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Holidays/seasonal Common Core RL.8.4 resources for homeschool
Figurative Language Sorting Activity Worksheet Alternative 100 Card Sort Game
Need figurative language activities? Use this fun and interactive sorting task card game to review and reinforce figurative language. These 100 task cards each have examples of figurative language taken from authentic texts and popular YA literature. Students will sort them into seven categories: metaphors, similes, personification, hyperboles, idioms, onomatopoeia, alliteration. Before you buy...this product is part of a BUNDLE that will save you money.You will want to use this student-centered
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5th - 12th
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A Christmas Carol Figurative Language Worksheets and Digital Easel Activity
A Christmas Carol Figurative Language Practice with Easel Activity. Using quotes from the story by Charles Dickens, students have to identify types of figurative language such as metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, and allusion. Includes a worksheet based on A Christmas Carol, a worksheet based on the play, a figurative language matching sheet, and a handout on types of figurative language. No prep. Print or go digital for remote or hybrid learning. Keys are included, but not shown in
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: A Christmas Carol Bundle of Support Materials
Halloween Figurative Language Pumpkin Activity : Color By Number ELA
This Halloween, use this fun and interactive color by number ELA activity to review and reinforce figurative language including similes, metaphors, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. Students will color a jack o' lantern pumpkin after solving a figurative language puzzle. Great for fall seasonal parties and halloween parties. You will want to use this student-centered activity for years to come! Included: question sheet with figurative language tasksblank coloring sheeta
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: ELA Color by Number Activities Bundle | Figurative Language & more!
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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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
Brown Girl Dreaming by J.Woodson; A CCSS Aligned, PDF & Digital Book Study
OVERVIEW: If you like to inspire, teach, and motivate your students using award-winning, literature, don't overlook this amazing memoir: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (2015 Newbery Honor Award, 2015 Coretta Scott King Award, 2014 National Book Award, and 2015 E.B. White Read-Aloud Middle Reader Award). Use this PDF, custom-made, no-prep, CCSS aligned memoir-study to help your students focus, understand, and stretch themselves as they read. If you want to use it with distance lea
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5th - 9th
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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End of Year Escape Room Reading, Writing, & Following Directions
This FUN, EASY TO USE breakout activity is perfect to use before any vacation or at the end of the year! WHAT IS THE BACK STORY FOR THIS ESCAPE ROOM?Your kids arrive at camp and it doesn't exactly look like it does in the brochure. In fact, it is an awful wreck of a place! Luckily, the greatest counselor in the world is willing to secretly help them escape to the camp across the lake, which is the camp of their dreams! With every challenge they complete, kids will earn the parts to the vehicle t
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5th - 8th
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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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A Christmas Carol Novel Study | Complete Unit Plan
This resource includes FIVE FULL WEEKS of content for the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Additionally, in this UNIT PLAN BUNDLE, you will receive a teacher guide that encompasses an example Unit Schedule/ Pacing Guide!You can purchase each lesson individually (listed below) or save money and get the Bundle!Included in this bundle:A Christmas Carol Full TextA Christmas Carol Anticipation GuideA Christmas Carol Background Information 1840sA Christmas Carol Vocabulary for Each Chapte
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6th - 12th
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Halloween Activity - Figurative Language Task Cards for Fun October ELA Practice
Figurative Language is an important skill, and task cards are a great tool to help introduce, practice, and review metaphors, similes, idioms, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. The Halloween task cards are better than a figurative language worksheet, and minimal preparation is required to use the figurative language activity in a variety of ways: as a Halloween activity, with the whole class, as bell ringers, exit cards, & more! ✏️ The best part? You'll save valua
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4th - 7th
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Figurative Language Color by Number
Students identify different types of figurative language including: simile, metaphor, personification, allusion, idioms, puns, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, and alliteration. You might also like...NEW! Summer Figurative Language Color by NumberFigurative Language Color by Number 2-ButterflyFigurative Language Task Cards Christmas Tree Figurative Language Color by Number or...Buy the entire FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE BUNDLE and SAVE!!!Figurative Language Bundle***********************************************
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Language Arts Color by Number Bundle
Valentine's Day Activity - Figurative Language Task Cards for February ELA Fun
Help your students master identifying figurative language with these Figurative Language activity uses task cards as the perfect Valentine's Day activity to help your class stay focused during those February days leading up to Valentine's Day. Teaching and reviewing figurative language using task cards provides a fun alternative to figurative language worksheets. ✏️ The best part? The easy-to-use Valentine's Day activity will save you time.✏️ Perfect for early finishers, guest teachers, & ge
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Valentine's Day Coloring Pages Grammar Figurative Language & ELA Bundle
Christmas Activity & December ELA Activities - Figurative Language Task Cards
