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11th grade reading strategies handouts
Poet vs Poet basketball style brackets; poetry study; poetry analysis
Are your students bored of poetry? Get kids excited with Poet vs Poet basketball style brackets. Students read poems in competitive match ups, rating the poem quality based on the meaning, mood, form, and language the poet uses. Students learn to analyze poetry, and they become obsessed with their favorite poems. My kids LOVE this activity!JUST ADDED: Version Two Poet vs. Poet with even more exciting match ups! I kept some popular match ups the same, but added new match ups like Edgar Allan Poe
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5th - 11th
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Also included in: 7th Grade ELA Yearlong Curriculum, Lesson Plans, and Pacing Guide
The Hunger Games Unit Bundle: Guides, Stations, Activities, Quizzes, Game, Test
The Hunger Games Bundle includes everything you need to teach this amazing novel! The tasks and activities included will have your students so engaged that they don't even realize how hard they are working! ❤️Did you know that if you buy a bundle that includes a previously purchased resource, TPT will refund you for the smaller item? Therefore, if you have purchased one of my resources for The Hunger Games and now wish to have the complete bundle, purchase the bundle and contact TPT for a refund
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7th - 12th
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Inferencing activity for high school - SHORT short stories
This is an inferencing activity that I use with my high school students.Every year, inferencing is the first unit of any English class I teach, because it's critical for students to learn the skill of active reading - and always making connections, and reading between the lines for meaning.This asks students to use their inferencing skills in a super creative way - to read VERY short short stories (some are just 6 words!) and make connections to their prior knowledge to make guesses about what t
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Inferencing practice for high school (Visual & Written)
Rhetorical Devices & Appeals Movie Speeches Bundle Rhetoric Analysis Activities
This fun rhetoric bundle includes fun and engaging rhetorical analysis practice worksheets (rhetorical devices and appeals) for 13 different cinematic movie speeches. Most of the time, a rhetoric unit can become boring and irrelevant for advanced middle or high school students, who beg to have real-world application for certain analysis skills. With this film speech analysis bundle, your students will understand just how much rhetoric (ethos, pathos, logos & various rhetorical devices) inva
Grades:
8th - 12th
Interactive Bookmarks for Any Novel: Questions, Literary Analysis, Vocabulary
Use these interactive and foldable bookmarks with any novel in your secondary classroom to help engage your students with the text. With multiple options to choose from, the possibilities are endless. These instructional bookmarks are classroom-tested to improve student engagement and understanding!
This resource includes five different bookmark fronts and nine different bookmark backs to provide secondary English teachers with complete control and customization.
The bookmark fronts include s
Grades:
6th - 12th
AMERICA RUNS ON READING! Interactive and Engaging Book Tasting
WELCOME TO AMERICA RUNS ON READING! This product has EVERYTHING and MORE to turn your room into a Dunkin' Donuts and introduce new books to your students. This activity is *editable* and gives you the flexibility to make it your own. This can be easily crafted to any grade level - you just choose the book options to meet the needs of your classes and ages. In this product, you will receive...-an in-person book tasting activity-a DIGITAL book tasting activity-SIX bookmarks that can be used as yo
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1st - 12th
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Annotation Guide for Any Text w/ Google Slides Presentation + Three Practices
We know as teachers that close reading is an essential skill for analyzing any text. Students need to practice close reading so that it becomes a natural part of the analytical process. But how can we “teach” these skills so that students understand the scope of annotating a text? It all begins with giving them annotation strategies and then modeling how those annotation strategies work.In order to help students with this process, I have created a Google Slides presentation that takes students
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9th - 12th
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Activities and Handouts for Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
You will find an assortment of activities and handouts to use with the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson in this unit. There are 163 pages total in this unit. The files are neatly organized into folders.Items included in this unit:✤Study guide questions with answers for the entire novel✤ Four vocabulary lists with definitions- one for each section of the book✤ A Critical Lens Essay (New York State Regents Exam essay)✤ An activity in which you compare a passage from Speak with a poem by Maya A
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Middle School English Language Arts Bundle
Notice & Note Signposts Bookmarks - Fiction and Nonfiction
Students will never forget the Notice & Note signposts with this easy-to-use, bright and fun bookmark! These pair perfectly with my most popular product, the BITMOJI Notice & Note Signposts Posters!Checkout some of my other fun bookmarks:Watercolor Annotation Bookmarks with SymbolsUse Your Voice BookmarksCheckout my other ELA resources and follow along on @taughtbytoll!Adapted from Beers & Probst's Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading.
