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Middle school oral communication short stories thematic unit plans
Short Story Unit Plan - Scary and Surprising Stories - Lessons and Assignments
Short Story Unit Plan - Scary and Surprising Stories - Lessons and Assignments: Elevate your English class with this chilling and thrilling short story unit, guaranteed to send shivers down your students' spines! Perfect for Halloween or any time of the year, this collection of scary and surprising stories will captivate and engage your students. Explore the dark and mysterious world of suspenseful, creepy, and spooky tales with handpicked stories that are sure to keep your students on the edge
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7th - 10th
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Twilight Zone Teleplay Complete Unit Pack
This is a fantastically engaging and complete unit for your middle schoolers for Rod Serling's teleplay The Monsters are Due on Maple Street. This is material to help you teach the script from The Twilight Zone television series. The text of the teleplay is not included, as it is not in the public domain.You will get the following materials:Pre-reading Group Questions/Discussion PromptsPre-Reading Vocabulary and Extension Activities with KeyCharting Plot: Two Types of Charts with KeyLiterary Ele
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6th - 8th
Christmas Activities - Reading Passages - Story Elements - Narrative Writing
DIGITAL & PRINTABLE - Upper Elementary December Christmas Passages that are CCSS aligned with the ELA literature and narrative writing standards. We've added a Google Classroom Option to our popular product. The unit focuses on the reading skill of story elements of inferring character traits, Plot Development, and Theme. This unit is great to use for teacher observation because of the included lesson plans and rigorous activities. You will keep your students engaged during this challengi
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4th - 6th
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Short Story Unit Bundle: Essential Questions & Skills for Critical Thinking
A FRESH APPROACH TO TEACHING THE SHORT STORY:If you’ve been teaching the same three short stories from the dusty anthology in the corner of your classroom for the last several years, this resource is going to take you in an entirely new direction. This unit is extremely unique in its approach in a few different ways:Widening the definition of “short story”In order to offer a wide variety of stories without having to purchase and read through countless anthologies, this unit harnesses the power
Grades:
8th - 11th
Articulation Word Lists by Theme for Speech and Language Therapy
Do you ever find yourself wishing you had more of a variety of articulation targets?Do you wish that your articulation students could participate more in your themed units or when reading book companion packets?Do you wish you had more relatable targets for push-in services?Do you wish you had more materials you could use for both articulation and language kiddos? Or mixed groups? THEN READ ON!This packet contains a reference list (sorted by speech sound) AND individual cards for each speech sou
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PreK - 8th, Staff
Story Elements Introduction - Short Story Elements Slides, Review Game, & Quiz
Story Elements Introduction - Short Story Elements Slides, Review Game, & Quiz: Prepare your students for reading short stories or novels with this ready-to-use resource. This comprehensive lesson prepares students with a solid understanding of essential story elements and literary elements crucial for analyzing fiction. The included short story elements presentation, engaging review game, and quiz create an excellent introductory lesson that lays the groundwork for insightful literary analy
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7th - 10th
Determine Theme - Identify Theme Literature - Plot Development - Greek Mythology
Determine Theme in Literature - Identify Theme - Find Theme - Develop Plot with the integration of Greek Mythology Stories.Includes: - Plot Development Printouts and Tasks - Literary Theme Printouts and Tasks - Ticket out the door - Foldables - Annotation Coding - Anchor Charts for Plot Line and Determining Theme - Pre-writing graphic organizers - Teacher Samples - Assessment - 4 Greek Mythology Passages - 7 detailed lessonsFor other purchase options, check out our other Greek Mythology Units
