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8th grade Common Core RL.11-12.5 literature circles
The Book Thief Novel Study
The Book Thief Novel Study is a comprehensive set of instructional materials with over 100+ resources for teaching The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. With these Common-Core aligned materials, students will deeply engage with the novel and develop their literacy skills. The suite includes 100+ resources to help you implement an engaging, rigorous ELA unit. The Book Thief Novel Study Snapshot of Resources Included in Unit:34 Literary Analysis Assignments34 Close Reading Assignments (literary skills-
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8th - 11th
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Novel in Verse Vault : Digital reading worksheets for novel in verse lit circles
Are you teaching a novel in verse such as The Crossover, Long Way Down, The Poet X, or a hundred other options to engage students in poetry and prose? Then this novels in verse vault has you covered!This reading worksheet vault has 15 completely editable activities for ANY novel in verse!It's Common Core aligned hitting author's craft, author's vocabulary, author's choice, author's mind (inferencing), and author's message.⭐Also included is a novel in verse viewing guide for setting up novel in v
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7th - 12th
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The House on Mango Street Novel Study and Project Menu; Plus Digital Option
Everything you need to use Sandra Cisneros' award-winning novel, The House on Mango Street effectively in your classroom! A no-prep standards based interactive notebook literature guide with follow-up reading response questions for every chapter as well as vocabulary, writing projects, activities and enrichment projects. Teacher friendly engaging lessons to use with this award winning novel in your classroom while encouraging critical reading skills.CCSS/STAAR Aligned! Great for "Distance Lear
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7th - 12th
Scripts: Poe Pack (readers theater, Power Point +)
Edgar Allen Poe comes alive with reader’s theaters, choral readings, Power Point, projects, writing prompts and more. Package includes a 52 slide Power Point as well as 53 pages of scripts, graphic organizers, a visual dictionary for The Poe's Cask of Amontillado, rubric, and a How to do reader’s theater .PDF.The Raven and Annabel Lee are presented as choral readings; Helen 1831 and 1848 as tiered group project readings, The Cask of Amontillado is presented as a reader’s theater trial pre-readi
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Bundle: American Literature
Book Clubs & Lit Circles Made Easy with Google Docs! Updated for Online Learning
Now updated to include a remote, asynchronous online book club option due to COVID-19! Note: If you are moving to all-online learning due to the pandemic, I would suggest students choose public domain books that can be found for free online. Here is a great site to visit for public domain books! Want to infuse more student choice in your classroom? Need to facilitate deep literary analysis? Desperately need a better way to hit and assess those speaking and listening standards? Class book clubs (
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Making Text to Self Connections | ANY TEXT | Nine Activities
Encourage your students to connect with any piece of fiction or narrative with these nine differentiated activities for linking self with text.This product is also included in my Middle School Combo BUNDLE.This product includes…Three approaches for students to connect self to any textThree levels of differentiation for each approachSlideshow of the tasksWorksheets for the tasks Each method has a set of instructions, plus three activities with difficulty levels indicated by a star rating. You can
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8th - 11th
Making Text to Text Connections | ANY TEXT | Nine Activities
Encourage your students to draw connections between any two imaginative, informative or persuasive texts with these nine differentiated activities for linking text with text.This product is also included in my Middle School Combo BUNDLE.This product includes…Three approaches for students to connect two textsThree levels of differentiation for each approachSlideshow of the tasksWorksheets for the tasks Each method has a set of instructions, plus three activities with difficulty levels indicated b
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8th - 11th
Children of Blood and Bone: Assessment Resources
The assessment resources will help you measure how well students are understanding Children of Blood and Bone and how well they can apply literary skills taught throughout a unit.Digital Compatibility: This resource is also technology friendly! It can be utilized in classrooms where computers or tablets are central to instruction because the resource has been adapted for digital completion. The resource includes links for students to complete the assessments in Google Forms™. For instance, stude
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8th - 12th
Also included in: Children of Blood and Bone Novel Study
**BUNDLE** Critical Thinking Discussion Prompts (Socratic Smackdown)
BUNDLE & SAVE!In this bundle you will get over 300 discussion prompts for short stories, fiction, and nonfiction. These can be used as classroom discussions, essay topics, test questions, etc. The prompts pair well with the Socratic Smackdown discussion format (also available in my store); however, these can also fit any discussion format. The prompts include:SHORT STORIESgeneral short story questions that can work with any storythematic short story questions that can work with any storyprom
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7th - 12th
Creative Literature Circle Roles, Group Work, Reading/Book Project: Any Novel
Creative Literature Circle Roles, Group Work, Reading/Book Project: Any Novel**Included:**Puzzle Literature Circles (many options to choose from)Creative Literature Circle Packet (Pie, chip bag and tree/bird options)Details below...****PUZZLE LITERATURE CIRCLESA traditional puzzle literature circle & 11 simple alternatives to literature circles! Included: ***A total of 11 separate versions of the lit pods (simplified lit circles) to differentiate and adapt to your novel. *** A traditional 4
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6th - 12th
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson: Literary Analysis Questions
The chapter analysis resources provide a framework for students to complete a deep literary analysis for every chapter grouping of Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. The assignments are aligned to the Common Core State Standards and designed not only to have students practice literary skills but also demonstrate their comprehension of the text. If you're looking for an assessment bundle aligned to this product, check out this comprehensive test pack! Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson: Quizzes, Literar
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8th - 12th
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Critical Lenses Mega pack!(Graphic Organizers, Posters, Mindmaps, Concept Maps!)
