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5th grade literature lessons for parents
Interactive Character Analysis Posters-100 Character Traits With Organizers
100 character trait posters, matching organizers, and editable character trait poster. Want your students to be m ore interactive with text? This resource is guaranteed to promote character analysis in your classroom! This resource will build new vocabulary and expose your students to higher level character traits.Character traits are introduced/discussed during read alouds, mentor texts, weekly stories, etc. As characters display the trait, the traits are recorded on the post-its with evidence
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3rd - 8th
Also included in: Character Analysis Bundle | Character Traits
Esperanza Rising FULL NOVEL UNIT | Bundled
The Best Cross-Curricular & Engaging Novel Unit Out There*Distance-Learning, Print + Digital, Google Apps, Research-Based Strategies**COMMON CORE ALIGNED This bundled teaching unit covers the whole novel, Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, from start to finish with powerful literary analysis and comprehension tools that will engage your students, teach key standards, and ignite learning in your classroom. Empower your students to access higher-level thinking skills and explore a pivotal tim
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4th - 8th
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Fairy Tales on Trial (Fractured Fairy Tales & Point of View) BUNDLE
Point of view can be difficult for students to grasp. With this unit, you'll teach POV using fractured fairytales and hold a mock trial where your students will put fairy tale characters on trial. You'll set up court, act as judge and jury, and decide which perspective is the most believable.The Fairytales on Trial Bundle is the best value, and includes two weeks of lesson plans, suggested point of view picture books that teach perspective, explicit instructions for separating your students into
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2nd - 5th
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Greek Mythology Unit - Stories - Activities - Allusions - Story Elements
Greek Mythology Unit that includes Twelve Greek Mythology Stories integrated with ELA skills of Story Elements and Allusions. Literacy skills in the bundle: - Inferring Character Traits - Plot Development - Determining Theme - AllusionsThe stories and Greek mythology characters have been made age appropriate while not too childish so that upper elementary will enjoy it.4 overarching learning goals:• I can identify, describe, and sequence the elements of plot.• I can identify theme by analyzin
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4th - 5th
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Summer Reading Activities 2023
This packet of summer reading activities includes: A Note On Summer ReadingSummer Reading List - Picture Books (30 Titles) - Color & BW - HyperlinkedSummer Reading List - Chapter Books (30 Titles) - Color & BW - HyperlinkedSummer Reading List - Blank (Fill in Your Own Titles)Walk A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes - Picture Books (30 Titles)Walk A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes - Chapter Books (30 Titles)Walk A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes - Choose Your Own The Taylor Swift Summer Reading Play
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K - 6th
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Summarizing Fiction Texts Bundle: Practice Passages, PowerPoint, Worksheets
Teach your students to summarize a fictional piece of literature by using the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" strategy. This bundle of activities includes many practice opportunities! Students will read and summarize FOURTEEN fictional pieces. This bundle has everything you need to keep your students engaged as they learn how to write a strong fiction summary. Students love the activities while teachers love the convenience of these no-prep resources that can be used year after year! These genre a
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3rd - 6th
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Plot Diagram and Elements Lesson | Short Story Structure GR 4-7 Google Slides
⭐ NO PREP DIGITAL LESSON: Engage students in 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th grades with this interactive lesson as you introduce or review the elements of plot and plot diagrams. Students will highlight text, drag and drop text, and type in their own responses to prompts. It's time to replace those boring worksheets!Students will:learn about plot elements before explaining them in their own wordsmatch each stage of a plot diagram with its descriptionread short stories and sequence the main events on a
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4th - 7th
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End of the Year READ ALOUD STEM Activities BUNDLE Creativity, Science, Engineers
Integrate STEAM and STEM in your classroom at the End of the School Year!Make the last week of school and the last day of school amazing! Create a cereal box memory book to help students process the "last day blues." Engineer an amazing treehouse! Have students imagine, design, build, and write about their dream house using Geometry and 3D Shapes! Learn about the Chicago World's Fair and make a Ferris Wheel!Includes 4 STEM/STEAM Projects to go along with the following Read Aloud Books: Last Day
