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Short stories Common Core CCRA.W.4 printables
1st Grade Writing Personal Narrative, Opinion, How To, Poetry, Prompts, Posters
First Grade Writing Curriculum! This bundle contains 7 writing units for a FULL year of writing curriculum!Google Slides Version Included!KINDERGARTEN WRITING CURRICULUM AVAILABLE HERE!****Join my private group, The Moffatt Girls-Engage Group, to see how other teachers, parents, and homeschoolers are using and organizing Moffatt Girl Curriculum and to see the FB LIVE for this curriculum!***DOWNLOAD THE PREVIEW TO SEE THIS CURRICULUM IN ACTIONDo you struggle with teaching your students how to wri
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Fairy Tale Writing with Picture Cards
Even reluctant writers will be excited to write with this resource! Encourage students to put a creative twist on traditional fairy tales by choosing surprising character, setting, and problem combinations to write about. There are 56 cards included in this writing center: Setting (16), Character (24), and Problem (16). ALL cards are provided in color and line art. Students draw one from each set to use in writing a creative story.Depending on the reading ability of your students, you may choose
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in:Â Writing Centers Bundle Draw Three and Write with Me Series
Realistic Fiction Scaffolded Writing Unit and Word Search CCSS Grades 3-6
Discover the art of storytelling with this Realistic Fiction Writing Unit, designed for diverse classrooms, including general education, special education (SPED), and English Language Learner (ELL) students. This unit offers a scaffolded approach, ensuring step-by-step progression through the materials. Key Features of This Unit:Realistic Fiction Anchor Chart: Clearly outlines the defining elements of realistic fiction.Practical Writing Tips Anchor Chart: Provides valuable tips to enhance studen
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3rd - 6th
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Thank You M'am by Langston Hughes - Print & Digital
This week long lesson on the short story "Thank You M'am" by Langston Hughes can be printed, used digitally, or a combination of the two. All resources are Google Drive resources (primarily Google Docs unless otherwise noted as Google Slides, Google Forms, etc.). These resources include support for struggling readers and writers and/or special education students, such as graphic organizers, and sentence frames and suggested transitions for writing, This lesson focuses on the skills of conflict,
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8th - 9th
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Also included in:Â Short Story Unit Bundle: Teaching Literary Elements - Print & Digital
Roll a Story Center Dice Writing Center
My Roll Out a Story Centers have always been a favorite choice in my classrooms! This center pack is the perfect resource to help your kindergarten, first grade, second grade and third grade writers during your center time! And now it includes a digital version for use with Google Slidesâ„¢! Click on the preview file to try one writing center for free!Coming up with WHAT to write about is often the hardest part for our young writers. This resource eliminates that problem for your students. The fun
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K - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Word Work & Writing Center BUNDLE
Kindergarten Writing Curriculum: Poetry
SAVE BIG WITH THE GROWING BUNDLEKindergarten Writing Curriculum (The Bundle)First Grade Writing Curriculum (The Bundle)***DOWNLOAD THE PREVIEW TO SEE THIS CURRICULUM IN ACTIONDo you struggle with teaching your students how to write? Do you feel like you need more confidence and guidance in teaching writing? This Kindergarten Writing Curriculum has EVERYTHING you need to be successful with teaching writing!What Units are Included in the Bundle?Unit 1: Personal Narrative: Sharing my Stories Unit 2
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K
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The Monkey's Paw Owner's Manual - Halloween Short Story Activity - W.W. Jacobs
Wrap up your thrilling journey through "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs with a bang! This is the perfect activity to not only ensure your students truly grasp the short story, but also unleash their boundless creativity. Your students dive back into the text, but this time, it's a whole new adventure. It's a fantastic way to reinforce their comprehension and at the same time, supercharge their creative writing skills! Here’s what you’ll get:✅ Teacher guide✅ Student directions + rubric✅ Booklet
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7th - 10th
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Writing Workshop Narratives/Short Stories as Mentor Texts
Writer's Workshop Narratives/Short Stories as Mentor TextsIn this writing workshop, students will examine the literary elements in short stories and then use these mentor texts as models to brainstorm, draft, and revise their own narratives. The literary elements included in the narrative criteria are: dialogue, blocking, character and setting description, figurative language, interior monologue, and flashback.The three suggested short stories are "Thank You M'am" by Langston Hughes, "The Jacket
