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Middle school literature resources for GATE 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
Literary Elements Depth and Complexity Frames for Figurative Language ELA
Teaching Literary Elements/Literary Devices or story elements? These Depth and Complexity Frames for English Language Arts will make your life so easy! You'll get 25 frames about reading and language arts ready to print and go! Yep, they're all done for you! Simply choose the topic you want students to explore, print and go! There are 25 frames done for you and ready to use right now to build student skills with analyzing using literary elements.Two of the frames are teaching frames, meaning the
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3rd - 8th
Text Analysis | Critical Thinking | Outside the Box Project
This Text Analysis project (which can be used with narrative, expository, and persuasive texts) will have your students thinking long after they have finished the project, and will help them think more objectively about future readings!Students will be required to talk about the text, its author, as well as the purpose, goals, and more.With six mini-projects to complete (which includes the student's name), this is sure to be a thought-provoking experience for students.Included in Your Purchase T
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6th - 8th
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A Wrinkle in Time Planet Creation Project
Let your students get their creative juices flowing as the delve into A Wrinkle in Time. After students have visited the planet Camazotz, let them create their own planet. This project includes questions for students to answer about their planet, a rubric, and information about the writing that they are expected to complete. Students are also responsible for creating a poster about their planet to share with the class. This project is sure to be a hit! It can be used as soon as the students reac
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4th - 7th
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Food Truck Festival - Engaging Independent Reading Project - PBL - STEM
Elevate the joy of independent reading in your classroom with a twist that's sure to ignite enthusiasm – host your very own Food Truck Festival! Building upon the success of my beloved Literary Feast project, I've taken it up a notch to bring you an EXTRAORDINARY Food Truck Festival project that combines literary exploration with the excitement of culinary creativity. This is not just an activity; it's an immersive experience designed to captivate your students' imaginations and showcase their i
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6th - 9th
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Esperanza Rising Lapbook Interactive Activity
This is our most popular project! Students love creating these interactive lapbooks during and after reading Esperanza Rising. Activities include:VocabularyCharactersChapter SummariesDialogueLiterary TermsResearch Includes two cover choices: a pre-printed coloring page and the same image as a directed drawing.www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/thank-a-teacher
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4th - 8th
A Literature Unit for Patricia Polacco's Junkyard Wonders
This unit was made to go Patricia Polacco's book The Junkyard Wonders. Included are 18 pages of activities to challenges your students to think more deeply about the story. The unit was created with the 4th and 5th grade Common Core Standards in mind. Topics explored are theme, setting, character traits, visualizing, and many more. Writing assignments and a project idea are also included. The themes in this book would also be perfect to explore with a gifted class. Email me at ideabackpack@
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3rd - 6th
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Shrek Themed Escape Room Traditional Literature
This resource is great to use during your Traditional Literature unit. The escape room includes four puzzles for students to solve while putting their knowledge of fairytales, fables, tall tales, myths, and legends to the test. This activity can be done in teams, individually, or as a class!
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Traditional Literature Unit Bundle
Character Traits Choice Board
Since describing a character in depth is one of the CCSS, I created this product to use in my classroom to assess student mastery of this concept. Brain-based teaching supports the use of choice boards as a motivational instructional strategy to increase student learning because students love choices. They feel empowered when they have a say in how they demonstrate what they know.
The choice board can be used in many ways:
- Laminate the choice board and use as a center activity
- Use in lite
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3rd - 8th
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English Language Arts Concept Capsules | Set 3: Story Elements
Trying to help students get a grasp of story elements? This set of story elements one-pagers (called Concept Capsules) is the answer! One teacher writes: Thanks for continuing to make the Concept Capsules!! I love them because I can create an awesome, easily accessible resource for students and parents in the Material section of Google Classroom, and I can include them individually, as needed, in a Google Slides presentation or an instructional video as we go along. They're terrific!This set in
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4th - 7th
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Island of the Blue Dolphins I Have Who Has? Game
Students love our Island of the Blue Dolphins I Have...Who Has? game! We've separated the game into two sets--one for each half of the novel. A challenging, fast- paced review of the main characters, setting, story elements and more! This game can be used in grades 4th and up and works best with a class size up to 32. Answer Key included!Print, laminate and enjoy years of no-prep fun! Time the class, and repeat often to beat the class record! To complete your no-prep Island of the Blue Dolphins,
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Island of the Blue Dolphins Visual Novel Study & 3 Games Bundle
Harry Potter Themed Escape Room Text Structures
This resource is a fun way to test what your students know about text structures! The escape room includes four puzzles for students to solve while putting their knowledge of text structures to the test. This activity can be done in teams, individually, or as a class!
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3rd - 8th
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Script:The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
16 single-sided page script
Recommended for grades 4 through 8 (or younger, GT students)
Play is approximately 45 minutes long
A perfect culminating activity after enjoying the magic and symbolism of C.S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." Enjoy!
(Long live Aslan; Long live Christmas!)
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3rd - 8th
Number the Stars: Chapter 1-3 Comprehension Quiz
Quiz/ test for Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. This activity is written in an A-B format, where students are required to support their answers with direct quotes from the novel. This ensures that students are refer back to the text to confirm their answers.
