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Short stories graphic organizers for Microsoft Word
Elements of Fiction: Short Story Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer allows students to keep track of all the basic elements of fiction while reading a short story. It includes areas for students to take notes on plot, characters, setting, theme, conflicts, and point of view. It is very basic, but very helpful for students who have trouble keeping these elements straight during a short story unit.
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7th - 12th
Intro to Literary Criticism Stations Activity
Students get up and move around, working with a partner to choose a text from a set then learning about literary criticism and applying certain theories to their text. This activity introduces students to the idea of literary criticism and lets the teacher choose short texts (or use the ones included) which makes this activity fit into any unit.
Help students consider new perspectives while reading and begin thinking critically about each text they are exposed to!
What Is Included:
- All Mat
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Native American Origin and Creation Myth Choice Board
Students will use the THINK-TAC-TOE board to choose three activities to complete in relation to Native American Origin and Creation Myths. The first column highlights reading skills while the middle column focusing on writing activities. The last column appeals to students who have interest in art or technology. NOTE----The page numbers indicated may vary depending on the American Literature text being used in each individual classroom.
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9th - 12th
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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
The Veldt by Ray Bradbury differentiated packets for ELLs (Central Idea)
Do you teach ELLs? Do you have a lot of different english proficiencies in the same classroom? Do you have trouble differentiating to meet all of these students needs? LOOK NO FURTHER! These packets will challenge your top students with a grade level text and support your newcomers with images and academic sentence starters!
There are 3 levels of “The Veldt” packet that are differentiated to support all students needs.
Level 1 (Newcomers and Entering)- This packet has the lowest level englis
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7th - 12th
By the Waters of Babylon Handout aligned with Common Core Standards
This handout is a complete unit and includes a reading assessment of the short story, By the Waters of Babylon written by Stephen Vincent Benet. This 19-page handout contains a full version of the story with side-by-side text and reading assessment questions. All story questions, graphic organizers and essay prompts follow the requirements set forth in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts & Literacy. The specific standard is listed next to each question so te
Grades:
9th - 11th
Elements of Fiction: List of Character Traits and Feelings
Help your students apply their knowledge of characterization with this List of Character Traits and Feelings. Page 1 includes positive and negative character traits for students to reference when filling in a Character Map or when doing their own writing, and page 2 includes a chart of feelings, spanning high to low intensities and covering happiness, sadness, anger, love and friendship, fear, and distress. 180 words total! This document is also available in the Elements of Fiction: Character
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6th - 12th
Blank Book Templates
Use these book templates for students who are looking to do their final copy of their writer's workshop in a fun format.
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1st - 5th
"The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" (Twilight Zone Episode) Viewing Guide
This guide focuses on the Twilight Zone episode of "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" (season 1, episode 22) released in 1963. This guide is a great activity to pair with the episode as it focuses on interpretative response and character analysis.
Guide also includes creative response questions like creating interview questions, writing a review, and summarizing/sketching a scene.
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7th - 9th
Making Inferences with Rogue Wave
This chart is editable to use with any short story, or novel. The assignment is based on Collections- Rogue Wave. Students will use the assigned page/line numbers to cite text evidence, complete their own similar experiences, and their inference about the text.
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7th
Story Elements Cornell Notes
If you have never used Cornell or 2-column notes before, give these a try! After students have completed the notes, the left side column can be folded back to allow students to self-study. If students sit facing a partner,each partner can only see the terms or definitions while the left column is folded back, facilitating a good review strategy.
This set of Cornell notes, or 2-column style, covers the following 51 terms and is a great introductory tool:
plot, setting/exposition, characters
Grades:
6th - 8th
Central Message Graphic Organizer
Helping primary students understand how to find the central message of a fiction text by using supporting key details. Product can be used as a screenshot for apps such as classkick in an iPad classroom.
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K - 2nd
The Ransom of Red Chief Unit
This unit includes vocabulary practice worksheets, a vocabulary quiz, before, during, and after reading worksheets for the story, and a quiz for the story that includes multiple choice and short answer questions. There is a focus on humorous techniques, including irony and hyperbole.
