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Literature interactive notebooks for Microsoft Word
The Hobbit Interactive Notebook (Google Doc Access Available)
Interactive Notebook for The Hobbit. Activities and review sheet for each chapter. Higher level questioning with activities promoting close reading.
The entire interactive notebook is also available electronically. The Google Document link (located on the last page of the Word Document) will give you access to the complete interactive notebook. Students can complete the document electronically when using this format.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Science Fiction Short Story Complete Unit
This unit is an exploration of a number of classic science fiction short stories by noted authors such as Stephen Vincent Benet, Ray Bradbury, Joan Aiken, and Kurt Vonnegut. It is supplemented with related expository reading by Marie Winn, poetry, and song-lyrics. The unit was designed with three main teaching goals in mind. First, the main focus of the unit is the teaching/re-teaching of story structure. Students will master the concepts of exposition in a story, inciting incidents, rising
Grades:
9th - 10th
Also included in:Â Science Fiction Short Story Bundle
Interactive Journal for Night by Elie Wiesel
I use this interactive journal as the backbone of my thematic unit of Experiencing War and Genocide where we read and analyze the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel. This item is a foldable, printable booklet, and part of a 2-PIECE BUNDLE that includes the completed answer key in 8.5x11 sized paper (KEY Interactive Journal for Night by Elie Wiesel found here)Students engage with this journal each class for the entire unit. I launch the unit by transforming my classroom into a Holocaust Museum and Memo
Grades:
8th - 11th
KEY Interactive Journal for Night by Elie Wiesel
This is the key for the interactive journal that I use as the backbone of my thematic unit of Experiencing War and Genocide where we read and analyze the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel. This item is the completed answer key part of a 2-PIECE BUNDLE that includes foldable, printable interactive booklet (Interactive Journal for Night by Elie Wiesel found here). Students engage with this journal each class for the entire unit. I launch the unit by transforming my classroom into a Holocaust Museum and
Grades:
8th - 11th
Teach Characterization with Video Clips (Disney, Pixar, etc.)
By middle school, students should begin to develop skills in analyzing author craft. One of the easiest ways to introduce kids to the "craft moves" an author makes is through teaching characterization. The reality is that kids already understand this literary term on some level because they unconsciously pick up on all of the clues that an author or a text (be it book, movie, music video, or tv show) provides the audience. We inherently form judgements about characters as we engage with a text.T
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Grades:
5th - 10th
Charlotte's Web Hyperdoc Distance Learning Novel Study on Google Slides
This hyperdoc was created using the novel Charlotte's Web as a way for my students to enjoy the novel through distance learning. There are comprehension questions as well as links to videos and articles. There is also a choice board at the end for a culmination activity. You will receive a word document with a link on it. When you click on the link, you will be prompted to save this to your Google Drive. I hope your students enjoy this activity as much as mine have. 83 pages included!
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Types of Figurative Language Notes
This is THE BEST resource to teach your students figurative language! It includes pictures, examples, and links to song clips to help students understand the types of figurative language in different ways. A must-have!
Types Include:
- alliteration
- allusion
- hyperbole
- simile
- metaphor
- onomatopoeia
- personification
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Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in:Â House On Mango Street Bundle
Point of View Pronoun Sort
Perfect for those students struggling to identify the difference between first and third person point of view. Students will work to identify the pronouns associated with each point of view, and sort them into the correct category. This is the perfect way to scaffold, and work your way through the Point of View standard. Can be used as a formative assessment to determine which students have an understanding of the pronoun clue usage for identifying point of view.
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham Notebook Guides
This bundle included editable chapter guides for chapters 1 through 15 in The Watsons Go to Birmingham. The guides cover a variety of standards and each guide contains written comprehension questions. For an idea of layout, please download the Chapter 1 Freebie! Guides are sized so they are able to be cut out and glued into notebooks.
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
Making Inferences about How Characters Respond to Challenges - Esperanza Rising
I used this to practice making inferences from Esperanza Rising. The specific task they were asked to do was to make inferences based on how various characters are responding to challenges using text evidence. This was done as a whole group activity to practice our skills.
There are two pages technically to the document but the second page is blank.
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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Character/Suspect Chart Murder on the Orient Express
I designed this for my students as we're reading Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, to help them keep track of all of the characters and the various pieces of evidence throughout the text. This was designed for an 8th grade class, but could be used for grades 6th-12th, depending on the reading level of the students. Murder on the Orient Express is a great book, but might be too advanced (in terms of vocabulary) for some middle school students.
