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Arts & music Common Core CCRA.R.5 resources
READERS THEATER MIDDLE SCHOOL BRAIN TEASER MYSTERY SCRIPT: STOLEN LAPTOP
This grades 5-8 Readers’ Theater brain teaser mystery script gives students high-interest practice in reading aloud, comprehension and writing. Drama and ELA fun! "The Mystery of the Stolen Laptop" readers’ theater script requires your students to perform inference tasks to solve clues. The cast list is intended for 8 readers but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded, depending on how many groups you wish to have. PLOTThis funny and engaging 12 page script is about the theft
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5th - 8th
Also included in: DRAMA FUN | MIDDLE SCHOOL DRAMA GAMES & READERS' THEATER
The Ultimate A Midsummer Night's Dream Resource - Activity Workbook
The Ultimate A Midsummer Night's Dream Resource - Activity WorkbookThis is the ultimate resources for anyone teaching Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Includes a variety of whole group, and individual projects, quizzes, printables and activities as students work through the play. Easy to implement, just print out the 28 page workbook and students will enjoy working through the engaging materials!
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8th - 11th
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The BEST Poems & Songs! AWESOME for fluency , reading , rhyming , Back to School
Eye-catching & organized with many, many options for every month and season, you and your students will LOVE this collection of poetry and songs! Through singing and chanting, your students will have a blast AND develop crucial reading skills along with their....❤️ oral language❤️ auditory memory❤️ sequencing❤️ patterning❤️ small motor skills (many finger plays are included) and❤️ imagination!You’ll also see kids really build their reading fluency through singing the songs over and over (wh
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PreK - 2nd
Also included in: The Ultimate Back to School Bundle... The Get Set for Kindergarten Kit!
Symbolism and Symbols Lesson, Complete Teaching Unit
Symbolism can be one of the most difficult elements of literature to teach, but this classroom-tested teaching pack provides an interesting and engaging way to present and/or practice symbolism to your students. In this low-prep lesson, you'll have everything you need to teach, practice, and test this concept with any literary text or poem.Student Experience: Students take notes about the concept of symbolism, take a look at examples from literature, and then practice their understanding by par
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Skills Teaching Units, BUNDLE of Lessons
READERS THEATER BRAINTEASER MYSTERY SCRIPT BUNDLE
This fun 30% off Middle School high interest trio of readers' theater brain teaser mystery scripts will delight both ELA and Drama students. They will practice reading and comprehension strategies, while testing their critical thinking skills in deductive work. Get 3 scripts for the price of 2!In two of these realistic mysteries your grades 5-8 students will discover the identity of thieves. In one script a laptop is stolen and in another, a necklace. The main characters, Matt and Sophie, are M
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5th - 8th
I Never Saw another Butterfly: Exploring the Holocaust through Terezin Poetry
Teachers, use this lesson to teach the Holocaust through analysis of children's poetry from the camp-ghetto of Terezin. The lesson brings the humanity of the Holocaust to the front of student's minds and allows them to study language arts skills while studying a watershed moment in history.Starting with a short presentation over the camp-ghetto of Terezin, students will be able to contextualize the history and learn about the circumstances that led to the poetry being produced they will be readi
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7th - 12th
Hamlet Unit Bundle - Differentiated & Scaffolded Lessons for Grade 10, 11 & 12
This Hamlet Lesson Bundle includes everything you need to teach Hamlet to Grade 10, 11 and 12 students! Upperclassmen are interested in this play because of its unique plot, but it also has many unique applications in discussions of grief and mental illness. Materials have been differentiated and scaffolded to teach remedial students and include challenge questions for AP® and Pre-AP® students as well. All assignments in this resource are also available as interactive Google Slides or Google For
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10th - 12th
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Julius Caesar Unit: Bundle PLUS of Activities and Abridged Readings
This complete 5+ week unit for the drama Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare can be printed, used digitally, or a combination of the two. The resource includes a print ready PDF as well as Google Drive versions (Docs, Slides, Forms, etc.) of all of the materials.Students will read abridged versions of key scenes in Acts 1-5 and summaries of the rest of each act, plus engage in high interest activities to reinforce key concepts. Also included are lessons for introducing the play, making nonficti
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10th
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The Crucible Quiz Bundle (Acts 1-4)
This bundle contains individual objective quizzes for Acts 1-4 of The Crucible. Each quiz is comprised of comprehension- and analysis-based questions to help you assess students' understandings of the play. This download includes PDFs to ensure compatibility across devices, as well as editable Word Docs that you can alter to meet your classes' needs!Each quiz also includes a section on character descriptions or quotation identifications to assess reading comprehension and understanding of charac
