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Free 8th grade literature professional documents
Free Hunger Games Unit Common Core Standards Alignment
Free download for aligning the College and Career Readiness Common Core Standards for English/Language Arts with my Hunger Games digital download AND shipped CD units.
This is not a lesson or the unit itself, it is a listing and alignment of the Common Core Standards for grades 6-12, broken down strand-by-strand and lesson-by-lesson.
Please see the links in the download if you wish to purchase these units.
Thank you!
Tracee Orman
www.hungergameslessons.com
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6th - 12th, Staff
{Sample} Canadian Indigenous and First Nation Read Aloud's
All of these read aloud's include stories and messages that honour various people from different Indigenous and First Nation communities. Some stories are autobiographies or biography style of children or great-grandchildren telling the story from their family members. The first collection of texts are connected with the 2016 Ontario Kindergarten Program Overall Expectations. These stories have a message that Kindergarten aged children can connect with from their previous experiences or these pa
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PreK - 9th, Staff
Persepolis By Marjane Satrapi Pacing Guide FREEBIE
Thinking about teaching Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi? Get a jump start on planning with this FREE Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Pacing Guide! This Persepolis by Marjana Satrapi Pacing Guide Freebie lays out the foundation for a five-week unit. The unit focuses on teaching students claim, evidence, and reasoning writing skills as they work on short, argumentative writing tasks throughout the unit. Students will also demonstrate their understanding of the memoir form by
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8th - 11th
Pacing Chart for Grade 8 READING (Scope & Sequence)
I am making this available on Teachers Pay Teachers as a free download in response to overwhelming requests to view this document. This is not meant for you to use as-is, but is rather available to provide an example of how I use my various interactive notebooks and other products during the course of a school year.
This download also lists all of the literature/articles/novels/stories that I use during the year and which skills I teach with each one, as well as the resources I use.
I do not h
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8th
Classroom Book Clubs: Literature Circles Made Easy Intro
Classroom Book Clubs describes an easy and effective method for using literature circles in your classroom. This introduction is a narrated slidecast for teachers in Mp4 format that gives an overview of the book clubs model. Classroom Book Clubs: Literature Circles Made EasyThe full version of Classroom Book Clubs: Literature Circles Made Easy consists of 5 narrated video lessons to guide you through the process of setting up and running book clubs. I've also included an optional study guide for
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2nd - 8th
RL Florida Standards Mastery Checklist
*No prep!*New fresh clean look!*Color and black and white options for printing*Check your students' mastery of Florida standards (RL). This document will help you keep track of the standards that your students have mastered and which students need to be re-tested on after your remediation. CHECK OUT OTHER STANDARDS MASTERY CHECKLIST!!!*RL and RI Standards Mastery Checklist*Geometry (G) Standards Mastery Checklist*Measurement and Data (MD) Standards Mastery Checklist*Operations and Algebraic Thin
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Teacher Book Talk One Pagers: Teacher Favorites
Are you struggling to share books with your students because you just can’t find the time to read all of the books! Let me help you!Teacher book talk one pagers are a complete guide to help you talk about a book with your students confidently, even if you haven’t read the book. Each book talk one pager will give you the information you need to determine if you want to share the book with your students and are perfect for book talk Tuesday and first chapter Friday. This resource includes:5 teache
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7th - 11th
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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Pacing and Teaching Guide FREEBIE
Thinking about teaching The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas? Get a jump start on planning with this FREE The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Pacing Guide! This The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Pacing Guide Freebie lays out the foundation for a six-week unit. The unit focuses on teaching students claim, evidence, and reasoning writing skills while they practice analyzing theme and their speaking and listening skills.This is a thematic unit: the final, summative discussion as well as the major writing assi
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8th - 11th
Also included in: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Whole Unit Bundle | Printable & Digital
List of Caldecott Award Books including Reading Level (Updated with 2016 winner)
Award books are listed by year with author, title, and reading level. Note that Caldecott Awards are selected for their illustrations. The author may or may not be the illustrator.
Opinions on reading level have changed over the years. Reading levels reflect current online references.
This handout was orginally created as a quick ready reference for parents and teachers to identify selections for their children.