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6th - 12th
Kindergarten Writing Curriculum: Opinion and Persuasive Writing
SAVE BIG WITH THE GROWING BUNDLEKindergarten Writing Curriculum (The Bundle)First Grade Writing Curriculum (The Bundle)***DOWNLOAD THE PREVIEW TO SEE THIS CURRICULUM IN ACTIONDo you struggle with teaching your students how to write? Do you feel like you need more confidence and guidance in teaching writing? This Kindergarten Writing Curriculum has EVERYTHING you need to be successful with teaching writing!What Units are Included in the Bundle?Unit 1: Personal Narrative: Sharing my Stories Unit 2
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K
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Writing Graphic Organizer Printables for Writer's Workshop
This printable writing graphic organizer pack includes EVERYTHING you need to support your elementary students during personal narrative, informational, and persuasive, and how-to writing projects. The organizers help students in the pre-write part of the writing process. They make for a great writing station or writer' workshop in upper elementary. They are also no-prep and printable to save your precious time!Who? The organizers work for any class from 1st to 5th working on becoming strong wri
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1st - 4th
Teaching Narrative Writing 2nd grade - Print and digital
This complete packet contains daily step by step directions to lead the beginning writer in understanding setting, characters, problem, attempts to solve problem and solution. Students illustrate, fill in a tree map with the different parts of the story, and write their stories. Anchor charts, sentence starters, writing templates, and daily teacher directions/lesson plans are included.
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2nd
"The Yellow Wallpaper" Instructional Pack (50+ Pages, 4 Tools, 1 Price)
"The Yellow WallPaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a staple in many American literature classes. This short story is nuanced and textured, so teachers need tools to help students access the text from every angle. To help you work through this text with your students, I've put together a pack of tools. Includes:"The Yellow Wallpaper" Reading Questions, Writing Prompts, and Literary Criticism Activity: To help students close read Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic, this tool includes 44 multipl
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10th - 12th
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Short Story Choice Board Assignment
Short Story Choice Board Assignment | PDF and Digital: Have your students stay engaged while responding to the short stories they have read. Use this Short Story Choice Board to help differentiate the way your students respond to short stories. This resource contains individual PDFs of student pages to assist with online learning i.e. Google Classroom.The activity choices are very diverse and can apply to ANY short story read in class or independently. No teacher prep required. Just print and p
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6th - 8th
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3 Tools for Teaching "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid (Reading, Writing, and Lit Crit)
I first read "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid when a past student was working to put together a collection of poetry for a forensics competition. Her performance focused on mothers and daughters, and Kincaid's short story fit perfectly. To help teachers use this piece in the classroom, I have put together several resources:17 reading questions designed to help students analyze the text12 Writing Prompts (rubric Included) to help students analyze and reflect on the textA literary criticism tool to help
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9th - 12th
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Kindergarten Writing Curriculum: Creating Non-Fiction Chapter Books
SAVE BIG WITH THE GROWING BUNDLEKindergarten Writing Curriculum (The Bundle)First Grade Writing Curriculum (The Bundle)***DOWNLOAD THE PREVIEW TO SEE THIS CURRICULUM IN ACTIONDo you struggle with teaching your students how to write? Do you feel like you need more confidence and guidance in teaching writing? This Kindergarten Writing Curriculum has EVERYTHING you need to be successful with teaching writing!What Units are Included in the Bundle?Unit 1: Personal Narrative: Sharing my Stories Unit 2
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K
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Short Story (any) : Writing Prompts Constructed Response Practice Unit
Let me make your life easier. Use these 13 constructed responses to test knowledge of the CCSS standards after any short story. They include questions about: theme, characterization, text structure, word use, literary devices, comparison and contrast of similar short stories, mood, tone, conflict, and more. I've also included a handy rubric for easy grading. Click here to follow me for free lessons and sales!Click here to have free lessons and unit ideas sent to your email.Check out these other
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8th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Short Story Unit Bundle of Lessons Use Digital or Printable
