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Close reading Common Core RL.6.6 resources
Short Story Units for Middle School (Short Story of the Month Club, 6th Grade)
Short Story of the Month Club, 6th GradeGrab this collection of popular Short Story Units tailored for 6th grade reading! I created these units specifically around the CCSS for grade 6, but they can absolutely be used in grades 5-8 - please check the preview file to verify this. Try the first month free! Click here.The Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 6, is a bundle of short story units created specifically to cover the Common Core standards for grade 6 using short stories that I promise you
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5th - 7th
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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief Novel Study Comprehension Questions
These are designed to be given after students have read a portion of the novel. The novel is divided into eight sections: Ch. 1-3, 4-6, 7-8, 9-11, 12-14, 15-18, 19-20, and 21-22. There is also a Quick Check for evaluating the whole novel at the end with three short answer questions.Now includes GOOGLE FORMS version for each assessment! Perfect if you're doing distance learning.Suggested uses:Assign a set of chapters to read by a certain date and have students complete as homework.After reading,
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5th - 7th
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Digital Escape Room End of Year Reading Review & STAAR/Test Prep Minecraft Theme
This Digital Escape Room is an End of the Year or Test Prep Game. There is not a thing you need to do except provide the link! The printable version is also included if you prefer to have physical copies. Passages Include:Fiction: Disaster Dave Takes On Survival ModePoem: Minecraft PandasNonfiction: Minecraft for the CreatorsNonfiction: Roblox VS MinecraftThese are full challenges and all four contain a passage, they are fiction, informational,poetry, and compare and contrast nonfiction. Each ch
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4th - 6th
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Refugee by Alan Gratz Novel Study
The Refugee Novel Study resource is a comprehensive set of standards-aligned, rigorous, instructional materials for teaching the Refugee by Alan Gratz. With these Common Core aligned materials, students will deeply engage with the novel and develop their literacy and critical thinking skills. The novel study includes 100+ resources to help you implement an engaging, rigorous ELA or Social Studies unit. Snapshot of Resources Included in Unit:30 Common Core Aligned Lesson Plans18 Literary Analysis
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5th - 8th
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Poems for Kids: Over 600 poems for teaching poetry terms & poetic devices
If you're teaching a poetry unit in grades 3-6, you need poems...lots and lots of exemplar poems! Need poems for teaching similes? Metaphors? Personification? How about haiku or narrative poems? From rhyming poetry to free verse, this anthology collection has them all (with picture support) to make it completely painless to teach the elements of poetry to students of all abilities in grades 3-6. So if you're a teacher who likes to teach poetry lessons by example, there are more than 600 poems t
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3rd - 6th
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6th Grade Reading Comprehension Mini-Lessons Middle School Reading Comprehension
If prepping thorough & engaging mini-lessons to improve 6th grade reading comprehension has made you feel frustrated, overwhelmed, or unsure, I’ve designed this year long standards aligned bundle just for you! This middle school reading comprehension kit will help you deliver engaging & effective mini-lessons to teach the major elements of literature.✔ Check out the preview for more information!As any 6th grade language arts teacher knows, there’s a lot of ground to cover with ELA standa
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5th - 7th
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Point of View & Perspective Bundle
This bundle of Point of View & Perspective Resources is all you need to complete your POV and Perspective unit! It includes a heavy emphasis on paired passages and is perfect for scaffolding and differentiating your unit. The resource includes the following products from my store:Identifying Point of View Task Cards (Digital Access Included)Point of View with Pictures (FREE Resource)Point of View and Perspective Paired Passage Task Cards (Digital Access Included)Point of View Game (Used wi
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4th - 6th
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Casey at the Bat Poetry Unit for Middle School
This is an extremely thorough, full 2-week unit for the narrative poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer. These resources are focused around Common Core Standards for Grade 6, but they are absolutely still relevant for all middle grades students who are studying Casey at the Bat OR simply poetry in general. Please verify this by taking a look at the preview file.This is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 6: March Selection – Click here to read more about the Short Story of the M
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5th - 7th
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The Veldt Escape Room Activity for Ray Bradbury's Dystopian Short Story
Make your students’ final experience with Ray Bradbury’s chilling dystopian short story “The Veldt” unforgettable. This engaging The Veldt escape room activity will give your students that “just right” challenge as they work to break out of the different tasks. Use this spooky escape room in October or any time of year to review short story elements.⬆️ Check out the PREVIEW for more information! ⬆️It’s highly recommended that you read, discuss, and interact with The Veldt before putting students
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Ray Bradbury Short Story Activities & Escape Rooms
Hamilton The Musical - Close Reading About the Revolutionary War
Use Hamilton the Musical to enhance your unit on The American Revolution!
