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5th grade short stories projects
Assignments for Any Novel or Short Story - Fiction Reading Response Book Report
Short Story and Novel Assignments - Fiction Reading Response Book Report: Gone are the days of boring book reports and reading responses! This multi-faceted resource provides fun ready-to-use assignments that will work for any novel or short story that your students are reading. Each of the one-page assignments can be printed and handed to your students – it’s that easy!What’s great about these activities is they can be used at any of the middle and high school grades, but have also been succes
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS RESOURCE BUNDLE
Personal Narrative Writing Unit for 4th and 5th Grade | Full Lesson Plans
This is a "no prep" personal narrative unit, meaning that all of the organizers and teacher models are included. Print out the pages you need, and you're all set to teach your students how to write great narratives! This complete unit can be used on its own, or in addition to your Writing Interactive Notebooks! It's great for teaching your class about personal narrative writing! Common Core Standard Aligned - preview for the alignment guide. Works great with other standards!Click "preview" to se
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4th - 5th
Short Story Unit Reading Comprehension Passages | Activities & Projects
This resource includes activities for 33 short stories and poems. The goal of this reading literature journal is prepare students to recall, understand, apply, analyze, and evaluate a variety of texts while also using creative mini-projects to help encourage deeper thinking! This resource has everything you'll need to teach a short story or poem once a week for the ENTIRE school year. ZERO prep necessary! Answer keys for the short stories ARE INCLUDED in this resource. NOTE 2: This resource ha
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5th - 9th
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Creative Narrative Writing Unit Grades 4-5 | Prompt, Graphic Organizers, Rubric
This is a "no prep" unit, meaning that all of the organizers and teacher models are included. Print out the pages you need, and you're all set to teach your students how to write incredible creative narratives! This complete unit can be used on its own, or in addition to your Writing Interactive Notebooks! It's great for teaching your class about creative narrative writing! Common Core Standard Aligned - preview for the alignment guide. Works great with other standards!Click "preview" to see a l
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4th - 5th
Paper Bag Book Report Project - Novel Study Templates - Reading Comprehension
Paper Bag Book Report: Fun Book Report Project for ANY Novel or Short Story - This package is perfect for your upcoming novel study unit or short story unit, as it provides students with everything they need to create a Paper Bag Book Report on ANY novel or short story! All activities are classroom tested and include creative handouts, information sheets, detailed instructions, and templates! Two separate Paper Bag Book Report packages have been included: one for use with ANY novel, and one tha
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3rd - 6th
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Assignments for Any Novel or Short Story - Fiction Reading Book Report (Vol 2)
Assignments for Any Novel or Short Story - Fiction Reading Book Report (Vol 2): Gone are the days of boring book reports and reading responses! This multi-faceted resource provides fun ready-to-use assignments that will work for any novel or short story that your students are reading. Each of the one-page assignments can be printed and handed to your students – it’s that easy!What’s great about these activities is they can be used at any of the middle and high school grades, but have also been s
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5th - 9th
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The Hero's Journey | Movie Analysis | Short Story Writing | Activities
This Hero's Journey activity package contains a variety of activities relating to the Hero's Journey as explained by Joseph Campbell. For this activity, students practice their Hero's Journey analysis skills by viewing a heroic movie of your choice (a variety of examples are included), and using the included worksheets to discuss how each stage of the Hero's Journey can be seen. Students then use an included template to illustrate and write their own short stories, following the stages of the
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Middle School ELA Emergency Sub Plans - No Prep English Sub Plans - May
Tacky the Penguin Craft | Helen Lester
Here is a fun and easy craft to go with the book Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester. You and your students will love the end results!
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PreK - 5th
The Elevator Short Story Units - Middle School Short Story - Reading Task Cards
The Elevator by William Sleator - Complete Short Stories with Reading Comprehension Questions and Task Cards - This package contains everything you need to teach this spooky short story, including The Elevator comprehension questions, answer keys, short story annotations activities, biography, task cards, and graphic organizers. These elevator activities are classroom tested and include creative handouts templates, and detailed instructions. Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and
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5th - 8th
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Comparing Myths & Legends Writing - Greek Myth Medusa & Iroquois No-Faced Doll
Your students will love this reading and writing assignment that compares the Greek Myth of Medusa with the Iroquois or Haudenosaunee legend, The No-Faced Doll”. While Greek Mythology and Native American legends may seem like two very different genres, with little to no similarities, think again! This project asks students to compare myths and legends from two very different cultures, finding both the similarities and differences. Through this common core linked project, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Paired Texts: Comparing Myths & Legends from Across Cultures
Narrative Writing Graphic Organizers, Worksheets, Responses, and Activities
These graphic organizers and writing papers are great to have on hand and are easy to implement into your classroom! These are great to have to accompany your narrative writing unit and will easily teach your students the steps of writing a narrative. There are a variety of strategies to use in this product to allow for differentiated learning and to make it suitable for students from 4th to 9th grade.
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-Photocopy the graphic organizers you wish to use and provide them for your stud
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5th - 8th
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Writing Realistic Fiction Stories Independent Writing Project Grades 4-6
In this independent writing project, students will: -draft, revise, and edit a realistic fiction story -develop a main character -develop a simple plot -integrate sensory images into the story for setting -use dialogue that moves the story forward -write and illustrate a final copy for an audienceTeacher Notes:Although this is an independent writing project, you will will need to teach and model the elements of a realistic fiction story. Included in this packet: -student instructions -grading ru
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4th - 6th
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Personal Narratives Made Easy!
