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9th grade test preparation short stories resources
Short Story Unit Plan, 9 Short Stories for High School, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
Looking for a low-prep short story unit that will thrill your high school and advanced middle school students? This four-week short story unit is an excellent way to launch the year, setting the stage for deeper study of novels and plays. I’ve used it successfully with eighth graders and both regular and honors freshmen. It covers the important elements of literature and provides an excellent background in literary devices, analysis, and writing techniques. All student materials are included in
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8th - 11th
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Fairly Tales: Grimm, ELA Reading Digital Escape Room: Middle School Escape
⭐IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE A GRIMM FAIRY TALE WITHOUT AN ADVENTURE OR ENCHANTED FOREST. ⭐ This fully immersive 360° Grimm Digital Escape conjures up enchanted forests, villains, and happily-ever-afters. ⭐ Young teen students are invited to escape this Grimm Adventure using clues that practice reading, listening, sequencing, comparisons, logic, and other important skills!Now with two versions! A flat version with self-checking answers is included, no Google form is required. ⭐ Want a printable versio
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: *ELA Middle School/High School 360° ELA Digital Escape Room Bundle
Narrative Writing Unit: Grades 7-12
This unit will take you and your students through the process of planning, drafting, revising, and polishing a narrative piece. These resources will work for personal narratives or fictional short stories, because the skills needed for both forms are the same.The first few days are structured, whole-class lessons. After that, the class moves into a series of writer’s workshop days as students complete mini-lessons and work on developing their own stories.NEW REMOTE TEACHING SUPPLEMENT: If you ar
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7th - 12th
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Trashketball Game Template | EDITABLE
This EDITABLE Trashketball template can be used to easily create an engaging game for any subject area or any grade level!WATCH THIS VIDEO FOR AN EXPLANATION ON HOW TO PLAY THIS GAME!THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES:■ Editable PowerPoint templates■ Editable Google Slides templates■ 5, 10, 15, 20, & 25 question template options■ Directions for game play■ Video tutorial for using the templatesThese Trashketball templates have EDITABLE text so you can create your own questions and answers!________________
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K - 12th
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Also included in: Game Template BUNDLE | Trashketball, Grudgeball, and Sink or Swim
Literary Analysis with Sticky Notes - Short Story Unit w/ Activities, Writing
Teaching literary analysis can be fun, engaging, and accessible for all students! Increase student engagement and understanding in your next literary analysis unit (whether it be short stories or novels) with interactive and hands-on close reading organizers and scaffolded writing responses. Students will enjoy using sticky notes in class as they analyze the author's use of various literary devices in complex short stories and novels. This is a complete literature unit in itself!This sticky note
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Sticky Note Analysis Bundle: Literary, Rhetoric, Poetry
Edgar Allan Poe Short Story Unit - The Black Cat - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven
Print and go short story annotations activities and projects for your next Edgar Allan Poe unit, Tell Tale Heart unit, Raven unit, or Black Cat unit! These short stories with comprehension questions contain short story annotations activities, graphic organizers, projects, questions, and answer keys. The included activities ask students to think deeply about text while practicing elements of literacy analysis. This Poe unit is a great addition to a short story unit on classic literature.✅While t
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7th - 10th
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Testing Motivation Coloring Pages | Testing Coloring Sheets | Test Prep Activity
These 8 testing coloring pages are perfect for providing students with time to relax, express themselves creatively, and be inspired! Each page contains fun doodle designs perfect for therapeutic coloring and messages that inspire positive thinking. These posters are great for students who need time to de-stress before and after taking standardized tests. They also make great morning work during the week of testing. Students may display them in notebooks, on classroom walls, and even take them
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: HUGE Coloring Pages Growing Bundle
The Veldt, Ray Bradbury Short Story Worksheets + Multimedia, PDF & Google Drive
If your students can’t go an hour without looking at their phones, they need to read “The Veldt.”Ray Bradbury’s chilling futuristic short story, “The Veldt,” gives us a glimpse of a world where children love their devices more than their families. Sound familiar? This compelling 90-minute lesson will get your students reading, thinking, and discussing the consequences of our tech-dependent culture. The materials (5-page PDF with links to online media and Google Drive versions of all student hand
