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Common Core W.8.1 guided reading books
The Last Cuentista Novel Study Unit and Literature Guide
The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera is a high interest low prep novel study in the popular dystopian book genre. This literature guide has it all! Chapter by chapter questions, vocabulary, character charts, ongoing graphic organizers for various literary elements, and many unique activities that help students relate to the text more effectively. The science fiction book earned the 2022 Newbery Award and tackles themes like coming of age, independence, and the value of storytelling. Supplem
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Dystopian Novel Study Literature Bundle
CC Aligned -- All the Broken Pieces Guided Reading, by Ann E Burg
This is a Common Core-aligned, guided reading packet to go with the novel All the Broken Pieces by Ann E Burg. This packet stretches the entire novel, providing text-dependent comprehension questions, as well as addressing inferencing, analysis of passages, and figurative language. The packet is baseball themed, and includes pre-reading activities, a reading schedule organizer, and an end-of-book writing assignment, too.
My middle school boys love this story, and it is a great exposure for the
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5th - 8th
CLOSE READ & RESPOND BUNDLE - Nonfiction, Fiction, Informational, & Memoir Texts
This bundle includes all of my Close Reading Practice Lessons. Each lesson takes roughly 1hr to complete. Features guiding questions to scaffold close readingAnnotation skill practiceWriting to task using the RACE mnemonic deviceTeacher Guide included
Grades:
6th - 8th
Hello, Universe - Erin Kelly - Unit Plan - Plans Inc. Comp, Vocab, Resource Sp.
This listing is for a editable bundle of guided reading materials that go along with the book Hello, Universe by Erin Estrada Kelly. The mini-lessons are meant to mixed and matched, or repeated as necessary. I used this with my 7th grade resource room/ reading & literacy support classes. The file is editable, so you can pick and choose which questions to use. We did this unit as a combination of mini-lessons, independent reading, partner reading, and read-aloud. The listing includes: 1. Comp
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6th - 8th
The Giver Novel Study Unit and Literature Guide
The Giver by Lois Lowry is a standards-based low prep novel study that engages your students in lots of critical thinking. It is a dystopian science fiction book and Newbery Award winner that tackles themes like independence, free choice, and individuality.There are chapter comprehension questions, vocabulary, and multiple graphic organizers to support text analysis as well as engaging literacy activities to enhance the novel study. Use the materials as a whole group, in reading groups, or with
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Dystopian Novel Study Literature Bundle
Death Coming Up the Hill : A Vietnam War Novel Workbook
This hands-on, engaging workbook acts as a strong supplement to the novel Death Coming Up the Hill by Chris Crowe. It is a fantastic resource for engaging students with historical literature and poetry and focuses on both Bloom's Taxonomy and Common Core Standards. Students will come away from the unit with a strong knowledge base of the Vietnam War, the late 1960s, haiku poetry, research sources, and informative texts.The workbook includes:A cover pagePre-reading research activity regarding t
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7th - 12th
Sherlock Holmes Close Reading Study Guide | SILVER BLAZE | Worksheets
Fog! Gas lights! Mysteries! SHERLOCK HOLMES must be close at hand. Silver Blaze--Sherlock Holmes Close Reading Study Guide is ready so students can enjoy a trip to Holmes’s flat at 221B Baker Street, London, and to the countryside in Dartmoor where Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the disappearance of the famous race horse Silver Blaze and the apparent murder of the horse’s trainer.Here’s what you’ll find in your 51-page reproducible guide:• introductory information about the story, along with
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8th - 11th
Also included in: Sherlock Holmes | Conan Doyle Biography and SILVER BLAZE | Worksheets
Elie Wiesel's Night - Common Core Learning Tasks - 30 Rigorous Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 30 rigorous unit learning tasks for Elie Wiesel’s "Night." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external documents and informational
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8th - 10th
Seedfolks Novel Study Unit and Literature Guide
This Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman resource is a low prep novel unit and includes a student PDF packet with the student activity pages and a second PDF with all student pages, teacher notes, answer keys, and student samples. There are many activities from which to choose in this Seedfolks novel study depending on your class needs. Not only are there reading comprehension activities, students think about how the point of view in each chapter affects the tone of the story, the different cultures th
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6th - 8th
The Candymakers Novel Study
So who's story is the real story? Can anyone recount an event exactly as it happened or are stories all about perspective? Learn all about perspective, prior knowledge and internal struggle as four twelve year old candymaking contestants seek to win the annual contest and have their new idea on shelves all over the country. Help your student(s) stop and take the time to look beyond the words on the page. Through this unique novel study, students will actually spend time with the text, rolling th
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6th - 8th
Dystopian Novel Study Literature Bundle
These 4 standards-based guided reading novel studies are dystopian literature. The novel units for The Giver, The Last Cuentista, Among the Hidden, and The White Mountains would work well for book groups to compare features of the dystopian genre.All novel units include chapter vocabulary, reading comprehension questions, character charts, teach answer keys, notes, and student samples. IN ADDITION, each novel unit has activity pages unique to the specific novel (see lists below).PLEASE READ: Thi
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6th - 8th
The Hero's Journey Through The Hobbit
This is a series of PowerPoints that are designed for students to answer questions as they move through the Hero's Journey using the text The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien. All parts of the Hero's Journey are included and there is a PowerPoint/questions handout for each stage (departure, initiation, and return) of the Hero's Journey. This set also includes a final assessment for the Hobbit that asks students to research real life heroes and villains that culminates as an essay.