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4th - 6th
Cat, Hat, Smash: Speech-Language Activities | Dr. Seuss Inspired Growing Bundle
Celebrate 'Read Across America' with these Dr. Seuss inspired activities! Each activity comes in color and black/white. This GROWING bundle includes the following:Cat, Hat, Smash - Verbs: Build a sentence about each picture, then color or cover the egg. Verbs included: writing, singing, reading, kicking, dancing, and painting.Cat, Hat, Smash - Articulation: Say your word, then cover or color the egg. Includes 6 target sounds with prompts in the initial, medial and final position. More target sou
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PreK - 6th
Short Story Unit Plan - Scary and Surprising Stories - Digital and Print Bundle
Short Story Unit Plan - Scary and Surprising Stories - Digital and Print Bundle: Elevate your English class with this chilling and thrilling digital and print short story unit, guaranteed to send shivers down your students' spines! Perfect for Halloween or any time of the year, this collection of scary and surprising stories will captivate and engage your students. Explore the dark and mysterious world of suspenseful, creepy, and spooky tales with handpicked stories that are sure to keep your st
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7th - 10th
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Main Idea Inferences,Sequencing & Vocabulary Middle School Speech Therapy Bundle
This is the FULL YEAR edition of the Main Idea, Inferences, Sequencing & Vocabulary for older students. Many of our speech and language therapy goals incorporate finding the main idea, explaining inferences and figurative language, remembering sequences, and defining vocabulary using context cues. This 12 Month Language Therapy resource addresses all of these skills. An entire year's worth of reading comprehension styled, themed paragraphs are used to provide students with a relatable contex
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6th - 9th
DEBATING UNIT BUNDLE: 30 DETAILED LESSON PLANS
Save 30% on this complete DEBATE UNIT of 30 (or more!) very detailed debate lesson plans. Debate graphic organizers, debate handouts, dozens of debate topics and resolutions, debate rubrics, a 'Debate Basics' PowerPoint, 12 games, a cross examination how-to video- PHEW! And there's $7 off this print-and-go bundle. There's even TWO freebies! Debate Unit in 18 lessons is tailored to teach students how to debate about contemporary issues. It begins at basics, and proceeds step-by-step to tournam
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8th - 12th
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Dark Romanticism & American Gothic Unit; Poe, Hawthorne, Dickinson, The Village
In this sublime unit, your students will explore American Romanticism and Gothic in works of fiction, poetry, art, and film. Your students will first learn about conditions that influenced American Romanticism and Gothic and study concepts and elements that characterize Romantic and Gothic literature and art. They will then apply these concepts to short stories (The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and The Pendulum, Rappaccini’s Daughter), poems (The Raven, A Bird Came Down The
Grades:
8th - 12th
Mystery -The Adventure of the Speckled Band Comprehension Unit Print & Digital
This classic short story will have your students analyzing details and making inferences. This is a fantastic mystery unit that works well in a class of diverse learners. I teach this to my accelerated class, my resource students, and my ESL group. Distance Learning: The worksheets are in Google Slides to use digitally and to easily assign by Google Classroom. For students without technology print PDFs for send-home packets.Here is what is included:★"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" - full t
Grades:
6th - 10th
Football Speech Therapy Printable Pack
Great for discussing football and the big game in speech therapy. Football pack includes differentiated articulation, speech, and language therapy printables.
Articulation, synonyms, antonyms, multiple meanings, plurals, irregular past tense, analogies, noun-verb agreement, idioms, wh questions, prepositions, sequencing and more. Includes 5 fun games to go along with the theme!
