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5th grade short stories handouts
Paper Bag Book Report Project - Novel Study Templates - Reading Comprehension
Paper Bag Book Report: Fun Book Report Project for ANY Novel or Short Story - This package is perfect for your upcoming novel study unit or short story unit, as it provides students with everything they need to create a Paper Bag Book Report on ANY novel or short story! All activities are classroom tested and include creative handouts, information sheets, detailed instructions, and templates! Two separate Paper Bag Book Report packages have been included: one for use with ANY novel, and one tha
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3rd - 6th
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Personal Narrative Unit Graphic Organizers
In this unit are graphic organizers to support your students while writing personal narratives. These graphic organizers provide scaffolding and visual supports to a variety of learners. Included are graphic organizers on the following topics: *Brainstorming*Watermelon vs. Seed Ideas*Sensory Language*Introduction "Hooks"*Beginning, Middle, and End*Thinking about Setting*Character Traits*Dialogue*Transitions*Show, Don't Tell*Self & Peer Editing ************************************************
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3rd - 6th
Cut and Paste BUNDLE for Comprehension, Inferencing, & Sequencing
Save over 20% on this bundle! Stories with accompanying questions! Students will read the story or listen as the story is read aloud and then answer the questions by cutting out the answer and gluing it into place.Cut and Paste ComprehensionThere is a WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, and WHY question for each story! 53 Stories relate to common holidays throughout the year, school events, sports, and common life events (birthdays, visiting relatives, etc.)Cut and Paste Inferencing40 with accompanying infe
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1st - 5th
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Folktales Worksheets: Fairytales, Fables, Tall Tales, Legends, & Myths
Practice folktales and the different subgenres with these great printables! The subgenres explored are: fables, fairytales, tall tales, legends, and myths.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:Folktales Overview - handoutFolktales Subgenre Chart - handoutFolktales Subgenre Chart - worksheetFolktale Multiple Choice Quiz - assessmentFolktales I Know - worksheetFolktale Reflection - assessment/worksheetGreat for 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE A LOT MORE!NOTE: This resource uses A
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4th - 8th
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Winter Non-Fiction Passages | Reading Comprehension
This pack includes 7 non-fiction stories with themes centered around the winter season. High-resolution photos are included for each story. Stories are perfect small group instruction, tiered intervention or as a whole class activity. Each story is common core aligned and targets vocabulary and comprehension. Stories were written for 2-5th grade students. Review the preview story for complexity. Each story includes a student copy, vocabulary cards, "printer-friendly" copy with comprehension ques
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: Seasonal Non-Fiction Passages Bundle | Reading Comprehension
Elements of Literature Activities - Plot Diagram Character Conflict Setting
Elements of Literature - Character, Point of View, Conflict, Setting, and Plot Activities - Learn all about the literary elements with these engaging activities. Perfect for a short story unit or novel study, this resource package contains detailed student notes on each element of literature, as well as fill in the blank student note taking templates, graphic organizers, and foldable activitiesThis is a package you will use year after year - a must for English teachers!✅Be sure to check out the
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4th - 7th
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The Lottery Short Story Unit - Shirley Jackson Middle School Short Story Project
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Short Story Unit - Activities and Comprehension Questions! Perfect for your upcoming short story unit or dystopian literature unit, this package contains graphic organizers and activities to go along with The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. The Lottery short story questions, a biography activity, a giant pennant project, and a hexagonal thinking activity are also included.✅Be sure to check out the preview and thumbnails for detailed images and descriptions about everyt
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5th - 8th
Writing Workshop Mini Lesson: Seed Ideas for Small Moment Stories
This is a great resource for a writing workshop following Lucy Calkins Units of Study writing Personal Narratives. One of Lucy's units teaches students to write about small moments vs. the entire experience. For example, I may have vacationed in Hawaii, but I should pick one moment from the trip (like seeing the ocean for the first time) as my story. She refers to these small moments as "seed stories" and the entire experience a watermelon. Clever!When I teach this lesson I have my students prac
