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5th grade reading strategies Common Core W.6.3 resources
Writing Center | Printables & Interactive Learning Display
How do you get your students enjoy writing? This is a question that I asked myself for years! After being in the classroom for 8 years, I had the idea of giving my students a say in what they would be writing. This idea changed it all! PLEASE TAKE TIME TO VISIT MY DETAILED PREVIEW ABOVE!By offering a variety of topics that they could choose to learn and write about, I found that my students weren't just writing, they were asking to write! I filled my bulletin board with a "writing menu." It allo
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3rd - 5th
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Novel Study - Chapter Questions - Activities
This comprehensive 170+ Page Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Unit is perfect for your upcoming Roald Dahl novel study. This package contains Charlie and the Chocolate Factory chapter questions, answers keys, projects, graphic organizers, and activities. Very little teacher prep is required – simply print and teach!✅Be sure to check out the preview for pictures and descriptions of everything included in this giant product!★IMPORTANT NOTE: All of these activities were designed with busy teachers
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2nd - 5th
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The Birchbark House Novel Study Unit and Literature Guide
This literature guide for The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich is a low prep historical fiction novel study. In addition to chapter vocabulary, reading comprehension questions, character charts, and a plot diagram, students can complete a mix of reading and writing activities to enhance their understanding of the book and expand their knowledge of the setting and time period. The Birchbark House provides a look into the life of the Ojibwa Indians at the time that French settlers and fur traders
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5th - 7th
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Interactive Notebook Graphic Organizers - Reading Strategies Notebook Projects
This reading response graphic organizer resource contains a variety of reading comprehension activities designed for Upper Elementary and Middle School. These reading graphic organizers are perfect for interactive notebooks and contain a variety of reading strategy based activities, including worksheets, foldable activities, and reader response prompts.These resources are perfect for interactive reading notebooks, guided reading practice, read alouds, language centers, or for comprehension check
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4th - 7th
Reading Response Project - Any Book! - Creating a Newspaper
This CCSS-aligned Reading Response Project enables students to creatively respond to their reading. Over the course of the project, students will create a two-page newspaper complete with a main event lead news story, character profile, editorial book review, setting highlight, and even a comic, obituary or advice column. For each element of the newspaper, students complete guided pre-writes. Then, they write rough drafts for each piece of the newspaper. Finally, after editing and revising t
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5th - 8th
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Graphic Novels Unit | Student Notes | Book List | Graphic Novel Activities
Graphic Novels - Activities and Resources for Middle School and High School - This teaching resource bundle contains student notes and activities for a complete graphic novel unit. Everything you need to teach the characteristics and features of graphic novels, and to show students how to read this form of writing with purpose to encourage deep analysis. Graphic Novels are effective high interest resources to engage and motivate reluctant middle school and high school readers.*******************
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5th - 8th
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Island of the Blue Dolphins Novel Study Unit and Literature Guide
This is a zipped file with two secure PDF files for Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell. The resource is a low prep novel study and includes a student PDF with all student activity pages that teachers can print as a novel unit packet for reading groups. The second PDF has all student pages with teacher notes, answer keys, student samples, and the link to a Google Drive file if you need to share student pages digitally.Island of the Blue Dolphins is one of the best survival stories and is
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4th - 6th
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Comic Strip Templates, Activities & Assessment - Narrative Writing | Sequencing
UPDATED!! Do you have reluctant writers? Students who love graphic novels? Use these comic book templates for comic writing, story sequencing, story elements graphic organizer, personal narrative or to demonstrate learning in other content areas! Includes templates, planning sheet and rubric. Use these resources WITH the comic writing templates:Summarizing Activities - Reading Comprehension Strategies UnitRoll & Write with Writing PromptsWriting Folder for Junior Grades -------------------
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4th - 6th
The Dark by Lemony Snicket Activities, Personification, and Writing Project
Are you searching for a spooky book to read with your students and teach writing skills, such as the element of personification? Our The Dark by Lemony Snicket Activities, Personification Instruction, and Writing Project are just what you need. Our Activities will give your students perfect examples and activities using personification and how to use this figurative language element in their writing through our activities, graphic organizers, and writing project. Our activities will take you fro
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4th - 7th
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The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle Novel Study + Quizzes Digital and Print
This resource provides an in-depth look at The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan. Great resource for grades 5-8 Grade! This novel study is perfect for whole class, independent, or reading circles. Each activity can be completed independently, in pairs, or in a group setting. Pick and choose which activities work best for your time frame and needs. There are a variety of activities that can be used at any level of learning including short answer, true-false, multiple choice, jou
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5th - 8th
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If Stones Could Speak: Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge by Marc Aronson
Through this unit, students will learn that archaeologists, like detectives, work to piece together the past through investigation in the text, “If Stones Could Speak” by Marc Aronson. This common core aligned packet emphasizes specific skills that are targeted in each chapter. Through this packet, students are exposed to diverse perspectives and challenge them to analyze data and draw meaningful conclusions about history. Students will learn to analyze how claims support the main idea and h
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5th - 8th
Short Film Winter Christmas Literary Elements and Devices Workshops
Pixar Short Films are a PERFECT way to teach narrative writing! Since there are no words, students must create the narration themselves. This digital interactive guides them to identify all of the elements of narration in the film. SETTING, CHARACTERIZATION, CONFLICT, THEME, POINT OF VIEW & PERSPECTIVE, and all of the PLOT elements are covered! This bundle includes digital workshops for the SHORT FILMS:A Christmas StarHey Deer!Other Christmas and winter-themed resources you might like:Christ
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5th - 8th
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Plot Diagram Activities: Diagram, Visual Story, and Make-Your-Own Comic
If you have students who are visual or kinesthetic learners, they probably have a difficult time understanding some of the complexities of plot elements and connecting the terms with examples. This unit is designed to aid these types of learners and the teachers who teach them in multiple ways.
