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Writing-expository Common Core RL.8.2 resources

Preview of Literary Analysis Elements Activities using Pixar Shorts Videos or Commercials

Literary Analysis Elements Activities using Pixar Shorts Videos or Commercials

Your students are going to love these literary analysis lessons. Add Pixar Shorts, commercials, or cartoon clips and you're ready to teach literary elements. Fun way to engage students as they analyze character, plot, setting, theme, and conflict (coming soon). Then, transfer them to more complex texts like short stories and novels. Your students will love practicing analysis skills with these easy-to-use digital or print lessons! The perfect way for students to truly understand literary el
Preview of AIR Reading Test Prep | Fiction Practice Test 3 | PDF & Digital

AIR Reading Test Prep | Fiction Practice Test 3 | PDF & Digital

Created by
A Cozy Classroom
Help your students practice their reading comprehension skills with exciting paired fiction passages. The passages come from popular youth novels and will help engage and capture your students’ interest while also working on their test-taking skills. The questions were written to give your students examples of all the types of questions they might see in standardized testing, MOY Testing, or end-of-year exam. Digital with TpT's Easel. Question Types:multiple-choice, multiselect, evidence-based s
Preview of Poetry Analysis: "Stopping By Woods..." by Robert Frost

Poetry Analysis: "Stopping By Woods..." by Robert Frost

Created by
Tracee Orman
My standards-based poetry analysis of Robert Frost's beloved poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" includes everything you need for a meaningful activity for your students! They will practice reading, writing, language, and drawing skills as they look at Frost's poem in-depth.In addition, your students can doodle and color all over the pages! Each page has items that can be colored and they are encouraged to draw, as well. It's a great activity for all levels of learning.See my preview to
Preview of Poetry Analysis - Emily Dickinson - Emergency Sub Plan (paper + digital)

Poetry Analysis - Emily Dickinson - Emergency Sub Plan (paper + digital)

Created by
Nouvelle ELA
Are you looking for a poetry analysis lesson students can complete on their own? In this poetry activity, students analyze Emily Dickinson’s “I Died for Beauty.” This scaffolded activity is the perfect sub plan or snow day lesson or during National Poetry Month! Use this analyzing poetry activity for:Independent practiceEnrichment & Summer SchoolSnow Days & Blizzard BagsEmergency Plans Do your students need a skills review?✅ Use textual evidence to support inferences (RL.7.1)✅ Determine
Preview of Christmas Reading Comprehension Paired Passages

Christmas Reading Comprehension Paired Passages

What kid hasn't wished Christmas, their birthday, Hanuka, or the Fourth of July could come around more than once a year? This wonderful, classic short story reminds us that too much of a sweet thing can quickly turn sour! The story is paired with an article about the waste generated during the holiday season and a video about holiday recycling. This rigorous unit includes guided practice on how to closely read a complex text, as well as how to answer multiple choice, sh
Preview of Summarizing, Paraphrasing Slideshow, Notes, Graphic Organizers PRINT & DIGITAL

Summarizing, Paraphrasing Slideshow, Notes, Graphic Organizers PRINT & DIGITAL

Teach your students to summarize and paraphrase fiction and nonfiction by using this PowerPoint and notes for instruction and modeling. Students can then move on to collaborative and independent practice by using their newfound skills on the blank graphic organizers and passages of your choosing.The PowerPoint corresponds with the guided notes that come in 2D notes AND folding versions. BOTH are interactive!UPDATE (4/2020): I've added a digital file to reduce your remote teaching prep work by pr
Preview of Text Evidence Proof Frames for Reading Comprehension for All Subject Areas

Text Evidence Proof Frames for Reading Comprehension for All Subject Areas

The Text Evidence Proof Frames are easy to use in any subject area. Your students will be able to find text evidence, cite it, and use the evidence in a response paragraph. Works for fiction and nonfiction text. This versatile resource offers easy differentiation with multiple versions of the the text evidence proof frames as well as the paragraph writing frames. The Text Evidence Proof frames will help your students construct a response using evidence from a text. The frames are laid out for si
Preview of Theme Essay for ANY Literature - DIGITAL Version

Theme Essay for ANY Literature - DIGITAL Version

Created by
Joy Sexton
Writing a Theme Essay will be motivating with this step-by-step digital resource designed to lead your students through the entire process! Great for classroom or remote teaching, easy-to-follow writing templates guide students in drafting all four paragraphs.Students identify two themes evident in the text and devote one paragraph to each theme. In each paragraph, students discuss how a prominent character is involved with the theme topic and what the author wants us to learn or understand.A li
Preview of Writing: Interacitve Foldable Organizers and Practice

