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Poet vs Poet basketball style brackets; poetry study; poetry analysis
Are your students bored of poetry? Get kids excited with Poet vs Poet basketball style brackets. Students read poems in competitive match ups, rating the poem quality based on the meaning, mood, form, and language the poet uses. Students learn to analyze poetry, and they become obsessed with their favorite poems. My kids LOVE this activity!JUST ADDED: Version Two Poet vs. Poet with even more exciting match ups! I kept some popular match ups the same, but added new match ups like Edgar Allan Poe
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5th - 11th
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Also included in: 7th Grade ELA Yearlong Curriculum, Lesson Plans, and Pacing Guide
Main Idea Digital Escape Room, Theme, & Reading Comprehension
In this digital escape room, your students will review and practice their theme, main idea, and context clues skills. Would you like to try an engaging, review activity with your students to reinforce these skills and techniques? In this Digital Escape™, there are seven different activities, and your students will review and practice their context clue, main idea, and theme skills in this escape room.This Digital Escape™ is set up like the game, Clue, and a murder mystery-style game. In this es
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: ALL the Digital Escape Rooms, Oh My! |Distance Learning
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Poetry Analysis Unit - The Raven Activities
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe - Print and go poetry analysis activities - A full text version of The Raven is included, along with comprehension questions and poetry analysis activities. These Poe themed lesson materials ask students to think deeply about text while practicing elements of literacy analysis. A great addition to a poetry unit on classic literature, these short story resources include graphic organizers, projects, questions, and answer keys.✅While this unit works anytime of the year
Grades:
7th - 9th
Close Reading Passages For Middle School - Close Reading Guide and Strategies
Close Reading For Middle School Students Featuring Excerpts from Stories from Classic Literature. These NO PREP close reading activities are great for practicing close reading and annotation skills. Everything needed to get your students started with Close Reading is included – detailed step by step instructions, annotation guide, reading passages, and graphic organizers. Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and teach!Story excerpts include:•Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving•The B
Grades:
6th - 9th
Rhetorical Devices & Appeals Movie Speeches Bundle Rhetoric Analysis Activities
This fun rhetoric bundle includes fun and engaging rhetorical analysis practice worksheets (rhetorical devices and appeals) for 13 different cinematic movie speeches. Most of the time, a rhetoric unit can become boring and irrelevant for advanced middle or high school students, who beg to have real-world application for certain analysis skills. With this film speech analysis bundle, your students will understand just how much rhetoric (ethos, pathos, logos & various rhetorical devices) inva
Grades:
8th - 12th
Halloween Close Reading Passages for Middle School - Halloween Activities
Halloween Close Reading For Middle School Students Featuring Excerpts from Spooky Stories from Classic Literature. These NO PREP Halloween activities are great for practicing close reading and annotation skills. Everything needed to get your students started with Close Reading is included – detailed step by step instructions, annotation guide, reading passages, and graphic organizers. Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and teach!Story excerpts include:•The Masque of the Read Death
Grades:
6th - 9th
Interactive Bookmarks for Any Novel: Questions, Literary Analysis, Vocabulary
Use these interactive and foldable bookmarks with any novel in your secondary classroom to help engage your students with the text. With multiple options to choose from, the possibilities are endless. These instructional bookmarks are classroom-tested to improve student engagement and understanding!
This resource includes five different bookmark fronts and nine different bookmark backs to provide secondary English teachers with complete control and customization.
The bookmark fronts include s
Grades:
6th - 12th
Guided Reading Observation/Note taking Forms:Levels A-Z (available in a BUNDLE)
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Add this to your small group guided reading binder. Guided reading anecdotal note taking made easy! This 30 page document provides you with enough space to take notes during guided reading.
