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Valentine's Day close reading Common Core RL.6.5 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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Book Trailer Project - End of Year Movie Trailer Assignment for Any Novel Study
This book trailer project is a memorable and engaging project-based learning assessment! Included with this project outline are a book trailer rubric, movie trailer storyboard graphic organizer, student checklist, assignment instructions, student examples, and more. Included with this Book Trailer Project:✏️ Book Trailer Project Outline - Editable & Ready-to-Print✏️ Reflective Writing Assignment Prompt - Editable & Ready-to-Print✏️ Movie Trailer Task Checklist & Student Planner -
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6th - 12th
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Close Reading Poems | National Poetry Month: Printable & Digital Formats
This resource is perfect for close reading poems for National Poetry Month in April!But, poetry doesn't have to be saved for April! Use this pack to practice close reading poems in your classroom to help grow your students' love for poetry. This resource is designed to help teachers engage students with classic poetry through guiding questions during multiple reads.With three questions to guide different purposes for reading each of the twelve poems, you'll be set to apply a variety of reading s
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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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ESCAPE ROOM Plot Elements: Fractured Fairy Tales & Creative Writing
This PLOT ELEMENTS ESCAPE ROOM breakout activity uses fractured fairy tales to teach and reinforce the elements of a plot. It is a fun, team building ADVENTURE that requires reading comprehension skills, understanding of plot elements, creative writing, inferencing, and problem-solving.
The adventure begins when YOU, the most awesome teacher in the history of the world, take the kids on a little trip to a publishing house. Things go a bit awry, and the kids have to save the day by rising to th
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5th - 9th
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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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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 Hitchhiker by Lucille Fletcher Short Story Unit (Drama/Play)
This is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 6: October Selection – Click here to read more about the Short Story of the Month Club!Skills Focus:Story Devices - Flashback, Suspense, ForeshadowingElements of PlotFinding Text EvidenceComparing Written, Audio, & Video VersionsVocabulary Practice Standardized Test FormatConstructed Response Questions for RL.6.5 - Analyzing Development of PlotIdentifying Supporting Details (Informational Text)See the list of activities below for a COMPLETE l
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5th - 7th
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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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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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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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Just Once by Thomas Dygard Short Story Unit Grade 6
This is the Short Story of the Month Club, Grade 6: September Selection – Click here to read more about the Short Story of the Month Club!Skills Focus:Basic Story Elements (Review)Elements of PlotFinding Text EvidenceIdiomsUsing Context CluesConstructed Response Questions for RL.6.5Main Idea & Supporting Details (Informational Text)See the list of activities below for a COMPLETE list of all of the skills covered. The ones above are simply the FOCUS of this unit.Editable and digital versions
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5th - 7th
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Song Lyric Analysis Lesson - Introduction to Poetry Through Song Lyrics -Digital
This song lyric analysis lesson introduces poetry analysis through the use of your students’ favorite song lyrics! Practice annotating with the worksheets and graphic organizers provided. Suitable for distance learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.Included with this Song Lyric Analysis Lesson Plan:✏️ Poetry in Song Lyrics Slideshow Lesson - Google Slides®, Microsoft PowerPoint® & PDF✏️ Poetry in Song Lyrics Informational Handout - Digital & Print✏️ Practice Close Reading
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6th - 12th
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon Novel Study: Assessments, Vocab., Distance Learning
This comprehensive, 160-page novel study includes everything you need to guide your students through a rich and meaningful study of Kelly Barnhill’s Newbery-winning The Girl Who Drank the Moon. This novel study breaks the book into twelve sections with about 30 pages of reading per section. To support distance learning, each component of the novel study can be completed on paper or digitally (via Google Forms & Google Slides). Novel Study includes: Scaffolding GuidesThese guides ask students
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4th - 7th
Peter Pan Novel Study BUNDLE with discussion guide, journals, and test
This BUNDLE for JM Barrie's Peter Pan includes a no-print discussion guide, student journal, and test. Students will practice a variety of reading skills including characterization, compare/contrast, sequence of events, setting, figurative language, inference, and prediction.Your purchase includes 5 downloads:TWO Discussion Guides and Answer Keys (Unabridged and Classic Starts Versions--perfect for differentiation!)TWO Response Journals (Unabridged and Classic Starts Versions)ONE Unit Test (Appl
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3rd - 6th
Story Elements Digital ELA Escape Game with Plot, Setting, Characters, & More
Use this digital escape room to review story elements. This game focuses on plot, characters, conflict, setting and how it impacts a story, and basic dialogue rules to help students write their own stories in the future! Students can work as a whole class, in small groups, or individually to complete this digital challenge. This is a high-engagement activity! No setup required! Students go to the web page and will search through notes, videos, texts, and small games to find the codes of the gam
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5th - 9th
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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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The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Escape Room
Is there a better way to wrap up and review The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street teleplay by Rod Serling than with an escape room? I think not! This literary-elements-themed escape room activity will challenge and engage your students while delivering a standards-based review. Perfect for your scary short story unit, your drama unit, or during October! ⬆️ Check out the PREVIEW for more information! ⬆️Teachers love using this “The Monsters of Maple Street” escape room to conclude Rod Serling’s sh
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6th - 8th
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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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Text Structure Stories & Poems 6th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages RL.6.5
⭐️These 12 digital & printable poems & Lexile® leveled stories are perfect for teaching, developing, or practicing 6th grade text structure in stories & poems skills for RL.6.5. Google slides version is perfect for Google Classroom integration and distance learning. Students learn how to analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.⭐️If you do not use Common Co
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6th
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ESCAPE ROOM ELA BUNDLE Team Building, Reading, Writing, Critical Thinking
From Back to School to End of Year, this breakout bundle includes interactive and immersive adventures. Each challenge addresses ELA standards in a fun and engaging way. Your students won't even realize how much they are learning, which is the BEST way to learn, isn't it?!Individually, the total value of these best-selling resources will be over $82.90, so this resource results in HUGE savings!WHAT IS INCLUDED?The bundle includes an entire year's worth of individual activities. There are 12, so
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5th - 9th
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The Veldt by Ray Bradbury - Short Story Unit - Argumentative Writing Task
Are you looking for a short story unit that will pique your students’ interest and encourage their curiosity while reading "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury? How about a dystopian short story set in a futuristic society where technology can replace even the most basic of human activities and has one of the most jaw-dropping endings in literature? Look no further than this “The Veldt” Short Story Unit that is is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade ELA . This two week
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6th - 9th
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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