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7th grade balanced literacy unit plans
Literary and Nonfiction Genre Reading Unit Elementary Middle School | Posters
This resource includes a digital Google Slides reading unit to teach genres to upper elementary students. This genre reading unit includes reading response examples, mini lessons, interactive notebooks pages, genre reading posters, rubrics, and assessments. Important Links: This unit now includes my editable Genre Posters Resource. This unit is now 100% Digital. This unit includes everything you need to teach, and dig deeper, into reading literature genres and nonfiction genres in middle school
Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in: Theme Unit Character Traits Unit and Genre Unit Bundle for Middle Grades
The Witch of Blackbird Pond Novel Unit
Are you looking for a complete novel unit for The Witch of Blackbird Pond that includes fun and engaging activities for middle school students? Look no further!NEW! Updated to include Digital Learning options for Distance Learning!This complete unit includes everything you need to help students understand Elizabeth George Speare's classic novel! With this unit, students will hone their reading and language skills. Resources include Slides presentations, supplemental informational readings, hand
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5th - 8th
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Bronx Masquerade Complete Literature and Grammar Unit
If you prefer to have novel studies for ANY novel, please see the following:Activities for Any Novel Volume 1 (34 pages)Activities for Any Novel Volume 2 (33 pages)Activities for Any Novel Volume 3 (37 Pages)Novel Study for Any Book (139 pages)Novel Study and Activities for Any Book BUNDLE (239 pages)Our novel and grammar units are aligned to many of the Common Core Standards, including inference, main idea, elements of a story, and more!This is a combined that contains everything you need to te
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Novel Study Bundle - 30 of Our Top Selling Units
Freak the Mighty Novel Study
This Freak the Mighty novel study unit includes all the activities you will need for your class study! Middle School students will love this unit while enhancing their literacy and writing skills AND enjoying a few creative projects along the way! Freak the Mighty is one of my all-time favorite books to share with students. Not only is it a great story told through the fantastic voice of the character Max, but there are numerous literary skills that can be taught while reading the novel. This
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5th - 7th
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The Barren Grounds Bundle
This is the 6 Week Unit on the David A Robertson novel, The Barren Grounds, combined with the comprehension quizzes and the unit test. The unit can be used for face to face learning or distance/virtual lessons.IncludesUnit Overview 95 slide Slideshow for PPT or Google SlidesChapter by chapter vocabulary listCree to English dictionary6 Multiple Choice Comprehension Quizzes Unit Test Drama Assignment Weekly activities in units include:Vocabulary ListsQuick Write TopicsLiterary Device LessonsParts
Grades:
5th - 10th
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Listening to Podcasts and Creating a Podcast from Start to Finish
Have you noticed your students are LISTENING to information now more than ever before? Podcasting is a new genre of literacy students will need to learn how to navigate and understand. Digital Media Literacy is here to stay!This complete guide to podcasting begins by immersing students in the genre of podcasting by listening and noticing what makes a podcast effective and impactful. Students begin to notice sound effects and ways the authors work to entertain, evoke emotion, inform, or persuade.
Grades:
4th - 9th
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Also included in: Podcasting with Kids Starter Pack
Stage Three MEGA Bundle - Unit 9 NESA Support Resources - Storm Boy - No Prep!
This is a HUGE 350+ page bundle designed to support the implementation of the NESA English unit (9) for Stage Three based on the conventions of narrative.For more detailed information on each product, please click on the links to my store. Each product is available individually in my store. This bundle includes:* A supporting slideshow which means it is linked to the Department of Education (NSW) unit of work which teaches Stage 3 students about the conventions of narrative. This unit of work is
Grades:
5th - 7th
The Reading Bucket List: An Approach to Motivate and Inspire Readers
As adults, we read what we enjoy. Why then are we forcing kids to all read the same text, at the same time, with the same assessments? That’s why Adam and I came up with the Reading Bucket List—an innovative approach to self-selected texts, engaging projects, and meaningful discussions.
