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Thanksgiving music Common Core RL.7.2 resources
Thanksgiving Reader's Theater Script and Activities for Grades 4-7
The Gift of Time is a Thanksgiving reader's theater script your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating Thanksgiving themes into your language arts instruction. This 13 character PDF script includes comprehension questions and word work activities, making this unit a flexible teaching resource you can use in multiple ways!This Thanksgiving Reader's Theater and Reading Literature Toolkit includes:• 8-page, 13-character script• clear directions for immed
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle: 12 Engaging Scripts for Big Kids
READERS' THEATER THANKSGIVING MYSTERY MIDDLE SCHOOL SCRIPT
This humorous Thanksgiving Readers’ Theater brain teaser mystery script will give grades 5-8 students practice in reading, comprehension, critical thinking and writing, while having lots of drama and ELA fun. The Mystery of the Vanishing Turkey whodunnit script will entertain your students and require them to perform inference tasks to solve clues. Perfect for reading or for performances! This 9 page script is intended for 9 readers but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded
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5th - 8th
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Thanksgiving Short Story | Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen Reading Activity
Leave your teacher guilt at the door and challenge students right up until Thanksgiving break with this mini-lesson on irony and theme using O. Henry’s short story, “Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen!” A quick and easy download plus clear student directions make this Thanksgiving reading activity perfect for the day before break or a last-minute sub plan!Teach your students about literary irony using the included slides, and show them different examples of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony be
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6th - 8th
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Teach Theme/Moral/Lesson with Songs & Lyrics {Digital Interactive Google Slides}
Hi teacher friends! Are you looking for a fun way to introduce and practice the skill of finding theme? This is the only resource you will need for teaching theme/ moral/ lesson with songs! I found myself struggling with how to introduce theme to my students, but then I came up with the idea of using songs and their lyrics. I created this product for use in my own classroom, and when I used it, my students were hooked! They were engaged and motivated - singing along in the classroom, listening c
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3rd - 8th
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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Thanksgiving Escape Room - Reading & ELA
Thanksgiving Escape Room - Reading & ELA Digital & Printable!!! Students will be using reading comprehension, critical thinking, point of view, vocabulary, figurative language, and more and won't even realize it! If using the digital version, there is NO PREP! Simply share the link to the Google Form and go!!!Students will work through 4 ELA-related activities to "escape the kiddie table." Check out video preview to learn more!You can also save 20% by purchasing this in my GROWING Escape
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension & Grammar Escape Room GROWING Bundle
THANKSGIVING Short Films Writing Activities and Prompts ELA Middle School
NOVEMBER IS COVERED with this bundle: Thanksgiving Pixar Short Workshop, Friendsgiving Virtual Party, and November Writing Prompts! This digital bundle provides practice for informational writing with engaging, real-life activities while students plan a virtual friendsgiving dinner party; practice literary elements, and constructed response writing with RACE strategy. Perfect for light learning just before Thanksgiving break when students are typically difficult to engage.3 RESOURCESSHORT FILM W
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6th - 9th
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Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen by O'Henry Short Story Unit
This "Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen" by O'Henry short story unit is the perfect resource to teach and use with your middle and high school students leading up to Thanksgiving break. O'Henry's classic touches upon the themes of "generosity" and "traditions" connect perfectly to the ideas centered around Thanksgiving.Engage your students seamlessly with thoughtful pre-reading discussions and activities, as well as interactive post-reading activities, and discussion prompts. Assess their inferenc
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6th - 12th
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Song lyrics/poetry/figurative language/theme: THRILLER by Michael Jackson
Using the song lyrics from "Thriller" by Michael Jackson, this lesson is a great attention getter. Students will get to read and annotate the song lyrics while identifying figurative language terms. The figurative language terms are identified using SHAMPOO+II's. The annotations are made using a chart included in the answer key. Watch the music video either before or after annotations, teacher choice! I prefer to read over the lyrics with the students, give them about 15 minute to annotate and i
Nurturing Our Students Self-Worth and Self-Confidence
Keala Settle's incredible performance of the song "This is Me," from the hit movie "The Greatest Showman," is the inspiration to this complete unit of study teacher's guide, certain to help lift your students' self-esteem!This unit of study will guide you and your students through activities that promote critical thinking, reading comprehension and analysis, and build classroom community as well.Activities included in this guide-*Copy of the lyrics*Video links of two powerful performance of "Thi
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Coaching Our Students' Literacy Skills Through Inspirational Song Lyrics
Song lyrics/poetry/figurative language/theme: We Are the Champions by QUEEN
Using the song lyrics from "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen, this lesson is a great attention getter. Students will get to read and annotate the song lyrics while identifying figurative language terms. The figurative language terms are identified using SHAMPOO+II's. The annotations are made using a chart included in the answer key. Watch the music video either before or after annotations, teacher choice! I prefer to read over the lyrics with the students, give them about 15 minute to annotate and id
RACE WRITING | PIX SHORT FILM | THANKSGIVING UNIT 3 GOOGLE CLASSROOM
Your ENTIRE Middle School Google Classroom, Schoology, Canvas, Seesaw, or any LMS is planned, prepped, stocked and ready to share with your students for the month of November! This Google Classroom Middle School UNIT 3 focuses on RACE Writing, Evidence and Elaboration, Short Film Literary Review, and some cool Thanksgiving activities (optional).★ Each digital unit includes: highly engaging CCSS writing resources, standards, digital lesson plans, weekly & monthly calendar templates, exit tick
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6th - 9th
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Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen | Thanksgiving Short Story | Middle School
