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Middle school oral communication decimals literature circles
Literature Circles Made Easy Step by Step Lessons and Printables
Classroom Book Clubs: Literature Circles Made Easy includes 5 short videos for teachers plus the printables you need to set up and run Literature Circles in your classroom. This method does not include Literature Circle roles, so the program is easy to implement in a flexible manner. Kids love this method because it's more fun than traditional forms of Literature Circles, and teachers love it because it's easy and effective! After you purchase Classroom Book Clubs, look for the PDF with directio
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Literature Circles Made Easy | Classroom Book Clubs Discussion Bundle
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Reader's Theatre/Radio Play Script
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Synopsis:Charlie Bucket and Grandpa Joe join a small group of contest winners who get to tour the magical and mysterious factory of eccentric candy maker Willy Wonka. Aided by his diminutive Oompa Loompa workers, Wonka has a hidden motivation for the tour, one that he will reveal only after the children in the group (Veruca, Augustus, Violet, Mike and Charlie) show their true personalities.Included in the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Unit:251 pages and 30 c
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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Think, Pair, Share Graphic Organizer
Think, Pair, Share Graphic Organizer Great for encouraging classroom discussion and developing English Language Skills for your multilingual students. This awesome graphic organizer has helped my students with the new Speaking and Listening Anchor standards under Common Core, specifically having discussions, while tying it to the Writing Anchor Standards. After reading a text excerpt from a fiction or nonfiction book, newsela.com, or Scholastic Weekly, I give my students a question to discuss wi
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2nd - 12th
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Discussion Questions & Creative Writing Prompts for Korman's Masterminds
Motivate your students towards active, engaging discussion with these open-ended discussion questions to accompany Gordon Korman's middle-grade book Masterminds! This product contains:- three questions per chapter in an easy-to-use printable chart, along with suggestions for encouraging your students to participate in discussions. - these questions created as printable handouts for students, so that they can be used for homework, comprehension checks, essay prompts, or even as group preparati
Grades:
5th - 7th
Also included in: Gordon Korman ELA Resource Bundle I Print & Digital Versions
Common Core Aligned Collaborative Discussions (Grades 3-6)
This resource is aligned to Speaking and Listening standards from the Common Core standards. I use this with my 5th graders, but it is broad enough to apply to grades 3-6. This resource is intended to assist teachers in implementing effective collaborative discussions about the text.
This resource includes:
- Overview and Key Components to Implementation Description
- Student Responsibilities (Roles) Cards
- Sentence Starters aligned to Roles
- Discussion Participant Checklist
- Self-Evalu
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Accountable Talk Bubbles for Literacy & Problem Solving
BEST SELLER! This 24 page packet includes 20 accountable talk bubbles with conversation stems, a "Talk with Respect" poster with mini talk bubbles, a mini lesson, and 4 mid size blank talk bubbles. Student led conversations accountable to the learning content or text is the heart of accountable talk. Accountable talk can be taught and used in any grade level or subject area. The talk bubbles are simply a visual reminder of how people respectfully share opinions, ideas, and thoughts.For more clas
Grades:
K - 12th
Fantastic Mr. Fox: Reader's Theatre/Radio Script
Fantastic Mr. Fox Synopsis:Mr. Fox lives with his wife and four little foxes. In order to feed his family, he steals food from farmers named Boggis, Bunce, and Bean every night. Tired of being constantly outwitted by Mr. Fox, the farmers attempt to capture and kill him. The foxes escape in time by burrowing deep into the ground. The farmers decide to wait outside the hole for the foxes to emerge. Unable to leave the hole and steal food, Mr. Fox and his family begin to starve. Mr. Fox devises a p
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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THE ALCHEMIST: A PERSONAL QUEST PROJECT
A packet of materials for an individual project that students will work on during or after studying Paulo Coelho's THE ALCHEMIST. The packet contains guidelines for four stages of the project, each to be written up in a journal entry. The final stage of the project is individual oral presentation about the quest. Guidelines for these presentations also appear in the packet.
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7th - 12th
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Hatchet Novel Unit with Anticipation Guide, Worksheets, Charts, Tests, and More
Experience Brian's Robeson's adventures in the wilderness with this relevant and important material. This comprehensive packet contains: an anticipation guide to prepare students for reading the story.two complete vocabulary units with words from Hatchet, including their parts of speech, review worksheets with answer keys, and vocabulary tests with answer keys.a mood chart with answer key.a motivation chart with answer key.a conflict chart and answer key. a figurative language chart (idioms, sim
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4th - 9th
Lord of the Flies Reader's Theatre Script/Story -William Golding -Quiz
Jack MerridewWhere does the beast live? Percival sagged in Jack's grip. PiggyThat's a clever beast, if it can hide on this island. Jack's been everywhere. Where could a beast live? Jack MerridewBeast my foot! Percival muttered something and the assembly laughed again. Ralph leaned forward. RalphWhat does he say? Jack listened to Percival's answer and then let go of him. Percival, released, surrounded by the comfortable presence of humans, fell in the long grass and went to sleep. Jack cleared
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Mommy, Do You Hear That? Scary Reader's Theatre/Radio Play -Creative Writing
Mommy, Do You Hear That? Summary:One evening, Ellen and her daughter Alice are returning home from their visit to Aunt Sally and Uncle Albert's house. On the way home, Alice hears sounds all around her in the dark. Ellen calms young Alice's mind by telling her their is a logical explanation for all the sounds she is hearing at that time of the night. The one sound that Ellen does not respond to is the sound of heavy footsteps. Alice continually asks who or what could be making them, while Ellen
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
Cynthia Lord's Rules: Comprehensive Novel Unit with Worksheets, Tests, and Vocab
This literary packet Rules! Located inside is an anticipation guide to prepare students for reading the story; a complete vocabulary unit from Rules, with 20 words, their parts of speech, a review worksheet with an answer key, and a vocabulary test with an answer key; 25 Socratic seminar/class discussion questions to elicit opinions from students about the book; a mood chart with an answer key; a character chart with an answer key; a 75-point test with matching, true-false, multiple choice, and
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4th - 9th
Collaborative Conversation Sticks {for ELA}
Do you want your students to have deeper, and more meaningful conversations? I created this product to help my students master the CCSS for both Speaking & Listening which state that students need to be able to: “engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on grade-level topics and texts, building on other’s ideas and expressing their own clearly.”
