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8th grade close reading rubrics
Book Trailer Project - End of Year Movie Trailer Assignment for Any Novel Study
This book trailer project is a memorable and engaging project-based learning assessment! Included with this project outline are a book trailer rubric, movie trailer storyboard graphic organizer, student checklist, assignment instructions, student examples, and more. Included with this Book Trailer Project:✏️ Book Trailer Project Outline - Editable & Ready-to-Print✏️ Reflective Writing Assignment Prompt - Editable & Ready-to-Print✏️ Movie Trailer Task Checklist & Student Planner -
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6th - 12th
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Literature Circle Roles and Responsibilities - Roles, Rubrics, and Worksheets
These literature circle roles include 7 inquiry-based job descriptions to facilitate student-led book clubs. These responsibilities offer students the opportunity to practice essential reading strategies. This unit also includes editable and ready-to-print rubrics, a pacing guide, and scaffolding worksheets.Included with these Literature Circle Roles:✏️ Handouts Outlining Literature Circle Roles and Responsibilities✏️ Scaffolding Worksheets for Each Role✏️ Task Chart Graphic Organizer and Pa
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7th - 10th
Synthesizing Reading Comprehension Packet: Graphic Organizers Anchor Charts
This SYNTHESIZING packet will help students develop Reading Comprehension skills for fiction and non-fiction texts. It includes synthesizing anchor charts, graphic organizers, suggested book lists, Learning Goals poster, and question cards to use in your classroom planning and teaching. Included in this package:* Four different graphic organizers for students to use while learning this reading strategy. You can use the one that you prefer, that best suits your learners’ needs or let the student
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4th - 8th
The Landlady Roald Dahl Short Story Close Read Analysis Unit & Lesson
The Landlady by Roald Dahl is a fantastic short story to use to to help teach foreshadowing and characterization! This unit for The Landlady includes an activating activity, pre-read vocabulary, during reading questions, post reading foreshadow and characterization charts, as well as a quiz and post reading narrative activity! There is also a comparing mediums worksheet for students to use with the 1979 film version of the The Landlady!The worksheets with foreshadowing and characterization rea
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7th - 10th
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Lamb to the Slaughter Roald Dahl Complete Short Story Unit Activities, Keys
Roald Dahl's short story Lamb to the Slaughter is great for students to practice and hone their analysis skills. Dahl is a loved author and well renowned for his creativity and resilient characters, and Lamb to the Slaughter is no exception. With this unit students will be able to dig deeply into the text searching for irony, and practice their analytical abilities for inference, mood and tone!This unit contains a pre-reading vocabulary and activating activity, during reading (or post, dependi
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8th - 10th, Adult Education
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Man From the South Roald Dahl Short Story Unit Analysis Lesson Activities
Roald Dahl's delightful short story Man From the South gets students critically thinking with all the dark humor and simplistic language that this classic author is known for. This Man From the South unit includes everything necessary to do a comprehensive study of the short story. Start students off with thinking critically about real life risk takers to set the stage for them thinking about the risk that Carlos and the American boy take. Students will identify the elements of plot such as c
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8th - 10th, Adult Education
Richard Matheson Button Button - Science Fiction Story
Science fiction is a great way to teach characterization. In "Button, Button" by Richard Matheson, students will explore characterization in a fun and engaging way using text evidence from the story. "Button, Button" explore the universal idea of greed and how far a person is willing to go for money. Included: General Day GuideAnticipation Guide to set up the storyComprehension Questions - combination of multiple choice and short answerComprehension Question ANSWER KEYCharacterization Activi
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Science Fiction Short Story Bundle
Hatchet Unit BUNDLE
A workbook to use with the anchor text, Hatchet. This workbook includes all the introduction activities, journals, supplemental activities, and assessment options.As students read Hatchet and follow Brian on his journey, they will also be on a journey to learn about what it means to survive, the importance of perseverance, and the roles that mindset, instinct, and luck play in one’s ability to survive. By the end of this unit, students will be able to apply these concepts not only to Brian’s exp
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
Cyclops Hands-On Activity (The Odyssey): Instructions Handout & Editable Rubric
This "Cyclops" activity assesses students' knowledge of characterization, figurative language, and vocabulary for the "Cyclops" story from Book IX of The Odyssey by Homer. In addition, it checks for reading comprehension, evaluation skills, and citing specific references from the text to prove points. Students must be neat and creative when incorporating required information on the hidden door foldie activity. This is a great review activity, or it can be used in the place of a test to assess st
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6th - 9th
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Cause and Effect Rubric
This rubric is written in student-friendly language and measures 3 areas: Determining Cause/Determining Effect/Understanding the Relationship between Cause and Effect. Depending on which scale/rubric you prefer, there are 2 copies here, one which rates students on the 1-2-3-4 scale, and the other rates students at 70-80-90-100 scale. :-) Related Products⭐ Freebie Teacher Observation Success Checklist⭐ Winter Picture Writing Prompts | Writing Activity⭐ Teacher Observation | Teacher Evaluation Fo
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2nd - 8th
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Poem Analysis and TDA Essay, Text Dependent Analysis — "Out Out" by Robert Frost
In this Poem Analysis and TDA Essay (Text Dependent Analysis), students will first read and answer questions for the poem "Out Out—" by Robert Frost. Students will then write a TDA based on themes and figurative language in the poem. In this lesson plan:Full Poem "Out Out—" by Robert Frost (1916)Poem Analysis Questions that concentrate on poetic devices (alliteration, allusion, theme, mood, tone, dialogue, connotation, rhyme scheme, juxtaposition) with ANSWER KEYTDA Text Dependent Analysis Promp
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Article of the Week Entire Year Set Including 56 Articles
This Article of Week Bundle has everything you need to implement the Article of the Week assignment for the entire school year! With 51 engaging articles to choose from, your students will make reading and writing a part of their routine for the whole year.The following items are included in this zip file:51 high-interest articles with paired graphic organizers including central idea box, power vocabulary words, and possible response questions Introductory PowerPointAOW Assignment Anchor ChartCl
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7th - 12th
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Complete Guide to Novel Annotations - ANY TEXT
This 7-page resource is everything you need to help your students create deep analytical novel annotations! Perfect for high school classes that are new to annotations OR classes that have experience with novel annotations.Resources Included:Instructions for use of handoutsInstructions for sharing annotation resource with students via Google DriveNovel annotation worksheets for Google Drive (link to Google Drive resource AND PDF versions; two different font options)Novel annotation bookmarks fo
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8th - 12th
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Book Report Templates + Rubrics | Digital + Printable | Virtual Learning
This Book Report Template set is the perfect addition to any novel study or can be used to assign a general Book Report assignment! Available in both digital and printable formats, this resource includes a variety of templates that allow students to creatively engage with any story or novel. Whether rating the book or creating a social media post from the main character’s perspective, these templates will have the students thinking and engaged. This resource also includes a Movie Poster media li
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3rd - 8th
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Evaluating POINT OF VIEW "3 Little Pigs" Blog Post Assignment
This fun assignment requires students to analyze two different versions the classic children's story, "The 3 Little Pigs." Students must evaluate which NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE they believe - the Pigs or the Wolf - then write about it in the form of a hypothetical blog post.
