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Middle school literature resources for Easel Activities under $5
Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Literature Circles Book Clubs
Add some depth and complexity to traditional Literature Circles with this complete and ready-to-use resource!You will be amazed by the level of discussion and critical thinking that will take place among your students. Each Literature Circle role (listed below) is directly connected to 11 elements of critical thinking: Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives). Ju
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4th - 9th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle
Plot Elements Task Cards Quiz & Passages Elements of Plot Story Plot Activities
Are your students in need of repeat practice when it comes to plot elements? Finding short, manageable practice that does not overwhelm students can be challenging.These 20 plot elements task cards with text-dependent reading comprehension questions are the perfect solution to give your students the practice they need.The use of short well-known Fiction stories will help engage your students as they practice answering multiple-choice and constructed response questions.Great for middle school stu
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5th - 8th
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Point of View Task Cards - Advanced Set 2 Print & Digital Google Apps & Easel!
Use these 32 task cards to help your student identify first person, third person – limited, and third-person - omniscient points of view. Each card includes a short, fictional passage and the three multiple-choice options.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:32 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording SheetsAnswer KeysDIGITAL:Google SlidesEasel Assessment - Self-CheckingDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or Print5 Challenge Cards to extend the lessonGreat for 5th, 6th, or 7th grade!CHECK OUT THE
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5th - 7th
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Reading Comprehension Questions for Any Book Task Cards plus Google Digital
LIT SPARKS: These 65 reading response question cards (print or digital) for literature will help your students engage in meaningful and insightful discussions about the books they are reading. The cards address setting, characters, plot, theme, author's purpose, mood, tone and more. Students will need to use reading strategies such as inference, summarizing, comparing and contrasting etc. to dig deeper into the text.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:65 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecord
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3rd - 6th
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Mother to Son Langston Hughes Poetry Analysis - Printable & Digital
Make metaphors come alive with these "Mother to Son" poem activities! This poetry analysis resource includes a graphic organizer to walk students through the rich figurative language in Hughes' highly relatable poem and help them analyze extended metaphor, character, and theme. It also includes a one-page biography of Langston Hughes and comprehension questions about the poem, the informational text, and connections between the poem and the poet's life.(If you teach poetry in middle school, don'
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Langston Hughes Poetry Unit for Middle School - PDF & Digital
Reading Response Graphic Organizers for Beginning Middle & End Story Elements +
These reading response worksheets are the perfect, ready-to-use way to keep your students accountable for what they are reading. Just what you need if you use an independent reading program such as Reader's Workshop or have multiple small reading groups.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:26 No-Prep Worksheets & Graphic Organizers1 For Before Reading19 For After Reading a Chapter6 For After Reading the Whole BookGreat for 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE A LOT MORE! This resour
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3rd - 6th
Reading Response Choice Sheets writing activities for any book Independent Work
45 book projects and book activities to use with any literature! Your students will love the fun choices, and you will love the no-prep printables!WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:5 Choice Boards (9 projects per page)List of all 45 activitiesDIGITAL:Google SlidesEasel ActivityDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintMany different project optionsGreat for 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE A LOT MORE! This resource is part of a money-saving bundle!This bundle includes this partner
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3rd - 6th
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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
Wonder Question Cards - 75 Print & Digital Discussion Prompts - Plus Precepts!
Dig deeper into Wonder by RJ Palacio with these discussion cards. This set of 75-question cards will really get your students thinking, talking, and writing about the characters, events, and themes and will help them to connect parts of the book to their own lives.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:58 Question Cards - To Use While ReadingBlack-lineColor17 Question Cards - Whole Book QuestionsBlack-lineColor22 Precept CardsBlack-lineColorRecording SheetsDIGITAL:Google SlidesDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital
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4th - 6th
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The Hunger Games Book vs. Movie Activities
"The Hunger Games" Movie vs. The Novel Activities
With the availability of the DVD, showing the movie to your class and making it an enriching and educational activity has never been easier. My packet is aligned with the Common Core State Standards, so it will be easy to justify the lessons, as well. NOTE: there are at least five exercises/handouts that can be done WITHOUT watching the movie. See the free preview download for a list of all the activities.
