Short Story and Poetry Unit for Middle School Reading Comprehension & Analysis
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Do you need resources to help your middle school students comprehend and analyze short stories and poetry? Over 200 pages of student materials, answer keys and plans for comprehension of short stories, literary analysis of short stories and writing about short stories. Over 20 individual resources for short stories and poems included. Choose the stories you want, or teach as one unit
Save BIG (20% off) with this mega bundle of lesson plans for teaching short stories and poetry. This resource contains complete lesson plans with all student materials and answer keys for 12 short stories and 5 poems. It is designed to be used in grades 6-10. Due to copyright restrictions, this resource DOES NOT contain the texts for any of the short stories or poems.
The lessons are tailored to each story and cover the following ELA skills:
-Reading Comprehension
-Inferences
-Plot
-Character
-Theme
-Citing Evidence to Support Responses
-Writing Argumentative and Expository Paragraphs
-Poetry Comprehension
-Poetry Analysis
There are over 20 in-depth, easy to prep resources included in this bundle. For more details about each resource in the mega bundle, visit the links below:
Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen:Comprehension A lesson to help students with reading comprhension for O'Henry's short story "Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen"
Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen:Cite Evidence: A lesson on practicing citing textual evidence to support inferences.
The School Play.: A complete three lesson short story unit that carefully guides students from comprehension to a final essay analyzing theme.
The Sniper. A three lesson short story unit that helps students comprehend the story and analyze the figurative language in the text.
The Tell-Tale Heart:Comprehension. A lesson on comprehending and analyzing the use of suspense in the short story.
All Summer In a Day: Complete Unit.: A complete mini unit in which students work on citing textual evidence to support inferences about characters in the text.
The Gift of the Magi.: A lesson on citing evidence to support inferences about the text.
The Scarlet Ibis.: A lesson on comprehending "The Scarlet Ibis".
You also get these carefully scaffolded poetry resources to guide your students through comprehending, analyzing and writing about poetry.
My Papa's Waltz: Poetry Analysis and Writing.
Those Winter Sunday's Poetry Analysis and Writing.
Where I'm From: Poetry Analysis and Writing.
Oranges: Poetry Analysis and Writing.
This bundle of short story resources directly addresses the following common core standards: R1, R2, R3, R4, R6 and W1.
This resource contains teacher directions, all student materials, an answer key for each lesson and rubrics where needed.
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