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Close reading Common Core RL.7.4 centers
Literature STATIONS - for ANY Novel, Drama, or Story - Print & DIGITAL
Motivate your students with STATION work centered on standards-based topics using ANY novel, story, or drama! Now includes a DIGITAL version! You get TEN different stations with detailed task cards and inviting student handouts for each. Great for differentiation—you choose the stations that best fit the text and your students’ needs. Use station work while reading a novel or drama (read half the period, move to stations for the other half or at the end of a chapter) or after reading a short s
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6th - 8th
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The Crossover Novel Study (10 Prompts and 6 Quizzes) Distance Learning
The Crossover is about twin brothers who are talented basketball players. It's written by one of the boys, Josh, who is challenged when his relationship with his brother changes and when his father experiences serious health problems.Included:10 Writing Prompts→ Two writing prompts for the following chapters: First Quarter, Second Quarter, Third Quarter, Fourth Quarter→ One writing prompt for the following chapters: Warm-up, Overtime→ Assess student comprehension→ Matches the rigor required by
Mood Mini-Unit - 3 Mood Lessons - Paper and Digital Versions
Mood is an essential element of every piece of literature. That’s why helping students to understand how to distinguish and analyze the mood of a text is essential. This mini-unit is designed to do just that! Not only will students understand that mood is the atmosphere of a text, they’ll also develop confidence in their own skills as a reader. This 3-day mini-unit provides lots of opportunities for students to read, write, and discuss mood. Each lesson starts with a fun and engaging activit
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5th - 8th
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MINI-BOOK FOLDABLE for Literature Response (Standards-Aligned)
MINI-BOOK for Literature Response – Delight your students with this Mini-Book foldable assessment after reading ANY short story, short drama, or section of a novel! Students will enjoy creating these mini-books while analyzing literature and practicing standards-based literacy skills. THE TOPICS OF THIS MINI-BOOK ARE:---Main Character Analysis---Significant Event and Its Impact---Important Quotation---Sketch of a Character with Text Details (Physical Description)---Figurative Language and Meani
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5th - 8th
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URBAN LEGENDS TASK CARDS
EXAMINE MOTIF, MORAL, AND SYMBOLISM WITH SOME SERIOUS CREEPY FACTOR. The 6 unique urban legend stories and task cards are designed for classroom use to develop students understanding of figurative language. Use the task cards in group rotations or as a whole class activity. This resource was developed for secondary classrooms and avoids the gimmicky urban legends made for younger audiences.This resource also includes 8 writing prompts for students to create their own urban legends and an exte
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: SCARY STORIES | HALLOWEEN BUNDLE
Literary Elements Activities with Pixar Shorts - Digital, Printable, & Easel
Your students will LOVE analyzing Pixar short films for important literary elements! My personal students have been begging for more which led me to create these!Each Pixar short is 4-6 minutes. Students will watch the video, and then they will answer 8-10 questions. Questions are available in digital and print.The shorts included:"Float" by Bobby Rubio"Soar" by Alice TzueWhat's included:Suggested Lesson PlanLink to each videoPrintable Version of QuestionsLink to Google Slides QuestionsAnswer Ke
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension with Pixar-Related - Short Films Growing Bundle
Middle School Reading Comprehension Escape Room GROWING Bundle 6th 7th 8th
⭐ Are your students sick of boring resources? This 6th, 7th, & 8th grade printable & digital reading comprehension escape room bundle is a fun way to help your students practice standard based reading comprehension skills all year long. The no-prep reading escape rooms in this bundle cover a variety of middle school based reading standards, as well as fun thematic topics! Your students will have so much fun navigating their way through various adventures, they won't even notice they are
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6th - 8th
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Twelfth Night Bundle: Complete Teacher's Unit
Covering the Twelfth Night? Don't know where to get started? This bundle includes everything you need for your students to analyze the text for plot development, characterization, language, and more. Makes learning Shakespeare fun and easy for your students. Complete Unit. Covers the entire play of Twelfth Night ! Great for differentiation. Includes:⭐Flip Book Study Guide⭐Shakespeare Comedies Power point⭐Twelfth Night Characterization Book⭐Twelfth Night Act 1 Quiz⭐Twelfth Night Act 2 Quiz⭐Twelft
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6th - 12th
10 Close Reading Questions all Readers Should Be Asking Anchor Charts
10 Questions related to close reading strategies for your classroom! Whole group, small group or guided reading ready.
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4th - 12th
The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963 Novel Study (Distance Learning)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham is a story of a young boy who experiences a life-changing summer in Birmingham in 1963. Included:15 Writing Prompts:→ Assess student comprehension→ Requires students to use important skills: summarizing, characterization, cause and effect, figurative language, author's purpose, vocabulary strategies, and personal reflection→ Match the rigor required by the CCSS→ One writing prompt for every chapter→ Prompts clearly state the chapter after which they should be given t
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Mega Bundle Novel Studies
Born Worker by Gary Soto Short Story Bundle
Need a quick lesson? Born Worker by Gary Soto is a great short story for your students. Vocabulary as used in context is vital to student success. 28 vocabulary words have been pulled from the text, textual context is provided, and students create their own definition based on the context of each word. An answer key is included for use as a discussion of the correct vocabulary. This can be done after the first read of the text for CLOSE reading. The Reading Comprehension product contains 5 work
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5th - 7th
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Hamlet: the Original Play Alongside a Modern English Translation
Our Shakescleare translations will help you and your students understand every line of Hamlet, while also saving you time and serving as a foundation for all sorts of lessons.
Every Shakescleare translation includes the following features:
Shakespeare's original textThe complete original text so you and your students don't need to buy a book version.
