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Close reading unit plans $5-10
Literary Devices Mini-Unit: Flashbacks and Foreshadowing Lessons - 3-Days
Foreshadowing and flashbacks are critical literary techniques that authors use to pull readers into the reality of the story and reveal its characters. These drama-heightening techniques are essential for students to understand as they develop their craft as readers. This 3-day mini-unit is designed to help students develop a deep understanding of both foreshadowing and flashbacks.This 3-day Foreshadowing and Flashbacks Mini-Unit provides numerous opportunities to help students understand and
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5th - 8th
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Immigration: Ellis Island Activities - Immigration Project
This Ellis Island & Immigration unit includes 44 pages of printables to engage your students while learning about immigration in the early 1900s. No fluff or filler here: this unit provides solid, high-quality content that will deepen students' understanding and simplify complex concepts, while taking them on a steamship journey across the Atlantic to New York Harbor and through Ellis Island. You’ll find these printables to be thoughtfully designed, easy to use, thorough, and engaging for
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3rd - 6th
Twelve Angry Men Unit Bundle
This is the ultimate resource for helping your students comprehend and analyze the play 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose. Includes activities for pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading!Activities Included:- Anticipation Guide - 8 statements with which to rate agreeance- Vocabulary Terms - 9 Legal Terms, 34 Vocab Terms- Reading Questions - 55 Questions- Critical Thinking Activity - Argument building plus a creative activity- Theme Analysis Foldable - Analysis of 4 key ideas of the play- Plot
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6th - 12th
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Character Analysis Unit | Character Traits Graphic Organizers, Lessons, and More
Do you need engaging lesson plans to teach character analysis through character traits, motivations, and feelings? In this unit, you will find graphic organizers, anchor charts, passages, practice activities, full lesson plans, and more! There is a whole group and a small group lesson for each day, so that you can differentiate and reach each learner.All the lessons are engaging, low prep, and rigorous for your 3rd and 4th graders.What can you find in the lessons each day?A whole group lesson th
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3rd - 4th
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Teaching Story Elements through Plot Structure with Activities for Plot Diagrams
Engaging lesson plans to teach plot, intervention, enrichment, small group, assessments, and more! These lesson plans are designed to be low prep for the teacher, but keep your kids engaged the entire week!There is a whole group and a small group lesson for each day. All the materials are provided, besides books. All the lessons are engaging, low prep, and rigorous for your upper elementary students. What can you find in the lessons each day?A whole group lesson that focuses on an aspect of text
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3rd - 4th
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Theme Activities and Lesson Plans for 3rd and 4th grade | Theme vs. Main Idea
A weeks worth of engaging lesson plans to teach theme. The lessons include small group, whole group, intervention, and enrichment. These lesson plans are designed to be low prep for the teacher but keep your kids engaged and challenged the entire week! There is a whole group and a small group lesson for each day so that you can differentiate and reach each learner.All the materials are provided, besides books. All the lessons are engaging, low prep, and rigorous for your upper elementary studen
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3rd - 4th
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Eleven by Sandra Cisneros- Guided Reading Unit
This all inclusive unit on Eleven by Sandra Cisneros helps students fully comprehend the story, its literary elements, and its messages and themes.
This covers the following concepts:
-Inferences & Drawing conclusions
-Point of View
-Context clues
-Similes
-Dialogue
-Plot
-Theme
Table of Contents:
1. Complete text of “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros
2. Pre-reading Activity: Describe are you expected act at the following ages: 1,3, 11, 25, 50, & 90.
3. Quickwrite 1: Even though you are ___
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5th - 7th
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Pioneer Unit / Oregon Trail Game
Do you love the game Oregon Trail? This unit includes a whole class version of the game!
This is a Problem Based Learning Unit all about the pioneers of our great nation. I created this unit for my second graders, but you could use it for older children too. This unit is very detailed. It integrates ELA skills, social studies, history, and provides the opportunity for creativity as well as FUN!
