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Common Core W.6.3 guided reading books under $5
Picture Book Mentor Text List for Upper Grade - VOL. 1
Behold! A complete list of picture books to use as mentor texts in your upper grade classroom!I love reading picture books with my fifth graders. Not only do we share a good story, but students are also motivated to try new strategies in their own writing. From character development to figurative language to dialog to mechanics, we learn so much from the amazing books that we read aloud in class. "By using mentor texts, the reader can virtually position him-or herself to sit beside the author an
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4th - 6th, Adult Education
Also included in: Picture Book Mentor Text Resources - Growing Bundle!
CC Aligned -- All the Broken Pieces Guided Reading, by Ann E Burg
This is a Common Core-aligned, guided reading packet to go with the novel All the Broken Pieces by Ann E Burg. This packet stretches the entire novel, providing text-dependent comprehension questions, as well as addressing inferencing, analysis of passages, and figurative language. The packet is baseball themed, and includes pre-reading activities, a reading schedule organizer, and an end-of-book writing assignment, too.
My middle school boys love this story, and it is a great exposure for the
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5th - 8th
Picture Book Mentor Text List for Upper Grade - VOL. 2 (Author's Purpose)
BY POPULAR DEMAND... Here's Volume 2!With this list of engaging picture book mentor texts, I've done the work for you! All 36 titles will guide students into discovering Author's Purpose and the components of common writing styles taught in an upper grade classroom.The list includes links to the best read aloud videos I've found online - with a variety of narrators and clear images/audio. Whether you want a sneak peek of the book before purchasing, or you choose to have students watch the read a
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3rd - 9th, Adult Education
Also included in: Picture Book Mentor Text Resources - Growing Bundle!
Egyptian Goddesses | Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities
Introducing an exciting new reading comprehension and writing activity bundle on Egyptian Goddesses! This engaging resource is perfect for 4th - 6th-grade students who are learning about ancient Egypt and its fascinating culture.The bundle includes a⭐️Engaging reading comprehension passage that explores the most popular Egyptian goddesses and their unique abilities and characteristics. ⭐️Thought-provoking comprehension questions that encourage students to delve deeper into the material and devel
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4th - 6th
The Dinner Party by Mona Gardner short story unit with digital option
This short story resource for "The Dinner Party" by Mona Gardner is a low prep packet and includes a student PDF file with the student activity pages and a second PDF with all student pages, teacher notes, answer keys, student samples, and the link to a Google Drive digital file. There are several activities from which to choose in this "The Dinner Party" unit depending on your class needs. Not only are there reading comprehension and text analysis assignments, there is a fun point of view writi
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Middle Grades Short Story Unit Bundle with digital option
Harry Potter Sorcerer's Stone Grade 6: Narrative Writing "Hagrid Gets Expelled"
Upon reading Chapter 4 in J.K. Rowling's novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, students will use the included prompt and rubric to write a creative narrative of how Hagrid got expelled from Hogwarts. The rubric focuses on using consistent first person narrative and writing as aligns with the grade 6 CCSS writing standards, though teachers can easily adapt for other grades as well.
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6th
Also included in: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 6-8th grade curriculum
Common Core Aligned - From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
I have included the set of Common Core Aligned reading comprehension questions I use when reading From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg in small reading groups or whole class. I have the students respond to the prompts and questions from the packet in a notebook.
Packet includes pre-reading activities, thorough, text-dependent questions for each chapter, as well as for the afterword, and a brief , creative end-of-book project. There is also a reading schedul
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4th - 7th
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Sled Short Story by Thomas E. Adams short story unit with digital option
This short story resource for "Sled" by Thomas E. Adams is a low prep packet and includes a student PDF file with the student activity pages and a second PDF with all student pages, teacher notes, answer keys, student samples, and the link to a Google Drive digital file. There are several activities from which to choose in this "Sled" unit depending on your class needs. Not only are there reading comprehension and text analysis activities, there is a descriptive writing activity using sensory de
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Middle Grades Short Story Unit Bundle with digital option
The WordSmith Common Core Literacy Units for Grades 6-8 (13)
This is the thirteenth of seventeen stand-alone ELA literacy units built around the highly acclaimed ‘Paka Mdogo – Little Cat’ (the first in a series of three animal adventure stories).
Each unit is based on a single chapter from the book, and includes the text itself…so over the course of a semester students will be able to enjoy the whole story as a piece of fiction ‘with excellent literary credentials’ (Library Thing review) – appropriate to Grades 6 to 8 but offering engagement, suspense,
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6th - 8th
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