Here's an engaging Christmas activity with a focus on figurative language that's easy to use as a fun December activity during the days before the break. The Figurative Language Task Cards are a perfect Christmas activity to get your upper elementary or middle school students up and moving around the classroom. The figurative language task cards provide an opportunity for introduction and review. Better than a figurative language worksheet, each card has a sentence using figurative language rel
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4th - 7th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Christmas Parts of Speech, Figurative Language, & Vocabulary ELA Bundle
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
ELA American History Reader's Theater Scripts Bundle for Big Kids
This All-American Reader's Theater Scripts Bundle features 5 different American history reader's theater toolkits to help your students learn more about our National Holidays while practicing fluency, reading comprehension, and growing vocabulary through context clue word work.Each unit is a NO PREP, PRINT AND GO resource with ANSWER KEYS!This bundle includes 5 different reader's theater scripts with activities and answer keys. The scripts included are:• September 11th Reader's Theater: Remember
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4th - 7th, Staff
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Christmas Day in the Morning Short Story Analysis for the Common Core
Pearl S. Buck's short story is one of a teenage boy's life-changing recognition of his father's love a few days before Christmas. The study applies the Common Core literary standards. The study includes:1. The story in blocked paragraphs with comprehension questions ranging from simple recall to critical analysis focusing on text evidence. (Includes flashback,dialogue, symbolism, simile, personification, alliteration.) The blocked paragraphing allows for close reading.2. Theme analysis focusi
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4th - 9th
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A Christmas Carol ELA Animated Short Film Middle School Language Arts Activities
FULL LITERARY UNIT! Teach literary elements and devices and plot with this digital short film literary analysis of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The Animated short film is divided into 6 scenes and linked on the slides for a step-by-step, interactive analysis. ❤CAN BE USED WITH ANY VERSION OF A CHRISTMAS CAROL❤ LITERARY ELEMENTS INCLUDE:THEME, PLOT, CONFLICT, SETTING, CHARACTER TRAITSDIALOGUE, SYMBOLISM, FORESHADOWING, FLASHBACK, INFERENCE, AND COMPARE/CONTRAST, MOODStudents will explore
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7th - 12th
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Short Stories by Black Authors | African American Authors Bundle
In this bundle, you will receive lesson plans for 7 short stories all written by Black authors. With each product, there are detailed literary analyses, reading questions, answer keys, and accommodating activities. Diversify the literature in your classroom and use these stories to broaden your students' perspectives! These short stories also make a great addition to any Black History Month Unit in ELA!The 7 short stories by African American authors featured in this bundle are:"Raymond’s Run" by
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7th - 12th
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Poetry Analysis - Emily Dickinson - Emergency Sub Plan (paper + digital)
Are you looking for a poetry analysis lesson students can complete on their own? In this poetry activity, students analyze Emily Dickinson’s “I Died for Beauty.” This scaffolded activity is the perfect sub plan or snow day lesson or during National Poetry Month! Use this analyzing poetry activity for:Independent practiceEnrichment & Summer SchoolSnow Days & Blizzard BagsEmergency Plans Do your students need a skills review?✅ Use textual evidence to support inferences (RL.7.1)✅ Determine
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7th - 9th
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The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft — Gothic Short Story Reading Questions & Activity
"The Outsider" by H.P. Lovecraft is a Gothic Short Story perfect for any short story unit! It is a creepy, grotesque tale which encompasses an unreliable, lonely narrator; it pairs wonderfully with any of Edgar Allan Poe's infamous tales or Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein.In this product you will receive:-A before reading anticipation guide -Academic vocabulary with answers-Powerpoint presentation to teach vocabulary and brief author bio-Reading comprehension questions and answer keys. Questio
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Halloween Gothic Short Stories Volume II — Bonus Halloween Activity
Christmas Reading Comprehension Paired Passages
What kid hasn't wished Christmas, their birthday, Hanuka, or the Fourth of July could come around more than once a year? This wonderful, classic short story reminds us that too much of a sweet thing can quickly turn sour!
The story is paired with an article about the waste generated during the holiday season and a video about holiday recycling. This rigorous unit includes guided practice on how to closely read a complex text, as well as how to answer multiple choice, sh
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6th - 8th
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Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven", Halloween Activity | Poetry Analysis
Use Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Raven". Are you interested in teaching “The Raven”? Need an awesome three to four-day lesson right before Halloween? Here it is! Introduce your students to the haunting poem, “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, and have your students learn, analyze, critically think and discuss this poem with guided vocabulary and comprehension questions. Next, have your students dive into Poe’s poetry writing, analyzing his style and formatting. Lastly, challenge your students to write
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8th - 10th
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Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Bundle- The Raven, Posters
Language Arts Color by Number Bundle
This bundle contains ten color by number activities for language arts classes. These activities are designed for upper elementary, middle school and even high school students. They are great to include on sub days, as homework assignments, or just a quiet activity for students to practice language arts skills. Color by number activities included for the following topics: Verbals (Gerunds, Participles, Infinitives)Verb MoodsSentence Structure (Types of Sentences)Figurative LanguageTypes of Irony
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5th - 11th
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