Hamilton fever is strong in my house. My sixteen year old daughter caught it first - singing the songs, proudly wearing her “Young Scrappy and Hungry” t-shirt. I thought it was great, but I also thought it was for older kids. It was only when I saw my 10 year old son singing along with his sister that I started thinking that I could harness the brilliance of Hamilton the Musical to get my 4th graders excited about a
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4th - 6th
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6th Grade Close Reading Comprehension MEGA Bundle Lexile Passages Anchor Charts
⭐️This 6th Grade Reading Comprehension bundle contains over 250 passages including articles, stories, poems, dramas, and plays aligned to each 6th grade Common Core standard. Includes all of the CCSS informational text and reading literature standards. All qualified passages contain certified Lexile® measures in the 6th Grade Common Core Text Complexity Band. If you do not use Common Core, this packet is still perfect for teaching 6th grade reading comprehension skills.⭐️Each unit includes ancho
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6th
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ELA Summer School Curriculum Bundle - Grades 6-8 Digital for Distance Learning
Complete ELA Summer School Bundle will provide you all of the lessons, materials, and activities to teach summer school- ZERO prep involved! From introduction activities and procedure slides (introduced using fun memes) to specific reading and writing strategies that have been the most beneficial to my struggling readers and writers. This is a digital and printable resource. It can be used for distance or e-learning. This unit will contain a Google File Link Page that will provide you with a Goo
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6th - 8th
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Point of View Reading Project
Reading projects make learning fun! Engage your students in this detailed 7-page point of view and perspective reading project that is perfect for upper elementary. Students will love practicing their point of view and perspective skills while planning and analyzing many aspects of The Concert of the Year! Students get to choose who is performing at their concert, and as they complete their point of view and perspective tasks, they earn concert items to fill their backpacks and get ready for th
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Point of View & Perspective Bundle
Identifying Author's Point of View Practice Pack (First, Second, Third Person)
Simple and effective practice is here to save the day! This package of practice includes multiple short passages that give students multiple opportunities to read carefully and identify if each text is written using first person, second person, or third person as the narrative point of view. Students are also asked to provide their reasoning for each answer they choose.Each set of practice includes an extension activity that asks students to create their own examples of writing using first, seco
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4th - 9th
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Reading Intervention Bundle Fluency & Comprehension Grades 5 & 6
I created this bundle for those of us who provide reading intervention for multiple grade levels. This bundle includes the Fluency and Comprehension Reading Intervention for All Seasons Fifth and Sixth Grade Packets. Flesch Kincaid Readability Grade Levels range from 5.1-5.9 for the fourth grade packet, and 6.1-6.9 for the fifth grade packet. They are all in chronological order. Each of the 2 packets contains 35 original fluency passages I wrote and 2-3 comprehension and extension activities to
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4th - 7th
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Point of View in Literature - 6th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages RL.6.6
⭐️These 12 digital & printable Lexile® leveled stories are perfect for teaching, developing, or practicing 6th grade point of view in literature skills for RL.6.6. Google slides version is perfect for Google Classroom integration and distance learning. Students learn to explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.⭐️If you do not use Common Core, this packet is still perfect for teaching students how authors develop point of view.⭐️Includes standard-
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6th
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The Skin I'm In Novel Study
A comprehensive set of instructional materials for teaching The Skin I’m In by Sharon Flake. With these Common-Core aligned materials, students will deeply engage with the novel and develop their literacy skills. The suite includes 80+ resources to help you implement an engaging, rigorous ELA unit. Snapshot of Resources Included in Unit:21 Lesson Plans, Standards Alignment, Pacing Guide, Instruction PPT16 Literary Analysis Assignments16 Close Reading Assignments (literary skills-based)8 Nonficti
