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Creative writing Common Core RL.7.2 resources for homeschool
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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Short Films Hair Love Theme Inference Plot Worksheets Literary Devices Elements
Guaranteed engagement with this animated short film workshop, Hair Love. It teaches inferencing, theme, foreshadowing, plot twist, symbolism, and conflict. This workshop highlights the work of black writer, Matthew Cherry, who aims to portray black fathers in a positive light and represent them fairly in the media. In this heartwarming film, a young father struggles to help his daughter fix her hair while her mother is recovering from chemotherapy. ❤ EASEL COMPATIBLEStudents work through the g
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4th - 8th
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Poetry Bundle Writing, Reading, & Understanding Poetry
Poetry Resources for Reading, Writing, and Understanding Poetry, Volume 1
This (and ALL of my poetry resources) IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my POETRY RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
Poetry Resources Bundle, Volume 2 is also available; it includes my newer resources that are aligned with the Common Core State Standards.
This bundle contains my resources for teaching poetry, which includes teaching poetic devices and figurative language, reading/interpreting poetry, and writing original po
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Guided Poetry Presentation and Handouts Distance Learning
Creative writing doesn't have to be difficult. You can teach your students to write like famous poets with ease! My "Write Like a Poet" presentation and handouts are perfect for all students, but especially for those who struggle with creativity or hate to write (or hate poetry). Aligned with the Common Core State Standards for reading literature and writing. This is a great distance learning activity for your students! You can share it on a secured platform and let them work at their own pace.
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Monkey’s Paw Short Story Activities & Worksheets - Digital & Printable!
Interacting with W.W. Jacob’s short horror story “The Monkey’s Paw” is easy and engaging with these post-reading activities & worksheets! A wide variety of no-prep activities are included, making it easy for you 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 PREVIEW for more information! ⬆️Both teachers and students love these unique and challenging critical th
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6th - 8th
Themes in Literature Mini-Lesson - Editable Theme PowerPoint & Activities
This quick review of themes in literature will give your intermediate students the refresher they need in a fun and engaging way! Review literary themes using the editable PowerPoint, encourage groups of students to create skits around themes, and finally create comics and stories using theme strips! Check out the PREVIEW for a closer look!What activities are included in this resource?↠ EDITABLE Powerpoint and Google Slides Presentation↠ 20 Theme Strips↠ Comic Strip Templates↠ Creative Writing T
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5th - 7th
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Writing: Interacitve Foldable Organizers and Practice
Bring your students’ writing notebooks to life with folding writing organizers and lessons for each writing task!
This product contains everything you need to teach writing. Step-by-step guided instructions with photos, writing prompts, examples for modeling, and dozens of folding organizers are included!
Like many teachers, I often used graphic organizers to help students plan and organize their ideas for writing. Unfortunately, students are easily bored by regular organizers and many kids pr
Grades:
6th - 8th
The Tail of Emily Windsnap Novel Study: Vocabulary & Comprehension Pack
The Tail of Emily Windsnap novel study is filled with vocabulary, comprehension and discussion questions. These standard-based, no-prep activities, will keep your students engaged as you explore this imaginative novel. This Novel Study includes more than 35 pages of printable student activities that focus on vocabulary & comprehension, teacher resource pages with instructions, suggestions, and answer keys. What's Included?The book consists of 8 units, broken down into sections of 2 chapters.
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6th - 8th
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Lesson for Dialogue Poems - Writing with Mentor Texts - Poems for Two Voices
Teach point of view with this poetry writing lesson. Students use mentor texts as models for their own writing of poems with two voices. The reading and writing of dialogue poems also helps students grasp character and theme complexities. In this lesson, students first read examples of dialogue poems (hyperlinks are provided to these poems) and then write their own dialogue poems. They start by brainstorming a list of characters that they could use in their poems, and then they journal about th
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Poetry Reading and Writing Activity Bundle
No Prep Poetry Punch: William Carlos Williams Common Core Aligned
No Prep Poetry Punch: William Carlos Williams - Students Will Read and Write Poetry in One Punch (Editable)
This IS included in my mega bundle: ALL of my POETRY RESOURCES GROWING BUNDLE.
This fun activity has students learning about the poet William Carlos Williams while practicing several Common Core State Standards in reading, writing, and language skills. For GRADE 5 and up.
