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For all subjects Common Core RL.8.2 resources
Creative Activities for ANY Novel or Short Story with Handouts Distance Learning
Creative activities and project ideas for any novel, story, or unit in history. Includes standards alignment for every activity, EDITABLE grading rubrics, EDITABLE list of activities, EDITABLE student handouts that are ready to share in Google Slides, and lots of print-and-go handouts for students. These are perfect for distance learning!This 52-page bundle contains almost 100 creative student activities to use with any piece of literature. It includes 33 pages of templates and worksheets that
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
Summarizing Activities & Graphic Organizers with Steps Checklist, Middle & High
This cross-curricular literacy packet will help you teach - and students to effectively learn - the summarization process. The key is repeated practice of summarizing skills using multiple strategies for differentiation, interest, and reinforcement. ⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒Don't let learning to summarize be a boring lesson. These creative lessons will give you options for teaching strategies that best fit what students will be summarizing. Students will begin with t
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Fiction and Nonfiction Analysis and Assessment Bundle
20 Minute Reading Test Taking Strategy Activity (teacher slides included)
This interactive google doc follows a gradual release model to teach students how to eliminate answer choices and select the BEST choice even when they all seem correct. The activity includes CC informational reading passages and questions with a fun acronym to help students remember the strategy. My students love it, and it has definitely helped to increase their reading scores. Because it is a google doc, you can add more passages as needed. I added Gslides to help better instruct students.
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Reading Comprehension Activity
A fun and hands-on reading comprehension strategy that uses close reading skills AND keeps kids' interest and attention.
This product puts reading comprehension questions and prompts on the blocks of the game, which students pull out one at a time, trying to make sure the tower does not fall. They must answer the prompt they pull, either verbally with a group or writing on their answer sheet, before the next student's turn. This product uses the game Jenga, which you need to use or purchase i
Grades:
4th - 12th
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Assessments and Activities Worksheets with Scoring Guides | Language Arts
Save yourself hours and hours of time with these ready-to-go assessments, engaging activities, plus four multi-purpose scoring guides to use over and over.This product is also available in (1) my bundle Teacher's Toolkit Bundle - and in (2) my mega-bundleELA Mega Bundle Collection. Check them out now for some great deals!Includes 30 assessments, 10 self-assessments, and 4 scoring guides. This product is saved as a PDF (for quick and easy printing) and a PowerPoint (so that you can edit). Please
Grades:
7th - 10th
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The Gift of the Magi - Christmas Story - PowerPoint Presentation with Questions
O. Henry's Christmas classic, "The Gift of the Magi" is a timeless holiday story with a beautiful message about love, sacrifice, and appreciation.... This engaging PowerPoint presentation recounts the story and enhances it with beautiful graphics. The presentation includes compelling questions to prompt class discussion.Kids love to be read to, no matter how old they are. I show this PowerPoint to my 11th graders, and they are attentive and engaged by the story and the graphics even if it's the
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5th - 9th
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Identifying Theme | Taylor Swift | Crossword | Printable | Answer Key
Resource includes a Swiftie-themed crossword puzzle and answer key. Puzzle clues include the themes of 20 popular Taylor Swift songs. The answers are the song titles.Fun resource for students to collaborate on to figure out the song titles. Even non-Swifties have fun trying to solve it. Great for upper elementary through high school.File includes:Printable PDF
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6th - 9th
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Reading Comprehension Time Capsule Activity | Main Idea Summary Template
Are you in need of a creative way for your students to find the main idea or summary of any assigned text or reading? This Time Capsule guide will help students summarize any historical, fictional, non-fictional, article or text book reading using illustration and writing. The following items are included in the student directions: ☞This resource is also included in my Emergency Activities Bundle. Right now, save more than 20% on this resource and more!☜What's Included:A complete set of teacher
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Not Grade Specific
Movie and Book Comparison Worksheet Mini Unit with Worksheets, posters, plans!
Newly expanded! Book and Movie Comparison Worksheets for Middle SchoolEngaging Activities for Analyzing Literature and Film Adaptations This resource is designed to provide middle school teachers with a variety of worksheets that encourage critical thinking and analysis of literature and its film adaptations. By exploring the similarities and differences between books and movies, students will develop a deeper understanding of storytelling techniques, character development, themes, and more. Stu
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6th - 12th
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Turning Red Movie Guide Activities: Worksheets, Reading, Coloring, & more!
