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5th grade short stories handouts for Gifted and Talented

Preview of Paper Bag Book Report Project - Novel Study Templates - Reading Comprehension

Paper Bag Book Report Project - Novel Study Templates - Reading Comprehension

Paper Bag Book Report: Fun Book Report Project for ANY Novel or Short Story - This package is perfect for your upcoming novel study unit or short story unit, as it provides students with everything they need to create a Paper Bag Book Report on ANY novel or short story! All activities are classroom tested and include creative handouts, information sheets, detailed instructions, and templates! Two separate Paper Bag Book Report packages have been included: one for use with ANY novel, and one tha
Preview of Personal Narrative Unit Graphic Organizers

Personal Narrative Unit Graphic Organizers

In this unit are graphic organizers to support your students while writing personal narratives. These graphic organizers provide scaffolding and visual supports to a variety of learners. Included are graphic organizers on the following topics: *Brainstorming*Watermelon vs. Seed Ideas*Sensory Language*Introduction "Hooks"*Beginning, Middle, and End*Thinking about Setting*Character Traits*Dialogue*Transitions*Show, Don't Tell*Self & Peer Editing ************************************************
Preview of Enneagram Personality Types for Big Kids - Community Building Activities

Enneagram Personality Types for Big Kids - Community Building Activities

Have students discover their Enneagram personality type with a student-friendly quiz and activity! Encourage students to reflect and learn about themselves and their classmates with this resource and help foster social-emotional learning in your upper elementary classroom!How Does It Work?Students will take an Enneagram quiz and analyze the results of the top 3 Enneagram types that describe them the most. They will also learn about the basic components of an Enneagram and the wants, worries, an
Preview of Folktales Worksheets: Fairytales, Fables, Tall Tales, Legends, & Myths

Folktales Worksheets: Fairytales, Fables, Tall Tales, Legends, & Myths

Created by
Rachel Lynette
Practice folktales and the different subgenres with these great printables! The subgenres explored are: fables, fairytales, tall tales, legends, and myths.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:Folktales Overview - handoutFolktales Subgenre Chart - handoutFolktales Subgenre Chart - worksheetFolktale Multiple Choice Quiz - assessmentFolktales I Know - worksheetFolktale Reflection - assessment/worksheetGreat for 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE A LOT MORE!NOTE: This resource uses A
Preview of Cut and Paste BUNDLE for Comprehension, Inferencing, & Sequencing

Cut and Paste BUNDLE for Comprehension, Inferencing, & Sequencing

Created by
Peachie Speechie
Save over 20% on this bundle! Stories with accompanying questions! Students will read the story or listen as the story is read aloud and then answer the questions by cutting out the answer and gluing it into place.Cut and Paste ComprehensionThere is a WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, and WHY question for each story! 53 Stories relate to common holidays throughout the year, school events, sports, and common life events (birthdays, visiting relatives, etc.)Cut and Paste Inferencing40 with accompanying infe
Preview of The Lottery Short Story Unit - Shirley Jackson Middle School Short Story Project

The Lottery Short Story Unit - Shirley Jackson Middle School Short Story Project

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Short Story Unit - Activities and Comprehension Questions! Perfect for your upcoming short story unit or dystopian literature unit, this package contains graphic organizers and activities to go along with The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. The Lottery short story questions, a biography activity, a giant pennant project, and a hexagonal thinking activity are also included.âś…Be sure to check out the preview and thumbnails for detailed images and descriptions about everyt
Preview of Winter Non-Fiction Passages | Reading Comprehension

Winter Non-Fiction Passages | Reading Comprehension

Created by
A Perfect Blend
This pack includes 7 non-fiction stories with themes centered around the winter season. High-resolution photos are included for each story. Stories are perfect small group instruction, tiered intervention or as a whole class activity. Each story is common core aligned and targets vocabulary and comprehension. Stories were written for 2-5th grade students. Review the preview story for complexity. Each story includes a student copy, vocabulary cards, "printer-friendly" copy with comprehension ques
Preview of Writing Workshop Mini Lesson: Seed Ideas for Small Moment Stories

Writing Workshop Mini Lesson: Seed Ideas for Small Moment Stories

This is a great resource for a writing workshop following Lucy Calkins Units of Study writing Personal Narratives. One of Lucy's units teaches students to write about small moments vs. the entire experience. For example, I may have vacationed in Hawaii, but I should pick one moment from the trip (like seeing the ocean for the first time) as my story. She refers to these small moments as "seed stories" and the entire experience a watermelon. Clever!When I teach this lesson I have my students prac
Preview of All Summer In A Day by Ray Bradbury Short Story Units - Questions Activities

