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Elementary short stories unit plans for Microsoft Word
Writing a Short Story - Complete Unit
Your students will have their short story story written and completed in 15 days! This unit includes activities, specific lesson plans and every thing you need to help your students. My kids were very successful during this unit and enjoy it every year. It's positively directed but fast paced.
How to Write a Short Story
Day 1: Background Survey & Getting Excited Activity
Day 2: Character Development
Day 3: Continue Character Development & Setting Development: Where, When and We
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4th - 10th
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Chrysanthemum! Teaching the Elements of a Short Story
This unit provides lesson plans for teaching the elements of a short story using Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes as a model. Several graphic organizers are included as well.
Topics covered: setting, characters, conflict, rising and falling action, climax, resolution, and theme.
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3rd - 8th
Baseball in April by Gary Soto: Writing Prompts/Discussion Questions
This 3-page download includes written response and discussion questions for Gary Soto's short story collection "Baseball in April."
With open-ended writing and discussion prompts--18 prompts covering all 11 short stories--this set of questions is ideal for in-class seminars, small group discussions, literature circles, quick writes, or providing a starting point for formal essays or in-class responses.
Designed for students in grades 5 through 8, these prompts require students to reflect upon
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5th - 8th
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Myths, Legends and Folktales Cooperative Unit
In this unit students will identify the characteristics of myths, legends, and folktales, apply thinking skills to reading, listening, and writing, and demonstrate knowledge of plots and major characters of myths, legends and folktales.
Students work in cooperative groups to read Native American and Japanese myths and legends. They learn about trickster tales and the characteristics of them.
Included is the unit test.
Grades:
4th - 8th
"Rogue Wave" Unit
In this unit is everything you will need while reading the short story, "Rogue Wave!" You will find pre-reading activities, during reading activities, and post-reading check questions. There are also two options for post-reading projects included! Enjoy!
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5th - 8th
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Thank You Ma'am By Langston Hughes
This product includes the short story Thank You Ma'am by Langston Hughes. It includes both short answer and multiple choice questions that assess every common core standard for literature in regards to stories. Topics covered include: characters and character traits, setting, plot, motive, dialect, theme, point of view, inferring, predicting, compare and contrast, and context clues. It would be great used as a unit assessment over short stories.
This product includes 2 exam versions. One
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4th - 6th
VIPER Reading Planning - The Tiger Who Came To Tea
7 week, VIPER reading planning for the book Can’t you sleep, little bear? Written by Judith Kerr. Year 1 and Year 2 Planning to support the VIPER skills. Vocabulary. Inference. Prediction. Explanation. Retrieval. Each skill is broken down into a set of questions linked to the book. 7 weeks worth of planning over 4 lessons a week.
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1st - 3rd
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VIPER Reading Planning - The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark
5 week, VIPER reading planning for the book The owl who was afraid of the dark Written by Jill Tomlinson. Year 1 and Year 2 Planning to support the VIPER skills. Vocabulary. Inference. Prediction. Explanation. Retrieval. Each skill is broken down into a set of questions linked to the book. 5 weeks worth of planning over 4 lessons a week.
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1st - 3rd
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VIPER Reading Planning - Can't you sleep, little bear?
6 week, VIPER reading planning for the book Can’t you sleep, little bear? Written by Martin Waddell. Year 1 and Year 2 Planning to support the VIPER skills. Vocabulary. Inference. Prediction. Explanation. Retrieval. Each skill is broken down into a set of questions linked to the book. 6 weeks worth of planning over 4 lessons a week.
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1st - 3rd
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VIPER Planning Where The Wild Things Are
6 week, VIPER reading planning for the book Where The Wild Things Are Written by Maurice Sendak. Year 1 and Year 2 Planning to support the VIPER skills. Vocabulary. Inference. Prediction. Explanation. Retrieval. Each skill is broken down into a set of questions linked to the book. 6 weeks worth of planning over 4 lessons a week.
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1st - 3rd
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VIPER Reading Planning Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers
6 week, VIPER reading planning for the book Lost and Found Written by Oliver Jeffers. Year 1 and Year 2 Planning to support the VIPER skills. Vocabulary. Inference. Prediction. Explanation. Retrieval. Each skill is broken down into a set of questions linked to the book. 6 weeks worth of planning over 4 lessons a week.
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1st - 3rd
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Tales from the Inner City - Shaun Tan
A complete Literacy Unit (24 lessons) of every story from Tales from the Inner City by Shaun Tan. The unit aligns with the NSW K-6 English syllabus with all outcomes provided.
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5th - 9th
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Fairy Tale and Fable Unit
Fairy Tale and Fable Unit from Lessons by Natasha
This unit includes everything you need to walk right through the land of dreams! There are 12 lessons in the fairy tale section and 11 lessons in the fable section. This would work great for an instructional para or it could be used in a regular sized classroom as well.
