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Reading strategies Common Core RL.9-10.3 literature circles
The House on Mango Street Novel Study and Project Menu; Plus Digital Option
Everything you need to use Sandra Cisneros' award-winning novel, The House on Mango Street effectively in your classroom! A no-prep standards based interactive notebook literature guide with follow-up reading response questions for every chapter as well as vocabulary, writing projects, activities and enrichment projects. Teacher friendly engaging lessons to use with this award winning novel in your classroom while encouraging critical reading skills.CCSS/STAAR Aligned! Great for "Distance Lear
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7th - 12th
Nightjohn Novel Study & Project Menu; Plus Digital Option
No-Prep novel study for "Nightjohn", a standards based interactive notebook literature guide with follow-up reading response questions for every chapter as well as vocabulary, writing projects, activities and enrichment projects. Teacher friendly engaging lessons to use with this award winning novel by Gary Paulsen in your classroom while encouraging critical reading skills.CCSS/STAAR Aligned! Great for "Distance Learning".Please check out my author study of Gary Paulsen as it would be a great i
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Civil War Novel Study Bundle, Seven Complete Civil War Literature Units!
The Fault In Our Stars Novel Study: Reading Guide and Comprehension Questions
This novel study and reading guide for the awarding winning novel, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, comes with a variety of worksheets and graphic organizers for students to complete as they read. This novel analysis is broken into 10 sections, with each section focusing on 30 pages of reading. This Common Core aligned resource is perfect for whole group, small group, or individual reading instruction. It is also ideal for tutoring or homeschool education.....And the fact that it is NO PRE
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6th - 12th
Hatchet Novel Study: Reading Guide + Chapter Comprehension Questions
This novel study and reading guide unit for the awarding winning novel, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, comes with a variety of worksheets and graphic organizers for students to complete as they read. This novel analysis is broken into 12 lessons, with each lesson focusing on a chapter. This Common Core aligned resource is perfect for whole group, small group, or individual reading instruction. It is also ideal for tutoring or homeschool education.....And the fact that it is NO PREP makes it even bett
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5th - 10th
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Literature Circles | Book Clubs | Student Led | Project-Based ELA
Literature circles and book clubs are an empowering way to keep up reading and discussion practices. Lit circles are a highly effective way to allow students to connect socially and intellectually and hold each other accountable. With this student-led unit, students will create their own reading calendar and pacing plan, prepare independently for weekly book clubs, schedule and run their own weekly meetings and assess their own work. The teaching philosophy incorporated here is “Student as Worke
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8th - 11th
Literature Circle: The Hobbit with Common Core Standards
The Hobbit – Common Core Curriculum Standards
Everything needed to have a student-led group project, a Literature Circle, over The Hobbit s included in this lesson. The unit will require 18 days for students to read the text within their literature circle, with an additional 3 days for reading quizzes.
Instructions for the teacher are included. A daily position sheet is included for assigning each member of the group to complete the written activities they are required to do during the 18 d
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8th - 11th
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To Kill a Mockingbird Unit Bundle / 18 resources / 360 pages / 300 questions
Over the years, To Kill a Mockingbird has become one of my favorite novels to teach. Since this is a long novel, it can be hard to figure out the pacing and to develop meaningful activities that keep students engaged for three-hundred pages! As a new teacher, this was something I really struggled with. Now that I've been teaching for more than a decade, I wanted to share my best lessons, resources, and tools for teaching To Kill a Mockingbird. All together, you will find 18 resources with more t
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9th - 10th
Canyons Novel Study and Project Menu; Plus Digital Option
Everything you need to use Gary Paulsen's award-winning novel, Canyons effectively in your classroom! A no-prep standards based interactive notebook literature guide with follow-up reading response questions for every chapter as well as vocabulary, writing projects, activities and enrichment projects. Teacher friendly engaging lessons to use with this award winning novel in your classroom while encouraging critical reading skills.CCSS/STAAR Aligned! Great for "Distance Learning".Everything you n
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6th - 9th
Julius Caesar Common Core Annotated Text – Brutus and Mark Antony’s Speeches
This resource includes the annotated text of the tomb scene in Act III, Scene ii in Julius Caesar in which Mark Antony and Brutus give their famous speeches rich with rhetorical devices and figurative language over Caesar’s dead body. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative and connotative meanings, rhetorical devices, imagery, theme, and complex character development aligned with the RL2, RL3, RL4, RL5, and RL6 stan
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9th - 12th
Literature Circle/Book Club Group Discussion Roles Kit
KIT INCLUDES:4 roles with corresponding worksheetsactive-listening note-taking graphic organizers for each group membercolor task cards of instructions and role descriptionspeer evaluation forms for post-discussiondiscussion sentence starter resource with sentence frames and question stems that promote discourseUse with any novel! Literature Circle roles include Discussion Leader, Reporter, Diction Detective, and Bridge Builder. Students complete their role sheets while they read a section of th
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9th - 12th
Critical Lenses Mega pack!(Graphic Organizers, Posters, Mindmaps, Concept Maps!)
