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7th grade short stories interactive notebooks
Teaching Symbolism and Allegory - Introduction Activity & PowerPoint
Teaching symbolism can be tricky, but symbolism activities like this one HOOK your students and help them engage with any text. This is a sweet introduction to symbolism that your students will remember long after the candy is gone.⭐️ I use this with “Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe, but it is not text-specific. You can use it with any short story or novel or as a stand-alone lesson. Your resource for teaching symbolism includes:An anticipatory set using Tootsie Roll Pops (or Blow Po
Grades:
7th - 10th
Visualizing Assessments: Comprehension Quick Sketch Quick Checks
Have you ever had a student read and not comprehend? Uh, yes, I think we all have! This reading behavior is all too common in students who *can* read, or sound like a reader, but too often these "readers", are not comprehending anything at all, these students are often known as "word callers." This is problematic, but can be fixed with this resource.
I have been teaching Visualizing to students for over 10 years because it is one of the most important reading strategies to help students stay tu
Grades:
1st - 8th
Literary Analysis Mini Flip Book (a sticky note book for short stories & novels)
Transform the way you teach literary analysis with this interactive, hands-on sticky note mini flip book. Engage your middle or high school students with this fun and practical resource, ideal for use during and after reading short stories or novels. With this mini flip book, students explore, identify, and explain various literary devices, making literary analysis a breeze.What's Inside:8 Tabs for Comprehensive Analysis: This resource includes eight tabs covering essential elements of literary
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Mini Flip Book Growing Bundle: Grammar, Parts of Speech, Growth Mindset
Secondary ELA Curriculum - Full Year of Interactive Notebooks (grades 7-10)
These units for Interactive Notebooks create a whole year of Secondary ELA lessons. Your students will create organized reference tools to show their learning, all while maintaining creativity and choice. These lessons, activities, and assessments are perfect for grades 7-10.Key takeaways of this full year of Secondary ELA:✅ Short Story Unit✅ Novel Study ✅ Drama Unit ✅ Poetry UnitUse this resource as you read any texts! The Short Story Unit and the Poetry Unit come with plenty of suggestions, bu
Grades:
7th - 10th
PIXAR-like Shorts: Films for Literary Elements & Techniques FOR THE BIRDS
Pixar-like Short Film Workshop. Looking for a fun and effective way to teach literary elements such as theme, plot, dialogue, characters, inference, and irony? For The Birds is a tried and true favorite among students and teachers! Film Summary: The birds on a wire make fun of the bird with different feathers, until ironically, they fall off the wire and lose all of their own feathers. Your students will get a chuckle and learn a lesson about bullying. Includes Activities For: ✔ IRONY✔ Setting✔
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5th - 8th
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Pixar-like Shorts Plot Theme Character Literary Elements Worksheets & Slides SEL
Pixar SHORT FILMS are the perfect way to teach literary elements and SEL! This digital, interactive workshop studies the short film, Joy and Heron and guides students through an analysis of the 6 basic literary elements to prepare them for the culminating narrative writing assignment. Students watch the film directly from their slides and work through all of the fun activities. Film Synopsis: A cute puppy, Joy, scuffles with an ornery Heron when the bird tries to steal her owner's fishing worms.