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1st - 5th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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All Summer In a Day by Ray Bradbury Short Story Unit
This is an extremely thorough, full 2-week unit for the short story "All Summer In a Day" by Ray Bradbury. These resources are focused around Common Core Standards for Grade 6, but they are absolutely still relevant for all middle grades students who are studying this story by Ray Bradbury, other stories by Ray Bradbury, or science fiction in general. Please verify this by taking a look at the preview file.This is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 6: April Selection – Click here to read m
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5th - 7th
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Personal Narrative Writing Unit FIFTH GRADE
My fifth grade personal narrative writing unit includes 8 weeks of done-for-you writing lessons about how to write a small-moment story. This unit contains detailed lesson plans, mentor texts, anchor charts, student writing tasks, and rubrics–everything you need to be a capable, confident writing teacher with students who love to write.If teaching writing has ever made you cry, weep, tear out your hair, question your existence, or binge-watch reality television—because it’s just that frustrating
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5th
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HATCHET Novel Study Activities - Prereading, Vocabulary, Project - Lesson Plans
Get your learners thinking! Our Hatchet the Novel Study Unit Plan has the activities and quizzes you need to teach a 7-week novel study -- prereading questions, characters, vocabulary, projects, writing, and more. You'll love the "print-and-go" activities in slideshow and .pdf, both fun and rigorous for your learners (215+ pages and slides).Your learners will have fun with the rigor and creativity of our engaging activities built from best teaching practices. We want to make your lesson plan jou
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5th - 7th
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Wonder by R.J. Palacio Novel Study Unit
This 174 page novel study unit on Wonder by R.J. Palacio contains:
List of Chapter Titles organized by Part 1-8
Book Part Teacher Cheat Sheets
• Vocabulary for book part
• Strategies to Focus On
Chapter-related Activities
• Vocabulary for each chapter
• Important Events of each chapter
• Comprehension + Inferring Questions for each chapter
• Use of Figurative Language in chapters when used
• Over 20 additional extension ideas, some chapter specific and some for the book in general
Character
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4th - 6th
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First, Second, & Third Person - Point of View Worksheets
Do you need a quick and easy way to teach point of view? These worksheets will show students how to identify the perspective from which a story is told which will help them effectively analyze literature, improve their critical thinking skills, help them understand the author's purpose, and increase their ability to recognize potential bias. It is important that students are able to accurately identify the main points of view commonly used in texts to gain a deeper understanding of what they a
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5th - 9th
Holes by Louis Sachar Novel Study Reading Unit Lesson Plans and Activities 5th
This Holes reading unit and novel study is exactly what you need to teach your fifth grade learners in an engaging Socratic Seminar, discussion-based, and reading response focused format with this realistic fiction novel.Download the HUGE new preview to see what's included. This resource is in the following bundles:Fifth Grade Reading Units Growing Bundle Fifth Grade Reading Curriculum: An entire year of reading curriculumRealistic Fiction Reading Units Bundle.This resource has gotten HUGE updat
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5th
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Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi: Complete Differentiated BundleYour upper elementary and middle school students will love reading the classic Christmas story, "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry and you'll love the differentiated options for you and your students!This packet includes 5 different versions of this text ~ See Preview File for samples of each:Original Version - unaltered text, The Gift of the MagiModified Version - The Gift of the Magi re-written in clear, easy-to-understand languageAnnotated V
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Christmas Activities for Middle School Bundle
Black History Month READ ALOUD STEM Activities - Mae Jemison, Hidden Figures
Integrate STEM in your classroom during Black History Month with these Read Aloud STEM Challenges! Create a space capsule to bring Apollo astronauts back to earth safely with Katherine JohnsonBuild an air powered rocket shuttle to launch Mae Jemison into spaceInvent something new with Lonnie JohnsonLearn the power of words with Dr. Martin Luther King JrCode astronauts to the moon with the Hidden Figures!Includes 5 Black History Month Read Aloud Activities and lessons as amazing companion activit
