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Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa Common Core RL.6.5 resources
Christmas ELA Digital Escape Room - Common Core Aligned
Going into Christmas break can have students rowdy and make it hard to engage them in anything academic. This READY TO GO Common Core aligned Escape Room will have students reading, answering questions, and eager to collaborate. All you have to do is literally share the link with students, and they are all set! This product includes:4 TasksTask 1: The Tale of Christmas Stockings - Chronological OrderTask 2: Why Santa Chose Reindeer – Reading ComprehensionTask 3: Farmer Felton’s Tree Farm – Plot
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: DIGITAL Escape Room BUNDLE: Reading Comprehension
The Little Match Girl Christmas Short Story Analysis for the Common Core
The Little Match Girl is a classic story by Hans Christian Anderson. This analysis applies the common core standards for literature. The goal of the study is to challenge students with critical thinking questions directly connected to the text.
The study includes:
1. The story in block form with questions for each block.
2. Questions that are text-based and require analysis.
3. Using specific text to analyze the development of theme.
4. Analyzing the use of specific words and phrases to c
Grades:
4th - 8th
A Christmas Carol Activities Unit Plan | Middle School
This A Christmas Carol Unit Plan is a great way to keep your middle school students engaged in learning activities during the Holiday Season. This PDF resource is complete with detailed lesson plans for each Stave of Charles Dickens' holiday tale, including before, during and after reading activities. Students will analyze characters, setting, theme, and more as they enjoy this classic story! These resources work well with the novella and various dramatized play versions of the story.Best of al
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Thanksgiving Christmas Holiday Mega Bundle - Middle School ELA
A Christmas Carol Unit Novel Study Bundle - Printable & Digital
Keep students engaged this holiday season with a novel study they'll love! In this A Christmas Carol novel study for middle school, you'll get a variety of skill-based activities for practicing character development, figurative language, theme, and more middle school reading skills. Follow Scrooge on his ghostly Christmas adventure with a complete set of novel activities:Anticipation Guide and Exit Tickets (plus digital)Vocabulary Activities (plus digital)Reading Questions (plus digital)Figurati
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6th - 9th
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December ELA Activities Bundle for Middle School
This collection of December and Christmas ELA activities includes the perfect standards-based resources to engage your students during this festive month. Use these print-and-go resources to give your students practice reading to self, reading to someone, listening to reading, word work, and writing—all centered around the seasonal themes of December and the holidays!Included in this ELA Activities Bundle:• Christmas Close Reads for Big Kids• Digital North Pole Job Application• The Show Must Go
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4th - 7th
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Christmas Reading and ELA Digital Activities | Twas the Night Before Christmas
Do you need a fun, interactive Google Slides comprehension activity that will engage your upper elementary or middle school students and save you time? Your students will love this digital activity that goes along with one of the most famous Christmas Poems of all time- 'Twas the Night Before Christmas! This activity can be assigned in Google Classroom for students to complete. A teacher guide and answer key are included to ensure this is a no prep, stress free activity for you!Skills Covered:⭐T
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5th - 8th
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Last Week of School Reading Activities Short Play Readers Theater Scripts Fables
Reader’s Theater Script Bundle - Engage your upper-grade students with this exciting Reader’s Theater Script Bundle, featuring adaptations of seasonal and holiday-themed plays. This collection is perfect for building reading fluency while incorporating elements of literature, vocabulary, and public speaking.✅ What's included: ✅Reader’s Theater Scripts:A Christmas Carol adapted from Charles DickensSt. Patrick’s DaySpringHalloweenSummerCharacter Name Tags:Printable name tags for students to wear
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4th - 7th
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Christmas Reading Comprehension Paired Passages
What kid hasn't wished Christmas, their birthday, Hanuka, or the Fourth of July could come around more than once a year? This wonderful, classic short story reminds us that too much of a sweet thing can quickly turn sour!