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4th - 12th
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Real World Rhetoric #4 Daylight Saving Time Debate, Argument & Critical Thinking
What does it take to win an argument? With these real-world rhetorical analysis materials, students will examine two essays (one in favor of Daylight Saving Time and one in favor of Standard Time), think about the debate tools used by each writer, and determine which writer is ultimately more effective in swaying the reader. This 10-page download includes:• A full-text copy of two public domain argument essays discussing the debate to end Daylight Saving Time in the U.S.• A paper-saving handout
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Activities and Handouts for the Play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
In this unit you will find assorted handouts, activities and assessments for the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. There are 145 pages of materials including:✤ Study Guide Questions for the whole play with Suggested Answers✤ Vocabulary Lists with definitions (One list for each act)✤ Act One Test (40 Questions: Matching, Multiple Choice, True/False and Fill-in) with answers✤ Act Two Test (35 Questions: Matching, Fill-in and True/False) with answers✤ Act Three Quiz (7 Multiple Choice
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: American Literature Bundle
Act It Out: An engaging reading activity for ANY text, drama, or story
This engaging reading activity will help you bring ANY text to life by allowing students write and perform a mini-play based on a scene from a book, story, or drama. Students will first comprehend the text on their own and then will show you their understanding by working in a group to paraphrase and perform the reading passage. Essentially, students are creating their own Reader's Theater! Depending on your class length, mini-plays can often be written, performed, and critiqued in one class per
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7th - 12th
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Analyzing Rhetorical Devices in Movie Speeches - Rhetoric Analysis Activities
Let's face it, sometimes our rhetoric units aren't the most engaging ones of the year. Students often get bored quickly with analyzing rhetorical devices in historical speeches and other dry informative texts. While it is important to teach these valuable documents, students will definitely appreciate some relevant and exciting teaching materials too. This set of 7 different movie speeches contains the perfect resources you need to get your high school (and advanced middle school) students activ
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Authors Claim Worksheet and Notes
This analysis activity for author's claim, use of evidence, and counterclaim will help students understand this challenging reading skill. This ready-to-go author's claim printable with guided notes, 2 passages, and a graphic organizers is the perfect author's claim lesson. Students can use this graphic organizer to practice identifying the author's claim or an author's argument, the evidence used to support the claim/argument, and the counterclaim. The author's claim graphic organizers can b
Grades:
6th - 12th
The Ultimate Book Club Kit for Secondary ELA
This bundle is built to take students through book club from start to finish. It provides the forms needed for students to get their groups started and organized, activities to complete during meetings, and forms for you to assess students.It includes:Teacher Page: How to Use This KitWhat is book club? Book Club vs. Literary CirclesTEN Book Club Lists for High SchoolBreak the Ice Intro. Game: Getting to Know Your Group MembersNaming Your Book Club Group ActivityBook Club Group Communication Form
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7th - 12th
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To Build a Fire by Jack London Scavenger Hunt & KEY
This two page, 50 question scavenger hunt follows Jack London's story, "To Build a Fire" in chronological order. Students have to find the answers as they read or reread the story. This activity works well as either an individual directed reading or as a partner assignment. It can also be given as homework or an open book quiz. This is an add water and stir lesson plan, easy for the teacher and with a high effectiveness index for students. It keeps them on task and improves reading comprehen
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8th - 11th
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[Short Story Package] On the Sidewalk Bleeding
Read On the Sidewalk Bleeding and use this printable package to engage your students.