Writing: Interacitve Foldable Organizers and Practice

Bring your students’ writing notebooks to life with folding writing organizers and lessons for each writing task! This product contains everything you need to teach writing. Step-by-step guided instructions with photos, writing prompts, examples for modeling, and dozens of folding organizers are included! Like many teachers, I often used graphic organizers to help students plan and organize their ideas for writing. Unfortunately, students are easily bored by regular organizers and many kids pr
Preview of MARCH TEST PREP ESCAPE ROOM ELA ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING RACE STRATEGY PASSAGES

MARCH TEST PREP ESCAPE ROOM ELA ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING RACE STRATEGY PASSAGES

Need help motivating students who are burnt out on test prep? This St. Patrick's Day March 360 ELA TEST PREP digital escape room will do the trick! CCSS AND COMPATIBLE WITH MOST STATE STANDARDS.The escape room is divided into thematic forest scenes, each designed to simulate a different part of the test. Students will read passages, compose ECR/SCR (constructed responses) and an argumentative essay, analyze writing samples, solve puzzles, and crack ELA codes all while scrolling through an immers
Preview of Writing Summaries - Posters & Sentence Starters for Fiction & Nonfiction Texts

Writing Summaries - Posters & Sentence Starters for Fiction & Nonfiction Texts

Created by
The ESL Nexus
Give your students support in writing summaries of fiction and non-fiction texts! This resource will help English Language Learners and other students write good summaries of both fiction and non-fiction texts by offering organizational frameworks and sentence starters for fiction and non-fiction summaries. The organizational frameworks show what kind of information should be included when writing a summary. The sentence starters offer a variety of writing prompts that students can use to wri
Preview of Teaching Theme Analysis Activities for novel, short story, play, Pixar short

Teaching Theme Analysis Activities for novel, short story, play, Pixar short

What a fun way to teach literary elements and engage students as they analyze plot and practice literary analysis skills using Pixar Shorts, commercials, or cartoon clips. Then, transfer those skills to more complex texts like short stories and novels. Your students will love analyzing theme with this easy-to-use digital or print booklet and short videos! This is what you get:Print and Digital versions that are great for distance learning or a blended classroomteacher lesson plansstudent note
Preview of Fiction Book Report Assignment and 100 Points Grading Sheet

Fiction Book Report Assignment and 100 Points Grading Sheet

Created by
HappyEdugator
A detailed book report guide that is easy to grade! Includes fiction book report assignment sheet and a detailed 100 point grading sheet. This book project on fiction will help students write a book review that is well-developed and thoughtful. Each section is detailed as to what is required, and the total points possible equals 100, making it easy to grade. The grading requirements sheet is divided into 9 sections: the introduction, characters, plot, setting, theme, conclusion, composition stru
Preview of Writing Response Paragraphs all 8th grade Reading Bundle RI.8.1-8.10 RL.8.1-8.10

Writing Response Paragraphs all 8th grade Reading Bundle RI.8.1-8.10 RL.8.1-8.10

Created by
Teach2Write
This MEGA BUNDLE of teaching resources for Common Core ELA RL.8.1-8.10 Literature and Information RI.8.1-8.10: Writing Paragraph Response breaks down each standard and provides graphic organizers, paragraph frames, sentence starters, and rubrics in both digital and printable worksheets for responding to literature and information for 8th grade English Language Arts.. Middle school students struggle with writing complete and coherent constructive responses to literature and information. The analy
Preview of RL.8.2 Theme Development & Objective Summary Writing Response Paragraphs

RL.8.2 Theme Development & Objective Summary Writing Response Paragraphs

Created by
Teach2Write
This teaching resource for RL.8.2 Theme and Objective Summary for Literature Writing Paragraph Response breaks down the standard and provides graphic organizers, paragraph frames, sentence starters, and rubrics in both digital and printable worksheets. Middle school students struggle with writing complete and coherent constructive responses to literature. The analysis portion is often a repeat or paraphrase of the cited text, instead of an explanation of it. Learning to write response paragraphs
Preview of Fiction Paired Passages Reading Test | Common Core AIR Test Prep Print & Digital

Fiction Paired Passages Reading Test | Common Core AIR Test Prep Print & Digital

Created by
A Cozy Classroom
Help your students prepare for their Common Core Standardized end-of-year test (Ohio's AIR Test) by taking this paired fiction passage practice test. This practice test was created and modeled after the 6th through 8th-grade AIR Practice Tests. The 13 questions were written to give your students examples of all the types of questions they will see in standardized testing. The use of high interested youth novels will capture your students’ interest while also working on their test-taking skills.Q
Preview of AN HOUR WITH ABUELO Reading Check Questions and more

