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Common Core CCRA.R.5 lectures
Informational Text Features Lesson, Complete Teaching Unit
This complete pack for teaching and assessing informational text features will take your instruction of this skill from beginning to end. Each of my ELA Skills-Readiness Lesson Packs includes a teacher's guide lesson plan, an easy-to-use PPT lecture explaining the concept, guided practice, opportunity for collaborative and individual practice, and a form of assessment.Student Experience: Students will take notes during the engaging and up-to-date lecture. There are plenty of examples to explain
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Skills Teaching Units, BUNDLE of Lessons
Setting Affects Plot & Conflict Lesson, Complete Teaching Unit
Looking for an interesting and engaging way to present how an author's use of setting affects plot? This complete teaching pack for teaching how setting affects conflict has everything you need to teach this skill with ease and success. Student Experience: In this classroom-tested, interactive, photography-inspired activity, students travel around the U.S. while discussing the key element of setting and exploring how it affects plot. Students will first take notes about the skill. Then, they wil
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7th - 11th
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Skills Teaching Units, BUNDLE of Lessons
Note-Taking Lesson/Templates/Graphic Organizers, High School Study Skills Lesson
Wondering where to start when it comes to teaching note-taking skills, especially "focused note-taking"? Here's everything you need to teach your students how to take notes -- all in one comprehensive, no-prep Google Slides lesson!You can also use these slides to provide professional development in-servicing to introduce your colleagues to focused note-taking!⭐️ These slides are perfect for improving your students' study skills, active/critical reading skills, and reading comprehension! Through
Grades:
8th - 12th
Patrick Henry's "Speech in the Virginia Convention" Teaching Pack
This complete teaching pack for Patrick Henry's exemplar speech "Speech in the Virginia Convention" guides an in-depth study of Henry's speech. With the overarching purpose of analyzing persuasive appeals and examining argumentative writing, this creative and modern pack allows you to cover many standards interestingly and effectively. There are so many options with this low-prep pack that you can pick and choose or work your way through them all. Student Experience: Students will first meet
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: American Literature Curriculum, Year-Long, BUNDLE, English Lesson Plans
Reading Comprehension Skills Teaching Units, BUNDLE of Lessons
With this bundle of my complete teaching packs for the key reading anchor standards, you'll be set to provide your students with fundamental instruction that will ensure their success with demonstrating college and career level readiness of the anchor standards for reading. Using these skills-readiness teaching packs to cover specific standards in-depth - one standard at a time - builds a foundation all readers need. Then, students can dive into any text ready and able to fully comprehend and a
Grades:
7th - 10th
Tangerine by Edward Bloor - Reading Comprehension Questions & PowerPoint BUNDLE
The Reading Comprehension Questions are a 22-page editable Word document containing 123 questions (multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and short essay questions) for Tangerine by Edward Bloor organized by chapter. They can be used as a study guide, homework questions, quizzes, or tests. The chapter title is listed before each section to make targeting sections that need review very easy. This method of organization also makes it easy for you as a teacher to pull just the questions that you need.
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5th - 8th
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Tangerine by Edward Bloor - Close Reading PowerPoint
This 130-slide PowerPoint is a great tool for guiding students through a more in-depth textual analysis of Tangerine by Edward Bloor. Each chapter is marked by a slide featuring a plot diagram and a summary of the action in that chapter. Additional slides review key passages and push students to deeper analysis, with a strong emphasis on making inferences, understanding the major themes and symbolism in the novel, and identifying figurative language. The PowerPoint is organized by chapter to mak
Grades:
6th - 8th
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld: Reading Comprehension Questions & PowerPoint BUNDLE
This is a discounted bundle for two products:Close Reading PowerPoint:This 151-slide PowerPoint is aligned with Common Core Standards and is a great tool for guiding students through a more in-depth textual analysis of Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. Each chapter is marked by a slide featuring a plot diagram and a summary of the action in that chapter. Additional slides review key passages and push students to deeper analysis, with a strong emphasis on making inferences, recognizing foreshadowing, u
Grades:
6th - 8th
The Prodigal Son from the King James Bible, Short Story Unit Guide, Lesson Plan
This lesson makes an excellent lesson for a British Literature course as it exemplifies the Renaissance period of literature. The themes that emerge throughout the progression of the texts – family, greed, love, forgiveness, home – are perfect for framing the mini unit and having today's teens dig deeply into and connect with the anchor text: "The Prodigal Son" from the King James Bible. Additionally, the low prep unit provides opportunity for covering such skills at characterization, plot, th
Grades:
9th - 12th
Summary vs. Paraphrase vs. Direct Quote Lecture, Notes, & Digital Practice
Do you remember being explicitly taught how to summarize, paraphrase, and complete a direct citation? Or when it would be better to do a paraphrase vs. a summary? Honestly, I don't remember being taught how to summarize or paraphrase, but once I learned the process, it made a huge difference in my work. It was like unlocking a secret code. Explicit instruction in the differences between a summary, paraphrase, and direct quote helps students experience greater success not only in their daily scho
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Writing Fundamentals: Note-taking and Evaluating Sources
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld - Close Reading PowerPoint
This 149-slide PowerPoint is a great tool for guiding students through a more in-depth textual analysis of Uglies. Each chapter is marked by a slide featuring a plot diagram and a summary of the action in that chapter. Additional slides review key passages and push students to deeper analysis, with a strong emphasis on making inferences, recognizing foreshadowing, understanding the major themes and symbolism in the novel, and identifying figurative language. The PowerPoint is organized by chapte
Grades:
6th - 8th
Beowulf Background Notes and Stations / Google Slides and Google Docs
Building context is an important part of getting students ready for reading Beowulf. In particular, Beowulf comes with its own special set of vocabulary (kenning, thane, epic poem, archetype, scope, etc.). To help build background knowledge for students, I use these resources. This lesson plan is designed to take two 50-minute class periods, but there is a lot of flexibility. The resources are Google Slides and Google Docs, so they are editable and ready for you to customize! (This means that TP
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11th - 12th
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Also included in: Beowulf Bundle with 3 Leveled Text Options + Side-by-Side Questions
Credible or "Fake News"? Cultivating News Literacy in a "Post-Truth" Era
These lessons cover the basics of discerning between credible and false journalism (and the gradient between the two), using contemporary (but non-controversial) examples. There is also a slideshow (in PDF format) with links to examples of terms, as well as examples of credible journalism.
