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Common Core CCRA.R.2 videos
"Monkey's Paw" Engaging Short Story Analysis (Mood, Theme, and Foreshadowing)
This is not only a comprehensive lesson using the classic tale "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs, but it is also a whole lot of fun for middle school students! This story is great to teach around Halloween time!What you get in the student guide:1) Background information2) Anticipation guide3) Mini research opportunity on superstitions4) Full copy of the unabridged text5) Mood analysis sheet6) Foreshadowing analysis sheet7) Socratic question sheet8) Theme: fate vs. free will analysis9) Film / sho
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6th - 10th
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How to Teach Main Idea & Key Details for High School Reading Skills
Do your students struggle with determining main idea and key details? Teach students how to apply these critical reading skills from any text with this NO PREP digital and interactive lesson that includes a teacher video, examples, and directions. This main idea and key details lesson focuses on reading and writing skills by providing students with an anchor chart that likens main idea to a concrete idea and gives steps to students on how to determine the main idea. Main Idea and Details Answer
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6th - 9th
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Paraphrasing Lesson & Activity for High School Writing Skills
Do you want to help your students improve comprehension, build writing skills and avoid plagiarism? Teach students how to paraphrase with this NO PREP digital and interactive lesson that focuses on both reading and writing skills for paraphrasing by providing students with context for paraphrasing and the 4 R’s strategy and multiple examples. This can be used for your students in high school or middle school, especially for struggling readers and writers. This lesson includes a teaching video in
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: High School Writing Skills Digital Lessons & Activities NO PREP Bundle
Disney Pixar-- Topic vs. Theme (Dug's Special Mission)
For this activity, students will be watching a Disney Pixar short film in order to apply their knowledge of topic vs. theme. This is such a fun way to get students engaged and apply their knowledge to a visual text. Great way to assess introductory theme vs. topic skills.Students will need to take notes and track topics during the mini-movie, and then eventually turn it into a thematic statement. They will also need to support their theme with specific evidence from the mini-movie. The link to t
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5th - 9th
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Cuneiform Bundle: Activities on the Invention of Writing in Mesopotamia
Note: This is the Print/PDF version. We also have a Google Apps/Distance Learning version available by clicking here.This 23-page product is a set of activities for your students to learn about the invention of writing in ancient Mesopotamia. All websites for the online activities and video are provided. Your students will love learning using the internet and watching the cartoon video!This lesson is aligned with standards for history/social sciences at the state and national levels.Included:
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4th - 10th
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How to Summarize (vs Retell)
Teach summary vs retelling skills to students in an enticing and engaging way so they learn the difference once and for all. Teaching to summarize can be a tricky concept for students but if teachers teach summary skills while making connections to retelling a story, it can make a huge difference! This activity will guide teachers in how to teach summary skills with examples and can be used at any point in the year. Included are charts and venn diagrams for teaching how to summarize, steps to su
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Fun Activities
Conflict (External and Internal) Mini Lesson PPT with EMBEDDED video examples!
This PowerPoint includes a review of external and internal conflict complete with embedded video examples of each. It also includes an activity at the end that can either be printed or used as a whole-class assessment of differentiating between external and internal conflicts.This is a fun and engaging lesson for all levels of students!NOTE: this PPT requires PowerPoint 2010 or later to display the embedded videos. Videos will only play in presentation mode (Click Slide Show > View Show). Onc
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3rd - 12th
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Guided-Shared Reading Interactive Read Aloud and Craft for Kids: The Bad Seed
This is the FREE video portion of the guide to a shared-reading read aloud of “The Bad Seed” from the MaiStoryBook Library Collection.
Includes FREE additional reading resources available for “The Bad Seed” including:
- a Giant Sunflower Handprint craft inspired by the story
- book review + synopsis
- vocabulary list
- main themes list
What is shared reading:
An interactive reading experience that occurs when children join in or share the reading of a book or other text while guided and suppo
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PreK - 2nd
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Stranger Things and the 80s | ELA Intertextuality Analysis Unit | POWERPOINT
A comprehensive, visually appealing NON-EDITABLE 50+ page introduction to intertextuality in film texts, using modern Netflix Series 'Stranger Things' and finding comparative intertextual references from a multitude of 80's films, including 'E.T', 'Poltergeist', 'Nightmare on Elm Street', 'Alien' and 'Firestarter'.This unit contains a detailed breakdown of the elements of Season 1 Episode 1 of 'Stranger Things'.Includes embedded clips and videos as well as a Senior English assessment task that
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: English Literature ELA Growing Bundle | PowerPoints, PDF & Google Units
LITERARY TERMS | VIDEO CLIPS & ACTIVITIES
This resource includes ⭐30 Literary Terms⭐ that students are required to master with activities & video clips for each one. There are 2 words per slide with a few pages that have a combination of more than 2.What's Included:Literary TermDefinitionWord used in a sentenceLink to a video that explains the word and gives examplesReview question/activity Sheet for students to write down the definition of each wordTracking sheet to track when each term is masteredOptions for Use:Students can watch
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5th - 8th
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Story Elements PPT with EMBEDDED VIDEOS from Popular Kids' Movies!
This PowerPoint is an engaging way to teach your students the 7 main story elements! This can be used as an introduction to a unit on story elements before diving deeper into each individual element. This lesson covers: characters, setting, plot, conflict, resolution and theme. Each story element is accompanied by a depiction of that element from a popular kids' movie. Movie clips are included from Frozen, Moana, Inside Out and more! NOTE: If the videos appear black on your screen, click File &g
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4th - 8th
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MLA 9 research source cards, note cards, and video library
This product was designed to help students learn the skills essential to any research assignment: evaluating the credibility of sources, identifying the elements of a source that are needed to create an MLA citation, annotating sources for the most useful information, organizing that information into subtopics, and creating a works cited page. Everything reflects the most recent MLA guidelines (MLA 8 and 9 follow the same formatting rules.)This product contains six components:A hyperlink library
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: MLA Research Resources for High School, Digital Lesson Bundle
Introduction to Parts of a Story and review activities on poetic devices
I created nine activities on story vocabulary and poetic devices. The activities include:- a personal narrative (self-written)- a song (Last Kiss - Wayne Cochran)- videos from You TubeActivities include: matching vocabulary items with vocabulary, matching vocabulary items with parts of a story / a song, short answer questions.
