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Common Core RL.7.3 interactive whiteboards
PIXAR-like Shorts: Films for Literary Devices Elements Theme Characters Plot SEL
Teach literary elements using this Pixar-like animated short film , Carl & Ellie from the movie UP! It is a highly engaging way to teach character traits, theme, and dialogue. This film may be may be cute, but it is packed with rigorous and challenging activities. Students will step through a complete character and theme analysis of Carl and Ellie and learn how real writers use characterization techniques to add layers and details to make realistic and fascinating stories. They will learn
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5th - 8th
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THANKSGIVING Writing Short Films Inference Theme Plot Text Structures
Guaranteed fun learning with this Thanksgiving animated short film workshop, SALT. Students practice inference, theme, conflict, setting, and dialogue. Writing tasks allow students to practice text structures while creating recipes, dialogue, stories and a TURKEY PARDONING ACTIVITY. ❤ SHORT FILM SYNOPSIS: A young aspiring chef makes a lovely pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving dinner, but accidentally uses salt instead of sugar. His family's reaction is priceless!LITERARY DEVICES:❤ Making Inferences❤
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5th - 8th
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Short Films Literary Elements Devices & Techniques Inference Character Theme
Guaranteed fun and laughter with this animated short film workshop that teaches character motivation, inferencing, providing evidence, and summary writing. Students are guided through the interactive Google Slides as they learn the importance of creating characters with motivation and how other character's motivations can cause conflicts. This workshop is simple and would work great for struggling students, ESL learners, or for a light lesson in general ed. ❤ SHORT FILM SYNOPSIS: A young girl
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5th - 8th
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Reading Comprehension Task Card Digital Boom Cards ELA Test Prep
Looking for a digital tool to help your students practice reading comprehension?Using excerpts from well-known youth novels and modern mon-fiction articles, these digital task cards will engage your students and help them practice answering reading comprehension questions. This bundle includes 12 sets of Boom task cards: Inference, Main Idea, Summarizing, Theme, Summarizing, Author's Purpose, Drawing Conclusions, Point of View, Informational Text, Context Clues, Character Traits, Prediction, and
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5th - 9th
Annotating Text Fiction and Nonfiction
This is a great resource to use for annotating text during close reading. The product includes a PowerPoint presentation, that can be displayed during class, showing what elements of the text students should annotate, and how they should be annotated. This annotation guide includes:An explanation of annotating textA guide for Fiction annotation ideas/marksA guide for Nonfiction annotation ideas/marks*Editable* slides so that you can choose from our menu of annotation ideas, or add your ownFictio
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Grades:
4th - 7th
February Pixar Short Films Theme Plot Setting Summary Valentines Day Activities
Perfect for February and Valentine's Day activities! To with a Pixar -like short film, Bear With Me, is a highly engaging way to theme, setting, plot, summary writing, and more. This film may be may be cute, but it is packed with rigorous and challenging activities. URL LINK TO THE VIDEO INCLUDEDSynopsis: A newly married bear must wait patiently for her husband to come out of hibernation. She gets a sweet surprise when he wakes up on Valentine's Day!❤MORE VALENTINE'S DAY ACTIVITIES!❤CHECK OUT T
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5th - 8th
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Hexagonal Writing for Character Analysis
My 5th & 6th grade teachers love this twist on the traditional character analysis. Improved with more rigorous, higher-level thinking reflection questions, this Hexagonal Writing for Character Analysis facilitates the learner through an analytical journey with the main character of his/her independent reading book. This package is complete with a SmartBoard introduction/discussion facilitation and 2 styles of recording/planning sheets that will help your students produce character analysis e
Grades:
5th - 7th
Reading Comprehension Task Card Bundle | Test Prep | Digital Boom Cards
Looking for a digital tool to help your students practice reading comprehension?Using excerpts from well-known youth novels, modern non-fiction articles and kid-friendly poems, these digital task cards will engage your students and help them practice answering reading comprehension questions.This bundle includes 12 sets of Boom task cards: Reading Skills, Poetry, Text Evidence, Text Structure, Claim & Evidence, Inference in Informational Text, Language Skills, Plot, Figurative Language, Auth
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5th - 9th
