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Back to School short stories Common Core W.7.4 resources
Edgar Allan Poe Short Story Unit - The Black Cat - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven
Print and go short story annotations activities and projects for your next Edgar Allan Poe unit, Tell Tale Heart unit, Raven unit, or Black Cat unit! These short stories with comprehension questions contain short story annotations activities, graphic organizers, projects, questions, and answer keys. The included activities ask students to think deeply about text while practicing elements of literacy analysis. This Poe unit is a great addition to a short story unit on classic literature.✅While t
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7th - 10th
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The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Twilight Zone Teleplay Complete Unit Pack
This is a fantastically engaging and complete unit for your middle schoolers for Rod Serling's teleplay The Monsters are Due on Maple Street. This is material to help you teach the script from The Twilight Zone television series. The text of the teleplay is not included, as it is not in the public domain.You will get the following materials:Pre-reading Group Questions/Discussion PromptsPre-Reading Vocabulary and Extension Activities with KeyCharting Plot: Two Types of Charts with KeyLiterary Ele
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6th - 8th
Parts of Speech Unit Review - Grammar Worksheets, Quizzes, & Activities
Struggling to find an engaging and challenging Parts of Speech unit that has it all? These grammar worksheets cover the 8 parts of speech and come complete with PowerPoints, parts of speech worksheets, activities, and quizzes! Teacher prep is as easy as 1-2-3, including digital and printable options.✔ Check out the preview for more information!I love using these parts of speech mini-lessons to kick off my grammar bell-ringers at the start of the year. They also make a great self-guided grammar r
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5th - 7th
The Most Dangerous Game Activities - Short Story Unit - Questions - Map Project
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell: Short Story Units with Questions, Vocabulary, and Short Story Annotations! This 90 page short story with comprehension questions resource contains everything you need to teach “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. Perfect for your short story unit or The Most Dangerous Game unit, this short story package contains detailed comprehension questions, teacher friendly answer keys, vocabulary words, character analysis, creative writing activities, pr
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7th - 10th
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Icebreaker Questions for Older Students - Ice breaker Activity for Teens Gr 7-12
Looking for an icebreaker activity for teens? Your classes will love this viral ice breaker game on TikTok! These ice breaker questions are engaging and age-appropriate for older students to use for a "speed-meeting" icebreaker game, for group discussions, or as daily attendance prompts. Includes editable templates to make your own prompts!Included with this Icebreaker Game:✏️ 30 unique, engaging, and age-appropriate icebreaker questions for teens - Color & GreyscaleIce breaker questions ar
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6th - 12th
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ELA Reader's Theater Mini-Bundle - Scripts and Activities for Middle School
Interested in trying reader's theater with your middle school readers? This 3-pack of reader's theater scripts and activities makes it easy to quickly incorporate this amazing teaching tool in your classroom.As an ELA teacher, I use reader's theater regularly to enhance fluency, increase student engagement, and sharpen our reading comprehension skills.If you are looking for high-interest, realistic fiction, standards-based scripts with vocabulary work, reader response questions, graphic organize
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4th - 7th, Staff
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Short Stories with Comprehension Questions - 11 Short Story Units - Annotations
This giant Short Story with Comprehension Questions Bundle contains 11 of my best selling products bundled together for a heavily discounted price! Perfect for short story reading comprehension, it has a variety of different short story activities, as well elements of literature activities and notes. This package has enough resources to keep kids engaged while learning about literary elements.✅Please check out the thumbnails and individual products in this bundle for detailed descriptions and im
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6th - 9th
Back to School First Day Jitters Reader's Theater Script for Grades 4-8
First Day Jitters? If you love the back-to-school book First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg, your students will love performing the reader's theater script even more. Based on the events from the silly picture book, I have created a reader's theater and reading literature toolkit that BIG KIDS will love to perform in those first days of school.This First Day Jitters for BIG KIDS resource includes:• 2-page 4-character reader's theater script• context clue word work• reader response questions• po
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4th - 7th, Staff