Arguably the most tangibly helpful aspect of this three-day unit is the "News Analysis Checklist" which students can apply to any form of journalism to asses its credibility. The checklist is available in PDF
Grades:
9th - 12th
Wit and Wisdom: Grade 2 Focus Wall Posters for ALL MODULES
Why just buy one of the focusing wall posters when you could get all of them and be ready to go for the ENTIRE YEAR?Description for each file:Elevate your teaching experience with this Focus Wall Poster -- a digitally downloadable resource designed to enhance classroom engagement and facilitate effective learning. This comprehensive set includes a main poster and interactive pieces that seamlessly integrate into your teaching, providing a dynamic and interactive learning environment for you and
Literary Elements Guided Notes
Thanks for your interest in the Literary Elements Guided Notes resource! This resource is perfect for English/Language Arts classes and for special education students who need to learn story elements or literary elements. This resource includes multi-page guided notes documents that focus on specific literary concepts. Guided notes can also be known as skeleton notes or scaffolded notes. Each concept has a note page that comes in an editable electronic version (so students can take notes with t
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6th - 8th
Evaluating Credible Sources: Research Writing
The foundation of research writing is finding credible sources. When students begin researching online, however, this can quickly turn into a slipper slope. Not all .com sources are bad, so how do we help students learn how to weed through the process? This source goes beyond the basics of having students look at the end of a URL while researching online. Instead, this resource has students focusing on four key components when evaluating a digital source: relevance, accuracy, bias/perspective, a
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Writing Fundamentals: Note-taking and Evaluating Sources
The Funeral Blues
The Funeral Blues. This is a great addition to any poetry unit! This Google Slides presentation contained a detailed lesson on theme, tone, imagery, and a history on WH Auden. It also contains a breakdown of each stanza and its parts. This is a multi period lesson that contains questions for the students to respond to in the speakers notes, adding support to the lesson and activity.
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9th - 12th
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Reading Comprehension Strategies-Critical Thinking/Critical Reading Study Skills
Unlock the secret to guiding your students from passive readers to using the reading process to be active readers, fostering critical thinking and analysis skills.Get this NO-PREP interactive Google Slides presentation designed to empower your students with the tools they need to master the art of active reading. With this resource, you'll teach your students not only how to navigate the reading process, but also how to use advanced reading strategies that encourage higher-level thinking!⭐️ Incl
Grades:
8th - 12th
Intro Psychoanalytic Literary Theory with Slides, Teacher Notes, Suggested Texts
Comprehensive but student-accessible lesson to introduce Psychoanalytic Theory. Includes editable slideshow with key definitions, concepts, & theorists, fully prepared Teacher Notes for each slide to keep you on track with guided analysis, as well as a list of suggested texts. Additional aspects include sample response checklist for core text evaluation, two versions of a classroom poster about the key elements of the theory, as well as links for suggested extension activities/learning resou
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Hedda Gabler / By Henrik Ibsen / A Study Guide of Realism and Ibsen's Theater
This presentation is an introduction to the literature of Henrik Ibsen and the realism in his plays and how it was integrated in the play Hedda Gabler and its influence on the literary scene in British and European Literatures.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Unit Slides/Activities/Essay
This unit includes slides and assignments across the entire book as well as some links to additional resources including Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Slides introduce the work, Douglass, include discussion questions for every chapter, and several additional assignments providing additional context, thought-provoking questions, and two writing assignments--culminating in a paper where students answer what the Fourth of July means to them. Answers included in slide
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Frederick Douglass Slides/Assessments Bundle
The Time Machine--A Complete Unit
This Unit contains everything an Instructor would need to teach this classic piece of science fiction literature. The Time Machine can be read by middle school students with significant assistance given by the Instructor. High school students may require some assistance with this short novel, but little or no assistance need be given to college students. The Time Machine is one of those unique stories that can be used in a history or literature class, as it reaches across many subject lines with
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Intro to the novel Life of Pi Powerpoint Slides
14 Powerpoint slides to introduce Yann Martel's Mann-Booker prize winning novel, Life of Pi. Use these slides in combination with my annotation guide to help your students understand emerging themes and literary devices through close reading as they begin the novel. This Powerpoint presentation provides an overview of Life of Pi, a video of Yann Martel discussing the idea of a "Capital S" story, themes of man v. animal, faith v. science, storytelling v. truth, duality, and rule of three.
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Life of Pi Intro and Chapters 1-8 Bundle
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" Background Slides
Enhance your students' understanding of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Pit and the Pendulum" with this comprehensive 20-slide background presentation. Perfect for middle and high school English Language Arts classes, this resource provides an overview of Poe's life, historical context for setting (the Spanish Inquisition), eight key literary terms, and engaging pre-reading activities.Why Choose This Resource:Use this presentation as a standalone lesson on Poe and his storyNo-prep pre-teachin
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6th - 12th
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