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Free middle school short stories internet activities
Reader’s Theater Script Legend of the Sunflower Greek Mythology Folktale
Looking for an adaptation of a Greek myth? Low prep and ready to go! The Legend of the Sunflower is a dramatization of a Greek myth, a short story, with roles for 10 students and suitable for any one studying mythology in a Drama, Language Arts, Social Studies or reading classes. Students strengthen their reading (fluency), speaking (diction) and listening skills (restating) while learning to work cooperatively. This product was created specifically for the classroom. The story: The ancien
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5th - 7th
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Boom Cards | ESL Short Stories 1 + Questions | Reading + Listening Comprehension
This English Language Learner Boom Card deck is perfect for ESL / ELL / ESOL learners in all classrooms. This comprehensible input story features early, common English words: this is, animal, person, is called, there is, says, is not, and I am alongside many cognates. This story is accompanied by 6 task / question cards for reading comprehension practice. Task cards include: multiple choice, matching, cognate recognition, meaning association. As an added bonus, this deck includes listening comp
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1st - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: ESL / ELL Short Reading + Boom Cards Bundle | Level: Beginner Newcomer
Short Films FREE LITERARY ELEMENT DEVICES & TECHNIQUES GUIDE
Using shorts or other animated short films to teach literary elements and literary device is hands down the most engaging and effective practice in the ELA classroom! Students absolutely love learning with them! But, it takes forever to sort through thousands of films and figure out which literary elements correlate. This guide lets you bypass all of that and go straight to teaching! ❤ Personal Note: I have viewed and analyzed hundreds of animated short films (I'm kind of obsessed), choosing on
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4th - 8th
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Short Films For The Birds FREE Literary Devices Elements & Techniques Activities
FREE PIXAR SHORT FILM DIALOGUE AND CHARACTER ACTIVITY that students will actually WANT to do! This digital GOOGLE SLIDES resource allows students create 5 dialogue scenes for the bickering birds in the film and an activity to analyze how the dialogue shapes the characters. The TEACH slide explains how writers use dialogue to develop characters, and reminds them to use quotation marks when writing dialogue. This is a simple, stress-free way for students to learn dialogue in a way they will neve
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4th - 7th
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Read Aloud Activities - 45 Picture Book Activities
Read Aloud Activities - 45 picture book activities using free read along activity videos!Play the read along videos to use picture books to teach inference, characterization, theme, conflict, plot, sequence, summary, main idea and every common core skill for reading literature and informational texts! NO PREP PICTURE BOOK LESSON PLAN IDEASInstruct students (of ANY age) to watch the picture book video(s), and write a paragraph analyzing one or more of the following common core reading skills: Inf
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education
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Digital Escape Room 360 FREE For Short Films and Short Stories
Want to try a 360 digital escape room with your students, but would like see how one works before purchasing? Or, maybe you would just like to check out the quality of DiGiGoods Resources? Grab this free one I created for you to explore for FREE! You can wander virtually and click links to make sure this digital experience is compatible with your tech specs and suitable for your students’ needs. 360 Escape Rooms are a blast! Students become fully immersed in the audio and visual spectacles, cl
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5th - 8th
Also included in: 360 Digital Escape Room Bundle Christmas Valentines Day The Landlady
Short Films Workshops Virtual Tour Guide Literary Devices Elements & Techniques
Guide For Teachers: Quickly figure out which Pixar short films pair with the standards you are ready to teach, without sorting through hundreds of films and scrambling to find related materials!This virtual tour can be used as reference guide and a library of workshops so that you can pluck a NO PREP workshop on the spot and teach immediately! INCLUDED FOR EACH WORKSHOPCCSS Alignment guideHand-picked selection of the best short films for teaching literary elementsSummary for each film along with
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4th - 8th
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February LITERARY DEVICES ELEMENTS Activities Worksheets Graphic Organizer
FREE FEBRUARY LITERARY ELEMENTS REVIEW! Review theme, plot, conflict, character traits, and setting. This resource includes:❤ LITERARY TERMS HANDOUT (with descriptions and examples)❤ LITERARY TERMS IN ACTION ACTIVITY❤ LITERARY TERMS QUIZ (with answer key)SHORT FILM WORKSHOP: BEAR WITH ME CLICK HERECHECK OUT THE FULL FEBRUARY BUNDLE! CLICK HERE❤ Pixar Short Workshop BEAR WITH ME❤ February Bell Ringers / Do Nows❤ February Weekly Writing Prompts❤ Figurative Language Workshop❤ 360 Digital Escape Roo
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5th - 8th
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Spooky Urban Legends
Looking for a fun Halloween reading activity or working on myths and legends? Welcome to my haunted library. This digital resource has 3 legends appropriate for middle school students. Each slide includes the digital copy of the legend as well as a video retelling exploring the stories origin.
