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Common Core RL.8.2 centers
ELA Test Prep STATIONS for ELA Test Practice - Print & Digital
Test Prep means active learning with these EIGHT stations that will have your students practicing all those reading comprehension and analysis skills they need for success on ELA state tests. Now includes a digital version! These stations provide specific standards-based practice, engaging students in discussion, close reading, and deep thinking. Students enjoy group work and movement!Detailed task cards and creative student handouts make the activities both challenging and fun! Clear and specif
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6th - 8th
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Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi: Complete Differentiated BundleYour upper elementary and middle school students will love reading the classic Christmas story, "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry and you'll love the differentiated options for you and your students!This packet includes 5 different versions of this text ~ See Preview File for samples of each:Original Version - unaltered text, The Gift of the MagiModified Version - The Gift of the Magi re-written in clear, easy-to-understand languageAnnotated V
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Christmas Activities for Middle School Bundle
Literature STATIONS - for ANY Novel, Drama, or Story - Print & DIGITAL
Motivate your students with STATION work centered on standards-based topics using ANY novel, story, or drama! Now includes a DIGITAL version! You get TEN different stations with detailed task cards and inviting student handouts for each. Great for differentiation—you choose the stations that best fit the text and your students’ needs. Use station work while reading a novel or drama (read half the period, move to stations for the other half or at the end of a chapter) or after reading a short s
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6th - 8th
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Literary Elements Graphic Organizers for Any Narrative Text
Looking for a way to incorporate short stories while also sticking to the literature standards? It's easy to focus on comprehension with short stories, but it's harder to teach students how to analytically think about short stories as they relate to development of characters, setting, theme, plot, and more. These short story graphic organizers are intended for use with any narrative text in a middle or high school classroom. You can use them to model analytically thinking during mini lessons and
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7th - 10th
Reading Response Journal Prompts for Any Novel (Set 1) - Distance Learning
Need a way to hold students accountable for choice reading? Whether you're using literature circles, a book club format, or some other type of independent reading program, these digital reading response journal prompts will keep students engaged while allowing them an avenue to share what they are comprehending from their books. Research shows that asking students to write about what they are reading is one of the most beneficial activities we can ask students to do. And, that's exactly what the
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7th - 10th
The City of Ember Novel Study and Project Menu; Plus Digital Option
Everything you need to use Jeanne Duprau's award-winning novel, The City of Ember, effectively in your classroom! A no-prep standards based interactive notebook literature guide with follow-up reading response questions for every chapter as well as vocabulary, writing projects, activities and enrichment projects. Teacher friendly engaging lessons to use with this award winning novel in your classroom while encouraging critical reading skills.CCSS/STAAR Aligned! Great for "Distance Learning".Eve
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4th - 8th
Summarizing Fiction and Nonfiction
Summarizing: GIST and Beyond has everything you need to teach and reinforce summarizing. I had a hard time finding summarizing lessons that include interesting fiction and nonfiction texts, answer keys, and many opportunities to practice. So I created this unit on writing a summary!This resource is easy to use and will help you teach students three summary styles. Students will learn what information to look for, depending on the type of text they are summarizing. There are three fun and memora
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6th - 8th
7 Literary Analysis Stations for ELA (Plot, Character, Theme, Setting, Author)
Stations are one of my favorite ways to bring movement into the language arts classroom. In the pandemic world, I have used traditional stations less, but as we start to dig our way out of all this, I have started to dust off some of my favorite stations ideas. In this bundle, you have everything you need to set up 7 stations: Theme StationSummary StationCharacterization StationAbout the Author StationSilent Discussion StationFigurative Language StationPlot, Conflict, and Setting StationStation
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6th - 12th
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Aca-Scuse Me? Teaching Theme vs. Main Idea With Music and Lyrics
This assignment is PITCH PERFECT for teaching theme to students grades 4 through 8!***UPDATED 9/8/18 TO INCLUDE:***PRE/POST TEST ANSWER KEYSCONCEPT HANDOUT FOR STUDENTSANSWER SHEETS FOR EACH OF THE 5 SONGSIf you are like me back during my first year of teaching 5th, I struggled to teach main idea and theme. This assignment makes the task more fun. Resource is designed to help your students analyze 5 popular songs for themes. Included in this 21 page bundle:-5 hugely popular song lyric pages for
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4th - 8th
Reading Guide for ANY Short Story or Novel - Digital & Print
Short story units are popular with teens...and fun to teach! What's NOT fun is making individual reading guides for every short story we teach. This build-your-own reading guide is a great print or digital resource for anyone who is looking for a practical, reliable tool that students can use for any piece of literature - short story, play, or novel. READING SKILLS COVEREDThis short story or novel reading guide requires students to predict, summarize, connect, question, visualize, infer, and ana
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7th - 10th
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The Cay Novel Study and Project Menu; Plus Digital Option
Everything you need to use Theodore Taylor's award-winning novel, The Cay, effectively in your classroom! A no-prep standards based interactive notebook literature guide with follow-up reading response questions for every chapter as well as vocabulary, writing projects, activities and enrichment projects. Teacher friendly engaging lessons to use with this award winning novel in your classroom while encouraging critical reading skills.CCSS/STAAR Aligned! Great for "Distance Learning".Everything
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5th - 8th
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Langston Hughes and “Harlem” Study – Doodle Article, Doodle Notes, Flip Book
Help students learn about Langston Hughes and analyze his poem, “Harlem” or “Dream Deferred,” with this incredibly engaging “Doodle and Do” resource. Designed with doodling, interaction, and creativity in mind, you’ll find a Doodle Article about Hughes, Doodle Notes to respond to the nonfiction passage, and an interactive poetry flip book in this resource. First, students read a nonfiction passage about Hughes that includes information on his childhood, influences, the Harlem Renaissance, and