The story is paired with an article about the waste generated during the holiday season and a video about holiday recycling. This rigorous unit includes guided practice on how to closely read a complex text, as well as how to answer multiple choice, sh
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6th - 8th
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Twas the Night Before Christmas Activities | Christmas Middle School ELA
Do you need an engaging, interactive Christmas comprehension activity that will engage your students and save you time? Your 6th, 7th or 8th grade students will love this activity that goes along with 'Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore, one of the most famous Christmas Poems of all time. A teacher guide and answer key is included to ensure this is a NO PREP STRESS-FREE activity for you! Activities Included:•Copy of poem by Clement Clarke Moore•Annotating Text Activity•Text
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Christmas ELA and Reading Activities for Middle School | Holiday ELA
Christmas ELA Winter Activities Literary Pixar Short Films PLOT & NARRATIVE
Pixar short film workshop for Christmas Star. Short Film Workshop: A Christmas Star. A seriously fun way to teach NARRATIVE writing and LITERARY ELEMENTS! This lesson is PACKED with engaging activities that will teach students real world use of literary elements and how writers use them to create great stories. Students will learn to transfer the techniques to narrate the short film. FACT: ADDING NARRATION TO A SILENT FILM IS AN EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE STRATEGY FOR TEACHING NARRATIVE WRITNG!ACTIVI
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5th - 8th
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Teaching Reading with Animated Short Films Christmas | Digital + Printable
If you are looking to add some high interest activities to your lessons this Christmas season, try using animated shorts to teach reading skills. The unit includes 43 activities to use with 43 Christmas themed videos. All short films will be added to a webpage on Book Units Teacher for easy access. The link to this webpage will be included in the purchased product. This product includes both digital activities for Google Slides plus printables.Free Samples are found in the preview.This resource
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Teaching Reading with Animated Short Films Digital + Printable Bundle
Teaching Reading with Animated Short Films Christmas | Printable Version
If you are looking to add some high interest activities to your lessons this Christmas season, try using animated shorts to teach reading skills. The unit includes 43 activities to use with 43 Christmas themed videos. All short films will be added to a webpage on Book Units Teacher for easy access. The link to this webpage will be included in the purchased product.Free Samples are found in the preview.This resource contains graphic organizers covering the following Common Core skills.LiteratureR
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4th - 6th
A Christmas Carol Pre-Reading Activities & Exit Tickets - Printable & Digital
Get students interested and excited to read with this novel anticipation guide! I use this A Christmas Carol pre-reading activity to introduce Charles Dickens' classic story and spark rich discussions of theme before we even begin reading. Each of the ten statements relates to an important theme presented in the novel and is general enough that it can also be used with an adapted version of Scrooge's story.I've also included six exit tickets (a.k.a. exit slips or exit cards - depending on what
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: A Christmas Carol Unit Novel Study Bundle - Printable & Digital
A Christmas Carol Test - Printable & Digital
This end-of-book test (part of my complete A Christmas Carol Novel Unit) covering all five staves of Charles Dickens' classic story A Christmas Carol includes eight character matching questions and 17 multiple-choice questions.With this test, you'll be able to assess:- general comprehension- characterization- plot- conflict- cause and effect- theme- inference- irony- symbolismThis resource includes the following digital versions:Google Slides (link in PDF)Easel Activity (link in My Purchases)Eas
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: A Christmas Carol Unit Novel Study Bundle - Printable & Digital
A Christmas Carol Study Guide Questions - Printable & Digital
Good comprehension checks are a must for any novel study! These A Christmas Carol reading questions (part of my complete A Christmas Carol Novel Unit) contain higher-level reading comprehension and analysis questions to accompany Charles Dickens' classic holiday novel, A Christmas Carol. For each stave, there are 7-8 questions as well as a thought-provoking writing prompt.Students will practice:-characterization-motivation-reading for detail-plot/sequencing-inference-supporting details-cause and
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: A Christmas Carol Unit Novel Study Bundle - Printable & Digital
The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen Short Story Holiday Unit
This "The Little Match Girl" by Hans Christian Andersen short story unit is the perfect resource to teach and use with your middle school students leading up to the Christmas/Holiday break. This classic by Hans Christian Andersen will have students rethinking their desires for more gifts and material items, with his thought-provoking main character and plot.Engage your students seamlessly with thoughtful pre-reading discussions and activities, as well as interactive post-reading activities
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6th - 9th
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Christmas Holiday Poetry Pack
Why let the primary grades have all of the fun during the holiday season? These holiday poems and task cards will help you and your students stay in the holiday spirit as well as learn how to analyze poetry.
