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Holidays/seasonal Common Core RL.8.4 resources
Figurative Language Sorting Activity Worksheet Alternative 100 Card Sort Game
Need figurative language activities? Use this fun and interactive sorting task card game to review and reinforce figurative language. These 100 task cards each have examples of figurative language taken from authentic texts and popular YA literature. Students will sort them into seven categories: metaphors, similes, personification, hyperboles, idioms, onomatopoeia, alliteration. Before you buy...this product is part of a BUNDLE that will save you money.You will want to use this student-centered
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5th - 12th
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Halloween Figurative Language Pumpkin Activity : Color By Number ELA
This Halloween, use this fun and interactive color by number ELA activity to review and reinforce figurative language including similes, metaphors, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. Students will color a jack o' lantern pumpkin after solving a figurative language puzzle. Great for fall seasonal parties and halloween parties. You will want to use this student-centered activity for years to come! Included: question sheet with figurative language tasksblank coloring sheeta
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: ELA Color by Number Activities Bundle | Figurative Language & more!
Reading Comprehension Mystery Picture Fun ELA Activities Middle School Summer
Help your students practice reading skills in a fun and engaging way! Mystery pictures are the perfect after-testing activities fun!This Reading Comprehension set includes 6 mystery picture activities.The sets have 20 short reading passages with 48 multiple-choice text-dependent questions students have to solve to discover a surprise picture.Once students answer the reading questions they will then self-check by coloring all the numbers on their mystery picture page based on their answer choices
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4th - 8th
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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
Halloween Reader's Theater & Reading Literature Toolkit for Grades 4-8
The Happy Halloween That Almost Wasn't... is a Halloween reader's theater script your middle school students will love! Practice fluency and speaking while incorporating Halloween themes into your language arts instruction. This 11 character PDF script includes comprehension questions and word work activities, making this unit a flexible teaching resource you can use in multiple ways!Your students will love reading about the characters of Parkersburg Elementary School and how their Halloween tra
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Reader's Theater Bundle: 12 Engaging Scripts for Big Kids
The Tell-Tale Heart Digital Escape Room | Reading Comprehension Game
Your students are going to love deciphering and solving puzzles in this creepy, 360° digital escape room. This activity is designed to work for a laptop, tablet, or smart phone. Students will solve a series of clues based on the story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe in order to crack the master lock and escape the room. This game entails reading comprehension skills, finding textual evidence, and making inferences.Included in this download are teacher instructions, student instructions
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7th - 11th
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Reading Comprehension Mystery Pictures Fun ELA Activities Middle School Coloring
Are you searching for a fun yet effective way to help your students improve reading comprehension? Look no further! Our comprehensive set of 26 mystery pictures with reading comprehension passages and multiple choice questions has got you covered. Whether you're an experienced teacher or just starting out, our teacher-tested color-by-number pages will help boost your students' reading comprehension.➡️ Click HERE for the elementary version! ❓Is it a struggle to engage your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade
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6th - 8th
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A Christmas Carol Activities Unit Plan | Middle School
This A Christmas Carol Unit Plan is a great way to keep your middle school students engaged in learning activities during the Holiday Season. This PDF resource is complete with detailed lesson plans for each Stave of Charles Dickens' holiday tale, including before, during and after reading activities. Students will analyze characters, setting, theme, and more as they enjoy this classic story! These resources work well with the novella and various dramatized play versions of the story.Best of al
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Thanksgiving Christmas Holiday Mega Bundle - Middle School ELA
Back to School First Day Jitters Reader's Theater Script for Grades 4-8
First Day Jitters? If you love the back-to-school book First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg, your students will love performing the reader's theater script even more. Based on the events from the silly picture book, I have created a reader's theater and reading literature toolkit that BIG KIDS will love to perform in those first days of school.This First Day Jitters for BIG KIDS resource includes:• 2-page 4-character reader's theater script• context clue word work• reader response questions• po
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4th - 7th, Staff
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Also included in: Text-Based Reader's Theater and Read Aloud Activities Bundle
Christmas Mystery Picture with Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions
Are you searching for a fun yet effective way to help your students improve reading comprehension this Christmas? Look no further! Our December mystery picture with reading comprehension passages and multiple choice questions has got you covered. Whether you're an experienced teacher or just starting out, our teacher-tested color-by-number pages will help boost your students' reading comprehension.Great for middle school or click HERE for elementary.❓Is it a struggle to engage your 6th, 7th, and
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5th - 8th
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March Madness Poetry Competition | Poems vs Pop Music | Print-Digital-Editable
Studying poetry doesn’t have to be boring - turn your English classroom into the site of the March Madness tournament with my March Madness Poetry Competition. Students will study poetic devices used in classic poems and pop music as you move through your very own Top 16 bracket to crown the final winner. Students will have a chance to show off their competitive side and their poetry skills at the same time - and you’ll have a bright and beautiful bracket to display as your students work through
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6th - 8th
Brown Girl Dreaming by J.Woodson; A CCSS Aligned, PDF & Digital Book Study