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PreK - 8th
Free Chevron Binder Black
Free Chevron binder cover.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Close Reading Lesson: Pyramus and Thisbe
A companion piece to the Romeo and Juliet module, this is a close reading lesson on Pyramus and Thisbe by Ovid. All questions, along with an explanation of the desired product, are included.
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8th - 10th
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Emergency Book Rationale
The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is one of top 10 books challenged or banned in the past decade and in 2022. This two page rationale provides all relevant information need to provide a rationale for including The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian in the curriculum or in the school library should the book be challenged or banned in your school or local library, including:Date published, genre, and age recommendationSpecific reasons this book is typically cha
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7th - 12th
Literature Circles 101 - A Quick Guide to Developing Literature Circles
I have found that literature circles are incredibly beneficial to any reading curriculum. I remember reading about them and saying to myself, “Yeah, right! Like that will really work!” To my surprise, it worked like magic. My students were enthusiastic about their books and excited about reading in general. I have not found a greater motivator for reading than literature circles.
This is a brief overview for setting up literature circles within your classroom. After teaching literature ci
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1st - 12th, Adult Education
Lesson Plan Template
This is a lesson plan I created to help myself stay organized from week to week. Personalize each subject line to match your classes schedule. At the end there is another table included to write a quick overview of topics and homework for the week. I usually send this table home to parents to give them a heads up about what their children are learning. Enjoy!
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PreK - 8th
Parent Approval Letter for Classroom Library
This is a letter I keep in my library for books that I know are controversial. I keep about 20 copies in my "Parent Must Approve" section of my classroom library. This has been a lifesaver.
All parents have different expectations for what their kids will read. I want to provide a wide variety of young adult literature to my students. It literally takes about a minute to fill this out and send it home. Parent feedback has been positive!
Enjoy!
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3rd - 12th
Dealing with Required Reading: Flowchart
In many schools across the country, teachers are required to teach certain texts based on a curriculum document created by their department or district. Often, texts on this list stifle teacher's creativity, are mismatched for student's level of reading and understanding, or are just simply boring. This collection includes a variety of resources to help teachers evaluate the required reading policy and take steps to eliminate or make modifications to it.
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3rd - 12th
Reading Quotations
I went on an internet search to find a quote to put on the back of my Reading Workshop binder & ended up collecting 4.5 pages of them!
I am POSITIVE that there are thousands others "out there" but I ran out of patience. :-)
Enjoy!
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K - 12th
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Middle School Concepts - Comprehensive Checklist
This 28-page, comprehensive checklist covers a broad spectrum of basic, middle school level, Language Arts curriculum concepts. This checklist is an excellent way for Language Arts teachers to be sure they cover everything as they plan lessons. Take a look at the preview for a 3-page sample of this checklist.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Grades:
6th - 9th
List of Texts for Middle and High School - Traditional Literature
This resource is your ultimate list of TRADITIONAL LITERATURE for middle or high school curriculum planning or reading recommendations! It is filled with engaging, highly recommended texts that your students are going to love! It's not just any list, though, here's what makes this document special. . .There are countless specific categories so you can search for the exact text that will fit your genre, topic, or theme study, or will match students' personal interests. There's a Table of Contents
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Text Lists for Middle and High School - FICTION BUNDLE
Evolution of Literature Standards
As a middle school teacher I often struggle with differentiating my instruction to meet the needs of each student. I found that using this evolution of standards chart has improved my small group instruction. I am able to see what the grade level expectation is and scaffold my instruction in order for my students to reach the new expectations set by the common core. This tool is also great for your highly capable and gifted students as you can quickly see how to challenge them.
This document in
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K - 12th
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English Language Arts Standards Reading Literature Grade 8 Print and Post
This is a simple word document in which I've identified the 8 Reading for Literature Standards for 8th grade- each on a separate 8.5 x 11 - in the largest font possible. You can print them, laminate them, and post them on your wall rather than writing out a lengthy standard each day of the week.
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8th
To Kill a Mockingbird Model Content Framework
This is a Common Core Module, outlined according to PARCC's Model Content Framework. This particular module uses To Kill a Mockingbird as its anchor text, and several other texts as ancillary materials. This module includes questions and a culminating task, all aligned with Common Core Standards.
Also see the close reading lessons in my shop, to go with the ancillary texts.
Unmitigated Temerity: Racism in America by Ashley R. Roach is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerci
Grades:
8th
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