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The Raven: 2-Day Reading Stations Activity & Quiz, Edgar Allan Poe (with GOOGLE)

By Secondary Sara

I love Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”, especially as a Halloween activity, but it’s a TOUGH poem… so this stations activity breaks down the difficult parts to scaffold understanding for teen and tween readers! Use up to 9 stations: Rhyme &

Subjects:

Reading, Poetry, Halloween

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Google Apps

$6.50

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Chapter Study Guides: Student-Led Notes & Discussion for ANY Novel (with GOOGLE)

By Secondary Sara

GOOGLE NOW INCLUDED: Need an alternative to chapter quizzes? Want individual student accountability and comprehension that is mutually beneficial to students AND the teacher?Have STUDENTS divvy up the task of making a study guide for each chapter,

Subjects:

Reading, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Google Apps

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RL.7.2, RL.8.2, RL.9-10.2, RL.11-12.2

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Memoir Unit: 2+ Weeks of Reading, Writing, & Discussion

By Secondary Sara

Read and tell true stories through a memoir unit that keeps students engaged from the first web quest to each mentor text to the last interview! All of the frontloading and reading activities build up to the grand finale: writing our own memoirs

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Reading

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Assessment

$7.99

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Bell-Ringers & Programs Bundle for MIDDLE School ELA

By Secondary Sara

Ready for an engaging, productive bell-ringer system that YOU do not have to make? Every day of this bell-ringer/daily warm-ups routine is EITHER premade OR created by students! This bundle includes the following products from my store, in what

Subjects:

Reading, Grammar, Vocabulary

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th

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Projects, Activities, Assessment

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Bell-Ringers & Programs Bundle for HIGH School ELA

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Reading, Grammar, Vocabulary

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9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Projects, Activities, Lesson

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A Christmas Carol: Stave Quizzes with Text-Dependent Questions

By Secondary Sara

Whether you are reading the novella, only watching the movie, OR just want a seasonal check of reading comprehension, these quizzes for advanced middle school or high school help students step into reading Dickens!Each quiz has a text excerpt from

Subjects:

Reading, Literature, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

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Assessment

CCSS:

RL.8.1, RL.9-10.1, RL.11-12.1

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Theme Lesson & Quiz – Apply to ANY Novel, Short Story, or Movie

By Secondary Sara

Need a quick mini-lesson to review or introduce themes in a story? Grab this lesson and practice set to teach what theme is and immediately start identifying one in a text of your choice!In this lesson, students will:• Learn what a theme is (and

Subjects:

Reading, Literature, Short Stories

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.6.2, RL.7.2, RL.8.2, RL.9-10.2

$3.50

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Nothing Gold Can Stay: 2-Day Reading Stations & Quiz (The Outsiders)

By Secondary Sara

If you love Robert Frost OR are teaching The Outsiders, you know that this little 8-line poem is more dense and interesting than meets the eye! Teach this classic poem in 1 or 2 class periods with a stations activity that promotes small group

Subjects:

Reading, Literature, Poetry

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment

$4.99

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Independent Reading Program: "Book of the Month" (Grades 6-8) DISTANCE LEARNING

By Secondary Sara

Ready to add more independent reading to your middle school classroom? Want to try reader’s workshop? Hoping to bring in more fiction that’s differentiated to student interests? Track genres and progress without expensive programs, points, or book

Subjects:

Reading, Literature

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Handouts, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.6.10, RL.7.10, RL.8.10

$9.99

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Evaluating Arguments & Rhetoric Unit: Finding Fallacies & Propaganda

By Secondary Sara

Want an engaging 2-week unit to make your students far more precise, critical readers of nonfiction? Ready to tiptoe past the boring basics of argument and delve into the positive and negative writing techniques that real authors and speakers

Subjects:

Reading, Vocabulary, Informational Text

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment

$19.99

$14.99

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Reading Literature Lessons & Projects Bundle for Secondary ELA

By Secondary Sara

Help your students grow as readers with a bundle of lessons, activities, tools, and projects that apply to any novel! Use them for independent reading OR assigned whole class books. If you're looking to refresh the ways your students respond to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Projects, Activities

$51.89

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Task Card Activity for Literature: Apply to ANY Novel or Short Story!