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Also included in: Text-Based Reader's Theater and Read Aloud Activities Bundle
Solar Eclipse 2024 Activities
Experience the 2024 total solar eclipse with your students with these three fun activities. They are offered in both a printable PDF version and Google Drive™ (Google Slides™) version. The Google version can be shared online with your students and they can fill in their responses online; perfect for a paperless school.The activities include a compiling information and responses for a 2044 time capsule, create a solar eclipse play list, and an extensive Solar Eclipse Idioms activity. Students wil
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5th - 10th
The Gift of the Magi Short Story Unit - Christmas Reading Comprehension Passages
This "The Gift of the Magi" Short Story Unit contains a 50 page close reading unit on “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry. Perfect for a short story interactive notebook, this Gift of the Magi teacher guide contains Gift of the Magi comprehension questions, teacher friendly answer keys, Gift of the Magi activities, vocabulary words, foldables, close reading resources, graphic organizers, creative writing, and essay activities are all included. All activities are classroom tested and include creat
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6th - 9th
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All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury Short Story Unit - Close Reading Activity
The "All Summer In A Day" short story unit is filled with short story reading comprehension activities to teach main idea, summary, theme, characterization, and more. This 8 day close reading unit is the PERFECT resource to help your middle school ELA students think critically and dive deeper into Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian tale. Each lesson is scaffolded and contains tools to help meet the diverse needs of all learners. There is also a creative writing project that requires students to wr
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6th - 9th
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The Lottery Short Story Unit - Shirley Jackson Middle School Short Story Project
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Short Story Unit - Activities and Comprehension Questions! Perfect for your upcoming short story unit or dystopian literature unit, this package contains graphic organizers and activities to go along with The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. The Lottery short story questions, a biography activity, a giant pennant project, and a hexagonal thinking activity are also included.✅Be sure to check out the preview and thumbnails for detailed images and descriptions about everyt
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5th - 8th
All About Me - Letter to Teacher - Back to School Activity - Writing Activity
The All About Me: Letter to My Teacher is the PERFECT back to school activity to have students introduce themselves to their new teacher at the beginning of a new school year or semester. This NO PREP best-selling resource can be used with middle school and high school students in any content area. The PRINT and DIGITAL scaffolded writing materials allows teachers to easily meet the needs of all learners while setting writing expectations from the beginning. In addition, the Letter to My Teacher
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5th - 8th
HMH Into Literature Grade 6 Growing Bundle Digital and Print
This growing bundle includes resources made for HMH Into Literature 6th Grade. There is a large variety of activities included in this product bundle. Each activity aligns directly with HMH Into Literature for Grade 6. Topics covered include: comprehension, point of view, plot development, genre, context clue vocabulary, supporting the answer with evidence, narrative writing, informative writing, analyzing argument and counterclaim, imagery, character traits, inferencing, central idea, summary w
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6th - 8th
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Science Fiction Short Stories Unit - Elements of Science Fiction Introduction
This Science Fiction Unit Bundle contains four different Science Fiction short story units, including All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury, Rain Rain Go Away by Isaac Asimov, Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, and The Veldt by Ray Bradbury. Each resource contains a complete short story unit with questions, graphic organizers, answer keys, and more.Also included in this bundle is a complete Introduction to Science Fiction. This contains detailed student notes and information all about this exciti
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6th - 10th
The Hero's Journey | Movie Analysis | Short Story Writing | Activities
This Hero's Journey activity package contains a variety of activities relating to the Hero's Journey as explained by Joseph Campbell. For this activity, students practice their Hero's Journey analysis skills by viewing a heroic movie of your choice (a variety of examples are included), and using the included worksheets to discuss how each stage of the Hero's Journey can be seen. Students then use an included template to illustrate and write their own short stories, following the stages of the