OVERVIEW: If you like to inspire, teach, and motivate your students using award-winning, literature, don't overlook this amazing memoir: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (2015 Newbery Honor Award, 2015 Coretta Scott King Award, 2014 National Book Award, and 2015 E.B. White Read-Aloud Middle Reader Award). Use this PDF, custom-made, no-prep, CCSS aligned memoir-study to help your students focus, understand, and stretch themselves as they read. If you want to use it with distance lea
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5th - 9th
End of Year Escape Room Reading, Writing, & Following Directions
This FUN, EASY TO USE breakout activity is perfect to use before any vacation or at the end of the year! WHAT IS THE BACK STORY FOR THIS ESCAPE ROOM?Your kids arrive at camp and it doesn't exactly look like it does in the brochure. In fact, it is an awful wreck of a place! Luckily, the greatest counselor in the world is willing to secretly help them escape to the camp across the lake, which is the camp of their dreams! With every challenge they complete, kids will earn the parts to the vehicle t
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5th - 8th
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Valentine's Day Figurative Language Assignments - Literary Devices Activity
Valentine's Day Figurative Language Assignments - Literary Devices Activity: Bring Valentine's into your middle and high school English class while also teaching common figurative language and literary devices used in poetry or fiction. These three ready-to-use figurative language assignments include a variety of Valentine's Day-themed sentences that incorporate an example of metaphor, simile, personification, alliteration, oxymoron, or onomatopoeia! An answer key is provided to easily grade or
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7th - 10th
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Holiday Reading Comprehension Mystery Picture ELA Coloring Sheets Fun Activities
Help your students practice reading skills in a fun and engaging way! Holiday Mystery Pictures that are color by number are the perfect addition to your middle school classroom reading comprehension practice.This fun and engaging holiday reading comprehension mystery picture bundle includes short passages and multiple-choice questions students have to answer to discover a seasonal mystery picture.Once students answer the reading questions they will then self-check by coloring all the numbers on
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5th - 8th
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Winter Escape Room
Christmas activities are fun, but if you want to include EVERYONE in your class, regardless of the holiday they celebrate, this holiday escape room is PERFECT!Escape the Snowglobe is a winter breakout adventure that has students using teamwork, reading comprehension skills, figurative language practice, puzzle-solving abilities, and creative writing. Kids will be "working" but having so much fun that they won't realize how much they are learning! This escape can actually be used at any time of t
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: HOLIDAY ESCAPE ROOM BUNDLE: Snow Globe, Valentine's Day, & Halloween
Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart & The Monkeys Paw Digital Escape Room Bundle
With this Digital Escape Room Bundle, you will save money and get TWO escape rooms: one for The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe & one for The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs.This purchase includes the bundle of two Digital Escape Rooms, which is perfect since many 7th or 8th grade teachers teach both of these short stories in the same unit!Your students are going to love deciphering and solving puzzles in these creepy, 360° digital escape rooms. Both escape rooms are designed to work for a l
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7th - 10th
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ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY Unit BUNDLE (Taylor) Novel Study Activities, Quiz
Your learners will enjoy the rigor and creativity of our engaging 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 some training
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6th - 8th
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Thanksgiving Escape Room for ELA
This activity features a rigorous yet engaging escape room in which students tackle 5 Language Arts skills-based puzzles about Thanksgiving - for middle and high school!There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Thanksgiving-themed E
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Holiday Escape Room BUNDLE for ELA
Halloween Middle School ELA Activities Mood Tone Figurative Language | Digital
Teaching and reviewing middle school ELA concepts through these Halloween-themed printables and digital resources has never been easier or more engaging. This resource includes five different ELA Halloween activities for reviewing figurative language, rhetoric, horror/suspense novels, and mood and tone. Here's what you'll get:Halloween Word Search (Color/Black and White Options) Halloween Figurative Language Review Activity (Color/Black and White Options) Halloween Figurative Language Review Ac
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6th - 8th
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The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963 Novel Study & Project Menu; Digital Option
No-Prep novel study for "The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963", 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 Civil Rights Newbery Medal award winning novel by Christopher Paul Curtis in your classroom while encouraging critical reading skills.CCSS/STAAR Aligned! Great for "Distance Learning".Please chec
Grades:
4th - 8th
Christmas Escape Room
This activity features a rigorous yet engaging escape room in which students tackle 5 ELA skills-based puzzles about Christmas - for middle and high school!There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Christmas-themed Escape Room. Plan
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Holiday Escape Room BUNDLE for ELA
A Christmas Carol Figurative Language Worksheets and Digital Easel Activity
A Christmas Carol Figurative Language Practice with Easel Activity. Using quotes from the story by Charles Dickens, students have to identify types of figurative language such as metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, and allusion. Includes a worksheet based on A Christmas Carol, a worksheet based on the play, a figurative language matching sheet, and a handout on types of figurative language. No prep. Print or go digital for remote or hybrid learning. Keys are included, but not shown in
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: A Christmas Carol Bundle of Support Materials
Back to School ELA Escape Room
If you are looking for the perfect way to start your school year off strong with a rigorous yet engaging beginning of the year activity, look no further than this Back to School Escape Room for ELA!There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full
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Grades:
8th - 11th
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Also included in: Back to School ELA Bundle
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