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Writing-expository Common Core RL.8.6 resources
Poetry Analysis: "Stopping By Woods..." by Robert Frost
My standards-based poetry analysis of Robert Frost's beloved poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" includes everything you need for a meaningful activity for your students! They will practice reading, writing, language, and drawing skills as they look at Frost's poem in-depth.In addition, your students can doodle and color all over the pages! Each page has items that can be colored and they are encouraged to draw, as well. It's a great activity for all levels of learning.See my preview to
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for K. Cook
AIR Reading Test Prep | Fiction Practice Test 3 | PDF & Digital
Help your students practice their reading comprehension skills with exciting paired fiction passages. The passages come from popular youth novels and will help engage and capture your students’ interest while also working on their test-taking skills. The questions were written to give your students examples of all the types of questions they might see in standardized testing, MOY Testing, or end-of-year exam. Digital with TpT's Easel. Question Types:multiple-choice, multiselect, evidence-based s
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5th - 9th
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Poetry Analysis - Emily Dickinson - Emergency Sub Plan (paper + digital)
Are you looking for a poetry analysis lesson students can complete on their own? In this poetry activity, students analyze Emily Dickinson’s “I Died for Beauty.” This scaffolded activity is the perfect sub plan or snow day lesson or during National Poetry Month! Use this analyzing poetry activity for:Independent practiceEnrichment & Summer SchoolSnow Days & Blizzard BagsEmergency Plans Do your students need a skills review?✅ Use textual evidence to support inferences (RL.7.1)✅ Determine
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7th - 9th
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MARCH TEST PREP ESCAPE ROOM ELA ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING RACE STRATEGY PASSAGES
Need help motivating students who are burnt out on test prep? This St. Patrick's Day March 360 ELA TEST PREP digital escape room will do the trick! CCSS AND COMPATIBLE WITH MOST STATE STANDARDS.The escape room is divided into thematic forest scenes, each designed to simulate a different part of the test. Students will read passages, compose ECR/SCR (constructed responses) and an argumentative essay, analyze writing samples, solve puzzles, and crack ELA codes all while scrolling through an immers
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: MARCH ELA 360 TEST PREP DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM & BELL RINGER GRAMMAR BUNDLE
Writing Response Paragraphs all 8th grade Reading Bundle RI.8.1-8.10 RL.8.1-8.10
This MEGA BUNDLE of teaching resources for Common Core ELA RL.8.1-8.10 Literature and Information RI.8.1-8.10: Writing Paragraph Response breaks down each standard and provides graphic organizers, paragraph frames, sentence starters, and rubrics in both digital and printable worksheets for responding to literature and information for 8th grade English Language Arts.. Middle school students struggle with writing complete and coherent constructive responses to literature and information. The analy
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8th
Fiction Paired Passages Reading Test | Common Core AIR Test Prep Print & Digital
Help your students prepare for their Common Core Standardized end-of-year test (Ohio's AIR Test) by taking this paired fiction passage practice test. This practice test was created and modeled after the 6th through 8th-grade AIR Practice Tests. The 13 questions were written to give your students examples of all the types of questions they will see in standardized testing. The use of high interested youth novels will capture your students’ interest while also working on their test-taking skills.Q
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5th - 9th
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"Click-Clack the Rattlebag" Suspense Worksheet and Essay Prompt
This assignment has been created to challenge students to learn about and identify elements of suspense that are used in the short story "Click-Clack the Rattlebag" by Neil Gaiman. Students will read the story which can be found for free on the website Commonlit. You must have an account to access the story, but an account is free. After the students have read the story, they will watch a Ted Ed Video about suspense and complete the Identifying Elements of Suspense Worksheet. Finally, students
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7th - 9th
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AN HOUR WITH ABUELO Reading Check Questions and more
Students learn a lot about how preconceptions can be misconceptions as they read and answer questions for this short story, available in anthologies as well as on-line.Included are:- Reading Check questions for the main plot,- A sequencing exercise for the story-within-a-story, including an explanation of that term,- Two analysis writing prompts, on their own writing paper,- A discussion of 1st Person Perspective, with examples and practice from the story itself,- Teacher Suggestions.ANSWERS INC
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6th - 8th
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Irony in "Charles" Lesson | Guided Writing | Quiz | Paperless Game | Posters
A student favorite! Fun and done! Middle schoolers love this ironic story by Shirley Jackson about a naughty little boy and his clueless mother. Packed with engaging slides, guided writing sentence frames, irony posters, quiz, self-grading paperless game, and guess who activity. Engaging, comprehensive, and hilarious! Follow me for more teacher and tutor tools. Happy teaching! Get your weekends back. Scaffold the writing process.Citing Evidence Posters, Argument Essay Template, & Transitions
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5th - 8th
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Fiction Paired Reading Comprehension Passages | Common Core | PDF & Digital
Help your students prepare for the common core end-of-year standardized test (Ohio's AIR Test) by taking these paired fiction passage practice tests. The questions were written to give your students examples of all the types of questions they will see on the AIR test. The passages come from popular youth novels and will help engage and capture your students’ interest while also working on their test-taking skills.Digital with TpT's Easel. Question Types:multiple-choice, multiselect, evidence-bas