First and foremost, we wanted students to have choice in what they are reading! But we know as teachers that there needs to be some guidance in what we do, so that is why we created a list of 60 genres, both tra
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4th - 8th
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Realistic Fiction Writing Unit
This realistic fiction writing unit includes the following lessons:
1) Making a writing goal and generating ideas for a realistic fiction story
2) Generating Ideas: Imagining Stories from Ordinary Moments
3) Selecting a seed idea/story idea
4) Developing believable characters
5) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivations
6) Planning your story: Story Mountains, Story Booklets, and Timelines
7) Show, Don't Tell
8) Grammar: Punctuating Dialogue
9) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of your Story
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4th - 8th
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Teaching Resources for Sold by Patricia McCormick
Over 100 pages of materials, assignments and activities for teaching Patricia McCormick's vignette-style novel, Sold.
PLEASE SEE THE PREVIEW FOR THE FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Resources include:
Pre reading activities: background knowledge research assignment, writing prompts, related articles, websites and more.
During reading activities: comprehension and recall questions with answer key, writing prompts, related articles/web resources, character chart, discussion group activity, reader respon
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Ghost Boys Unit BUNDLE - Quizzes, Writing, Project, Vocabulary, Discussion +More
Ghost Boys Novel Bundle:This package includes all of the materials I used to teach the novel Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes, and more! This novel is suited for mid-level readers. However, I used these materials and the novel with level 1 & 2 EL students in high school, and it was appropriate (and they BEGGED me every day to read a little more!).This package includes:7 Quizzes for sections of the novel. The quizzes focus on character, events, and vocabulary. Quizzes are for every 4 chapte
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4th - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Mystery Writing Unit Plans
These mystery writing unit plans include the following minilessons:
1) What makes a good Mystery story?
2) Planning Problem/ Solution
3) Planning Clues
4) Planning Characters
5) Planning Setting
6) Planning story: plot beginning, middle, and end
7) Building Suspense
8) Using Mystery Planning Sheet to Help Organize Writing
9) Focusing on Characters
10) Character Personality and dialogue
11) How to Use and Punctuate Dialogue (Conventions)
12) Editing
13) Revising Reminders
This also includes t
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4th - 7th
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The Secret Path - Full Unit
This unit has been built with PEARDECK but it is not necessary to use the extension to be able to use the unit (just an added bonus). The resource will stand alone without the application. There are 124 slides with questions, activites, videos, and learning goals and connected links to be used with each song/video from Gord Downie's The Secret Path. **FYI the lesson for Shin-Chi's Canoe is not included in the full unit as it is prior learning to The Secret Path - you can buy the lesson here**
Grades:
5th - 9th
Sentence Combining Sets (Writing Practice) Unit Plan - CC Aligned
Sentence Combining Sets #1 - 8 + Exam:
Use this simple-yet-extremely effective method of covering grammar, punctuation, spelling, word choice, sentence structure, and paragraphing all-in-one through these quick lessons!
This full unit plan includes learning objectives, grade-level usage recommendations, Common Core Standards addressed in the unit, suggested uses in the classroom, and suggested grading rubrics. For students, there are eight (8) full pages of Sentence Combining Sets and a Pos
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6th - 12th
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COMPLETE Launching Reader's Workshop Unit - Pictures, Charts, Notebook INCLUDED!
This is what you've been waiting for!
The ENTIRE unit to launch your reader's workshop to help your students achieve agency and intellectual independence. There's no better way to start off your year.
Set includes:
Unit Overview with Essential Questions
19 FULL lessons with all mini lesson components (connection, teaching point, active engagement, link, mid-workshop teaching point and share)
Sample process charts, anchor charts and notebook pages
Lessons are inspired by Columbia's Teacher's C
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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What is a Memoir? Writing Mini-Unit (Great for Distance Learning)
Students become writers by evaluating, experimenting with, and reading examples of good writing. This mini-unit about memoir writing brings all of those components together. In these six lessons, students will investigate authentic texts to then apply techniques and strategies to their own memoirs. Included in this product:Google Slides presentation to guide all six lessons, containing all links to student materialsVocabulary and inquiry lesson using the anchor text The Relatives Came by Cynt
Grades:
4th - 9th
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75 English Idioms: List, Definitions, Tips, Practice, and Final Test
I teach my middle school class five common English idioms a day for fifteen consecutive school days. This is a great warmup to start a language arts period, a real "piece of cake" that the kids "get a kick out of."
