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High school reading strategies lectures for Microsoft OneDrive
How to Read a Poem Introduction to Poetry & Poetic Terms PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Use this attention-grabbing 32-slide lecture (downloads in both Prezi & Google Slides format) and accompanying handouts to pull even your most reluctant students into a study of poetry. Begin by piquing your students’ interest in poetry by comparing the art form to song lyrics. Then, present a concrete, 9-step process to help any student decode any poem.These lesson materials include a guided note handout (with answer key) that will help focus students’ listening and serve as a reference she
Grades:
8th - 11th
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Characters/Characterization Traits/Archetypes Lesson Plan
The objective of this Characters, Characterization Development and Archetypes complete teaching pack is to foster students' beginning or basic understanding of how an author uses details to "paint a picture" of a character throughout a text. Student Experience: The lesson slideshow paints the concept and terms, the task cards allow students the chance to practice their skills on authentic text, and the creative body biography activity allows students to show their comprehension of this skill in
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Skills Teaching Units, BUNDLE of Lessons
Inference Presentation - Introduction to Making Inferences in Reading Slideshow
Inference Presentation - Introduction to Making Inferences in Reading Slideshow is a ready-to-use lesson to help students understand what it means to infer information while reading. Inference is a challenging skill for students to understand and master, but this presentation breaks the reading skill down in detail with examples to help students master the skill and apply it in their reading. The presentation covers topics like inferring in everyday life, practical skills and tips for inferring
Grades:
6th - 9th
"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. *****
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Also included in: Short Stories GROWING BUNDLE for Middle & High School
Reading Comprehension Skills Teaching Units, BUNDLE of Lessons
With this bundle of my complete teaching packs for the key reading anchor standards, you'll be set to provide your students with fundamental instruction that will ensure their success with demonstrating college and career level readiness of the anchor standards for reading. Using these skills-readiness teaching packs to cover specific standards in-depth - one standard at a time - builds a foundation all readers need. Then, students can dive into any text ready and able to fully comprehend and a
Grades:
7th - 10th
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
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
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Text Features PowerPoint Presentation
This introduction to 27 text features highlights the various print features and visual aids that help students understand nonfiction text, including the table of contents, glossary, index, appendix, captions, diagrams, and maps. Since a key component of this lesson is perusing nonfiction selections at their tables, each of the 27 features also has a slide asking students to find that particular text feature in a book at their tables. The FREE crossword puzzle (http://www.teacherspayteachers.co
Grades:
4th - 10th
The Crucible PowerPoint Summary Bundle Act 1, 2, 3 and 4
This is a bundle of my Crucible PowerPoints. There is a PowerPoint for each Act. These are excellent tools for students who struggle with Reading Comprehension and remembering key details of what they have read. I use these act summaries in my College Prep and Special Education classes to help with retention of key plot points after reading. Click HERE for my Crucible FolderClick HERE for my Crucible Digital Escape RoomClick HERE for my Crucible Unit Plan Bundle
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Social Media Stories Character Profile and Elements of Literature Activity
This is a fun activity that can be used with ANY text! Students create social media profiles for characters based on direct and indirect evidence from the text. Students will also use inference skills to determine which "sign" belongs on their character's profile page. In addition to these, you can also assign a real or hand-drawn social media story activity in which students create a story to represent elements of literature found in the text. The possibilities are endless because the story ele
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Greek & Latin Roots, Prefixes and Suffixes Bundle with 16 Quiz Assessments!
Everything you need to complete a roots, prefixes, suffixes unit!