Critical Lens MEGAPACK!This megapack includes resources for twelve critical lenses. Featuring the following lenses:Reader's ResponseSociologicalFormalistCultural StudiesPsychologicalArchetypes / MythsGender CriticismGenre TheoryHistoricalExistentialism EcocriticismPhilosophical What you get!12 task cards12 posters3 concept maps featuring all twelve lenses1 mind map my life activity1 mind map assignment2 Theory Relays (Analyze a text from six different perspectives.)13 Graphic Organizers (1 for e
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7th - 12th
EVERYTHING LIT. BOOKS OR CHOICE BOOKS BUNDLE
During my first unit of study within the semester - Elements of Fiction and Genre - I teach every single element of fiction while allowing the students to read lit. books that I have pre-selected from my bookshelf. Every single student in that block will read a different book - making cheating much harder! Everyone identifies the elements of fiction within their book as we learn about how we can identify and analyze them!These worksheets are very adaptable, and can be used for any novel study th
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8th - 12th
The Martian Classroom Edition Pacing Guide and Comprehension Questions
The Martian (Classroom Edition) is an engaging 369-page novel by Andy Weir that blends realistic science with science-fiction. It is completely faithful to the original novel, with the exception that the salty language in the original has been replaced, making it perfect for reading in class. What happens when an astronaut is accidentally stranded on Mars?What you get in this resource:1. 46-day Pacing Guide: There are 26 chapters in this novel and to keep the reading around 10 minutes per day, I
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Children of Blood and Bone: Literary Analysis Resources
The chapter analysis resources provide a framework for students to complete a deep literary analysis for every chapter grouping of Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi. The assignments are aligned to the Common Core State Standards and designed not only to have students practice literary skills but also demonstrate their comprehension of the text. Digital Compatibility: This resource is also technology friendly! It can be utilized in classrooms where computers or tablets are central to ins
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Children of Blood and Bone Novel Study
Making Text to World Connections | ANY TEXT | Nine Activities
Encourage your students to draw connections between an imaginative, informative or persuasive text and the wider world with these nine differentiated activities for linking any text with customs, traditions, locations and news reports.This product is also included in my Middle School Combo BUNDLE.This product includes…Three approaches for students to connect their text with the worldThree levels of differentiation for each approachSlideshow of the tasksWorksheets for the tasks Each method has a
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8th - 11th
Lit. Circle/Choice Books Novel Questions Bundle -analysis questions for any book
During my first unit of study within the semester - Elements of Fiction and Genre - I teach every single element of fiction while allowing the students to read lit. books that I have pre-selected from my bookshelf. Every single student in that block will read a different book - making cheating much harder! Everyone identifies the elements of fiction within their book as we learn about how we can identify and analyze them! These worksheets are very adaptable, and can be used for any novel study t
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8th - 12th
Monster by Walter Dean Myers Novel Study and Google Activities
A novel study with discussion questions for the realistic fiction novel Monster by Walter Dean Myers. A great book for studying young adult novels, guilt vs. innocence, perspective, empathy, and courage, and for social emotional learning (SEL)! Printable worksheets and student activities on Google Docs with provided sentence stems to help students respond in paragraph form using text evidence.If your students struggle to respond thoughtfully to discussion questions, this resource is perfect!
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6th - 12th
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The Hobbit Study Prompts
This 11-page resource is a set of short writing tasks, and formal essay questions in the style of AP and IB examinations. The initial tasks focus student attention on significant aspects of each chapter and build up a full understanding of what Tolkien is trying to achieve, how he is trying to achieve it, and how successful he has been. The chapter-based questions can, additionally, be used as a basis for class discussion, and the essay topics as an invaluable tool for pre-examination revision a
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7th - 12th
Grade 9-12 Reading Companion: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
All reading companion questions are deeper-level questions which align with the 9-12 ELA Reading: Literature Standards. Created for high school use, but could be adapted for younger grades. Students will work through this reading companion as they read through J,K Rowling's novel Harry Potter and the Socerer's Stone. Companion is broken down by each of the 17 chapters with a total of 86 questions for students to complete as they critically analyze character development, theme, language use, auth
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone High School Curriculum
Critical Thinking *SHORT STORY* Discussion Prompts (Socratic Smackdown)
This document has over 100 prompts for short stories! These could be classroom discussions, essay topics, test questions, etc. The prompts pair well with the Socratic Smackdown discussion format (also available in my store); however, these can also fit with any discussion format. The prompts include:-general short story questions that can work with any story-thematic short story questions that can work with any story-prompts for The Tell Tale Heart-prompts for The Lottery-prompts for The Most Da
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7th - 12th
Also included in: **BUNDLE** Critical Thinking Discussion Prompts (Socratic Smackdown)
The Tell-Tale Heart-Edgar Allan Poe
Enhance your teaching resources with comprehensive reading materials for Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart".Included is an answer key for easy grading.Featuring 9 vocabulary questions, 14 comprehension questions, and 2 focused quote analysis pages, this resource is ideal for enriching student understanding. Additionally, the multiple-choice questions provided serve as valuable test preparation aids.Perfect for various teaching contexts, including independent reading, li
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8th - 11th
Literature Circle Packet
As I got to the end of my honor's class with my juniors, I decided it was time to hand over the reigns and make them the drivers of their own learning. I wanted them to practice their communication skills and to just find the joy in reading again while still applying the standards they've learned to the book... so I created this workbook for them! Every day, the students meet with their groups and read together and discuss. They decide their schedule, pace, and agenda each day. It's so fun check
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6th - 12th
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Story Starter Creative Writing Prompts BUNDLE Stories Without End
What's a story starter?It's just what it sounds like, a story that starts but has no end. More developed than a short writing prompt, this story prompt gives students the first part of a story that ends on a cliff-hanger. Because the story has no end, students will have to create their own drawing on their creativity. Even the most reluctant writer will find themselves sucked in with this deceptively simple method of getting students to write! Each story is also supported with questions and voca
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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