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High school literature task cards
Introduction to Shakespeare Learning Stations
Do you need to do an introduction to Shakespeare? Looking for a fun and interesting way to do it? Get your students engaged, learning, and moving as they discover information about Shakespeare and his world. There are also two stations that give students tips and experience with reading Shakespeare's language. After this introduction to Shakespeare, they will be ready to dive in!In this resource you will find station titles, task cards, and task sheets, as well as editable cards so you can add
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9th - 12th
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Reading Response Question Cards for Any Book-- Multi-grade Usage
These 100 question cards for any novel will help your students engage in meaningful and insightful discussions about the books they are reading. The cards address setting, characters, plot, theme, symbolism, point of view, style, and more! Students will need to use reading strategies such as inference, summarizing, comparing and contrasting etc. to dig deeper into the text.These cards work for grades 3 through 12-- seriously! They are universal questions that work in conjunction with any novel
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education
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Discussion Skills Challenge Task Cards - Great for Socratic Seminars
Do you have students who struggle with participating in group discussions? Or others who over-share their opinions but rarely ask questions to others? Do you conduct Socratic Seminars but struggle to see student growth? These challenge cards can help! Learning to engage in meaningful discussions is one of the most valuable lessons we teach in the ELA classroom. These cards aim to help students become more aware of the different types of contributions they can make in group discussions, while als
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6th - 9th
Elements of Literature Teaching Bundle: plot, conflict, mood, theme, and more!
Teach your students about the literary elements with these engaging and hands-on literary elements mini-units! These elements of literature units provide you with a focused, engaging, and effective way to teach literary elements to your students!⭐️ There are 10 units included in this teaching bundle!characterizationconflictforeshadowingmood motifplotsettingsuspensethemetoneEach literary element mini-unit includes:PowerPoint presentation for direct instructionStudent sketch notes for notetaking d
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7th - 10th
The Giver Activity - A World Without Pain Article and Novel Assignment
The Giver Activity - A World Without Pain Article and Novel Assignment is a ready-to-use resource that will allow students to examine a world with no pain as the community members experience in The Giver by Lois Lowry. In the novel, community members have been completely sheltered from feeling any emotional or physical pain. While this seems positive, Jonas comes to realize that just as there is no pain without memory, there is also no true happiness. Allow your students to make a real-world c
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6th - 9th
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Macbeth Bundle: Unit Plan, Worksheets, Projects, PowerPoints, Essays
If you're teaching Shakespeare's Macbeth, you need to purchase this massive bundle, with more than 95 files and 150+ pages!
Included in this bundle:
• 56 task cards analyzing the play's figurative language
• Close reading passage activities
• Sample pacing calendar
• Common Core aligned unit map
• Drama activities
• Primary source readings
• A 46-slide introductory PowerPoint on Shakespeare
• A 23-slide Macbeth Introduction PowerPoint
• Movie guides and activities
• Anticipation guide
• Creati
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8th - 12th
Critical Thinking Activities for Any Text {Bundle}
This bundle combines three products designed to get your students thinking independently and critically about the literature they read and about author purpose. All activities and organizers focus on higher order thinking skills and allow students to reflect on their own, and to collaborate with classmates. Several of the activities get them up and moving to learn.March 2020 Update: Options for distance learning added, (the digital version only can be found here)See what other teachers are sayin
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9th - 12th
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All Summer in a Day Escape Room
Escape Room Activity All Summer in a Day: Help your students understand this popular short story by Ray Bradbury with this highly-engaging interactive escape room / break out activity! No keys or lock boxes needed!Less Prep for teachers as students will cut out the cards for each task!This escape room has four tasks:1. Plot Elements – Students will correctly order the plot cards. There are 5 extra distractor cards that will not be used. Once they determine the plot points, they will write the se
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6th - 9th
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Inferences High School Task Cards Exit Tickets Short Stories Inferencing
Finding quick, easy, and engaging ways to practice inferences can be challenging. ELA Task cards are the perfect solution. They are to the point, versatile, and challenging. Making inferences task cards are great to use as bell ringers, warm-ups, tutoring sessions, exit tickets, game cards, and more. Help your high school English I & II students or Pre-AP students practice their reading comprehension. Some 8th-grade teachers have found this helpful. Click for middle school task cards.The 20
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8th - 11th
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Learning Stations for Any Text
Help students analyze any text they read: Go beyond chapter questions and worksheets and use these stations to guide your students to be independent, critical thinkers as they study a text. These stations are designed to be used with any novel and can be differentiated to suit the needs of your students. You will divide your novel into sections, then use the stations after students have completed each section. Students will move in small groups through the stations; it won't matter which order
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Learning Stations Mega Bundle
ELA Halloween or Gothic Literature Stations
Celebrate the spookiness (and fun) of gothic literature or Halloween with your students. This engaging activity is perfect to complement your gothic literature unit or to celebrate Halloween in your secondary classroom. Your middle and high school students will analyze poetry, fiction, and nonfiction with literary lenses; role play; and discuss with these engaging activities. This activity includes an interactive digital stations option too! Best of all, the content on the slides is editable! Th
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: English Language Arts (ELA) Seasonal Activities Bundle
Figurative Language Task Cards: Quizzes, Activities, Bell-Ringers
Help your students understand elements of figurative language with this set of 32 task cards. Each card features a passage from a famous work of literature, along with a prompt asking students to identify and/or explain the device's function. The cards can work with both middle and high school students.
