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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

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Not Grade Specific

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Activities, Assessment, Google Apps

CCSS:

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

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Reading Bookmarks: DURING Reading Tools for Secondary ELA

By Secondary Sara

Want to scaffold students into doing more critical thinking DURING reading? Want them to take notes without ruining the joy of the book? Want to annotate, but can’t mark in a class set of novels? Or, just as importantly: do your students have

Subjects:

Vocabulary, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Printables

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Literary Analysis Essay: Build a "Case File" of Text Evidence for ANY Novel!

By Secondary Sara

NOW INCLUDES GOOGLE: Are you looking for a new, engaging way to teach literary analysis? Call the claim/thesis a "conspiracy theory", and tell students that they have to "prove" it!Ideal for students who are new or intermediate with lit analysis,

Subjects:

Literature, Writing, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Projects, Rubrics

CCSS:

RL.6.1, RL.7.1, RL.8.1, RL.9-10.1

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Article of the Week: Student-Led, CHOICE Non-Fiction Edition

By Secondary Sara

Want a no-prep Article of the Week system? Ready to integrate more non-fiction reading and speaking into your class? Use this Article of the Week program to give students room for differentiation, choice, and articles that they’re ACTUALLY

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

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Not Grade Specific

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Activities

$3.99

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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

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Historical Context Lesson – For ELA, History, Social Studies Classes

By Secondary Sara

Need a quick mini-lesson to review or introduce historical context? Want to frame a historical event, a novel, or a biography unit? Grab this quick lesson to teach what historical context IS and get practice with analyzing it in specific

Subjects:

Other (Social Studies - History), Other (ELA), Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Handouts, Lesson

$2.50

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Close Reading Treasure Hunt: 4-Day Annotation Crash Course for ANY Text!

By Secondary Sara

Close reading and annotating are “like” hunting for buried treasure: you have to find the good stuff hidden beneath the surface! Teach deeper reading with this lesson sequence to introduce active vs. passive reading and how to annotate a literary

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Assessment

$3.99

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Vocab-in-Context Graphic Organizer: Dealing with Unknown Words

By Secondary Sara

When you're happily reading, unknown words are like shark attacks: sudden, vicious, and a total bummer, man. Use this one-page graphic organizer to deconstruct a Vocab Attack! This activity hits the entirety of CCSS standard L.6.4, L.7.4, or L.8.4

Subjects:

Vocabulary, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Handouts, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

L.6.4, L.7.4, L.8.4, L.9-10.4

$1.50

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A Christmas Carol: Introductory Lessons and Reading Strategies

By Secondary Sara

Want help starting your unit on A Christmas Carol with lessons about Charles Dickens, Victorian England, redemption stories, dynamic characters, and reading strategies to understand a challenging novella?Use this set of THREE lessons AND a follow-up

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Assessment

$7.50

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Does Speed Reading Work? Inquiry Research Project for ELA

By Secondary Sara

Ready to challenge or engage your students with REAL action research on topics they care about? This activity, “Does Speed Reading Work?”, comes from a bundle of 4 real-world inquiry projects for English class . They are NOT formal experiments and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Projects, Activities

CCSS:

W.7.7, W.8.7, W.9-10.7, W.11-12.7

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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.

GRADES

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