Short Story Units for Middle School Reading Comprehension, Analysis and Writing
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Get scaffolded resources to help your middle school students dive deep into your short story unit. With this set of lessons for 11 short stories, you'll be able to cover reading comprehension, citing textual evdience and literary analysis in depth with your middle school students.
These carefully scaffolded lessons will help your students develop skills in reading comprehension, literary analysis, citing evidence to support inferences, determining and analyzing theme and more. Students will feel more confident when they encounter short stories or are asked to analyze text.
This bundle, which focuses on comprehension, analysis and writing about text, has what you need to engage your students Common Core alinged in depth study of short stories.
These short story lessons are rigorous, standards-aligned, writing intensive and ready to print. You can teach them as one cohesive unit, or use each story individually.
This bundle for short story units contains the following:
Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen:Comprehension
Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen:Cite Evidence
The Tell-Tale Heart Suspense Analysis
The Tell-Tale Heart:Comprehension.
All Summer In a Day: Complete Unit.
This bundle of short story resources directly addresses the following common core standards: R1, R2, R3, R4, R6 and W1.
Included in each lesson in this short story unit bundle:
1. Teacher Directions
2. All student materials EXCEPT the text of the short stories.
3. All Answer Keys
Everything you need to teach a middle school short story unit is ready to print.
TEACHERS LIKE YOU ARE SAYING...
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "A great resource that covers a variety of short stories. My students often struggle with diving deeper into a text and I'm very excited to incorporate this unit into my year to try and help them develop those necessary skills. Thank you!"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"My middle schoolers love short stories and I didn't have any resources for most of them that are included here. I'm really excited to start the year off with these rather than diving right into a novel."
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"A great range of stories hear that I will be able to use across a range of learning abilities in my class for this school year. Thanks for the thorough work."
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"This was an incredible resource and chock-full of opportunities for deeper learning. Great!"
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