We always tell our students the purpose of learning these affixes is to figure out vocabulary-in-context. Many times we test students' knowledge of the affixes, but not their APPLICATION of them. In this definitions and assessment bundle each quiz includes a write-in section for definitions, approximately five multiple choice vocabulary words that use the affix, and students choose the best option based on their knowledge of the
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6th - 12th
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Of Mice and Men PowerPoint Summary Bundle Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6
This is a bundle of all of my summary PowerPoints for Of Mice and Men. These are excellent resources to be used in a Special Education or College Prep class where students may have trouble remembering important plot details after reading a chapter. Click HERE for my Of Mice and Men folder
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Night by Elie Wiesel - Chapter 4 PPT Summary with Video on Nazi's and Gold
My 4th Night PPT. This includes bulleted information for Chapter/Section 4 along with relevant photos and a video clip.Buna Work AssignmentsThe DentistThe BeatingsThe BombingTerrible MemoriesPunishmentThe Nazi's and Gold - Video File included, YouTube link is no longer validClick HERE for the PPT Bundle Chap. 1-9Click HERE for my entire Night by Elie Wiesel Folder
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Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in: Night by Elie Wiesel- Unit Plan Bundle
Night - Chapter 5 PPT Summary
This is a 12 slide summary of chapter 5 of Night by Elie WieselDetails include:Night - Chapter 5Losing Faith ~ Losing Strength ~ Surviving.Rosh Hashanah - Losing FaithElie loses faith in GodHe wonders why people would still pray to God on this, the eve of the Jewish New YearPeople gather for a holy service Elie lists reasons why he can barely believe in God anymoreElie remembers how he used to ask for forgiveness of his sinsNow he believes he is the strong one, he is the one keeping himself aliv
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: Night by Elie Wiesel- Unit Plan Bundle
ROMEO AND JULIET Unit - Plan Fun Activities Prereading Introduction DIGITAL
Your learners will enjoy the rigor and creativity of our engaging activities built from best teaching practices. We want to make your lesson planning journey easy, so you can focus on your expertise. This novel study includes a curriculum map pacing guide that offers our day-by-day suggestion for how to plan out your weeks of lessons. Our pedagogy section explains the instructive idea behind the activity, gives ideas for implementation, and aligns it to the standards. We've filmed some training
Grades:
8th - 10th
Teaching the Character Analysis Essay
Are your students ready to write their own character analysis essay? You need this resource! This character analysis essay assignment provides scaffolding and modeling to help students through the writing process. This resource comes with a complete prompt and editable deadlines, outlining and prewriting slides, and mini-lessons on creating a thesis statement, using quotations correctly, and more. Even better, this comes complete with a character analysis mentor essay for students to annotate an
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Also included in: Character Analysis BUNDLE for Middle & High School
Gatsby and The American Dream: A Non-Fiction Lesson
One of the shifts in the Common Core State Standards is the focus on informational texts. As English teachers, many of us tend to overlook rich non-fiction that exists because fiction is such an important mainstay of our field. This lesson specifically focuses on the informational text standards, but it ties in with a beloved classic of literature, The Great Gatsby.This lesson asks students to question the idea of the American dream and read contemporary news and magazine articles on the topic
Grades:
11th - 12th
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Also included in: The Great Gatsby Unit Bundle
Credible or "Fake News"? Cultivating News Literacy in a "Post-Truth" Era
These lessons cover the basics of discerning between credible and false journalism (and the gradient between the two), using contemporary (but non-controversial) examples. There is also a slideshow (in PDF format) with links to examples of terms, as well as examples of credible journalism.
Arguably the most tangibly helpful aspect of this three-day unit is the "News Analysis Checklist" which students can apply to any form of journalism to asses its credibility. The checklist is available in PDF
Grades:
9th - 12th
Night by Elie Wiesel- Chapter 3 PowerPoint with video clip on selection process
Teach chapter/section three with this PPT. Use this PPT to review the chapter, skip over parts, or give to absent students. This is great to have for Special Education. It reinforces the reading and provides an easy to read summary for those with low reading ability. This is completely editable and can be posted to your Schoology class page. Six minute video clip link included. The video is on the selection process of women and men narrated by a female Holocaust survivor. Updated: Video file is
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Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in: Night by Elie Wiesel- Unit Plan Bundle
Hamlet Bundle of PowerPoints for Reading Comprehension, Act 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
This is a bundle of my Hamlet PowerPoints. I use these scene by scene summaries to assist my Special Education and CP classes in remembering the plot points of the play. They are very helpful for struggling readers. Includes:Act 1Act 2Act 3Act 4 Act 5Click HERE for my Hamlet folderClick HERE for my Hamlet Digital Escape Room
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Important Quotations in Speak Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson
A teacher's 10 page guide with a minimum of 2 pages of quotes and explanations for each section, covering all four marking periods. Make sure your students don't miss the most important parts of the book. Don't gloss over these sections of the novel again. Use these detailed notes to support your classroom instruction on Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Notice & Note Fiction Powerpoint
This powerpoint is fully editable and will help you teach the signposts. Is over 100 slides and includes all 6 lessons. Now has VIDEO CLIPS!
Grades:
6th - 12th
Because of Winn-Dixie - 4rd-8th grade - PAPERLESS
Who doesn't love Opal? Your students will love this paperless novel study of Because of Winn Dixie, as they engage in character study, comprehension, writing, and more, all while using technology! This is ready for you to start tomorrow; just add the books!
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Students use the digital file to enhance their reading of Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. Divided into six sections, students will engage in interactive
Grades:
2nd - 10th
Also included in: Kate DiCamillo Growing Bundle - PAPERLESS - 4rd-8th grade
Night by Elie Wiesel - Chapter 6 PPT Summary with Video
My 6th Night PPT. This includes bulleted information for Chapter/Section 6 along with relevant photos.The following are details from the PPT:Night- Chapter 6The death marchShot anyone that could not keep upIt was extremely coldA young boy from Poland named Zalman fell to the ground from stomach painsZalman was most likely trampled by the runners because the SS officers did not seem to noticeElie thought of how great it would be to have this all over, to just die and cease to exist”My Father’s pr
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Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in: Night by Elie Wiesel- Unit Plan Bundle
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