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Short stories games under $5
The Landlady Escape Room - A Scary Story Activity for Middle School ELA
Wrap up your reading of Roald Dahl’s scary story with The Landlady Escape Room, perfect for middle school ELA classrooms looking for 100% engagement this Halloween! This literary-elements-themed escape room is guaranteed to challenge and excite your students this year. ✔ Check out the preview for a closer look!Middle school ELA teachers love using The Landlady Escape Room to conclude Roald Dahl’s scary story because it’s printable, digital, and editable. After reading and discussing The Landlady
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: The Landlady Short Story Analysis & Escape Room Bundle for Middle School
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Escape Room
Is there a better way to wrap up and review The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street teleplay by Rod Serling than with an escape room? I think not! This literary-elements-themed escape room activity will challenge and engage your students while delivering a standards-based review. Perfect for your scary short story unit, your drama unit, or during October! ⬆️ Check out the PREVIEW for more information! ⬆️Teachers love using this “The Monsters of Maple Street” escape room to conclude Rod Serling’s sh
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6th - 8th
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Finding the Theme Group Scoot Game (3rd-5th grades)
This fun cooperative group "scoot" game will have students identifying common themes in familiar stories! Students will be asked to work cooperatively as a team to find key details as evidence to help them correctly identify which theme the particular story card represents. Directly aligned to the common core standard: RL.4.2. (Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text), this is one of my students’ all time favorite activities to do! Enjoy! ☺Included with down
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3rd - 5th
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Auditory Memory Magic
Target auditory memory with the variety of games and visuals included in this resource. Your students will be able to improve their auditory memory, listening skills, and comprehension by playing these fun and engaging games. Plus, with a "magic" theme, they'll be intrigued to play!***************************************************************************What awesome auditory memory activities are included?★ Visual of memory strategies★ Repeat It Back: A board is provided to use with this game.
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2nd - 8th
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The Elevator by William Sleator Escape Room - Digital, Printable, & Editable!
Wrap up William Sleator's chilling short story The Elevator with an unforgettable & standards-based escape room. This literary-elements-themed escape room activity will have your students 100% engaged and 100% challenged! Use this scary short story escape room in October, with your short story unit, or anytime during the school year to review the literary elements!⬆️ Check out the PREVIEW for more information! ⬆️Teachers love using this Elevator escape room to conclude the short story. It’s
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6th - 8th
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Main Idea and Key Details (Fiction & Nonfiction) Toothy® Task Kits
Toothy® Task Kits- an original idea from Angie Olson at ©Lucky Little Learners, LLC.This pack is part of the 2nd Grade Reading Toothy Bundle. Save money by purchasing the bundle HERE.Your students will receive all the practice they need to reinforce the skill of main idea and key details with this pack! There are 12 fiction and nonfiction short stories included. Each short story features a clear main idea with key details. There are a total of 84 text-dependent questions (7 questions for ea
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2nd
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Story Elements Game & Definition Matching Cards
Activities help students understand characters, setting, plot, conflict, resolution, climax, rising & falling actions.
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30 sentence cards to match to 5 different story element cards and an answer key
- Characters
- Setting
- Conflict
- Plot
- Resolution
Activity 2:
8 definitions to match to 8 different story element cards and an answer key
- Characters
- Setting
- Conflict
- Rising Action
- Plot
- Climax
- Falling Action
- Resolution
Cut and pri
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2nd - 4th
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Reading Center: MASH Game (Create a short story)
Do your upper elementary kids love to play MASH? Mine do! I created this MASH game so they could still play, but they were able to practice using skills in the classroom as well. This MASH game asks students to complete the board by adding: 8 possible characters, 4 possible settings, and 4 possible points of conflict. Two set categories in this MASH game are # of Sentences and the acronym MASH, standing for METAPHOR, ALLITERATION, SIMILE, and HYPERBOLE. After completing the MASH game, stude
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4th - 7th
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Compare & Contrast with Folktales & Fairytales Toothy® Task Kits
Toothy® Task Kits- an original idea from Angie Olson at ©Lucky Little Learners, LLC.This pack is part of the 2nd Grade Reading Toothy Bundle. Save money by purchasing the bundle HERE.Your students will receive all the practice they need to reinforce the skill of compare and contrast with this pack! There are 24 folktale/fairytale short stories included. Students will read the two stories (2 versions of the same folktale/fairytale) to compare and contrast how the two stories are the same and
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2nd
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Cat's Colors--Writing Craft and Activities for the book by Jane Cabrera
This unit is a companion to Jane Cabrera’s book Cat’s Colors.This unit is perfect for PK-1 students. Included are:*Writing Craft Activity—students will make a cute orange cat and complete a simple writing prompt about their favorite color. Includes all patterns.*A simple sentence printable booklet (“Cat likes red”, etc.). Students will read the pattern book, and color the pictures to match. Great for book bags or small group work. *A Cat Colors Book—Students will draw and label items of a specif
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PreK - 1st
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Author's Message 1st Grade Reading Toothy® Task Kits
Toothy® Task Kits- an original idea from Angie Olson at ©Lucky Little Learners, LLC.This pack is part of the 1st Grade Reading Toothy Bundle. Save money by purchasing the bundle HERE.Your students will receive all the practice they need to reinforce the skill of understanding of the text's central message or lesson with this pack! There are 24 task cards included. Each task card features a short story with a clear message or lesson. Students will need to use clues within the text to determ
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1st
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All Summer in A Day: Figurative Language Question Trail - Engaging Activity
Engage your students & help them practice identifying examples of figurative language in "All Summer in A Day" with this unique kinesthetic "question trail" activity that will get your students up & moving around the classroom!If you've never facilitated a "question trail," now is the time to try it out! You and your students will be hooked on its unique approach to learning.A question trail is an activity comprised of different multiple choice “stations” or “spots.” These questions are
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6th - 9th
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Fairy Tale Movement Cards for Preschool and Brain Break Transition Activity
Are you struggling to find engaging brain break activities and smooth transition activities that prevent student behavior problems, occupy students with excess energy, and improve student listening skills? These fairy tale movement cards will have your students attentive and engaged, all while learning fairy tale vocabulary and burning some energy, so they can stay focused for the rest of the school day! This movement card set includes:Fairy tale words such as mermaid, princess, dragon, knight,
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PreK - 2nd
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Christmas Grammar: Gingerbread Man Escape
This LOW PREP Gingerbread Man Escape is great to help your kids practice complete sentences, quotation marks, capital letters, spelling/homophones and short stories in a fun way. If your students love escape rooms, they will love this new twist!Your students will work together to solve questions, and then they will receive a Scenario card when all tasks are correct. Students will have to make a choice about what happens to The Gingerbread Man on his journey. They will then use these scenarios to
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3rd - 5th
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The Giver by Lois Lowry Jeopardy Game
The Giver Jeopardy Game This is a jeopardy game in power point that deals with information related to the Giver by Lois Lowrey. It is power point format and is a lot of fun. It is a good assessment activity, but also can be used for teaching. It is a lot of fun and very informative
Grades:
7th - 12th
Fairy Tale Bingo
Review fairy tales with this bingo set. There are 30 different cards included in this download, plus calling cards for the teacher to call from. Enjoy!
