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Close reading Common Core W.7.9 resources
Book Trailer Project - End of Year Movie Trailer Assignment for Any Novel Study
This book trailer project is a memorable and engaging project-based learning assessment! Included with this project outline are a book trailer rubric, movie trailer storyboard graphic organizer, student checklist, assignment instructions, student examples, and more. Included with this Book Trailer Project:✏️ Book Trailer Project Outline - Editable & Ready-to-Print✏️ Reflective Writing Assignment Prompt - Editable & Ready-to-Print✏️ Movie Trailer Task Checklist & Student Planner -
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6th - 12th
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The Fourteenth Goldfish, A PDF and Digital Novel Study
OVERVIEW: This is a custom-made, no-prep, independent work packet for use with grades 4-7 reading The Fourteenth Goldfish, by Jennifer L. Holm. The buyer can use it as a printable and create a student workbook, use as separate printable worksheets, or export it as an Easel digital product and assign it digitally for distance learning. It includes a 25-page student workbook, an answer key, a list of research topics for further reading and deeper understanding, and a listing of common core sta
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4th - 7th
Literary Analysis Elements Activities using Pixar Shorts Videos or Commercials
Your students are going to love these literary analysis lessons. Add Pixar Shorts, commercials, or cartoon clips and you're ready to teach literary elements. Fun way to engage students as they analyze character, plot, setting, theme, and conflict (coming soon). Then, transfer them to more complex texts like short stories and novels. Your students will love practicing analysis skills with these easy-to-use digital or print lessons! The perfect way for students to truly understand literary el
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5th - 8th
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Elements of Poetry Anchor Chart and Introduction to Poetry Slideshow Lesson
This introduction to poetry lesson is perfect for exploring the elements of poetry - teach the basic structure of poetry with the elements of poetry anchor chart and interactive slideshow provided with this resource. Includes digital worksheets for Google Classroom®!Included with this Introduction to Poetry Lesson:✏️ Introduction to Poetry Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® and Google Slides®Explore the characteristics of poetryScaffold how to read and interpret poetryIntroduce the element
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6th - 12th
Song Lyric Analysis Lesson - Introduction to Poetry Through Song Lyrics -Digital
This song lyric analysis lesson introduces poetry analysis through the use of your students’ favorite song lyrics! Practice annotating with the worksheets and graphic organizers provided. Suitable for distance learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.Included with this Song Lyric Analysis Lesson Plan:✏️ Poetry in Song Lyrics Slideshow Lesson - Google Slides®, Microsoft PowerPoint® & PDF✏️ Poetry in Song Lyrics Informational Handout - Digital & Print✏️ Practice Close Reading
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6th - 12th
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7th Grade ELA Yearlong Curriculum, Lesson Plans, and Pacing Guide
Imagine having your entire middle school ELA school year planned for you! This curriculum and pacing guide for 7th grade ELA includes EVERYTHING you need for an entire school year of reading, writing, learning, growth, and engagement. Simply download the PDF pacing guide and yearlong curriculum, and you will have 66+ digital links along with a calendar and pacing guide that maps out your entire school year DAY TO DAY. No more wondering what you'll teach tomorrow or stressing about the next unit-
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6th - 8th
Informational Texts Close Reading Activity and Project
Need a meaningful, standards-based and engaging activity to make it to December break? The Holiday Hustle is the perfect project for Secondary ELA right before the Holidays! This three week unit teaches students how to deconstruct advertisements and informational texts as they study and analyze two different holiday ads and three informational articles about advertising. After analyzing ads and informational articles, students create two projects: a Deconstructing Advertisements Guide for Teens
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7th - 10th
Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream: Week-long Unit with Station Activities
MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Week-long Unit with Station Activities!Why teach “I Have a Dream” with Stations? Frankly, there are just so many wonderful concepts to explore with this great American speech that it would be a shame to only devote your classes’ attention to one or two aspects. “I Have a Dream” is a treasure trove for English teachers! Not only is it one of the most significant speeches in American history, it also provides the perfect opportunity to utilize nearly all the Common Core info
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7th - 10th
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Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck Close Readings & Activities
Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck Close Readings & Activities
Six close readings, one per chapter, focus on key scenes from Of Mice and Men, and could be assigned for homework or used as in-class activities. Each close reading includes a passage from the text and directions for annotation of the text as well as three after reading activities: creation of a graphic organizer, a text-based response, and a text-based drawing. Students will also analyze characters, theme, and conflict and respo
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck Bundle of Resources
Langston Hughes Harlem Renaissance Poetry Analysis Unit Bundle
Engage your middle school students in American poems of the Harlem Renaissance that resonate with current events. This poetry unit is based on the TPCASTT poetry analysis model: Title, Paraphrase, Connotations, Attitude (tone), Shift, Title revisited, and Theme. The lessons use guided close reading of Langston Hughes’s poems "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Dreams," "Mother to Son," and "Harlem" (Dream Deferred). Product FeaturesEngaging slideshow for each poem with critical thinking questionsInte
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7th - 8th
To Kill a Mockingbird: Assessment Questions (Reading Comprehension)
174 questions organized by chapter and fully editable. An answer key is included. Questions are multiple-choice, multiple-correct, matching, short answer, and short essay. They include simple reading comprehension questions and more complex questions that require students to make inferences, explain irony, identify figurative language, and answer questions using support from the text. These questions can be used for study guides, quizzes, and tests. Since they are organized by each chapter, it w
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: To Kill a Mockingbird Unit
True Crime Reading Comprehension Passages | Close Reading | Middle & High School
Do you need an engaging activity to get middle and/or high school students excited about learning informational text standards? If so, this True Crime Reading Comprehension Close Reading Activity (for the ENTIRE YEAR) is a must have! This easy, no-prep solution that will provide 36 weeks of nonfiction articles about True Crime cases that will grab student interest! Students will practice using Close Reading strategies, annotating text, citing textual evidence, determining central idea, analyzi
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle- CB
Reading Comprehension Strategies for Middle and High School - OLC4O, OSSLT, OLC
Explore essential reading comprehension strategies with this bunded unit! Teach students how to make inferences, make predictions, interpret text features, and summarize narrative and nonfiction texts with the lessons and activities included in this unit. Includes digital resources for Google Classroom®!⚡️⚡️⚡️ Save 20% with the bundled discount! ⚡️⚡️⚡️Included with this Reading Comprehension Bundle:✏️ Making Inferences Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPoint® & Google Slides®✏️ Inferencin
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6th - 12th
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Wink by Rob Harrell: Printable + Digital Novel Study
This is a Printable + Digital novel study! It can be used for Distance Learning! Use this novel study in any or all of these ways! Maybe some of your students need a digital version and some need a paper version. If that's the case, we've got you covered!Option 1: Print it outOption 2: Use as a TpT Digital ActivityOption 3: Use through Google Slides with a custom link, (instructions found on the 2nd page of the pdf novel study)With both digital options, students can type within pre-formatted tex
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7th - 8th
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Uglies by Scott Westerfeld: Reading Comprehension Questions & PowerPoint BUNDLE
This is a discounted bundle for two products:Close Reading PowerPoint:This 151-slide PowerPoint is aligned with Common Core Standards and is a great tool for guiding students through a more in-depth textual analysis of Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. Each chapter is marked by a slide featuring a plot diagram and a summary of the action in that chapter. Additional slides review key passages and push students to deeper analysis, with a strong emphasis on making inferences, recognizing foreshadowing, u
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6th - 8th
New Kid Jerry Craft Novel Study Curriculum - Editable - Answer Keys 80 pages
New Kid by Jerry Craft novel study is an ELA grades 5-9 lesson that includes all lessons (81 pages) necessary for a successful graphic novel study unit including test, questions, activities, essay, worksheets, journal responses, etc. Your learners will enjoy the rigor and creativity of these engaging activities built from best teaching practices.*Be sure to check out the "New Kid" novel study/tolerance/kindness/culture bundle HEREFeatured:1. Introductory activity-paper dance party2. Reading comp
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: New Kid by Jerry Craft Novel Study/Tolerance/Kindness/Culture BUNDLE
Teaching Theme Analysis Activities for novel, short story, play, Pixar short
