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Free Common Core RL.11-12.2 resources
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
The Crucible Anticipation Guide (Google Slides) / Freebie
The Crucible is a staple in many American literature classrooms. At my school, juniors read this text.This anticipation guide is a fun way to engage students in a new text. Students can consider the opinions before, during, and after reading. To make this resource as flexible as possible, I've included a Google Slides, so you can edit the entire anticipation guide! Since this is a Google resource, TPT will add the Google Slides to your Google Drive. SAVE MORE! Grab The Crucible Unit Bundle, and
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11th - 12th
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Also included in: American Literature Bundle (A Complete Year of Resources) / 750+ pages
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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The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald - FREE Project Outline and Assignment Rubric
This free project outline for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is an assignment to evaluate students’ understanding of the “Roaring 20s.” Includes instructions, supplementary resources with examples, and a 4-level rubric for assessment. Included with this Free Project Outline for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby:✏️ Visual Text Assignment Outline and Instructions✏️ Hyperlinks to Supplementary Resources with ExamplesFeaturing the artwork and Illustrations of John Held Jr.✏️ 4-Leve
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8th - 11th
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Macbeth Anticipation Guide (Editable Google Slides) / Freebie
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.This anticipation guide is a great way to help students get excited about reading the play! Students can revisit these themes and ideals before, during, and after reading. To make sure this resource is as flexible as possible, I've included an editable Google Slides.Elevate your Macbeth unit:Abridged and modified Act I, Act II, Act III, A
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Abridged and Modified Macbeth Bundle (14 resources!)
Beowulf Anticipation Guide (Fillable .pdf, Google Form, Google Slides) / Freebie
In my first year as a teacher, I was told that I'd be teaching senior English and that I'd be required to teach Beowulf. I instantly wondered how I was going to make this text relevant for my students.This anticipation guide is a fun way to engage students in a new text. Students can consider the opinions before, during, and after reading. This free resource is available in a fillable .pdf, fully editable Google Form, and Google Slides. (Since these are Google resources, TPT will create a folder
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Beowulf Bundle with 3 Leveled Text Options + Side-by-Side Questions
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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The Grand Stand Objective Summary Game
If you want an engaging, common-core aligned way to have students objectively summarize ANY text, then look no further!
With this activity, students will be out of their seats, engaged, and provide a full list of summary information in just minutes.
This FREE PDF file contains all of the information that you will need to play The Grand Stand Game with your students.
I suggested that this game be used with grades 4 and up, but I believe that it can be adapted for even more grades!
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4th - 12th
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Creative Storyboard/Comic Strip Activity Template for Any Text - Editable!
Wait.....you can ask your students to use their illustration skills to demonstrate their knowledge of a text that can replace comprehension questions AND IT WORKS?? A storyboard is an interactive activity that can be applied to any text. Similar to a comic strip, a storyboard asks students to illustrate an important scene in a text (or the whole text itself if you wish to adapt the activity this way) to highlight their comprehension of the text and pick out important literary elements you wish t
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Objective Summary Rubric (Fiction)
This rubric outlines the most important features of an objective summary for a fiction story. It makes it easy for teachers to grade and clearly shows the students what expectations they need to meet in their summaries.
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
This document is a guided reading when working with Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." It contains questions with graphic organizers as well.
Included are:
- guided worksheets to accompany in-class reading with McDougal Littell American Literature Book
- Think-Pair-Write summary activity
- Extended writing graphic organizer
The worksheets focus on Poe's aim to create "unity of effect" and how he creates an element of gloom/terror in the plot, characters and setting of the story.
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11th
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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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Macbeth Pre-Reading Activity Character Compatibility Quiz Free Resource
This pre-reading activity for Macbeth, "Character Compatibility Quiz" is a quick, engaging, and somewhat sneaky way to introduce your high school ELA students to the play's themes, characters, and most importantly, its universality. Students answer questions to which Macbeth would answer yes, for example:Have you ever doubted a friend's loyalty?... had a manipulative partner?... been lied to?Students count their "yes" responses to discover if they are like Macbeth, Macduff, or Banquo. Fun and e
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9th - 12th
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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
"The Crucible" Character Analysis Graphic Organizer Student Handout
This product is a character analysis graphic organizer student handout for The Crucible by Arthur Miller! It includes every character in the play and asks students to analyze them through 5 different categories:1. Character's role in story2. How character has changed throughout the play3. Positive/Negative connotation words to describe the character4. Struggles/oppressions they face or cause for others5. Students create a drawing of each character based on the description in the textThis product
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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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
Theme Analysis Discovery Learning - Taylor Swift or William Shakespeare? FREEBIE
This intriguing PowerPoint game has students guess whether a line is from a Shakespeare play or a Taylor Swift song as a way to start their thinking about the significance and timelessness of the themes we find in literature. After playing the game, students will be able to find connections in the themes between two completely different genres of storytelling that are centuries apart and construct their own knowledge about theme in literature and how it is so personally meaningful and enduring.
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4th - 12th
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Summary Stems/Graphic Organizers for Expository & Narrative Texts
Use these to help guide your students into writing summaries for narrative or expository text selections. These organizers start by helping with turning a topic into a main idea statement. After that, the organizer helps students select supporting details from the text to go with the main idea. Then, students are prompted to write the sentence stems they've completed (the main idea statement and the three supporting details) into paragraph form. I've used these graphic organizers in my Readi
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1st - 12th
Emma Lazarus The New Colossus Statue of Liberty Poetry Analysis
Deeply analyze Emma Lazarus’s famous poem and connect to its larger historical context of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the “New” immigrants, and America’s melting pot with this everything's-included, no-prep lesson.************************************Greatness is appreciating the layers of poetic word in expressing a complex idea.A poem written as a favor to raise money for a pedestal on which to display an unbelievable gift from France. The iconic poem that almost wasn’t written.Take yo
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8th - 11th
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Engaging Character Analysis Instagram Activity for Any Text - Distance Learning
This activity also works well for distance learning!What do young teenagers and adults love more than reading an awesome short story in English Class? Instagram!This is the perfect resource to throw into any unit when you need a quick, no-prep, and creative activity. In this activity, students will use this Instagram template to further analyze a narrator or character in a story. When I use this in my class, I will let students pick their favorite character from our story to then create their po
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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The Crucible Meme
I was looking or a quick assignment that the kids would enjoy that would also exhibit their understanding of The Crucible. Here's that assignment! They absolutely love it and don't even mind having to write an explanation as well.
I've also loved seeing their individuality bleed through.
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11th - 12th
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