A complete line-by-line translationA modern English translation of every line alongside the original, so you and your students can instantly und
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Bundle Refugee Close Read Task Cards: Author's Craft Analysis
Are you searching for an interactive way to discuss and explore the phenomenal AUTHOR'S CRAFT techniques Alan Gratz uses in Refugee? Well, look no further! The Refugee Task Cards have you covered! Included are 537 Task Cards asking Questions about how Refugee was written and why!These are perfect if you're looking for a break from packets and graphic organizers WHILE ALSO diving into higher-level, author's craft tasks.Just print, cut out, set up in a station, use in a whole group setting, or sen
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5th - 8th
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Jan. 7th- Close Read Comprehension Passages with Questions CC Aligned
This is the January Packet for 7th Grade!
Packets include Common Core Standards and Lexile Levels!
Close reading comprehension questions modeled after the Common Core standards for 7th Grade.
All of the following excerpts, charts, passages and diagrams are associated with either a variety of multiple choice reading comprehension questions, open-response questions, student inquiry, both short and long answer questions or a combination of strategies.
Students will get used to taking complex-q
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7th
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"Talking to the Text" Teaching Students to Annotate
This bundle is a great way to give more structure to annotation in your classroom. Students are taught how to show their thinking in their annotations. The annotations can be used in both fiction and nonfiction. Students can continue this work with their independent reading novels. The conference sheets allow easy note taking for the teacher when meeting with the students. The bundle includes a sample lesson, an anchor chart, small anchor charts for student desks, one on one conference sheets
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4th - 12th
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Black Cowboy Wild Horses - Reading Lesson & Activities
This resource can be used during guided reading instruction or as a whole group reading activity. It is designed to help students develop their figurative language analysis, understanding of story structure, and theme analysis. The figurative language activities require students to go beyond identifying figurative language, and requires them to identify the meaning of the figurative language. Also included is a vocabulary match activity, which requires students to match a word to it’s illustr
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5th - 7th
Monster by Walter Dean Myers: You Be the Jury Activity
Spice up your class novel study of Monster by adding a roleplay activity. At the beginning of each class session, the instructor will assign students into 2 groups; Jurors and Reporters. Each role has a different focus while reading; Jurors will practice: Citing evidence argumentative writing Journalists will practice: Character analysis and POV Understanding Theme My students loved creating a physical courtroom using desks and picked which character they wanted to read as for the day. Those a
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7th - 10th
Rocket Man & Space Oddity
Compare and contrast the Elton John and David Bowie songs as prep for reading the short story "Rocket Man" by Ray Bradbury. There are questions and links to background information and the text. A link to the Google Slides is located on this PDF version. Slide 10 is a drag and drop activity.
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6th - 9th
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High interest low reading level passages and questions for life skills
Are you looking for some high interest low reading level passages for your life skills students? These new reading passages include comprehension questions and pre and post reading tasks. There are six high interest low reading level passages, pre-reading, comprehension tasks and questions, parts of speech activities, setting goals and reflection pages and a marking rubric to help take the hard work out of your next reading skills unit.What's inside?The high interest low reading level passages r
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8th - 11th, Adult Education
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Refugee Close Read Task Cards: Character and Conflict Analysis
Are you searching for an interactive way to discuss and explore the characters of Refugee (by Alan Gratz)? Well, look no further! The Refugee Task Cards have you covered! These are perfect if you're looking for a break from packets and graphic organizers WHILE ALSO diving into higher-level, author's craft tasks.Just print, cut out, set up in a station or send digitally (Google Slides) to your classes or send out your own copy of Google Form questions. Watch the discussions and your student's
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Bundle Refugee Close Read Task Cards: Author's Craft Analysis
Identifying & Analyzing Figurative Language Graphic Organizer
For your next identifying and analyzing figurative language lesson, try using this graphic organizer to support your students.Graphic organizers support students to organize and make meaning out of information. This graphic organizer is perfect for pairing with your next identifying and analyzing figurative language lesson because it walks students through finding examples of figurative language in the text, identifying the kind of figurative language the examples use, understanding the meaning
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7th - 8th
Refugee Close Read Task Cards: Figurative Language Analysis
Are you looking for an interactive way to identify and analyze Figurative Language 152 times while reading Refugee (by Alan Gratz)? Well, look no further! The Refugee Task Cards have you covered! These are perfect if you're looking for a break from packets and graphic organizers WHILE ALSO diving into higher-level, author's craft tasks.Just print, cut out, set up in a station or send digitally (Google Slides) to your classes. Watch your student's figurative language knowledge soar with each task
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Bundle Refugee Close Read Task Cards: Author's Craft Analysis
Middle Grades Short Story Unit Bundle with digital option
PLEASE READ: This bundle contains zipped files with secure PDF documents of my short story resources If you purchased any individual short story activity packets (links above), this product contains the SAME files. This middle grades short story product provides reading comprehension and writing activities to accompany 6 popular stories.1. "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury2. "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl3. "Sled" by Thomas E. Adams4. "You Can't Take It with You" by Eva Lis-Wuorio5. "The Dinne
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6th - 8th
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Refugee Author's Craft Task Cards Chapters 49, 50, 51 (pg.285-305)
Wouldn't it be great to analyze the author's craft of Refugee (by Alan Gratz) one chapter at a time? If you said yes, this is the resource for you! These task cards take a deep dive into chapters 49, 50, 51 (or pg.285-305), asking readers to tackle higher level thinking questions while thinking like the author!The tasks include identifying, analyzing, and finding purpose with the following devices as often as they show up in the story: Character & Conflict, Theme, Irony, Setting & Ima
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Bundle Refugee Author's Craft Task Cards Chapters for Entire Novel
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