*INCLUDES BONUS PACK
This download helps students understand and create personal narratives. It includes:
~introduction to personal narratives
~example personal narrative
~blank personal narrative templates
~personal narrative checklist
The Bonus Pack will allow your students to create books about their families, which include personal narratives. It includes:
~graphic organizer
~blank book page templates
~a complete sample book
*available in a discounted Writing Made Easy bundle!*
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1st - 6th
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Writing a Reader's Theater Script Project
This project guides students through the process of writing and performing a Reader's Theater scene, based on a short story. The materials can be used with any fiction text, so it can be differentiated for leveled small groups or adapted for any grade level!
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1. Three different graphic organizers for students to record information about the setting, characters, and plot of their text. (These really helped my students focus on the important details from the story that needed to be i
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2nd - 8th
Halloween Writing Pack
This Halloween Writing Unit was designed to create a full month of writing for your classroom. Simply make a copy of each of these pages, staple together (with the cover page provided) and students can work all month on creative, fun, and meaningful writing for the whole month of October.This Writing pack contains two parts – 4 Halloween Writing Assignments and 5 October themed journal pages. Each of the 4 Halloween Writing Assignments have a brainstorm page. These pages have directions for each
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K - 6th
Narrative Writing: BUNDLE
Narrative Writing: BUNDLEUse these no prep graphic organizers to guide your students through the narrative writing process while centering their writing around the elements of a particular genre. These work great as a culminating writing project and are easily differentiated for a variety of student needs and abilities.This Bundle currently includes these packs:Narrative Writing: Create a Fairy TaleNarrative Writing: Create a Super HeroNarrative Writing: Create a Mystery StoryNarrative Writing:
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2nd - 5th
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Fractured Fairytale Crime Scenes
In this assignment students will create a presentation of a mock crime scene based on a fairytale. Each crime will include characters from common fairytales. Students will include evidence to create a crime scene scenario. The assignment is organized into two main projects. The first part of the assignment involves creating a presentation of the crime. The second part of the assignment is a narrative story that explains the actual crime scene.
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5th - 9th
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Folklore BUNDLE!
This is the comprehensive unit plan for teaching folklore. Focuses on 6 types of folklore:
Folk Tales
Tall Tales
Fairy Tales
Fables
Myths
Legends
Unit Includes:
Details Prezi (a better and more exciting version of PowerPoint)
Folklore Activity
Folklore Assessment
Folklore Project
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5th - 11th
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Eleven by Sandra Cisneros - Activities & Projects
This is a set of activities, projects & comprehension questions for the story "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros. Great for upper elementary or middle school language arts- could be used as mini lessons, independent practice or novel group work.
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- Short introduction/pacing guide
- Discussion/comprehension questions
- Longer written response questions
- Identifying theme graphic organizer
- Identifying figurative language graphic organizer
- Write a diary entry for Rachel template
- Cre
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5th - 7th
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick creative writing example (Just Dessert)
Chris Van Allsburg’s book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick is an excellent medium to teach creative writing. The titled illustrations are accompanied with only the slightest bit of text. A mere suggestion as to what already has happened and might happen. Every turn of the page introduces a unique vignette, an intriguing picture that arouses curiosity that tugs at the imagination, thus sparking new ideas to fill in the blanks. The entire book is a collection of writing prompts! The tantalizing st
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Design Your Own Comic Strips: A STEAM Activity
Design Your Own Comic Strips: A STEAM ActivityWriting doesn't have to be boring! Let your kids' creativity go wild with these comic strips. The possibilities are endless- use these comic strips to: • Show steps in a process • Explain conceptual understanding • Retell a story • Illustrate a narrative or non-fiction writing piece • Practice target vocabulary words in context • Practice writing dialogue • Help second language learners explain their thinking • Make learning fun! Three sam
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PreK - 12th
Also included in: 3 Activity STEAM Bundle
Snapshots of My Summer
This is a FUN and EASY back-to school project that looks fantastic as a Back-to-School bulletin board and also serves as a quick assessment of your new students’ writing ability!
Students will illustrate and write a brief description about something they did during the summer. Multiple graphic organizers are included so you can help your students organize their thoughts beforehand.
Included in this product: 3 graphic organizers (for various grade-levels), 1 camera cover page (for students to d
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PreK - 6th
Crime Scene Investigation: An Inferencing Writing Prompt for grades 3, 4 and 5
In this activity, students will make inferences and draw conclusions by analyzing the evidence of a crime scene. Students will record their observations and cite their evidence for the conclusions they draw. Perfect for grades three, four, and five.With this download, you will receive instructions and student materials to host your own crime scene investigation. This is a great way to boost student engagement and get students writing! Print out the student detective journal, set up a small crime
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Language Arts: Writing & Inferencing Halloween Activities Bundle
Memoir Writing Project- Sharing My Shorts - Distance Learning
Memoir WritingDigital Version NOW INCLUDED! Everyone loves to get more bang for their buck and that's exactly what you get with Sharing My Shorts!With this year long writing project you will get to know your students as people and as writers. Sharing My Shorts can be a long term project spanning the entire school year or a short term project spanning a few weeks. The project consists of 8 prompts to choose from. Each prompt encourages students to share moments in their lives by writing "short"
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3rd - 6th
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