-Supports Guided Reading levels A-Z
-Provides information on behaviors to notice and support
-Allows teachers to record student progress and identify needs for targeted instruction
-Provides on
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Grades:
K - 9th
Context Clues Worksheets. Reading Strategies Practice. 240 Questions. Gr 7 - 8
*** Context Clues Worksheets. Reading Strategies Practice. 240 Questions. Gr 7 - 8. *** This Grade 7 and Grade 8 resource is designed to give your students the opportunity to reinforce and master the skill of using context clues as a reading strategy to determine unknown meanings of words. No preparation is needed!*** It contains 12 engaging worksheets with full answer keys. They are spread throughout 74 pages in the form of Multiple Choice Questions; the total of 240 MCQs. Each worksheet contai
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7th - 9th
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Movie Speeches SOAPStone Reading & Rhetorical Precis Writing
Students love movies and videos. This "print and teach" SOAPStone Reading and Rhetorical Precis Writing resource includes 13 speeches (with video links) for rhetorical analysis. 27 PPT slides will help guide students to an understanding of bloom's taxonomy, annotating a text, evaluating the rhetorical situation, analyzing rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, logos), and writing a rhetorical precis summary. The simple step-by-step process includes direct instruction, guided practice, and independ
Grades:
8th - 12th
Romeo and Juliet Return to the Text Annotations
Hoping to improve your students' understanding of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet? Look no further than these Return-to-the-Text close reading annotations. These annotations provide students with a deep dive into the use of literary devices in carefully selected excerpts from the play, helping them to better understand the meaning and impact of Shakespeare's language. With six annotations covering key topics such as the prologue, love, imagery, sorrow, and regret, these resources are perfect for
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8th - 11th
Also included in: Romeo and Juliet Complete Resource Catalog
Notice & Note SUPERBUNDLE: Fiction & Nonfiction
This bundle combines ALL my resources for N&N fiction and nonfiction signposts!Bookmarks, posters, and icons for both fiction/narrative and nonfiction/expository texts. See those listings for more details.Enjoy!
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Close Reading & Chunking Text: Reading Comprehension Skills
Close reading and reading comprehension skills are vital for students to become life-long readers and thinkers. “Chunking” or chunking text is a technique used to close read pages of text, a section of the text, or break down an article, chapter, or poem. Chunking has your students look closely at these particular sections, summarize, analyze and interpret what they read. This is a great reading comprehension technique and activity for your struggling readers. If you are looking to improve your
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: Literature Activities Bundle, Oh My!
Inferences: Short Stories Set 2
They're here! 10 MORE short stories to target inferencing! Practice drawing conclusions when given some, but not all, of the information. Like set 1, inferences are broken down into predictions, environmental, and people & emotions inferences (see a short description of each below). Stories are geared to upper elementary and middle school topics, such as the first day at a new school, being on the debate team, and attending a school dance. Two copies of each story are included, one with ques
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Short Stories Bundle
Crocs Article Reading Passage, Reading Comprehension Questions, Writing Prompts
This Crocs™ Article and Reading Comprehension activity is a highly-engaging reading activity for your middle school students. In this activity, your students will read all about the history of Crocs, and answer Common Core / New Generation standards, reading comprehension questions. This product also comes with two writing prompts - an informative writing prompt and an argument writing prompt.Reading nonfiction is a great way to improve reading comprehension. They provide students with the oppo
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Reading Passages Nonfiction Bundle, Reading Comprehension
ELA/Reading Strategy Digital Anchor Charts
This file contains 41 digital anchor charts to use in an ELA/Reading classroom. Topics covered in this file includes the Opinion-Proof Strategy, Fact and Opinion, VVWA Charts, Academic Conversation starters, the Better Answers Writing Strategy, and much more!Great resource to use for interactive notebooks!▶️ Connect with The Creative Classroom:➜ Sign up HERE for The Creative Classroom's EMAIL LIST for exclusive freebies, tips, and more!➜ FACEBOOK➜ PINTEREST➜ BLOG
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6th - 9th
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Literature Circles Unit - Middle School Social Justice - Literature Circle Roles
