The Sniper Short Story Unit Reading Comprehension, Citing Text Evidence Practice
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Looking for a short story unit that carefully guides your students to a deep understanding of "The Sniper" by Liam O'Flaherty? This ready to print short story unit gives you everything you need to teach "The Sniper" and will give your students plenty of practice citing textual evidence, determining and analyzing theme, analyzing figurative language and writing about a text.
In this short story unit, your studeents will cover numerous ELA standards in depth, progressing from literal comprehension to writing paragraphs. You have everything you need, ready to print, to teach a 3-5 day short story unit focused on "The Sniper." These lessons are intended for 8th-10th graders.
Your students will love being completely immersed in "The Sniper" delving deep into themes that are relevant to today's world. You will love having everything you need to deeply address multiple reading and writing standards with one text.
Prep is easy, simply print the materials OR assign them in Easel with the included digtial version, suitable for distance, hybrid or in-person learning.
This unit incudes:
1.Teacher Directions
2.The Sniper: Reading Comprehension
Students read the story independently or as a class and stop and jot answers to comprehension questions during reading. There are several big picture questions for students to complete after reading.
2.The Sniper: Figurative Language
Students close read different sections of ‘The Sniper” to identify figurative language and determine its purpose.
3. The Sniper: Writing Lesson
Students write two analytical paragraphs about how “The Sniper” addresses the complexities of war. One is written as a class and the other independently.There is a rubric included for the writing.
Each lesson has directions on the student handouts for each activity or part of the lesson. The text of the story is not included.
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