It includes a 30-slide presentation (editable in Powerpoint, also offered in PDF), four pages of student handouts (e
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5th - 10th
Graphic Novel Book Report Project and Writing Activity
Your students will love this creative and fun alternative to a book report when they create a graphic novel based on a book they've read. They'll focus on the plot points and inference. You'll love the self-paced checklist that means students can work independently. Banish boring book reports with this fun book project. Lots of student choice while students continue to practice identifying key plot points and use color and images to help create theme.This is what you get:editable student ass
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Book Report Bundle with Creative Reading Projects and Activities
Plot Chart Diagram Arc - Blank Graphic Analysis DIGITAL Freytag's Pyramid
This can be used with the plot of any novel or short story. This digital graphic analyzer will help learners analyze the 6 parts of any story's plot. Just fill in the story's title, and you're ready to roll!→ Our activities easily integrate w/ Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Canvas, Schoology, Edmodo, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace, Sakai, Showbie, Remind, & more.6 Parts of the Plot:★ Exposition (setting, characters, and background info)★ Conflict★ Rising Action (3 events or details)★ Cli
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4th - 12th
Sonnets: Critique & Create, Lesson & Handouts; Google Classroom & PDF
Google Classroom added in 2020 This product is now available in two formats, printable and Google Classroom. The Google Classroom version includes all student handouts. Answer keys are kept separate on the printable version. The printable version has remained the same.Sonnets Lesson Plan: Students can stomp it, shout it, and get the beat while grappling with the challenge of iambic pentameter in Sonnets: Critique & Create. This set of lessons, guides, and handouts provides detailed instruct
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7th - 12th
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All Summer in a Day by Bradbury short story unit with digital option
This short story resource for "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury is a low prep packet and includes a student PDF file with the student activity pages and a second PDF with all student pages, teacher notes, answer keys, student samples, and the link to a Google Drive digital file."All Summer in a Day" is a science fiction short story. Students identify features of science fiction before reading the story. There are a variety of reading and writing activities from which to choose. It is also a
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Middle Grades Short Story Unit Bundle with digital option
THE HOBBIT MEGA BUNDLE: Intro, Close reading, Review, Test, Essays, Book writing
"There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West."(from the last conversation between Thorin Oakenshield and Bilbo Baggins) WHY "THE HOBBIT"? "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien is an extraordinary novel, and if you're here, you probably think so too. Not only does it offer a captivating, exciting, funny, and at times even touching story, but it also takes the reader on a real journey of growth, hand in hand with its protagonist, Bilbo Baggins. That's why it's always an exception
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6th - 8th
Divergent Poetry: Creative Writing & Close Reading Activities
Divergent Poetry: Creative Writing and Close Reading Activities - Common Core State Standards Aligned
Incorporate poetry into your novel unit! I've included 35 pages of engaging activities that will inspire and spark creative thought and critical thinking. Students will not only write poetry, they will practice close reading, annotating, research, vocabulary, and more.
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Writing poems: haiku, acrostic, free verse, found, black-out (redacted), I Am, Character Bio, diamante, fiv
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Divergent Novel Unit Bundle Common Core Aligned {Editable}
Book Report Bundle with Creative Reading Projects and Activities
No more boring book reports! Your students will love these two self-paced, creative reading projects. Perfect for book clubs, reading challenges, independent reading or whole class novel studies. Step by step instructions mean no prep for you!This is what you'll get with the Graphic Novel Book Project:editable student assignment & task list (so students can work independently)informational text about graphic novels & comicsreading response questions for informational textgraphic novel
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6th - 8th
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The Hero's Journey for Grades 4-8 (Text + Reading Questions + Writing Handouts)
The Hero's Guidebook by Zachary Hamby teaches Joseph Campbell's concept of the Hero's Journey to readers grades 4-8 using example stories like the Harry Potter books, Disney animated films, and video games like Super Mario Bros. Fully illustrated with 40 cartoon illustrations, the text even applies the stages of the Hero's Journey to real-life problems and situations.This 106-page download includes all of the following:The full text of The Hero's Guidebook broken down into four separate section
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4th - 8th
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Short Films Literary Devices Elements & Techniques Mothers Day Theme Inference
Guaranteed engagement with this animated short film workshop, Hair Love! This workshop teaches inferencing, theme, foreshadowing, plot twist, symbolism, and conflict. Great for Mother's Day! ❤ SHORT FILM SYNOPSIS: Zuri grapples with trying to style her own hair as she watches her mother's video blog about hair. The viewer is led to believe that Zuri's mother has passed away because her father is struggling to help with her hair. But, a wonderful plot twist awaits and students learn the importanc
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4th - 8th
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In Flanders Fields Poetry Activities Remembrance Day
Not only will your students love analyzing this beautiful, moving poem, they'll also write their own rondeau following the step-by-step recipe. Your students will practice poetry analysis skills and then apply them to their own writing. So cool to read their poems! This is what you'll get:print & digital versions + TpT Easel self-grading assessment and activityauthor research promptsbuild background research activityreading and responding to the poemline-by-line paraphrasing practicestanza
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5th - 8th
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What's Their View? Creative Character Motivation, Perspective, & POV Activity
What's Their View activity is a creative way for students to master character perspectives, motivations, and point of view.What’s Their View is one of my students’ favorite activities, is often requested from every level of student, and is a great piece of student work to display.Key Concepts & Objectives:Reading ComprehensionCharacter MotivationCharacter POV and Perspective based on setting and conflictStudent conclusion based on textResources IncludeLesson Guides and Suggested SequenceGuid
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6th - 12th
Hero's Journey Plot Chart Arc Analysis - Blank Graphic Freytag's Pyramid Diagram
This Hero's Journey Plot Chart (Blank Graphic Analyzer) can be used with the plot of any novel or short story that models itself after the epic Hero's Journey structure.This graphic analyzer will help students analyze the parts of any story's plot. Just fill in the story's title, and you're ready to roll!Parts of the Hero's Journey:★ Ordinary World (setting, characters, and background info)★ Allies & Mentors★ Road of Trials (Entering the Unknown and 2 Obstacles)★ Supreme Ordeal★ Road to Rest
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4th - 12th
The Hobbit Creative Writing Course (with lesson plans)
Stuck for a Friday afternoon English lesson? Want something different, interesting and engaging? This workbook aims to get student’s creative writing juices flowing and inspire them to write their own fantasy novels, while teaching them comprehension and writing skills at the same time! 'The Hobbit Creative Writing Course' is a 15-lesson creative writing course based on the first chapter of 'The Hobbit' by J.R.R. Tolkien. Intended for students in Middle School (Grades 5-8), students will study T
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5th - 8th
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Short Films FREE LITERARY ELEMENT DEVICES & TECHNIQUES GUIDE
Using shorts or other animated short films to teach literary elements and literary device is hands down the most engaging and effective practice in the ELA classroom! Students absolutely love learning with them! But, it takes forever to sort through thousands of films and figure out which literary elements correlate. This guide lets you bypass all of that and go straight to teaching! ❤ Personal Note: I have viewed and analyzed hundreds of animated short films (I'm kind of obsessed), choosing on
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4th - 8th
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