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5th grade short stories resources for Microsoft Word
Writing a Short Story - Complete Unit
Your students will have their short story story written and completed in 15 days! This unit includes activities, specific lesson plans and every thing you need to help your students. My kids were very successful during this unit and enjoy it every year. It's positively directed but fast paced.
How to Write a Short Story
Day 1: Background Survey & Getting Excited Activity
Day 2: Character Development
Day 3: Continue Character Development & Setting Development: Where, When and We
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4th - 10th
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Packet of Memoir Texts
Packet of 12 Memoir texts
*mentor texts to serve as models for your students as they write their own memoir
*short texts for enjoyment
*great to use with ELA test prep
~~Packet it ready to print and hand-out!~
Texts included:
Grandmama's Kitchen Table (Cynthia Rylant)
Not Enough Emily's (Jean Little)
When I Was Little (Jamie Lee Curtis)
Laughter (Sandra Cisneros)
Home (Michael J. Rosen)
Hairs (Sandra Cisneros)
Alone (Jacqueline Woodson)
Learning the Hard Way (Eloise Greenfield)
Mattie's Ride (
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2nd - 12th
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What Should Danny Do? Activity Booklet
This activity booklet perfectly compliments the story book 'What Should Danny Do?' by Ganit Levy & Adir Levy.What's included in this download:- Doubled sided booklet- Make 2 booklets at a time! Print on A4 to make A5 booklets or blow it up to A3 and make A4 booklets- How to make and use the booklet instruction page- A scenario guide to help you keep track of all the story lines you have read- FOR AUSSIE TEACHERS Australian Curriculum Links English document for Years 1-3. Also useful for Heal
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1st - 6th
Gift of the Magi Reading Test/Quiz 6th, 7th, 8th Grade
This 25-question multiple-choice reading test/quiz on O. Henry's short story "The Gift of the Magi" has questions from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised) along with one optional essay question with lined paper to familiarize students with the format of standardized testing. It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the story along with:characterizationpoint of viewmaking inferencesand literary devicesQuestions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and
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5th - 8th
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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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Theme Activity - Fables, Worksheet, and Answer Key!
Using Aesop's fables, the students will identify the theme of each story in the attached chart. This could be done individually, in pairs, small groups, or used as one station in centers. Discussions can be completed afterwards. Students can also be given each of the fables and highlight the facts that lead them to finding the lesson/moral.
This activity can be used in conjunction to teaching theme or as a separate review and follow-up activity.
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5th - 8th
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The Circuit, by Francisco Jimenez - Worksheets + Answer Keys
This download includes worksheets and activities to use while teaching the short story, The Circuit, by Francisco Jimenez.
There is:
-Discussion/comprehension questions
-Context clues
-Chart for Cause/Effect and Types of Conflict
-1 Close Reading passage
-Teacher Response & Annotations of Passage
-Setting prompt for a well-developed paragraph
-Rubric for paragraph
-List of extended activties for enrichment or centers
+Answer Key to all provided!
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5th - 7th
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Realistic Fiction Sample
This is a two page realistic fiction sample great for 4th, 5th, and 6th grades. This realistic fiction follows a basic story mountain model, includes dialogue, vivid vocabulary, figurative language, and many other strong writing elements.
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4th - 6th
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Spanish Reader's Theater: Los Tres Cerditos (The Three Little Pigs)
Reader's Theater is a great tool for building fluency in reading. As a bilingual educator I have found that Spanish reader's theater is a valuable tool to get Spanish language learners to practice their oral development. Although I have used these scripts in my First grade classroom, they would also work well for secondary Spanish classes.
The Three Little Pigs is easy to follow with its repetitive phrases and familiar storyline. This reader's theater is an excellent way for students who are l
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1st - 12th
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REWARDS Intermediate Review Words with Connected Text for Lessons 1-15
Students can use this resource to review multisyllabic words from lessons 1-15 in the REWARDS Intermediate program - with the program there is no connected text in lessons 1-15, these review words and short stories can help students practice applying their REWARDS strategies and build fluency. 7 passage total in this product.
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4th - 8th
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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
Pixar Short Film Workbook - LIFTED
This is a workbook of literacy activities that are paired with the Pixar short film - LIFTED.This is a hilarious film that students adore and I have used this booklet as part of both film studies, creative writing, activator/tune in activities and outer space themed units.It has a range of activities including cloze passage, ordering scenes from the film, pictures, definitions, problem solving and other literacy sentence building activities.I hope you enjoy it as much as my students.