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PreK - 5th
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Author's Purpose Toothy® Task Kits
Toothy® Task Kits- an original idea from Angie Olson at ©Lucky Little Learners, LLC.This pack is part of the 2nd Grade Reading Toothy Bundle. Save money by purchasing the bundle HERE.Your students will receive all the practice they need to reinforce the skill of determining author's purpose with this pack! There are 24 task cards included. Each card features a short passage with a text-dependent question. Students will need to read the text to determine whether the text was written to persua
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2nd
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Making Inferences Toothy® Task Kits
Toothy® Task Kits- an original idea from Angie Olson at ©Lucky Little Learners, LLC.This pack is part of the 2nd Grade Reading Toothy Bundle. Save money by purchasing the bundle HERE.Your students will receive all the practice they need to reinforce the skill of making inferences with this pack! There are 24 task cards included. Each card features a short passage with a text-dependent question. Students will need to use clues within the text to infer their answers. The answers on the back o
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2nd
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The Outsiders S.E. Hinton Jeopardy Chapters 1-6
Outsiders Jeopardy Chapters 1-6
This is a challenging Jeopardy Game which is designed to be used with the first half of the novel, "The Outsiders," by S. E. Hinton.
It is great for review and assessment or just to have fun. The categories include:
1) Types of Conflict
2) Slang and Idioms
3) Figurative Language
4) Soc's + Greasers Trivia
5) Different Styles (of the two gangs)
6) Grab Bag (General info)
The game use a jeopardy game board format which can be edited and used with
Grades:
7th - 12th
Valentines Story Comprehension | Short Stories for WH Questions and More
This February, pump up Valentines Day fun into your speech therapy! These themed short stories are an effective way to engage students while targeting WH questions, yes/no questions, context clues, vocabulary, inferencing and predicting! Kids enjoy the story which means they are engaged in therapy!Three decks of cards target various language goals to work on skills across your caseload. Each deck of cards includes three stories and corresponding questions.What’s included:• Deck 1: "Wh" questions
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1st - 7th
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Character Traits First Grade Toothy® Task Kits
Toothy® Task Kits- an original idea from Angie Olson at ©Lucky Little Learners, LLC.This pack is part of the 1st Grade Reading Toothy Bundle. Save money by purchasing the bundle HERE.Your students will receive all the practice they need to reinforce the skill of determining character traits with this pack! There are 24 task cards included. Each card features a short passage that tells about a character. Students will need to use information within the text to determine the correct character
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1st
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STORY BUILDERS ~ 96 Creative Story Prompt Cards
Story Builders: Character, Setting & Event Story Prompt Cards
Children will love combining these colorful picture prompts to create unique and creative stories. Ideal for improving oral and written language skills.
Includes the following Story Prompts:
* 32 Characters: astronaut, basketball player, cowboy, diver, scientist, zoo keeper, emergency worker, ice skater, fireman, ballerina, spy, movie star, clown, detective, race car driver, builder, student, teacher, rock star, doctor, sco
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PreK - 5th
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Rikki Tikki Tavi by Rudyard Kipling Crossword Puzzle
Rikki Tikki Tavi by Rudyard Kipling Crossword Puzzle
This is a challenging and comprehensive crossword puzzle related to the characters, events and vocabulary in this classic children's story.. I have included both the crossword weaver and PDF versions of this puzzle as well as an answer puzzle. It is very comprehensive and a great assessment activity
It is a wonderful story that my students enjoyed so much. Now they love it. I think your class will enjoy it too.
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7th - 12th
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STORY BUILDERS 2 ~ Fantasy & Fairy Tales ~ Creative Story Prompt Cards
Story Builders 2: Fantasy and Fairy Tale Character, Setting & Event Story Prompt Cards
Children will love combining these colorful picture prompts to create unique and creative stories. Ideal for improving oral and written language skills.
Includes the following Story Prompts:
* 32 Characters: king, queen, prince, princess, knight, jester, wizard, witch, fairy, fairy godmother, mermaid, tooth fairy, genie, leprechaun, cupid, gnome, dragon, wolf, frog prince, unicorn, giant, gingerbre
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PreK - 5th
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