The children get to "go along" in the journey. This unit has three parts. Check out the Preview Fil
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2nd - 5th
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Point of View | Lesson Plans & Activities | 3rd & 4th Grade
Do you need to teach point of view to mastery in whole group and small group? These lesson plans are designed to be low prep for the teacher, but keep your kids engaged and challenged the entire week! There is a whole group and a small group lesson for each day so that you can differentiate and reach each learner.All the materials are provided, besides books. All the lessons are engaging, low prep, and rigorous for your upper elementary students. What can you find in the lessons each day?A whole
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3rd - 4th
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Career Day, Jobs, Occupations: Close Reading Passages 100% Common Core Aligned
Your one stop source for Informational Text reading! Inside are 24 non-fiction Career Day, Jobs, Occupation passages written at TWO levels for third-fourth graders. This product can be used for differentiating, enhancing, extending, or supplementing Close Reading, guided reading, standards based assessments, Tutoring, and/or week-long homework! • • Informative, Relevant, Engaging, and Meaningful Reading! • • • • • • Below you will find the description for the full unit. • • • • Inside this 2
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2nd - 5th
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Main Idea & Detail Full Lesson Plans with Activities
A weeks worth of engaging lesson plans to teach main idea and detail with informational text. These lesson plans are designed to be low prep for the teacher, but keep your kids engaged and challenged the entire week! There is a whole group and a small group lesson for each day, so that you can differentiate and reach each learner.All the materials are provided, besides books. All the lessons are engaging, low prep, and rigorous for your upper elementary students. Why these lessons?Engagement- I
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3rd - 4th
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HIGH SCHOOL POETRY ANALYSIS | 2 Weeks of Lesson Plans | 50+ Poems in 10 Packets!
This 2-week poetry unit will boost skills in close reading and formal analysis in any high school English course. The unit features 50+ canonical poems written by a diverse spectrum of English-speaking poets. The poems and accompanying lesson plans are organized into 10 thematic packets which can be used in sequence over two weeks. That's over 200 pages worth of editable poetry resources! This poetry curriculum promises to elicit dynamic engagement from all students without compromising on intel
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8th - 12th
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Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart Unit Plan: lessons, activities, and more!
What better story to teach suspense than Edgar Allan Poe’s masterpiece, 'The Tell-Tale Heart'? This story is one of my all-time favorites and students agree. I love to teach this story in October since it fits right in with the Halloween festivities!
This is a week-long unit plan designed to thoroughly teach 'The Tell-Tale Heart' while keeping students engaged and interested in the content. Throughout the week students closely read and analyze the story with a focus on suspense. In addition, st
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7th - 10th
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Romeo and Juliet COMPLETE UNIT | Workbooks & Worksheets | Colorful & Editable!!
This "star-crossed" curriculum will inspire your students to generate stellar insights about William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The complete unit has everything you'll need to facilitate profoundly engaging classes on Romeo and Juliet. The lesson plans are brimming with student-centered materials which will inspire a life-long love of Shakespeare!The beautiful workbooks will enable you to capture and hold the attention of modern-day students. The higher-order questions will help you pivot f
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8th - 11th
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Chicken Life Cycle & Chicken Science Embryology & Incubation Chicken Worksheets
Would you like to teach students about the life cycle of a chicken? This is a complete low prep unit on the chicken life cycle. Students will love these high-interest reading pages. Students will learn about life cycles and chicken growth and development. Students will learn about how hens take care of the eggs and chicks.❤️ This Chicken Life cycle Resource Includes:slide show about the inside of an eggInformational text passages (three pages)follow-up pagesa story about Banti the Broody Hen (s
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3rd - 4th
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NGSS:
3-LS1-1
Myth Study and Writing Unit - A Spiral Studies Mini-Unit
Myth Writing Unit
Greek Myth Study
Integrated Unit (Optional)
In this 4-part Myth Study and Writing Unit, students will build background knowledge on the critical components of myths, Greek mythology, and constellations before they read and analyze 5 Greek myths about constellations. Then, students will design their own constellation and write a myth to explain its origin in the night sky. Students will progress through every step of the writing process while writing their myths.