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5th - 8th
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Fiction Independent Reading Journal Log - Middle School ELA
Fiction: Independent Reading Response Logs for ANY Novel or Short Story
Are you wondering how to hold your students accountable for providing text evidence during independent reading? I needed an independent reading response packet that could be used for any work of fiction. I needed one that was easy to grade and included questions from every Common Core Standard. So I created this versatile resource that can be used for ANY novel or short story, independent reading choices, whole-class assig
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6th - 8th
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Island of the Blue Dolphins Novel Study & Project Menu; Digital Option
No-Prep novel study for "Island of the Blue Dolphins", a standards based interactive notebook literature guide with follow-up reading response questions for every chapter as well as vocabulary, writing projects, activities and enrichment projects. Teacher friendly engaging lessons to use with this award winning novel by Scott O'Dell in your classroom while encouraging critical reading skills.CCSS/STAAR Aligned! Great for "Distance Learning".Everything you need to use this novel in your classroo
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4th - 8th
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Literary Analysis Essay Writing and Thesis Statement With Short Film Activities
Ready to teach a thesis statement centered literary analysis? Using Pixar shorts films is the ONLY way to go! This bundle offers mini lessons with videos for all of the major literary elements and step-by-step workshops to guide students through thesis writing and each paragraph of a literary analysis essay. And of course, analyses of Pixar short films along with a sample literary analysis for the short film The Present. Students can color-code the sample essay with a digital highlighter! Liter
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7th - 11th, Adult Education
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Poetry Analysis Bundle: Engaging Games, Activities, and Writing Prompts
Looking for poetry activities that gives you the flexibility to be creative with your lesson planning? The resources in this bundle are designed to allow you to do just that! You'll find opportunities for students to analyze poems, write poems, and play games about poetic elements.The best part about this poetry analysis bundle? You don't have to use it all at once or in any specific order! This poetry bundle is not intended to be a *straight-through unit! Instead, these resources can be sprinkl
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8th - 10th
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The Crossover Novel Study (10 Prompts and 6 Quizzes) Distance Learning
The Crossover is about twin brothers who are talented basketball players. It's written by one of the boys, Josh, who is challenged when his relationship with his brother changes and when his father experiences serious health problems.Included:10 Writing Prompts→ Two writing prompts for the following chapters: First Quarter, Second Quarter, Third Quarter, Fourth Quarter→ One writing prompt for the following chapters: Warm-up, Overtime→ Assess student comprehension→ Matches the rigor required by
STAAR Poetry Boot Camp - Test Prep - Middle School
This is a one-week test prep for poetry. This activity bundle serves as a great review for all things poetry to help get your students ready to take state assessments. This is great for STAAR, FSA, AIR, SBAC, PARCC and other state assessments. Included in this product you will find:Day 1 – Analysis of a song. Students will work as a class to identify many different poetic elements and then work to analyze why the poet chose to include them. A review of poetic terms for bell ringer and a multiple
Theme Task Cards
Teaching theme? Amp up the rigor and proficiency level in your classroom with these (32) Literary Theme Task Cards. Product provides excerpts from classic and popular literature with a multiple choice question addressing the most refined universal message. Turn your students into literary scholars in no time! Answer key included. This Common Core-aligned product is super sub friendly; keep them learning even when you're not there. Task Cards are an effective instructional tool and alternativ
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Theme Teach and Reach Bundle
Poetry Analysis: "Stopping By Woods..." by Robert Frost
My standards-based poetry analysis of Robert Frost's beloved poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" includes everything you need for a meaningful activity for your students! They will practice reading, writing, language, and drawing skills as they look at Frost's poem in-depth.In addition, your students can doodle and color all over the pages! Each page has items that can be colored and they are encouraged to draw, as well. It's a great activity for all levels of learning.See my preview to
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for K. Cook
Middle School Literacy Stations
An entire year's worth of middle school literacy stations. There are eight stations total. I do two full rotations per grading period so there are a total of 64 different activities in this package. We meet once a week in stations and students complete two stations on that day. They spend about twenty minutes in each station before rotating to the next station. Station rotation orders are also included. Stations included are: word work, read aloud, read independently, learn independently, techn
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5th - 8th
Long Way Down Novel Study
The Long Way Down Novel Study is a comprehensive novel study for teaching Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds. This novel study provides unique opportunities to implement an engaging exploration of this popular book. The Long Way Down Novel Study will provide you with the resources you need to teach a successful and thoughtful unit. With over 60+ Common Core aligned materials, students will develop their literacy skills while deeply engaging with the novel through this unit. The literary analysis r
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8th - 9th
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Theme vs. Main Idea vs. Topic Fable Game
Establish the difference between a story's theme (one-sentence life lesson), main idea (one-sentence summary of events), and topic (one-word description) with this unique matching game! This student-directed activity will become one of your classroom favorites. Watch students work as a group to read a short fable and then find that story’s title, main idea, theme, and topic among a mixed-up pile of game cards. You’ll be shocked at the depth of the conversation between your students as they debat
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5th - 9th
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Characterization Task Cards
Teaching characterization? Amp up the fun and proficiency level in your classroom with these (32) Characterization Task Cards where traits are revealed through S.T.E.A.L. (Speech, Thoughts, Effect on Others, Actions, and Looks). Answer key included. Task Cards are an effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets! Perfect for standardized test prep and super sub friendly. Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use;
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Characterization Teach and Reach Bundle
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