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Close reading Common Core RL.7.4 unit plans
7th Grade ELA Yearlong Curriculum, Lesson Plans, and Pacing Guide
Imagine having your entire middle school ELA school year planned for you! This curriculum and pacing guide for 7th grade ELA includes EVERYTHING you need for an entire school year of reading, writing, learning, growth, and engagement. Simply download the PDF pacing guide and yearlong curriculum, and you will have 66+ digital links along with a calendar and pacing guide that maps out your entire school year DAY TO DAY. No more wondering what you'll teach tomorrow or stressing about the next unit-
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6th - 8th
Mood Mini-Unit - 3 Mood Lessons - Paper and Digital Versions
Mood is an essential element of every piece of literature. That’s why helping students to understand how to distinguish and analyze the mood of a text is essential. This mini-unit is designed to do just that! Not only will students understand that mood is the atmosphere of a text, they’ll also develop confidence in their own skills as a reader. This 3-day mini-unit provides lots of opportunities for students to read, write, and discuss mood. Each lesson starts with a fun and engaging activit
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5th - 8th
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The Lady, or the Tiger by Frank Stockton - Short Story Unit - Narrative Writing
This 8 day short story unit for "The Lady or the Tiger" by Frank Stockton contains scaffolded close reading activities and a no-prep narrative writing task that will engage your middle school students. These reading comprehension resources are designed to support struggling readers, ELL/ESL, and special education students, such as an adapted play, differentiated activities, and chunked text and guided reading questions.Students will LOVE that they are in control of deciding the resolution to thi
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: The Lady, or the Tiger by Frank Stockton - Short Story Unit - Task Cards
Short Story Bundle of Three Scary Stories for Any Time of Year Print and Digital
Scare your students – and teach them to analyze great literature at the same time! This bundle includes three creepy short stories: “The Monkey’s Paw,” “The Tell-tale Heart,” and “The Lottery.” Perfect for any time of year -- a great for a sub plan.Digital and print -- ready for whatever you need! Each unit includes a print version, a Google Slide option, and PowerPoint.Your students will love reading, analyzing, discussing, and debating them! And you will love having them in a unit -- read
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6th - 9th
IF CORNERED, SCREAM SHORT STORY ACTIVITY | HALLOWEEN | READING STRATEGIES
FOCUS ON READING STRATEGIES IN THE UPPER GRADES WITH "IF CORNERED, SCREAM" BY PATRICIA THURMOND. With this engaging, unique, and short text, reinforce lower and higher level reading skills in an interactive way.This unit includes:-Unique Graphic Organizers to aide student comprehension-Common Core Alignment-The entire story with vocabulary context clues development-Focus on 7 Reading Strategies: Predict, Infer, Identify, Question, Evaluate, Connect, & Visualize-5 Extension T
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: SHORT STORIES UNIT BUNDLE
The Landlady by Roald Dahl Short Story Unit - Narrative Writing - 36 Task Cards
"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl short story unit BUNDLE is filled with reading comprehension activities to teach main idea, summary, theme, characterization, foreshadowing, suspense, and more. This 8-day close reading unit is the PERFECT resource to help your middle school ELA students think critically and dive deeper into Dahl's classic suspenseful story. Each lesson is scaffolded and contains tools to help meet the diverse needs of all learners. There is also a creative writing project that requi
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6th - 9th
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"Examination Day" by Henry Slesar || Exploration Pack w/ 55+ Pages!
Short Story Analysis: "Examination Day" by Henry Slesar Exploration PackDive deep into the dystopian realm of "Examination Day" by Henry Slesar with our comprehensive analysis pack! This resource is crafted to immerse your students in a thought-provoking exploration of vocabulary, plot, characterization, tone, and more, offering a complete toolkit for an enriching literary journey."EXAMINATION DAY" BY HENRY SLESAR"Examination Day" by Henry Slesar is a chilling dystopian short story that explores
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Dystopian Short Stories Growing Bundle: Explore, Analyze, and Discuss
Short Story Unit: Death by Scrabble by Charlie Fish
If you were looking for a thorough, rigorous, and fun short story unit, then look no further! This short story unit focuses on "Death by Scrabble" by Charlie Fish and covers a variety of language arts standards to really push students to think outside the box while gaining a deeper understanding of the text as a whole.THIS UNIT INCLUDES:Vocabulary (practice and quiz included)ThemeSymbolismCharacterizationConflictSuspense
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Suspenseful Short Story Unit B U N D L E
Literary Analysis Graphic Organizer + Literary Analysis Unit to Any Story CCSS
No Prep Resource - Print and Go: Say goodbye to endless lesson planning and hello to seamless literary analysis instruction! This no-prep resource is your ultimate companion, offering a ready-to-use solution that will make your life easier than ever. Simply print, distribute, and watch as your students dive into the intricate world of literary analysis with enthusiasm!It Includes:Study Unit and Study Guide: A comprehensive guide covering all 16 main categories and subcategories of literary analy
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Resistance by Jennifer A. Nielsen Full Unit Plan
47 pages worth of material. Included in the unit are short answer question prompts, essay prompts, comprehension questions. There are also in-depth spotlights on people, historical or cultural importance brought up in the book. Links to public domain interviews with survivors and activities to go with them.
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7th
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Also included in: Dual Novel Study Resistance and The Darkest Hour
This Promise of Change Literature Guide
A complete unit/ literature guide for the book This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality by Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy. This Literature Guide contains over 50 reading comprehension questions (divided by chapter), vocabulary activities, literary analysis activities, a before reading anticipation guide, research project with rubric, a test, and an answer key.
