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Winter Common Core RL.8.4 resources for Gifted and Talented
Middle Grades ELA Common Core Toolbox: Printables for Nearly Every Standard
The Middle Grades ELA Common Core Toolbox contains 77 learning activities aligned to the CCSS for grades 6-8. It includes printables that can be used multiple times throughout the year to address nearly all of the standards in reading literature and informational texts, and many of the speaking and listening, writing, and language standards. It also has two pages of writing prompts and warm-ups. The Standards Guide at the end details the CCSS that correspond to each printable.
Three grade level
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6th - 8th
Poetry Analysis: "Stopping By Woods..." by Robert Frost
My standards-based poetry analysis of Robert Frost's beloved poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" includes everything you need for a meaningful activity for your students! They will practice reading, writing, language, and drawing skills as they look at Frost's poem in-depth.In addition, your students can doodle and color all over the pages! Each page has items that can be colored and they are encouraged to draw, as well. It's a great activity for all levels of learning.See my preview to
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for K. Cook
Figurative Language Task Cards - Winter Figurative Language Activity
You'll love using this figurative language activity that includes printable winter Figurative Language Task Cards. The fun figurative language activities are perfect for introducing, practicing, or reviewing metaphors, similes, idioms, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. Better than figurative language worksheets, the task cards offer a fun, engaging way to work with this important skill.The Figurative Language Task Cards can be used in a variety of ways: centers, statio
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Winter Parts of Speech, Figurative Language & Vocabulary ELA Bundle
Whodunit Reading Comprehension Review Escape Room & Webscape™ 6th 7th 8th Grade
⭐ This 6th to 8th grade reading comprehension escape room is a truly immersive experience. Students read short fiction and nonfiction passages and answer skill-based questions as they work their way through a "whodunit" mystery to crack the case. Students must discover four clues to solve this mystery: the manifest, the passport, the menu, and the parcel. In this escape room, students complete four uniqu challenges. Each challenge requires students to read the fiction and nonfiction passages an
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6th - 8th
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Complete Wonderland and Looking-Glass Comprehension and Logic Unit Combo
This is my complete combo for both the "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There" books. It has chapter comprehension worksheets for both books. This also includes my logic unit study which teaches a basic introduction to formal logic as well as analyzes a lot of the hidden logic lessons within the first Alice book.Logic Unit Description:This is a collection of worksheets and tests that work for a month long introduction to formal logic and fal
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5th - 12th
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Comprehension Questions and Logic Unit Combo
This is my complete offering for the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland also known as Alice in Wonderland. It contains both my Alice based logic unit and my Alice chapter comprehension questions worksheet collection. Buy this to get both of them cheaper than if you buy them separately. If you would also like the comprehension questions for this book's sequel, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, buy my Complete Wonderland and Looking-Glass Comprehension and Logic Combo instea
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5th - 8th
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Christmas Holiday Poetry Pack
Why let the primary grades have all of the fun during the holiday season? These holiday poems and task cards will help you and your students stay in the holiday spirit as well as learn how to analyze poetry.
This packet includes 6 Christmas/winter poems, 24 task cards to use with these poems (or your own), and holiday themed paper for your students to use for their task card responses or to publish their own poetry. Poems are in a black and white, printer friendly format, so you can print the
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4th - 7th
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Winter ELA Content Review Activities Middle School Digital and Print
These Winter ELA Review activities are perfect to help spread a little winter spirit in your classroom. This product includes 4 Common Core-aligned winter ELA activities and 3 just-for-fun winter activities to complete with your students. The Common Core-aligned winter-themed activities include a figurative language review, a context clue vocabulary review, a narrative writing practice, and 3 listening comprehension practice activities.This product also includes 3 just for fun winter activities.