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8th
"Revenge Grows on Trees" Pear Deck
I made this presentation for the purpose of teaching a unit on revenge. In the Unit, students read "The Cask of Amontillado" (my presentation available on TpT), "Of Revenge" by Sir Francis Bacon, and "A Poison Tree" by William Blake. This presentation will look at "Of Revenge" and "A Poison Tree." "Of Revenge" can be particularly challenging for students, so I have tried to make the presentation as visual and approachable as possible, with some of the harder terms defined or explained.The presen
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8th - 9th
The Hunger Games Chapters 10-18 Questions and Journals
The attached documents are chapter questions and journal assignments to accompany the reading of The Hunger Games in any type of classroom. These questions have been used three times in the classroom setting and require the students to look beyond what is said in the text for answers that seek a further understanding of the text.
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7th - 12th
The Odyssey Essay Performance Task
This product includes an SBAC-style performance task for use with Homer's "The Odyssey." In the task, students are asked to write an argument essay about whether or not Odysseus is a hero. The product also includes a planning sheet for student use.
This can be used with both a kids version of The Odyssey (for lower grades) or with the "real" version of the text in high school. It works well for both history and English classes.
You might also like my Crash Course Literature Odyssey Study Guide
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Blank Check, A Young Adult Novel - Study Guide
From the thrilling Young Adult Book, Blank Check.Educators designed the study guide for educators.What’s included in this Study Guide?All 50 state standards for English / Language Arts Grades 6-12 Over 30 Pre and Post Reading Activities 300 Vocabulary & Literary TermsDesigned for Distance Education & Traditional ClassroomThe Study Guide provides teachers with lessons that entail excitement and engagement.Activities include multiple websites that create critical thinking and student-cent
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7th - 10th
The Trail of Tears The Story of Cherokee Removal Native American Heritage Lesson
The Trail of Tears by Dan Elish Guide The Story of Forced Cherokee Removal and Native American HistoryThis guide includes: Teacher Section with Answers and Student Section BenchmarksKWL ChartNative American Tribe MapPre, post and during reading activitiesChapter-by-chapter reading comprehension questionsDiscussion questionsVocabulary ActivitiesCause & Effect ChartExtension ResourcesThis resource is great for: Teaching about Native American HistoryTeaching about American HistoryTeaching about
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6th - 9th
DIGITAL bundle: "The Landlady"
Thank you for browsing through my items! This digital bundle is accessible through Google Classrooms. It contains:1. Introductory slide presentation for students A. Background on author B. vocabulary and definitions for student note-taking2. Vocabulary and Text with guided reading questions for students A. Foreshadowing notes B. Plot sequence items C. Vocabulary and Text with guided reading questions/answer key for teacher3. Multiple choice quiz A. vocabulary included B. foreshad
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7th - 9th
The WordSmith Common Core Literacy Units for Grades 6-8 (13)
This is the thirteenth of seventeen stand-alone ELA literacy units built around the highly acclaimed ‘Paka Mdogo – Little Cat’ (the first in a series of three animal adventure stories).
Each unit is based on a single chapter from the book, and includes the text itself…so over the course of a semester students will be able to enjoy the whole story as a piece of fiction ‘with excellent literary credentials’ (Library Thing review) – appropriate to Grades 6 to 8 but offering engagement, suspense,
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6th - 8th
Argumentative Essay Vocabulary Guided Notes
These guided notes are perfect for introducing argumentative essays to your students. As students fill in the blanks, they will also create their own examples for many of the vocabulary words so they can apply what they are learning in real time.Teach or review argumentative terms such as:claimsupportcounterclaimvague languageirrelevant examplesovergeneralizationsAnswer key included!
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6th - 8th
Dangerous Internet Crazes - Reading Comprehension Pack
A detailed reading comprehension all about the recent ‘Momo Challenge’ (no pictures of Momo included) and the dangers of online challenges that this hoax has highlighted. This reading comprehension includes three sets of differentiated challenge questions, so with reading, discussion and answering the questions this will keep a group busy for 25-30 mins. It is perfect for an Internet Safety activity or an English lesson.The article, written by journalist R E Hunt (who has kindly let us shar
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7th - 9th
The Hunger Games Journal Writing Rubric
You can use this rubric to assess students performance on journal entries for The Hunger Games. The rubric is aligned to the Common Core Learning Standards
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7th - 12th, Staff
T.A.G.S. Thesis Statement Handout
The T.A.G.S. acronym is very helpful for high schoolers when practicing literary analysis. I project this in my classroom and give copies while we are planning our writing.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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