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Thank You Ma'am by Langston Hughes Short Story Unit
This is an extremely thorough, full 2-week unit for the short story "Thank You Ma'am" by Langston Hughes. These resources are focused around Common Core Standards for Grade 6, but they are absolutely still relevant for all middle grades students who are studying this story. Please verify this by taking a look at the preview file.This is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 6: November Selection – Click here to read more about the Short Story of the Month Club!Skills Focus:Characterization (
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5th - 7th
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Literary and Nonfiction Genre Reading Unit Elementary Middle School | Posters
This resource includes a digital Google Slides reading unit to teach genres to upper elementary students. This genre reading unit includes reading response examples, mini lessons, interactive notebooks pages, genre reading posters, rubrics, and assessments. Important Links: This unit now includes my editable Genre Posters Resource. This unit is now 100% Digital. This unit includes everything you need to teach, and dig deeper, into reading literature genres and nonfiction genres in middle school
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4th - 8th
Also included in: Theme Unit Character Traits Unit and Genre Unit Bundle for Middle Grades
NUMBER THE STARS Novel Study Unit Plan - Activity Prereading Fun Comprehension
Get your learners thinking! Our Numbers the Stars Novel Study Unit Plan has the activities and quizzes you need to teach a 6-week novel study -- prereading questions, characters, vocabulary, projects, writing, and more. You'll love the "print-and-go" activities in slideshow and .pdf, both fun and rigorous for your learners (218+ pages and slides).Your learners will have fun with the rigor and creativity of our engaging activities built from best teaching practices. We want to make your lesson pl
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5th - 7th
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3rd 4th 5th Grade Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions Bundle Level N-V
This bundle of 3rd, 4th and 5th Grade leveled fiction Guided Reading passages with comprehension questions is a great resource to use throughout the year to help your students who are reading at Levels N-V. Students will practice reading passages at their instructional level and complete comprehension questions to show their understanding of the texts. These text evidence reading passages can be used for ELA Test Prep since students are reading the 3rd-5th grade level texts and then citing evide
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3rd - 5th
Small Group Reading Lessons and Activities with Digital : FICTION BUNDLE
Are you stuck when it comes to planning for your 4th and 5th grade small group reading instruction? These small group lessons and activities will help you both engage and support your readers. You (and your students) will love the done-for-you engaging small group activities with differentiated texts and scripted lesson plans!About the Small Group Reading Activities and LessonsThese small group reading lessons can be used to practice a variety of reading skills within the genres of Realistic Fic
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4th - 5th
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Teaching Theme Statements in Literature - Find and Determine Theme Worksheets
Finding theme in literature is a difficult skill to master. This unit breaks down the skill into 6 lessons that are scaffolded. It includes lesson plans, passages, printouts, and tasks that assess each learning target. It is so thorough that the teacher will need little prep time. The unit also comes equipped with beautiful classroom posters which include theme statements and that can be used long after the unit is taught.Check out our other ELA Units:Greek Mythology BundleText Structure Un
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4th - 6th
Reading Response Journal Questions Prompts and Assessment
This Reading Response file contains well over 100 reader response prompts organized into sections for different comprehension strategies and story elements so you can match the response questions to your minilessons. These questions could also be used as comprehension questions for ANY novel. The document also contains a set of success criteria that could be made into an anchor chart, or reproduced for students to glue into their response journals. A reader response rubric is also included.**
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: 4th to 6th Grade Essential Year-Long Curriculum Bundle
Summarize Fiction PowerPoint with Practice Passages: Somebody Wanted But So Then
Are you searching for a step-by-step summarizing PowerPoint that can be used to teach your students how to write a strong fiction summary in a way that will grab their attention? You've come to the right place! This 53-slide PowerPoint will guide your students through the process of writing a summary using the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" summarizing strategy. It includes FIVE practice opportunities, including two classic stories (Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Emperor's New Clothes) as well a
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3rd - 6th
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