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6th - 8th
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Central Idea Reading Comprehension Escape Room & Webscape™ 6th 7th 8th Grade
⚡ Put your central idea magic skills to the test! This no-prep 6th, 7th, 8th grade reading comprehension escape room is perfect for practicing central idea skills in a meaningful and engaging way. ✨Your students will embark on a journey through wizard school, where they will face four unique challenges that will put their central idea skills to the test. Each challenge requires students to read texts and answer multiple-choice questions that have been carefully crafted to help them identify th
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6th - 8th
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A Separate Peace Quizzes | Differentiated | High-Level Thinking | With Keys
Are you looking for quality quizzes for “A Separate Peace”? This package contains knowledge and comprehension quizzes for each of the thirteen chapters. In addition, it includes “challenge” quizzes for differentiated instruction.The first set of quizzes are the standard “Did you read this?” kind of quiz. The second is a more challenging quiz that queries quote attribution, the use of figurative language and asks higher-level questions.You can either make a master set of copies, or you can displa
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8th - 12th
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE & OTHER LITERARY DEVICES, Grades 5 to 8
Authors use literary techniques to convey meaning and to make the story more interesting to the reader. The understanding of these devices will help students get more enjoyment from the fiction they read—both in and out of the classroom situation. This comprehensive unit uses examples from classic and modern literature to introduce and reinforce literary devices. Figurative Language & Other Literary Devices: Grades 3 to 6 is also available.FORMATEach term is defined. One or more examples ar
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5th - 9th
Also included in: Middle-Grade ELA Bundle: Grades 5–8
Touching Spirit Bear Novel Study Guide REMOTE READY DIGITAL RESOURCE
2023 UPDATE: This product has been updated to address a concern brought by TpT.UPDATED FOR DIGITAL/REMOTE LEARNING! This study guide/student workbook is designed to guide your literary students to becoming literary scholars! Two Versions! One is set for Print and go, the other for uploading to a digital classroom! It is designed to teach young scholars critical thinking skills as they conduct deep analysis of the text. It guides students through pre-reading research into the environment and ecol
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Touching Spirit Bear Novel Study Bundle
Yeti Winter Reading Comprehension Escape Room Digital Resource 6th 7th 8th Grade
⛄ Put your 6th, 7th, and 8th graders' reading comprehension skills to the test as they track the Yeti in this fun winter escape room activity. This printable and digital resource has custom videos, original passages, and skill focused questions that are perfect for practicing a combination of fiction and nonfiction reading comprehension skills in a meaningful way.❄️ Your students will embark on a journey through the Himalayas as they complete four challenges that will put their reading comprehen
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6th - 8th
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Help Cupid Valentine's Day Poetry Escape Room Webscape - 6th 7th 8th Grade Poems
⭐ Valentine's Day is the PERFECT time to explore poetry! This 6th, 7th, and 8th grade Help Cupid Poetry Escape Room & Webscape™ gets students engaged in practicing key poetry skills. Students solve challenges to help Cupid spread love and kindness for Valentine's Day. In this reading escape room, students are asked to complete four unique challenges. Each challenge requires students to read passages and answer a variety of reading skill focused multiple-choice questions. Challenges are fun
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6th - 8th
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Winter Blackout "White-out" Poetry Classic Wintertime Holiday Stories No Prep
This fully editable lesson comes with a lesson plan and worksheet for teaching a fun winter-inspired class on blackout poetry using classic wintertime/holiday stories as the texts! Or call it "white-out" poetry to better align with the wintery theme of the lesson - blizzards! Start with a discussion about the importance of word choice and how words create mood or atmosphere. Then, have students work in small groups to create a blackout poem using an excerpt from the famous wintertime story "The
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5th - 8th
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Valentines Day Blackout Poetry Fairy Tales Love Stories Middle School ELA Fun
This fully editable lesson comes with a lesson plan and worksheet for teaching a fun Valentine's Day-inspired class on blackout poetry using classic fairy tales and excerpts from classic stories as the texts! Start with a discussion about the importance of word choice and how words create mood or atmosphere. Then, have students work in small groups to create a blackout poem using an excerpt from the famous fairy tale "The Little Mermaid." After that, have students use one of the 6 fairy tales /
