writing before revising in their own draft. When they finish, they can repeat the activity using a different state.
50 different editions or versions of this Essential are included for each state, so students can work with the state they are most interested in, an appropriate state can be chosen to match the interests of the class, or the editions can be used at classroom stations. Each edition requires students to work with different information linked to their selected edition.
The full list of editions included is:
* New Hampshire
* New Jersey
* New Mexico
* New York
* North Carolina
* North Dakota
* Rhode Island
* South Carolina
* South Dakota
* West Virginia
NOTE: Get in touch if you would like to see other places covered by this Essential.
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