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Reading Bookmarks: DURING Reading Tools for Secondary ELA

By Secondary Sara

Want to scaffold students into doing more critical thinking DURING reading? Want them to take notes without ruining the joy of the book? Want to annotate, but can’t mark in a class set of novels? Or, just as importantly: do your students have

Subjects:

Vocabulary, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

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Literary Analysis Essay: Build a "Case File" of Text Evidence for ANY Novel!

By Secondary Sara

NOW INCLUDES GOOGLE: Are you looking for a new, engaging way to teach literary analysis? Call the claim/thesis a "conspiracy theory", and tell students that they have to "prove" it!Ideal for students who are new or intermediate with lit analysis,

Subjects:

Literature, Writing, Reading Strategies

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Projects, Rubrics

CCSS:

RL.6.1, RL.7.1, RL.8.1, RL.9-10.1

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Quote Analysis & Poster Project: Showing Meaning in Literature

By Secondary Sara

Want to spice up your quote analysis instruction, or simply get your students to appreciate beautiful moments in literature? Use this short two-part assignment to help students to analyze famous, memorable, or just plain pretty quotes from a short

Subjects:

Literature, Short Stories, Writing

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities

CCSS:

RL.6.5, RL.7.4, RL.8.3, RL.9-10.4

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The Giver Unit: 4+ Weeks of Literature, Nonfiction, Writing, & Speaking

By Secondary Sara

Teach The Giver with a critical thinking unit full of literary devices, collaborative discussions, several genres of writing, real-world connections, and visible learning!The EDITABLE unit you see here was perfected over six years of teaching it to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Unit Plans, Assessment

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Independent Reading Program: "Book of the Month" (Grades 6-8) DISTANCE LEARNING

By Secondary Sara

Ready to add more independent reading to your middle school classroom? Want to try reader’s workshop? Hoping to bring in more fiction that’s differentiated to student interests? Track genres and progress without expensive programs, points, or book

Subjects:

Reading, Literature

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Handouts, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.6.10, RL.7.10, RL.8.10

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The Little Mermaid: Compare/Contrast Movie & Reading Unit (Middle School)

By Secondary Sara

Need a quick, engaging way to fulfill the standard of watching a text’s film version? Struggling to find a movie version to which parents won’t object? The original story by Hans Christian Andersen is a complex text that is NOT just for elementary

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing-Essays

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment

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The Outsiders: Chapter Quizzes

By Secondary Sara

Need a quick assessment of literal and critical comprehension of The Outsiders? Use this set of four quizzes to get a snapshot of your students’ understandings of the novel!Each two-page quiz has a combination of question types that will help you

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Assessment

CCSS:

RL.6.10, RL.7.10, RL.8.10, RL.9-10.10

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Task Card Activity for Literature: Apply to ANY Novel or Short Story!

By Secondary Sara

Need a flexible way to assess a fictional text? Want to try task cards, stations, and small group collaboration? (Want something OTHER than a quiz to assess understanding?)Try this set of task cards to put some variety in your assessment of literary

Subjects:

Reading, Literature

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Task Cards

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Book Talks: Student-Led Presentation Project for ELA

By Secondary Sara

Want students to be accountable for book talks? Build a reading community, increase word-of-mouth book recommendations, and practice speaking skills with this project! Use this project to: • Start your independent reading program, or give it a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Projects, Activities

$2.99

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Close Reading Treasure Hunt: 4-Day Annotation Crash Course for ANY Text!

By Secondary Sara

Close reading and annotating are “like” hunting for buried treasure: you have to find the good stuff hidden beneath the surface! Teach deeper reading with this lesson sequence to introduce active vs. passive reading and how to annotate a literary

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment

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The Giver: Socratic Seminar & Discussions about the Novel

By Secondary Sara

Jump-start your unit (or revive the middle/end of it) with these discussion activities, designed to get kids moving and talking!Some of the questions are thematically related, general-level ones that are easy for kids to relate to. Others are

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities

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Reading Response Menus: Differentiated Prompts for ANY Novel!

