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Short stories Common Core W.5.4 resources
ELA Reader's Theater Mini-Bundle - Scripts and Activities for Middle School
Interested in trying reader's theater with your middle school readers? This 3-pack of reader's theater scripts and activities makes it easy to quickly incorporate this amazing teaching tool in your classroom.As an ELA teacher, I use reader's theater regularly to enhance fluency, increase student engagement, and sharpen our reading comprehension skills.If you are looking for high-interest, realistic fiction, standards-based scripts with vocabulary work, reader response questions, graphic organize
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4th - 7th, Staff
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Middle School English ELA Fun Halloween Activity | Writing a Spooky Short Story
*****ATTENTION TEACHERS:***** For just $2 more dollars, get FOUR more activities with the Halloween Activities BUNDLE (CLICK HERE)! _________________________________________________________________5th, 6th, 7th, 8th Middle School ELA English Halloween Activity Lesson: "Create a Spooky Story" | Guide for the Short Story Process Includes Templates and Guided Organizers for:Brainstorming Spooky Ideas and Topics Brainstorming Word WebExposition: Characters, Setting, Conflict (Guided Questions Chart)
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5th - 8th
Fiction Narrative Writing Unit FIFTH GRADE
My fifth grade fiction writing unit includes 8 weeks of done-for-you writing lessons about how to write an engaging fiction essay, with strong characters, an interesting problem and solution, and rich dialogue. This unit contains detailed lesson plans, mentor texts, anchor charts, student writing tasks, and rubrics–everything you need to be a capable, confident writing teacher with students who love to write.If teaching writing has ever made you cry, weep, tear out your hair, question your exist
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5th
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Christmas Activities - Reading Passages - Story Elements - Narrative Writing
DIGITAL & PRINTABLE - Upper Elementary December Christmas Passages that are CCSS aligned with the ELA literature and narrative writing standards. We've added a Google Classroom Option to our popular product. The unit focuses on the reading skill of story elements of inferring character traits, Plot Development, and Theme. This unit is great to use for teacher observation because of the included lesson plans and rigorous activities. You will keep your students engaged during this challengi
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4th - 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
The Hero's Journey | Movie Analysis | Short Story Writing | Activities
This Hero's Journey activity package contains a variety of activities relating to the Hero's Journey as explained by Joseph Campbell. For this activity, students practice their Hero's Journey analysis skills by viewing a heroic movie of your choice (a variety of examples are included), and using the included worksheets to discuss how each stage of the Hero's Journey can be seen. Students then use an included template to illustrate and write their own short stories, following the stages of the
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Middle School ELA Emergency Sub Plans - No Prep English Sub Plans - May
"Lob's Girl" Short Story Unit - Mood, Foreshadowing, Theme
"Lob's Girl" Literature Study UnitIn this 8-day unit students will develop a deep understanding of Joan Aiken’s short story “Lob’s Girl” . Its tale of loyalty and friendship combined with mystery and suspense make it an incredibly engaging read. Students develop skills in understanding short story elements, mood development, theme, foreshadowing, vocabulary, dialect, and writing in this unit. Through whole class, small group, and independent work students not only stay actively engaged with
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Incredible Journeys Bundle - Short Story, Research, Poetry, Nonfiction
Distance Learning Short Story Passage No Prep ELA Suspense Mystery
This 48 page resource is a 4,500 word short story and meets CCSS for middle school reading and writing. It is the story of a boy discovering his new friend is actually a ghost and she needs his help. This close reading lesson is 99 pages long. This resource is the answered teacher copy (48 pages), with the blank student copy (48 pages), there is also a link for projecting or giving to students that are distance learning. As well - this is a TpT Digital Activity. That means students can complete
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2nd - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Summer Reading Comprehension Context Clues Daily Reading Writing Bundle
Strega Nona Reader's Theater Scripts and Activities
This Strega Nona reader's theater script and activity toolkit is a great companion activity to the original story. It is a favorite of mine to share during the school year when we need a reminder of the importance of following directions.This Strega Nona Reader's Theater and Reading Literature Toolkit includes:a 3-page, 5-character scriptcontext clue word worksheet reading comprehension questions3-post-reading journal promptssummary workanswer keyEstimated Lexile Measure: 610LThis is a resource