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Middle School ELA Emergency Sub Plans - No Prep English Sub Plans - May
Editable Student Information Sheet - Get to Know Your Student Survey Questions
Promote equity, growth mindset, and class community while you get to know your students! This editable student information sheet includes student survey questions to obtain important student information. Suitable for distance learning with digital forms for Google Classroom®.Included with this Student Information Survey:✏️ Editable Student Information Sheet for Microsoft PowerPoint®✏️ Sample Student Survey Question Prompts✏️ Ready-to-Print Student Information Sheet with 25+ Student Survey Q
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6th - 12th
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The Tell-Tale Heart Newspaper Project - Digital and Print Versions Included
Tell-Tale Heart - After reading Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," students create a newspaper based on the events in the short story. My students enjoy this assignment, and I've had some amazing work turned in - it's a fun and creative way for them to demonstrate their understanding of the story! A fun and engaging short story unit, a unit on Edgar Allen Poe, or a writing activity around Halloween. EASY TO DIFFERENTIATE!INCLUDES (8 pages / 8 Google™ Slides)Newspaper-themed assignment sheet2 brains
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8th - 10th
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Back to School Bundle: Icebreakers, Memes, Decor, Rules, Procedures
Back to School Bundle includes icebreakers, get-to-know-you and all about me activities, classroom posters and memes, rules and procedures activity, editable presentations, and more. You will have plenty of resources to last the first few days AND for years to come.These best-sellers are included:Back-to-School Rules and Procedures: Can I Chew Gum in Class? EDITABLE!Teacher Memes Posters {Back to School, Class Rules} EDITABLE! Grammar Fail Presentation: Using Humor to Teach the Importance of Eng
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6th - 12th, Staff
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Back to School Mandala - Personal Mandala Art and Writing Project Activities
This back to school mandala art project includes everything needed to create a personal mandala with colors and symbols that best represent a student's individual self. This mandala activity contains mandala history, symbol and color symbolism information, a mandala project, a writing activity, and mandala coloring pages. A complete unit - simply print and teach!!! ⭐⭐⭐Two different versions of the assignment are included - great for differentiation!⭐⭐⭐✅This is a great way to teach students about
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4th - 7th
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Interview with a Classmate Biography - Back to School Writing
Are you looking for a back to school activity to get your middle school students talking to one another in those first few days of school? How about a biography writing activity that will help to build a community sense in your classroom? Look no further than this collaborative back to school writing activity that allows students to generate questions, conduct a formal interview, and organize the information they have learned about their classmate to write a multi-paragraph biography.This back t
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5th - 8th
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Back to School First Week One Pager Activity and Name Tag / Tent
Start the first week of school with a getting to know you activity that will be worth its weight in gold! This Back to School First Week One Pager Activity and Name Tag is a super useful way to get to know your students. It can be folded to create a cute name tent for kids' desks, making it easy to connect names and faces. Or you can display them on an "All About Me" bulletin board to make your classroom look stylish! The icebreaker prompt choices are sure to be a hit – students will get to show
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: One Pagers: Back to School, Thanksgiving, Holiday, New Year Bundle
Creative Writing Workshop Complete Bundle
Hi! I'm Livia Blackburne, author of the NY Times bestselling young adult novel Midnight Thief. In July of 2015, I ran a week long creative writing camp for middle and high school students. We had a ton of fun, and the students wrote some great short stories and novellas! After the camp, I revised my materials and expanded them for other teachers to use.This is the complete complete collection: the seven units comprised the entirety of my fifteen hour writing camp. This is a $25.50 dollar value.
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6th - 12th
Teamwork Activity | Collaboration | Group Work | Team | First Week Of School
First Week of School Team Work Activity, Collaboration, and Group Work Lessons. 8 lessons to build LIFE SKILLS and help students improve group work. Collaboration and Teamwork are NOT the same! Your students may be working in groups, but that doesn’t mean they’re working well. These teamwork activities and lessons teach students about three different teamwork styles: collaboration, coordination, and cooperation. This life-long tool is great for the First Week of School. Use it during Back to Sch
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6th - 10th
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