Critical Lens MEGAPACK!This megapack includes resources for twelve critical lenses. Featuring the following lenses:Reader's ResponseSociologicalFormalistCultural StudiesPsychologicalArchetypes / MythsGender CriticismGenre TheoryHistoricalExistentialism EcocriticismPhilosophical What you get!12 task cards12 posters3 concept maps featuring all twelve lenses1 mind map my life activity1 mind map assignment2 Theory Relays (Analyze a text from six different perspectives.)13 Graphic Organizers (1 for e
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7th - 12th
6-Week Unit for Lord of the Flies: Debates, Essays, Activities, Letters, & More
Hello Fellow Teacher, Are you looking for a 6-week unit for the novel Lord of the Flies that includes activities such as debates, creating YouTube videos, essays, short responses, letters, role-playing, Socratic seminars, and more? If so, you have found it! This 26-page Google Slides PDF includes writing prompts, discussions of themes, characters, & conflicts, and other class activities. Looking for a shorter unit? Pick and choose the ones you want to use. Students will have a variety of opp
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: BUNDLE: Lord of the Flies, 1984, & Catcher in the Rye Units c
Reading Comprehension Worksheets, ESL, Writing Activity, All Story & Novels
I am an English Teacher who desires to be helpful for those in need of materials for their lessons!This packet includes worksheets and activities for: (74 ACTIVITY & WORKSHEETS)PredictingStory ElementsStory MappingPlotMain IdeaMaking Connections: Text-to-Self, Text-to-World, Text-to-TextForming QuestionsDetailsSummarizingCause & EffectComparingCharactersSettingProblem & SolutionInferringPredictingVocabularyDictionary SkillsStory SequenceAuthor's PurposeAuthor ReportsBook ReportsInfor
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2nd - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
12 Literature Circle Task Cards - Any Novel or Story - Spark Critical Thinking
Students LOVE literature circles - especially when you incorporate awesome task cards! These task cards are a SIMPLE way to make literature circles FUN and engaging for students! Take a PEEK at this BRAND NEW "ELA Task Card MEGA BUNDLE"...Visit my Ms. G's Room 30 Blog for more tips, tricks and resources that can further enhance the magic that happens in your classroom on a daily basis!Looking for more than 12 task cards?24 Literature Circle Task Cards - Any Novel or Story - Critical Thinking Ski
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6th - 12th
Also included in: ELA Common Core Task Cards - MEGA Bundle - CCSS Reading and Writing
Romeo and Juliet Common Core Annotated Text – Balcony Scene (Act II, Scene ii)
This resource includes the annotated text of a key scene in Romeo and Juliet on the balcony between the two lovers. Using the comment feature in Microsoft Word, this resource includes critical commentary and analysis of the figurative language, imagery, theme, and complex character development aligned with the RL2, RL3, RL4, and RL5 standards from the Common Core State Standards. This resource will help teachers to guide students’ close reading of the text and help them to become more critical
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Hop-Frog Gothic for Edgar Allan Poe
"Hop-Frog" by Edgar Allan Poe is a short story that revolves around the king's love for jokes and his court jester, Hop-Frog. The king is known for his fondness for humor and considers a well-told joke as the surest way to gain his favor. The seven ministers in his court also possess great skill in jesting and share the king's physical attributes of being large and corpulent.At the time of the story, jesters were still present at court, and the king had his own fool. However, Hop-Frog was not ju
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Top Collection for Edgar Allan Poe
Critical Analysis Literature Circles
Literature Circles are a common, collaborative activity used in the classroom to discuss and analyze literature. Would you like to bring deeper critical analysis, complexity and profound discussions into your classroom? Try out these Critical Analysis Literature Circles.In this 37-page product, your students will be participating in deeper discussions, and they will be responsible for a role that requires them to analyze, elaborate on their evidence and support their thinking and ideas. In this