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3rd - 6th, Staff
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Also included in: Text-Based Reader's Theater and Read Aloud Activities Bundle
Emoji Halloween/Fall Printable Writing Activity- Short Power Paragraph & Art
This short Halloween writing activity engages ALL students, and gets ALL students to LOVE writing! Students are given emoji prompts to arrange in any sequence, and then they construct a narrative, opinion, or informational paragraph based on the representations of the emojis. This allows flexibility, creativity, and cures writer’s block for ALL students! Seriously- I’ve seen students who strongly dislike writing get so completely focused and engaged in this activity that they can’t even put thei
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2nd - 6th
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Science Fiction Writing Unit 5th 6th Grade Prompts Graphic Organizer Samples
This No Prep, SCIENCE FICTION WRITING UNIT for 5th, 6th Grade includes 8 science fiction writing prompts, scaffolded graphic organizers, (perfect for your struggling writers), a comprehensive writing sample from brainstorming to publishing, posters, task cards and much more.THIS RESOURCE IS DIGITAL TO ASSIGN IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM AND INCLUDES A PDF VERSION FOR PRINTING.PLEASE DO NOT PURCHASE THIS IF YOU HAVE ALREADY PURCHASEDmyView Writing Grade 5 Unit 4 Science Fiction Writing, Print and DigitalI
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5th - 6th
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PICK A PHOTO PROMPT • 60 Writing Ideas with Word Boxes • Grades 4–6
60 PHOTO PROMPTS for CREATIVE WRITING!5 High-Interest CategoriesPick a Photo Prompt is a great solution for your reluctant writers! Pick a Photo Prompt is a unique collection of 60 full-color photographs to motivate students to think and write. The photographs are divided into five categories, so there’s something to stir the imagination of all your students. The photos are in the public domain, so feel free to use them without copyright worries.Each of the five categories has twelve awesome
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4th - 6th
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Memoir Writing Project- Sharing My Shorts - Distance Learning
Memoir WritingDigital Version NOW INCLUDED! Everyone loves to get more bang for their buck and that's exactly what you get with Sharing My Shorts!With this year long writing project you will get to know your students as people and as writers. Sharing My Shorts can be a long term project spanning the entire school year or a short term project spanning a few weeks. The project consists of 8 prompts to choose from. Each prompt encourages students to share moments in their lives by writing "short"
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3rd - 6th
Christmas Short Story Unit: The Fir Tree (Print + DIGITAL)
This is a 71 page Common Core aligned NO PREP short story unit for the “The Fir Tree” by Hans Christian Andersen. This short story teaching unit has everything that you will need to teach and assess “The Fir Tree.” The table of contents makes finding information quick and easy. ANSWER KEYS ARE INCLUDED. This excerpt from a short story written by Hans Christian Andersen is about a little fir tree who wants to become a Christmas tree. As with some other tales by Hans Christian Andersen, this stor
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3rd - 5th
Emoji Thanksgiving/Fall Printable Writing Activity- Short Power Paragraph & Art
This short Thanksgiving/Fall writing activity engages ALL students, and gets ALL students to LOVE writing! Students are given emoji prompts to arrange in any sequence, and then they construct a narrative, opinion, or informational paragraph based on the representations of the emojis. This allows flexibility, creativity, and cures writer’s block for ALL students! Seriously- I’ve seen students who strongly dislike writing get so completely focused and engaged in this activity that they can’t even
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2nd - 6th
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All Summer in a Day by Bradbury short story unit with digital option
This short story resource for "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury is a low prep packet and includes a student PDF file with the student activity pages and a second PDF with all student pages, teacher notes, answer keys, student samples, and the link to a Google Drive digital file."All Summer in a Day" is a science fiction short story. Students identify features of science fiction before reading the story. There are a variety of reading and writing activities from which to choose. It is also a
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Middle Grades Short Story Unit Bundle with digital option
Writing in Dramatic Form – Kids Write Skits, Plays, Readers Theater & Drama
