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Free high school close reading study guides
The Most Dangerous Game Part 1 (Guided Reading)
This is a Google slides presentation of the story "The Most Dangerous Game" with embedded discussion/comprehension questions, as well as audio by Edward French. Standards: RL.9.10 By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9-10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Learning Target: Read and respond to questions about Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game.” Succe
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9th - 12th
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Nonfiction Annotation Strategy
This strategy takes students past the symbol mark-ups and emoji annotations that barely scratch the surface of a text, and urges students to look closely at a writer's diction, tone, text structures, etc., to help determine author's purpose. I designed each step based on the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English I and II and the corresponding question stems from the STAAR test, but it fits with the ELA Common Core standards as well. Any content that requires reading informational, e
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Great Gatsby Study Guide Questions (Full Book)
The Great Gatsby Study Guide Questions (Full Book)Includes Pre-Reading and Post Reading Activities.
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9th - 12th
The Great Gatsby Chapter 1: Close Reading Organizer & Reading Check Quiz
These pages include varied tasks to engage students in a close reading of chapter 1 in The Great Gatsby. Graphic organizers provide prompts with quotes, questions and topics to aid comprehension, guide analysis, and assess learning. A detailed sample answer key is also provided for the entire activity.Targeted skills: · Identify and analyze characters · Understand the influence of the setting · Follow the sequence of events· Analyze language devices· Identify and analyze symbolism · Identify de
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Lady or the Tiger Reading Guide and Key
This resource was created to be used with the short story, “The Lady or the Tiger” by Frank Stockton. The Reading Guide provides the students with a close read of the text with dependent questions that help target the Common core State Standards for Literature. This guide helps students with comprehension to help determine what the author is saying? The student reading guide is ready to duplicate for classroom use and teacher key for the test is included. Other resources are also available f
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9th - 12th
Rhetorical and Argumentative Verbs
Don't forget to check out our classroom poster file!This document is designed to help give students a succinct and purposeful list of purposeful verbs to use—rather than the word “use” or its more eloquent synonyms—while completing rhetorical analysis assignments. It is governed by the philosophy that if students can either identify the rhetorical mode or the element of classical argument structure that is exhibited in the text at hand, then they won’t have to overthink identifying the rhetoric
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9th - 12th
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The Outsiders by SE Hinton Chapter 1 Activity Bundle
The Outsiders by SE Hinton Chapter 1 Activity Bundle
This is part of a whole novel bundle for only $9.99 which can be found at
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/itemsDigital/edit/3244265
This is a very comprehensive bundle of instructional resources and activities related to Chapter 1 of the novel, he Outsiders by SE Hinton. It includes,
1) 2 active reading Scavenger Hunts for Information
These are both active reading scavenger hunts where students actively hunt for information and ana
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7th - 12th
"There Will Come Soft Rains" Short Story Annotation Guide
This is an annotation guide to aide students' comprehension and analysis as they read Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains." I have uploaded it as a word document so that you can modify the page numbers to fit your version.Here is a link to the version that matches the page numbers on this outline. https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf
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9th - 12th
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Shakespeare's Language Bookmarks
Do your students hate slogging through the "old-time" wording of Shakespeare, whether it's the sonnets, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, or any of his other works? Despite the fact that the margin notes (and the Internet, honestly) are at their fingertips, sometimes it is still a struggle to recall the thees and thines and thous. This bookmark includes some of the commonly used archaic terms that most frustrate students. In addition, as a bookmark, it can help the class stay on track with your
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7th - 12th
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The Veldt Review and Study Guide
Join thousands of teachers who have used this 13 page, easily-printable review guide to aid their prep and improve their students’ understanding of Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt.”
This LitCharts review guide includes:
- Contextual info: author bio, historical background, related literary texts
- Analysis of characters, symbols, and themes
- Thematic analysis of important quotes
- Unique side-by-side summary analysis that supports and models the close and active reading that is so central to mode
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7th - 9th
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The Minister’s Black Veil Review and Study Guide
Join thousands of teachers who have used this 12 page, easily-printable review guide to aid their prep and improve their students’ understanding of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil.”