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7th - 10th
Literature Circle or Book Club Roles (Oversized Bookmarks)
Assigning roles during literature circles can be a great way to rotate jobs, hone in on particular skills, or focus on student strengths. These printable oversized book marks are a great way for students to practice certain reading skills while reading. This download includes a summarizer, connector, literary luminary, discussion director, and visualizer. Print these on colored paper to help student differentiate between the different skills. These are ready to print on 8.5 x 11 paper. Each shee
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8th - 12th
To Kill a Mockingbird Ch. 1 Finch Background Discussion Qs & KEY
This ANSWER "KEY" includes the free "Finch Background Discussion Questions" resource and suggested answers. While there is no "one right answer" to these open-ended questions, teachers may find the answers helpful as they guide and observe students in discussion.Each of these discussion questions can also be used as a writing prompt either alone or following discussion. Students may choose a prompt or teachers can assign one or more to each student or group.This free question set applies to the
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8th - 12th
Reader Notes
Want an engaging way to have your students create reader notes for their novel? In this print or digital resource, students have reader’s notes task cards that they can use daily for their readings. You can have your students use these task cards in small groups for book clubs and novel studies or use them for independent reading. This resource includes twenty reader response questions and prompts that students can use after each section of their reading for their novel. Students can use these r
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9th - 10th
Also included in: Independent Novel Study Unit
The Fault in Our Stars & Perks of Being a Wallflower Reading Guides - Bundle
This is a collection of two of my reading/study guides, on The Fault in Our Stars and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I decided to put them together since I feel they complement one another perfectly, and specifically the age groups they interest. Within both reading guides, there are writing prompts for each day of reading, chapter comprehension questions and graphic organizers. Throughout the guides, I've also included images from the book and movie versions to help support students' understa
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7th - 12th
Literature Circles Project for Drama, Theatre, English or Reading Plays
This is a literature circles project for middle or high school students to engage in when reading any play in Theatre/Drama or working on a drama unit in English. The project lasts anywhere from 1.5-3 Weeks, depending on the complexity of the texts. Students read the text in class, conduct discussions after each Act, and assign a creative role to take on for each act. The roles they may choose from are theatre-themed: Summarizer, Director, Method Actor, Dramaturg, and Scenic Designer. The gro
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5th - 12th
"The Cask of Amontillado" Reading Guide and Key
This reading guide has been developed to guide students in a close reading of the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe. Also this reading guide can help students read texts that are difficult. As students take time to read and answer questions, they have a better chance of understanding what the author is trying to convey. The student guide is ready to duplicate for classroom use and a teacher key for the guide is included. Other resources are also available for “The Cask o
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9th - 12th
Targeted Character Traits for Any Fiction Piece
The Targeted Internal Character Traits activity is for the students to truly hone in on poignant traits that allow the author to push the plot forward. With this activity, I’ve observed my own students push past the run of the mill traits and really reflect on a character. You will also find that this activity is reflective of a bubble map from the Thinking Maps program. So, if your school has taken on that method of learning, this will help! Key Concepts & Objectives:Reading Comprehension &
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4th - 10th
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