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Bundle | Common Core Test Prep | OST Ohio AIR
I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME Novel Study Unit
Discussion and analytic questions for the novel I Heard the Owl Call My Name are primary to this unit. These questions will have students analyzing and understanding the concepts Craven weaves into her plot.In addition there are vocabulary worksheets and puzzles.An essay assignment derived from a topic specific journal (attached), with detailed student handout is included in this file. There are half-page quizzes for Ch. 1 to 5, and Ch 18 & 19, plus a full-page test and an essay for the to
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7th - 10th
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Writing Response Paragraphs Literature Grade 8 BUNDLE (CCSS-RL.8.1-8.10)
These teaching resources for Common Core ELA RL.8.1-8.10 Literature: Writing Paragraph Response breaks down each standard and provides graphic organizers, paragraph frames, sentence starters, and rubrics in both digital and printable worksheets for responding to literature for 8th grade English Language Arts. Middle school students struggle with writing complete and coherent constructive responses to literature. The analysis portion is often a repeat or paraphrase of the cited text, instead of a
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8th
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RL.8.6 Points of View, Style, Irony, Humor Writing Response Paragraphs
This teaching resource for RL.8.6 Contrasting Points of View and Effects as Suspense or Humor for Literature Writing Paragraph Response breaks down the standard and provides graphic organizers, paragraph frames, sentence starters, and rubrics in both digital and printable worksheets. Middle school students struggle with writing complete and coherent constructive responses to literature. The analysis portion is often a repeat or paraphrase of the cited text, instead of an explanation of it. Learn
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8th
Complete Common Core Aligned Novel Unit for The Outsiders
Comprehensive Unit Plan with Common Core focus standards, learning objectives and instructional activities. Chapter-by Chapter activities and both an objective test and an essay test as well as an alternate culminating activity
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7th - 8th
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Author's Study: Agents & Advances (A Literacy Simulation)
Are you looking for a creative and fun way to have students engage in an author's study? The simulation Agents & Advances calls on students to serve as literary agents as they work to secure an advance for the author they represent. During this five week unit students will learn background information about an author they select, read multiple books, understand how their author uses literary elements to enhance their writing, and craft a business letter showcasing what they have learned. T
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5th - 8th
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Assessment, Prose and Poetry: Perfect Together! (M) Patsy's Paradise
With the natural world shrinking at an alarming rate, and almost non-existent in urban areas, it's nice to read a passage in which a character takes a pro-active role in restoring one small part of nature. This story, Patsy's Paradise, which is filled with figures of speech and is content rich, is partly autobiographical, so it is close to my heart. 25 professionally written multiple choice, evidence based questions and a writing prompt are included for assessment. Enjoy! My students did! (C) 20
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7th - 10th
Poems about Diversity from Dragon University! #2: Creature Features
It's OK to be different! It's OK to celebrate our differences! it's good to understand that diversity is and always has been the catalyst that moves life forward! These and others are the themes found in this second edition of Poems about Diversity from Dragon University. Each poem is carefully constructed to be of poetic, literary, and educational value, and to be used for remote learning if necessary. Ten professionally written, open-ended questions are included for assessment. Copyright 2021
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6th - 10th
Poems About Diversity from Dragon University! (#1): Not Fire, but Ice
Diversity is a crucial topic with which all students should be familiar, and fluency is a reading skill that all students should master for academic success, so this new series, Poems about Diversity from Dragon University, accomplishes both goals in one unit. The poems are engaging, challenging and relevant, and who doesn't like the topic of dragons? This first poem, Not Fire but Ice, explores the treatment of one dragon who blows ice and not fire, and how he wins the respect, acceptance and ad
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5th - 10th
Engaging Readings with Evidence Based Questions #2: A Date for Thought
This semi-autobiographical tale of puppy love and rejection tells of common experiences for young teens, so the story will be engaging and also provide great assessment practice. Professionally written PARCC formatted questions are included for assessment. Don't worry; it has been "kid-tested".
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6th - 10th
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Engaging Readings with Evidence Based Questions, #4: Eye to Eye-with a Mouse!
This comical, sensitive and true story about the importance of life and respect for life will inspire your students to look at small creatures in a more positive way and also prepare them for assessment with professionally written, evidence based, PARCC formatted questions and a writing prompt. Have fun with it! Don't worry; it has been kid-tested.
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4th - 9th
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Engaging Readings with Evidence Based Questions, #7: The Italian Elvis
This humorous and partially biographical tale explores the conflict between life and culture at home and the pressure of being cool with friends that so many teens face. The bonus is that the story is followed by professionally written, evidence based questions and a writing prompt. Enjoy!
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7th - 10th
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