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A Christmas Carol; A Readers' Theater Adaptation
Included in A Christmas Carol:-complete script-pre-reading activities-vocabulary study-discussion questions-suggestions for projectsThis reader's theater adaptation is suitable for grades 7- adult. While adhering to the plot of the original work, this adaptation uses more modern language, so that it can be more easily understood by today's students. It can be used with small groups or entire classrooms in both regular and special education. Reading the play aloud, or even acting it out will m
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Character Ornaments for ANY Book or Story
Character Ornaments: A critical-thinking activity for students to use with any novel or story
This creative activity requires students to think about a character in a different way. Students decide how a character would decorate an ornament and why. Responses must contain evidence from the text to support their explanations. For more of a challenge, students can also design an original ornament in any shape to represent the character.
Includes differentiated handouts and interactive notebook o
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
A Christmas Memory Capote CCSS Questions, Vocab, Personal Narrative Activity
A complete packet with many extras for this beloved short story. NOTE: the story is copyrighted and NOT included but is available online. What you get:Matching review of literary terms used in the questions.In-depth literal and critical analysis comprehension questions (27) Literary terms such as mood, characterization, theme, symbol, exposition/climax/falling action, and more. Vocabulary worksheet of 55 terms: identifying examples of figures of speech, using context clues, matching (includ
Grades:
7th - 10th
The Gift of the Magi Lesson Plans and Activities
O. Henry's classic Christmas story "The Gift of the Magi" is a great read for the holiday season. I've read it successfully with high school, university, and advanced ESL/EFL students. And now I've put together the most comprehensive collection of downloadable and printable resources to teach "The Gift of the Magi" this holiday season! This 105-page collection of 15 activities, worksheets, games and assessments that I've written and honed over the years cover every aspect of the story: vocabula
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Twas the Night Before Christmas Poetry Lesson
What are "coursers"? What is a "peddler"? What are a few examples of similes, metaphors and personification? How does this poem represent the innocence of childhood? Need an awesome Christmas literature lesson using a classic Christmas poem? This lesson (part of "The Twelve Days of Christmas Literature" bundle) will get you and your students in the Christmas Spirit!
Written by Clement Moore on Christmas Eve in 1822, "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" was a special gift to Moore's nine children.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Who is Stealing the 12 Days of Christmas chapter chart
Use this chapter chart while students read, Who is Stealing the 12 Days of Christmas by Martha Freeman. It has comprehension questions for the students to answer at the end of each chapter. This is a great "during reading" activity. There are a variety of questions: vocabulary, predicting, comparing, characterization, setting, etc.
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
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The Greatest Gift Reader's Theater Script -Questions -Philip Van Doren Stern
George PrattGive me just one good reason why I should be alive. I’m sick of everything! I’m stuck here in this mud hole for life, doing the same full work day after day. Other people are leading exciting lives, but I…well, I’m just a small-town bank clerk. I never did anything really useful or interesting, and it looks as if I never will. I might just as well be dead. Sometimes I wish I were. In fact, I wish I had never been born!The StrangerWhy, that’s wonderful! You have solved everything. You
Grades:
6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Character Gifts for ANY Book or Story
Character Gifts: A critical-thinking activity for students to use with any novel or story
This creative activity requires students to think about a character in a different way. Students decide what gift they would give a character and why. Responses must contain evidence from the text to support their explanations.
Includes differentiated handouts and interactive notebook or classroom display options.
Aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Reading, Writing, and Language.
This IS i
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #1: Christmas in Camelot - Novel Study
This is a 31 page comprehension guide for formerly numbered as Magic Tree House #29, the title of this book is now Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #1: Christmas in Camelot. Every page of this comprehension study will encourage students to think deeper about the novel that they read. This packet is divided into chapters, so students can easily navigate through the book and complete the questions.
Grades:
1st - 11th
It's Christmas, Charlie Brown! Reader's Theatre Script -Rubric & Questions
Included in the It's Christmas, Charlie Brown! Reader's Theatre Unit:17 page script3 major characters + the narrator6 supporting characters45 metacognitive questionsStudent Reader's Theatre Evaluations based on 4 levels and 5 criteria.Student Success CriteriaStudent Friendly GoalsReader's Theatre ChecklistIt's Christmas, Charlie Brown! Synopsis:Snoopy’s dog-house blinks on and off with electric lights.Sally thinks only about the presents she will get.Lucy likes aluminum trees.Is this Christmas?