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1st - 5th
All Summer In A Day by Ray Bradbury Short Story Units - Questions Activities
All Summer in a Day Short Story Units - Comprehension Questions and Short Story Annotations Activities - Perfect for your upcoming Ray Bradbury short story unit or Science Fiction unit, this package contains graphic organizers, All Summer in a Day questions, vocabulary, task cards, a hexagonal thinking activity, an engaging Pennant Project, and more!✅Be sure to click on the preview for detailed descriptions and pictures of everything included in this resourceThis creative and engaging package in
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5th - 9th
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Final Draft Writing Paper | Publishing Paper | 9 Different Formats
Your students will enjoy publishing their projects on these decorative pages! Choose from nine different fun styles. Each style comes with:a cover pagea page for text and a picturea page for text onlySEE WHAT OTHER EDUCATORS ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS RESOURCE:❤️"These papers are so helpful in getting kids excited about writing final drafts. Lots of design choices. Perfect."❤️"Exactly what I needed...and cute!! Thanks for sharing!"❤️"My students have loved making stories using these formats. Thanks
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Final Draft Publishing Paper Bundle | Poetry | Decorative Pages
Cut and Paste Dinosaur Facts Stories and WH Questions
Learn about dinosaurs and work on comprehension skills with these 12 engaging story pages! Each story has 4 comprehension questions with cut and paste answer choices. Pronunciation of each dinosaur name is also included so your students will learn how to say their names correctly! Passages are about the following dinosaurs: AllosaurusAnkylosaurusBrachiosaurus Diplodocus Gallimimus Protoceratops PteranodonSpinosaurusStegosaurusTriceratopsTyrannosaurus RexVelociraptor PLUS a bonus dinosaur colorin
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1st - 5th
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Also included in: Cut and Paste BUNDLE for Comprehension, Inferencing, & Sequencing
The Elevator Short Story Units - Middle School Short Story - Reading Task Cards
The Elevator by William Sleator - Complete Short Stories with Reading Comprehension Questions and Task Cards - This package contains everything you need to teach this spooky short story, including The Elevator comprehension questions, answer keys, short story annotations activities, biography, task cards, and graphic organizers. These elevator activities are classroom tested and include creative handouts templates, and detailed instructions. Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and
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5th - 8th
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Common Core Aligned, Engaging Short Story Lesson: "Thank You Ma'am"
Every once in a while, there's that character who lives in your mind far after reading a story. Mrs. Leuella Bates Washing Jones is that character for me. She demonstrates how one simple act of kindness can make a life-changing difference in another's life. My students are always engaged with this story and actually want to discuss after the cliffhanger ending. Here's what you'll get:1) A Google Slide Deck that corresponds directly with the student guide with engaging video clips related to the
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5th - 9th
Murder mystery - Solve the original case of Sherlock Holmes - The Speckled Band
Students work with the Doyle’s story in a fun and engaging way. It has been written out in the form of clues. There are 25 clues to solve this mystery. Students can get them all at once and then they try to solve the case or you can make it more fun and for example hide the clues around the classroom or them away as some kind of reward – I do that when we are reviewing some area we have already covered – when the group answer the question (from the area that is being reviewed) correctly they wil
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Best Short Stories for Middle School: 182 Pages of Highly-Engaging Lesson Plans
All of the sixteen stories for these lesson plans can be downloaded from our website for free in a reader-friendly PDF that we've created.Or check out our massive middle/high school bundle of 28 stories which combines our two bestselling resources at 20% off. Lesson plans are for the following stories:The Most Dangerous Game by Richard ConnellThe Monkey's Paw by WW JacobsThe Black Cat by Edgar Allan PoeThe Hitch-Hiker by Lucille FletcherThe Lottery by Shirley JacksonLamb to the Slaughter by Roal
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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RL5.3 RL4.3 4-6 Comparing and Contrasting Characters in Fiction Assessment
This is a fiction text (3 pages long) about a girl that is faced with a decision to be honest with her parents, or tell a lie to be able to attend a sleepover. There are two girls, Mandy and Kelly, that have traits that can be inferred using text evidence. Characters have things in common and differences. Students will be assessed on their ability to read and comprehend the text, make inferences about characters, and then compare/contrast the two characters using a graphic organizer and then
