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Literature resources for Microsoft OneDrive and for homeschool
Lord of the Flies Unit Plan: Fun Activities, Editable Lesson Plans, Mask, Test
Lord of the Flies by William Golding offers unique insight into human nature, the dangers of unchecked power, and the consequences of a failing society. With this Lord of the Flies Unit Plan, you’ll be able to dig deep into these dark themes while preparing students for a more hopeful future. From Steven King to Suzanne Collins, Lord of the Flies has inspired readers through the ages to explore the ugliness of human nature within the safe pages of a book. In turn, readers use these lessons and i
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8th - 12th
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Beowulf Unit Plan: Fun Activities, Editable Lesson Plans, Modern Pairings, Test
This Beowulf unit plan is designed for an active, creative, and inclusive classroom. With its difficult language and dated topics, Beowulf can be challenging to teach. However, with a little inspiration, it is possible to include meaningful, engaging, and fun activities for teaching Beowulf into your unit plan.These fun activities for teaching Beowulf will help you bring the archaic epic to life for your modern students!You will get:⭐ A detailed day-by-day Beowulf unit plan explaining exactly ho
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9th - 12th
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Literary Analysis Elements Activities using Pixar Shorts Videos or Commercials
Your students are going to love these literary analysis lessons. Add Pixar Shorts, commercials, or cartoon clips and you're ready to teach literary elements. Fun way to engage students as they analyze character, plot, setting, theme, and conflict (coming soon). Then, transfer them to more complex texts like short stories and novels. Your students will love practicing analysis skills with these easy-to-use digital or print lessons! The perfect way for students to truly understand literary el
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5th - 8th
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Reading Graphic Organizers | Fiction Reading Response | Print & Digital Slides
Graphic organizers are an important tool for helping students to organize their thoughts and ideas, and increase their comprehension. These printable and digital graphic organizers are perfect for students to use to respond to any fiction or literature text. This resource includes 18 ready-to-use pages. Print on paper or download to use with student devices. Skills Included:Write a SummaryCharacter TraitsStory SettingMaking a PredictionDrawing InferencesAsking QuestionsStory SequenceStory Elemen
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3rd - 6th
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Myths, Legends, Fables and Fairy Tales PowerPoint
Teaching Myths, Legends, Fables and Fairy Tales? This PowerPoint helps you teach folktales and traditional tales, like myths and fables, legends and tall tales, and fairy tales. The slides discuss differences between myths and legends, tall tales, fables, and fairy tales, and helps students understand the characteristics of each type of story. This digital resource works well for remote learning and in-person learning. It is a good resource for your oral tradition unit. Examples of famous tales
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5th - 7th
Also included in: Fairy Tales Resource Bundle
The Cay PowerPoint Introduction
The Cay Introduction PowerPoint is an engaging and interactive preview of The Cay by Theodore Taylor. If you are reading The Cay, this digital resource introduces students to the setting, characters, plot, theme and vocabulary, and builds background knowledge needed to comprehend the book. Great book for hurricane season. Students can discuss with partners how they would survive on a desert island in severe weather. They can also write about this and share with each other. Then discuss how dif
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4th - 7th
Also included in: The Cay by Theodore Taylor Bundle - Novel Unit
"The Most Dangerous Game" Short Story Unit
This "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell resource works as a complete unit that gets students analyzing conflict, characterization, foreshadowing, theme, and more while practicing close reading strategies. Eye-catching visuals and scaffolded connections help to build student knowledge, and an included literary response prompt helps students to consolidate their thinking. Completely paperless, this Google Slides resource is perfect for whole-class, group, or individual completion. *****
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Short Stories GROWING BUNDLE for Middle & High School
Story Elements of a Fairy Tale PowerPoint and Printable Reading Activity
Fairy Tales PowerPoint will introduce your students to the main characteristics and story elements of fairy tales, such as magic, royalty, characters, lessons and more. Animated slides will engage your students. I use this presentation to introduce a unit on fairy tales. Review slides at the end with answer key. Then have students do the reading activity with my printable Elements of Fairy Tales chart (included on the last page). Have them read several fairy tales (I assign at least 5) and let
