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Short stories Common Core L.6.5 resources
Figurative Language | Reading Review
Rapid Read and Review is the perfect way to engage your students in relevant and rigorous review of figurative language skills! This figurative language skill-specific set reviews 6 different types of figurative language through high-interest, engaging stories written to demonstrate the use of all six types of figurative language. This Rapid Read and Review Resource Includes:6 Pages of Fiction Text Passages focusing on identifying and interacting with individual Types of Figurative Language3 P
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Figurative Language Activities | BUNDLE
Figurative Language Passages - Similes - 2 Digital and 2 Printable Versions
If you are looking for stories and poems designed to help students identify and practice figurative language, then this resource is for you!!Included in this Figurative Language Set:2 stories with custom illustrations for practicing similes.2 poems with custom illustrations and tons of similes.A/B multiple-choice questioning.Open-ended evidence-based question.Challenge activity to find evidence in the text.Custom Illustrations from Three Birds Art. IG: Threebirds_art2 Google Drive digital versi
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2nd - 6th
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Figurative Language Passages - Bundle - 2 Digital and 2 Printable Versions
If you are looking for stories and poems designed to help students identify and practice figurative language, then this resource is for you!!SAVE 20% with this Bundle Offer!{That's like getting TWO sets for free!}Included in this Figurative Language Set:2 stories with custom illustrations for practicing figurative language.2 poems with custom illustrations and tons of figurative language.A/B multiple-choice questioning.Open-ended evidence-based question.Challenge activity to find evidence in the
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2nd - 6th
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Figurative Language Passages: Metaphors- 2 Digital and 2 Printable Versions
If you are looking for stories and poems designed to help students identify and practice figurative language, then this resource is for you!!Included in this Figurative Language Set:2 stories with custom illustrations for practicing metaphors.2 poems with custom illustrations and tons of metaphors.A/B multiple-choice questioning.Open-ended evidence-based question.Challenge activity to find evidence in the text.Custom Illustrations by Three Birds Art. IG: Threebirds_art2 Google Drive digital ver
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2nd - 6th
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Figurative Language Passages - Hyperboles - 2 Digital and 2 Printable Versions
If you are looking for stories and poems designed to help students identify and practice figurative language, then this resource is for you!!Included in this Figurative Language Set:2 stories with custom illustrations for practicing hyperboles.2 poems with custom illustrations and tons of hyperboles.A/B multiple-choice questioning.Open-ended evidence-based question.Challenge activity to find evidence in the text.Custom Illustrations by Three Birds Art. IG: Threebirds_art2 Google Drive digital v
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2nd - 6th
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"All Summer in a Day" Short Story-Metaphors, Figurative Language, Bullying Theme
This free, awesome science fiction short story resource is great for exploring beautifully executed figurative language, the theme of bullying, and a fascinating setting. Students read a very short, very well-written short story All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury that is available free in easy-print format. ELA students analyze the text, make inferences, cite textual evidence, and find similes and metaphors in the reading comprehension exercise. They even consider what motivates students to bul
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5th - 10th
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Teaching Literary Elements with Animated Short Films-"Foxed!"
Foxed! In this cautionary tale Emily is kidnapped by foxes and forced to work in their secret underground mines, she uses her determination to return home, only to discover that she has been replaced.This set of standards-based lessons includes an examination of plot, suspense, characters, tone and mood, archetypes, theme, and the identification of the Notice and Note signpost: AHA Moment.This lesson has been updated with an alternative option of assigning this work as a digital notebook, making
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Five Short Films for Teaching Theme
Figurative Language Passages: Onomatopoeia- 2 Digital and 2 Printable Versions
If you are looking for stories and poems designed to help students identify and practice figurative language, then this resource is for you!!Included in this Figurative Language Set:2 stories with custom illustrations for practicing onomatopoeia.2 poems with custom illustrations and tons of onomatopoeia.A/B multiple-choice questioning.Open-ended evidence-based question.Challenge activity to find evidence in the text.Custom Illustrations by Three Birds Art. IG: Threebirds_art2 Google Drive digit
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2nd - 6th
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All Summer in a Day by Bradbury short story unit with digital option
This short story resource for "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury is a low prep packet and includes a student PDF file with the student activity pages and a second PDF with all student pages, teacher notes, answer keys, student samples, and the link to a Google Drive digital file."All Summer in a Day" is a science fiction short story. Students identify features of science fiction before reading the story. There are a variety of reading and writing activities from which to choose. It is also a
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Middle Grades Short Story Unit Bundle with digital option
Figurative Language Passages - Alliteration - 2 Digital and 2 Printable Versions
If you are looking for stories and poems designed to help students identify and practice figurative language, then this resource is for you!!Included in this Figurative Language Set:2 stories with custom illustrations for practicing alliterations.2 poems with custom illustrations and tons of alliterations.A/B multiple-choice questioning.Open-ended evidence-based question.Challenge activity to find evidence in the text.Custom Illustrations from Three Birds Art. IG: Threebirds_art2 Google Drive di
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2nd - 6th
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Comic Strip Templates Google Slides Bundle - 9 Different Themes
Comic Strip Template Google Slides Backgrounds are an easy to use, no prep selection of 288 color and black & white comic strip templates. Students will spend more time writing and focused on content you can assess instead of wasting time creating comic strip templates and finding backgrounds for their comic strips. This resource speeds up the process so you can cover more ground faster! It is excellent to use in a poetry unit because poems are full of onomatopoeia. Crash! Bang! Boom!SEE PRE
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"Little Red Riding Hood" by the Brothers Grimm Close Reading Worksheet (Google)
Help middle and high school students go beyond general reading comprehension and support the development of critical thinking skills with this close reading analysis worksheet covering a classic Grimm's fairy tale titled "Little Red Riding Hood" (also called "Little Red Cap"). An answer key and copy of the public domain short story are included. Materials are made for Google Drive, offering self-grading functionality and automated student feedback. (Alternatively, a printable option is availabl
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6th - 12th
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Comic Strip Template Google Slides Bundle - School | Space | Night
Comic Strip Template Google Slides - School | Space | Night Backgrounds are an easy to use, no prep selection of 96 color and black & white comic strip templates. Students will spend more time writing and focused on content you can assess instead of wasting time creating comic strip templates and finding backgrounds for their comic strips. This resource speeds up the process so you can cover more ground faster! It is excellent to use in a poetry unit because poems are full of onomatopoeia. C
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Ghost of the Lagoon Short Story Mini Unit
My students love reading the story "Ghost of the Lagoon" by Armstrong Sperry. It's a great short story that I can use to reteach/review important reading and language arts standards.