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5th - 7th
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Miles Morales Spider-Man Novel Study Digital and Print
This resource provides an in-depth look at Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Jason Reynolds. Great resource for grades 5-9 Grade! This novel study is perfect for whole class, independent, or reading circles. Each activity can be completed independently, in pairs, or in a group setting. Pick and choose which activities work best for your time frame and needs. There are a variety of activities that can be used at any level of learning including short answer, true-false, multiple choice, journal prompts
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5th - 9th
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The Gold Cadillac by Mildred D. Taylor Short Story Unit
This is an extremely thorough, full 2-week unit for the short story "The Gold Cadillac" by Mildred D. Taylor. These resources are focused around Common Core Standards for Grade 6, but they are absolutely still relevant for all middle grades students who are studying this story or historical fiction in general. Please verify this by taking a look at the preview file.This is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 6: February Selection – Click here to read more about the Short Story of the Month
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5th - 7th
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A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury Close Reading Google Annotation Project
"My students were just breezing by the text just so they could be done. They didn't stop to read closely, make predictions, and notice the literary devices that lent to the tone and theme of the work. Mrs. Anderson's guided reading Google Slides force my students to slow down and really absorb everything. She breaks the text up into digestible chunks that students can tackle while sprinkling in literary analysis and thematic questions in a way that does not intimidate students. What's great is t
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6th - 12th
ELA Halloween Escape Room- Reading Comprehension, Main Idea, & More
☠ Reading Comprehension, main idea, conflict, plot, figurative language, & more!!! The best part... you simply share the link to the Google Form, and students are on their way!! There are also suggestions for how to use this in printable format. ☠**Save 20% when you purchase this in my GROWING Digital Escape Room Bundle!** You can also save 20% by purchasing in my ELA Halloween Growing Bundle!**Students are trying to "escape their fears." There job is to work through each of the "rooms" in
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension & Grammar Escape Room GROWING Bundle
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief BUNDLE (Lapbook & Comprehension Questions)
This bundle combines a lapbook with a variety of comprehension activities with a set of comprehension quick checks to use for assessment.The Percy Jackson Lapbook is engaging way for students to track their comprehension while reading Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. Students will analyze the main character, identify allusions, make connections, evaluate the novel and extend their learning by researching Greek gods and writing their own Camp Half-Blood adventure. This is a g
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5th - 7th
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Point of View and Perspective Paired Passages
Engage your students in thinking critically about perspective and point of view with this set of paired passages task cards. There are a total of 10 fiction stories that make up the 5 sets of paired passages. Each set of paired passages shows the same event from a different perspective and some have varied points of view (1st and 3rd only). You can use the paired passages TOGETHER to deeply enrich your students' thinking or separately with the reflection tasks to reinforce concepts of point o
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Point of View & Perspective Bundle
Frindle Novel Study and Project Menu; Plus Digital Option
No-Prep novel study for "Frindle", a standards based interactive notebook literature guide with follow-up reading response questions for every chapter as well as vocabulary, writing projects, activities and enrichment projects. Teacher friendly engaging lessons to use with this award winning novel by Andrew Clements in your classroom while encouraging critical reading skills.CCSS/STAAR Aligned! Great for "Distance Learning".Everything you need to use this novel in your classroom effectively is i
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3rd - 6th
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