Let them write plays! Kids learn about structural elements of poetry, practice, and rewrite age-appropriate children’s stories in dramatic form. Your students will love writing drama – and then acting it out as skits or readers theater. Open the preview to take a closer look at the activities.First, kids learn about elements of drama with two reference guides, or anchor charts:Cast of characters – list of characters in a playDialogue – words that tell the actors what to sayCharacter tag – name t
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3rd - 5th
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Visual Writing Prompts - Practice Narrative Writing Mystery Edition
Visual Writing Prompts - Mystery EditionDevelop your students narrative writing skills by including these engaging visual writing prompt cards, worksheets and/or slides into lessons. Students will complete a series of worksheets using the one visual writing prompt as inspiration. Once completed, students select another visual writing prompt card and start the process again. Alternatively, slides can be displayed on the IWB as a whole class/small group activity instead of allocating one card
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5th - 8th
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Emoji Valentine's Day Printable Writing Activity- Short Power Paragraph & Art
This short Valentine's Day writing activity engages ALL students, and gets ALL students to LOVE writing! Students are given emoji prompts to arrange in any sequence, and then they construct a narrative, opinion, or informational paragraph based on the representations of the emojis. This allows flexibility, creativity, and cures writer’s block for ALL students! Seriously- I’ve seen students who strongly dislike writing get so completely focused and engaged in this activity that they can’t even pu
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2nd - 6th
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The Storytelling Princess Fairy Tale Reader's Theater Script and Activities
The Storytelling Princess by Rafe Martin is a great book to share and discuss, even with your big kids. I have turned this fairy tale picture book into a reader's theater script and reading literature toolkit to enhance your work with this great story.I am always in search of awesome picture books to share with my students as quick read alouds. The message of this story, that not all princesses are damsels in distress, will invoke great classroom discussions!The Storytelling Princess Reader's Th
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4th - 7th, Staff
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Also included in: Text-Based Reader's Theater and Read Aloud Activities Bundle
Visual Writing Prompts Practice Narrative Writing Adventure Themed
Visual Writing Prompts - Practice Narrative Writing Adventure ThemedDevelop your students narrative writing skills by including these engaging visual writing prompt cards, worksheets and/or slides into lessons. Students will complete a series of worksheets using the one visual writing prompt as inspiration. Once completed, students select another visual writing prompt card and start the process again. Alternatively, slides can be displayed on the IWB as a whole class/small group activity inst
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5th - 8th
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Fantasy Quest Narrative Descriptive Writing Project Creative 4th-5th
Take your students on a magical quest with this engaging narrative writing activity! They'll design unique characters, create backstories, and develop personality traits using descriptive words. Perfect for 4th and 5th grade, this printable writing packet allows for individual or group work and offers endless opportunities for creativity.In-depth DescriptionThis printable writing packet is a comprehensive narrative writing resource designed to strengthen students' writing skills and spark their
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4th - 5th
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Harris Burdick Mystery Writing Unit
This is a great writing lesson that goes along with the Harris Burdick book by Chris Van Allsburg. It teaches the concept of mystery writing (narratives) using a picture prompt from the book. It also includes a story map, grading rubric and a printable for students to use to write their final draft. I use this in my own classroom and it is always a very fun and engaging unit! Teaches all the Common Core Narrative Writing Standards for Middle School.Student Directions:“The Mysteries of Harris Bur
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3rd - 8th
Emoji Christmas Printable Writing Activity- Short Power Paragraph & Art
This short Christmas writing activity engages ALL students, and gets ALL students to LOVE writing! Students are given emoji prompts to arrange in any sequence, and then they construct a narrative, opinion, or informational paragraph based on the representations of the emojis. This allows flexibility, creativity, and cures writer’s block for ALL students! Seriously- I’ve seen students who strongly dislike writing get so completely focused and engaged in this activity that they can’t even put thei
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2nd - 6th
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