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Free Common Core RL.11-12.10 resources
Music as Poetry Analysis Activity for Any Song - Digital and Print
Teaching students to analyze poetry can be challenging. This free resource uses pop culture music (almost any song of your choosing will work) to engage students in discussion about lyric poems. Song analysis activities make teaching poetry fun!ContentsThis song analysis activity is included in different versions:1. A condensed two-page graphic organizer 2. A 14 page resource with one question on each page so you can use them individually, with learning stations, or with gallery walksFormatsThi
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Poetry Analysis Bundle: Engaging Games, Activities, and Writing Prompts
How to Annotate Text, Annotations, FREE Sticky Note Method Handout with Bookmark
Encourage your students to improve their close reading skills by teaching them to annotate text with this simple sticky-note procedure. This single-sheet handout gives examples of rich and weak annotated comments along with helpful suggestions to guide students who aren’t sure what they should be writing about when they’re asked to annotate a book.The sheet was designed for students to keep intact in their binders or to slice up and use as a bookmark during reading time. Want more handouts and r
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8th - 11th
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Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe, FREE, Literary Analysis PDF & Google Drive
Use "The Cask of Amontillado," Edgar Allan Poe’s creepy tale of twisted justice, to teach your students the elements of literary analysis. This two-day lesson includes a 14-question deep-thinking exercise (with detailed answer key/class discussion starters) and a Storytelling Arc handout (with key) to emphasize exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Finally, the download also includes a link to a short anticipatory video clip that will build students’ intere
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8th - 11th
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FREE Figurative Language Practice Activity
Engage students in figurative language practice with this FREE Figurative Language Tasting Activity! This fun, tasting activity will have even the most disengaged students writing similes, metaphors, and hyperbole as they practice using figurative language in descriptive writing.Stop dragging students through figurative language practice! Replace boring exercises with this hands-on activity.In this FREE Figurative Language Tasting Activity, you will provide students with small treats (think a mi
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Figurative Language Mini-unit Bundle: Creative Writing
Identifying Symbolism FREE Handout Distance Learning
Symbolism can be hard for students to identify and analyze. Use this free handout with any story, novel, poem, play, and even speeches to help your students! You may utilize this as a print-and-go worksheet or share it digitally with your students on a secured platform using the Google Slides link in the PDF. Use it in conjunction with my INTRODUCTION TO SYMBOLISM presentation.Created and copyrighted by Tracee Orman
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7th - 12th
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The Lottery Shirley Jackson - Free Reading Comprehension Quizzes - Bell Ringers
Assess students’ knowledge of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” using these FREE reading comprehension questions! These bell ringer quizzes include six close reading questions that evaluate students' reading comprehension. Includes digital quizzes for Google Classroom®! Included with these Free Reading Comprehension Quizzes:✏️ “The Lottery” Reading Comprehension Quizzes - Digital & PrintSix close reading questions to evaluate knowledge and understanding✏️ Editable Reading Comprehension Que
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8th - 11th
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Free Twitter Tweet Story or Chapter Summary
Fiction & Non-Fiction Twitter Tweet Common Core Activity: Use the Twitter Concept to Make Connections to the TextUsing Twitter to Make Connections: Do you want to see if your students grasp the main idea or big event in a chapter or story but don't want to assign a boring chapter review? Use this creative "Tweet" activity--it's fun, fast, and you'll be able to tell right away if they read it/got it!Use in social studies for historical figures, science for chapter summary, and so many other
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Literature & Nonfiction Creative Reading Activities, Vol 2 Bundle
Poetry Anchor Chart - Bookmark for Reading, Annotating, and Analyzing Poetry
Scaffold the close reading process using this Poetry Anchor Chart! This personal bookmark will support students while they read, annotate, and analyze any poem independently. This poetry anchor chart offers a 4-step process for reading and annotating any poem, along with guidance for writing a close reading response. Using this bookmark, students can have step-by-step instructions on hand throughout your poetry unit.There are several different files included in this resource to accommodate diff
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9th - 12th
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The Hate U Give Student Workbook Sample Freebie - Chapters 1 and 2
This is a two chapter sample of a student workbook for Angie Thomas's novel The Hate U Give. The full workbook contains a page for every chapter with a mix of writing prompts, comprehension questions, background research, textual evidence practice, and connections to students' lives. This modern, eye catching workbook can be bound or used as individual worksheets. Answer keys are included. There is no prep, and it's easy to use. Just print and go. For the full workbook, click here.Check out all
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8th - 12th
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Narrative Writing (Short Story) with a Mentor Text - Halloween Activity
Use the classic story, "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving, to make Halloween connections in secondary English Language Arts. After reading the story, students write a new ending with this creative writing prompt. In addition to analyzing author's style, students include character, setting, plot, and theme in their own story writing using the mentor text as a model. This activity gives students practice with narrative writing and helps prepare them for standardized writing assessm
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8th - 11th
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FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES LIST 4 ALL GRADES K-12 AND SUBJECTS + TEACHER RESOURCE
Sometimes, you just need a list of websites for everyone. Here it is. FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES Put together by Teach Me, Maria!It takes time to gather this information, figure out the appropriate grade levels, and format, maintain, and update this page. All I ask is for an honest review if this list helps you.