This packet has multiple activities tha
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Summarizing Fiction Worksheets: 6 Practice Passages and 1 Poster
Have your students practice summarizing fiction passages with this set of worksheets! Teaching fourth- and fifth-grade students to use the "Somebody Wanted But So Then" strategy to write a summary requires repetition and many practice opportunities! Therefore, I wrote SIX fiction passages and compiled them into this packet. After reading each story, students write a short summary.This packet also contains an instructional poster that features "Somebody Wanted But So Then" anchor questions:SOMEBO
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4th - 6th
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The Pedestrian Ray Bradbury Close Reading & Analysis Dystopian Short Story Unit
"The Pedestrian" is a very accessible dystopian short story that students will find intriguing and worthy of discussion. Its brief length (around 500 words) provides the perfect opportunity to have students "dig deeply" into a complete text, improving their reading comprehension and literary analysis skills without feeling overwhelmed. If you are simply looking for an accessible story, a way to expose students to Bradbury's poetic and descriptive style, or a way to introduce them to the widely c
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8th - 12th
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STEM Design a School | If I Built a School Book Connection
Design a School STEM Activity! Are you looking for a fun STEM activity that connects to the book If I Built a School by Chris Van Dusen? Great for Distance Learning! Designing a School STEM Challenge gives students the opportunity to design and create their perfect school. It is a fun team building activity that gets students thinking critically as they build their perfect school after reading the book. Other products you may like: Soar Lapbook and STEM ChallengeConnecting Great Books with STE
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3rd - 6th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
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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The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe Short Story Unit - Questions - Activities
The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe - Print and go literacy analysis activities - A full text version of The Tell Tale Heart is included, along with The Tell Tale Heart comprehension questions activities. These Poe themed lesson materials ask students to think deeply about text while practicing elements of literacy analysis. A great addition to a short story unit on classic literature, these short story resources include graphic organizers, projects, questions, and answer keys.✅While this uni
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6th - 9th
To Build a Fire by Jack London Short Story Anticipation Guide & Pre-Reading
The *BEST* ANTICIPATION GUIDE EVER. In the past, this story always used to put my students to sleep. I came up with this pre-reading activity, and my students really got into it. They even stayed awake for the story! It allows them to connect with the man and imitate the difficulties of starting a fire with cold, frostbitten hands and recognize the struggles the man faces. Through a couple different simple written cues, students must work without the use of their fingers and/or hands. ✏️ Buyer
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7th - 12th
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The Lady or The Tiger Unit - Middle School Short Story Questions Activity
This 45 page The Lady or the Tiger Short Stories with Comprehension Questions Unit contains no prep close reading and short story annotations activities that are perfect for a short story unit on The Lady or the Tiger by Frank Stockton. They include short story reading comprehension questions and answer keys, graphic organizers, and close reading activities.✅Please check out the thumbnails for detailed images of some of the activities included in this resource.★★★Newly updated in 2021 - ALL NEW
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6th - 9th
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The Giver Novel Study: Final Test 45-Questions Plus Essay Questions & Rubric!
If you need more activities that are ready-to-go (detailed student instructions = less work for you!), please check out the:The Giver Novel Study Complete Unit Bundle of Activities and LessonsThis Bundle includes Lessons and Activities that are ordered from start to finish (pre-reading, during-reading, and post-reading). For just the price of three cups of coffee :), you can teach this Unit with ease! _________________________________________________________________THE GIVER 45-QUESTION UNIT EXA
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7th - 9th
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The Odyssey Unit Activities - Character Analysis - Epic Hero Odysseus
The Odyssey by Homer - Qualities of an Epic Hero ! These Odyssey activities are an engaging way for students to look closely at key characters from Homer's Odyssey. A must for your Odyssey unit, this activity asks students to review the qualities of the epic hero, and use those qualities to closely examine the character of Odysseus. This is a great activity to increase comprehension and understanding.✅To complete this assignment, students first review the qualities of an epic hero. Students illu
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4th - 8th
Irony Situational, Dramatic, Verbal Color by Number Worksheets
Let's just drop everything and color! This Irony (Verbal, Dramatic, or Situational) Color by Number activity is a great way to reinforce the difference between types of irony with your students. This fun activity includes THREE worksheets with 10 sentences on each for students to determine if each scenario is an example of verbal, dramatic, or situational irony.This engaging irony activity can be used as station work, extra credit, homework, classwork, or for tutoring sessions.INCLUDED IN DOWNLO
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: ELA GRAMMAR Color By Number BUNDLE Worksheets
The Giver (2014): Complete Movie Guide
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.This amazing movie is based on the book by Lois Lowry. This 22-question guide will help your students get the most out of this powerful movie. This product also includes a section for book vs. movie comparison (I have included a teacher key for this section as well, but obviously students will come up with d
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5th - 10th
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Theme Graphic Organizer (using text evidence)
Theme is difficult for many students to infer from a text. Use this graphic organizer to help students organize the information from the story and help them discover a theme or even multiple themes and support them with text evidence
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5th - 12th
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Inferences High School Task Cards Exit Tickets Short Stories Inferencing
Finding quick, easy, and engaging ways to practice inferences can be challenging. ELA Task cards are the perfect solution. They are to the point, versatile, and challenging. Making inferences task cards are great to use as bell ringers, warm-ups, tutoring sessions, exit tickets, game cards, and more. Help your high school English I & II students or Pre-AP students practice their reading comprehension. Some 8th-grade teachers have found this helpful. Click for middle school task cards.The 20
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8th - 11th
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Romeo and Juliet (1996): Complete Movie Guide
“A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrowsDoth with their death bury their parents' strife.”Help your students get the most out of this amazing adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. This 21-question movie guide comes with a complete character chart and teacher key. Ready to print and ready to use!You might also be interested in these products:The Crucible1984Jane EyreThumbnail Clipart Credit: LE Designs
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8th - 11th
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