This 60 page Middle School Literature Circle Unit is perfect for Thematic Social Justice themed Book Clubs. Literature Circle units are engaging and effective methods of reading instruction that encourage students to engage in rich conversation surrounding text and take ownership of their learning. The ready to use activities included encourage inquiry and critical thinking about social justice issues, and help you to introduce, organize, facilitate, and manage this effective reading and discuss
Grades:
5th - 9th
Once Upon a Time: Literary Criticism Taught Through Fairy Tales
Literary criticism should be utilized “in order to make what is implicit in a book finely explicit” (Bloom, 2000, p. 19). Readers, students and teachers, should use the tools of critical literary theory and not be used by them. Literary criticism is a method of understanding, but the theory relies on developing self-understanding as well, and it is that desire to understand ourselves and the world that pushes me and my students to read. I created this model of using critical literary theory lens
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9th - 12th
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Martin Luther King Jr. I Have a Dream Close Reading Analysis Activities
Must have MLK "I Have A Dream" resource for rhetorical analysis and Black History Month. Guided close reading worksheets help students analyze the rhetorical situation, diction, syntax, figurative language, connotation / denotation, and rhetorical appeals found in Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream Speech". This lesson involves direct instruction, engaging supporting videos, guided rhetorical analysis practice exercises, and a structured rhetorical analysis close reading of MLK's "I Have a
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: Martin Luther King I Have A Dream Malcolm X Close Read Rhetoric Bundle
Freak the Mighty Chapter Comprehension Quizzes
This product features 5-question comprehension quizzes for each chapter in Rodman Philbrick's Freak the Mighty. Questions vary in format from multiple choice to true/false. Each quizzes ends with a detail-oriented bonus question in either a short/answer, fill-in-the-blank, or true/false format. Answer keys INCLUDED! Quizzes are formatted as half/sheet, print-and-go, paper-saving layout.Teaching Freak the Mighty is one of my favorite times of the year. Students love the humor, storyline, and less
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6th - 9th
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TED Talks for Developing Reading and Writing Skills in the Classroom
15 pages of handouts for 8 different riveting TED Talks at www.ted.com. The handouts have BEFORE VIEWING, DURING VIEWING, and AFTER VIEWING sections for students to interact with the talks in and out of the classroom. Perfect for flipped classrooms and in classroom work. Great discussion tools and skills based practice.These handouts practice these skills and more:ArgumentAuthor's PurposeLiterary AnalysisMedia & ImagesUsing EvidenceInferenceWorks Cited/MLA formatCritical Thinking SkillsTED
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7th - 12th
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Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys BIG UNIT BUNDLE
The contents of this bundle include:
1. Group Inquiry Project: This is an introduction to the novel. Students read the back of the book and research different words on the description. They then share their discoveries with the class in a creative presentation.
2. Video Clip Analysis: Students watch an interview with the author and write an analysis that uses rhetorical devices to make their claim.
3. Text Analysis Guided Exploration: This activity can be used all throughout the reading of the
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9th - 12th
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Think Book- Year Long Reading Project
Give your students the opportunity to show their understanding of what they have read in a creative & visual way. Product includes:Google slides explaining the projectStudent resources to create the think book2 different rubrics for assessment. Book used to create this resource: https://a.co/d/hgmGuPrStudent examples: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzOm-4zOHPw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyUdq8FMdvi/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&
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4th - 12th
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Scaffolded Annotations Bundle
Challenge your struggling readers and English Language Learners to successfully tackle difficult text! This bundle includes Constructing Meaning-style guided annotations of three powerful texts. Each text is included in full. In the left margin, students are asked to work with vocabulary and rhetorical analysis concepts introduced in the text using guided annotation boxes. Close reading strategies align with Common Core. A full key is included for each. PLUS-all future scaffolded annotation prod
Grades:
9th - 12th
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