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Common Core RL.9-10.10 centers
Independent Reading Program: Accountability, Engagement, and Organization Bundle
Wanting to create or enhance an independent reading program? Literature circles, intervention lessons, book club, choice reading arrangements? Creating the materials can be overwhelming, but reading choice is crucial to students' growth as readers, perceptions of their abilities, engagement in class, and success in life. These year-long teaching materials are intended to provide natural and enjoyable layers of accountability to your independent reading program, to motivate students to want to re
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7th - 10th
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Independent Reading Printable Book Spines and Reading Tracker for Accountability
So you are running an independent reading program, but it's hard to track which students are reading, how quickly they are finishing books, and what genres they are exploring. Solution? Try these independent reading book spines with your choice reading program. They are helpful for teacher organization, student accountability, and goal setting.This resource contains:1. Over 10 versions of book spines students can complete after reading a book during the independent reading program. You can displ
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7th - 10th
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Literary Elements Graphic Organizers for Any Narrative Text
Looking for a way to incorporate short stories while also sticking to the literature standards? It's easy to focus on comprehension with short stories, but it's harder to teach students how to analytically think about short stories as they relate to development of characters, setting, theme, plot, and more. These short story graphic organizers are intended for use with any narrative text in a middle or high school classroom. You can use them to model analytically thinking during mini lessons and
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7th - 10th
Reading Response Journal Prompts for Any Novel (Set 1) - Distance Learning
Need a way to hold students accountable for choice reading? Whether you're using literature circles, a book club format, or some other type of independent reading program, these digital reading response journal prompts will keep students engaged while allowing them an avenue to share what they are comprehending from their books. Research shows that asking students to write about what they are reading is one of the most beneficial activities we can ask students to do. And, that's exactly what the
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7th - 10th
Poetry Stations High School and Middle School Digital Activity
My #1 top-selling lesson! Teachers love my poetry stations! Add this to your National Poetry Month celebration, and check out 2.0 as well. Pump up your poetry unit with this engaging and entertaining formative assessment. With a little preparation and careful instructions, students can rotate through nine poetry-based activities with simply a “rotate” from the teacher every 9-10 minutes. I've also included 11 copyright-free poems.Click here to follow me for free lessons and sales!Click here to h
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6th - 12th
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Book Speed Dating - Valentine's Day Library Activity - Middle School Library
Book Speed Dating is a Valentine's Day Library Activity that introduces students to new genres in a fun, teen-friendly way! It's perfect for middle school library, Valentine's Day, Back to School, or any time you want your students to try on new books. All text is editable in PPT, Google Slides, and PDF.This activity pairs well with my Blind Date with a Book set-up kit!FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS BOOK SPEED DATING LIBRARY LESSON:Recommended for: Grades 7-10Lesson Duration: one library class period, ab
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7th - 10th
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Reading Discussion Cards | Questions for Fiction and Nonfiction
Whether you're implementing a book club, literature circles, or another form of independent, choice reading, students need to have opportunities to socialize and share their thinking. With these reading task cards for fiction and nonfiction, your students will be able to share meaningful information about their books with their classmates even when everyone is reading a different novel.In this resource, you will receive 60 fiction discussion task cards and 60 nonfiction discussion task cards. Yo
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7th - 10th
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Reading Guide for ANY Short Story or Novel - Digital & Print
Short story units are popular with teens...and fun to teach! What's NOT fun is making individual reading guides for every short story we teach. This build-your-own reading guide is a great print or digital resource for anyone who is looking for a practical, reliable tool that students can use for any piece of literature - short story, play, or novel. READING SKILLS COVEREDThis short story or novel reading guide requires students to predict, summarize, connect, question, visualize, infer, and ana
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7th - 10th
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Reading Comprehension Bookmarks: Quick Reading Activities for Any Novel
Do you need to add a layer of comprehension or analysis to your independent or choice reading programs? Do your students need more intentional reflection with their novel studies? Whether you're doing literature circles, book club, choice reading, some other form of independent reading program, or even whole-class novels, it can be overwhelming to try to support every single student. Enter these bookmarks. With this reading comprehension assessment product, you will have ***eleven different styl
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8th - 11th
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Reading Interest Inventory for Independent Reading - Digital and Print
Looking to improve your classroom culture, engagement level, and rapport with students? Try using a reading interest inventory to gather invaluable data you can use as an element of a choice reading program. With 58 questions ranging from current hobbies and future careers to experiences, beliefs, passions, and priorities, students will be engaged and reflecting in meaningful ways as they provide you with information you can use to transform the reading culture in your classroom.By gathering stu
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8th - 11th
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Literary Analysis Essay Writing and Thesis Statement With Short Film Activities
Ready to teach a thesis statement centered literary analysis? Using Pixar shorts films is the ONLY way to go! This bundle offers mini lessons with videos for all of the major literary elements and step-by-step workshops to guide students through thesis writing and each paragraph of a literary analysis essay. And of course, analyses of Pixar short films along with a sample literary analysis for the short film The Present. Students can color-code the sample essay with a digital highlighter! Liter
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7th - 11th, Adult Education
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"A Sound of Thunder" Short Story Stations: CCSS Print or Digital Google Apps
I just did an overhaul of this unit and created 12 short story stations that include a review of several literary devices, Sensory Imagery, Conflict, Hyperbole, and Symbolism, word wall activity, graphic organizers, constructed responses, and a mini-Socratic seminar. This short story has everything, time travel, a controversial presidential election,and dinosaurs.Ray Bradbury wrapped all of this together in a powerful short story rich with imagery and filled with literary devices. Use this less