It includes multiple choice questions along with a short-response prompt. This document can be edited to adjust to the needs of your students. Additionally, these questions serve as higher-order thinking questions.
Example- How has the war
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3rd - 6th
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A Single Shard Thinking and Writing Prompts
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Parks
A Single Shard Thinking and Writing Prompts is a set of 27 open-ended prompts to accompany Linda Sue Park's 2002 Newbery Winner. (4 pages)
Each idea or question is based on the higher level thinking skills of Bloom's Taxonomy.These items also align to CCSS.
Download the free page of sample items for a closer look.
A Single Shard Novel Teaching Guide with this product and a series of chapter-by-chapter objective tests and a whole book test (objective matchi
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6th - 8th
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Novel Study Student Packet & Key - The Name of this Book is Secret (Bosch) - U
****This packet is intended for printing / copying. If you are looking for a digital novel study for this book, please visit my store; I have a Google Slides version that is interactive.This 25 page Novel Study / Book Club Packet covers 5 weeks of daily reading activities with the book The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch, which is a Guided Reading Level U. The first page is an assignment page for students to use and to record due dates (which you may want to handwrite before r
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4th - 8th
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Sarah, Plain and Tall Brain Teasers and Creative Thinking Activities
Thank you for viewing Literacy Enrichment Series : Sarah, Plain and Tall from BrainWorks Academy! Experience a new twist on a beloved classic as your students stretch their thinking and see the tale in a whole new way!
There are so many resources out there that have students recall basic facts from this book, or that review story elements from the book. But what about those students who complete these activities in no time and are ready for more? All of the answers to these brain teaser puzzl
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2nd - 7th
Symbolism Flipbook and PowerPoint - Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Are you looking for a fun way to practice analyzing symbolism in “Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe? This symbolism flipbook moves from identifying concrete attributes of a symbol to getting into the nitty-gritty analysis. Your “Masque of the Red Death” symbolism project includes:A step-by-step PowerPoint showing how to construct the Flipbook (You can edit the requirements for each flap)A full Teacher's Guide for each flap of the Flipbook for Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe,
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7th - 10th
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Literary Elements Secret Picture Puzzle Tiles Literary Devices Activity
Looking for a great literary elements activity that students enjoy? This set of 10 secret picture puzzles covers a vast list of literary terms and literary devices (nearly 100 in all!). They're surprisingly low prep for how much they teach about literary devices. Students cut the pieces apart and match the meaning or example to the literary device or story element. When they do it correctly, they make a completed picture. Can you say "self-checking?" Do your students love secret picture tiles ye
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6th - 8th
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The Outsiders Character Analysis Presentation: A Culminating Group Project
Outsiders Project | Outsiders Presentation | Outsiders Group Project | Outsiders Character Analysis
Character analysis is an excellent skill for students to develop while reading The Outsiders. Not only are there a plethora of characters in the book, but there are multiple examples of different types of characters too (i.e. round, flat, dynamic, static). As we read through the book, we take a careful look at the characters through a variety of activities. These smaller activities help build to
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7th - 9th
Blood on the River Socratic Seminar
Kick your class discussions up a notch with this Socratic seminar for Blood on the River! I do it with my gifted students after they have read Elisa Carbone's Jamestown novel Blood on the River, and the discussions are always amazing! This activity includes 15 open-ended, thought-provoking questions guaranteed to get students talking. There are introductory questions about general themes in the novel, specific questions about the novel's characters and events, and closing questions to help stude
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Blood on the River Novel Study Bundle - Printable & Digital
Book Report / Book Share Project - Digital Tasks for Google Classroom
This is a digital book report, also known as a Book Share! Students get to share their books by completing prompts and activities related to their stories via Google Slides. Simply make a copy of the slideshow to your Google Drive and assign it in your Google Classroom. Preview the entire slideshow of activities to see if it works for your class! Please note text boxes are already in place for your students!Book Share Task Options - Customize or include them all!Book Info (title and author)Bo
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4th - 8th
Twas the Night Before Christmas Common Core Study Guide for Middle School
Introduce the classic holiday poem to your students with rigor and creative thinking! This product includes the text of the poem, a vocabulary activity, questions about form/style, and an SBAC style SCR. The SCR also includes a template for students to follow in order to write a solid paragraph response. Finally, there is an art project assignment, with rubric, to support the focus on imagery in the assignment.
It is based on 7th grade standards, but due to the cyclical nature of the Common Co
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Christmas and Winter Holiday Mega Middle School Bundle-Save 50%
Weekly Reading Response Choice Boards with QR CODES (FICTION VERSION)
Get your students engaged with these choice boards that come in two versions - text and QR code version. This is perfect for weekly independent reading homework, and students can either complete them on the physical templates or in Google Classroom. The questions are based on Sandra Kaplan's Depth and Complexity model. I attached two digital templates - one in Google Forms and one in Google Slides.
If you are interested in my other choice boards click here:
The Curious Apple's Choice Boar
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4th - 8th
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