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High school close reading resources for GATE under $5
Demystifying Fear - Nonfiction Passage and Vocabulary - Reading Comprehension
Looking for gripping nonfiction activities for your classroom? This nonfiction reading passage comes with close reading questions that promote learning vocabulary in context. Students will explore the contradictory nature of fear and the techniques filmmakers use to manipulate our emotions. Includes suggested lesson plan and answer key. (grades 7-10)What You Get in your Nonfiction Activities resource:1. Nonfiction reading about fear2. Word Work - vocabulary in context with accompanying close rea
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7th - 10th
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Food Truck Festival - Engaging Independent Reading Project - PBL - STEM
Elevate the joy of independent reading in your classroom with a twist that's sure to ignite enthusiasm – host your very own Food Truck Festival! Building upon the success of my beloved Literary Feast project, I've taken it up a notch to bring you an EXTRAORDINARY Food Truck Festival project that combines literary exploration with the excitement of culinary creativity. This is not just an activity; it's an immersive experience designed to captivate your students' imaginations and showcase their i
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6th - 9th
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Off-Limits Places - High School Reading Comprehension + Analyzing Text Features
Cool places you can’t actually visit? Tell me more! This travel blog article is perfect for high school reading comprehension and practicing analyzing text features. Students will be HOOKED and you’ll get awesome writing samples you actually want to read.Your high school reading comprehension resource includes:✅ “Cool Places You Can’t Actually Visit” travel blog article✅ Analyzing Text Features practice or test-prep✅ Travel Blog Project materialsAfter reading the nonfiction passage, students ans
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7th - 10th
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Nonfiction Mysteries and Creative Writing Activities + Vocabulary in Context
In this creative writing activity, students draw inspiration from a nonfiction article about ten real-world maritime mysteries! Students choose one as inspiration for a piece of Flash Fiction. This is a great reading comprehension and creative writing activity for even the most reluctant readers! ✅ Nonfiction reading comprehension✅ Vocabulary in context✅ Differentiated creative writing activitiesYour Creative Writing from Nonfiction resource includes:Nonfiction reading about ten maritime mysteri
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7th - 10th
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Depth and Complexity Literature Discussion Prompts
Are you tired of flimsy book talks and group discussions? Bring focus, energy, and insight to your students' literature discussions with these prompts. Use them with any fiction text to facilitate thinking about characters, plot, theme, writing style, and real-world connections.What's IncludedYou’ll find a separate page for each element of the Depth & Complexity framework, filled with questions that students can address in discussion and/or writing. Print these out on colored paper or card s
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8th - 12th
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The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick Author's Craft/Purpose Questions
These questions focus on the strategies that the author used to create the humor. The focus is on verbal irony, so it includes the definition and examples of verbal irony. This lesson requires higher-level thinking skills.
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8th - 11th
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Skin by Roald Dahl Author's Craft/Purpose Questions
This product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify and analyze the strategies used by the author to convey his message. It also includes a chart that asks students to discuss the flashback in the story. Answers are provided for all activities.
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8th - 11th
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Informational Text - Creative Writing from Nonfiction - Train Heists and Outlaws
In this creative writing activity, students draw inspiration from a nonfiction article about train heists and outlaws in the Wild West. Students choose one topic for a piece of Flash Fiction. Differentiate with a condensed or expanded brainstorming worksheet. Includes optional close reading questions. Also includes a Teacher’s Guide, answer key, and TAG feedback form. (grades 7-10)What You Get:1. Nonfiction reading about train robberies and outlaws2. Introduction to Flash Fiction and brainstormi
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7th - 10th
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Non-Fiction Reading Skills ELA Question Loop and Middle School Trail Game
Elevate your classroom experience with this captivating Interactive ELA skills lesson that puts students at the center of their learning journey. This engaging activity offers a unique twist on traditional instruction, seamlessly blending rigorous questioning, collaborative problem-solving, and active movement. Ideal for middle school and high school students, this lesson provides a dynamic way to grasp essential non-fiction reading concepts while fostering teamwork and critical thinking.I belie
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Dynamic ELA Question Trails Bundle - Engaging Middle School Activities
Superfoods Persuasive Pamphlet - Ethos Logos Pathos Analysis + Research Writing
Are Superfoods real or a total myth? This persuasive pamphlet will have your students HOOKED. They'll analyze rhetorical appeals (ethos, logos, pathos) in the nonfiction article. This makes an excellent high school reading comprehension activity.Your high school reading comprehension resource includes:✅ "Can Goji Berries Save the World?" persuasive article (pamphlet)✅ Analyzing Rhetorical Appeals (ethos, logos, pathos) Worksheet✅ Food Beliefs Persuasive Pamphlet ProjectAfter reading the nonficti
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7th - 10th
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The Wife's Story by Ursula K. Leguin Author's Purpose Questions and Activities
This story with a surprise ending comes with higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify the strategies used by the author to convey her purpose. There is an inference chart which asks students to provide examples from the story and explain their significance. The product also includes a short constructed response question which expects students to provide evidence from the selection to support their answer. Answers are provided for all activities.
