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Free literature outlines
Story Map - Outline for Story Writing
This product is a graphic organizer to be used in both reading and writing.
Fictional Stories
• It allows students to identifiy the key elements of a story: characters, setting, events, problem, and solutiion. By completing story maps, students increase their understanding and appreciation of selections. This can also be used as a framework for retellings.
Outline for Story Writing
• It can be used during the prewriting stage of a story to help students organize their thoughts.
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3rd - 6th
Character Traits Student Anchor Chart (Eng. & Spa.)
Do your students keep anchor charts in personal 'anchor chart' binders to refer back to? Here's one on character traits! Easy to follow along and fill in. Your kiddos can refer back to this personal anchor chart when working with character traits.
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1st - 5th
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Literary Analysis Essay Graphic Organizer
This is a graphic organizer that will help students write organized, effective five paragraph literary analysis essays. It will work with virtually any prompt and piece of literature, and incorporates the language of the Common Core standards for writing. It initially asks students to outline their essay claim and what support they will have in each body paragraph, then details what needs to be included in each paragraph of the essay. The boxes are color coded, and organized based on the five pa
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9th - 12th
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Fundations Weekly Lesson Plan template
Use this Fundations lesson plan template to visualize your weekly Fundations lessons. Best used for Unit 2 and on.
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K - 2nd
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FREEBIE Lesson: Introduction to Comics (w. Graphic Novel Journal Pages!
FREE! This is much more than an art lesson! These comic handouts and assignments are specifically and strategically designed to teach about comics AND work with ACADEMIC projects in classrooms. Have students "show what they know" in SCHOOL with COMICS!
This lesson introduces students to the world of comics through handouts and assignments. Use before comic projects or graphic novel reading units! Includes Anatomy of a Comic Strip handout and Comic Vocabulary list! Bonus: Graphic Novel notes!
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5th - 8th
Also included in:Â Comics in Classrooms: Full Bundle Lessons 1-11 (3 Weeks of Lessons!
Informational Writing Template
Here is a informational writing template you can use to help students understand the basics of writing about informational texts. I used this while introducing the topic of informational texts in order to help get them started on learning the correct way to write about a piece of information.
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1st - 3rd
Response to Literature Essay Frame
Students' literary analysis and thoughts can be presented academically with this response to literature essay frame. Your struggling students and English Learners can use these sentence frames and essay template to write a successful analysis of ANY short story or novel. This essay frame includes simple introduction and conclusion paragraphs, along with paragraphs to analyze characters and their growth, theme, and figurative language. By using this frame, students will have a structured essay th
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4th - 10th
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List of Literary Themes
This download is a comprehensive list of LITERARY THEMES. It is great for students to use as reference when composing their own narrative writing piece or analyzing text. This list is made using well known quotations, cultural sayings, and proverbs. © EDUCATION CHIC
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Not Grade Specific
Pacing Chart for Grade 7 READING (Scope & Sequence)
I am making this available on Teachers Pay Teachers as a free download in response to overwhelming requests to view this document. This is not meant for you to use as-is, but is rather available to provide an example of how I use my various interactive notebooks and other products during the course of a school year.
This download also lists all of the literature/articles/novels/stories that I use during the year and which skills I teach with each one, as well as the resources I use.
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7th
Lindamood Bell Visualizing & Verbalizing Scale
Use this scale with Lindamood Bell's Visualizing and Verbalizing program. It helps students monitor their progress.
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K - 5th
Compare/Contrast Graphic Organizer for Books and Movies
If you teach novels like Holes, Bridge to Terabithia, The Giver, The Watsons Go to Birmingham, etc., you will LOVE this organizer! My students use this Bubble Diagram to compare and contrast events, settings, characters, and themes between a book and its screen version.
It's also a great way to plan a compare/contrast essay or project!
Enjoy!