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3rd - 6th
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Treasures Basal Organizers 5th Grade
These 5th Grade Treasures Organizers accompany the Treasures basal put out by MacMillan/McGraw-Hill in 2007. There are 25 organizers with answer keys that comprise 289 pages. My fifth grade team puts all of these organizers in a bound book as a wonderful supplement to our reading program. Most of these organizers contain five sections for the students (although teachers are responsible for the first section, and that is the teaching of the vocabulary). However, the kids immediately get to se
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5th
Question packet for Cajas de Carton (The Circuit) by Francisco Jiménez
This packet breaks down Jimenez's book into individual chapters. Questions are written in English and can be answered in Spanish or English.
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5th - 12th
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Elements of Fiction Bundle
This is a collection of items I used when teaching the Elements of Fiction to fifth and sixth graders. This bundle includes mini quizzes, pretests, tests, powerpoint assignments and a rubric. I have included items for both fifth and sixth grade, but they can be edited or adapted to different books or levels.
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4th - 7th
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Dystopian End of Unit Assessment CCSS's RL8.1-RL8.6, RL8.9
Assessment is to be paired with Ray Bradbury's stories "All Summer in a Day" and "The Pedestrian," (text NOT included). Questions 1-24 are aligned to "All Summer in a Day" and are multiple choice covering CCSS's RL8.1-RL8.6 (four questions per standard). Questions 25 and 26 require students to then read "The Pedestrian" and identify the common theme between both texts and answer two text dependent questions. Questions are aligned to standards RL8.1, RL8.2, and RL8.9.
Questions are aligned to q
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5th - 9th
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4th Grade Imagine It! Unit 5 supplemental materials
Looking for additional materials to go with your Imagine It! program. These are documents I created for my fourth graders to challenge their comprehension and spice up the unit, instead of using the supplemental materials that came with the program. This set is for unit 4 which includes the text:The Golden Spike, The Dust Bowl, Immigrant Children, Pop's Bridge, and John Henry Races the Steam Drill. For each story there is an Anticipation Guide, Study Guide, Comprehension Check, Vocabulary quiz,
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3rd - 5th
Annie and the Old One Literature Unit
This 9 day unit contains 2 worksheets for student use while reading Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles, along with an 8 day schedule for reading the book. Each day suggests the number of pages to be read as well as a class activity (or more) that corresponds with the pages read that day.
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2nd - 5th
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Character Analysis unit integrating reading, writing, and the arts-Common Core
This unit corelates directly with the common core standards and it allows the student to analyze the traits of various characters, compare and contrast characters across texts, and evaluate their own character traits. It builds on making TTT,TTS, and TTW connections as well as character point of views or perspectives. As you follow the task anaysis, you will successfully integrate reading, language, and the arts into your lessons.
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3rd - 5th
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A Day's Work 5 Day Common Core Unit with Standards Based Assessment and Handouts
This is a 5 day unit over the book A Day's Work by Eve Bunting. This unit includes 5 days of lessons, activities, websites, handouts, a standards-based assessment, and a learner's profile for standards-based tracking. It provides the students opportunities for research, analysis, and reflections.
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2nd - 5th
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Unit R Scott Foresman Reading Street Focus Wall - 1st / First Grade
Preview photo is of my Scott Foresman Reading Street teaching manual to show which unit this file is for.
Our school changed over to Reading Street in 2012 and for each week's theme, I created a focus wall and set of typed leveled readers to aid in my instruction of the unit. By purchasing this file, you will receive the following in 58 pages:
- 6 summary printouts on the unit's themes.
- Focus wall components that you can print out, cut, and laminate to the back of construction paper.
- The
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1st
Index of Free Books for Complete Beginners
Books are beneficial for language teachers for a variety of reasons. You can find a large selection of free picture books for Japanese learners here: https://tadoku.org/japanese/en/free-books-en/This index organizes 20 of those books from easiest to more difficult. Even within level 0, there is a wide range of necessary Japanese ability, so this index focuses on books appropriate for Complete Beginners - Early Beginners. Vocabulary, grammar, and cultural references used in each book are also inc
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3rd - 6th
Also included in:Â Reading Resources for Japanese Beginners
"Once Upon a Time" (Storytelling Unit)
Storytelling Unit
A fun, creative, and hands on way for students to explore storytelling which is the foundation for all drama. Through a number of activities students will engage in creating stories and learn to appreciate storytelling as an art form. They will do activities that focus on the elements of a story: character, setting, and plot. Other activities include creating a shared story as a group, creating improvised stories, and recreating individ
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4th - 8th
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