Included are:
1) Teaching guidelines and tips (based on years of experience) for using the list effectively and making sure your students learn them well.
2) The list of 75 very common and useful English idioms along with complete and easy-to-use definitions.
3) A Mid-Course Review
Grades:
5th - 9th
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The Outsiders Novel Study for Special Edu
Everything you need to teach The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton to your students in Special Education (minus the book). This unit is designed to last 6 weeks-2 months. During the unit students learn to:-complete graphic organizers-complete foldables-complete sequencing maps-define vocabulary in multiple ways-express and extend their ideas through journaling-describe and compare characters-explain the plot-support multiple themes with statements from the text-answer 'wh' comprehension questions-fill in
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6th - 12th
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GOOGLE DRIVE: Counting by 7s Novel Study Unit Hyperdoc
This product is a digital novel study unit about the book Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan. Your purchase includes links to make copies of Google Drive documents including:- Novel Slides Hyperdoc- Google Form Quizzes for every 10 chapters
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4th - 8th
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Hero's Journey JUMBO Digital Lesson
80 plus slides! Huge, intense, and great connections! This is an extremely FLEXIBLE lesson that can be included as a part of many different units: Beowulf, The Odyssey, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and basically any tale from the past or present from LITERATURE that deals with a HERO! This took me many, many hours to create and ended up being a lot of fun to pull together. Save yourself some time, give yourself a present, and engage your students with The Hero's Journey Powerpoint! Goo
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: The Odyssey Unit Bundle (Google Slides, PowerPoint)
Because of Winn Dixie Complete Literature and Grammar Unit
If you prefer to have novel studies for ANY novel, please see the following:Activities for Any Novel Volume 1 (34 pages)Activities for Any Novel Volume 2 (33 pages)Activities for Any Novel Volume 3 (37 Pages)Novel Study for Any Book (139 pages)Novel Study and Activities for Any Book BUNDLE (239 pages)Our novel and grammar units are aligned to many of the Common Core Standards, including inference, main idea, elements of a story, and more!This is a combined that contains everything you need to t
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Novel Study Bundle - 30 of Our Top Selling Units
Tangerine Unit Lessons
This is a 52 page unit of lessons to use while teaching the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor. This packet consists of comprehension questions in the form of short answer and fill in the blanks, figurative language, quote analysis, vocabulary, cause and effect, predictions, graphic organizers, writing, and more. It is designed as worksheets for students to be able to write on and is used to cover the entirity of the novel. There are a wide variety of lessons and activities to keep students engaged
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6th - 10th
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CHAINS: A Historical Fiction Novel Study on Slavery and The Revolutionary War
Hello! My name is Shelly Smith, and I am a National Board Certified Teacher in Elementary Literacy. My students get results that are much higher than our district/state average! I believe much of it is due to the way in which literacy is taught in my classroom. Welcome to my Literacy Studio!
I believe you will be extremely pleased with this unique and rigorous approach to literacy that hooks students from the very beginning. This study is a blend of the historical fiction novel, CHAINS, and his
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5th - 7th
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No Prep Inquiry-Based Ocean Plastic Pollution: Sustainable Development
This engaging and action-based project will turn and transform your students into sustainable thinkers and citizens. The unit focuses on climate change, global warming, the health of our oceans and places a focus on single use plastic in which students will investigate through inquiry their impact on the environment. Topics coverred are The Great Pacific Garbage Patch/, The Ocean Cleanup/Boyan Slat, Plastic Pollution, Stustainable Development and more!This package includes:- 4 award winning docu
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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