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7th - 10th
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Speech to the Troops at Tilbury by Queen Elizabeth I Author's Purpose Questions
Facing an invasion of the Spanish Armada in 1588, Queen Elizabeth delivered this inspiring speech to her troops. The product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify literary strategies used and determine the author's purpose. There is a chart included which asks students to provide examples of literary devices and state the author's purpose and another chart which requires students to give the meaning of vocabulary based on context clues. Also, a short constru
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8th - 11th
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Symbolism | Comprehensive List of Literary Symbols and Their Meanings | Motifs
Use this extensive 8-page list of symbols and their meanings as reference pages with middle school and up--or simply for teacher reference only. Beware your students will quickly become experts at unpacking symbolism in movies, songs, and literature. I wanted something like this, so I created it. Follow me for more teacher and tutor tools. Build your writing toolbox. Make them feel brilliant!Scaffold the writing process.Citing Evidence Posters, Argument Essay Template, & Transitions BundleTh
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7th - 12th
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Love is a Fallacy by Max Shulman Author's Craft/Purpose Questions
These questions explore the literary elements used in the story and ask students to determine for what purpose they were used. The higher-level thinking questions help students to determine the message and theme of the story.
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Valentine's Day Collection Stories of Love and Obsession
Informational Text - Creative Writing from Nonfiction - Codes and Codebreakers
In this creative writing activity, students draw inspiration from a nonfiction article about historic codes and codebreakers! Students choose one as inspiration for a piece of Flash Fiction. Differentiate with a condensed or expanded brainstorming worksheet. Includes an optional procedural text for constructing a Fleissner Grille. Also includes a writing sample, Teacher’s Guide, and TAG feedback form. (grades 7-10)What You Get:1. Nonfiction reading about historical codes and codebreakers, includ
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7th - 10th
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Hanging Fire by Audre Lorde Author's Craft/Purpose Questions with Summany Chart
This product contains a copy of the poem on a summarization chart. It also includes author's craft/purpose questions which require students to identify the strategies used by the author to convey her purpose. These are higher-level thinking rather than content based questions. Answers keys are included with each activity.
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: STAAR or Other State Assessment 10-Day Adversity Unit
Marigolds and To Kill a Mockingbird Mrs. Dubose Excerpt Author's Comparison
This product contains the story "Marigolds" by Eugenia W. Collier and the Mrs. Dubose incident excerpt from To Kill a Mockingbird. Each selection has author's craft/purpose questions which require students to identify the strategies the authors use to convey their purpose. Paired passage comparison questions are also included. These are higher-level thinking rather than content based questions. The selections also have vocabulary identification charts and a literary device identification cha
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7th - 10th
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My First Free Summer by Julia Alvarez Author's Purpose Questions and Activities
This product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify the strategies the author used to convey her message. It also includes a chart asking students to determine the meaning of words based on context clues and a chart expecting students to provide an example of each literary device and determine the author's purpose for using each. Answers are provided for all activities.
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7th - 10th
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The Veldt Author's Craft/Purpose Questions and Vocabulary/Characterization Chart
The questions require students to identify and analyze the strategies the author uses to convey his purpose. They are higher-level thinking rather than content based questions. The chart requires students to determine the meaning of vocabulary words and find quotes to describe the characters.
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7th - 10th
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The Hanging Stranger Author's Craft/Purpose Questions and Imagery Chart
The questions require students to identify the strategies the author uses to convey his purpose. They are higher-level thinking rather than content based questions. The graphic organizer requires students to find examples of imagery and discuss what they describe and the author's purpose for using them.
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8th - 11th
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Sticks by George Saunders Author's Craft/Purpose Questions
In this piece of flash fiction, the narrator describes the bizarre importance of a metal pole to his father. The activity includes questions which require students to identify and analyze the strategies the author uses to convey his message. They are higher-level thinking rather than content based questions. The product also contains a short constructed response question. Answers are provided for both activities.
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7th - 10th
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AP Lit and Comp Diction Assignments
This is a complete unit I teach in the second quarter with my AP Lit and Comp class. I think it is very important for students to be able to recognize diction before they move on to more difficult literary devices.This unit includes:Assignment 1: Introduction to DictionAssignment 2: Diction practice on The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan PoeAnswer key for assignment 2Assignment 3: Diction practice on The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington IrvingAnswer key for assignment 3Assignment 4:
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11th - 12th
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Rhetorical Analysis: Churchill "We Shall Fight on the Beaches"
In this assignment, students read and annotate Churchill's text, then examine his rhetoric for the rhetorical situation, rhetorical choices, and rhetorical appeals. I find this is a great assignment to introduce rhetorical analysis or review key concepts before the exam.This text is short, direct, and specific. My students typically feel more confident in rhetorical analysis after completing this assignment because the rhetorical situation is quite clear and tangible for them.I recommend allowin
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10th - 12th
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Gift of the Magi O. Henry Question Loop - Trail Activity - Active ELA Lesson
Transform your classroom with this dynamic and educational activity designed to enhance student engagement while delving into the timeless short story "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry. This activity goes beyond traditional methods, incorporating movement to create a memorable and effective learning experience.Key Features:❄️ Engaging Analysis: Students will dive deep into the short story, analyzing story elements, and exploring literary devices to develop a comprehensive understanding.❄️ Story
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Winter Themed Resources and Lessons Middle School ELA Skills
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