Thanksgiving Short StoriesTwo Thanksgiving Gentlemen by O. Henry This short story analysis is perfect for teaching the meaning behind Thanksgiving. This comprehensive digital or printable resource will promote critical thinking while engaging students in text-dependent tasks.Pre-reading activities support students' thinking by building background and vocabulary. During reading, students will complete a graphic organizer to support their thinking and identify key story elements. Next, students wi
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7th - 9th
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BUNDLE Disney's Encanto STAAR Comprehension | PDF Google Forms & Task Cards |
Are you looking for new and fun ways to review for STAAR? Have you considered introducing STAAR/Standardized test prep with music? This bundle includes all four sets of 10 question assessment uses Encanto's songs "What Else Can I do?" "We Don't Talk About Bruno" "Surface Pressure" and "Family Madrigal" as the text, and exposes students to literature question stems which are STAAR/CCSS aligned from previous years' assessments. The assessments focus on a variety of skills such as inferencing, summ
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4th - 7th
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First They Came & The Hangman | Poetry Comparison Analysis | ELA Resource
Maurice Ogden's poem, "The Hangman", alongside "First They Came..." by Martin Niemöller combines powerful themes warning of the dangers of indifference and silence in the face of injustice. Combining the universal themes presented by Ogden and Niemöller, this activity joins Simon and Garfunkel's song, "The Sound of Silence" into the mix. Complete with multiple writing prompts, reading and poetic comprehension questions, and song lyrics, this bundle enables students to study the dangers of indi
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6th - 12th
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Song lyrics/poetry/figurative language/theme: Gangsta's Paradise by COOLIO
Using the song lyrics from "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio, this lesson is a great attention getter. Students will get to read and annotate the song lyrics while identifying figurative language terms. The figurative language terms are identified using SHAMPOO+II's. The annotations are made using a chart included in the answer key. Watch the music video either before or after annotations, teacher choice! I prefer to read over the lyrics with the students, give them about 15 minute to annotate and
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: BUNDLE- Using Song Lyrics- Poetry, Figurative Language, Theme, etc.
Song lyrics/poetry/figurative language/theme: Stressed Out by 21 PILOTS
Using the song lyrics from "Stressed Out" by Twenty One Pilots, this lesson is a great attention getter. Students will get to read and annotate the song lyrics while identifying figurative language terms. The figurative language terms are identified using SHAMPOO+II's. The annotations are made using a chart included in the answer key. Watch the music video either before or after annotations, teacher choice! I prefer to read over the lyrics with the students, give them about 15 minute to annotate
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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Hip Hop Poetry English
Hip hop themed English lessons for Grade 6, 7 and 8 (and adaptable for lower ability 9 and 10), which use hip-hop music as a segue into lyrics and poetry, exploring language, structure and form.Designed to be used for an extra-curricular club but could also be used as part of a Grade 6, 7 and 8 unit:Introduction (similes, metaphors)Language (alliteration, assonance, consonance, sibilance)Iambic pentameter (structure, form)Types of rhymeAllusions and connotationsVocabularyStructure (verses, cho
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6th - 9th
Readers Theater Script | An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving | Holiday ELA Activity
A festive and engaging way to teach language art skills during the holidays. Develop students' reading fluency and comprehension with a proven reading strategy. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Readers Theater Script and Activity. Adapted from the short story by Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women.The Bassett children have to create a Thanksgiving feast on their own.Includes:Readers Theater ScriptOne-Pager Reading ActivityPlot Structure Graphic Organizer14 Reading Parts - Narrator 1, 2, 3, Mr
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4th - 9th
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Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension & ELA Activities Bundle
Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension & ELA Activities Bundle - Digital & Printable Escape Room, History of Thanksgiving, & Subject & Predicate Activities!!! Students will be using reading comprehension, reading a fictional short story, informational text, using critical thinking, point of view, vocabulary, figurative language, and more and won't even realize it! If using the digital version, there is NO PREP! Simply share the link to the Google Form and go!!! Perfect for the days b
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5th - 8th
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Bert's Thanksgiving | Thanksgiving Short Stories | Thanksgiving Reading
Thanksgiving Short Story | Bert's Thanksgiving Short Story Analysis: Middle School Short StoriesThis short story analysis is perfect for teaching the true meaning of Thanksgiving. This comprehensive digital or printable resource will promote critical thinking while engaging students in text-dependent tasks.Pre-reading activities support students' thinking by building background and vocabulary. During reading, students will complete a graphic organizer to support their thinking and identify key s
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7th - 8th
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S.E. Hinton - Author Biography - Music in the 1960's - Protest Song Connection
Exploring 1960s Culture and Literature: S.E. Hinton's Biography, Nonfiction Article, and Protest Song ConnectionDescription: Dive into the rich cultural landscape of the 1960s with this comprehensive educational package designed to engage your students in critical thinking and meaningful connections. This product includes three interconnected activities centered around S.E. Hinton's biography, a nonfiction article on the impact of music in the 1960s, and the iconic protest song "For What It's Wo
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6th - 12th
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"Thunder" A Socratic Seminar Unit of Study Featuring Imagine Dragons
Motivate your students to engage in critical analysis and collaborative conversation through the study of this popular hit song! Your students will-*explore vocabulary and figures of speech, *build background on the song's inspiration, *write their connections between the song, other texts and their personal paths, *explore the science and symbolism behind the song, *analyze lyrics, *and engage in a Socratic seminar with their classmates to deepen understanding and build speaking and listening s
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: An Imagine Dragons Classroom
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