AN HOUR WITH ABUELO Reading Check Questions and more

Created by
Arlene Manemann
Students learn a lot about how preconceptions can be misconceptions as they read and answer questions for this short story, available in anthologies as well as on-line.Included are:- Reading Check questions for the main plot,- A sequencing exercise for the story-within-a-story, including an explanation of that term,- Two analysis writing prompts, on their own writing paper,- A discussion of 1st Person Perspective, with examples and practice from the story itself,- Teacher Suggestions.ANSWERS INC
Preview of ELA Digital Escape Rooms THESIS STATEMENT HOOKS STORY ELEMENTS bundle

ELA Digital Escape Rooms THESIS STATEMENT HOOKS STORY ELEMENTS bundle

360 ELA Digital Escape Rooms are a guaranteed fun way to learn. This bundle includes thesis statement, hooks, short film, short story, figurative language and Greek Mythology escape rooms. Students will dive deep into oceans, swamps, space, and more using Google Slides or paper clue/navigation sheets. This bundle is discounted 20% OFF. You will get a FREE Counterclaim digital escape coming soon if you purchase now.ESCAPE ROOMS INCLUDED:⭐THE GREAT HOOK ESCAPE⭐THESIS STATEMENT SPACE ESCAPE⭐GREEK M
Preview of The Crossover by Kwame Alexander - Text Based Evidence, Text Analysis Writing

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander - Text Based Evidence, Text Analysis Writing

Teaching how to write a literary analysis essay citing text evidence for The Crossover by Kwame Alexander has never been easier! This in-depth text dependent analysis (TDA) writing prompt resource guides students through a step-by-step process of writing an expository essay with textual evidence as support. It includes an expository writing graphic organizer, rubric, expository writing quiz, and an expository writing template.All aspects of text evidence writing are covered in this resource: bra
Preview of The Giver by Lois Lowry Final Test, Novel Assessment, Book Exam

The Giver by Lois Lowry Final Test, Novel Assessment, Book Exam

Created by
Christie Olstad
This is a final test for Lois Lowry's The Giver, including multiple choice, true false, quote matching, and short answer essay questions with an ANSWER KEY included. Possible key point examples for each short answer essay prompts are also included. I use the essay prompts for essay choice questions they can use for their expository essay at the end of the term as well.This assessment delves into the rich tapestry of themes, characters, and literary elements within the novel, offering an insightf
Preview of Theme, Literary Elements, and Inferencing Visual

Theme, Literary Elements, and Inferencing Visual

Created by
JC Productions
Reading for and writing about Theme can be called the apex of exploring literature. Here is a visual that puts it there. You can use it to talk about how literary elements form the basis for analyzing literature, and how literary devices build on this foundation. For example, mood can be created from more basic elements, such as the setting, plot events, characterization, and imagery. (Class activity suggestion: You can print out or project this visual onto a white board and have your students
Preview of Fiction Paired Reading Comprehension Passages | Common Core | PDF & Digital

Fiction Paired Reading Comprehension Passages | Common Core | PDF & Digital

Created by
A Cozy Classroom
Help your students prepare for the common core end-of-year standardized test (Ohio's AIR Test) by taking these paired fiction passage practice tests. The questions were written to give your students examples of all the types of questions they will see on the AIR test. The passages come from popular youth novels and will help engage and capture your students’ interest while also working on their test-taking skills.Digital with TpT's Easel. Question Types:multiple-choice, multiselect, evidence-bas
Preview of The Cay by Theodore Taylor - Text Based Evidence, Text Analysis Essay Writing

The Cay by Theodore Taylor - Text Based Evidence, Text Analysis Essay Writing

Teaching how to write a literary analysis essay citing text evidence for The Cay by Theodore Taylor has never been easier! This in-depth text dependent analysis (TDA) writing prompt resource guides students through a step-by-step process of writing an expository essay with textual evidence as support. It includes an expository writing graphic organizer, rubric, expository writing quiz, and an expository writing template.All aspects of text evidence writing are covered in this resource: brainsto
Preview of I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME Novel Study Unit

I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME Novel Study Unit

Created by
Arlene Manemann
Discussion and analytic questions for the novel I Heard the Owl Call My Name are primary to this unit. These questions will have students analyzing and understanding the concepts Craven weaves into her plot.In addition there are vocabulary worksheets and puzzles.An essay assignment derived from a topic specific journal (attached), with detailed student handout is included in this file. There are half-page quizzes for Ch. 1 to 5, and Ch 18 & 19, plus a full-page test and an essay for the to
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