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Short stories Common Core RL.8.4 resources for homeschool
The Veldt, Ray Bradbury Short Story Worksheets + Multimedia, PDF & Google Drive
If your students can’t go an hour without looking at their phones, they need to read “The Veldt.”Ray Bradbury’s chilling futuristic short story, “The Veldt,” gives us a glimpse of a world where children love their devices more than their families. Sound familiar? This compelling 90-minute lesson will get your students reading, thinking, and discussing the consequences of our tech-dependent culture. The materials (5-page PDF with links to online media and Google Drive versions of all student hand
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8th - 11th
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"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson Unit with Hunger Games Comparison
"The Lottery" Short Story Literature GuideThis package of documents features numerous materials for teaching Shirley Jackson's 1948 short story "The Lottery." Includes an introduction activity (using real stones), guided reading questions (for recall/comprehension, analysis, applying, critical thinking), discussion questions, a character chart, extended activities, a 26-question quiz (15 multiple choice, 9 vocabulary matching, 2 short answer essay), and a theme comparison with the novel The Hung
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Hunger Games Teaching Unit Mega Growing Bundle
Gift of the Magi, O. Henry, Short Story Literary Analysis, PDF & Google Drive
Use the short story, “The Gift of the Magi” by American writer O. Henry, to teach your students the elements of literary analysis, get them thinking deeply about the text, and provide opportunities for creative writing. This two-day lesson plan includes a beautifully illustrated copy of the story, an 8-question deep-thinking exercise (with detailed answer key, of course), and two options for creative writing assignments with specific literary techniques for the students to include in their own O
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7th - 10th
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Short Story The Monkey's Paw Analysis and Reading Comprehension Questions
Your students will love this delightfully creepy short story. It's perfect for practicing reading comprehension, literary analysis, foreshadowing, point of view, and irony with your middle school and high school students. And... by the end of the unit, students will have written a literary analysis response.Here's what teachers are saying about this unit: "An AWESOME unit. This resource is put together really well and was really easy to use.""MY KIDS LOVED THIS!!!!! We have been having so muc
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6th - 10th
The Tell-Tale Heart Digital Escape Room | Reading Comprehension Game
Your students are going to love deciphering and solving puzzles in this creepy, 360° digital escape room. This activity is designed to work for a laptop, tablet, or smart phone. Students will solve a series of clues based on the story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe in order to crack the master lock and escape the room. This game entails reading comprehension skills, finding textual evidence, and making inferences.Included in this download are teacher instructions, student instructions
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7th - 11th
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"Thank You Ma'am" Langston Hughes story, literary analysis, PDF & Google Drive
Use this classic short story, “Thank You, Ma’am” by Langston Hughes, to teach your students the elements of literary analysis. This one-day lesson plan includes detailed instructions, a six-question deep-thinking exercise (with detailed answer key, of course), and an optional writing activity that shows students step-by-step how to build a powerful introductory paragraph to any literary analysis essay. All student handouts are included in both PDF and Google Drive formats.This lesson is best for
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8th - 11th
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The Scarlet Ibis, James Hurst Short Story Literary Analysis, PDF & Google Drive
Use the heartbreaking story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst to teach your students the elements of literary analysis. This three-day lesson plan includes a 7-question deep-thinking exercise (with detailed answer key/class discussion starters), a pre-writing organizing task that will get your students to dig back into the text and organize symbolic elements (also with answer key), and a literary analysis writing assignment where students will examine Hurst’s use of symbolism to support his them
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8th - 11th
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Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell, Short Story Analysis, PDF & Google Drive
Use the classic short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell to teach your students the elements of literary analysis. This three-day lesson plan includes the full-text 9-page story (public domain), an 8-question student handout (with detailed answer key/class discussion starters), a simile hunt worksheet (also with answer key), and an optional direct/indirect characterization activity. All student handouts are included in both PDF and Google Drive formats.This lesson is best for ad
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8th - 11th
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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!