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***a powerpoint with background information, images, and a plot diagram (and an answer key)
***a powerpoint with a Museum Walk-Through activity guide complete with directions and Teacher Notes for implementation
***a PDF with ten reading questions and ten language arts questions over the story
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5th - 7th
Comic Strip Template Google Slides Bundle - City | Pirate | Sea
Comic Strip Template Google Slides - City, Pirate and Sea Backgrounds is an easy to use, no prep selection of 96 color and black & white comic strip templates. Students will spend more time writing and focused on content you can assess instead of wasting time creating comic strip templates and finding backgrounds for their comic strips. This resource speeds up the process so you can cover more ground faster! It is excellent to use in a poetry unit because poems are full of onomatopoeia. Cras
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Halloween Creative Writing
Your students will love this Halloween/Horror themed creative writing activity!With this writing activity your students will get to choose between three pictures to base their story around. There are six requirements with this piece of writing (see the preview for the requirements) along with a checklist for the students to double check their work. Make sure to look at the preview to see all that is included!There is a link to a digital copy of this activity that can be assigned through Google C
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: Creative Writing Bundle / Middle School
Figurative Language Practice | Close Reading with Original Stories
Figurative language is part of our everyday lives, but students struggle to identify types of figurative language in text. Grab this CCSS aligned resource of 3 original stories that are full of figurative language examples just waiting to be uncovered by students during close readings. Students will also expand their thinking when answering the various figurative language questions included on the answer sheets.Answer sheets are differentiated with two options available---students either write
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4th - 8th
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Figurative Language. 8 STORIES ~ Close Reading for Common Core Grades 4-8
8 new (first published on TPT December 2021) and original reading passages for teaching and reviewing figurative language: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, idiom, and allusion.The following story titles are included:Ana And The AnacondaBrad's Beautiful BatCharlie's Castle ClimbLatoya's Little LionMaria's Marvelous MoleDwayne's Dodgy DroneSarah's Soapbox SpeedRonald's Roaring RocketPDF versions in a zip file. These activities are perfect for weekly homewor
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: 15 FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE STORIES BUNDLE
Short Story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury - Cite Literary Devices
This awesome science fiction short story is great for exploring beautifully executed literary devices and getting students to cite them such as: onomatopoeia and other sound words, concrete imagery, metaphors, similes, and dramatic irony. Students read a very short, very well-written short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury that is available free online. It was written in 1950 about a futuristic "smart home" that is alive with automation, but otherwise the occupants have perished
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5th - 11th
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Figurative Language Create a Comic Strip! Find, Annotate, and Create!
Unleash Creativity & Figurative Language: Comic Strip Challenge!Bring stories to life and solidify figurative language skills with this engaging activity resource!Figurative Language Create a Comic Strip is designed for Grades 5-8 students and provides a unique way to:Deepen understanding of common figurative language terms like simile, metaphor, personification, and hyperbole.Practice identifying figurative language in original stories.Develop creative storytelling skills through comic stri
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: The ULTIMATE Figurative Language Fun & Learning Bundle!
Middle Grades Short Story Unit Bundle with digital option
PLEASE READ: This bundle contains zipped files with secure PDF documents of my short story resources If you purchased any individual short story activity packets (links above), this product contains the SAME files. This middle grades short story product provides reading comprehension and writing activities to accompany 6 popular stories.1. "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury2. "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl3. "Sled" by Thomas E. Adams4. "You Can't Take It with You" by Eva Lis-Wuorio5. "The Dinne
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6th - 8th
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Narrative Writing - Mega-Bundle for Creative Writing & Short Story Writing
This Narrative Writing mega-bundle includes 8 resource sets that focus on a wide range of narrative writing strategies. The tasks in these bundle sets include the following types of resources that can be used over and over with any type of creative writing unit.*Interactive PowerPoint Quiz Games *Interactive / Printable PDF Worksheets *Interactive Spinning Wheels (for story prompting and developing ideas for stories)*Information Booklets / Posters *Read-only PowerPoint versions of the worksheets
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5th - 9th
Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace” – 16 Rigorous Common Core Learning Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 16 rigorous unit learning tasks for Guy de Maupassant’s short story, "The Necklace." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external do
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6th - 10th
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Frank Stockton’s “The Lady or The Tiger” – 18 Common Core Learning Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 18 rigorous unit learning tasks for Frank Stockton’s short story, "The Lady or The Tiger.” The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded exter
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6th - 10th
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