Enhance your students' learning experience with my Turning Red Video Guide Worksheets. This comprehensive resource is designed to accompany the film, and is perfect for use in the classroom.The worksheets include:Fill-in-the-blank activity to be completed while watching the video.Informational text to help students complete worksheets.Short answer questions are great for students to complete after watching the video.Coloring Sheet for fast finishers!Writing prompt so students display their under
Grades:
6th - 8th
Self Portrait Blank Templates
Self Portrait blank templates
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Literature Circles Unit
Want to do literature circles, but are not sure how? This unit plan gives you everything you need to implement literature circles successfully time after time. Includes:Unit Overview 5 lesson plansHandouts for each lessonSelf-Assessment Rubric Use this in a high school or middle school classroom while doing literature circles. Will work for any content area. Follow our store to be notified when we list new content or have a sale. For more information about using literature circles in your class
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Grades:
7th - 10th
TWEET IT! A Summarizing Strategy
Make summarizing fun with this TWEET IT! resource! Tap into students' prior knowledge and skills and build 21st Century Literacy. Use this resource to respond to a text or class discussion, or as tickets out the door. The Group Tweet It page can be used as a write-around (where students pass their papers in a circle), or as a way to respond to other student’s posted work. This resource includes:3 Graphic Organizers4 Tickets Out the Door1 Group Response Sheet
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Grades:
2nd - 12th
4 Lesson Film Analysis Student Notes
Lesson 1: Analysis of Opening scene & exposition.Lesson 2: Analysis of plots & sub-plots.Lesson 3: Analysis of specific and significant scene interpretation.Lesson 4: Analysis of closure with a complete film analysis paragraph fill in.Each lesson ends with a short writing prompt that has scaffolded instructions for students to analyze what they viewed. The final lesson uses a specific cinematic element (just as a writer would use a literary device), students explain the purpose, evidence
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6th - 12th
Meet the Author
Students are presented with classical authors in the classroom daily and are exposed to a universal scope of reading material. Included in this package is a modern author that explores the culture in which our students live in today. I have presented three novels with a mini-lesson plan and printable worksheets with each.
Grades:
6th - 12th
CCSS:
Art + Students = Deep Thinking, Discussion & Writing
"A picture is a poem without words." Horace
Using art in a lesson can evoke creativity in students that even they didn't know existed.
Use these 32 distinct and thoughfully chosen pieces of art in a wide variety of lessons thoughout the year. In addition to the name of the painting and the artist, each card has a coding on the back which allows students to be easily grouped for discussion purposes.
In addition to the cards, there are 11 Common Core connected lesson plan ideas that allow
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Social Media Summaries
With our tech-savvy students using so many different types of social media, this graphic organizer incorporates social media (no computer necessary) and summarizing. The Flex Post Summaries can be used in any subject area (a chapter in a history text book, chapter summaries in a novel, etc.) to assist students in pulling out the main idea and details to create a one-sentence summary of their reading and learning. Students are limited to only 140 characters (spaces included). This graphic orga
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4th - 12th
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Summarizing Pyramid (Fiction)
Graphic organizer summarizing main character, setting, plot/events, problem, and solution. Challenge your students to identify elements utilizing as few words as possible. A real hoot (as you see students really getting into it and using their fingers to count words)--haha!
Grades:
1st - 12th
Close Reading Graphic Organizer
Here is a perfect reproducible graphic organizer that can be applied to any complex text of your choice. It naturally lays out the steps of a Close Reading activity, while providing a graphic way to organize students' ideas and notes on the text.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Chapter Study Guide and Review Notes: Student Led Discussion Quiz Alternative
Don’t give your students study guides, they can make their own! They will be accountable for their reading, and can even teach each other, if you let them with this resource template. You can use this over and over, for every chapter, of any book.
Use this resource in many ways:
*as a quiz alternative
*as a self-directed study guide
*to have students initiate review
*to guide class discussions
*Require student accountability individually
*Compile all notes into one super directory of relevant
Grades:
7th - 10th
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