Short Film Workshops Literary Elements THEME SETTING CHARACTER CONFLICT
Looking for a fun and meaningful way to teach the elements of literature? This Pixar short film workshop bundles can meet the needs of all students, regardless of access to technology. Includes both 8.5x11 printable worksheets, task cards, and Google Slides. ❤They may be cute, but they are packed with rigorous and challenging activities. Students will step through a complete character and theme analysis and learn how real writers use characterization techniques to add layers and details to make
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5th - 8th
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Short Films Literary Devices Elements & Techniques Mothers Day Theme Inference
Guaranteed engagement with this animated short film workshop, Hair Love! This workshop teaches inferencing, theme, foreshadowing, plot twist, symbolism, and conflict. Great for Mother's Day! ❤ SHORT FILM SYNOPSIS: Zuri grapples with trying to style her own hair as she watches her mother's video blog about hair. The viewer is led to believe that Zuri's mother has passed away because her father is struggling to help with her hair. But, a wonderful plot twist awaits and students learn the importanc
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4th - 8th
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Animated Short Film Theme Inference Plot Characters Setting Dialogue more
A FULL YEAR OF digital Pixar Short Films! What a fun way to teach literary elements, aka story elements such as theme, inference, character, setting, plot, etc! These Share-&-Go workshops make learning convenient for teachers and enjoyable for students.CCSS FOR READING LITERATURE AND WRITING❤ NOTE: Each workshop includes CCSS aligned, thought-provoking questions, activities, and writing tasks specific for EACH film. (They are not simply generic graphic organizers).❤ INTERACTIVITY AND SHARING
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5th - 8th
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Plot Elements Task Cards Digital Boom Cards
Looking for a digital tool to help your students practice reading comprehension?Using excerpts from well-known youth novels, these digital task cards will engage your students and help them practice answering plot elements questions.The deck includes:- 20 slides- 20 short passages (Fiction)- Each has two multiple-choice questions- Answer Key with TEKS & CCSSThese digital task cards are on Boom Learning℠! Play them on SmartBoards, computers, iPads, and more. They are self-checking and make le
Grades:
5th - 9th
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Task Card Bundle | Test Prep | Digital Boom Cards
ELA Academic Vocabulary BUNDLE | 6th, 7th, 8th | Literature | Test Prep
This no-prep bundle includes Google slides interactive lessons, for middle school students to practice standard-aligned academic vocabulary on RL standards through critical thinking, academic conversation, and formative assessment. This resource is perfect for introducing a lesson, end of year test prep and review, station rotations, and small group instruction.⭐️ This resource includes academic vocabulary for all literature standards ⭐️ Each resources within this bundle incudes:Teacher instruct
Grades:
6th - 9th
Short Films FREE LITERARY ELEMENT DEVICES & TECHNIQUES GUIDE
Using shorts or other animated short films to teach literary elements and literary device is hands down the most engaging and effective practice in the ELA classroom! Students absolutely love learning with them! But, it takes forever to sort through thousands of films and figure out which literary elements correlate. This guide lets you bypass all of that and go straight to teaching! ❤ Personal Note: I have viewed and analyzed hundreds of animated short films (I'm kind of obsessed), choosing on
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4th - 8th
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THANKSGIVING Writing Prompts & Activities Text Structures Mini-Lessons & MORE
Digital Thanksgiving Writing Prompts with rubrics, mentor sample answers, and mini-lessons for constructed response, summary, instructional, and cause and effect writing. This resource is packed with engaging learning tools, videos, and articles. STUDENT APPROVED! ❤ INCLUDES:4 Writing Lessons4 Writing Prompts4 Digital Rubrics w. Moveable Pieces4 Mentor Sample ResponsesInstructions2 Informational Articles2 Short Documentary VideosShareable Slides for Peer Review and Scoring Stations❤ WRITING PROM
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5th - 8th
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Character Traits Task Cards Digital Boom Cards
Looking for a digital tool to help your students practice reading comprehension?Using excerpts from well-known youth novels, these digital task cards will engage your students and help them practice answering character traits questions.The deck includes:- 20 slides- 20 short passages (Fiction)- Each has two multiple-choice questions- Answer Key with TEKS & CCSSThese digital task cards are on Boom Learning℠! Play them on SmartBoards, computers, iPads, and more. They are self-checking and make
Grades:
5th - 9th
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Task Card Digital Boom Cards ELA Test Prep