All Summer In A Day by Ray Bradbury Short Story Units - Questions Activities

All Summer in a Day Short Story Units - Comprehension Questions and Short Story Annotations Activities - Perfect for your upcoming Ray Bradbury short story unit or Science Fiction unit, this package contains graphic organizers, All Summer in a Day questions, vocabulary, task cards, a hexagonal thinking activity, an engaging Pennant Project, and more!âś…Be sure to click on the preview for detailed descriptions and pictures of everything included in this resourceThis creative and engaging package in
Preview of Elements of Literature Activities - Plot Diagram Character Conflict Setting

Elements of Literature Activities - Plot Diagram Character Conflict Setting

Elements of Literature - Character, Point of View, Conflict, Setting, and Plot Activities - Learn all about the literary elements with these engaging activities. Perfect for a short story unit or novel study, this resource package contains detailed student notes on each element of literature, as well as fill in the blank student note taking templates, graphic organizers, and foldable activitiesThis is a package you will use year after year - a must for English teachers!âś…Be sure to check out the
Preview of Strong and Stable Structures Centers and Activities - Grade 3 Ontario

Strong and Stable Structures Centers and Activities - Grade 3 Ontario

Strong and Stable Structure activities and centers for grade 3 Ontario science. This pack includes fun and hands-on activities! Product Description: Great for Grade 3 Science- Strong and Stable Structures! 4 centers all ready to use in your classroom. 1 requires access to technology - computer or SMART Board1st Center: Work Zone Word Sort: Definition matching game (included- instruction sheet for students, 14 words and definitions to print, laminate and cut for students to match). Complete with
Preview of Weekly Brain Teasers to Improve Critical & Creative Thinking Skills

Weekly Brain Teasers to Improve Critical & Creative Thinking Skills

Created by
Jenifer Stewart
These weekly brain teasers are designed to help improve students’ critical and creative thinking skills. Use these weekly brain teasers as morning work, early finisher activities, centers, homework, or as extra credit. Students of all learning styles will love this resource, and their problem-solving abilities will improve as they learn to think more critically. There are 36 weeks of brain teasers to be used all year long. There are four student pages included that give definitions and examp
Preview of Final Draft Writing Paper | Publishing Paper | 9 Different Formats

Final Draft Writing Paper | Publishing Paper | 9 Different Formats

Your students will enjoy publishing their projects on these decorative pages! Choose from nine different fun styles. Each style comes with:a cover pagea page for text and a picturea page for text onlySEE WHAT OTHER EDUCATORS ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS RESOURCE:❤️"These papers are so helpful in getting kids excited about writing final drafts. Lots of design choices. Perfect."❤️"Exactly what I needed...and cute!! Thanks for sharing!"❤️"My students have loved making stories using these formats. Thanks
Preview of Socratic Seminars and Philosophical Chairs

Socratic Seminars and Philosophical Chairs

Teaching kids to be more philosophic helps them acquire new ways of expressing themselves and innovative ways of thinking. It pushes students to be more logical, think critically, connect ideas, and to be more accepting of opposing views.Through the use of Socractic Seminars and Philosophical Chairs, you can bring philosophy into your classroom and give your students the opportunity to formulate questions, reason with peers, develop arguments, and contribute to constructive conversations.I trie
Preview of Cut and Paste Dinosaur Facts Stories and WH Questions

Cut and Paste Dinosaur Facts Stories and WH Questions

Created by
Peachie Speechie
Learn about dinosaurs and work on comprehension skills with these 12 engaging story pages! Each story has 4 comprehension questions with cut and paste answer choices. Pronunciation of each dinosaur name is also included so your students will learn how to say their names correctly! Passages are about the following dinosaurs: AllosaurusAnkylosaurusBrachiosaurus Diplodocus Gallimimus Protoceratops PteranodonSpinosaurusStegosaurusTriceratopsTyrannosaurus RexVelociraptor PLUS a bonus dinosaur colorin
Preview of BLOOD on the RIVER by Elisa Carbone - Novel Study

BLOOD on the RIVER by Elisa Carbone - Novel Study

Created by
Arlene Manemann
Reading comprehension questions for every chapter are in this No Prep Novel Study unit for Blood on the River - addressing most Common Core standards - with ANSWER KEY. As students answer questions they are guided through creating good paragraphs by use of introductory and transitional phrases.Also included WITH ANSWER KEYS are three tests: Ch 1 to 7; Ch 8 - 18; Ch 19 to 27 . No all-novel test.Also in the file you will find:- Puzzles for names in the novel and vocabulary; - a glossary; - figu
Preview of Best Short Stories for Middle School: 182 Pages of Highly-Engaging Lesson Plans

