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Common Core RL.7.2 resources for homeschool under $5
Kobe Bryant Dear Basketball Poem — Analysis & Paired Text Michael Jordan Letter
Students LOVE reading and analyzing Kobe Bryant's "Dear Basketball" Poem. In this activity, they will complete a Poem Analysis & Compare/Contrast Paired Text Activity. The paired text students will look at is Michael Jordan's 2003 Retirement Letter, also titled "Dear Basketball."In 2015, Bryant announced his retirement through “Player’s Tribune” in a poem titled “Dear Basketball.” In the poem, Bryant shares his love for the sport with the world. Bryant later earned an Academy Award for Best
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6th - 10th
Mother to Son Langston Hughes Poetry Analysis - Printable & Digital
Make metaphors come alive with these "Mother to Son" poem activities! This poetry analysis resource includes a graphic organizer to walk students through the rich figurative language in Hughes' highly relatable poem and help them analyze extended metaphor, character, and theme. It also includes a one-page biography of Langston Hughes and comprehension questions about the poem, the informational text, and connections between the poem and the poet's life.(If you teach poetry in middle school, don'
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Langston Hughes Poetry Unit for Middle School - PDF & Digital
The Monkey's Paw Escape Room - Digital, Printable, & Editable!
Wrap up W.W. Jacob’s macabre tale of "The Monkey's Paw" with an unforgettable (& standards-based) escape room. This literary-elements-themed escape room activity will have your students 100% engaged and 100% challenged! Use this ELA escape room in October or anytime during the school year to review the literary elements. ⬆️ Check out the PREVIEW for more information! ⬆️Teachers love using this “The Monkey’s Paw” escape room to conclude W.W. Jacob’s short story. It’s highly recommended that y
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6th - 8th
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Saki “The Storyteller” Short Story Literary Analysis & Irony, PDF & Google Drive
Use these materials to reinforce students’ understanding of the three types of irony (situational irony, verbal irony, and dramatic irony) and facilitate a deep reading and discussion of Saki’s attention-grabbing short story, “The Storyteller.”This 10-page PDF package (with Google Drive versions of all student handouts) includes:• Step-by-step suggested lesson procedure (can be left as an emergency sub plan!) with high-quality audiobook link• Warm-up grid worksheet where students determine wheth
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7th - 10th
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Text Structure Powerpoint
This powerpoint is a fun, colorful way to introduce or re-teach TEXT STRUCTURE!
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- 21 EDITABLE slides
- 5 video clip examples
- 15 slides can be printed to created colorful, informative posters for your class, including:
*definitions written in kid-friendly language
*key words to look for
*graphic organizers
Text Structures included:
- Cause & Effect
- Compare & Contrast
- Description
- Problem & Solution
- Sequence
*Be sure to check out the preview for an example of wha
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Back to School First Day Jitters Reader's Theater Script for Grades 4-8
First Day Jitters? If you love the back-to-school book First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg, your students will love performing the reader's theater script even more. Based on the events from the silly picture book, I have created a reader's theater and reading literature toolkit that BIG KIDS will love to perform in those first days of school.This First Day Jitters for BIG KIDS resource includes:• 2-page 4-character reader's theater script• context clue word work• reader response questions• po
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4th - 7th, Staff
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Also included in: Text-Based Reader's Theater and Read Aloud Activities Bundle
The Landlady Escape Room - A Scary Story Activity for Middle School ELA
Wrap up your reading of Roald Dahl’s scary story with The Landlady Escape Room, perfect for middle school ELA classrooms looking for 100% engagement this Halloween! This literary-elements-themed escape room is guaranteed to challenge and excite your students this year. ✔ Check out the preview for a closer look!Middle school ELA teachers love using The Landlady Escape Room to conclude Roald Dahl’s scary story because it’s printable, digital, and editable. After reading and discussing The Landlady
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: The Landlady Short Story Analysis & Escape Room Bundle for Middle School
Introduction to the Elements of Fiction - Interactive Notes Short Story Elements
Launch your short story unit STRESS-FREE with this introduction to the Elements of Fiction mini-lesson! The ready-to-use short story elements PowerPoint and interactive doodle notes will walk your students through the story elements, including plot, conflict, characters, setting, and theme. This easy-to-use mini-lesson offers a quick and easy way to refresh students’ skills with fictional literature.✔ Check out the preview for more information!This Elements of Fiction Introduction Refreshes:Cha
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5th - 7th
Literary Analysis Collaborative Poster for Novels, Short Stories, Fables
This Literary Analysis Collaborative Poster Activity will have your students working together on analyzing a text. Are you working on short stories or a novel study with your students? Would you like your students to look deeper into the novel, chapter, short story, myth or fable? This is just the resource for you! This worksheet and collaborative poster give your students an opportunity to work together. Each of your students can work on a piece of the collaborative poster-protagonist and a
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: Literature Activities Bundle, Oh My!