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K - 7th
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Scary Halloween Story- making inferences/sensory language
Need a short story that can be read in one period? Looking for an appropriate story to share with your kids for Halloween? Look no further......
A favorite for my 6th graders, this lesson is perfect for Halloween.
While you read the scary story "Family Dinner," play scary music to set the mood. The story is sure to engage students.
There are questions that follow, that most students will be eager to do after reading the story.
This is probably one of my favorite lessons to do with my kids.
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4th - 10th
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50 Question "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" Final Test w/ Answer Key
This is a teacher made test over "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" written by a teacher who has actually read the book with answer key!
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4th - 10th
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Chrysanthemum! Teaching the Elements of a Short Story
This unit provides lesson plans for teaching the elements of a short story using Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes as a model. Several graphic organizers are included as well.
Topics covered: setting, characters, conflict, rising and falling action, climax, resolution, and theme.
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3rd - 8th
Types of Conflict in Literature: Pretest and Post-Test
Includes questions about: Internal & External Conflict
Includes questions about: Man vs. Self, Man vs. Man, Man vs. Society, Man vs. Nature
Simple and easy to grade! Editable as always!
Thanks for looking!! Feedback is always great!!!
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4th - 7th
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The Santa Substitute - A Christmas Play
The Santa Substitute is a comedy play written for 4th - 8th grade level students. The plot focuses on a story of Santa Claus, who is unable to deliver the Christmas presents after he breaks his leg. The elves come together to find a “Santa Claus Substitute”! The skit is simple, funny, and loved by students, teachers, parents, and any audience!
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5th - 8th
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Thank You Ma'am by Langston Hughes Activity | Letter from Roger Creative Writing
This is a great culminating writing assignment that teaches students proper business letter format at the same time! Students write a letter from Roger to Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones. The assignment is laid out as a business letter to give students a model. Excellent for reinforcing character development and point of view!Related Product:End of Short Story Unit Writing Assignment | Business Letter⭐ Follow me for new products, sales, and freebies!
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5th - 10th
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Personal Narrative Rubric: 5 Categories
Rubric for a personal narrative for elementary student writing- can be adjusted to your liking. Uses several categories: Ideas and Content, Organization, Conventions, Voice, and Word Choice
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3rd - 7th
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Wrinkle in Time mc chapter quizzes
This product is a complete mc chapter by chapter quiz over the plot and charcters of "A Wrinkle in Time." It can be used to check comprehension or as an "answer as you read" evaluation. I ALSO HAVE READING COMPREHENSION TESTS, SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS, AND MOVIE QUIZZES AVAILABLE FOR THIS BOOK!!!! Please let me know if you would like me to make you an evaluation for any story or book. Please follow me and share with your friends. Email me at zelayaa.az@gmail.com for all your reading needs.This w
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5th - 10th
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The Polar Express: Story Analysis with a Cup of Cocoa
This lesson uses the text The Polar Express to engage students in thinking critically about: personificationmetaphorsimilehyperbolealliterationsymboltheme Students also compare two versions of the text (clips from the movie and picture book). I recommend using the online version of the storybook at http://www.storylineonline.net/ with selected clips from the movie as you compare and contrast. Students, no matter how old, always love this book. I like to treat mine with cups of cocoa while having
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5th - 8th
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"Miss Awful" short story unit
The entire "Miss Awful" short story is included in an interactive format, with questions and activities in the margins. This packet also includes writing prompts for each day of instruction, a graphic organizer and writing assignment for assessment, vocabulary list, vocabulary worksheet, and a list of literary elements and devices with definitions.
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4th - 7th
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Indian Captive Primary Source Worksheet (French and Indian War)
Captured by Indians, 1758 (The Real Story of Mary Jemison Capture)This worksheet allows students to use a primary source document to learn about the French and Indian War. I use this worksheet to help students better understand the book Indian Captive.This activity is very easy to use. All you have to do is print off the primary source from the following website for classroom use or direct students to the website to answer the worksheet questions. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/cap.htmClick
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: French and Indian War Lesson Plan Collection
"The Case of the Gasping Garbage" Story Test- Scott Foresman Reading Street
This test is to assess comprehension after reading the story "The Case of the Gasping Garbage." The test includes a section in which students are asked to match the story's vocabulary words and definitions, a section in which students match the main characters with their descriptions, and several short answer questions in which students are asked to provide evidence from the text to support their answers.
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Fourth Grade Scott Foresman Story Test BUNDLE!
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