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8th - 11th
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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson - Short Story Slides, Assignments, and Activities
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson - Short Story Slides, Assignments, and Activities: Engage your middle and high school students with Shirley Jackson's compelling short story, The Lottery, using this comprehensive resource designed to engage your students. Included are presentation slides to guide the lesson, reading analysis questions to deepen understanding, a symbolism assignment to enhance critical thinking and a video comparison assignment for added context. Additionally, students will have th
Grades:
8th - 12th
The Most Dangerous Game Activities - Short Story Unit - Questions - Map Project
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell: Short Story Units with Questions, Vocabulary, and Short Story Annotations! This 90 page short story with comprehension questions resource contains everything you need to teach “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. Perfect for your short story unit or The Most Dangerous Game unit, this short story package contains detailed comprehension questions, teacher friendly answer keys, vocabulary words, character analysis, creative writing activities, pr
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7th - 10th
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ACT English & Reading Skill-by-Skill 2nd Edition by Fun ACT Prep
Test prep doesn't have to be boring!Updated 2nd Edition of our BEST SELLING resource! We combine 23 ACT-assessed reading and English skills with high-interest subject matter to keep students entertained, motivated, and engaged while also breaking up the monotony of typical test prep readings and serving as a more light-hearted, less intimidating introduction to standardized testing.Contents include:At-a-glance overviews of each skill, outlining sample question stems, strategies, and tips;Mini-pa
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9th - 12th
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Short Story Unit Reading Comprehension Passages | Activities & Projects
This resource includes activities for 33 short stories and poems. The goal of this reading literature journal is prepare students to recall, understand, apply, analyze, and evaluate a variety of texts while also using creative mini-projects to help encourage deeper thinking! This resource has everything you'll need to teach a short story or poem once a week for the ENTIRE school year. ZERO prep necessary! Answer keys for the short stories ARE INCLUDED in this resource. NOTE 2: This resource ha
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5th - 9th
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Science Fiction Bundle, Sci Fi Short Stories & Movie Analysis PDF & Google Drive
Take a trip to another dimension as you introduce your students to the delights and horrors of modern science fiction. Using the works of writers such as Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., and Isaac Asimov, this two (or three, depending on pacing) week mini-unit will entertain and challenge your advanced middle school and high school classes.Student handouts are included in both PDF and interactive worksheet/Google Drive versions.Here’s the order in which I present these science fiction lessons, b
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8th - 11th
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Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl - Short Story Unit Activities & Assignments
Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl - Short Story Unit Activities & Assignments: Introduce students to the highly engaging short story, Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl, with these ready-to-use resources. Designed to engage students with its eerie atmosphere and unexpected twists, this package provides all the tools necessary to delve deep into the story's themes and characters. Inside, you'll find resources to assess student comprehension, including reading comprehension questions and a
Grades:
8th - 10th
Hero's Journey Presentation, Writing Prompts & Graphic Organizers Bundle
Teach the intricacies of the Hero's Journey (or Monomyth) with this amazing bundle of worksheets, graphic organizers to suit multiple versions of the cycle, writing prompts, teacher notes, deconstructed plot summaries, character analysis ideas, doodle notes, narrative plot arc templates and more! What's included?★ Graphic Organizer / Poster / Anchor Chart / INBThis chart details the 4 parts and 12 stages of the Hero's Journey. There are 4 designs: full chart, partially completed chart, highlight
Grades:
6th - 12th
Assignments for Any Novel or Short Story - Fiction Reading Response Book Report
Short Story and Novel Assignments - Fiction Reading Response Book Report: Gone are the days of boring book reports and reading responses! This multi-faceted resource provides fun ready-to-use assignments that will work for any novel or short story that your students are reading. Each of the one-page assignments can be printed and handed to your students – it’s that easy!What’s great about these activities is they can be used at any of the middle and high school grades, but have also been succes
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS RESOURCE BUNDLE
Lamb to the Slaughter, Roald Dahl, Literary Analysis, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