Outsiders Close Reading Materials for 4 Chapters, S.E. Hinton The Outsiders CCSS
Help your students learn how to dig deep into analyzing text with these four close reading lessons to use with chapters 2, 4, 6, and 10 of S.E. Hinton’s novel, The Outsiders.Each of the four lessons includes a student handout of a select bit of text with generous margins to allow for students to annotate the selection with their thoughts, ideas, and/or questions. After students are given 8-to-10 minutes to finish their annotations, pull the class back together to annotate a copy of the material
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7th - 10th
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Song Titles | Main Idea and Symbolism | Language Arts Worksheets
Songs and song lyrics are so important to teens, and this is one of my students' favorite lessons all year. Teenagers - actual teenagers - have complimented me on this lesson plan. That was a wow-factor for me, because I really didn't expect quite that much love when I developed the lesson. Every time I teach it, I hear comments such as: "We should do this kind of thing more often," "Of all your classes, this one is my favorite so far," etc. Quite a few get so involved, they ask to work on it at
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8th - 11th
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Twilight Zone “Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” Media Analysis of Twilight Zone
There’s a reason Rod Serling’s series, The Twilight Zone, has stood the test of time. The stories are compelling, the episodes are well-crafted, and the themes are timeless. With this lesson download (PDF & Google Drive formats), you can also use The Twilight Zone to help students develop analysis skills and connect classic storytelling to modern issues.In this episode, “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” a neighborhood is destroyed by fear and baseless accusations. Issues raised by the
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Twilight Zone “Number 12 Looks Just Like You," Analysis of Twilight Zone CCSS
There’s a reason Rod Serling’s series, The Twilight Zone, has stood the test of time. The stories are compelling, the episodes are well-crafted, and the themes are timeless. With this lesson download (PDF & Google Drive formats), you can also use The Twilight Zone to help students develop analysis skills and connect classic storytelling to modern issues.In this episode, “Number 12 Looks Just Like You,” a teen girl resists efforts to look, act, and think like everyone else around her. Issues
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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All-American Slurp Lensey Namioka Short Story Literary Analysis PDF & Google App
Use Lensey Namioka’s delightful short story, “The All-American Slurp,” to ease your fifth through seventh graders into deeper levels of literary analysis with these print-and-teach materials.This 6-page PDF (with Google Drive versions of student handouts) includes:1-page of step-by-step directions to guide the teacher through two (or three, depending on your pacing) days of activities (links to online versions of the story are included)1-page student handout that includes depth-of-knowledge ques
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5th - 8th
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The Landlady Activities - Middle School Short Stories for Plot Diagram & More!
