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8th grade close reading resources for Microsoft Word $10 and up
I Will Always Write Back Novel Guide
This novel guide includes 39 pages of comprehension and high-order thinking questions. It has vocabulary for each chapter as well as at least one question even if the chapters are short.
There are two text to text connection poems at the end of the document and the unit guide has an anticipation guide and two questions for reflection after the epilogue as well.
Students will need to know literary elements about plot, dynamic and static characters, as well as figurative language like similes,
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6th - 12th
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Jamaica Kincaid's ANNIE JOHN (+ the story "Girl") | 3 Weeks of EDITABLE Lessons!
NEW IN 2020: Rigorous! Thought-provoking! Discussion-based! This 80-page EDITABLE unit promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising on intellectual rigor. Invite your students to engage in student-driven discussions that promise to be profoundly stimulating! The discussion prompts, daily quizzes, short writing prompts, and final paper will challenge your students to dig beneath the surface of the text and generate profound interpretive insights! Hold your students
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8th - 11th, Higher Education
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8th Grade English ELA Lessons & Printable Materials for FULL YEAR (42 Weeks)
These 8th Grade ELA Lesson Plans span an ENTIRE year – 42 weeks – of instructional practice. I spent countless hours creating them. Heaps of original, rigorous, and creative standards-based activities, reading comprehension quizzes, Unit tests, projects, text-based vocabulary in context, and other supplemental materials are included. I even have a few of my own original works in here – a poem entitled "Passing" along with 2 short stories, "A Boy's Escape from Time" and "A Halloween Addition to H
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6th - 9th
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9th Grade English ELA Lesson Plans & Printable Materials for FULL YEAR
This resource contains a FULL YEAR (42 weeks) of in-depth daily lesson and unit planning, quizzes, tests, projects, and printable teaching materials around the following core texts (in this order): Frankenstein, Chinese Cinderella, Julius Caesar, Night, and Native Son. You will receive 307 pages of daily lesson plans and instructional materials addressing Grade 9-10 ELA Common Core standards with passion and purpose – promoting critical thinking and text-to-world connections grounded in deeper m
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8th - 11th
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Comprehension Questions- Young Readers Edition
My 9th grade special needs Literature class enjoyed reading "The Boy who Harnessed the Wind" the young readers edition. I created these reading comprehension worksheets for every chapter.
A large percentage of my students have language disorders and challenges with reading comprehension. Most of the included questions require minimal interpretation of the text. I developed these questions to test their understanding of the material and to review the things we had discussed in class.
Tests are
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7th - 9th
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Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl Resource Packet
This resource packet was created to be used with the novel titled Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl. There are two differentiated levels of reading guides included (guide with diary entry dates and guide without diary entry dates) to help the students comprehend explicitly what the text is saying. Objective tests over each section of the book are included with optional formats of multiple choice or written responses. A written response test is included for the Afterword section in this edit
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Grades:
6th - 12th
The Hobbit Interactive Notebook (Google Doc Access Available)
Interactive Notebook for The Hobbit. Activities and review sheet for each chapter. Higher level questioning with activities promoting close reading.
The entire interactive notebook is also available electronically. The Google Document link (located on the last page of the Word Document) will give you access to the complete interactive notebook. Students can complete the document electronically when using this format.
Grades:
7th - 12th
7th Grade English Language Arts ELA Printable Teaching Materials for FULL Year
Every single page is a printable resource for teaching a FULL year of 7th Grade ELA. Overall, you will receive 133 pages of carefully crafted assessments directly addressing Grades 7-8 ELA Common Core standards. This resource is extremely straight-forward and easy to follow with a 5-Unit structure featuring 5 core texts (including Big Ideas, Essential Questions, and Topical Questions) with Chapter Quizzes (for every single chapter of every core text), Vocabulary & Key Terms Final Tests, and
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Lion (aka A Long Way Home) by Saroo Brierley. Lesson Plan
This is a lesson plan for the entire book with vocabulary, quick writes and guided questions. It also includes a prereading research project if you want to implement it. Answer key is included, so if you have the book you can just print it up and go. I print them up chapter by chapter and when we're done they all have a nice little portfolio of their reading.Warning: It will not work with the Young Readers Edition.
Grades:
7th - 12th
5th Grade English Language Arts ELA Printable Teaching Materials for FULL Year
Every single page is a printable resource for teaching a FULL year of 5th Grade ELA. Overall, you will receive 173 pages of carefully crafted assessments directly addressing ELA Common Core standards. This resource is extremely straight-forward and easy to follow with a 5-Unit structure featuring 5 core texts (including Big Ideas, Essential Questions, and Topical Questions) with Chapter Quizzes (for every single chapter of every core text), Vocabulary & Key Terms Final Tests, and Final Essay
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Grades:
5th - 8th
6th Grade English Language Arts ELA Printable Teaching Materials for FULL Year
Every single page is a printable resource for teaching a FULL year of 6th Grade ELA. Overall, you will receive 145 pages of carefully crafted assessments directly addressing ELA Common Core standards. This resource is extremely straight-forward and easy to follow with a 5-Unit structure featuring 5 core texts (including Big Ideas, Essential Questions, and Topical Questions) with Chapter Quizzes (for every single chapter of every core text), Vocabulary & Key Terms Final Tests, and Final Essay
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Ordinary People Complete Unit Plan
This extensive, 210 page novel unit plan for Judith Guest’s Ordinary People, is completely designed around the philosophy of developing close reading skills and text based responses which require supporting evidence for nearly every aspect of each chapter of the novel. The novel unit is completely original and has been keenly tuned to address a wide range of learners with varying reading comprehension skills. In short, this unit will help all students to look closely at Guest’s craft and encou
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8th - 11th
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Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson Study Guide, Final Test, and Key--Editable!