Most Popular Short Stories Bundle — 8th, 9th, 10th Grade ELA Short Stories
Working on a short story unit? Look no further for resources. Here are the Most Popular Short Stories Bundled for 8th, 9th, and 10th grade ELA!Included in this bundle: "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell All products include reading comprehension questions and
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7th - 10th
Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart & The Monkeys Paw Digital Escape Room Bundle
With this Digital Escape Room Bundle, you will save money and get TWO escape rooms: one for The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe & one for The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs.This purchase includes the bundle of two Digital Escape Rooms, which is perfect since many 7th or 8th grade teachers teach both of these short stories in the same unit!Your students are going to love deciphering and solving puzzles in these creepy, 360° digital escape rooms. Both escape rooms are designed to work for a l
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7th - 10th
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Rules of the Game, Amy Tan Short Story from Joy Luck Club, PDF & Google Drive
Use the short story, “The Rules of the Game” (a short piece from Amy Tan’s novel, The Joy Luck Club), to teach your students the elements of literary analysis. This two-day lesson plan includes a 7-question deep-thinking exercise (with detailed answer key, of course) and a creative writing assignment with specific literary techniques for the students to include in their own work of fiction. All student handouts are included in both PDF and Google Drive formats.This lesson is best for advanced mi
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8th - 11th
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The Lottery Short Story Analysis, Writing and Textual Evidence Dystopian Lit
Your middle school students will be captivated by this chilling short story! Students will want to analyze characters, motive, plot, and foreshadowing. This creepy, unsettling story is great for middle school and high school students. Reasons to love this unit:print and digital versions (Google Slides and PowerPoint)super creepy story is sure to engage your students!includes lesson plans and teacher checklist – makes an ideal sub plan provides literary analysis practice: students will analy
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6th - 10th
ELA Digital Escape Room THE LANDLADY Short Story w Writing Activities OCTOBER
Middle school ELA reading and writing activities have never been more fun! Students help Billy Weaver escape THE LANDLADY while learning literary elements! This 360 digital escape room also includes a full short story literary and reading comprehension workshop on Google Slides, along with a Quizlet set and tons of fun activities. Students will play the role of a detective who is on the case of missing boys in the city of Bath. They must use the clues from the story and the links to find out
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5th - 9th
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"Rikki-tikki-tavi" Short Story Unit - Printable & Digital
Plan your short story unit in no time! This set of "Rikki-tikki-tavi" activities for middle school includes everything you need to teach reading comprehension, story elements, inference, and more as your students enjoy a classic animal story about loyalty and courage.This bundle includes:"Rikki-tikki-tavi" Story Activities"Rikki-tikki-tavi" Test and Reading Questions"Rikki-tikki-tavi" Socratic Seminar Activities include:Anticipation guideVocabularyComprehension questionsPlot diagramTypes of conf
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6th - 8th
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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
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Sherlock Holmes | The Adventure of the Speckled Band | Readers Theater Script
Detective Fiction: "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" based on the short story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Readers Theater Script, Writing Prompt, Discussion Questions, Vocabulary with Answer Key, and Print & Digital Graphic Organizer.*Helen Stoner asks Sherlock Holmes for his assistance after she began hearing a whistle in the middle of the night; the same whistle her twin sister heard before she mysteriously died. Only Holmes can come to her aid befo
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5th - 12th
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Fiction Independent Reading Journal Log - Middle School ELA
Fiction: Independent Reading Response Logs for ANY Novel or Short Story
Are you wondering how to hold your students accountable for providing text evidence during independent reading? I needed an independent reading response packet that could be used for any work of fiction. I needed one that was easy to grade and included questions from every Common Core Standard. So I created this versatile resource that can be used for ANY novel or short story, independent reading choices, whole-class assig
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6th - 8th
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Grimms' Fairy Tales Close Reading Worksheets Bundle for Google Drive - Vol. 1
Support the development of close reading skills for high school with this bundle of rigorous comprehension and analysis worksheets covering 25 fairy tales written by the Brothers Grimm. With these resources, students will demonstrate command of general plot, build their vocabulary, write with clarity and precision, and make engagement with works of fiction visible. All materials are made for Google Drive and delivered as editable Google Docs. Additionally, a zip file containing Word Document
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8th - 12th
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The Hitchhiker by Lucille Fletcher—Radio Play Drama Analysis & The Twilight Zone
Students will read and analyze the script of Lucille Fletcher's radio play: The Hitchhiker (also spelled The Hitch-Hiker). Have them listen to the drama on the Orson Welles Show to understand the impact that music and sound effects have on a play. Students will love to compare the audio version of The Hitchhiker to the episode of The Twilight Zone Rod Serling adapted for television. (The gender swap of the main character makes for a great discussion.)In this dreadful, ominous tale, students will
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6th - 9th
Also included in: The Hitchhiker Unit — Radio Drama by Lucille Fletcher
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury Close Reading Google Annotation Project
"My students were just breezing by the text just so they could be done. They didn't stop to read closely, make predictions, and notice the literary devices that lent to the tone and theme of the work. Mrs. Anderson's guided reading Google Slides force my students to slow down and really absorb everything. She breaks the text up into digestible chunks that students can tackle while sprinkling in literary analysis and thematic questions in a way that does not intimidate students. What's great is t
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6th - 12th
All Summer in A Day Short Story Unit - Narrative Writing Task - 36 Task Cards
The "All Summer In A Day" short story unit BUNDLE is filled with reading comprehension activities to teach main idea, summary, theme, characterization, and more. This 8 day close reading unit is the PERFECT resource to help your middle school ELA students think critically and dive deeper into Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian tale. Each lesson is scaffolded and contains tools to help meet the diverse needs of all learners. There is also a creative writing project that requires students to write a
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6th - 9th
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Short Films CHRISTMAS ELA ESCAPE ROOM DIGITAL GAMES AND ACTIVITIES
What a great pair! An animated short film and a 360 digital escape room! This resources offers 4 ROOMS: 15 clues, activities, puzzles, videos, and sound effects. *Photos and Images by Jenny WalkerShort film: A Nutty Christmas - A walnut must save himself and his friends as a villainous Nutcracker tries to get them. Students will work through the clues that teach plot structure, setting, figurative language, vocabulary, and more literary devices. GUARANTEED LAUGHTER AND FUN! OUTSIDE LINKS: Make s
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: December Literary Analysis and Pi Short Film For Google Classroom Unit 4
Sherlock Holmes | The Speckled Band | Short Story Unit | Review Escape Room
Embark on a thrilling adventure with our captivating Readers Theater Script for "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Helen Stoner seeks Sherlock Holmes' aid when haunting nighttime whistles mirror the eerie circumstances that led to her twin sister's mysterious demise. With 6 dynamic reading parts – Dr. John Watson, Narrator, Sherlock Holmes, Helen Stoner, Julia Stoner, Dr. Grimesby Roylott – your classroom transforms into a stage for a suspenseful and c
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5th - 12th
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