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6th grade short stories thematic unit plans
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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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
Grades:
2nd - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Summer Reading Comprehension Context Clues Daily Reading Writing Bundle
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Twilight Zone Teleplay Complete Unit Pack
This is a fantastically engaging and complete unit for your middle schoolers for Rod Serling's teleplay The Monsters are Due on Maple Street. This is material to help you teach the script from The Twilight Zone television series. The text of the teleplay is not included, as it is not in the public domain.You will get the following materials:Pre-reading Group Questions/Discussion PromptsPre-Reading Vocabulary and Extension Activities with KeyCharting Plot: Two Types of Charts with KeyLiterary Ele
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6th - 8th
Determine Theme - Identify Theme Literature - Plot Development - Greek Mythology
Determine Theme in Literature - Identify Theme - Find Theme - Develop Plot with the integration of Greek Mythology Stories.Includes: - Plot Development Printouts and Tasks - Literary Theme Printouts and Tasks - Ticket out the door - Foldables - Annotation Coding - Anchor Charts for Plot Line and Determining Theme - Pre-writing graphic organizers - Teacher Samples - Assessment - 4 Greek Mythology Passages - 7 detailed lessonsFor other purchase options, check out our other Greek Mythology Units
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4th - 6th
Mystery -The Adventure of the Speckled Band Comprehension Unit Print & Digital
This classic short story will have your students analyzing details and making inferences. This is a fantastic mystery unit that works well in a class of diverse learners. I teach this to my accelerated class, my resource students, and my ESL group. Distance Learning: The worksheets are in Google Slides to use digitally and to easily assign by Google Classroom. For students without technology print PDFs for send-home packets.Here is what is included:★"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" - full t
Grades:
6th - 10th
Halloween Writing Pack
This Halloween Writing Unit was designed to create a full month of writing for your classroom. Simply make a copy of each of these pages, staple together (with the cover page provided) and students can work all month on creative, fun, and meaningful writing for the whole month of October.This Writing pack contains two parts – 4 Halloween Writing Assignments and 5 October themed journal pages. Each of the 4 Halloween Writing Assignments have a brainstorm page. These pages have directions for each
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K - 6th
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Bundle for The Twilight Zone Teleplay
This is a fantastically engaging and complete unit for your middle schoolers for Rod Serling's The Monsters are Due on Maple Street. This is material to help you teach the teleplay from The Twilight Zone television series. The text of the teleplay is not included.This PDF bundle includes my BEST SELLING The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Complete Unit Pack, which includes a multiple choice test, along with my task cards for stage direction, which can also be used as an assessment. You will get
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6th - 9th
SCIENCE FICTION: History, Literature, and Creative Writing
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Science Fiction is one of my favorite units to teach. It gives each of us a chance to ask, "What if?" This 99-page unit covers information about the history of science fiction as a genre, vocabulary to discuss science fiction, 10 science fiction stories w/resources, how to develop and write a science fiction story, and an extensive list of websites that could be helpful for more resources. The stories covered in the unit are:
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6th - 12th
The Elevator: A Lesson in Suspense
Tweens and teens love chills and thrills! Kick off a unit - or an exhilarating lesson - of intense suspense with this all-inclusive 38-slide PowerPoint "The Elevator." Presentation includes the text, anticipatory questions, probable passage, and Common Core aligned discussion/essay questions where students can write their own conclusion. *This lesson is all-inclusive and sub-friendly. Keep them learning, even when you're not there!Teaching more suspense or gothic literature? Check out my other
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Substitute Literary Lesson Bundle
Scary Story Collection for Middle School: Escape Room, Task Cards, Printables
This spooky collection of fiction reading comprehension passages combines several standards so that students have an opportunity to practice their skills without isolating each standard. Each fictional story has descriptive characters and settings, drawing your students into the mystery. This unit will reinforce skills that you have taught. Students will use their skills to solve the mysteries (demonstrating comprehension of the text). What your students will discover: Was Dracula real or just a
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6th - 8th
The Gift of the Magi Close Reading Unit Bundle
A perfect tale for the winter season, this classic short story, "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry, makes the perfect holiday text for my gifted 4th grade students. It has been rewritten to suit the reading level of upper elementary students and includes a wide variety of vocabulary words, intentional literary elements, and loads of figurative language. The literary elements I pair with teaching this text are plot (mainly for the surprise ending!), summarizing, and irony. We spend between 1-2 we
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4th - 6th
Hero or Outlaw? Use Evidence to Decide! Nonfiction Passages and Printables
High-Interest nonfiction reading passages about the controversial wild west figures, Wyatt Earp, William Tilghman, and Jesse James. Each biography contains a biased read or an information list of their activities, a complete life story passage, and several printables that will engage your students in the text, challenge them to find evidence, and encourage them to read for understanding by analyzing the passages and defending their opinions. All answer keys are included.What's Included?• Nonf
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6th - 8th
Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan Short Story Unit for Conflict and Plot
Teaching conflict, plot, and literary devices through "Fish Cheeks" by Amy Tan will be engaging, thought-provoking, and thorough with this interactive notebook, Socratic Seminar, and literary devices dystopian short story unit. This "Fish Cheeks" by Amy Tan short story unit is exactly what you need to teach your fifth or sixth-grade middle-grade learners in an engaging Socratic Seminar, discussion-based, and reading response-focused format. This unit digs deep into the RL.3 standard that focuses
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5th - 6th
Fear and Suspence Short Story Unit - UPDATED!