By Secondary Sara

Need a flexible way to assess a fictional text? Want to try task cards, stations, and small group collaboration? (Want something OTHER than a quiz to assess understanding?)Try this set of task cards to put some variety in your assessment of literary

Subjects:

Reading, Literature

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities, Task Cards

$4.99

152

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Independent Reading: "Book of the Month" (Grades 9-12) DISTANCE LEARNING

By Secondary Sara

Ready to add more independent reading to your high school English class? Want to try reader’s workshop? Hoping to bring in more fiction that’s differentiated to student interests? Track genres and progress without expensive programs, points, or book

Subjects:

Reading, Literature

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Handouts, Google Apps

CCSS:

RL.9-10.10, RL.11-12.10

$9.99

199

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Chapter Study Guides {Non-Fiction}: DURING Reading Activity for ANY Book!

By Secondary Sara

Need an alternative to chapter quizzes? Want individual student accountability and comprehension that is mutually beneficial to students AND the teacher? Have STUDENTS divvy up the task of making a study guide for each chapter, using an

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Activities, Assessment

$1.99

205

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Book Talks: Student-Led Presentation Project for ELA

By Secondary Sara

Want students to be accountable for book talks? Build a reading community, increase word-of-mouth book recommendations, and practice speaking skills with this project! Use this project to: • Start your independent reading program, or give it a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Projects, Activities

$2.99

181

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Reading Nonfiction Lessons & Projects Bundle for Secondary ELA

By Secondary Sara

Bring more nonfiction into your English class with this bundle of tools, projects, and units that make articles, chapters, and entire nonfiction books more successful for teens!Some of these resources are designed for ANY text (ex: chapter study

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Projects, Activities

$59.95

$34.99

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Poetry Analysis Flipbook: Use for ANY Poem!

By Secondary Sara

Need help teaching your next poetry unit or lesson? Want some help scaffolding poems and leaving room for choice? This flipbook of eight mini-lessons will help you review and challenge your readers to analyze a poem that you (or they) choose.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Poetry

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

$4.99

112

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Reading Response Menus: Differentiated Prompts for ANY Novel!

By Secondary Sara

Need a higher-level or differentiated set of tasks for readers AFTER they have finished a choice OR whole-class novel? Grab this set of 24 tiered prompts and a user-friendly rubric to fairly assign and assess reading, asking students to prove that

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Activities

$2.99

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Literary Response Flipbook: Use for ANY Novel!

By Secondary Sara

Ready for a unique assessment tool for ANY independent reading OR whole-class novel? Use this flipbook as a compiled set of up to 8 mini-lessons. Use this booklet to… • Introduce literary concepts for the first time • Review basics at the

Subjects:

Reading, Literature

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Activities

$1.00

170

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Intro to Symbolism in Literature: Lesson & Active Reading Project

By Secondary Sara

Want to crash course secondary students on the concept of utopia/dystopia? Frontloading a novel unit and building background knowledge about the genre?Use the lesson and follow-up project to teach…• WHAT a symbol is,• How colors, weather, and other

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

$3.99

Digital Download ZIP (16.33 MB)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

6 years of teaching 7th & 8th grade ELA, and 8 years of high school tutoring experience. I'm also a National Writing Project consultant and writing team coach. I'm constantly involved with both the middle and high school "worlds", and I love all of these grade levels and their quirks!

MY TEACHING STYLE

I teach with a lot of technology and student-centered projects! I flip my ELA curriculum when I can, and create units in which students drive their own learning. Student motivation is very important to me, and we spend time in class talking about why the lesson matters to their futures.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

National Writing Project Teacher Consultant; Conference presenter; Kappa Phi Kappa Award 2010

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Bachelor's degree with honors in English Pre-Education, with minors in Professional Writing and Music. Master's degree in Integrated English Language Arts 7-12. Both degrees are from THE Ohio State University!

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Check out my blog at secondarysara.com! You can also interact with me on Facebook and Pinterest.

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4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool, Not Grade Specific

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Social Studies, World Languages, Latin, Other (Specialty), ELA Test Prep, Other (Social Studies), Other (ELA), Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, School Counseling, Study Skills, Short Stories, Writing, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Halloween, Winter, The New Year, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, St. Patrick's Day, Spring, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, Test Preparation, End of Year, Classroom Community