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Free high school literature resources for Easel
Poetry Comics: Metaphors with Robert Frost
Poetry Comics: Metaphors with Robert Frost
This is a free file from a larger product called Poetry Comics: Metaphor, Tone, and Personification. These lessons follow the same format as the free sample, except a worksheet is added afterward to reinforce the skills taught in the comic. Also check out Poetry Comics Vol 2.
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Middle School Language Arts Bundle
The Outsiders FREE Novel Study Activity! Fun Crossword Puzzle Review
NOTE: This project can be purchased as part of a UNIT PACKET offered in my store. If you are interested in the UNIT PACKET for The Outsiders, click on the following link for more details and a FREE preview: THE OUTSIDERS UNIT PACKET ********THE OUTSIDERS CROSSWORD REVIEW:This is a 20-question Crossword Puzzle with terms, characters, and plot points from the novel. Good for summary and review before exam, or just for days when students are silent readi
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7th - 10th
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Modern Expanding Expression Tool Visual Organizer & Activity
A modern twist on a classic tool. This updated Expanding Expression Tool has been streamlined to provide visual cues and more visually appealing. This tool can be used to help clients of all ages expand oral and written expression, as well as teach adjectives and expand vocabulary. This updated resource is compatible with teletherapy mediums, such as Zoom, so you can easily annotate on the screen what descriptions your client provides.This PowerPoint includes 9 visual examples for your client to
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Free One Page Fact Sheet for Any Story or Novel
Use this free one-pager with any novel or short story. The prompts allow students to analyze the characters, main events, setting, point of view and perspective, narration, plot, and character motivations. It also includes a prompt for students to create their own ONE PAGER, additionally exploring symbolism and theme.I included two handouts (one with larger print and fewer prompts) to allow for differentiation as well as a one-pager rubric prompt and optional template.This resource is NOT editab
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7th - 11th
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Also included in: All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
Character's Perspective Graphic Organizer
Enjoy this free graphic organizer, where student's will make a plan for writing about a character's perspective based on what the character does, says, and thinks.
Click here to download more graphic organizers:
Tall Tales, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales Graphic Organizers
12 Graphic Organizers for Literacy with ELL Supports
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3rd - 12th
Halloween Activity for High School ELA Figurative Language Sensory Sentences
This Halloween writing worksheet is a fun way for your high school ELA students to review figurative language and descriptive writing that appeals to the senses while celebrating the spookiness of Halloween. Includes examples for modeling expectations. No prep.Printable PDF or TPT Digital Easel Activity This brief, fun activity requires students to write a sentence appealing to a reader's sightsmelltastetouchsoundEach sense is paired with a type of figurative language including: metaphor,simile,
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8th - 11th
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Smart ELA Bell Ringers, Warm Up Lessons, Reading Comprehension - FREE
These smart bell ringers are engaging warm-up activities that address a wide range of ELA standards. They are a perfect mix of literature, informational texts, and reading comprehension and cover various topics such as fiction, poetry, literary devices, history, social studies, science, and life skills. Students are asked to read, analyze, determine the meaning of words, make inferences, provide conclusions, support claims, and make connections.The handouts and online Easel activities are ideal
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7th - 12th
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Hamlet Introduction Activity Fun Compatibility Survey Free
Introducing theme and characterization is a blast with this creative quiz, a fun and engaging introduction activity for Shakespeare's Hamlet. Your high school ELA students might argue that they have nothing in common with Shakespeare's characters! This compatibility test will prove them wrong! No prep.Printable PDF or TPT Digital Easel Activity This compatibility test allows students to determine how similar their experiences and feelings are to Hamlet’s. The activity shows students how universa
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: HAMLET Creative Bundle Creative Writing Characterization and One Pager
FREE The Great Gatsby Character Map Printable Worksheet
Free Great Gatsby Printable Character Map!Use this great character map worksheet to engage your students in the classroom. Have students track various character traits, important quotes, and more while reading! This worksheet is adaptable to suit your specific needs in the classroom. Looking for more? Check out our array of resources for The Great Gatsby:✎ Great Gatsby: Character vs. Society✎ Great Gatsby: Character vs. Man✎ Great Gatsby: Character vs. Self✎ Jay Gatsby as Antihero Classroom Pos
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Introducing Macbeth Freebie / Macbeth Meets the Witches Abridged and Modified
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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Also included in: Abridged and Modified Macbeth Bundle (14 resources!)
Romeo and Juliet PLOT cloze activity - Act One
Spice up your Romeo and Juliet unit with this great little plot summary, cloze activity for Act One, Scenes 1 - 5.What is included?For students: Plot Summary: A brief plot summary with 20 words missing.Story Board: A bonus story board activity is included for students to draw or write their own plot summary.For teachers: Answers: on the one page plot synopsis with the 20 missing words numbered and listed in red.Why are there TWO versions of the Cloze Activity?Two versions of the Close Activity
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: A trio of BUNDLES - Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet
Fahrenheit 451 FREE Discussion Activity - Philosophical Chairs Questions
Engage students in your Fahrenheit 451 Unit Plan with a kinesthetic Philosophical Chairs discussion! After responding in writing, students physically take sides on a series of issues such as Montag's obligations, censorship, ignorance as bliss, and the pitfalls of technology. Discussions are passionate and well-reasoned. ⭐ Check out my Fahrenheit 451 Unit Plan for complete no-prep unit with activities for the entire novel! ⭐ More Fahrenheit 451 Resources: Fahrenheit 451 Bell RingersFahrenheit 45
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9th - 11th
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The Great Gatsby - Free Introductory Activity, "Are You a Great Gatsby?"