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Suspense Unit
Students love this high interest unit and gain important skills in literary analysis, research, and narrative writing. These Common Core aligned materials help students to: Readingü Analyze literature for character, plot, theme, and languageü Explore elements of suspense including dramatic and situational irony, foreshadowing, and the unreliable narratorü Annotate with purposeü Construct text-dependent analysis responses with strong evidence and analysisResearchü Identify and cite sourcesü Take
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6th - 9th
Thanksgiving Social Studies Bundle | 12+ Activities | PPT | Video Lesson
This bundle was created to teach 4th-grade students about Thanksgiving. It includes:The History of Thanksgiving (reading passage + fill in the blank)The Presidential History of Thanksgiving (coloring activity + description of their role in making Thanksgiving a holiday or the tradition they started)Thanksgiving VocabularyAcrostic Poem for Social Studies: GratitudeThanksgiving Word SearchThanksgiving Writing Exercise: Personal anecdoteThanksgiving Writing Exercise: What are you thankful for?3 Tha
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4th - 6th
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Teaching Plot Elements Through an Animated Short Film and Its Comic Version
Teaching plot elements can sometimes be difficult for middle school students. Using different mediums and paired text can help students understand that they are already masters of analyzing different elements of plot! Included is a link to the short animated film, “The Present” on YouTube and the comic version of the film. Use the slide by slide guide to break down the different elements of plot in the film followed by film analysis questions. The presentation also includes a comparison and con
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4th - 11th
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Characterization Activities Using Short Film Bundle
The Adventures of Hopscotch: Hopscotch Begins animated short films and characterization activities provide a comprehensive set of engaging, rigorous resources for literacy instruction. The materials don’t just tell Hopscotch’s story through animated short films (the original short film and the short film with a literacy lesson). They use that story to explicitly teach literacy skills. Students eager to learn about Hopscotch’s adventures will receive an instructional lesson about characterizatio
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5th - 7th
Hot Wheels Informational Text Reading Passage and Activities
This mini lesson is a complete digital lesson with no prep activities using Google Slides. The lesson activities include video instruction, informational text article, close reading, comprehension, and writing a summarizing paragraph. The lesson has accommodations built right into the activities and the videos will engage reluctant readers.Each Micro-learning Deck includes:lesson engager, objectives, and preview of lesson activities short video lesson short informational text reading passage wit
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3rd - 6th
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SPACECAT Rhetorical Analysis - 12 speeches under 12 minutes CHOICE BOARD
**This resource is also available in...Rhetorical Analysis Unit Bundle Engage your students with a choice board of 12 video speeches -- each speech under 12 minutes. This is a great introduction to get your students comfortable with the SPACECAT rhetorical analysis organizer or for practice heading into the AP Language exam. I'm always searching for speeches that grab my students' attention while also containing substance for rhetorical analysis and representing diverse perspectives. This collec
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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VIDEO: Identifying Theme in Literature (Reading Skill Instruction)
Looking for a fun way to introduce or review how to identify theme in literature? This short animated video, is sure to catch their attention with eye-catching graphics, and fun animations!Watch as a whole class during a mini-lesson, or have students view the kid-friendly video on individual devices. The student access cards with a QR code and shorten link make it easy for students to pull up the video on a laptop, iPad, tablet or any other digital device - great as part of a literacy center!In
VIDEO: Main Idea & Supporting Details (Reading Skill Instruction)
Looking for a fun way to introduce or review main idea and supporting details? This short animated video, is sure to catch their attention with eye-catching graphics, and fun animations!Watch as a whole class during a mini-lesson, or have students view the kid-friendly video on individual devices. The student access cards with a QR code and shorten link make it easy for students to pull up the video on a laptop, iPad, tablet or any other digital device - great as part of a literacy center!In the
Writing Prompt and Activities: Animated Short Films BUNDLE Volume 2
Engage your students in the writing process with animated short films as writing prompts. Activities include sequencing the beginning, middle and end; true-false for story comprehension; main idea and supporting details; and summarizing with a graphic organizer and word bank.The animated short films in this bundle include: Bridge, Course of Nature, Joy and Heron, Llama Drama, and Watermelon.These high interest mini lessons are complete digital lessons with no prep activities using Google Slides
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1st - 4th
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Stone Age Tools Informational Text Reading Passage and Activities
This mini lesson on is a complete digital lesson with no-prep activities using Google Slides. The lesson activities include video instruction, informational text article, vocabulary, close reading, and writing a summarizing paragraph. The lesson has accommodations built right into the activities and the videos will engage reluctant readers.Each lesson includes:video lessonshort reading passage with audiocomprehension activitiesquick write activity with writing template and word bankThe lesson o
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5th - 8th
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Gorillas Informational Text Reading Passage and Activities
This high interest and engaging mini lesson is a complete digital and interactive lesson with no prep activities using Google Slides. The lesson has accommodations built right into the activities. The videos and photos will engage reluctant readers.Each Micro-learning Deck includes:lesson engager, objectives, and preview of lesson activities video lesson informational text reading passage with audiovocabulary & comprehension activities, some with audioquick write activity with writing templa
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Jungle Animals Informational Text Reading Passage and Activities Bundle
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