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5th - 8th
The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry Short Story Literature Guide Flip Book
The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry: Layered Flip Book Reading LiteratureFeatures images of Della with really long hair, Jim's pocket watch, hair combs, and holiday holly (have your students color them all in)Each flap is ready for you to easily line up by using the directions on how to assemble the organizer.Includes:Writing Prompt and answer keyQuestions and answer keyComprehension and answer keyhematic Response and answer keyAligned and Outlined ELA Common Core State Standards, 6-12 Reading, Wr
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4th - 12th, Staff
High School Interactive Notebook Short Story Unit - Literary Analysis
Need to teach literary analysis for short stories? The organization and hands-on learning of interactive notebooks meets the rigor of note-taking and formal responses in this short story unit. This high school interactive notebook has less cutting and gluing than most interactive notebooks, so your students spend more time thinking and writing. The short story activities and interactive notebooks in this resource can be used with any text, and activities are included in three formats - print, di
Grades:
7th - 10th
Pixar-like Shorts: Films For Theme Inference Plot Foreshadowing Writing Alma
Alma - a short film literary element study that students will actually WANT to do! ❤AWARD WINNING PIXAR-like SHORT FILM: ALMA This spooky workshop focuses on how a professional writer uses literary elements to foreshadow trouble. Students learn that literary elements interact to shape the story and will use these elements to create an alternate ending. LITERARY ELEMENTS/DEVICES:FORESHADOWING-Students learn specific foreshadowing techniquesMAKING INFERENCES-Searching For CluesPLOT-Creepy plot el
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5th - 8th
Analyzing Song Lyrics - Literary Elements in Music (for any song)
With this song analysis lesson, students practice analyzing song lyrics for literary elements. They treat the song as a text and use textual evidence to support their claims. This is a fun, low-stakes way to practice analytical writing.✅ Full lesson✅ Student samples✅ 15 Songs to Analyze in ELAWhat other teachers are saying about this resource:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This was a great way to review literary elements and move my students into true analysis.” -Ashleigh S. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I am excited to remind my s
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7th - 10th
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Task Cards for Flowers for Algernon - DIGITAL & PRINT
"The Flowers for Algernon task cards are a great resource to implement immediately! Visually appealing, easy to use text box entry, and more than enough information to get the kids thinking and responding." - Kelly H."The varied tasks on these Flowers for Algernon task cards made differentiating for our students a breeze, even in our current distance learning situation! My co-teacher and I were looking for a way to have students work on a collaborative GoogleSlides while we were reading the "Flo
Grades:
6th - 9th
Short Story Units - Short Stories with Comprehension Questions Activities
Short Story Units - Interactive Reading Notebooks - Literary Element Analysis Activities! This 180 page Short Story Interactive Notebook for Reading helps teach Common Core aligned literary elements. These interactive reading foldable activities become an "anchor" for standards taught, and students make a great reference for students to refer back to throughout the year. These activities for teaching literature include creative and Common Core aligned foldables, notes, and Interactive Noteboo
Grades:
5th - 9th
Finding and Using Text Evidence: Digital Interactive Notebook
Do your students need guidance in how to find the perfect text details? Do you find that they struggle finding that one detail that explains their thoughts? This activity helps them zoom in the most important text details. Additionally, students will learn how to explain their text details, which makes their reading responses stronger. Included in this product: - "The Scholarship Jacket" by Marta Salinas (found on www.commonlit.org)- Finding the evidence activity: Students answer the questions b
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Faris
Morphology Decodable Passages: 18 Common Suffixes w/ Extension/Comprehension
These decodable passages are an amazing supplement for your morphology lessons. Buy this set or as part of the morphology bundle! HERE12 passages & extension activities including 18 Suffixes:ing, s/es, ful, ly, y, ed, er, est, able, ible, tion, sion, ment, less, ness, ish, iveCheck out the previews to see if this is something your students could use! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Follow my Store!Follow my Instagram @ogtutor :)Follow my Facebook P
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2nd - 8th
Pixar -like Shorts: Films For Literary Elements & Techniques Inference Plot
Short film workshops are the most effective and engaging way for students to learn about literary elements. This workshop for DUSTIN focuses on: PERSONIFICATION, CHARACTER, INFERENCE, SETTING, AND FORESHADOWING. Students will absolutely LOVE it!Film Summary: In this film, an adorable dog is perplexed because he gets an unexpected roommate, a robot floor cleaner that sweeps up all of the table crumbs that he had hoped to eat. Dustin feels he is being replaced, until he realizes this robot makes a
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6th - 9th
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Shorts Films Literary Devices THEME INFERENCE CONFLICT SETTING DIALOGUE Piper
Students ADORE this short film, PIPER, for learning the story elements: THEME, INFERENCE, DIALOGUE, CONFLICT, SETTING AND MORE. Students learn how these literary elements shape each other to create this amazing film.Film Summary: An adorable little Sandpiper is pushed by her mother to find food along with the rest of the flock. However, Piper gets swept up in a giant wave on her first try and is reluctant to try again; that is until she's learns how to brave the water from a little crab and lear
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Short Films For Literary Devices Elements Techniques
The Lottery Activities - Using Quotes and Paraphrase in Literary Analysis
Are you looking for The Lottery activities? This quote analysis activity for Shirley Johnson’s The Lottery is a great way to help students practice embedding source quotes and paraphrases. Students analyze quotes from the short story using the format of introduce, cite, and explain (ICE).Ways to use this The Lottery activity:✅ Traditional worksheet✅ Interactive Notebook (ISN) spread✅ Digital versionWhen students work on their analysis of The Lottery, they get so much out of using source quotes.