Skills Deve
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5th - 8th
Summarizing Lesson Plans with Activities
Want to teach students how to write a strong summary paragraph all while keeping them engaged? Then, this unit of summarizing activities are for you! Differentiate for all learners with a small group lesson, enrichment, and intervention idea! All the materials are provided, except books. The lessons are engaging, require little prep, and arerigorous for your upper elementary students. What can you find in the lessons each day?A whole group lesson that focuses on an aspect of text structureA smal
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3rd - 4th
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Macbeth Close Reading Workbook
Teach Shakespeare's Macbeth with ease! This Macbeth Workbook provides students with an opportunity to close read important passages and excerpts with literary focus, making the text accessible. In all, the unit includes 16 print or digital close reading activities for significant passages from the play. These close reading activities will provide students with insight and focus on important aspects of the play as a whole. You can use this workbook to supplement reading the full text, or you can
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9th - 12th
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The Ultimate Star-Crossed Love Stories Unit with Romeo and Juliet + Paired Texts
In this unit, students will close read and discuss key star-crossed love stories such as “Orpheus and Eurydice” and “Layla and Majnun.” I have also included an excerpted version of Romeo and Juliet that includes the major scenes / moments from the play to make it more palatable for students and also easier to read in a short amount of time. Excerpts from the play are accompanied by close reading tasks, questions, and discussions to help students interact with the text in a meaningful way.This bu
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
FILM STUDY Film Analysis Unit for ANY FILM - English Film Techniques
This complete FILM STUDY UNIT for High School English walks students through a thorough English film analysis of film techniques in ANY FILM you would like to study in your classroom. This unit is all about understanding how English film techniques are used to communicate meaning in film. High school English students studying films will achieve excellent depth of understanding of your chosen movie and will know it 'inside out’. This easy-to-follow film unit will make you feel confident that you
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: FULL YEAR ENGLISH PROGRAM Year 9 Year 10 BUNDLE Australia New Zealand
Summer Reading Passages Coral Reefs & Ecosystems & Informational Text
Are you looking for summer reading passages with comprehension questions? Would you like your students to learn about the coral reef ecosystem? This reading unit on coral reefs is perfect for environmental reading, science literacy, and Earth Day. This is a Very Low Prep Unit! Students will love this CLOSE reading unit on Coral Reefs that addresses the Reading Informational Text standards while promoting science literacy. The reading level is appropriate for 5th-7th grade. Unit includes:slide s
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4th - 7th
NGSS:
MS-LS2-4
Macbeth COMPLETE UNIT | Colorful Workbooks | Editable Worksheets for Honors & AP
Something "wicked" this way comes! This complete unit has everything you'll need to deliver profoundly engaging lessons on William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The colorful workbooks will enable you to capture and hold the attention of modern-day students. The higher-order questions will help you pivot from reading comprehension to interpretive analysis and critical thinking. Deliver top-quality lessons while inspiring students to fall in love with Shakespeare's Macbeth!!Every page in this teacher-fri
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9th - 12th
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Serial Podcast Bundle: Introduction, Episodes 1 and 2
*Update*Now includes:* Answer keys to episodes 1 and 2* Powerpoint version of Smart Notebook with additional slides that:- introduce the podcast- introduce key people - provide specific questions to consider, goals and key terms for episodes 1-3This bundle is a start-up to the podcast "Serial". It includes:1. An introduction to Podcasts, Serial and the main players as a Smartboard notebook2. Memory activity:This activity engages students in the podcast Serial. Sarah Koenig asks several question
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Grades:
9th - 12th
American Symbols - Reading Passages
American Symbols - This unit covers 7 American patriotic symbols and landmarks. Tour the country learning about each symbol and landmark through primary passages offered in two different levels. All the passages are provided with color and black and white versions. Use these passages as a CLOSE reading activity, in small groups or as a whole class. Vocabulary words are also provided with pictures to help with understanding. Use the vocabulary book to check for understanding. Follow up your readi
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1st - 2nd
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