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Reading strategies Common Core RL.9-10.1 resources
Night by Elie Wiesel: Bundle of Activities
Lessons & Activities for teaching Elie Wiesel's Night: This resource gets students engaged in thinking critically about Night. The lessons are designed to put the responsibility for learning on the students as they work together to discover the important elements and lessons in the text. The resource includes:Pre-reading activities that have students thinking about stereotyping, prejudice, and racism. You will conduct several whole class discussions, and students will do some reading, rese
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9th - 12th
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THE HUNGER GAMES Novel Study Unit Activities PRINT & DIGITAL Prereading Quizzes
Get your learners thinking! Our PRINT AND DIGITAL The Hunger Games Novel Study Unit Plan has the activities and quizzes you need to teach a 8-week novel study -- prereading questions, characters, vocabulary, projects, and more. You'll love the "print-and-go" activities in slideshow and .pdf, AND the same fun activities converted and optimized for digital learning (581+ pages, slides, & forms -- 204+ print and 377+ digital Google Drive forms). ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ And don't forget the easy-grade Google
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7th - 9th
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Valentine's Day Close Reading Mystery Inference Activity - Stolen Love Letter
This Valentine's Day close reading inference mystery activity is a fun way to engage your students and challenge them to look for text evidence, infer information, and read more closely. The resource includes everything you need to facilitate the activity in your classroom. This works well as a Valentine's Day activity, but there are no specific holiday references so it can be used within any classroom at any time of the year.Amanda absolutely loves Jack, but she is far too shy to tell him how s
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: READING MYSTERIES FULL-YEAR ELA PROGRAM | PRINT
To Kill a Mockingbird 400+ Page Novel Study Unit BUNDLE - Print & Digital
MASSIVE No-Prep To Kill a Mockingbird Novel Unit - Over 400 pages and 7 Weeks of material. Classroom-tested by over 2000 teachers, over 275 reviews for a 4.8/5 rating! SAVE over 30% by purchasing the ENTIRE BUNDLE!Teaching with Simply Novel's To Kill a Mockingbird complete unit gives the rigor you are looking for, while helping your students enjoy the story itself. In both PRINTABLE and DIGITAL VERSIONS for Distance Learning and In-Person Classrooms!In this comprehensive To Kill a Mockingbird T
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8th - 11th
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Dystopian Literature Unit - Dystopian Short Story Activities Dystopia VS Utopia
Enhance your dystopian short story unit, help students differentiate between dystopian vs. utopian, and supplement their reading of dystopian literature with this compelling resource! Your students will learn to analyze elements of dystopian settings, societies, and motifs with confidence!Introduction to the Elements of Dystopian LiteratureThe high-interest Introduction to Dystopian Literature Slides presentation includes 40 slides outlining the dystopian literary genre, providing rich represen
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8th - 11th
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THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK Play Unit Plan Activities - Quizzes Writing Novel Study
Your learners will enjoy the rigor and creativity of our engaging Anne Frank activities built from best teaching practices. We want to make your lesson planning journey easy, so you can focus on your expertise. This novel study includes a curriculum map pacing guide that offers our day-by-day suggestion for how to plan out your weeks of lessons. Our pedagogy section explains the instructive idea behind the activity, gives ideas for implementation, and aligns it to the standards. We've filmed som
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7th - 9th
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Close Reading Annotation Lesson - Presentation & Annotating Passage Assignment
Close Reading Annotation Lesson - Presentation & Annotating Passage Assignment: Help your students understand the process of close reading and annotation of fiction with this ready-to-use resource. Close reading is a skill that does not often come naturally to students, but this presentation, annotating assignment, and handout break down the process in an easy-to-understand way. After introducing this easy-to-use, step-by-step guide, students will have a strong understanding of how to intera
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8th - 11th
Identify & Analyze Mood & Tone in Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart Activity
Who doesn't love the absolute creepy, terrifying mood that Edgar Allan Poe creates in his stories! And "The Tell-Tale Heart" is one of his finest works. It's the perfect text to analyze and study during the month of October and Halloween! Set the mood and spark interest w/ this harrowing poem by the king of horror himself. This 31-page Mood and Tone bundle for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" includes:* 3-page original text of Edgar Allan Poe's original short story* 8 pages of literary an
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7th - 9th
Animal Farm Activities and Assignments for Every Chapter
Animal Farm Activities for Every Chapter: Engage your students as you read Animal Farm with these chapter activities and writing prompts. This 25-page document includes 21 pages filled with different common core aligned classroom activities to use to help students understand and analyze George Orwell's novel "Animal Farm."UPDATE 5/10/22: Resource now includes answer keysIncluded in this packet:⭐️ Animal Farm Chapter 1 Activities – Rhetorical AnalysisAnalyzing Major’s SpeechFull Text of Major’s
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9th - 12th
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Scaffolded One Pager: A Thematic Response to Reading Activity
Are you drowning in essays? Looking for a way to have students show analytical thinking about a text in a meaningful way that won't send you to the crazy house? Try the one pager as an alternative response to literature. Not only does it encourage students to think creatively and abstractly, but also it teaches them how to use quotations, symbolism, and images to convey how they experience a text.This one pager response to literature activity focuses on the theme of a fictional or narrative nonf
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7th - 10th
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Reading Graphic Organizers Activity Bundle: Literature and Informational Texts
Do you want your students to think critically, thoughtfully, and reflectively about what they are reading? Are you in need of a way to scaffold literary analysis and reading comprehension? This huge reading graphic organizers bundle contains graphic organizers and activities that you can use with any literature or informational text to increase engagement and meet students where they are.This resource bundle is aligned with Common Core Reading Literature and Informational Texts standards for mid