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8th - 12th
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High School reading comprehension, Socratic Seminar, Annotation, ela High School
High School reading comprehension, Socratic Seminar, Annotation, ela High SchoolReady to revolutionize the way your students learn? Tired of battling plagiarism and quick-fix essay generators like ChatGPT? We've got the solution!Introducing innovative Socratic Seminar, Annotation, and Visual Essay tools - designed specifically for ELA middle and high school students.⭐Reduce cheating and plagiarism⭐Spend less time marking essays and more time giving helpful feedback⭐Capture students’ ideas more e
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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12 Angry Men Unit Bundle | Engaging teaching materials for 9-12 grade students
These materials, based on Reginald Rose's iconic play, 12 Angry Men, helps students apply the play and its themes to the American justice system. This bundle contains the following resources: Handouts for taking notes on juror details, facts about the case, and judicial elements, such as circumstantial evidenceA slideshow introducing the play's premise, context, and themesA list of engaging assessments, including writing prompts and creative projects, such as juror reflections and art assignment
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Abridged and Modified Macbeth Side-by-Side Text and Questions / 60 pgs
Macbeth was the first Shakespeare play I ever taught, and it helped me appreciate how much fun your students can have while acting out a drama in the classroom.However, this experience also helped me understand what aspects of a Shakespearean drama frustrate students and teachers. Some of the characters are confusing, some scenes do not advance the plot or are not school appropriate, and some of the language is dense.For these reasons, I created an abridged and modified version of Macbeth. Every
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9th - 12th
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Much Ado About Nothing Unit Bundle - Print and Digital Access Included!
Here is everything you need to teach Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing to 9-12 grade students! His comedy is a favorite with my students because of the eavesdropping and contrast between romantic relationships. The bundle includes the following resources: 4 core themes which students study and revisit in preparation for the test and other assessments6 slideshows of Guided Reading Notes, (one introductory and one per act)Printable student study guide for notesCreative and engaging assessments
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9th - 12th
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Back to School ART. Visual Art Curriculum. Lessons, Support, Video Tutorials
Providing outstanding teaching resources on TPT since 2015. Unlock Creativity with our Visual Art Curriculum: Comprehensive Units, Engaging Lessons, Detailed Plans, Exceptional Support, and Exclusive Video Demos!Make ART meaningful with this fun elementary and middle school art curriculum. Updated for 2024. This art curriculum bundle pack includes lessons, worksheets, projects, visuals, videos and a lot more to fill every single day of a school year. Covers drawing, painting, sculpture, photogra
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5th - 12th
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The Hitchhiker by Lucille Fletcher—Radio Play Drama Analysis & The Twilight Zone
Students will read and analyze the script of Lucille Fletcher's radio play: The Hitchhiker (also spelled The Hitch-Hiker). Have them listen to the drama on the Orson Welles Show to understand the impact that music and sound effects have on a play. Students will love to compare the audio version of The Hitchhiker to the episode of The Twilight Zone Rod Serling adapted for television. (The gender swap of the main character makes for a great discussion.)In this dreadful, ominous tale, students will
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6th - 9th
Also included in: The Hitchhiker Unit — Radio Drama by Lucille Fletcher
Fall ~ Thanksgiving Readers' Theater Script & More: Grades 3, 4, 5, & 6
Thanksgiving Readers' Theater Script & Literacy Toolkit for Grades 3, 4, 5 & 6: "Thanksgiving with Mr. Loony": From chainsaws to teddy bears to potato scavenger hunts, Mr. Loony's ideas for celebrating Thanksgiving are . . . well . . . loony.This Thanksgiving readers' theater script and the accompanying literacy activities will provide students with plenty of literacy-focused fall fun. The literacy toolkit is perfect for third-grade, fourth-grade, fifth-grade, and sixth-grade students a
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3rd - 6th
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READERS THEATER SCARY MYSTERY SCRIPT - Haunted House Mystery
This Readers’ Theater brain teaser mystery script will give Middle School students practice in reading, comprehension and writing, while having lots of ELA and Drama fun. The Mystery of the Haunted House makes your students into 'whodunit' detectives, performing inference tasks and drawing conclusions from four spooky clues. This humorous, realistic script is intended for about 9 students, but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded depending on how many groups you wish to hav
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5th - 8th
Also included in: READERS THEATER BRAINTEASER MYSTERY SCRIPT BUNDLE
The Crucible Unit Bundle (130+ pages, 200 questions) / Google Ready!