By Secondary Sara

Need a higher-level or differentiated set of tasks for readers AFTER they have finished a choice OR whole-class novel? Grab this set of 24 tiered prompts and a user-friendly rubric to fairly assign and assess reading, asking students to prove that

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Activities

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The Giver: Writing Memory Narratives to Jonas

By Secondary Sara

Use The Giver as a mentor text for creative writing – help students write beautiful narratives “transmitting” memories to each other (or to Jonas)!In this assignment, students can EITHER write a deleted scene from The Giver (transmitting a new

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment

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FREE Reading Quote of the Week Collection

By Secondary Sara

Inspire your readers with fresh "food for thought" on why reading is important and enjoyable. This collection of 40 reading quotes gives you one quote per week in the school year, with a few to spare! The quotes are mostly general thoughts on

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Bulletin Board Ideas, Posters

FREE

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The Giver: Editable Chapter Quizzes for Reading Comprehension

By Secondary Sara

Want to ensure that students read AND understood the novel? Use this 3-pack of chapter quizzes to check for literal and deeper understanding of the text. EACH quiz includes…• Rubric for easy grading• 7 multiple-choice questions• 2 passage-based

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Assessment

$3.99

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The Giver: Background Research Collaborative Mini-Project

By Secondary Sara

Looking for a collaborative way to jumpstart your unit, frontload background knowledge, or just lessen how much time YOU spend talking? Put the responsibility on STUDENTS so they can play the role of teacher to each other!This 24-hour unit uses

Subjects:

Reading, Literature, Writing

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Research, Projects, Activities

CCSS:

W.5.6, W.5.7, W.6.6, W.6.7, W.7.6, W.7.7, W.8.6, W.8.7, W.9-10.6, W.9-10.7

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Reading Mysteries: Choice Independent Reading Mini-Project

By Secondary Sara

Ready to help your students uncover the mystery genre in a differentiated way? Use this set of 3 short activities to fairly assess choice reading. This assignment, meant to assess student comprehension during and after reading, will help students

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities

CCSS:

RL.6.1, RL.6.10, RL.7.1, RL.7.10, RL.8.1, RL.8.10

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FREE The Giver Non-Fiction Reading Activity

By Secondary Sara

Need to add non-fiction into a unit on The Giver? Want to pull in cross-curricular non-fiction to show utopias (or are they dystopias?) in our modern world? Use this FREE 2-day lesson connecting literature and modern articles to assess CCSS RI.1

Subjects:

Literature, Informational Text

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

RI.6.1, RI.6.2, RI.7.1, RI.7.2, RI.8.1, RI.8.2, RI.9-10.1, RI.9-10.2

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

6 years of teaching 7th & 8th grade ELA, and 8 years of high school tutoring experience. I'm also a National Writing Project consultant and writing team coach. I'm constantly involved with both the middle and high school "worlds", and I love all of these grade levels and their quirks!

MY TEACHING STYLE

I teach with a lot of technology and student-centered projects! I flip my ELA curriculum when I can, and create units in which students drive their own learning. Student motivation is very important to me, and we spend time in class talking about why the lesson matters to their futures.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

National Writing Project Teacher Consultant; Conference presenter; Kappa Phi Kappa Award 2010

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Bachelor's degree with honors in English Pre-Education, with minors in Professional Writing and Music. Master's degree in Integrated English Language Arts 7-12. Both degrees are from THE Ohio State University!

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Check out my blog at secondarysara.com! You can also interact with me on Facebook and Pinterest.

GRADES

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool, Not Grade Specific

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Social Studies, World Languages, Latin, Other (Specialty), ELA Test Prep, Other (Social Studies), Other (ELA), Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, School Counseling, Study Skills, Short Stories, Writing, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Halloween, Winter, The New Year, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, St. Patrick's Day, Spring, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, Test Preparation, End of Year, Classroom Community