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8th - 11th
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Back-to-School Stations for High School English Classes - First Week of School
Take some of the pressure off of going back to school with these EDITABLE Back-to-School Stations for high school English classes! These six back-to-school stations help you cover the basics--get a writing sample, introduce students to the classroom library, set up a Google Classroom, and more--while allowing you to walk around and chat with your new students!These stations were designed with my high school English classes in mind, but they are easily adaptable for other grade levels and content
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9th - 12th
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Poetry Analysis: "Stopping By Woods..." by Robert Frost
My standards-based poetry analysis of Robert Frost's beloved poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" includes everything you need for a meaningful activity for your students! They will practice reading, writing, language, and drawing skills as they look at Frost's poem in-depth.In addition, your students can doodle and color all over the pages! Each page has items that can be colored and they are encouraged to draw, as well. It's a great activity for all levels of learning.See my preview to
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for K. Cook
Move Beyond P-I-E and Get the Receipt: A Better Way to Teach Author's Purpose
Let me make a confession: A few years ago, I got very invested in the drama between Taylor Swift, Kanye West, and Kim Kardashian. For me, one of the biggest take aways from that drama was the phrase "Show me the receipts." I'd heard my students talk about "receipts" before, but something about the Kanye-Taylor drama really made that phrase memorable to me. As a teacher, I turned that phrase over in my mind. Where are the receipts in the English classroom? Well, when students are looking for auth
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Reading Strategies Favorites Bundle / Pre-Reading & Author's Purpose
Hamlet: CSI Classroom Investigation and Murder Board
Is your Hamlet unit as dusty as Yorick's dried-up old skull? Spice it up with this creative criminal investigation of the murder that occurs in this tragic Shakespearean drama. Your students will become the investigative team as they search for textual evidence to build a criminal case. Your class will examine the textual evidence for characterization, plot, and setting, look at the protagonist through a psychological lens, make inferences, and present all their information as a murder board.Not
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Hamlet Unit Bundle of Lessons: Great Deal CCSS digital activity
Long Way Down Novel Study
The Long Way Down Novel Study is a comprehensive novel study for teaching Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds. This novel study provides unique opportunities to implement an engaging exploration of this popular book. The Long Way Down Novel Study will provide you with the resources you need to teach a successful and thoughtful unit. With over 60+ Common Core aligned materials, students will develop their literacy skills while deeply engaging with the novel through this unit. The literary analysis r
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8th - 9th
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Tone and Mood Activities & Tone and Mood Worksheets - Mood vs. Tone Analysis
These engaging tone and mood activities will help students make inferences about mood vs. tone in literature. Students will practice identifying tone and mood, completing mood and tone activities that involve analyzing fiction texts and explaining how an author's word choice and syntax create a dominant impression. As an extension and application activity, students will write about a picture using 3 different tones or moods. These interactive digital activities are ready for your 21st-century cl
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8th - 11th
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ELA Task Card Bundle (192 Task Cards!) / Print and Digital / Google Slides
Task cards are a great way to connect instruction, content, and movement. For this reason, I have been working hard to develop a series of task cards that work for multiple texts. Each set of task cards has 32 cards focused on a specific part of English language arts instruction, including informational texts, rhetoric, figurative language, literary devices, plot structure and conflict, characterization, theme, main idea, summary, making text connections, making inferences, and research skills.
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9th - 12th
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Hunger Games Discussion Questions & Answers
Discussion questions and suggested answers for each part of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Forty-six total questions that are more thought-provoking and encourage critical thinking; contains printable student handout with spaces for answers if you'd like to do as a worksheet, AND paper-saving pages.
In addition, 10 follow-up questions for students to make connections to their own lives AND 11 quotes for students to relate to themes, symbols, characters, events, etc..
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Poetry Analysis Journal Writing Prompts for Any Poem Digital & Print
These poetry journal writing prompts are intended to help students respond to poems in a thoughtful way while deepening their comprehension of the text. It contains twenty response-to-reading prompts that can be used with almost any poem and is appropriate for middle and high school classrooms. What are the topics like?Each poetry journal prompt focuses on a different aspect of reading poetry. Students are asked to analyze theme, figurative language, and structure. In addition, they will make co
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Poetry Analysis Bundle: Engaging Games, Activities, and Writing Prompts
Close Reading Strategies, Techniques, & Tips: A Practical Guide for High School
Tired of useless close reading handouts that do nothing more than teach your students to hate literary analysis? Simply instructing your classes to go through a checklist or point out literary elements doesn’t teach them any skills. In fact, if you teach the wrong kind of close reading lesson, you’ll discourage critical thinking and teach students that reading great literature is just about ticking off lists of literary devices. That kind of disempowering instruction creates a generation of pas
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9th - 12th
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Sherlock Holmes | The Engineer's Thumb | Readers Theater | Short Story Unit
Detective Fiction: "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb" based on the short story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Readers Theater Script, Writing Prompt, Discussion Questions, and Print & Digital Graphic Organizer.*After being contacted to work on machinery in the middle of the night, engineer, Victor Hatherley experiences a crazy adventure that ends up with him lying unconscious in a pool of blood and his thumb cut off. Luckily, the physician called to he
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5th - 12th
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The Odyssey Epic Literacy Stations Activities
This will make a great addition to your Odyssey Unit. These stations include a graphic organizer, parody, Homeric Simile, art annotation, dynamic character, and a constructed response prompt about the epic hero. Try out this engaging and entertaining formative assessment. With a bit of preparation and careful instructions, students can rotate through several epic-based activities with simply a “rotate” from the teacher every 9-10 minutes. The station set contains 12 options for your literacy sta
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8th - 11th
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