Arthur Miller's The Crucible is a complex and fascinating allegory. It's a staple in many American literature classrooms. In designing a unit for this text, I wanted to cover a variety of standards and skills students master as they read and act out the drama. If you were to purchase all of these resources, you would spend $28, but with this bundle, you save $5, which is like getting two resources for free! All together, that's 130+ pages and 200 questions! To help design the unit, I have includ
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11th - 12th
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Abridged and Modified Romeo and Juliet Side-by-Side Text and Questions Bundle
In preparing to teach freshman for the first time in many years, I cracked in to William Shakespeare’s classic Romeo and Juliet. While this is among one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, and while I enjoy teaching drama, I found the version presented in the textbook to be inaccessible.So I got to work creating a side-by-side version of Romeo and Juliet with the text on the left and guiding questions and activities on the right. In an effort to make the text more accessible for students, I eli
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9th - 10th
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Christmas Literacy Songs, Poems, Fingerplays, Readers Theater, Writing {CCSS}
Christmas Songs, Poems, fingerplays & readers theater and craft ELA, literacy activities for your Preschool, kindergarten, first grade elementary "Santa" activities. Sing, Read, Move, Write activities for literacy circles, stations, shared reading time.Songs, Poems, Fingerplays and Chants and Reader’s Theater/Music Program are all about Santa, Reindeer, Gingerbread, traditional themes. Use the Writing activities, Finger puppets, song book to help students say; “I Can recite songs and poems w
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PreK - 3rd
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Macbeth Unit Bundle (for Modern Translation)
This unit bundle is designed for teaching Macbeth using a modern translation of the text (such as No Fear Shakespeare). All products come with an answer key to help with lesson planning. Additionally, all materials are available in two forms: (1) as editable Word Docs that you can alter to best meet your students' needs, and (2) as PDFs to ensure compatibility across devices. This resource is also great for distance, online, or hybrid classrooms!The contents of the unit are Common-Core aligned,
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9th - 12th
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Black Out Poetry Civil Rights Reading, Writing & Art Project
Resource for Black History Month and Martin Luther King, Jr. DayThe purpose of these activities is to help students read deeply while reading excerpts from historical civil rights speeches. So often, civil rights leaders like Dr. King are discussed as if they were super heroes. They are, in a sense, super heroes. But it’s important for students to realize that they were also regular people, often with very humble beginnings who found themselves in situations, environments and racist conflicts th
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5th - 7th
Full Unit Plan for Alan Moore's Graphic Novel V for Vendetta
Images of some of the unit are available here as a preview, the preview is blurred but in the actual product it wont be.This is a full unit for the graphic novel V for Vendetta. It is 57 pages and includes an anticipation guide before reading the novel, a character guide, comprehension questions for all chapters of the book, many activities for a number of those chapters, and a final exam to go with the unit.Be sure to check out these other, completely free, resources I have to aid in teaching
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9th - 12th
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Complete Unit for Art Spiegelman's Graphic Novel Maus Vol. 1
The whole unit is available here as a free preview, it's blurred in the preview however it won't be with the actual product.This is a 33 page unit for Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus Volume 1: My Father Bleeds Blood. It includes 57 comprehension questions that cover the whole novel (focusing on higher order thinking and visual literacy) with an answer guide, Vocabulary terms for every chapter, 7 Activities to go with the reading, a timeline handout to help students while reading, and a char
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5th - 12th
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