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Fairy Tales Resource Bundle
Where the Red Fern Grows Introduction PowerPoint
Where The Red Fern Grows Introduction PowerPoint Presentation. Introduce the novel by Wilson Rawls with this digital resource. Photos of red ferns, redbone coon hounds, raccoons, notes about the book, characters, setting, author, and theme notes are included, along with pictures of items from the time period and a preview of the Where the Red Fern Grows movies that were made from the book. Use PowerPoints like this in Zoom or videoconferencing for remote teaching and virtual learning. Share with
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Grades:
5th - 7th
Also included in: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls Bundle
Reading Literature and Informational Texts Mini Lessons and Activities Bundle
PRINT & DIGITAL! Your whole year of mini lessons! No planning needed! You'll save tons of time by using these print and digital mini lessons to teach all your reading information texts and reading literature lessons! You'll have mentor texts, "I Can" statements, student activities, and lesson plans -- so you can spend more time helping your students and less time planning and searching for resources!Plus, you can use these lessons with any texts. You can scaffold, differentiate, work on
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5th - 7th
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Introduction to Drama PowerPoint
This Drama PowerPoint is an excellent introduction to theater and drama lesson you project on your whiteboard to start teaching and hook your students. Presentation has animations, sounds, and graphics that engage students when starting a drama unit. Defines drama terms like playwright, stage directions, set, props, script, etc. Includes staging, dramatization, how plays are produced, the role of the audience and theater etiquette. Also includes information on Greek theater, Shakespearean theate
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6th - 9th, Adult Education
Also included in: Drama Unit Resource BUNDLE Print and Digital Easel Activities
Mythology PowerPoint - What Everyone Should Know From A-Z with Easel Assessment
Mythology PowerPoint - What Everyone Should Know From A-Z PowerPoint and Easel Assessment. Slides on what is a myth, classical mythology, and the main characters and myths of Greek and Roman mythology. Photos of statues and ruins, coins and ancient art, as well as interesting facts about the gods, goddesses, and heroes of ancient Greece. Build background knowledge before starting any mythology unit. 69 informational slides, 50 question/answer slides, and 25 Easel Assessment pages.Includes inform
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5th - 8th
Digital Book Report and Poster Reading Activities and Challenges
Go paperless with digital book reports -- they look like real notebooks! Use all year to keep your students reading. Your students will have fun creating book posters to accompany their digital book reports! This resource includes the digital book report and student directions for creating a digital book poster.Includes both editable PowerPoint and Google Slides.This editable digital book report includes pages for:⚬ basic book information and picture of the cover⚬ summary page⚬ character an
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Writing Activities for the Whole Year Digital Bundle
Peak by Roland Smith PowerPoint Introduction
Peak by Roland Smith Introductory PowerPoint Presentation. 34 slides. This book is a fiction story about a boy who climbs Mt. Everest. The PowerPoint introduces students to the novel Peak by Roland Smith. Information about the author of the book, an overview of the plot, a list of main characters, slides on setting (the Woolworth building, Bangkok, Everest and base camp), themes, and a few important vocabulary words to get started. The last slide has students make a prediction about the book and
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5th - 8th
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Reading Literature Mini Lessons Activities and Mentor Texts for the Whole Year
No planning needed to teach all the reading lit standards! Print & Digital. 26 easy-to-use mini lessons have everything you need to make teaching reading (any) literature text a snap! You'll have time to work with your students every step of the way! Provide the scaffolding your students need or increase rigor by using with a variety of texts. Now with digital slides! This resource includes all the mini lessons as digital slides that you can use in your online classroom!Here's teachers ar
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6th - 8th
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Romeo and Juliet Prologue - PAPERLESS - Middle and High School
Engage your students with literature activities that appeal to them, and do it in a DIGITAL FORMAT! This resource is technology-driven for the 21st-century classroom and can be easily shared with your students using Google Classroom, Apps, or other password-protected Learning Management System. It is excellent for schools who are distance learning or for teachers trying to incorporate more technology in their classes.*****************************************************************************
Grades:
8th - 10th
Also included in: Romeo and Juliet Complete Resource Catalog
The Tiger Rising Novel Unit - 4rd-8th grade - PAPERLESS
The Tiger Rising is an AMAZING book that delves into complicated characters. With this engaging PAPERLESS novel study, your students will focus on Rob and Sistine through character study, comprehension questions, vocabulary, and writing. This unit has everything you need to start the novel tomorrow, just add the books!***********************************************************************************************************************************Students use the digital file to enhance their r
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Kate DiCamillo Growing Bundle - PAPERLESS - 4rd-8th grade
The Hobbit Author JRR Tolkien Biography PowerPoint
The Hobbit Author J.R.R. Tolkien Biography PowerPoint. The author study is a digital resource to display on your whiteboard. Slides tell the story of Tolkien's life from his birth in South Africa, through his childhood, schooling, love, war, writing and friendships, fame, and ultimately his death. Useful background information and photos of the author to use when teaching The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, or The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien. G8RCVRVUse this digital resource in Zoom for remote l
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7th - 10th
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King Lear Workbook: Print and Digital
King Lear is often considered Shakespeare’s finest tragedy. This interactive notebook literature study is a great way to engage your readers in this dynamic drama by calling on the universal themes and conflicts of family ties, superficiality, insight, and blindness. Using movable pieces and highlighting, the King Lear interactive analysis guide will take your students from basic levels of comprehension to deeper analyses of the main themes, characters, motivations, motifs, symbols, and conflict
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Setting Analysis Activities for novel, short story, Pixar short films and videos
Your students will love analyzing setting with Pixar Shorts. What a fun way to engage students as they practice literary analysis skills. You'll use entertaining, funny Pixar Shorts, commercials, or cartoon clips. Then, transfer those skills to more complex texts like short stories and novels. Your students will love analyzing the elements of setting with this easy-to-use digital or print booklet and your choice of short videos! This is what you get:Print and Digital versions that are great
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6th - 8th
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost PowerPoint
Robert Frost - Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening PowerPoint. Poetry analysis for a close read of the poem and writing activity. Includes slides about the author, setting, characters, figurative language, alliteration, metaphor, end rhyme, internal rhyme, structure, meter, different interpretations (including a Christmas one), and a writing activity based on Common Core State Standards that require citing text evidence. Includes a printable note-taking sheet to go with the PowerPoint. Pr
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5th - 8th
Whole Year Mini Lessons for Reading Literature 7th Grade Print and Digital
Stop searching for mentor texts and reading lessons! No planning needed to teach all the Gr. 7 reading lit standards! Easy-to-use mini lessons have everything you need to make teaching reading (any) literature text a snap so you'll have more time to work with your students every step of the way! Provide the scaffolding your students need or increase rigor by using with a variety of texts. This is what you'll get with this print & digital resource:19 Mini Lessons Digital & print - perf
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7th
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Also included in: Grade 7 Whole Year Reading Informational Text Literature Activities
The Scarlet Letter DIGITAL Novel Unit
Teaching The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne? And, trying to do it with Distance Learning? Or how about using the hybrid model? This unit has exactly what you need to present the material digitally to students in a visually appealing format that encourages critical thinking.This 31-slide notebook allows your students to work thoughtfully and rigorously through the novel. With sections including characterization, settings, symbols, and themes, students will become adept at finding and an
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: American Literature Digital Novel Units - Digital Growing Bundle
Maniac Magee Quiz Show PowerPoint Game
Maniac Magee Game Show PowerPoint. Based on book by Jerry Spinelli. Figure out the question from the answer given. After you read the novel, review characters, plot, setting, etc. in a fun and engaging game (similar to the game show Jeopardy). It has the following character categories: Maniac Magee, Amanda Beale, Mars Bar, Two Mills, Grayson and the McNabs. All answers are worded as questions. Music and sound effects included. Game can also be used as a template, if you choose to change the ques
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4th - 7th
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