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4th - 8th
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Iqbal by Francesco D'Adamo Unit Plan - Common Core
This unit plan includes quizzes, culminating activities, projects, and assessments for the novel Iqbal by Francesco D'Adamo. No fancy graphics here, just tried and true questions that I have used with my special education seventh grade students! Includes selected and constructed response style questions. This plan will meet Common Core English Language Arts standards and requires students to support their answers with textual evidence. Particularly for constructed response questions, I have foun
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6th - 7th
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Wonderful Wizard of Oz close reading bundle
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a fantastic book for middle or high school special education classes. Graphic novel versions and movie clips can be used to support comprehension. This bundle includes a version of the text that I abridged, 10 lessons on viewing the text through the lens of The Hero's Journey literary theory, vocabulary support for the first 2 chapters, and multiple choice questions for 9 chapters of the book.
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6th - 8th
Let America Be America Again - No Prep Poetry Lesson Plan
The perfect introduction to Langston Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance or the American Dream - this no prep lesson plan contains everything you need to kickstart a unit in your ELA or History classroom. I created this resource to accompany an American Dream mini-unit before my class reads the Great Gatsby. This product combines creativity, engagement, and comprehension to make the study of “The American Dream” an interactive experience for your students.This resource contains the famous poem “Let A
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6th - 12th
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As You Like It - "All the World's a Stage" - Introducing Shakespeare Activity
Are you ready to engage your students in the timeless beauty of Shakespearean literature, but need a way to get your foot in the door? These resources on “Shakespeare’s Famous Speeches” are the perfect way to simply and effectively get your students to successfully learn from “The Bard of Avon.”As an educator, it is of the utmost importance to foster a love for language and literature in my students, and every product I create is crafted with this goal in mind. I created resources for “Shakespea
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6th - 12th
Orbiting Jupiter Novel Unit
Novel Unit includes Worksheet Assignments for the novel Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt Great for hybrid/online learning and Google Classroom!12 Student Version Worksheets by Chapter12 Worksheet Answer KeysI taught this in my class of 7th graders in spring 2021 during hybrid learning, and it worked so well! Usually I would make worksheets with more pictures, graphs, and charts... but I found that students struggled with the formatting while typing. These worksheets are simply formatted with
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Novel Bundle
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson | FULL Short Story Lesson w/ Slides & Handouts!
Short Story Analysis: "The Lottery" Exploration Pack - Unraveling Shirley Jackson's Masterpiece!Embark on a literary journey into the chilling narrative of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" with our comprehensive analysis pack! This resource is thoughtfully curated to engage your students in an in-depth exploration of vocabulary, plot, setting, irony, foreshadowing, and more, fostering a profound understanding of this iconic short story."THE LOTTERY" BY SHIRLEY JACKSON:A small American community o
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7th - 10th
Also included in: Dystopian Short Stories Growing Bundle: Explore, Analyze, and Discuss
Engage NY 7th grade ELA Module 3 Unit 1 Google Slides
Engage NY ELA units are complex, these easy to follow Google Slides match each lesson of the 7th grade Engage NY curriculum Module 3 Unit 1 Lessons 1-15. They are aesthetically appealing and will help to keep you on track with the lessons. Students will find these helpful to know what pages to be on as you are teaching. Additionally, they can refer to the board to be reminded of the questions that they are discussing or answering. These slides are 100% editable so that you can make these lessons
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7th
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The Pearl by John Steinbeck: FULL UNIT Comprehension Questions
The Pearl by John Steinbeck: FULL UNIT Comprehension Questions
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6th - 12th
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"After Twenty Years" by O. Henry || Exploration Pack w/ 50+ Pages!
Short Story Analysis: "After Twenty Years" by O. Henry Exploration PackDive deep into the dystopian realm of "After Twenty Years" by O. Henry with our comprehensive analysis pack! This resource is crafted to immerse your students in a thought-provoking exploration of vocabulary, plot, characterization, tone, and more, offering a complete toolkit for an enriching literary journey."AFTER TWENTY YEARS" BY O. HENRY"After Twenty Years" is a captivating short story by O. Henry that unfolds the unexpec
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7th - 10th
First Rule of Punk (pre-reading, reading, post reading essays)
This product contains station rotations activities used for to gain background information about the themes and content in the book. Following those are reading comprehension questions as students read the novel. Finally, there are three types of essays to choose from following the ending of the book. The essays include all types of writing (argumentative, narrative, informative).
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7th
Short Story Unit: Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" Unit Plan, CCSS
Guide your students through Ray Bradbury's classic short story, "There Will Come Soft Rains," with this thorough, weeklong short story mini unit. With four engaging activities, you'll have everything you need to help your students predict, analyze, discuss, and synthesize the themes, plot, and more of "There Will Come Soft Rains." Additionally, this unit plan comes with teacher instructions, rubrics, and a pacing guide to make your job easier and help you along the way.THIS BUNDLE INCLUDES"There
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7th - 10th
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The Giver Unit for Reading Comprehension: Technology, Persuasion, & Human Rights
The Giver Reading ComprehensionDo you need meaningful unit plans that help you teach reading comprehension for The Giver from start to finish? This resource of comprehensive, multi-modal lessons and differentiated activities allows you to take the guesswork out of The Giver novel study!Relevant Novel Study for Us TodayStudents will use critical thinking to connect The Giver text to the their world and to society at large. Through nonfiction texts and videos, they will explore persuasion, "techno
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6th - 9th
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Short Story Unit: The Storm by McKnight Malmar
If you were looking for a thorough, rigorous, and fun short story unit, then look no further! This short story unit focuses on "The Storm" by McKnight Malmar and covers a variety of language arts standards to really push students to think outside the box while gaining a deeper understanding of the text as a whole.THIS UNIT INCLUDES:Vocabulary (practice and quiz included)ThemeSymbolismCharacterizationConflictSuspense
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Suspenseful Short Story Unit B U N D L E
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