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6th - 9th
Complete Unit for Henry Slesar's "Examination Day" - Editable - Answer Keys
This resource is a complete and editable unit for Henry Slesar's short story "Examination Day." What's included in your purchase: a teacher guide for assignments, links needed for the unit, a week's worth of bell work questions, comprehension questions, a plot diagram, foreshadowing analysis, theme analysis, and a choice project. Want more ELA resources? Check out my store!
Grades:
7th - 12th
Short Story Template - Creative Writing Plan
A GRAPHIC ORGANIZER chart for planning a short story. This is part of the Creative Writing Adaptation Assignment which can be also purchased in a BUNDLE with the Free Verse Poetry Template or can also be used separately. It is a great way to get students to PLAN and to THINK CRITICALLY about the elements of a short story that they should include.
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5th - 12th
Also included in: Creative Writing Adaptation Mini-Unit
Film Strip Graphic Organizer for Sequencing, for Writing, Reading and ESL
This film strip graphic organizer is perfect for sequencing events in a story for ELA activities - suitable for all elementary grades and ESL students.
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Grades:
PreK - 5th
Lucy Calkins Personal Narrative Rough Draft Packet
2nd Grade
This should take about 5 or 6 days to complete.
I use this for my Writer's Workshop based on the Lucy Calkins series. They way she was presenting the lessons did not work for me but I have found great sucess by using these packets.
Assign one page per day. That way the student can focus on one topic at a time. I take the time to conference with each student after they have completed them and make corrections on the paper.
When the packet is done, I have the students write all three
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2nd - 3rd
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Reading and Analyzing Legends, Fables, Folk, and Fairy Tales
I was tired of having different "sheets" for each of these categories so I decided to create one sheet that can be used with any of these readings. I ask the students to identify the basic elements of the text and then ask about evil forces and supernatural elements to assess whether or not the students are able to tall fact from fiction. I then have a focus on symbolism. This is because many of these genres are symbolic for other things and play a role in today's society and how cultures and
Grades:
6th - 9th
"All Summer in a Day" Anticipation Guide
Use this anticipation guide to help your students think about some of the themes in All Summer in a Day, a short story by Ray Bradbury. Includes four topics and space within a chart in which students can write their responses. Great as discussion starters, warm-ups, or journal prompts. This document is also available in the All Summer in a Day All-in-One DEAL.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Figurative Language Graphic Organizer ~ web format ~ Works with ANY anchor text!
From struggling, inclusive ESOL all the way through the gifted and talented, students across the spectrum in intermediate grades 4-7 derive great benefit from using graphic organizers. They have immense value as a visual aid to facilitate learning and instruction. With 65% of the population consisting of visual learners, graphic organizers are a cornerstone of my curriculum. While putting together a SIFT unit for poetry, I wanted to incorporate a graphic organizer for each of the poetic devi
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4th - 8th
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Cornell Notes Ch 3: Characterization (Perrine) AP Literature
These guided reading notes (in the two-columned Cornell Notes format) feature 17 probing text- and inference-based questions that allow students to navigate the dense but informative Chapter 3 "Characterization" of the Short Story/Fiction section of Perrine's anthology "Structure, Sound and Sense", a text commonly used in AP Literature.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Guided Notes Over the Different Types of Characters
Guided notes over the different types of characters, including protagonist, antagonist, round, flat, dynamic, and static characters. This is a Word Doc and is fully editable!
These guided notes go along with this Prezi: http://prezi.com/l-qfw04gz5dp/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
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3rd - 8th
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The Decameron's Federigo's Falcon interactive reading guide
This activity is a reading guide for the romantic short story; it includes an anticipatory reading, writing, and discussion component, vocabulary chart, reading guide questions, medieval romance analysis chart, and reading response questions. The final questions require details from the story to support the learner's opinions. This assignment may be modified to accommodate various levels of learners.
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10th - 12th
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The Scarlet Ibis Student Graphic Organizer Story Mapping and Key
This resource was created to be used with the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst. The Story Map provides the students with visual to help student with enhanced comprehension that target the Common core State Standards for Literature. The student Story Map is ready to duplicate for classroom use and teacher key for the test is included. Other resources are also available for “The Scarlet Ibis” on my site including a Multiple Choice test (three choices) and a Modified Multiple Choic
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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