This product contains some pages from Fall preposition Fall articulation, November Upper Elementary, and November
Grades:
K - 12th
Also included in: November Speech Therapy Themed Bundle
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Bundle for The Twilight Zone Teleplay
This is a fantastically engaging and complete unit for your middle schoolers for Rod Serling's The Monsters are Due on Maple Street. This is material to help you teach the teleplay from The Twilight Zone television series. The text of the teleplay is not included.This PDF bundle includes my BEST SELLING The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Complete Unit Pack, which includes a multiple choice test, along with my task cards for stage direction, which can also be used as an assessment. You will get
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Distance Learning Short Story Passage No Prep ELA Suspense Mystery
This 48 page resource is a 4,500 word short story and meets CCSS for middle school reading and writing. It is the story of a boy discovering his new friend is actually a ghost and she needs his help. This close reading lesson is 99 pages long. This resource is the answered teacher copy (48 pages), with the blank student copy (48 pages), there is also a link for projecting or giving to students that are distance learning. As well - this is a TpT Digital Activity. That means students can complete
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2nd - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Summer Reading Comprehension Context Clues Daily Reading Writing Bundle
Halloween Writing Pack
This Halloween Writing Unit was designed to create a full month of writing for your classroom. Simply make a copy of each of these pages, staple together (with the cover page provided) and students can work all month on creative, fun, and meaningful writing for the whole month of October.This Writing pack contains two parts – 4 Halloween Writing Assignments and 5 October themed journal pages. Each of the 4 Halloween Writing Assignments have a brainstorm page. These pages have directions for each
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K - 6th
The Elevator: A Lesson in Suspense
Tweens and teens love chills and thrills! Kick off a unit - or an exhilarating lesson - of intense suspense with this all-inclusive 38-slide PowerPoint "The Elevator." Presentation includes the text, anticipatory questions, probable passage, and Common Core aligned discussion/essay questions where students can write their own conclusion. *This lesson is all-inclusive and sub-friendly. Keep them learning, even when you're not there!Teaching more suspense or gothic literature? Check out my other
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Substitute Literary Lesson Bundle
Articulation for Oral Reading, Oral Responses, and Retelling Bundle
This bundle is the key to seasonal activities for students working on articulation in higher level contexts! It targets a variety of sounds that can be practiced during oral reading, oral responses, and when retelling a story.76 seasonal stories in total, 19 stories for each season (fall, winter, spring, & summer)Sounds included: /B, P, T, D, K, G, F, V, J, L, S, Z, TH, SH, CH, R/ & L-, S-, R-BlendsThe student will highlight the words containing their target sound/position. They will the
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2nd - 6th
Holes Mock Trials - a court simulation activity
This resource is included in Holes available at our store. Holes Mock Trials is an activity that facilitates many ELA learning outcomes in a way that is highly engaging for students. They will develop research skills, engage in critical thinking, defend a position, play the role of a character in court, and practice presentation skills. Students will learn about the judicial system as they participate in a mock trial of their own.This resource includes:Teacher NotesCourt InstructionsCourt Proced
Grades:
5th - 8th
SCIENCE FICTION: History, Literature, and Creative Writing
Thanks for checking out my best selling literature unit!!!!!
Science Fiction is one of my favorite units to teach. It gives each of us a chance to ask, "What if?" This 99-page unit covers information about the history of science fiction as a genre, vocabulary to discuss science fiction, 10 science fiction stories w/resources, how to develop and write a science fiction story, and an extensive list of websites that could be helpful for more resources. The stories covered in the unit are:
"Ra
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6th - 12th
Idioms School Year Bundle for Middle and High School Speech Therapy
Idioms for older students by theme!! Abstract and figurative language are always harder for students in language therapy or ESL or ELL classes. My students were always confused by the typical idiom lessons that included literal pictures of the idiom's meaning. These were especially hard for my concrete learners and those students on the Autism Spectrum. This themed packet is DIFFERENT because it gives students a logical way to group idioms ( by seasonal theme) while still scaffolding them throu
Grades:
7th - 12th
The Gift of the Magi Short Story Unit for Middle School for 7th and 8th
This short story unit: "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry is exactly what you need to teach your seventh or eighth grade middle school learners in an engaging Socratic Seminar, discussion-based, and reading response focused format with this classic fiction text. This free short story unit was created so that teachers could try out the Socratic Seminar and reading response format that I use in all my reading units and short story units. Other Middle School Short Story Units Available: "The Gift o
Grades:
7th - 8th
Scary Story Collection for Middle School: Escape Room, Task Cards, Printables
This spooky collection of fiction reading comprehension passages combines several standards so that students have an opportunity to practice their skills without isolating each standard. Each fictional story has descriptive characters and settings, drawing your students into the mystery. This unit will reinforce skills that you have taught. Students will use their skills to solve the mysteries (demonstrating comprehension of the text). What your students will discover: Was Dracula real or just a
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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