This resource takes the simple short story and applies it to a the complex concept of POINT OF VIEW. It is a great project ot assess students' understanding of POV and complements another resource that I sell: "Evaluating POIN
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6th - 12th
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Annotation Rubric
Here is a simple and quick way to grade those close reading annotations. It is a great and easy tool for students to understand expectations!
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4th - 12th
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Student Choice Book Reports
Engage your students with monthly choice Book Reports. They can pick any of the nine given options to tell a summary of the book to the class. For each project, they must include all of the Literary Elements: Characters, Setting, Key Events and Details in the Plot and Problem and Solution.
As you present the Book Report project to your class, give each student pages 2 & 3 back to back. This will explain to students what is expected of them, the 9 choice options, a rubric for expectations
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3rd - 8th
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Lamb to the Slaughter Writing Assessments - Essay Prompts and Editable Rubrics
This differentiated assessment offers three different written response options to evaluate students’ understanding of Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter.” Includes editable 4-level rubrics! Choose between an essay, paragraph, or narrative response using these literary analysis prompts.Included with these Lamb to the Slaughter Writing Prompts:✏️ Editable “Lamb to the Slaughter” Assessment Handouts - Google Docs®✏️ 3 Argumentative Essay Prompts✏️ 1 Narrative Writing Prompt✏️ Option for individua
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8th - 11th
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Article of the Week Assignment Intro, Volume 2
This Article of the Week bundle (Volume 2) includes everything you need to implement this assignment in your class! The Article of the Week assignment, inspired by Kelly Gallagher, is an excellent way to get your students reading and writing purposefully and frequently. This assignment also helps broaden your students' knowledge of the world around them.The Article of the Week Assignment Bundle Zipped File includes:-8 high-interest, relevant articles for teenagers• Colin Kaepernick's New "Just D
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8th - 12th
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The Ultimate Socratic Seminar Bundle
This bundle of handouts, rubrics, and worksheets will give you everything you need in order to run transformational Socratic Seminars with your students. (Plus two free sample texts to use!).This bundle includes:1) A one-page introductory handout to Socratic Seminar2) A lesson plan for the intro handout3) A reproducible Seminar key for a teacher to fill out (and an example of a perfect one, as well as a guide for how to use it)4) Question Stems for students to draw from to help them formulate go
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7th - 12th
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The Great Gatsby Discussion Questions - 20 Essay Questions and Writing Prompt
These writing prompts for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby include 20 higher-level discussion questions for your next Socratic seminar or final essay assignment! Includes editable rubrics for Google Drive®.Included with these The Great Gatsby Discussion Questions:✏️ 20 Discussion Questions for The Great Gatsby - PDFExplore themes including love and desire, judgment, and “The American Dream”Interpret characterization in The Great Gatsby, including major and minor charactersExplore literary
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8th - 11th
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Middle School The Forgotten Door by Alexander Key -Bundle
4 resources for a complete novel study unit. The Forgotten Door, by Alexander Key, is an incredible book about a young boy who accidentally falls through a hidden interdimensional portal and finds himself in a mountainous region on Earth. Jon finds a kind family, the Beans, who take him in and gradually come to realize that he originates from a society very unlike our own.This resource includes:Middle School Strategic Reading to Write - The Forgotten DoorMiddle School The Forgotten Door - Intera
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5th - 8th
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Article of the Week Starter Pack
Combining the awesome article of the week concept used by Kelly Gallagher and the non-fiction signposts created by Beers and Probst, this Article of the Week Starter Pack is a great way to bring non-fiction into your classroom. This pack includes a master template that you can copy and paste any article into, a grading rubric, and a sample article of the week to help you and your students get used to the process. All documents completely customizable for your classroom and grading practices.
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5th - 12th
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Notice and Note Signpost Rubric (Fiction)
This scoring rubric is designed to assess student's ability to identify textual evidence of Notice and Note Signposts in literary fiction, as identified in the text, Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading, by Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst. Students are also assessed on their analysis of author's purpose by answering anchor questions specific to each of the 6 Signposts.
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5th - 10th
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