This packet includes 6 Christmas/winter poems, 24 task cards to use with these poems (or your own), and holiday themed paper for your students to use for their task card responses or to publish their own poetry. Poems are in a black and white, printer friendly format, so you can print the
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4th - 7th
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'Twas the Night Before Christmas Poetry Booklet Activity
This two day activity will keep students engaged the week before Christmas vacation as they create substitutions for the original words from Clement Claire Moore's narrative poem, "Twas the Night Before Christmas." Using any version, students listen either to the teacher reading or an online youtube version identifying the AABB pattern and the very obvious meter. Working individually,or in pairs, students rewrite the original version using humorous or more up-to-date terms, illustrating as the
Christmas Figurative Language Pack
The weeks before Christmas will fly by with these festive activities added to your Word Work centers.
Reinforce key skills of figurative language with a Christmas theme.
Cards include 6 examples of each of the following figurative language types: simile, metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, personification. Students can sort and categorize sentence examples, play concentration in a center, or use cards to match/pair students.
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Cards for Matching, Sorting and Concentrati
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3rd - 7th
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A Christmas Carol Socratic Seminar and Writing Activities
This engaging writing activity (part of my A Christmas Carol Novel Unit) contains nine thought-provoking prompts related to Charles Dickens' classic holiday novel A Christmas Carol, and the file also includes a bonus Socratic seminar with 18 analysis questions for rich discussion!These activities can be used separately or as a pair (write and then discuss, or hold a seminar and use the writing prompts as a follow-up), but they are both excellent ways to wrap up a novel study, spark class discuss
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: A Christmas Carol Unit Novel Study Bundle - Printable & Digital
HOLIDAY FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE TASK CARDS & POETRY ACTIVITIES
These DIFFERENTIATED Common Core aligned activities use popular Christmas sayings and "Twas the Night Before Christmas" by Clement Clarke Moore to review figurative language and rhyme scheme.Included in this packet are:"Twas the Night Before Christmas text12 figurative language task cardsActivity for more advanced students more assistanceactivity for more advanced studentsWriting activity regarding a modernized version of "Twas the Night Before Christmas." Great activity to keep your students o
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5th - 8th
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FREE HEY DEER SHORT FILM PLOT DIAGRAM WINTER CHRISTMAS LITERARY DEVICES
FREE Pixar Short Film Plot Diagram for HEY DEER!Super fun way to teach PLOT ELEMENTSThis resource includes:Plot DiagramEditable Answer SheetYouTube Link to the short film Hey Deer!FULL DIGITAL AND PRINTABLE WORKSHOPS AVAILABLEThe FULL WORKSHOP Includes:Identification and Analysis of the elements of plotPlot-Setting, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, ResolutionThemePoint of View and PerspectiveEssential QuestionsBonus QuestionCulminating narrative writing activity with rubric and m
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4th - 8th
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The Gift of the Magi Bundle
This bundle includes 3 products for the short story "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry:1. Literary Analysis: includes the full text, reading comprehension questions, after reading questions, and answer keys.2. 360° Digital Escape Room: Students will solve a series of clues based on the story. This game entails reading comprehension skills, finding textual evidence, and making inferences.3. One Pager Project: Students imaginatively blend their written ideas with colorful images based on informati
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5th - 10th
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ELA Christmas Bundle - Short Story, Creative Writing, Informational Texts
Maximize learning, engagement, and the spirit of Christmas in the ELA classroom with our comprehensive Christmas bundle. What's included:The Gift of the MagiTeach students valuable lessons about giving and sacrifice with our engaging and ready-to-print lesson plan.Christmas Informational TextsTeach students about unusual traditions, the art of giving, as well as the financial and environmental impacts of the festive season. Christmas Creative Writing ActivitiesStudents write festive short storie
Grades:
5th - 12th
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