This package includes:
1. Study Guide with an essay question
2. Final Test with Multiple Choice, Vocabulary, and Essay question on the novel.
63 total questions (reading comprehension, purpose, theme, tone, figurative language, vocabulary) and one essay prompt
3. Final Test Key
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Unbroken (YRE) by Hillenbrand / Quizzes & Questions BUNDLE / No Prep, High-Value
I love teaching Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (Young Readers Edition). Louie Zamperini's story is both harrowing and uplifting, and my students are wowed by this American hero's amazing life.I am happy to release this Unbroken Quiz & Questions mini-BUNDLE! These are both no-prep, highly-rated resources that will make your teaching of Unbroken so much easier!Let's have a closer look at the Quizzes and Questions:Unbroken QuizzesThere are 117 total questions that will assess your students' bas
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7th - 10th
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Odyssey Guided Notes (anti-sparknotes protected!) (Fagles translation)
This packet gives a line-by-line question chart that students answer quickly as they read the entirety of The Odyssey. It is based on Robert Fagles’s translation. It asks both comprehension questions and analysis questions, and it focuses on traits of the epic hero and the themes of hospitality, revenge, and glory. It groups some chapters together, but you can split them apart.
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7th - 12th
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Beowulf: Guided Notes (anti-sparknotes protected!) (Seamus Heaney Translation)
This packet gives a line-by-line question chart that students answer quickly as they read the entirety of Beowulf. It is based on Seamus Heaney’s translation. It asks both comprehension questions and analysis questions, and it focuses on Anglo Saxon values and traits of the epic hero.
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7th - 12th
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Introduction to Poetry - Whole Unit - Over 20 Poems!
Corresponding PowerPoint Presentation Saved to Google Drive!Daily Step by Step Lesson PlansPerfect for Distance Learning or Printable PacketsPoetry allows for a unique format of written word that can be accessed on a variety ofplanes. As such, it allows us as teachers to correct that false notion that many students hold toward reading: it's boring. Over the course of my years, I have told many students that if reading is boring, they are doing it wrong. It was with that idea in mind that I creat
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Complete Unit
This extensive 175-page unit plan for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is faithfully designed around the philosophy of developing close reading skills and text based responses which require supporting evidence for nearly every aspect of each scene and act of the poem. Our Ancient Mariner unit is completely original and has been keenly tuned to address a wide range of learners with varying reading comprehension skills. In short, this unit will help all students to look closely at Coleridge’s cra
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7th - 12th
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FRESHMAN EXPERIENCE UNITS 1 & 2 [Bundle]
This FRESHMAN EXPERIENCE LESSON ACTIVITIES [UNITS 1 & 2] gives instructors a one-stop place for a whole grading period or more of resources and materials needed to develop a phenomenal FRESHMAN SEMINAR/EXPERIENCE Class. A 70+ Activities and assignments, attached worksheets and handouts, group activities, writing and critical thinking assignments, fun-filled projects, vocabulary lists and more are featured. This editable FRESHMAN EXPERIENCE/SEMINAR LESSON ACTIVITIES allows fledgling or season
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8th - 9th
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The Chosen - A Complete Teaching Unit Bundle
This is an extremely thorough, complete teaching unit of Chaim Potok's novel The Chosen. It is suitable for middle and high school.
In this jam-packed bundle, you'll find:
20 Vocabulary Words for each of the three parts (Books) of the novel
30 In-Depth, Analytical Questions for each of the three Books
Definitions of all of the vocabulary words
Answers to all of the questions
A test on Books 1-2 and an answer key
Writing prompts for a 5-paragraph essay
Ten post-reading activities
A glos
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Grades:
8th - 11th
8th Grade English ELA Lesson Plans, Slides, & Materials BUNDLE for FULL YEAR
Looking for everything you need to teach 8th Grade ELA for the ENTIRE YEAR all in one place? Here it is. This MASSIVE BUNDLE DEAL of 1,099 pages and slides in total includes: 352 pages of Daily Lesson Plans for the FULL YEAR (42 weeks) in Hook/Teach/Model/Practice/Apply format with Prior Knowledge Connections, Differentiation by Style and Level, Clear Objectives, highlighted Blooms verbs, Engaging Bell-Ringers, Relevant and World-Connected Journal Writes, Explicit Directions for Activities, Work
Grades:
6th - 9th
Oedipus the King Complete Unit
This extensive 190-page unit plan for Oedipus the King is faithfully designed around the philosophy of developing close reading skills and text-based responses which require supporting evidence for nearly every aspect of each episode within the play. Our Oedipus the King unit is completely original and has been keenly tuned to address a wide range of learners with varying reading comprehension skills. In short, this unit will help all students to look closely at Sophocles’ craft and encourage
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8th - 12th
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Populism - Wizard of Oz Allegory - APUSH AP US History
Watch some clips of the Wizard of OZ while teaching students about the Populist Era in United States history. This can be done with either a US History class or in an AP US History class. NYS Regents aligned. Common Core Aligned, as it asks many high level thinking questions, close readings provided, image analysis.
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7th - 12th
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Macbeth Guided Notes (anti-sparknotes protected!)
This chart asks line-by-line questions for students to answer quickly as the read the entire play of Macbeth. It is impossible to answer these questions by looking at summaries online.
This packet also includes vocab in context of each scene as well as Formal Paragraph prompts at the end of each scene.
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Grades:
7th - 12th
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