10 Worksheets:
- Vocabulary
- Getting into Character
- Andy's Thoughts
- Impressions
- The Individual vs. The Royal
- Andy vs. Me
- Figurative Language
- Laura's Diary
- Bucket List
- Incident Report
Grades:
7th - 12th, Adult Education
The Cask of Amontillado Scavenger Hunt & KEY (30 Questions)
This is a 30 question open book scavenger hunt where students must search the story to find specific details. This works very well as an in-class partner assignment or for homework. As a guided reading of the story, it is a good pre-disscussion activity, and can also be used as an open book quiz. This is an add water and stir lesson plan, easy for the teacher and with a high effectiveness index for students. It keeps them on task and improves reading comprehension. A one page answer KEY is p
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8th - 12th
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Media Literacy Checklist - Evaluating Sources, Fact Checking, and Media Bias
These media literacy handouts provide an easy acronym and a graphic organizer that can be used to evaluate any source and help your students identify credible sources. Includes digital worksheets for distance learning, as well as ready-to-print handouts for evaluating sources within a traditional classroom setting.This resource is also included in Mondays Made Easy's Media Literacy Coronavirus News Lesson for Evaluating Sources. This distance learning resource examines the credibility of coron
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7th - 12th
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TPCASTT Purposeful Poetry Analysis | DIGITAL
This is a 52-slide PREZI presentation introduction to TPCASTT, a method for reading and analyzing poetry.Explains what each part of TPCASTT stands for and gives examples.If you are searching for a tried and true method to help your students analyze and understand poetry, then look no further! TPCASTT is a systematic method of poetry analysis that helps students access poetry and enjoy it. TPCASTT is a best practice activity used in IB, AP, and Pre-AP ELA courses but can easily be used with stude
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7th - 11th
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Also included in: Poetry Lessons: ** Growing Bundle ** | DIGITAL & PRINT
Common Core Test Prep Exit Slips - CONTEXT CLUES - Grades 9-10
Teaching context clues? Need to assess students skills quickly and in a manner that is aligned to a new generation of tests? Use this set of 15 different Common Core Test Prep Exit Slips for grades 9-10. Each exit slip features an excerpt of a rigorous, grade-level appropriate literary or nonfiction text, many of which are Common Core text exemplars. Students must infer the meaning of vocabulary in context and support their answers with the correct piece of evidence. Each exit slips contains one
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9th - 11th
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Notice & Note Bundle: Bookmarks, Posters, and Icons
Here's a set of helpful N&N resources for fiction or narrative texts!BOOKMARKSThere's a well-designed, easy-to-use bookmark that students can use as they read. On one side, it has a clue and the question for each signpost, and the other side has space to note the page numbers where students find them. You could print the bookmarks double-sided, or just print the side that you want your students to use. There are 3 bookmarks to a page, and if you print on letter paper, each bookmark is 3" by
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Movie Speeches SOAPStone Reading & Rhetorical Precis Writing
Students love movies and videos. This "print and teach" SOAPStone Reading and Rhetorical Precis Writing resource includes 13 speeches (with video links) for rhetorical analysis. 27 PPT slides will help guide students to an understanding of bloom's taxonomy, annotating a text, evaluating the rhetorical situation, analyzing rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, logos), and writing a rhetorical precis summary. The simple step-by-step process includes direct instruction, guided practice, and independ
Grades:
8th - 12th
Fiction Notice & Note Signposts Doodle Notes
Engage students' whole brain while teaching this fun reading strategy! Doodle notes engage verbal and visual centers in the brain which helps students retain information longer.
Notice & Note Signposts are engaging reading tools that send students on a scavenger hunt through a text to make deeper meaning. These notes would be a great way to introduce the topic to your students.
Each signpost has its own notes sheet:
- Tough Questions
- Again & Again
- Words of the Wiser
- Memory Mom
Grades:
4th - 12th
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