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Free short stories Common Core W.6.3b resources
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 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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Using Disney Movies to Create Quotation Marks for Dialogue
This activity allows students to look at a picture from a scene in a Disney movie to create a conversation about. They can follow the scene as they remember it, or get creative with what they chose for the characters to say. The students have a blast creating their own mini stories, and get good practice the rules of quotation marks.
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4th - 7th
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6th Grade Fictional Story Writing - "Write the End" to a Zombie Trilogy
After reading a 3 part story (post-apocalyptic, zombies) from ReadWorks.org together (The Run, Refueling, Searching for Survivors), students wrote the fourth and final part of the story for their end of 6 weeks final project.
Their writing needed to include a variety of elements to be successful:
-Vocabulary from the series so far
-Dialogue (to review our learning of Dramatic Elements)
-Lyrics from a song or lines from a poem incorporated into the story in some meaningful way (to review our lea
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5th - 6th
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Spooky Story Starter Cards for Grades 6-8
These story starter cards are designed to spark creativity in students when it comes to narrative writing. Perfect for grades 6-8, the cards provide a setting, character, clue words, and a starter sentence to help students kick-start their stories. They are a beneficial resource to add to your other narrative writing prompts and are great for Halloween!What’s included in this resource:4 Spooky story starter cards including writing prompts with sentence starters Benefits:Helps students overcome w
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6th - 8th
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Christmas Tree Personification
Need a quick, holiday themed writing prompt? This is the activity for your classroom. Perfect for early-finishers or a class activity. Great for all grade levels! Differentiated for different learning styles (short story or comic strip options).
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Not Grade Specific
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Realistic Fiction ELA Writing Assessment Rubric Middle School
This rubric may be used to assess Realistic Fiction Writing. It is intended for Middle School students, but could easily be altered or differentiated for higher and lower level students as well. There are eleven different criteria areas students will be assessed with: Genre, Lead, Dialogue, Description, Inner Thinking, Show, Don’t Tell, Transitions, Conflict,, Ending, Conventions and Miscellaneous (format/professionalism). Within each criteria there are three levels of descriptions for students
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6th - 9th
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Spooky Narrative Writing
This product helps to teach your students how to write narratives using literary elements. After reading short stories in class, and watching the short film "Alma", students will write their own "spooky" short stories. The Google Slides can be displayed in the classroom or posted to Google Classroom. Please make a copy before using! The slides include literary elements to include when students write their spooky short story as well as a modeled writing examples.
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6th - 7th
FREEBIE Sensory Adjective Warm-Up, Google Classroom Worksheet, Bell Work
This activity is a great way to bring all students--regardless of their skill level--to the writing table. You can increase the challenge by requiring students to have adjectives that are unique (within thier table or the whole class), begin with the same letter as their first name, have a specific number of letters, etc. You could also turn this into a sorting activity for students who are just beginning their time as writers. This activity should take the majority of students about 5-15 minute
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3rd - 7th
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Dialogue in Narrative Activity
⭐FREE 2-in-1 Dialogue Activity!Dialogue can make or break a narrative- it needs to either build characterization or advance the plot (or both!).In this freebie from The Bookish Blair, students will practice writing relevant dialogue AND review basic dialogue punctuation.Please follow my TpT shop-- The Bookish Blair-- for more ELA products designed for upper elementary and junior high.⭐The downloaded product will NOT have the background watermark on it.
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4th - 8th
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story starter game
Are your students having trouble choosing their characters for their narratives? What about their setting or their problem?This game is for you! Requires:1x Dice To play:1. Students choose an element that they need help with (i.e. characters, setting etc.)2. Students roll the dice 3. Whatever number they land on will be their story starting off point!ENJOY X X X
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K - 6th
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Rumpelstiltskin Narrative Writing
In this assignment, students are asked to rewrite the classic fairy-tale "Rumpelstiltskin" from the main character's perspective. Students are challenged to evaluate the character's motivations and decisions and explain them using narrative techniques. Rubric is based on CCSS Standards and CAASPP.
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5th - 8th
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Short Story Final Draft Test
This test is for post-writing on short stories. The first page reviews their knowledge on the elements of short stories (characters, setting, plot, conflict, theme), and the second page and the essay portion have the students analyze their own final draft short story by discussing mood and plot.100 point test:1st page: 1 (2pts), 2 (2.5 pts), and 3 (2pts) = 10%2nd page: 4 (2.5 pts) = 30%3rd page: 5 (40 pts) = 40%
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6th - 8th
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Book Design!
Need a way for students to design their own books? Look no further! Our two outer page covers allow for students to write and design their books and then have our pages on the outside cover to give it a 'finished' look!English, book writing, illustrations, short story, essays, art, cross curricular,
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Not Grade Specific
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