A recording sheet and an answer key are included in both Word and PDF formats (the task cards themselves are a PDF). These cards work well as a paired, partnered, or group activity. Print, cut,
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7th - 12th
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Reading Discussion Cards | Questions for Fiction and Nonfiction
Whether you're implementing a book club, literature circles, or another form of independent, choice reading, students need to have opportunities to socialize and share their thinking. With these reading task cards for fiction and nonfiction, your students will be able to share meaningful information about their books with their classmates even when everyone is reading a different novel.In this resource, you will receive 60 fiction discussion task cards and 60 nonfiction discussion task cards. Yo
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7th - 10th
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Lord of the Flies Task Cards: Characters, Questions, Symbols, and More!
This Task Card set is perfect for a teacher or a student. There are endless possibilities!
Differentiation - literary centers, early finisher, struggling reader, review, stations, 10 point assessment, choice. For a teacher- use as a quick reference. Use them for mini lessons. Keep them on a key ring in your bag. And, if it is your first time teaching Lord of the Flies, then this is essential.
Reinforcement- resource room, absent students, test review, assessment, group work, think-pair-share,
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9th - 12th
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Independent Reading Learning Stations
INDEPENDENT READING LEARNING STATIONS: The tasks at each of these stations require that students look for, and write about, different elements of fiction. Included are titles and task cards for: opening lines, setting, point of view, tone, character, conflict, author's message, author's style, great quotes and questions. (This product can be found in my Reader's Workshop Bundle)You can use the task cards as is, or edit them to suit your situation. All of the stations supplied do not have to be
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Reading workshop bundle for middle or high school reader's workshop
Figurative Language in Everyday Use TASK CARDS
Students often know the names of various figurative language techniques, but when it comes down to identifying them in use and explaining their effect, they often struggle. Therefore, these Task Cards focus on assessing that ability. **************************************************************************LOOKING FOR A DIGITAL VERSION? These worksheets are designed to be printed and completed on paper. If you would prefer a DIGITAL VERSION, CLICK HERE!*******************************************
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Figurative Language Bundle
Point of View – Worksheets, Task Cards, Quizzes
"I really enjoyed this source and found a variety of ways to use it in multiple ways for a few days worth of lessons. It was super informative and really clarified the students' questions." - Amanda R."Awesome resource for reteaching POV in small groups... the passages are appropriate for middle school and great examples to use!" - NagelhoutreadsDo your students struggle trying to understand the different points of view? Are you looking for high interest and relevant novel excerpts to help your
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5th - 9th
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ELA Exit Tickets / Short Response Slips - Differentiated - for ANY Literature
Differentiated Exit Tickets / Short Response Slips for Literature contains 27 different standards-based short tasks for students designed in 81 convenient half-sheets that can be used with any literature! Each topic is differentiated (3 separate slips per topic) to accommodate 3 levels of learners: struggling, average/grade-level, and advanced.The response slips can be used for short assessment with any literature activity (whole class, literature circles, stations, guided reading groups, etc.)
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6th - 9th
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AP Lit Skill Task Cards - AP English Literature Course & Exam Aligned
This AP English Literature Skills resource contains 130 task cards representing the Enduring Understandings and emphasized skills from the AP English Literature ® course and exam description. These task cards are available as printable materials or interactive Google Slides, perfect for digital learning. These AP Lit aligned task cards are printer-ready and include a color and black and white version. ⭐ What's Included in this AP Lit Skill Task Cards resource:Each of the 130 AP lit aligned task
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11th - 12th
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Also included in: AP English Literature Full Course Year Long Bundle | 3500+ Pages!
Task Cards for Flowers for Algernon - DIGITAL & PRINT
"The Flowers for Algernon task cards are a great resource to implement immediately! Visually appealing, easy to use text box entry, and more than enough information to get the kids thinking and responding." - Kelly H."The varied tasks on these Flowers for Algernon task cards made differentiating for our students a breeze, even in our current distance learning situation! My co-teacher and I were looking for a way to have students work on a collaborative GoogleSlides while we were reading the "Flo
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6th - 9th
Romeo and Juliet Learning Stations
ROMEO & JUIET STATIONS: These stations or centers focus on character and theme development in Romeo and Juliet and help your students become more independent in their analysis and critical thinking. Use these ROMEO & JUIET STATIONS after each act. They provide an opportunity for your students to take notes on important developments in character and theme. Then, when you have finished the play, there are stations that allow them to take a final look at character and theme.By the end of yo
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7th - 12th
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Worksheets, PowerPoint, Task Cards
Help your students make sense of Jonathan Edwards's famous Puritan sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, with these fun and engaging activities. The files in this bundle can help you create or freshen up your unit or lesson plans.
Included in this bundle:
• 24 figurative language task cards on the sermon with answer keys
• A 10-slide introductory PowerPoint that includes activities
• Two vocabulary activities
• A smartly-designed two-page extract of the sermon, perfect for annotating
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9th - 12th
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Figurative Language in Famous Fiction TASK CARDS
Students often know the names of various figurative language techniques, but when it comes down to identifying them in use and explaining their effect, they often struggle. Therefore, these Task Cards focus on assessing that ability. ************************************************************************** Looking for a DIGITAL version? This resource is designed to be printed, if you would prefer a digital version to be used with Google slides™, CLICK HERE. ***********************************
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Figurative Language Bundle
Bell Ringers - Collaborative ELA Trivia and Puzzles for Classroom Community
These fun and challenging bell ringers (or exit tickets) are a mix of ELA trivia, riddles, puzzles, and quizzes about books, movies, and music. Your students will work in teams to collaborate, earn points, and eventually try to win the class competition. This is a great way to build classroom community!Students will tackle:✅ Riddles & word games✅ Classic lit with a twist✅ YA fiction & pop cultureYou get 80 different ELA trivia bell ringers to strengthen classroom community! Try a free we
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7th - 10th
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