Grades:
5th - 8th
The Hero's Journey Graphic Organizer
This is a graphic organizer that outlines the hero's journey. It provides blank spaces for each of the 12 stages of the journey (the call, the refusal, etc.) for students to fill in as they read a given text or watch a movie. This would likely follow a lesson based on the 12 stages. I use this doc with my AP Literature Kids as we reflect on The Kite Runner. In my World Literature Class, I pair it with The Alchemist. It can be paired with any texts (novel, short story, movie) that portray the cla
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6th - 12th
Beginning, Middle, and End Graphic Organizers
These are simple graphic organizers to help students retell stories. This includes a very simple graphic organizer, and then adds onto that by adding writing sections. This is a great resource to use in guided reading when working on retelling.
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K - 5th
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Folktales description (fairy tales, tall tales etc..)
Description of different folktales on characters, setting, problem and solution.
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K - 6th
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Chapter Book Outline Graphic Organizers
My students love to read chapter books during Independent Reading, but I needed a solution to keep them accountable. Stopping to answer questions after each chapter can make reading more of a chore and discourage students from wanting to invest in a good book.
To help with this, I give my students an outline with spaces for each chapter in the book. When they begin a new chapter book, they choose the graphic organizer with the same number of chapters as their book and use this to do a quick su
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Grades:
1st - 8th
Book Talk Script
This is an outline of a script that students can fill in and follow when giving an oral book report. It is very basic and I would use it for the primary grades. Students need to come up with a short summary, favorite part, and 2 reasons why they chose the book. Will work for fiction or information text.
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Literary Devices & Elements Guided Notes
This is guided notes page goes with a jumbo power point presentation loaded with media clips and engaging boredom busters while teaching the basic vocabulary and domain specific language required for the middle and high school language arts curriculum.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Plot Summary Graphic Organizer
This is a simple graphic organizer to help students visualize the plot of a book or story. I use it with my students when we are learning the parts of a fiction book- setting, plot, character, conflict, and resolution. Once they fill in each section, they can then easily write a paragraph summarizing the plot of any fictional story.
This could easily be used in an independent reading center to check that students are really reading and not wasting time. They would have to fill out this form af
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Grades:
K - 3rd
Common Core: Writing Standard: Proofreading and Editing
This download will help prepare your writers to develop good proofreading and editing techniques. It is user friendly, and your students will love it.
Included in your download is:
--7 pages of writing posters
This will help your students prepare for state testing by reviewing these important skills!!
Common Core Standards addressed:
-ELACC4W5 With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.
If you have any question
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3rd - 8th
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CCSS:
What to include when writing a summary of a short story or novel outline
Need a short and simple outline of how to write a summary? This handout gives the definition of what a summary is and provides a brief outline which gives your primary student the basics of what to include while writing their summary.
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2nd - 6th
TPCASTT- Guided Poetry Analysis
This great resource helps students analyze poems using the TPCASTT method. It's a simple chart that includes the meaning for each letter in the acronym. Can be easily accommodated for those who need modifications.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Pacing Chart for Grade 8 READING (Scope & Sequence)
I am making this available on Teachers Pay Teachers as a free download in response to overwhelming requests to view this document. This is not meant for you to use as-is, but is rather available to provide an example of how I use my various interactive notebooks and other products during the course of a school year.
This download also lists all of the literature/articles/novels/stories that I use during the year and which skills I teach with each one, as well as the resources I use.
I do not h
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Grades:
8th
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas for Middle School: COMPLETE UNIT OF WORK
A complete scheme of work with activities to cover every chapter of 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'. The unit starts by introducing students to the context of the Holocaust, Auschwitz and Nazi Germany. It then moves on to covering reading, writing and oracy skills whilst moving through the novel.This is designed for middle school. Key vocabulary per lesson and assessment ideas are also included alongside learning objectives and differentiated learning outcomes. Each lesson has also been mapped
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in:Â The Boy in the Striped Pajamas for Middle School: Lesson Bundle
The Twits - Title page template colouring
This is a template for a title page for the book 'The Twits' by Roald Dahl.You can print and photocopy this ready for students to glue into their book.I have included the actual book cover to use as reference for which colours to use etc. Students have a space to draw Mr and Mrs Twit.I have just drawn this by hand with a black pen.Looks great in the kids books when finished!Two sizes - 1 to a page and 2 to a page
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2nd - 5th
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