Looking for a fun pre-reading activity for your high school ELA students studying The Great Gatsby? Demonstrate to your students the universality of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby by administering this fun and effective compatibility quiz, "Are you a great Gatsby?" Students answer 20 yes/no questions to find how their lives parallel with Jay Gatsby's.After counting their "yes" answers, kids discover if they are great Gatsbys, good Gatsbys, Average to Below Average Gatsbys, or if their Roaring 20
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9th - 12th
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Free Lord of the Flies Multiple Choice Assessment
You just finished your Lord of the Flies Unit and you need to test. Your stack of essays is looming behind you. Have no fear, easy one page bubble test is here. Just print this out (only one page--you don't even have to duplex) and grab a stack of bubble sheets. In 40 questions it covers characterization, theme, and symbolism... What more do you need? I've included an answer key and a second option of the test with an extra credit for visual and kinesthetic learners. Clip art credit: Openclipa
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7th - 10th
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The Hero's Journey Note Catcher
This note catcher is compatible with any myth or story that follows the Hero's Journey, or monomyth. Students can record notes in each square to record their thoughts or examples of how the story they are reading represents each stage of Joseph Campbell's "Hero's Journey"*Should be printed on 8.5x11" paper
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7th - 12th
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Free The Cask Of Amontillado: Visual Note Taking Companion
When you add the visual element to note taking (sketching, color) you increase the understanding and analysis of students with many different learning styles. We interpret information in so many different ways, and our students do as well. My note taking page allows for the visual element without the stress of students drawing. With this note taking page, they may categorize information in a non-linear pattern and add color, but they are not worried about drawing the perfect picture. They will
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8th - 11th
FREE Common Core Holiday Bell Ringer/Exit Slips
Common Core Aligned Holiday Bell Ringers and Exit Slips for the ELA or History Teacher
'Tis the season to thank everyone for your patronage! Here are 12 free bell ringer/exit slips activities you can use at the beginning or end of class period. They are holiday-themed and practice skills such as analyzing figurative language, analyzing and comparing characters from a novel or historical figures, and writing for shorter periods of times.
If your students enjoy these, they will have fun with th
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: English Bell Ringer and Exit Slip Resources Mega Bundle
Shakespeare Wordsearch (with fact sheet and questions) FREEBIE
Looking for a quick, fun Shakespeare activity? This Shakespeare wordsearch is a great way to begin any Shakespeare unit. To give background to the words in the wordsearch there is a also a factsheet and questions that offer a very brief overview of the life and work of the amazing Shakespeare.This activity can be used as either a: teacher-directed, orindependent, student-led task.You could use this as: a substitute lesson,an introduction to Shakespeare, oran extension task for quick finishers.
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Romeo and Juliet BIG BUNDLE
The Great Gatsby, Chapter 5 - Reading and Discussion Questions with Detailed Key
This reading and discussion guide with comprehension and analysis questions for The Great Gatsby Chapter 5 is great as an independent reading check, as a discussion or note-taking guide, a study reference, or an assessment for your high school ELA students. Printable PDF or TPT Digital Easel Activity 5 pages 31 numbered questions (with questions within the questions, the total is 40). The questions require comprehensionanalysissynthesisapplicationMany of the questions require students to refer
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9th - 12th
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A Christmas Carol Movie Guide for Any Version - Printable & Digital
Make movie day educational with this handy movie guide for A Christmas Carol! It's the perfect way to help students thoughtfully compare the book to the movie after you've completed a novel study, and it works with any version of the film. Students will analyze several important characters and scenes that appear in both the novel and any film adaptation you choose, focusing on character, setting, suspense, and differences between print and film versions of this classic story.(If you're reading
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: A Christmas Carol Unit Novel Study Bundle - Printable & Digital
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton novel study sample ch. 1-3
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a great fictional novel to read for middle/high schoolers. This novel study includes pre-reading activities, novel study portion, activities for each chapter, and a performance task dinner menu. *This novel study includes a pre-reading guide which includes:*biographyhy on S.E. Hinton*the link for the trailer of the movie*setting*link to a short video on 1960s pop culture*sizing people up acitivity*poem “Richard Cory” The novel study has space on the first few chap
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6th - 10th
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE and the Globe Theatre Theater FREE Item PRINT and EASEL
This free resource includes two differentiated 2-page reading passages on the Globe Theatre in London, with information on both Shakespeare’s time and the modern era (it was rebuilt and opened in 1997). The two different levels are marked pages 1 (1) and 2 (1) for the easier level and just page 1 and 2 for the more difficult reading level. The borders differ on each reading passage page to help you differentiate between the two. Please choose the level best for your class.A multiple choice ac
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7th - 10th
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FREE Holes (Louis Sachar) Ch. 1 - 3 - Palindromes - NO PREP ACTIVITIES + ANSWERS
This FREE comprehensive unit of work focuses on Part 1, Chapters 1-3 of Louis Sachar's iconic children's novel Holes, and includes the following:1. Comprehension and Read & Respond Questions for Chapters 1-3 of the novel. These questions are designed to test comprehension, on the one hand, and to provide prompts for journal-style read-and-respond questions and critical discussions in class. I felt that comprehension questions are too boring/basic for students, and so I wanted to combine the
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5th - 9th
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A Raisin in the Sun Introduction Activity Character Compatibility Quiz Free
Download this free resource and begin your A Raisin in the Sun unit with this fun Character Compatibility Quiz. Use this engaging pre-reading activity to introduce your high school ELA students to the play's characters and themes while engaging them in an exploration of the play's universality. Enjoy! Printable PDF or TPT Digital Easel Activity Thank you for considering this resource. Related Products:A RAISIN IN THE SUN INTRODUCTION TO AUTHOR, PLAY, SETTINGA RAISIN IN THE SUN Comprehensive U
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: A Raisin in the Sun - Complete Unit - No-Prep
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