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The Green Ember by S. D. Smith Literature Guide
Over 100 reading comprehension questions and answers divided by chapter as well as worksheets on setting, characterization, and conflict. Answer Key is included. Editable!
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4th - 8th
Jeopardy ELA Review for upper elementary and middle school students
Use this Jeopardy style game to review the following concepts with your students:Figurative LanguageInferencesCentral Idea/ ThemePlot Elementsand Context CluesQuestions range from 5th grade level all the way to high school level!The powerpoint is completely editable as well.Like this product? Check out another great ELA game:Figurative Language BingoPlease don't forget to rate and leave a comment!!!xoxo- Katie
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5th - 10th
Also included in: ELA Test Prep Bundle!
Harrison Bergeron Textual Evidence Practice
This activity forces students to find support for statements that are given. The support must come from the short story "Harrison Bergeron."
I was finding that my students would make claims, but had a difficult time substantiating those claims with evidence from the text. This activity helped quite a bit, and I was able to use this as a great formative assessment while walking around the room as my students worked.
The preview shows the first two statements that are given. Students must go ba
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7th - 12th
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Complete Unit- Plot, Conflict, Subplot, and Foreshadowing
This unit comes with amazing things and is NO PREP for you!!! It has a full PowerPoint that you can segment out or use for several days. The PowerPoint includes notes and critical thinking questions for plot, conflict, subplot, and foreshadowing. There are PDF versions of all the notes that are complete and correlate to the Presentation. It also includes critical thinking activities for each of the segments and the readings that correspond to those CTQs. Please enjoy this amazing unit of stu
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6th - 8th
Mundane Halloween Inferencing Activity
FREE for 24 hours! (offer ends 4:00 PM 10/27/23)You know how middle schoolers love to be bored? Or how it's cool to be apathetic? Zombies? How they fixate on the smallest/oddest points? Let's play into that!The newest Halloween trend in Japan is MUNDANE COSTUMES. Yep! How boring and how basic can your costume be? It's ridiculous yet intriguing and kids love it - especially middle schoolers.Now let's add in an ELA component such as inferencing and we've got something for the classroom that's enga
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6th - 9th
Movie and Book Comparison Worksheet Mini Unit with Worksheets, posters, plans!
Newly expanded! Book and Movie Comparison Worksheets for Middle SchoolEngaging Activities for Analyzing Literature and Film Adaptations This resource is designed to provide middle school teachers with a variety of worksheets that encourage critical thinking and analysis of literature and its film adaptations. By exploring the similarities and differences between books and movies, students will develop a deeper understanding of storytelling techniques, character development, themes, and more. Stu
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6th - 12th
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The Outsiders: A Socratic Seminar Discussion Activity
This easy-to-implement activity is designed to engage students critical thinking skills by having them engage in deep, reflective conversations with their peers. There are a variety of ways to conduct a socratic seminar and these questions will help you get exciting literature and life conversations started in your classroom!
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6th - 9th
The Outsiders Chapter 12 - Analyzing Character
Use this handout to help students practice analyzing character in The Outsiders chapter 12. Students will first take notes on the 5 Stages of Grief (video included), which they will use to analyze Ponyboy in chapter 12. Completing a graphic organizer, students will then be pushed to explain how Ponyboy embodies the 5 stages of grief and find evidence to back up their claims. Then, students will put their thinking together in a well-crafted paragraph as an exit ticket.Either assign this as indepe
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6th - 8th
Twelfth Night - Character Soundtrack Analysis (Online/ Digital Version)
Available on the PDF, you will find a link to a Google Slides presentation. This project has been designed for a digital curriculum, and you will find it is easy for students to share and edit the project with ease.
The assignment is for students to pick 2 characters from William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night. The Google Slides presentation has been set up for two characters, each one divided by a different color. The first half of the presentation is blue for their first character, while th
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8th - 12th
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TEN Christmas ELA Bellringers/Morning Work for Middle Grades!
These CCSS-alligned bellringers/morning work will bring a little Christmas spirit to your classroom! There are ten bellringer/morning work slides total. Of the ten slides: 5 utilize literature excerpts 3 utilize poetry2 utilize informational textAlong with the text, each slide includes 2 multiple questions (perfect for end of semester test prep!). Answer key is included.