This LitCharts review guide includes:
- Contextual info: author bio, historical background, related literary texts
- Analysis of characters, symbols, and themes
- Thematic analysis of important quotes
- Unique side-by-side summary analysis that supports and models the close and active reading tha
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9th - 12th
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A Christmas Carol Stave One Close-reading Guide and Reading Quiz—Grades 8-10
A Christmas Carol Stave One comprehensive reading assessment and close-reading guide will save you hours of time. Know ahead that the close-reading guide can be used in whole or in part for whenever or wherever you want the students to practice their close-reading skills. You may want the students to respond in writing to a few questions, but I designed them to help students have an oral dialogue with a reading peer. The assessment is an objective-type matching format; the students match quotati
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8th - 10th
FREE Things Fall Apart Pacing Guide with Student Bookmark
This FREEBIE includes invaluable resources for both you and your students if you are teaching Things Fall Apart! For your students, there is an editable and printable bookmark will give them all the information they need to keep the characters and places (and reading due dates!) handy as they reading Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Encouraging active notetaking while reading challenging and complex works of literature is a skill that we all want our students to practice, and with this bookmar
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Things Fall Apart Pre-Reading Activities and Lessons Bundle
Annotation Guide - Middle/High School Social Studies
This is an annotation guide providing helpful tips and suggestions for close reading, particularly in middle and high school social studies and history classrooms. Great for analyzing primary and secondary resources! I hope your students find it helpful!✨Feedback & Followers✨Did you know that you can receive credit towards future TpT purchases by reviewing this product? If you enjoy this product, please leave a review at the product page or through “My Purchases” under “My Account” at TpT. R
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6th - 12th
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The Outsiders - A Framework for Analysis (four purposes)
This is a novel-specific study guide for The Outsiders - in two copies (one as the original guide, and the second as a framework with blank lines). Crafted to resemble study guides like Cliffs - BUT with a younger audience in mind, it includes some storyline basics like characters and themes, but also includes some tidbits of and behind the novel that teens may not otherwise know (like what the "wrong side of the tracks" means, the scandal behind why the author used her initials and other era-s
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8th - 10th
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Rhetorical Strategies Umbrella Reference
Do your students struggle to identify what techniques build pathos, logos, or ethos? Mine did too, so I created this umbrella resource to help them visualize the different devices authors use to persuade their audiences. On the back of the reference are 10 fallacies that weaken arguments, and their definitions. This resource is 100% editable and can be easily uploaded onto any platform for absent students, or it can be used for teaching students remotely.
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7th - 12th
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The Outsiders Close Reading Questions Chapters 7 and 8
This document contains close reading questions for the novel The Outsiders for chapters 7 and 8. Along with the questions are page numbers where the answers can be found. Many of the questions evaluate comprehension.
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6th - 12th
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Underlining vs. Annotating Guide - Handout
This is one page from my more comprehensive Annotation Genius Guide, something I originally created to help my AP English Lit and Lang students. This one page (...and the more comprehensive product available in my store) is applicable to any HS English course, many advanced MS English and ELA courses, and some college-level English and literature courses. This can be a useful reference for students to access when they are first developing their annotation and active-reading skills or when they a
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9th - 12th
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Reliable vs Unreliable Narrator
I appreciate your willingness to try this resource with your students. I am committed to providing high-quality resources that empower educators and enrich students' learning experiences. I hope this will be your experience. After implementation, please don't hesitate to reach out with suggestions for improvement, insight, or success stories. This resource can be used in several different ways, such as a scaffold, independent work, group work, or jigsaw. This resource touches on the listed stand
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 Close Reading / Analysis Text-dependent Questions
These questions guide students through a close analysis of chapter one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. Students work through the text, focusing on analyzing characters, building symbolism and themes, identifying tone / sarcasm, analyzing word choice, and using textual evidence. The questions can be used for individual analysis or small- or whole-group discussion of the text. They can also be left for substitutes!
All page references refer to the Scribner 2004 edition.
Looking
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9th - 12th
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Fahrenheit 451, Pt 1: Comprehension, Discussion, Study Guide, Journal Questions
Need help making the most of literature reading without overcomplicating things? Want students to come to class prepared to engage actively and demonstrate creative, critical thinking in response to a text?Introducing: Prompts to Provoke Thought Pamphlet for Fahrenheit 451, Part 1, by Ray BradburyThis simple --but comprehensive-- printable pamphlet that serves as a foldable bookmark provides dozens of specific, detailed, concrete, analytical comprehension questions for students to consider and a
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9th - 11th
Reading Comprehension Mark the Text Bookmark: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
This bookmark is specific to the novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. It will help students keep track of narrative elements whether marking their own book or using sticky notes in class set novels.
Being able to annotate will help with quizzes, tests, class discussions, projects, and writing assignments.
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6th - 9th
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The TimeKeeper Novel Unit Sample Lesson Plan Free Novel Study Resource
The Time Keeper Novel Unit Sample Lesson Plan Based on Mitch Albom's novelThis sample resource is included in my six week unit, which includes all daily lesson plans aligned with ELA CCSS for grades 9-12**THIS RESOURCE IS ALSO INCLUDED IN MY YEAR-LONG ELA MEGA BUNDLE! SAVE MONEY & FIND IT HERESAVE YOURSELF 50 HOURS OF PLANNING TIME WITH THIS BRAND NEW SIX WEEK NOVEL UNIT--Zero planning for six weeks....Product Preview: Peek Inside the UnitUpon purchase, you will download a 145 page PDF with
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9th - 12th
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Hamlet Act 1 Scene 3 Reading Guide & Answer Key
Teaching Shakespeare's Hamlet for the first time and unsure where to start? Looking for a last minute assignment for a sub or virtual day? Just trying to up the ante with your current materials? This act 1 scene 3 reading guide directly correlates to the text and helps students understand all of the intricacies of the play. All you need to supply is the text. This editable Google Doc reading guide is designed to accompany act 1 scene 3 of Shakespeare's Hamlet. It includes 12 open-ended questions
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Hamlet Act 1 Scene 3 Bundle
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