Grades:
5th - 10th, Adult Education
Christmas Short Story Reluctant Readers Middle High School
Grab your reluctant readers with this creepy, spooky story for middle and high school. Joe is old, lonely and facing another Christmas by himself. But a knock on the door late on Christmas Eve is about to change everything. Who are the three strangers bearing gifts? What is the Wishing-Well Network and what is this List the boys say his name is on? _________________________________________________________________The Nitty Gritty Facts for Educators:Word Count: 1,978 (7pages)*Flesch Reading Ease
Grades:
4th - 10th
Home Alone: Reader's Theatre/Radio Play -Christmas
Summary:When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother, Kate McCallister, makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true, but his excitement sours when he realizes that two con men named Harry and Marv, who call themselves the Wet Bandits, plan to rob the McCallister residence, and that he alone must protect
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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A Christmas Carol Reader's Theatre Script -Charles Dickens Original -John Leech
Ebenezer ScroogeSpirit…Tell me if Tiny Tim will live. The Ghost of Christmas PresentI see a vacant seat in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die. Ebenezer ScroogeNo, no. Oh, no, kind Spirit! Say he will be spared. The Ghost of Christmas PresentIf these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Twas the Night Before Christmas Reader's Theater Vocabulary
Increase fluency with this classic Christmas poem! This Reader's Theater includes the original language and is broken down into parts of 5-30 or more students. Includes:Space to record students assigned to each of the 5 groups; helpful for you and your students!Entire poem broken down into parts; primarily groups, with some girl/boy/all lines; Intended for flow of words (fluency) and fun dashes of exciting one liners!Key vocabulary covers 2 pages - words AND definitions! I learned quite a b
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Ralphie's Christmas Story Reader's Theatre Script -With Questions
Mom ParkerWhat would you like for Christmas, Ralphie? Jean ShepherdI knew the moment called for nuance and nonchalance. But sometimes you just…Ralphie speaks quickly: Ralphie ParkerI want an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200 shot Range Model air rifle with a compass in the stock and a… Jean ShepherdOn, no! My tongue short-circuited my brain. I was speaking faster than I was thinking. I was dead. Even before she opened her mouth, I knew what my mother was going to say to me. Mom ParkerRalphie
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6th - 11th, Adult Education
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A Christmas Carol Reader's Theater Script with Questions -Charles Dickens
Ebenezer ScroogeSpirit! Something informs me that our parting moment is at hand. Tiny Tim has…died. But please…tell me…who was the man we saw lying in that bed? A thick fog begins to surround Scrooge and the spirit, and they are transported to a cemetery. It is a worthy place, indeed to learn the wretched dead man’s name. The spirit points to a tombstone in the distance. Scrooge squints at it and then looks back at the spirit. Ebenezer ScroogeBefore I draw nearer to the gravestone at which you p
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Markheim Reader's Theatre Script -Robert Louis Stevenson -Questions -Rubric
MarkheimYou know me? The visitor smiled. VisitorYou have long been a favourite of mine, and I have long observed and often sought to help you. MarkheimWhat are you? The devil? VisitorWhat I may be, cannot affect the service I propose to render you. MarkheimIt can, it does! Be helped by you? No, never; not by you! You do not know me yet; thank God, you do not know me! VisitorI know you… Replied the visitant, with a sort of kind severity or rather firmness. Visitor…I know you to the soul.Included
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Unspoken Reader's Theatre Script -Spooky Christmas Mystery -Sentimental
Anna PercineThere were only three days to Christmas. Usually I dread it, but this year, for the first time since I could remember, I hoped there would be no haunting. We had left the ghost behind when we moved from our old house a month ago. Now, at last, we were free of that specter… Or so I thought.Included in the Unspoken Reader's Theatre Unit:36 page script divided among 3 chapters5 characters (2 major characters) + the narratorChapter 1:6 pages with 4 characters + the narratorChapter 2:14 p
Grades:
5th - 10th
The Gift of the Magi Socratic Seminar Materials
Socratic Seminars (or "Fish Bowl" Conversations as I like to call them with my students) are fantastic, higher order ways of assessing whether your students are able to understand and react to your class text. These seminars rely on the power of inquiry and allow students to take the lead in their learning and discussion. The only problem? They require a great deal of preparation. Fortunately, I have done the work for you!This packet includes everything you need to conduct a structured and form
Grades:
7th - 10th
Arthur's Christmas Reader's Theater Script
Included in the Arthur's Christmas Reader's Theater Unit:6 page script.9 characters+ the narrator.Arthur's Christmas synopsis:Christmas is only days away, and Arthur is taking his Christmas shopping for Santa very seriously. He wants his gift to be absolutely perfect, but with the clock ticking, he might need a little help from his sister, D.W., to make this the best Christmas ever. Will Arthur be able to find the perfect gift for Santa Claus?I have another Arthur Christmas reader's theater scri
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3rd - 12th
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Short Story & Movie Guide: The Greatest Gift; It's a Wonderful Life Interactive
This is a two week study for the short story titled "The Greatest Gift" (by Philip Van Doren Stern) and the movie titled It's a Wonderful Life."The Greatest Gift" is the short story that provided the inspiration for It's a Wonderful Life. The short story is available as a hardcover book and as an e-book. An Afterword by the author's daughter is found at the end of each of these books:"The Greatest Gift" 1996 edition"The Greatest Gift" 2014 editionThe guide contains 10 sections and includes:voc
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Christmas Bells Poetry Lesson - Analysis of Two Poems
Need an awesome one or two hour Christmas literature lesson? This lesson (Day Three from "The Twelve Days of Christmas Literature" bundle) will get your class in the Christmas spirit as you study "Ring Out Wild Bells" by Alfred Lord Tennyson and "The Bells" by Edgar Allen Poe. Have fun comparing poems about "Bells" by two very different authors: Tennyson, Poet Laureate to Queen Victoria and Poe, master of sinister, suspenseful stories and poems. Add in the free lesson, "Christmas Bells" by Long
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6th - 12th
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Mini-Guide for Juniors/Middlers: The Secret of the Fourth Candle Interactive
This product is a two-week study for the book The Secret of the Fourth Candle, by Patricia St. John. A revision, by Mary Mills, is also available. The mini-guide is able to be used with the original version and the revised edition.This is an interactive guide that enables parents/teachers to facilitate an oral discussion of the story, but it only provides space for one student to complete the fill-in-the-blank activities. If you are interested in using the guide with more than one student, che
Grades:
4th - 9th
Mini-Guide for Juniors/Middlers: The Secret of the Fourth Candle Workbook
This product is a two-week study for the book The Secret of the Fourth Candle, by Patricia St. John. A revision, by Mary Mills, is also available. The mini-guide is able to be used with the original version and the revised edition.This is the workbook version of the guide; space is provided for students to write answers to the questions and for the activities.There are 10 sections in the guide; the following components are included:vocabulary activitiesdiscussion questionsreading activities –
Grades:
4th - 9th
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