Grades:
6th - 12th
El odio que das (Cuaderno)/ The Hate U Give Spanish notebook!!!!
This is a Spanish reading guide/ notebook for El odio que das (The Hate U Give). This notebook includes 2-3 higher order comprehension questions for all 25 chapters. The notebook is all in SPANISH. Also, each chapter includes a 4 square vocabulary template, for the teacher to choose one vocabulary word of focus for each chapter. Please note, a list of suggested vocabulary is NOT INCLUDED. Enjoy!
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Grades:
6th - 12th
A Modest Proposal: Guided Notes Graphic Organizer
A guided notes graphic organizer designed for A Modest Proposal written by Jonathan Swift.Great for checking students' reading comprehension while reading. This can also be used to analyze A Modest Proposal. File is EDITABLE. Add your own questions, modify the ones already asked, delete any that are not relevant to your classroom.
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
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To Be Read (TBR) List for Writer's Workshop Notebooks
These TBR lists are great to pair with book tastings in a reading/writing workshop community. Students can keep track of books they're interested in reading throughout the year while book tasting by adding them to their list and referring back to it once glued in their composition notebooks.
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Grades:
K - 8th
Citing Text Evidence Sentence Starters
Sentence starters sorted by citing or explaining text evidence. R.A.C.E. aligned and helps students include and explain text evidence in analytical writing.
Grades:
6th - 12th
The Help- Kathryn Stockett Chapter 1-34 Questions
The Help by Kathryn Stockett is a wonderful novel to cover with your students!! This document contains chapter questions for EVERY chapter in the novel (1-34) and the answers may be found in order. These questions will guide your students through the reading of one of the greatest novels they will ever remember.
Plus, the questions would be great for interactive notebooks!!
Grades:
8th - 12th
Character Chart - The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
Help your students keep track of the characters in this Fantasy novel from the Chronicles of Narnia series. They can take notes on internal and external character traits, identify stereotypes/archetypes, and jot down evidence from the text to support their thinking.
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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Introduction to Romanticism & Realism-- ONE PAGER!
What better way to truly engrave the difference between these two major time periods in American literature than with art from the time periods? Once you have finished Romanticism, pass this page around to pairs or groups and have them brainstorm the new unit based on the images provided. I did leave space in the box for students to list the texts associated with Romanticism!Print and go for sub plans or just an easy transition day!
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Grades:
11th - 12th
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Graphic Organizer Ask and answer questions about key details in a text
Graphic organizer to use with LAFS.1.RL.1.1 Florida Standards ELA
Grades:
K - 2nd
Homer's ILIAD Student Reading Journal
This (editable) Student Reading Journal has a reading schedule, character list, maps, a space for notes, and questions for students to answer for each book of the epic poem. This enables students to know what to look for when they read, holds them accountable, and provides space for students to take notes.
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Grades:
7th - 11th
AP Lit - Analyzing Poetry Prompts Graphic Organizer
Learning to quickly and effectively break down an AP Literature essay prompt is essential to testing success.
I cut into strips all of the old released poetry prompts from past AP Lit tests (included). Each day, students take one and glue it and this graphic organizer into their Interactive Notebook. They complete the graphic organizer using the prompt.
Students get approximately 5-7 minutes to complete the organizer. We complete one a day as a warm-up or bellringer during each of the poe
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Grades:
10th - 12th
RI3 Sentence Frame, Rubric, and Sample Construct Response
This resource allows students to structure their ideas as it relates to how the author introduces, develops, and refines key idea/event. Students are required to code parts of their response for accountability and this strategy also trains the instructor's eyes for efficient grading and assessment.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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Of Mice and Men Study Guide Questions (EDITABLE DOCUMENT)
GREAT FOR ONLINE LEARNING AND DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION! This unit provides each chapter of John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, with guiding higher-level thinking questions. I use these questions to guide student thinking as they read and annotate by handing each chapter's questions out at the beginning of each chapter, that way as students read and annotate, they can be consciously looking for literary techniques and devices along with character development, plot development, etc. Have st
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Grades:
8th - 12th
Typhoid Fever | by Frank McCourt | Narrative Element sheet | questions and SCR
Are you planning on reading Angela's Ashes or the short story from Angela's Ashes "Typhoid Fever?" by Frank McCourt? Here are two awesome resources for your class!1- The narrative sheet and reader response questions:The top of the sheet asks students to identify the narrative elements in the short storythe bottom of the sheet has pre-reading questions and reader response questions for students to respond to after the story is concluded2- Short Constructed ResponseAfter reading, this SCR asks to
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Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Narrative Unit Bundle
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