"Shooting an Elephant" Reading Analysis Questions and Writing Prompts + Rubric
George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" is a great short story about the consequences of fear, power, and identity. To help students work through this short story, I have developed this lesson, which includes:Historical Context Graphic Organizer17 multiple choice and short answer analysis questions 10 writing prompts + easy-to-use rubricFeatures a fillable .pdf, Google Forms, and Google Slides! Since this is a Google Resource, when you purchase this resource, TPT will create a file in your Google
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10th - 12th
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9-12 Short Stories Bundle (9 Texts, 300 pages, 1 great price) / Print + Digital
The Short Story Unit is a staple in many literature classrooms. But finding quality, grade-level appropriate short stories that will engage students and lend themselves to ELA skills and content can be challenging. To make that process a little easier, I have collected high-quality short stories all in one place. All together, you get almost 300 pages of reading questions, writing prompts, visualization tools, and literary criticism activities. If you were to purchase each item in this bundle in
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9th - 12th
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Jack and the Beanstalk Literacy Activities Fairy Tale
The fairy tale story of Jack and the Beanstalk is a fun and simple story for students to follow. Perfect for early years students, the story involves sequencing events and implying meaning to those events, giving students opportunities to build their literacy skills with fun and engaging activities.SAVE 30% by buying ALL of my other Fairy Tale Literacy Resources in 1 Bundle!This easy-to-use pack contains:Instructions Story Sheets Readers' Theatre SheetsSentence StripsCharacter Profile Sheets Ch
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K - 2nd
Also included in:Â Fairy Tale Literacy Activities Bundle
5 Tools for Teaching "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty / Print + Digital
Eudora Welty's short story "A Worn Path" is a staple in many American literature classes. The journey of Phoenix Jackson comments on Americana in unique ways. This is a great text for teaching setting, plot, and deliberate ambiguity. To help teachers and students make the most of this text, I have put together several tools: 10 reading questionsA symbol logA literary criticism activity12 writing prompts + rubricA visualization activity + rubricEverything is available in a fillable .pdf and Googl
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11th - 12th
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ELA Grades 9-10 Quarter 1 Full Curriculum - Short Stories, Fairy Tale Unit, CCSS
Looking for a no-prep, nine-week English/Language Arts unit of instruction? This Quarter #1 curriculum package contains a daily calendar that organizes over 300 pages of high-quality and rigorous material. Together, these materials will provide you with everything you need for the first nine weeks of school - from back to school materials to a detailed and engaging multicultural unit that will help students front-load knowledge, read with a purpose, analyze text, and participate in meaningful pr
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8th - 10th
Sample Memoir - Personal Narrative Mentor Text - "Big Mike"
I wrote this memoir as an exemplar for my writer's workshop. My goal in writing this personal narrative was not only to introduce the components of memoir writing (such as dialogue, transition words, and descriptive language), but also to share this profound encounter with my students. I will never forget meeting Big Mike and his son as long as I live; I hope this story touches you and your students as much as it did me. _______________________________________________________Want more writing re
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4th - 7th
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Visual Writing Rubric - Student Self Assessment
Do your students say "I'm finished" after putting just a few things on their writing page? Are you constantly reminding them of what should be in their writing? If so, then this Visual Writing Rubric is JUST WHAT YOU NEED! Teach your students to evaluate their own writing before ever bringing it to you! This rubric helps students see the expectation for their writing, and it reminds them of what it should look like. This product contains 4 different writing samples, numbered stars to label
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K - 3rd
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Sample Personal Narrative - Small Moment Mentor Text "Bees in the Graveyard"
I use this true and exciting personal narrative as a mentor text for students, modeling a small moment from my own life. You can use this piece to model figurative language, dialogue, transition words, sensory details, and other components of a strong personal narrative. In this text, I recount the terrifying experience of uncovering a bees' nest during a childhood game of Ghost in the Graveyard. My hope is that your students will be as engaged as mine were while exploring this text! Want more w
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3rd - 8th
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