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Common Core RL.7.2 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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Reading Comprehension Lessons with Reading Passages and Questions - Doodle Notes
Finding reading comprehension lessons, passages, and questions that don't completely bore students can be a challenge. That's where these reading doodle notes, engaging reading passages, and fun reading activities come in. This set of reading mini-units focus on making inferences, finding the main idea, summarizing, sequencing and differentiating between facts and opinions. Here's. the best part...everything about these reading mini-units is designed with engagement in mind. Get students excite
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4th - 7th
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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
Summarizing Doodle Notes and Learning Activities - Sketch Notes, Doodle and Do
Teaching students how to summarize can be a daunting task. Often, it’s one of the hardest reading strategies for students to grasp. That’s where this Doodle and Do mini-unit comes in! This resource includes summarizing graphic organizers, reading comprehension worksheets and passages that help students practice the skill of summarizing texts.Here’s how it works: First, students will complete highly engaging Doodle Notes about summarizing. They’ll learn how to summarize a text, do’s and don’ts
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4th - 7th
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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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"Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros: COMPLETE Unit, w/Assessment-Printable & 1:1
*****Newly UPDATED, REVAMPED, and NOW INCLUDING 1:1 RESOURCES AND DISTANCE LEARNING MATERIALS! Over 200 pages with PDF Files and Google Links containing activities, organizers, writing opportunities, questions, and a summative assessment! “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros is a perfect story for middle school students! This resource includes EVERYTHING you need to teach this text, both in person AND using distance learning. This resource is extremely low prep, includes resources for daily journals, re
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5th - 7th
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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
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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Hoot Novel Study Bundle (Distance Learning)
This bundle includes five resources that will help your students connect with the characters and comprehend the events as they read Hoot.***22 Journal Prompts:→ Assess student comprehension→ Requires students to use important skills: summarizing, characterization, cause and effect, figurative language, author's purpose, vocabulary strategies, and personal reflection→ Match the rigor required by the CCSS→ One writing prompt for every chapter→ Prompts clearly state the chapter after which they sho
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
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
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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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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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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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: 12 Quizzes (Distance Learning)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry gives a powerful look into the racism that an African-American family faced while growing up in the south in the 1930s.Like this book?***Save 25%***This product is also available in a power pack containing both journal prompts and quizzes!Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry Power Pack: 24 Journal Prompts and 12 Quizzes ***12 Quizzes:→ Quickly assess student comprehension→ Cover many CCSS-ELA standards and elements of fiction including: vocabulary, cause and effect, main id
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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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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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: 24 Prompts and 12 Quizzes (Distance Learning)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry gives a powerful look into the racism that an African-American family faced while growing up in the south in the 1930s.Included:24 Journal Prompts 12 Quizzes ***24 Journal Prompts:→ Assess student comprehension→ Requires students to use important skills: summarizing, characterization, cause and effect, figurative language, author's purpose, vocabulary strategies, and personal reflection→ Match the rigor required by the CCSS→ Two writing prompts for every chapter→ Pro
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4th - 7th
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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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Holes by Louis Sachar: 10 Quizzes (Distance Learning)
Holes is a wonderful story of a boy who goes through great lengths to help a friend in a difficult environment.Like this book?***Save 25%!***This product is also available in a power pack containing both journal prompts and quizzes!Holes by Louis Sachar Power Pack ***10 Quizzes Description:→ Quickly assess student comprehension→ Cover many CCSS-ELA standards and elements of fiction including: vocabulary, cause and effect, main idea, summarizing, character analysis, sequence of events, story deta
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
The Phantom Tollbooth Power Pack: 20 Prompts and 10 Quizzes (Distance Learning)
The Phantom Tollbooth is a fun story full of figurative language.Included:20 Journal Prompts 10 Quizzes ***20 Journal Prompts:→ Assess student comprehension→ Requires students to use important skills: summarizing, characterization, cause and effect, figurative language, author's purpose, vocabulary strategies, and personal reflection→ Match the rigor required by the CCSS→ One writing prompt for every chapter→ Prompts clearly state the chapter after which they should be given to students→ Simply
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Mega Bundle Novel Studies
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