These 30 Sentence Stem sticks will provide your students with sentence stems to help them be active particip
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3rd - 8th
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Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night's Dream, abridged adaptation
This abridged adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream will excite students' imaginations, develop language and reading skills and kids love it.• Every student, including ELLs, and homeschoolers, can access the majesty of Shakespeare, through this adaptation's kid friendly language.• The fun, magic, and silliness of this comedy makes it a favorite of all students.• Practice it throughout the year and perform for an audience in the spring.• Students will create lasting memories and
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: William Shakespeare Bundle of 5 plays, abridged adaptations
Accountable Talk: for Middle School and High School
50 DIFFERENT SENTENCE STEMS AND QUESTIONS WILL KEEP YOUR STUDENTS TALKING AND ENGAGED!! These Cafe Conversation Cards were created to help students learn how to ask thought-provoking questions and engage with classmates for an academic purpose. Simply make enough copies for each group, have students choose a question or prompt and then sit back and enjoy listening to your students take over the class! When the conversation fades, students simply read off of the cards and fill in the blanks w
Grades:
5th - 12th
Shrek: Reader's Theatre Story -Funny Moral Fairy Tale
Summary: Once upon a time, in a far away swamp, there lived an ogre named Shrek whose precious solitude is suddenly shattered by an invasion of annoying fairy tale characters. They were all banished from their kingdom by the evil Lord Farquaad. Determined to save their home -- not to mention his swamp-- Shrek makes a deal with Farquaad and sets out to rescue Princess Fiona to be Farquaad's bride. Rescuing the Princess may be small compared to her deep, dark secret. Along the way, Shrek will enco
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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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
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Fairy tales ✿ TABOO - Speaking game
This game is a great way to reactivate vocabulary and grammar. It is a lot of fun for all levels.Game instructions:Get into groups of 3 to 5. The objective is to get your friends to guess the fairy tale you are describing, but there’s a list of 3 words you can’t say !Take it in turns to take a card and score the most points by guessing the most tales correctly (1 tale = 1 point).Included are:- Game instructions (printable or projectable)- 18 taboo cards - Blank cards (in case you need to add a p
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1st - 10th
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Speaking and Listening Posters and Rubrics
Speaking and Listening Posters and Tools
Speaking and listening skills take practice and guidance. We all want our students to be articulate and confident in their abilities to communicate. The resources in this pack will help your students use language as a tool for thinking and communication.
Students will learn to engage effectively during collaborative discussions that are one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led.
The posters, notes, and bookmarks will serve as reminders and sources of r
Grades:
4th - 8th
Accountable Talk Discussion Task Cards! Promote Listening & Speaking Skills!
These 14 discussion task cards consist of a student-friendly sentence starters that will help guide students to effectively participate in collaborative groups and discussions. With the Common Core State Standards focused around student led conversations, these are useful tools to help students become aware of expectations during collaborative groups. They allow the students to focus on academic conversations and by repetitive use of the cards, students will surely understand how to lead a focu
Grades:
2nd - 7th
Language Recipe Cards
We know how helpful it is for kids with language impairments to have access to visuals and opportunities for massed practice. And we know how hard it is to break down higher level language tasks (e.g., explaining predictions and inferences, forming cohesive summaries) into discrete steps. Oftentimes, students get so bogged down with the vocabulary from the get-go that they end up muddling through or just giving up on the task (e.g., whose cruel idea was it for "conclusion" and "solution" to soun
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets Circle Talks/Journal Prompts
Hello Lovely Potterhead Educators! I have created these Circle Talk and Journal Prompts to go along with the second Harry Potter Book. There are 4-5 prompts per chapter. They can be used in a variety of ways: Display these on your SMART Board and have students pick their own prompt to write about in their journal after each chapter. Many of the prompts promote students to make connections to their own lives and make connections to the themes of the story. Use the prompts to create literacy cir
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3rd - 10th
The Count of Monte Cristo Radio Play Script/Reader's Theatre -Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo Summary:Edmond Dantès has it all: a beautiful fiancé and a caring father, but that is all taken away from him when Edmond is wrongfully imprisoned on the island of Chateau d'If. While in prison, Edmond plots his revenge against those who betrayed him. With help from another prisoner named Abbé Faria, he escapes the island and proceeds to transform himself into the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo as part of his plan to exact revenge and gain his life back.Included in this
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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ALLIGATOR ROOM DECOR & MORE
These SUPER CUTE GOOD-BYE SIGNS will give you and your students lots of opportunities to work on vocabulary, receptive and expressive language skills, following directions, answering WH and YES/NO questions, describing, and MAKE YOUR ROOM LOOK GREAT!
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1. SET OF GOOD-BYE POSTERS (p. 2 – 29) You can use these as room décor AND/OR also to teach your students different ways to say good-bye at the end of a circle/whole group activity.
Grades:
PreK - 6th
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