Best Short Stories for Middle School: 182 Pages of Highly-Engaging Lesson Plans

All of the sixteen stories for these lesson plans can be downloaded from our website for free in a reader-friendly PDF that we've created.Or check out our massive middle/high school bundle of 28 stories which combines our two bestselling resources at 20% off. Lesson plans are for the following stories:The Most Dangerous Game by Richard ConnellThe Monkey's Paw by WW JacobsThe Black Cat by Edgar Allan PoeThe Hitch-Hiker by Lucille FletcherThe Lottery by Shirley JacksonLamb to the Slaughter by Roal
Preview of Murder mystery - Solve the original case of Sherlock Holmes - The Speckled Band

Murder mystery - Solve the original case of Sherlock Holmes - The Speckled Band

Created by
Zuzana Trail
Students work with the Doyle’s story in a fun and engaging way. It has been written out in the form of clues. There are 25 clues to solve this mystery. Students can get them all at once and then they try to solve the case or you can make it more fun and for example hide the clues around the classroom or them away as some kind of reward – I do that when we are reviewing some area we have already covered – when the group answer the question (from the area that is being reviewed) correctly they wil
Preview of The Elevator Short Story Units - Middle School Short Story - Reading Task Cards

The Elevator Short Story Units - Middle School Short Story - Reading Task Cards

The Elevator by William Sleator - Complete Short Stories with Reading Comprehension Questions and Task Cards - This package contains everything you need to teach this spooky short story, including The Elevator comprehension questions, answer keys, short story annotations activities, biography, task cards, and graphic organizers. These elevator activities are classroom tested and include creative handouts templates, and detailed instructions. Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and
Preview of Brain Gush GT Math Challenges - 10 Weekly Booklets - with key!

Brain Gush GT Math Challenges - 10 Weekly Booklets - with key!

Created by
SmithScience
Brain Gush I teach fifth grade math in Texas. I am very intent on my students’ success in life. I want them to have a great understanding of math concepts with amazing problem solving skills. Success on their end of the year tests is also important to me. ;) Critical thinking is essential for their success. I created Brain Gush and my students LOVE it! They love the choice, the challenges, and the uniqueness of the work (not the typical worksheets!). HOW I USE ITBrian Gush includes four c
Preview of Common Core Aligned, Engaging Short Story Lesson: "Thank You Ma'am"

Common Core Aligned, Engaging Short Story Lesson: "Thank You Ma'am"

Every once in a while, there's that character who lives in your mind far after reading a story. Mrs. Leuella Bates Washing Jones is that character for me. She demonstrates how one simple act of kindness can make a life-changing difference in another's life. My students are always engaged with this story and actually want to discuss after the cliffhanger ending. Here's what you'll get:1) A Google Slide Deck that corresponds directly with the student guide with engaging video clips related to the
Preview of Spring Non-Fiction Passages Print and Digital

Spring Non-Fiction Passages Print and Digital

Created by
A Perfect Blend
This pack includes 9 non-fiction stories with themes centered around the spring season. High-resolution photos are included for each story. Stories are perfect small group instruction, tiered intervention or as a whole class activity. Each story is common core aligned and targets vocabulary and comprehension. Stories were written for 2-5th grade students. Review the preview story for complexity. This download includes a BOOM CARD™ version of the stories (7 passages)!Each story includes a student
Preview of Short Stories with Comprehension Questions

Short Stories with Comprehension Questions

Use these 10 short stories with accompanying questions to target comprehension, story structure, vocabulary, idioms, main idea, predicting and inferencing skills. Read the story and then ask the questions on the next page or preview the questions before reading the story to help with comprehension. The card then asks the student to retell the story in their own words after answering the questions to target expressive language skills. Includes an image for each story to support understanding
Preview of RL5.3 RL4.3 4-6 Comparing and Contrasting Characters in Fiction Assessment

RL5.3 RL4.3 4-6 Comparing and Contrasting Characters in Fiction Assessment

This is a fiction text (3 pages long) about a girl that is faced with a decision to be honest with her parents, or tell a lie to be able to attend a sleepover. There are two girls, Mandy and Kelly, that have traits that can be inferred using text evidence. Characters have things in common and differences. Students will be assessed on their ability to read and comprehend the text, make inferences about characters, and then compare/contrast the two characters using a graphic organizer and then
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