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Teaching Symbolism and Allegory - Introduction Activity & PowerPoint
Teaching symbolism can be tricky, but symbolism activities like this one HOOK your students and help them engage with any text. This is a sweet introduction to symbolism that your students will remember long after the candy is gone.⭐️ I use this with “Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe, but it is not text-specific. You can use it with any short story or novel or as a stand-alone lesson. Your resource for teaching symbolism includes:An anticipatory set using Tootsie Roll Pops (or Blow Po
Grades:
7th - 10th
What Should Danny Do? Activity Booklet
This activity booklet perfectly compliments the story book 'What Should Danny Do?' by Ganit Levy & Adir Levy.What's included in this download:- Doubled sided booklet- Make 2 booklets at a time! Print on A4 to make A5 booklets or blow it up to A3 and make A4 booklets- How to make and use the booklet instruction page- A scenario guide to help you keep track of all the story lines you have read- FOR AUSSIE TEACHERS Australian Curriculum Links English document for Years 1-3. Also useful for Heal
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1st - 6th
Diction and Word Choice Lesson - Geraldo No Last Name - Sandra Cisneros
This lesson on Diction and word choice can be used as a traditional worksheet, digital worksheet, or with Interactive Notebooks (ISN). I use it in my Short Stories unit with "Geraldo No Last Name" by Sandra Cisneros, but this resource is editable for any text. (optimized for grades 7-10)What You Get: 1. Introductory PPT (editable)2. Two lesson plan ideas: analytical or creative writing options3. Interactive Notebook layouts and foldables4. Traditional worksheet version (editable .doc)5. Digital
Grades:
7th - 10th
"The Dinner Party" Inferences Lesson (Bundle)
This bundle includes both the teacher version and student version of this resource. This is a fun and interactive lesson that engages students in learning how to make inferences with literary texts! This lesson can take 1-2 days to complete.The lesson is structured to guide students through the following skills and tasks:Making inferences from digital images (Anticipatory Set)Marking the textIdentifying literary clues and background informationMaking inferences from literary textsProviding textu
Grades:
6th - 9th
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"The Dinner Party" Inferences Lesson Student Version (Includes Anticipatory Set)
This is a fun and interactive lesson that engages students in learning how to make inferences with literary texts! This lesson can take 1-2 days to complete.The lesson is structured to guide students through the following skills and tasks:Making inferences from digital images (Anticipatory Set)Marking the textIdentifying literary clues and background informationMaking inferences from literary textsProviding textual evidence to support their answersThe student version can be assigned either digit
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: "The Dinner Party" Inferences Lesson (Bundle)
COMPLETE SHORT STORIES 6-WEEK UNIT BUNDLE: "Magi," "Ibis," "Necklace"
Everything you need to teach this 6-week unit (2 weeks on each story) for "The Scarlet Ibis," "The Gift of the Magi," and "The Necklace" is included! Pre-reading slide decks help you introduce discussion questions and vocabulary before reading each story. Post-reading slide decks help you cover theme, point of view, symbolism, irony, and so much more after students read each story. Finally, an essay prompt and graphic organizers are included to tie the stories together with a common theme for
Grades:
7th - 12th
ELA Interactive Notebook: Story Elements
ELA Interactive Notebook: Story Elements. 6 pages of fill-in notes for an interactive notebook. Note sheets for story element, setting, characters, conflict, and plot. Can be used in middle school ELA.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Story Elements Slides, Interactive Notebook Pages, Activities (5 Days)
teenage mutant ninja turtles digital game digital end of the year activities
Cowabunga! Get ready for an epic end-of-year celebration with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Digital Game! The enemy of the Ninja Turtles, Shredder, has kidnapped the master of Slinter, and you need to do tasks and move around the map. Guess facts about ninja turtles, practice, make pizza, connect numbers, remember grammar, and more. Join Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael for a shell-shocking adventure filled with fun challenges and exciting rewards. Whether in the classroom or a
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1st - 6th
The Tell Tale Heart Digital Notebook and Printable
This digital notebook is full of interactive elements, including its very own beating heart!Inside you will find Poe's full short story paired with a dramatic reading to engage your students. They will make their way through the story while having the option to digitally annotate it with the Google/PowerPoint highlight tool. On each slide are comprehension and analysis questions that you can change if you want to fit your students. To finish off the lesson there is an animated version of the sto
Grades:
8th - 12th
Science Fiction: War of the Worlds Research Project
Students will work together to complete a research project on the H.G. Wells story War of the Worlds. Through their research they will practice identifying elements of the science fiction genre and effectively use different mediums of presentation.