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7th - 10th
Close Reading Passages For Middle School - Close Reading Guide and Strategies
Close Reading For Middle School Students Featuring Excerpts from Stories from Classic Literature. These NO PREP close reading activities are great for practicing close reading and annotation skills. Everything needed to get your students started with Close Reading is included – detailed step by step instructions, annotation guide, reading passages, and graphic organizers. Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and teach!Story excerpts include:•Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving•The B
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6th - 9th
Halloween Close Reading Passages for Middle School - Halloween Activities
Halloween Close Reading For Middle School Students Featuring Excerpts from Spooky Stories from Classic Literature. These NO PREP Halloween activities are great for practicing close reading and annotation skills. Everything needed to get your students started with Close Reading is included – detailed step by step instructions, annotation guide, reading passages, and graphic organizers. Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and teach!Story excerpts include:•The Masque of the Read Death
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6th - 9th
Annotating Poetry - teach students to annotate & read poetry - PRINT + DIGITAL
Teach your students how to annotate poetry! This Annotating Poetry lesson includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students how to annotate poetry. Begin your unit with a presentation for direct instruction. Students will use the included guided notes to follow along with the lesson. Then, work together in a whole-class setting to annotate a poem together using guided instructions and step-by-step pacing.There are three different files in the zipped download:An editable,
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6th - 9th
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Inference Reading Unit Bundle for Making Inferences: Paper and Digital
Bundle includes a 22-Slide Introductory Presentation, Guided Student Note Pages, Short Film Activities, Real-Life Inference Activities, and 5 different Inference Assessments. It contains everything you need to instruct and assess your students on making inferences in both Print and Digital forms. First, introduce the skill with the 22-Slide Introductory Presentation. While following along with the presentation students will fill out the 7-Page Guided Student Note Packet. This packet contains
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6th - 8th
The House on Mango Street Novel Study and Project Menu; Plus Digital Option
Everything you need to use Sandra Cisneros' award-winning novel, The House on Mango Street 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 Lear
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7th - 12th
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Novel Study and Project Menu; Plus Digital Option
Everything you need to use John Boyne's award winning WWII novel, "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" 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 "Distan
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5th - 9th
Also included in: World War II Novel Study Bundle, Seven Complete WWII Literature Units!
How to Read a Graphic Novel Introduction Lesson: Slideshow, Notes, & Activity
Begin any graphic novel or comic book unit with this How To Read a Graphic Novel Introduction Lesson! Prepare students for discussing any graphic novel by teaching them important terms like "panels," "gutters," "spreads," and more with this visually appealing resource. You'll first teach students using the included How to Read a Graphic Novel presentation. Students will learn important graphic novel terms, comic book history, reading tips, and more. Use the blank slide at the end to add your own
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman Whole Unit Bundle for High School
RACE Writing Strategy Color-Coded Bulletin Board Posters
Do your students struggle with answering text-dependent questions? Introducing them to the RACE writing strategy could be a total game-changer for you and your students!RACE Stands For:Restate the questionAnswer all parts of the questionCite evidence to support your answerExplain how your evidence proves your answerThese Printable Posters directly correlate with the Google Slides Presentation found here!What's Included:Brief Description Poster (1 page)Detailed Description Poster (1 page)In-depth
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3rd - 12th
Also included in: RACE Writing Strategy | Citing Text Evidence | BUNDLE
Their Eyes Were Watching God Novel Study - No-Prep Teaching Unit - 95 Pages
Their Eyes Were Watching God Novel Unit - 95 pages of worksheets, activities, quizzes, tests, resources, supplemental teaching ideas, and more for Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. Used in over 1,000 classrooms, with a 4.7/5 Rating! Please note that this product is a printable PDF and will need modification for use in Google Classroom. This Their Eyes Were Watching God Teaching Guide includes:Supplemental informational texts and resources for addressing historical context and th
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10th - 12th
Literary Analysis Essay: Build a "Case File" of Text Evidence for ANY Novel!
NOW INCLUDES GOOGLE: Are you looking for a new, engaging way to teach literary analysis? Call the claim/thesis a "conspiracy theory", and tell students that they have to "prove" it!Ideal for students who are new or intermediate with lit analysis, this project makes students use inductive reasoning without realizing it. In this Common Core aligned project, student groups choose a question about the novel and come up with a "conspiracy theory" (thesis) to answer that question. DURING reading, smal
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Essay Writing Mega Bundle: ALL of my Current and Future Essay Lessons!
Critical Thinking Mystery Activity: Murder of a Millionaire
In this fun murder mystery activity that encourages critical thinking and reading skills, students have to follow the clues to figure out who killed the rich CEO of a powerful company at his home during a dinner party. Who can figure it out especially when he was found in a locked room? With multiple plot lines, this one feels like an old Agatha Christie cozy mystery. Was it a jealous husband? A corrupt lawyer? Whodunit?This is a printable version in PDF. Looking for other versions? Click the li
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Complete Clue by Clue Critical Thinking Printable Activity Bundle
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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Animal Farm Study Guide Questions for Every Chapter
Help your students analyze and understand George Orwell's novel Animal Farm with these study guide questions. This resource includes 100 questions (10 for each chapter) for students to answer as they read Animal Farm. This resource includes:⭐️ Animal Farm Chapter 1 Questions⭐️ Animal Farm Chapter 2 Questions⭐️ Animal Farm Chapter 3 Questions⭐️ Animal Farm Chapter 4 Questions⭐️ Animal Farm Chapter 1 Questions⭐️ Animal Farm Chapter 6 Questions⭐️ Animal Farm Chapter 7 Questions⭐️ Animal Farm Chapte
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8th - 12th
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