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6th - 9th
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Teaching Depth and Complexity with A Bad Case of Stripes (distance learning)
Teaching, reviewing, and engaging with Depth and Complexity Icons is fun when using the picture book, "A Bad Case of Stripes". Your students will practice using all 11 depth and complexity icons (big ideas, details, patterns, multiple perspectives, rules, across the disciplines, trends, ethics, unanswered questions, over time, and language of the discipline) as they analyze text, and dive deep into complex discussion with this lesson! In the book, "A Bad Case of Stripes" by David Shannon, your s
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Teaching Depth and Complexity Icons with Picture Books GROWING BUNDLE
Winter Snowflake Poetry Digital Resource ELA | No Prep
Winter Snowflake Poetry Activity. This poetry activity is perfect for the winter time, and it incorporates poetry analysis and figurative language! Students can design their own snowflake while following task cards asking them to find specific elements of figurative language. Simply print the activity, distribute the task cards and display the student directions.Ways to Use These Task Cards:Independent within a Group: Give one to each student to work on for an extended time in class. Allow stude
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: The Ultimate Poetry Task Card Bundle Digital Resource
Daily Mind Builders: Language Arts - Quick, Fun Brain Energizers for Grades 5+
A 37-page printable PDF ebook for grades 5 and up to wake up sleeping brains with fun daily doses of critical thinking! This book is comprised of intriguing ELA-themed activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential skill as
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5th - 12th
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Winter Themed Figurative Language Game Card Bundle!!!
15% off special on Winter themed bundle, which includes two games that are perfect to add some fun in your learning environment. The two games include Figurative Language based Bingo and Figurative Language based Matching Card Game.How do the games work?1. BINGOWith the 2 full sets of 30 cards (total 60) that are provided you can choose if you want students to identify the figurative language by calling out the examples or identify the example by calling out the FL terms or just use BOTH sets.Yo
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5th - 8th
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Winter Themed Figurative Language Matching Game Cards!!
32 uniquely designed Winter themed printable colorful figurative language matching cards that includes...simile (x2)metaphor (x2)alliteration (x2)hyperbole (x2)personification (x2)oxymoron (x2)onomatopoeia (x2)idiom (x2)Each FL card comes with two example plus its matching term.How do I use Matching Game Cards?These cards are wonderful to use independently, in pairs, or as a group. A few way to play..."Concentration" or the "Memory Game" is to turn all the cards upside down and take turn seeking
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Winter Themed Figurative Language Game Card Bundle!!!
Short Story Test (plus literary terms) - Leiningen Versus the Ants
Short Story Quizzes from My TPT site:Wallace and Gromit - The Wrong Trousers (a video short story exercise)Wallace and Gromit - A Close Shave (a video short story exercise)The Sound of Gunfire - by John O’Reilly (a western)The Landlady - by Roald Dahl NEW July 2018To Build a Fire - by Jack LondonThe Most Dangerous Game - by Richard ConnellThe Possibility of Evil - by Shirley JacksonAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - by Ambrose BierceThe Sound of Thunder - by Ray BradburyThere Will Come Soft Rai
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Not Grade Specific
60 Winter Themed Figurative Language BINGO Cards!!
60 decorative Winter themed Figurative Language BINGO cards that will bring fun to any learning environment. The cards include examples of...similehyperbolealliterationmetaphorpersonificationoxymorononomatopoeiaHow do I use Bingo Cards?These cards are wonderful to use in groups or as a class. With the 2 full sets of 30 cards (total 60) that are provided you can choose if you want students to identify the figurative language by calling out the examples or identify the example by calling out the F
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Winter Themed Figurative Language Game Card Bundle!!!
Christmas / Winter Lesson Plan Pack PERFECT for Middle School ELAR
What’s inside the lesson plan:- A Lesson Plan page aligned to both CCSS and Texas TEKS standards- A beautiful Power Point for your students to work from which puts that last day or two of class on autopilot- Each slide has a Christmas or Winter-themed quote from famous literature- Each slide contains a re-teach of the type of figurative language used in the quote- The quotes each contain rich examples of figurative language- Built-in questions related to the writer’s use of imagery, figurative l
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6th - 10th
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