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7th - 12th
"Flowers for Algernon" Hyperdoc with Critical Reading Process & R.A.C.E. Writing
This resource is divided into sections with hyperdoc format. Students will engage in the Critical Reading Process (outlined below) as well as a R.A.C.E. writing assignment.Critical Reading Phase 1: ActivateEngage in a video about what 83,000 brain scans teach us.Explore and choose one of the resources provided to explore further. Complete a 3-2-1 reflection on the one you choose. Optional: You can make this a discussion post or a Padlet post for students to share 3-2-1 responses with othersCriti
Grades:
7th - 9th
O. Henry A Retrieved Reformation Differentiated NO PREP Story Activities
This is a NO PREP differentiated short story unit for O. Henry's "A Retrieved Reformation." I have used it for middle school students as well as my Special Education high school students and they love it! There are both digital and printable versions of the activities. It contains the following:Printable and editable plot diagramPrintable and editable story with guided reading questions - there are both modified and unmodified versionsPrintable and editable vocabulary cloze activityJournal/e
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: No Prep O. Henry Bundle - 3 Classic Short Stories
Story #10 Lazy Larry
A unicorn who doesn't want to work but has all the beauty and intelligence to be successful prefers to be lazy and just play. What happens to him?
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4th - 9th
Southern Gothic Elements Info Sheet & Graphic Organizer
My goal was to create a document that could be applied to both To Kill a Mockingbird for freshmen English as well as A Rose for Emily and anything Faulkner related for Juniors. The end result is a graphic organizer that enables students to interact with any Southern Gothic writing on a thematic and structural level to find the underlying meanings and symbolism embedded in the writing. I also compiled many of the information from various sources to create one clean and easily understood informati
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Setting
This product details what setting is and the importance of it. It is great to show at the beginning of a fiction or short story unit.
It is an 11 slide introductory in PDF format so that the fonts and graphics transfer, but it is used like a PowerPoint.
I have also included an interactive notebook activity that you can use with any story.
I have updated this product based on early feedback, and I hope you enjoy!
Grades:
6th - 9th
"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant Short Story Unit Bundle
Get all you need to teach "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant. This bundle includes pre-reading discussion questions to get the conversation started on the story's themes. It introduces key vocabulary words so that students will understand the story as they read. After reading, students can use the Characterization Chart to understand how a character's traits are revealed through different modes of characterization. Finally, students write a paragraph tracing a character's development and ch
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Daily Writing Prompts
Start the day with daily writing prompts! There are 172 different writing prompts to choose from. Most go with different national holiday's. Typically I do this first thing in the morning for morning work.
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1st - 6th
"The Lottery" - Shirley Jackson (guided annotations)
Complete short story with extensive guided annotations. Generic review questions included at the end of the guided doc.
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Pablito es un ratón millonario, por Craig Klein.
This is a Powerpoint for chapter 2 of the book: "El ratón Pablito". This is a very communicative activity. Read along the book while students see the visuals and question words to generate questions in the classroom related with the story. Get ready to hear your students speak only Spanish during this activity.
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K - 8th
Google Classroom: Elements of Story Interactive Notebook for Distance Learning
Updated! Built for Google Classroom, this 24 page interactive notebook package breaks down and simplifies the 6 elements of story:PlotSettingCharacterPoint of ViewConflict andThemeinto manageable parts so that students can review, as well as practice further develop an understanding about all of these story elements which can be applied to all literature.Activities are incorporated for Plot, Setting, Character, Conflict and Theme to check for student understanding. This student packet is both a
Grades:
6th - 11th
"Lamb to the Slaughter" Digital Notebook/Reading Guide & Follow Up PPT FILE
I created this PowerPoint Interactive Notebook while we are all virtual.All slides are fully editable to your liking."Lamb to the Slaughter"Slides 1-14 are the text and reading guide questions for "Lamb to the Slaughter." I made the reading guide questions myself. Feel free to edit, add, or delete any for your copy/classes.Slide 15 is a follow up page identifying the dramatic and situational irony in the story.Slide 16 is a link to the TeacherTube video of the Alfred Hitchcock version of the sto
Grades:
7th - 12th
Labor Day Interactive Read Aloud Powerpoint/Bell Ringer
Using the Children's book, "Who Started the Labor Day Celebration?", students will learn about Labor Day through a fun and interactive way! This is a great Labor Day holiday assignment for any grade level!
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
What's Going ON?! No-Prep Short Story Activity. Interactive PDF.
Looking for a no-prep short story activity that will thrill your students? This short story activity is perfect for any age and level. The student must use visual scanning to look at all the details in each picture. Then, the must create a short story based on the picture. They will describe what occurred before, during, and after the given picture. Have fun with this activity and spark your student's imaginations! This activity targets:First, Then, Next, Last Before, During and AfterSentence St
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Pablito es un ratón millonario COMIC
This is a one-page comic with sentences and translations from "El ratón Pablito" (Chapter 2) Students can use their imagination by drawing their own comic and present to his/her classmates at the end of the class.
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Grades:
K - 8th
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