Grades:
7th - 10th
PIXAR -like Shorts Literary Analysis Devices Elements Plot Theme SEL Activities
FULL LITERARY UNIT! TEACH LITERARY ELEMENTS AND ANALYSIS WITH AN AWARD-WINNING ANIMATED SHORT FILM: THE PRESENT. TEACH LITERARY ELEMENTS AND ANALYSIS WITH AN AWARD-WINNING ANIMATED SHORT FILM: THE PRESENT. In this workshop, students learn to identify characterization techniques, plot twist, theme, conflict, and symbolism and how make inferences based on evidence from the film. Includes constructed response writing prompts with sample answers for everything. CULMINATING ACTIVITIES:❤ DESIGN A THE
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5th - 8th
Pixar-like Animated Shorts Plot Conflict Inference Literary Devices & Elements
Engage your students with this fun literary workshop for use with Pix Short Film, Defective Detective. This workshop focuses on Inferences, Plot, and Internal & External Conflict. Tried and true winner with students and teachers!❤ FILM SUMMARY: A detective with a "defective" overreactive imagination tries to solve a case, but instead ends up angering an old lady who he thinks is in trouble. He picks up on all of the wrong clues and believes she is being assaulted, but in reality, she is onl
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5th - 8th
Plot Diagram Notes and Lesson with Pixar Film
Guide your students through plot diagram or let students guide themselves with this scaffolded activity on Google Slides! After watching the "Day and Night" Pixar short film, students will be introduced to the basics of a plot diagram. This activity includes the following: - Simplified & Easy to Read Notes on Plot Diagram Basics (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution). - Interactive Slides for students to type, drag, and match - Pixar Short Film Link - Formative R
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Plot Diagram Unit Bundle
Short Story Unit - Elements of Short Stories - Plot Diagram - Literary Elements
Perfect for your upcoming short story unit, this elements of literature activity package contains elements of literature notes, student note taking templates, and an elements of literature foldable mini book project. Learn all about plot, point of view, tone, atmosphere, setting, theme, foreshadowing, and conflict. Also included are several student note taking sheets, with spaces for students to copy down the key information.All of the resources needed to create a foldable mini book on the Eleme
Grades:
4th - 7th
Literary Essay Writing: DIGITAL Interactive Notebook
This digital interactive notebook is aligned with Lucy Calkins Grade 6: The Literary Essay. Go paperless and immerse your students in technology to manipulate, adjust, and grow their writing!Ideally, you should have access to the Units of Study curriculum, as there are no lesson plans included, although you can adapt it to fit your needs.What's included:32 interactive, partially editable slides with key teaching pointsdirections for how to use the product digitallySkills of focus:Tips for write
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4th - 8th
Also included in: Custom Bundle for Becca
Task Cards for Literary Analysis of Any Story or Novel - DIGITAL & PRINT
“I teach a lot of short stories in my class. This resource was great because it was adaptable to all stories. It was also great because of the alignment to the Common Core.” - Judith “This is an excellent resource for novel studies! I used these with my enrichment groups in fourth grade ELA on different novels. I put them on a ring and had them complete different assignments each week, some with my guidance and most without. Love it!” - Kelly “It's easy to use these cards with multiple texts, wh
Grades:
6th - 10th
Introduction to William Shakespeare Mini Flip Reference Book
Introduce William Shakespeare to your students with this fun, informative, and interactive mini flip book. This mini flip book includes seven different tabs to help your students get to know the life, times, and works of the Bard: Biography, Timeline (interactive), The Globe, Language, Quotes (interactive), Works, and Iambic PentameterOn the timeline page, students read through the book and complete additional research (optional) to create a timeline of William Shakespeare's life. On the quotes
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Mini Flip Book Growing Bundle: Grammar, Parts of Speech, Growth Mindset
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