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7th - 12th
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Short Story Analysis Template for ANY Story
Build independence with these short story analysis worksheets (printable and digital) that students can use to kickstart their thinking about any short story.This resource includes printable PDF worksheets as well as two different digital versions - a fillable PDF form and a PowerPoint with fillable text boxes, which can also be uploaded to your Google Drive for use in Google Slides.The resource prompts students to identify and analyse a range of aspects of any short story:Important contextTheme
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6th - 10th
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Western Creative Writing Prompt
100% digital. Suitable for distance learning! Get your cowboy hat and get ready to inspire your students with this immersive Western writing prompt! The ultimate creative writing starter, this tool will supply students with a rodeo of corrupt Sheriffs, jaded cowboys, shootouts and wild west action that will make their writing explode onto the page like dynamite! EARLY BIRD - the first 100 downloads of this resource are FREE - please give me good feedback!If you're sick of hearing students say: "
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4th - 12th
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Feelings Processing: A Short, Educational Story & River Metaphor
This resource is a fun, developmentally appropriate way of teaching kids how to process their feelings. Processing emotions is about learning to understand, make sense of and deal with emotions in healthy productive ways. On the surface, processing emotions seems pretty easy. However, this facile facade might trick you! It is hard for grown-up people to confront their emotions, let alone for children. Learning to handle feelings, especially powerful ones such as anger, fear, grief, etc. can prov
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PreK - 8th
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The Hero's Journey - Short Story High School Complete Lesson
This resource can be used with middle/high school students. The resources addresses the Hero's Journey in an interactive and engaging manner. There is a mix between auditory, visual and kinaesthetic activities, to support differentiation.The lesson utilises content relevant to 21st century learners, to support their learning of the Hero's Journey. Credit has been given to resources that are not originally crafted by me.
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7th - 11th
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The History of the Headless Horseman - Halloween Sleepy Hollow & Sir Gawain
NO/MINIMAL PREP. A gallery walk through the history of the Headless Horseman as he has existed in various times and cultures. Begins with Sir Gawain, visits two more folklores, and ends with Sleepy Hollow. Can be used as self-paced/guided/or teacher-led instruction. Includes the following:- Attractive Slides- Discussion Questions & Extension Activity- Link to Sir Gawain & Green Knight Video- Links to Hans Jagenteufel & El Muerto folklores (short read & longer read)- Links to
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7th - 10th
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Author's Purpose - Reading Center (Playable at RoomRecess.com)
Students play against each other or the computer, trying to determine whether the short passage is entertaining, informative, or persuasive. Great for comprehension and point of view skill work.CLICK HERE TO PLAY!
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3rd - 6th
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Castle & Creatures, The Fortress: Reading Comprehension B1 BOOM Cards FREEBIE
Castles and Creatures follows the adventures of Sally, a young girl who finds a mysterious key one day that takes her on a path full of adventure, discovery, and a little bit of danger! Read on to discover the exciting fantasy world Sally inhabits! Castles & Creatures focuses on older primary and early secondary readers who need work practising their reading and writing skills. Kids will need to practice their reading comprehension skills to answer thought-provoking questions as they follow
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3rd - 7th
Plot Diagram Review and Practice Worksheet -Editable
This editable worksheet is perfect to use with any fictional text to review the five parts of plot. It has a labeled plot diagram, a short review of each part, and text boxes for students to type in to complete a plot diagram on the text of your choice!
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5th - 8th
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"A Tale of Quiet" Figurative Language
This is a great read aloud with activities on each slide and comprehension questions at the end. This can be used as a figurative language review or introduction.
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5th - 8th
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Digital Storytelling with Storybird
Storybird is a free Web 2.0 application that allows students to unleash their creativity with digital storytelling. Storybird contains beautiful artwork for students to use and the youngest students could easily manuever through Storybird's pages and create wonderful stories. It is easy for teachers to register and create classes with assignments. Teachers have the capability of emailing the story links to parents. There is also a discussion thread.Teachers do have some prep work in adding stude
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PreK - 12th
Edgar Allan Poe Handout for Online Activity/Research
This is a great prereading activity for any work by Edgar Allan Poe. This handout was created to correspond with a website that delves into the background of the famous author. The handout provides clear instructions for students to access the website and answer questions about Poe's biography, writing topics, and works. In addition to learning about Poe's personal life, students will also be exposed to excerpts and a brief synopsis from several of his works. This activity is designed to be comp
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6th - 12th
Curious George Dinosaur Discovery: QR code + Listening Center Response Sheets
Curious George Dinosaur Discovery: Qr code + Listening Center Response Sheets QR Code Task Cards are a fun activity that you can do with your whole class or as a small group center. Keep your sanity with this simple QR Code. Print out the card and post it to your listening center for students to scan using any FREE QR Code reader independently! Integrate technology and boost your students' exposure to fluent reading.Also Included:Listening Center Response Sheets are perfect for holding your stud
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PreK - 6th
World Mythology Research Project
Students spend a unit learning about Greek mythology. This 2-day Research Project engages students in learning about cultural myths from around the world.
The 4-page 4-steps worksheet includes scholarly websites students can access to research myths.
- Steps 1 and 2: Students summarize four myths, and answer questions reflecting on how the myth reveals the culture of the people group.
- Step 3: Students write their own myths that reveal their cultural values.
- Step 4: Students illustrate a sto
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8th - 10th
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Spring Virtual Library Room
I have created a Spring Room. Add your own books and bitmojis. Have fun making your own Spring Room
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PreK - 6th
Elements of Fairy Tales
Simple Class discussion notes that highlight character, story and component elements of fairy tale stories. This includes a section on the different types of fairy tales such as beast, porquoi, and cumulative repetitive. I sometimes have students do an internet scavenger hunt to fill out information on the handout.
Grades:
4th - 12th
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