Use the dark humor of Roald Dahl’s well-known short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter," to teach your students the elements of literary analysis. This one-day lesson plan includes links to the full text of the story, detailed instructions, a 9-question deep-thinking handout (with detailed answer key, of course), and a writing activity that creatively uses an official-looking police report for students to summarize the elements of the story. The lesson also includes a police sketch portion (my high s
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7th - 10th
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"Examination Day" Short Story Escape Room Activity: Practice Plot & Theme
Practice comprehension, plot structure, textual evidence, theme, and more with this engaging escape room for the short story "Examination Day" by Henry Slesar. If you've never read or heard of this dystopian/sci-fi story, check it out - it's the PERFECT accessible, high-interest, twist-ending story for middle schoolers. This activity can be facilitated traditionally, digitally (aka NO prep), or with a blended hybrid approach. During this escape room, students will answer questions, identify elem
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6th - 9th
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The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe, Digital Escape Room, Escape By The Morning
Escape by the Morning! This Tell-Tale Heart Digital Escape Room is an innovative breakout game that allows teachers and students to engage in escape room fun, enjoy the 360° view, and have the VR option. Your students will feel like they are actually in the boarding house chambers! You should definitely watch the preview video for this cutting-edge classroom experience! When my students begin, what will they experience?By clicking on “VIEW 360°” the virtual escape room opens. There is a "heartb
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7th - 12th
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Testing Brain Breaks | Pop Art Interactive Coloring Sheets | w/ Spring Themes
Testing: Use these engaging, interactive coloring sheets to gently start the brain in the morning before testing, or use them when students finish testing early, so they have a creative outlet after testing. If you are doing one-on-one assessments, use these sheets to keep the other students engaged and busy. I have pulled a few designs from each of my interactive coloring sheets packets, Spring, Easter, Earth Day, and Summer, and compiled them in this product to provide you with a variety of fu
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K - 9th
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Short Story Unit - Intro to Literature for ANY Fiction - PRINT & DIGITAL
Teach your students all about short stories and literary elements with a short story unit that works with any piece of fiction. This short story teaching lesson introduces students to short stories, fiction, and literary devices. It includes everything you need to teach your middle and high school students about short stories, and you can use these organizers over and over again. This short story unit includes both the print and digital files! Teaching short stories is a breeze with this unit. B
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: Narrative Writing and Short Story Unit Bundle
WIDA ACCESS Practice Test Prep | ESL Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening
Enhance the test preparation experience for ELL students of all ages with our comprehensive WIDA ACCESS Test Prep Bundle. Tailored to address the anxieties and format unfamiliarity that students proficient in English might face during formal tests, this bundle is the key to confident and efficient preparation. Our WIDA ACCESS Test Prep Bundle is meticulously designed to offer: Thorough WIDA ACCESS test practice across all 4 domains, catering to both tier A and B/C students.Engaging and interacti
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1st - 12th
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Harrison Bergeron, Literary Analysis + Video, Kurt Vonnegut, PDF & Google Drive
Use this compelling two-day (or possibly three-day, depending on your pacing) lesson on Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s chilling futuristic short story, “Harrison Bergeron,” as a stand-alone lesson, as part of any short story unit, or as a supplement to any larger dystopian novel study, such as Brave New World, The Giver, or The Hunger Games.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s story presents a chilling vision of a future where everyone has the exact same level of intelligence, talent, and beauty. Shouldn’t we want to level
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8th - 11th
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Teaching Symbolism and Allegory - Introduction Activity & PowerPoint
Teaching symbolism can be tricky, but symbolism activities like this one HOOK your students and help them engage with any text. This is a sweet introduction to symbolism that your students will remember long after the candy is gone.⭐️ I use this with “Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe, but it is not text-specific. You can use it with any short story or novel or as a stand-alone lesson. Your resource for teaching symbolism includes:An anticipatory set using Tootsie Roll Pops (or Blow Po
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7th - 10th
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