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Visual arts literature circles for Microsoft Word
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Creating a Literary Mandala
This lesson includes everything your students will need to create a literary mandala. In addition to a student handout that guides them through the whole process, there is also a final draft template, and a short history of mandalas handout included. This creative and rigorous activity is great at the conclusion of an individual or class reading book!
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5th - 12th
Creative Writing, Read Aloud: The Barnabus Project
The Willow Award Winning book "The Barnabus Project" A creative writing activity (make up your own ending) as well as create your own "Perfect Pet" just like in the story. The lesson could be spread out over multiple days if necessary.
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2nd - 5th
The Count of Monte Cristo 2002 Film Study Pre-viewing Discussion Questions
At the end of the year after the AP English exam, I lead students through a film study of the 2002 production, The Count of Monte Cristo. They love it! But we don't just watch the film- we analyze it as we go, track character details, discuss the themes, and write an essay about the various thematic tensions in the film. These materials are ready for your copy machine! Hit print!
Instructions: for maximum fun, I cut up the eight thematic discussion questions and place them in plastic Easter egg
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9th - 12th
Shoe Box Book Project Rubric
Out with the old, boring book reports and in with the new! This type of book project is awesome for students' later on in the school year to really showcase their deeper comprehension and creativity. All students' need is a shoe box and to select a book...from there they will use this rubric to guide them through the different requirements which will let you see everything they understood and learned from their book.
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2nd - 6th
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Origami Fortune Teller (Cootie Catcher) Editable & Printable Version
Are you students sick and tired of the same critique and discussions questions? Spice it up with an origami fortune teller! This pack includes a blank(with fold lines), a blank with bold lines where questions belong (for teachers or students hand write or add text to), and one that you can type questions directly in to. A bonus activity would be teaching your students some simple origami! Fun and quick assessments for any classroom. Students can add answers to the teller or a teacher and fill th
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Not Grade Specific
The Hundred Dresses Novel Study Guide
This novel study for The Hundred Dresses written by Eleanor Estes is a perfect way to lead guided reading groups or allow students to work individually with the novel.
Each chapter includes a vocabulary piece, comprehension questions, and a predictions section or writing component. The end of the novel study guide allows to students to choose activities from a Tic-Tac-Toe to show understanding of the novel.
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2nd - 4th
All About Maps in Literature and How to Use Them!
I would like to share with you ways you can use maps found in children’s books to stimulate student learning and forge pathways into literacy.
Ideas I present will prove useful for you to encourage hesitant readers as well as inspire and motivate stronger readers. They will also help you guide all readers into deeper comprehension and a more profound reading experience.
In addition to working with maps from books, we will also be making our own maps and examining how students
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2nd - 6th
Persepolis (book 1) Guided Reading Guide
This file contains questions for students to answer while reading the graphic novel Persepolis (book 1). My students read this during a graphic novel unit and used the questions to test comprehension and promote discussion.
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6th - 9th
Modernizing The Odyssey-Storyboard Project
Students read and digest an episode of The Odyssey. Then they create a modern story that has thematic elements of the episode they just finished so that their final product is a storyboard with a modern story such as what one would present for a television show (complete with thought bubbles and conversation). Students are then to present the product to you or to a different teacher.
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9th
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YEAR 1- LITERACY (Where the Forest Meets the Sea- By Jeannie Baker)
Year 1: Literacy Activity (Author Study)- Where the Forest Meets the Sea- By Jeannie BakerJeannie Baker shows us the beauty of our wilderness. Students will illustrate, or write about a forest they would like to visit. This product can also be used as a cross-curriculum activity in Art, as well as HASS. Purchase, download and enjoy! :)
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1st
"The Rabbit and the Dragon King": Reader's Theatre Script
A script for the children's folk story "The Rabbit and the Dragon King", perfect for upper elementary and middle school students!
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4th - 8th
Anne Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller (Joseph Lambert) Reading Guide
This is a fantastic graphic novel for students of varying ability--I used it with my 6th-8th graders and lower readers had enough background knowledge of the women to understand most of it and the art/questions/text was complex enough to challenge my higher readers. I used this in a graphic novel unit, but it could stand alone in a guided reading group as well.