Pixar Shorts Films for Teaching Theme Character Plot Setting Carl and Ellie
This P animated short film , Carl & Ellie from the movie UP, is a highly engaging way to teach character traits, theme, and dialogue. This film may be may be cute, but it is packed with rigorous and challenging activities. Students will step through a complete character and theme analysis of Carl and Ellie and learn how real writers use characterization techniques to add layers and details to make realistic and fascinating stories. They will learn how to trace the conflict to determine th
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5th - 8th
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Character Trait or Temporary Emotion? Poster mini-lesson card sort bundle
Many of my students were confused when it came to character traits or temporary emotions-- they thought they were interchangeable. So I created this classroom poster, mini-lesson, and sorting activity. The sorting activity is in two formats. You can cut the cards and have the students manually sort into two piles for a kinetic hands-on activity, or you can call students up to the smart board using the sorting vortex activity. The duration of this mini-lesson and sorting activity is about 20
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4th - 8th
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Setting Task Cards Digital Boom Cards
Looking for a digital tool to help your students practice reading comprehension?Using excerpts from well-known youth novels, these digital task cards will engage your students and help them practice answering setting questions.The deck includes:- 20 slides- 20 short passages (Fiction)- Each has two multiple-choice questions- Answer Key with TEKS & CCSSThese digital task cards are on Boom Learning℠! Play them on SmartBoards, computers, iPads, and more. They are self-checking and make learning
Grades:
5th - 9th
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Task Card Digital Boom Cards ELA Test Prep
Short Films Workshops Virtual Tour Guide Literary Devices Elements & Techniques
Guide For Teachers: Quickly figure out which Pixar short films pair with the standards you are ready to teach, without sorting through hundreds of films and scrambling to find related materials!This virtual tour can be used as reference guide and a library of workshops so that you can pluck a NO PREP workshop on the spot and teach immediately! INCLUDED FOR EACH WORKSHOPCCSS Alignment guideHand-picked selection of the best short films for teaching literary elementsSummary for each film along with
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4th - 8th
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February LITERARY DEVICES ELEMENTS Activities Worksheets Graphic Organizer
FREE FEBRUARY LITERARY ELEMENTS REVIEW! Review theme, plot, conflict, character traits, and setting. This resource includes:❤ LITERARY TERMS HANDOUT (with descriptions and examples)❤ LITERARY TERMS IN ACTION ACTIVITY❤ LITERARY TERMS QUIZ (with answer key)SHORT FILM WORKSHOP: BEAR WITH ME CLICK HERECHECK OUT THE FULL FEBRUARY BUNDLE! CLICK HERE❤ Pixar Short Workshop BEAR WITH ME❤ February Bell Ringers / Do Nows❤ February Weekly Writing Prompts❤ Figurative Language Workshop❤ 360 Digital Escape Roo
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5th - 8th
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Literary Devices With Langston Hughes
“Literary Devices With…” is a series of curriculum resources that help students engage deeper with poetry through the analysis of literary devices. This resource can be projected onto a whiteboard for whole class use, or can be printed out for individual use. It is an excellent resource for station activities as well. You get:*Literary Device Flash Cards (printable)*The full text of Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and “The Weary Blues”*QR Codes of the poems for digital access*Annot
Grades:
6th - 9th
Plot Elements & Types of Conflict
This is the Flipchart I created to teach Plot Elements and types of Conflict to my students.
Terms covered include:
Plot
Exposition
Rising Action
Conflict
Person vs Person
Person vs Self
Person vs Environment
Person vs Technology
Internal Conflict
External Conflict
Climax
Falling Action
Denoument/Resolution
It includes definitions, notes, and practice questions at the end. Each page is linked back to the main "mountain" page by a simple green button.
Grammar Flipchart by Jenipher Lill is
Grades:
5th - 9th
RL.3 Standards-Based Vocabulary Interactive Lesson - Story Element Interaction
In this no-prep Google slide interactive lesson, middle school students will practice standard-aligned vocabulary on RL.3 (story element interaction) through critical thinking, academic conversation, and formative assessment. This resource is perfect for introducing a lesson, test review, station rotations, and small group instruction.This resource includes:Teacher instructions for use5 academic vocabulary terms aligned to RL.3 (editable definitions)A critical thinking drag and drop activity tha
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: ELA Academic Vocabulary BUNDLE | 6th, 7th, 8th | Literature | Test Prep
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