Thank you for your interest in this updated short story unit. Any month of the year is the perfect time to introduce suspence and horror to your students! When I created this unit, I had three main goals in mind for my students: (1) To expose them to the elements of a short story, (2) To compare and contrast a short story with a novel, and (3) To gain experience in narrative writing skills .
Included in this short story unit are:
A lesson-plan overview for the entire unit, individual, step
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Mentor Text Mini Lessons for Eleven by Sandra Cisneros
This three week narrative writing unit centers around the mentor text Eleven by Sandra Cisneros. This story is short and packed full of powerful narrative writing techniques to teach students. Each mini lesson takes you through analyzing this text in depth so that students can hone their descriptive narrative writing skills. Note: the story is not included with this unit but a link to it is. There are seven mini lessons on the following topics: Mini Lesson #1: The Structure of a NarrativeMini Le
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5th - 8th
Drama Unit to suit any story
I have created a 10-week drama unit using various components of drama such as improvisation, characterisation and role-play. Each lesson starts with a warm-up (not linked to main component of lesson), body of lesson and a conclusion where students are asked to reflect on their participation in a drama journal. When I did this unit with my grade 3 students last year, we used the story 'Pumpkin Soup' by Helen Cooper but you can use absolutely any story you wish. Each week builds up to a final pro
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1st - 7th
Short Story Unit 2
This 385 page short story unit has lesson plans for 42 short stories ranging in grade levels 6-12. Each lesson plan includes essential questions, CC standards, appropriate grade level, location for the story, a summary of the story, a skill builder and subject category theme for each story, vocabulary words, writing activity, discussion questions, and a student reading question worksheet. There are also 20 additional after reading activities and reading comprehension worksheets to use for the st
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6th - 12th
FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON BUNDLE | UNIT & DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM
DANIEL KEYES' SHORT STORY "FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON" IS MADE INTERACTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE IN THIS UNIQUE BUNDLE. With this bundle, you will get a 76 page unit plan and 25 minute escape room to complete over a 4-6 time period at over 25% savings when you buy them together.FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON UNIT PLAN: Explore the elements of literature and figurative language in Daniel Keyes' classic short story. This 4-6 week unit will guide students through understanding of characters, point of view, theme, p
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6th - 9th
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Elements of Fiction: Curriculum Materials MEGA Unit All-in-One DEAL
Help your students learn all about what makes a story good with the Elements of Fiction Curriculum Materials MEGA Unit All-in-One DEAL.
A two-page outline of all the documents is included. Also includes title-divider sheets to keep things organized in a binder or file folders.
Includes the following products (for less than what it would cost to purchase separately):
Brain Warmer Quick Write and Write Around
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Elements-of-Fiction-Brain-Warmer-Quic
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6th - 12th
Short Story Unit 1 and 2 Bundle
These lesson plans include all 74 short story lesson plans from Short Story Units 1 and 2.Complete list of stories:“A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor “Cypress Swamp Granny” by Vivian Vande Velde “Curses, Inc.” by Vivian Vande Velde “The Elevator” by William Sleator “Hercules” by Various Authors “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell “New Chicago” by Kelley Armstrong “The Witch’s Son” by Vivian Vande Velde “When First We Were Gods” by Rick Yancey “Faithful Johannes” by the Br
Grades:
6th - 12th
Moral Dilemmas Short Story Unit
Thank you for your interest in this short story unit.
When I created this unit, I had four main goals in mind: (1) To expose my students to a variety of reading strategies, (2) To draw attention to varying levels of information found in text, (3) To have the students practice compare and contrast, and (4) For my students to gain experience in narrative writing skills .
It is always my goal to provide useful, easy-to-use lessons and units, so please don’t hesitate to contact me if you hav
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Writing an African Folktale - Project
Students will enjoy using their creativity when writing their own African folktale! After reading several examples students use this 7-page packet to walk them through writing their very own African folktale. This packet includes: an overview of purpose and description of African folktales, directions/checklist for writing their own, writing brainstorm and plot outline, how to publish the final draft story, evaluation sheet, and a handout for a read around to share classmates finished folktal
Grades:
4th - 8th
Winter Writing Workbook Christmas Themed Writing Book for December
This is a Winter themed writing pack perfect for a Christmas themed writing unit for December! Help your students become authors with these three story starters to choose from. Each story starter contains a brainstorm page to help your students organize their thoughts before they begin writing.(This is a non-denominational winter/Christmas writing activity booklet.)Included in this download:-teacher instruction page-student instruction page-grading rubric-mini-lesson journal -3 writing brainsto
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Spooky Story Writing for Middle School: 6 Week Creative Writing Unit
This creative writing unit on How to Write Spooky Stories is designed to provide a flexible framework with a wide variety of individual, group and full-class lessons. The unit can be taught in four to six weeks depending upon the amount of class time available. This unit includes 115 pages of materials, including five full short stories that correspond with particular lessons.The unit is broken down as follows:IdeasWhere do we get good ideas for stories? Because students often struggle with idea
Grades:
5th - 12th
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