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Reading strategies Common Core W.7.3 lessons
Graphic Novels Unit | Student Notes | Book List | Graphic Novel Activities
Graphic Novels - Activities and Resources for Middle School and High School - This teaching resource bundle contains student notes and activities for a complete graphic novel unit. Everything you need to teach the characteristics and features of graphic novels, and to show students how to read this form of writing with purpose to encourage deep analysis. Graphic Novels are effective high interest resources to engage and motivate reluctant middle school and high school readers.*******************
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5th - 8th
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All Summer In a Day Lesson Plan Sub Plan
This is a lesson plan for the short story All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury covering plot, climax, resolution, point of view, and narrative writing. The story can be found online or in most middle school literature anthologies between grades 7-8. This is a lesson plan that I have been using and updating for the past two years. A veteran teacher may use this lesson as a supplement to an existing unit, while a new teacher may see this as a starting point in a narrative reading and writing un
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6th - 8th
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Short Story Resources: "The Moustache" by Robert Cormier
This short story packet features resources for "The Moustache" by Robert Cormier. The six days of lessons include: anchor charts/student handouts, student documents and answer keys, writing checklist and rubric, and assessment and answer key. These 40 pages cover the following skills: literal and inferential comprehension; vocabulary (context clues emphasized); figurative language (similes and an idiom emphasized); narrative voice/perspective, and narrative writing (rewriting a scene from a dif
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6th - 8th
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Poems about Diversity from Dragon University (#3)
Diversity is an integral part of every academic discipline and also of the very act of learning, so this third poem in the Dragon University series addresses the challenges associated with differences in an engaging poem with advanced vocabulary, rhyme, and a theme that will appeal to all scholastic age groups. Intended for older students, this poem was written for grades 7-10, but may be used with almost any grade as a group activity, a complement to a larger unit or as a lesson for remote lear
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Grades:
7th - 10th
Priscilla Peppernugget, Volume 1
The heroine in this series is an unlikely, unassuming little girl with the courage of a lion and the will power to back it up. Based on actual events, this exercise helps students focus on literary analysis, theme, plot, character, setting, and all the points of a story's plot that foster understanding and enjoyment. Your students will root for our little crusader, Priscilla Peppernugget!
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5th - 10th
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Companion Piece to The Highwayman
The Highwayman is a perfect example of content-rich text, in addition to the fact that it is fascinating reading and embodies a complex plot and controversial themes. Reading the poem with this companion piece of 16 questions and 3 writing prompts not only enhances the educational value of the literature but also gives the teacher a comprehension assessment tool!
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7th - 11th
Setting Short Story Quick-Write
In this lesson students practice identifying elements of setting when they are not explicitly named. It also helps students understand that the “place” part of setting is about more than the name of the town or city, and that the “time” part of setting is about more than the year. Finally, if you choose to include the "mood" part of the lesson, students can work on writing and interpreting correct tones.These see to be the “stuck points” that my students struggle with year after year.Each studen
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5th - 10th
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Finding Clues for Making Inferences
This mini-lesson teaches students what an inference is, how to find inferences when reading, and how to write an inference to make their own reading more interesting.
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4th - 8th
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The Read Street Cafe, #1: Creepy Sleep
Read this poem with your students purely for the love of reading! The humor and rhyme will help with fluency and the writing prompt works just as well for an informal, cafe-like discussion.
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5th - 10th
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Main Idea! Details! Drawing Conclusions! #14: Octopi
Main ideas, the details that support them and the conclusions that surround them, along with vocabulary development, are the true pillars of reading comprehension and the essence of reading instruction; however, if the text to be read is dreadfully boring or trite, students learn nothing, so here is an engaging, non-fiction poetic narrative about some of the world's most elusive, inscrutable and unusual creatures: octopi. Professionally written, common core aligned multiple-choice questions and
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6th - 10th
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Alone in the Woods Educator Guide
A Common Core aligned educator guide inspired by Rebecca Behrens' Alone in the Woods.From the author of The Disaster Days comes a thrilling survival story about two former best friends who must work together to stay alive after getting lost in a remote national forest.
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3rd - 7th
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The Last Lie Educator Guide
A Common Core aligned educator guide inspired by Patricia Forde's The Last Lie.In the powerful conclusion to the award-winning List duology, Letta must return from exile to fight for the people of Ark, even if it may cost her everything. The Last Lie is a dystopian adventure for tweens and teens and an important commentary on censorship, language, and the pursuit of freedom.
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5th - 8th
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