What a fun way to teach literary elements and engage students as they analyze plot and practice literary analysis skills using Pixar Shorts, commercials, or cartoon clips. Then, transfer those skills to more complex texts like short stories and novels. Your students will love analyzing theme with this easy-to-use digital or print booklet and short videos! This is what you get:Print and Digital versions that are great for distance learning or a blended classroomteacher lesson plansstudent note
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6th - 8th
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Thank You Ma'am Maam Activities Short Story w. A Ted Talk: Digital Workshop
In this digital short story workshop students can read (or listen to) Thank You, Ma'am by Langston Hughes and analyze conflict, theme, inference, plot, and character motivation while answering text-dependent questions and prompts using R.A.C.E. strategy, and completing engaging activities. Here's What You Will Get:✔️ 22 text-dependent questions and prompts (CCSS)✔️ Pre-reading Activity: Personal connection and building background knowledge✔️ ACTIVITY: Trace the theme through conflict and resolut
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: MAY END OF THE YEAR ACTIVITIES For Google Classroom Schoology Seesaw
Engage NY 7th grade ELA Module 1 BUNDLE {Units 1, 2 and 3} Google Slides
Engage NY ELA units are complex these easy to follow Google Slides match each lesson of the 7th grade Engage NY curriculum Module 1 for Unit 1, Unit 2 and Unit 3. A total of 39 lessons that total over 500 slides.They are aesthetically appealing and will help to keep you on track with the lessons. Students will find these helpful to know what pages to be on as you are teaching. Additionally, they can refer to the board to be reminded of the questions that they are discussing or answering. These s
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7th
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Literary Analysis Essay Writing with Ex-Basketball Player by John Updike
Scaffold essay writing for your students with step-by-step directions including writing a claim, choosing the best text evidence, explaining evidence, and connecting evidence to a theme. Because the lesson uses gradual release of responsibility, it is excellent for your students who need the complicated task of writing a literary analysis essay broken into smaller segments. The lesson incorporates the poem “Ex-Basketball Player” by John Updike. First, students complete a close reading and analy
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7th - 11th
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Also included in: American Literature Curriculum - Thematic Pacing Guide - Lesson Bundle
Langston Hughes Harlem Poetry Analysis
What happens to a dream deferred? This guided close reading lesson for “Harlem” [Dream Deferred] by Langston Hughes will guide your class in an exploration of theme development using the TPCASTT poetry analysis model. As you lead the discussion with a slideshow presentation, students take notes on a poetry analysis graphic organizer in their interactive notebooks.Product FeaturesPoetry analysis slideshow presentation for you to project on your whiteboardPrintable foldable graphic organizers to a
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7th - 8th
Also included in: Langston Hughes Harlem Renaissance Poetry Analysis Unit Bundle
Paired Texts - Close Reading and Essay Writing Lessons - Middle School Bundle
This bundle includes six of my paired texts lessons appropriate for middle school students. These lessons require students to think critically and synthesize their reading, identifying central ideas across texts. Each lesson guides them through close readings of texts that vary by genre, time period, and author; then, detailed before-, during-, and post-reading strategies help them construct connections between the texts. At the end of each lesson, students write a short essay.The following te
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6th - 9th
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Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson Novel Study Curriculum-Answers Keys 90pgs
Look like a pro with these professionally done worksheets while taking back your weekends and weeknights by purchasing this one month of curriculum. Includes (80 pages) test, questions, activities, essay, worksheets, journal responses, etc. Your students will enjoy the rigor and creativity of these lessons built on best teaching practices.Be sure to check out the Novel Study/March on Washington BUNDLE HEREFeatured:⭐80 pages of solid curriculum⭐Vocabulary worksheet-Vocabulary scan to be used as
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5th - 8th
Analyzing Themes in Song Lyrics - Teach Poetry Analysis Through Song Lyrics
Teach students how to identify themes in song lyrics with this poetry analysis lesson! Guide students through an exploration of central themes expressed in songs. Includes slideshow lesson, informational handout, sample lyrics, application activity for any song lyrics, and a creative expression assignment with rubric. Suitable for distance learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.Included with this Poetry Analysis Lesson:✏️ Poetry in Song Lyrics Slideshow Lesson - Microsoft PowerPo
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4th - 10th
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