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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Hamlet Introduction Activity Fun Compatibility Survey Free
Introducing theme and characterization is a blast with this creative quiz, a fun and engaging introduction activity for Shakespeare's Hamlet. Your high school ELA students might argue that they have nothing in common with Shakespeare's characters! This compatibility test will prove them wrong! No prep.Printable PDF or TPT Digital Easel Activity This compatibility test allows students to determine how similar their experiences and feelings are to Hamlet’s. The activity shows students how universa
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: HAMLET Creative Bundle Creative Writing Characterization and One Pager
The Great Gatsby Anticipation Guide Freebie (Editable)
Getting ready to begin The Great Gatsby? This ready-to-print anticipation guide is a great way to engage students in the issues at the heart of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel! Whether you use this for students individually, in groups, or as the start of a classroom discussion, this anticipation guide is sure to engage students! This is a great tool to help students work on the Common Core Speaking & Listening standards. To make this resource as flexible as possible, I've included a Goog
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10th - 12th
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Also included in: The Great Gatsby Ultimate Bundle (32 resources, 300+ pages)
The Hate U Give Reading Comprehension Questions Ch. 1-6
Check your students' understanding of The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas with these FREE reading comprehension question worksheets. These worksheets are great for keeping students accountable. A clean black-and-white design makes for quick and easy copying. With an answer key included, these worksheets are NO PREP!NOTE: This is a preview of my full product The Hate U Give Reading Comprehension Worksheets. This freebie only includes questions and answers for chapters 1-6. It is non-editable. For edi
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9th - 12th
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Romeo and Juliet - Fun & Engaging Pre-Reading Activity
This fun & kinesthetic lesson is the perfect way to help your students prepare to read Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
In this lesson, students move around the classroom or space to preview 20 key quotes from Act I of the play. By reading the quotes and collecting the information they learn, students will begin to understand the main characters and relationships before they ever crack open their books. And they'll have fun doing it!
This resource includes all the following:
• A detailed le
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9th - 12th
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Poetry Analysis Handout - for any poem
Use this one-page handout to help secondary students analyse and deconstruct any poem. This easy, step-by-step handout is structured in four parts:Poetic form and structureLanguage use and effectVisual and auditory imageryTone, mood, message and reader interpretations.I've developed this handout over several years and have found it helped my most reluctant and struggling students to engage with and analyse poetry. Check out my other poetry resources:POWERPOINT Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Ow
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7th - 12th
Introducing Macbeth Freebie / Macbeth Meets the Witches Abridged and Modified
Macbeth was the first Shakespeare play I ever taught, and it helped me appreciate how much fun your students can have while acting out a drama in the classroom.However, this experience also helped me understand what aspects of a Shakespearean drama frustrate students and teachers. Some of the characters are confusing, some scenes do not advance the plot or are not school appropriate, and some of the language is dense.For these reasons, I created an abridged and modified version of Macbeth. Every
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Abridged and Modified Macbeth Bundle (14 resources!)
ELA: Create a Fake Facebook Profile (Example + Blank Template) FREE
Need an activity/project for ELA or History? Create a Fake Facebook Profile for an author, historian, or any famous person! This activity is a great way for students to apply their learning in a fun + interactive way. Your PDF download includes the example page of Mark Twain, brief directions, and a link to the blank template. The template is on Canva (free for educators and students) and very simple to use. (Note: This resource is also under a different account of mine that I lost access to and
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6th - 12th
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Free Scaffolded Reading & Research Notes: Help Students Independently Annotate!
One of my year-long goals is for my students to reach a place where they can independently take and make meaningful notes and annotations while they read. Personally, I prefer to write in my books, but in the classroom, that's not always possible. With this in mind, I put together these 5 Square Notes sheets (kind of like graphic organizers) that walk students through annotation and/or note taking. Each sheet is set up in the 1-2-3-2-1 style, which is a pattern that's easy for students to rememb
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8th - 12th
The Hero's Journey Note Catcher
This note catcher is compatible with any myth or story that follows the Hero's Journey, or monomyth. Students can record notes in each square to record their thoughts or examples of how the story they are reading represents each stage of Joseph Campbell's "Hero's Journey"*Should be printed on 8.5x11" paper
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7th - 12th
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Making Inferences/ Drawing Conclusions: A PowerPoint for High School Instruction
As reading becomes more complex, many high school students lose confidence in their ability to comprehend and may become reluctant, unengaged readers. Reinforcing complex reading skills for high school students gives them the tools to advance with the complexity of the texts they should master.This free PowerPoint focuses on the skills of inferencing and drawing conclusions in literature. The twenty slides present definitions and examples to show students that taking a closer look can be interes
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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"Still I Rise" Lesson Plan — ELA, Arts, & Social Justice
Lesson plan for grades 6-12 based on the poem "Still I Rise" by Maya AngelouIncludes:English Language Arts, Arts, and Social Justice standards for grades 6-12Lesson objectives and "can do" descriptors Step-by-step walkthrough of how to execute the lessonSample modifications/accommodationsReflection Question suggestions
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6th - 12th
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FREE “The Necklace” Short Story | Google Form Auto-Graded Reader Quiz /17
I love using "The Necklace" (a tragic story of irony in a woman's life) with my middle and high school learners! But despite all the rockstar resources out there for various ages, it was still important to me to have a quick, ready, auto-graded and RICH READING ASSESSMENT handy as part of my short study unit.This quiz is an effective self-check-in for readers, scaffolds other larger tasks, is all auto-graded, has varied question styles and covers the whole short story. Additionally, it will save
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8th - 12th
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Cynthia Ozick "The Shawl" | Free Short Story Unit Plan, Honors & AP Literature
Looking for a powerful addition to your unit on the Holocaust or genocide? “The Shawl” by Cynthia Ozick is sparse, memorable, and beautifully written. While the story itself is very short, your students will be inspired by the challenging text.This story pairs well with Night by Elie Wiesel, 1984 by George Orwell, Animal Farm by George Orwell, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, or any other text that deals with themes of war, oppression, trauma, or death.When you teach this powerful short story
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9th - 12th
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