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5th - 8th
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The Little Red Hen Picture Walk
There are 9 pictures to use to introduce the book “The Little Red Hen,” by Lucinda McQueen. Show the pictures before reading to get the students thinking about the story and predicting what they think will happen in the story. Focus on characters, setting, and events of the story. Have students in groups of two or three so that they can easily discuss the pictures. While discuss, look at expression, focal point, gesture, clothing, setting, objects in the picture. After students have discussed ea
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PreK - 2nd
Famous Artist Biography Book Report
This book report has the students learn about a famous artist. They must write about the artist's life and create a piece of artwork to display. It's a great project to put on your bulletin board! You can modify the writing portion to grade level.
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1st - 4th
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Information / Literature Circles for Historical Films
Literature Circles / Information Circles assignments for Film Studies in History. Supercharge your class by having them watch a Historical Film, and then use one of the myriad assignments on this sheet to demonstrate their understanding. Using their assignment, have them get into groups and discuss the film using their work as the basis of a conversation - the magic also happens when the assignment is a catalyst to even deeper discussions of the film that result from being in a group!
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9th - 12th
Tales by Light Season 2 Episode 3 and 4 Misunderstood Predators Part 1 & 2
Tales by Light - 2015 ‧ Documentary ‧ 3 seasons – TV-14 A look behind the photographs of talented Australian and North American photographers to see exactly what goes into capturing a powerful image. S02 E03 & E04 · Misunderstood Predators Part 1 & 2 – Eric Cheng – Nov 1, 2016 –21 minutes & 27 MinutesUnderwater photographer Eric Cheng seeks the truth about demonized and mythologized creatures, starting with the green anaconda of Brazil. To defend one of the World’s most feared aqua
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7th - 12th
Literacy in art
students must react and interpret an illustration and quote from an artist book "Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Art making". by Bayles, D. and Orland, T. This is made to be a literacy reading and writing activity for a beginning or advanced art class.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Sh Th Ch Bingo
This is a printable resource that can be laminated and reused. It contains pictures of Th, Sh and Ch Words as well as Bingo Game Boards
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PreK - 1st
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Book Club Role Sheet: Artful Artist
This sheet will help students to write their summary of the book that they just read in a PICTURE form! It will help them to use detail so that their "Book Club Members" can try to guess which part of the book the picture is from. Note: this sheet is usually the fourth one I have them "present" in a series of 4 or 5.
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2nd - 5th
The Giver by Lois Lowry Creative Writing Assessment/ Activity
After or during THE GIVER novel study, engage in a memory writing activity. This has worked wonderfully for me in the past. Students view images, brainstorm about their favorite memories, engage with family about their memories and play with visuals. This is great for creative writing, learning to write using Lowry's style and using the "SHOW, Don't TELL" creative writing process. Enjoy.
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5th - 8th
The Outsiders - Personal Identity Poetry & Art Lesson
Personal identity is a person’s story, their lives, their challenges, their disappointments, their mistakes, and their successes. This theme is well established in S.E. Hinton's novel, The Outsiders.
This 2-step assignment asks students to explore the theme of personal identity and relate the theme to their personal experiences. Students are asked to create an “I Am From…” poem that celebrates them, their family and culture, their personal identity. Their poems sound like them, using the na
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6th - 9th
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Danny the Champion of the World Visualization Exercise
Teach students the connection between what a good writer needs to do and what a good reader needs to do. A good writer needs to plant a picture in our head when we read by using precise language and phrases. A good reader needs to create the visual picture in their heads. Students will read passages from Roald Dahl's- Danny the Champion of the World and then will DRAW what they see in their head as they read the passage. Students will then compare their visualization pictures.
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3rd - 8th
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Twelve Cowboys Ropin' Activity Guide
This is an activity guide for a rootin’, tootin’, cowboy extravaganza that follows the traditional story, The Twelve Days of Christmas. Start with a Mockingbird in an oak tree; throw in iconic armadillos, prickly pears, boots, and Longhorns, and you have a wonderful book to use for classroom interactions, comparative literature or family reading.
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PreK - 2nd
SOARposters Review of Oedipus Themes
A reprintable listing of themes from Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
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9th - 12th
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