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4th - 6th
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The Birds by Daphne Du Maurier Short Story Unit - Horror Short Stories Projects
The Birds by Daphne Du Maurier Spooky Short Unit - help bring this scary short story to life in your classroom with this short story unit or Halloween activity. This resource contains The Birds questions, close reading and short story annotations activities, and graphic organizers. While this resource can be used any time of year, it makes a great Halloween unit or Halloween reading activity.This engaging short story resource contains the following:⭐Close Reading Resources: A variety of Close Re
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5th - 8th
Spring Non-Fiction Passages Print and Digital
This pack includes 9 non-fiction stories with themes centered around the spring season. High-resolution photos are included for each story. Stories are perfect small group instruction, tiered intervention or as a whole class activity. Each story is common core aligned and targets vocabulary and comprehension. Stories were written for 2-5th grade students. Review the preview story for complexity. This download includes a BOOM CARD™ version of the stories (7 passages)!Each story includes a student
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: Seasonal Non-Fiction Passages Bundle | Reading Comprehension
Fantasy Elements Power Point and Handout
Fantasy elements Power Point that I use to introduce our fantasy unit in 6th grade.
The Power Point includes 11 slides that students love to look at. First, students try to point out what makes each background considered fantasy. Then we go through the rest of the slides and fill in our notes.
While going through the presentation, students have a handout where they are required to fill in some blanks with information from the slides. There is also a teacher copy included.
This presentation is
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4th - 8th
Short Stories with Comprehension Questions
Use these 10 short stories with accompanying questions to target comprehension, story structure, vocabulary, idioms, main idea, predicting and inferencing skills.
Read the story and then ask the questions on the next page or preview the questions before reading the story to help with comprehension. The card then asks the student to retell the story in their own words after answering the questions to target expressive language skills.
Includes an image for each story to support understanding
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3rd - 10th
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Interactive File Folder, Interactive Notebook, "Thank You M'am" Literature Study
Interactive File Folder “Thank You, M’am” Literature Study
Your students will love this 5-day fun and engaging literature study of the short story “Thank You, M’am” by Langston Hughes. As you may know, “Thank You, Ma’am” is the story of a boy who tries to steal a woman’s purse. What the woman does next surprises the boy and sheds light on the idea that it "takes a village to raise a child."
In this unit students will be assembling Interactive File Folders as they develop a deep understandin
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: September Unit Plans Bundle - 4 Units to Teach All September Long!
Graphic Novels lesson and Reading Response Log
Totally revised with a reader's response activity!Students are exposed to graphic novels in this lesson plan and are required to search for text features in graphic novels. This document includes a lesson plan, a handout to introduce text features, a text feature scavenger hunt sheet, a reader response activity, and a create your own comic paper.
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3rd - 7th
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Understanding How Setting Affects Stories--Distance Learning Ready
This ready-to-use, 30-minute lesson—available in both PRINT and DIGITAL formats—is an effective way to teach students how to analyze a setting’s impact on a story’s plot and characters. Complete with a colorful and instructive PowerPoint presentation, a fillable note sheet, a Q and A with an author who shares how setting impacts her stories, and plenty of different opportunities for students to practice analyzing setting, this lesson is the perfect addition to any short story unit. Contents of
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4th - 8th
Inference Fiction Task Cards, Inferring Reading Group,Guided, Independent,Shared
These 50 cards can be printed off and laminated, or use on a smart board. This is a versatile reading resource. Student's are able to work on these individually or in a group. They provide reading skills necessary to help improve reading and writing for a range of age groups. There are answer keys to every card, so student's can check their working or for the teacher to mark individually. Inferring is a key part of teaching student's to read effectively and these provide an interesting, colourfu
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3rd - 9th
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