There is a Plot Diagram with all of the elements placed in the correct place. There is also a blank Plot Diagram so students can write in their own examples and details while reading any short story or
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4th - 6th
THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH by Norton Juster - Literature Unit (Answer Key Included)
Includes higher-order, quality questions from each chapter (answers included) with content and academic vocabulary as well as the following skill activities and graphic organizers:Ch. 1 Character AnalysisCh. 2 Visualize Using a Vivid Piece of Text Character Analysis Opinion Writing Prompt PageCh. 3 Synonyms Activity Synonym Matching Game Character AnalysisCh. 4 Opinion Writing Prompt Page Narrative Writing Prompt Page Descriptive Writing Prompt Pag
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4th - 6th
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The View from Saturday Novel Study Unit and Literature Guide
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg provides many interesting layers for student discussion. The unusual plot structure in The View from Saturday makes the book a great novel study for older elementary and middle school students.
There are many reading activity pages from which to choose in this product.
Resource Includes:
CCSS 6th grade
Sample Pacing Chart to Organize and Plan Daily Activities
Vocabulary
Reading Comprehension Questions
Character Charts (with text evidence)
Flashback (l
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5th - 7th
A Wrinkle in Time Novel Study - Reading Comprehension - Creative Writing
This novel study packet includes 10 pages of close reading practice + cover that asks the students to read and re-read to find text evidence to support their findings. A Wrinkle in Time is written by Madeleine L'Engle.
Novel Study Includes:
1. Cover Page
2. Summarizing Events (somebody, wanted, but, So, then)
3. Compare and Contrast: Charles Wallace and Calvin
4. Meg's Character Traits
5. The talisman that Mrs. Whatsit gives each person, why and how it helped on their journey
6. Summary of the
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4th - 6th
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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus Novel Study Unit
This Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling complete novel study provides many interesting layers for student discussion about empathy, understanding differences, and the art of problem solving. The Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus is an excellent realistic fiction book with lots of humor, insight into living with a disability, and a mystery mixed in too.Low prep, standards based, high engagement with many reading activity options from which to choose! A great
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5th - 7th
Also included in: Social Emotional Learning and Empathy Novel Study Literature Bundle
The Music of Dolphins Novel Study Unit and Literature Guide
The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse has a unique format, which makes it a great novel study to analyze author's style. This standards based literature unit resource contains ongoing activities that students complete throughout the reading, a variety of graphic organizers, and opportunities for class discussions about family, freedom, and what defines us as humans.This is a zipped file with two secure PDF files for The Music of Dolphins. The resource includes a student PDF with all student activ
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5th - 7th
MYSTERY GENRE STUDY and WRITING UNIT + DETECTIVE ACTIVITIES
In this 35% off mystery genre study and mystery writing no-prep unit students are led from the PowerPoint introduction of the genre to completion of the unit with TWO of their own mystery stories. Additional detective activities ensure that every lesson is full of inference making fun!1. Grades 5-8 students first watch a colorful 40 slide introduction to the mystery genre. A short quiz tests their knowledge of key mystery elements. 2. They read 15 fun mentor texts, and work either alone or in gr
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5th - 8th
Muslim Heritage Month Close Reading Packet Informational Text
Looking for engaging resources for Islamic Muslim Heritage Month? This comprehensive close reading packet has everything you need. Pre-reading strategies, vocabulary activities, writing prompts, and differentiated lesson plans were intentionally created to help students create meaningful discussions and enhance their critical thinking. Answer keys and rubrics are provided to help you save time but connect the lessons to the standards. Perfect to teach during the month of Ramadan. Students will
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3rd - 6th
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Character's Perspective Sunglasses Craftivity-PDFOnly
Do you need help teaching author's perspective? Do you need to show students that changing the point of view can affect how the story is told, what the reader experiences and learns? Students will read some suggested twisted fairy tales that are very funny and engaging and then use either a current independent reading book or class novel to create a sunglasses craftivity in which they choose a new character and develop a section of the story from the new perspective! This activity includes:*teac
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3rd - 8th
Narrative Plot Line - Graphic Organizers | Distance Learning
WHAT's INCLUDEDInteractive Graphic Organizers & Printables. Google Slides® -- custom sized to 8.5 x 11.This product contains four different styles of the same activity sheet, all of which can be printed as hard copies for students to write onto directly. In addition, three of these styles have editable text box overlays that enable students to type content directly into each content area of the slide (black & white text boxes, colored text boxes, and transparent text boxes). This is a s
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2nd - 8th
Fruits of the Spirit Fluency Set Bundle {Grade 6}
This bundle contains 9 original fluency passages about each of the fruits of the Spirit. There are 8 different products in this bundle. Each fluency passage is a poem, and there are three comprehension activities to accompany each one. This packet includes a teacher copy that you can print in color and reuse. It also includes a black and white copy that you can print off for each student and record their scores on it.Flesch Kincaid Readability Grade Level range: 6.1-6.8*How to Use*This was des
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5th - 7th
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Transitions & Conjunctions Manipulatives
Are your students stalled on "and" & "then"? This material cleverly leads them to selection of more appropriate words to join sentences and clauses, thereby improving composition flow.
There are 25 sets of Transitions & Conjunctions manipulatives. Each set contains 5 paragraphs that must be read and arranged sequentially under the title card. Next, there are transitions and conjunctions that accompany each paragraph. Students must select from the matching words (same color and/or code)
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5th - 7th
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