Looking for short stories for your middle school students? Don't miss The Landlady! Teaching Roald Dahl’s short story “The Landlady” is easy and engaging with these literary elements activities & worksheets! A wide variety of no-prep options are included for plot diagram, characterization, & more, making it easy to differentiate your instruction, extend the learning for your early finishers, or provide student choice. Printable? Digital? It’s all included to save YOU time.Check out the P
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: The Landlady Short Story Analysis & Escape Room Bundle for Middle School
Objective Summary Mini Lesson Activity for Middle School ELA - Digital
*2022 Update* That RL 2 standard is a heavy one, isn't it? Theme, central idea, and objective summary. Where students have been doing theme and central idea for several years, I have found a lot of my middle school students have no idea what an objective summary is. This mini lesson helps to introduce the concept and give them some practice with identifying and writing an objective summary. This Download Includes: 1. Google Slides Presentation: 10 creative and colorful slides that will help your
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6th - 8th
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The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Escape Room
Is there a better way to wrap up and review The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street teleplay by Rod Serling than with an escape room? I think not! This literary-elements-themed escape room activity will challenge and engage your students while delivering a standards-based review. Perfect for your scary short story unit, your drama unit, or during October! ⬆️ Check out the PREVIEW for more information! ⬆️Teachers love using this “The Monsters of Maple Street” escape room to conclude Rod Serling’s sh
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6th - 8th
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Poetry Packet — 5 Poems (Middle School Poetry Unit: 7th, 8th or 9th Grade Level)
This Poetry Packet includes 5 Poems your students will read and analyze. The poems included are suggested for a Middle School Poetry Unit: 7th, 8th or 9th Grade ELA.This packet is a wonderful tool because you can have students complete the analyses of the poems in a variety of ways: whole-class, independently and/or collaboratively.The poems included in this packet are:"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth"We Wear The Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunb
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7th - 9th
Theme Graphic Organizers and Worksheets with Easel Activity
Are you teaching theme? Do your students struggle with identifying the message in a story? Use these graphic organizers to help students with finding theme. The worksheets will help them understand how to identify theme in a novel or a short story by looking at dialogue, conflict, and endings. Includes examples of each from literature and uses a mnemonic device to remember what theme is. (THEME = THE MEssage) Additional pages to support finding theme included for taking notes, along with a word
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6th - 9th
Summarizing Fiction and Nonfiction
Summarizing: GIST and Beyond has everything you need to teach and reinforce summarizing. I had a hard time finding summarizing lessons that include interesting fiction and nonfiction texts, answer keys, and many opportunities to practice. So I created this unit on writing a summary!This resource is easy to use and will help you teach students three summary styles. Students will learn what information to look for, depending on the type of text they are summarizing. There are three fun and memora
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6th - 8th
Thanksgiving Short Story | Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen Reading Activity
Leave your teacher guilt at the door and challenge students right up until Thanksgiving break with this mini-lesson on irony and theme using O. Henry’s short story, “Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen!” A quick and easy download plus clear student directions make this Thanksgiving reading activity perfect for the day before break or a last-minute sub plan!Teach your students about literary irony using the included slides, and show them different examples of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony be
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6th - 8th
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Reading Guide for ANY Short Story or Novel - Digital & Print
Short story units are popular with teens...and fun to teach! What's NOT fun is making individual reading guides for every short story we teach. This build-your-own reading guide is a great print or digital resource for anyone who is looking for a practical, reliable tool that students can use for any piece of literature - short story, play, or novel. READING SKILLS COVEREDThis short story or novel reading guide requires students to predict, summarize, connect, question, visualize, infer, and ana
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7th - 10th
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One-Pager Text Analysis Project with Rubric - Creative Literary Study Lesson
Use this project to conclude the study of any text. I have had students do this assignment for short stories, but it could be used with literally ANY text! If you would like to make changes to the rubric or assignment, you can edit your copy of this resource!This resource includes:1. A teacher's guide2. Directions3. Student Examples4. A rubric If you are looking for a project for non-fiction texts, check out my other resource by following the link below!https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Prod
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Twilight Zone “Where is Everybody?” Media Analysis of Twilight Zone Episode CCSS
There’s a reason Rod Serling’s series, The Twilight Zone, has stood the test of time. The stories are compelling, the episodes are well-crafted, and the themes are timeless. With this lesson download (PDF & Google Drive versions), you can also use The Twilight Zone to help students develop analysis skills and connect classic storytelling to modern issues.In this “Where is Everybody?” episode, a man with amnesia finds himself trapped in an abandoned town. Issues of social isolation and the li
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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