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6th - 8th
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"Lit" Horse Race: Novel-Length Engaging Student Activity
This activity is applicable to any literature study. Its goal is to keep students engaged with the novel based on the criteria and an incentive as well. What is SPECIFICALLY Included in this Product: Lit Horse Races Instructional PowerPoint for StudentsTeacher Notes to Guide You Through Your CreationsExample of "Lit" Horse Race from Jake, Reinvented (All Documents are Editable). Character Names (i.e., the horses for the race)Checkpoints & Names (the characters must pass to win the race)Jake
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7th - 12th
PARCC-like test
This test is designed and worded after sample PARCC assessments shown online. The test is 9 questions, with an answer key, that include, connotation, inferential thinking, context clues, citing textual evidence, characterization, theme, and order of events. The test requires students to use high order thinking skills and textual evidence to support their answers. The test covers "How Fire was Given to Men" and "How Diseases and Cares Came Among Men" which are supplemental texts used with "Flower
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7th - 10th
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Sci-Fi & Dystopian Fiction - Genre Lessons (Brave New World)
Over the course of four lessons aimed at middle schoolers and homeschoolers, students will learn about the science fiction and dystopian fiction genres while engaging with extracts of Aldous Huxley's seminal work 'Brave New World'. Students will:-Develop an understanding of the context and plot;-Read and comprehend extracts from the story;-Analyse the story to build a P.E.E. paragraph;-Before finally applying the story to a short creative project.Students will additionally learn about stop motio
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6th - 8th
All of the Common Core ELA Standards Checklists
This is a bundle of checklists for ELA Common Core Standards for all of the grades (K-12) on an excel spreadsheet with 5 columns for data input. These standards are organized in their own sub-domains to coordinate lessons. Please see my free file for an example.
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K - 12th
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Theme Gallery Walk for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
In this activity, students practice identifying themes in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian. There are 4 different excerpts from the book where students need to read it and list a theme. Tape the four different papers around the room. Have students travel alone or in small groups to each paper to read and identify themes. I remind the students that a theme should be a life lesson that is universal (can apply to anyone). I tell them that there theme must be a complete sentence and t
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7th - 9th
Symbolism in Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"
This comprehension lesson plan has students read and analyze Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" for symbolism and deeper meaning as well as common fears humans have throughout different stages of life. As a culminating activity, students will create their own mask symbolizing a from a specific stage of life (as each room in the story represents a different stage).The story itself is broken down into chunked parts with accompanying questions for each sectioned off part of the story. Students wil
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6th - 12th
Book Ball Project | Hands-On Literary Analysis for ANY NOVEL! | 100% Editable!
Welcome to the Book Ball Project! In this assignment, students will work through 12 components to analyze any novel. Included in this product are a student instruction handout and a grading rubric that is completely editable! The rubric is very simple to allow for quick grading, but it can be altered to better suit you and your students.The 12 components to this assignment are:Book CoverAbout the AuthorSymbolismText and Self ConnectionsVocabulary AnalysisSummaryBook ReviewQuotesAlternate EndingP
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6th - 12th
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The Outsiders - Chapter 1 - Characterization
Direct and Indirect Analysis of The Outsiders by SE Hinton. Students will read Chapter One and then determine what is said directly and indirectly by the author. Students will need to provide a citation for the indirect quotes to prove the adjective of indirect characterization.
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6th - 9th
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Alliteration, Assonance & Consonance - "The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe
These low prep, easy to follow, student centered lessons allow you to introduce alliteration, assonance, and consonance to your students. Students will then apply the learning to a reading of an extract of Poe's seminal poem "The Bells". The lessons come with support tasks that allow weaker students to focus on and reinforce the concepts, while allowing stronger students to engage with the poem in more detail.The lessons are suitable for middle schoolers and homeschoolers.
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6th - 8th
Integrating Quotes into Writing
This Notesheet/Worksheet was made to help student integrate quotes into their own writing. I created it after getting tired of seeing students "plop" quotes into their literary analysis papers without any context or introduction. The first page is notes, and it has four parts:1- Strong Verbs to Explain the Author's Opinions2-Ways to Reiterate an Argument and Provide an Explanatory Quote3-Ways to reinforce an argument with an additional quote4-Ways to introduce a warrant and explain a quotation
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6th - 8th
ELA Common Core Standards Bundle for 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade
This is a bundle of checklists for the ELA Common Core Standards for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade on an excel spreadsheet with 5 columns for data input. These standards are organized in their own sub-domains to coordinate lessons. Please see my free file for an example.
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6th - 8th
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Unit 3 Code X Collaborate and Present
This Omega English product contains a 3 day Common Core aligned lesson plan on the Unit 3 Collaborate and Present section of Code X. The lesson plan highlights the Danielson Domains to ensure effectiveness. It also contains an abundance of differentiation to meet the needs of all your diverse learners.
Throughout this lesson students analyze evidence from both “Zebra” and “Letters to a Young Artist” that supports what it means to be a mentor, discuss what a mentor means to them, analyze the ho
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8th
ELA Common Core Standards Checklist for Eighth Grade
English Language Arts Common Core Standards for eighth grade on an Excel spreadsheet with 5 columns for data input and separate tabs for the strands. These standards are organized in their separate strands to coordinate lessons. Please see my free file for an example.
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8th
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Also included in: ELA Common Core Standards Bundle for 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade
Common Core (ELA) Literary Essay Writing Breakdown
This writing handout is a tool that can be used to guide students through the writing process at their seats or in small groups. It includes an explanation of each part of a literary essay as well as examples that students can model their own writing after. I use this tool to help proficient and not so proficient writers during Writer's Workshop. This guided handout helps keep kids on track and answers any questions they may have about the writing process while working individually at their sea
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6th - 8th
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