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4th grade short stories handouts
Paper Bag Book Report Project - Novel Study Templates - Reading Comprehension
Paper Bag Book Report: Fun Book Report Project for ANY Novel or Short Story - This package is perfect for your upcoming novel study unit or short story unit, as it provides students with everything they need to create a Paper Bag Book Report on ANY novel or short story! All activities are classroom tested and include creative handouts, information sheets, detailed instructions, and templates! Two separate Paper Bag Book Report packages have been included: one for use with ANY novel, and one tha
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3rd - 6th
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Personal Narrative Unit Graphic Organizers
In this unit are graphic organizers to support your students while writing personal narratives. These graphic organizers provide scaffolding and visual supports to a variety of learners. Included are graphic organizers on the following topics: *Brainstorming*Watermelon vs. Seed Ideas*Sensory Language*Introduction "Hooks"*Beginning, Middle, and End*Thinking about Setting*Character Traits*Dialogue*Transitions*Show, Don't Tell*Self & Peer Editing ************************************************
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3rd - 6th
Cut and Paste BUNDLE for Comprehension, Inferencing, & Sequencing
Save over 20% on this bundle! Stories with accompanying questions! Students will read the story or listen as the story is read aloud and then answer the questions by cutting out the answer and gluing it into place.Cut and Paste ComprehensionThere is a WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, and WHY question for each story! 53 Stories relate to common holidays throughout the year, school events, sports, and common life events (birthdays, visiting relatives, etc.)Cut and Paste Inferencing40 with accompanying infe
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1st - 5th
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February 3rd Grade Florida F.A.S.T. Reading ELA Daily Practice
This daily F.A.S.T. / PARCC style daily reading practice packet was designed to help students practice Part A and Part B style questions that students struggle with. We've noticed that many students needed to practice answering this style of question daily to help students prep for the new testing formats. We've created the packet to engage students with February themed passages to make learning fun.There are 20 short passages which is a total of 4 weeks worth of daily practice. This packet may
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2nd - 4th
Also included in: Monthly 3rd Grade Florida F.A.S.T. Reading ELA Daily Practice Bundle
Folktales Worksheets: Fairytales, Fables, Tall Tales, Legends, & Myths
Practice folktales and the different subgenres with these great printables! The subgenres explored are: fables, fairytales, tall tales, legends, and myths.WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:Folktales Overview - handoutFolktales Subgenre Chart - handoutFolktales Subgenre Chart - worksheetFolktale Multiple Choice Quiz - assessmentFolktales I Know - worksheetFolktale Reflection - assessment/worksheetGreat for 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE A LOT MORE!NOTE: This resource uses A
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4th - 8th
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Winter Non-Fiction Passages | Reading Comprehension
This pack includes 7 non-fiction stories with themes centered around the winter season. High-resolution photos are included for each story. Stories are perfect small group instruction, tiered intervention or as a whole class activity. Each story is common core aligned and targets vocabulary and comprehension. Stories were written for 2-5th grade students. Review the preview story for complexity. Each story includes a student copy, vocabulary cards, "printer-friendly" copy with comprehension ques
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: Seasonal Non-Fiction Passages Bundle | Reading Comprehension
Writing Workshop Mini Lesson: Seed Ideas for Small Moment Stories
This is a great resource for a writing workshop following Lucy Calkins Units of Study writing Personal Narratives. One of Lucy's units teaches students to write about small moments vs. the entire experience. For example, I may have vacationed in Hawaii, but I should pick one moment from the trip (like seeing the ocean for the first time) as my story. She refers to these small moments as "seed stories" and the entire experience a watermelon. Clever!When I teach this lesson I have my students prac
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1st - 5th
Elements of Literature Activities - Plot Diagram Character Conflict Setting
Elements of Literature - Character, Point of View, Conflict, Setting, and Plot Activities - Learn all about the literary elements with these engaging activities. Perfect for a short story unit or novel study, this resource package contains detailed student notes on each element of literature, as well as fill in the blank student note taking templates, graphic organizers, and foldable activitiesThis is a package you will use year after year - a must for English teachers!✅Be sure to check out the
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4th - 7th
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Final Draft Writing Paper | Publishing Paper | 9 Different Formats
Your students will enjoy publishing their projects on these decorative pages! Choose from nine different fun styles. Each style comes with:a cover pagea page for text and a picturea page for text onlySEE WHAT OTHER EDUCATORS ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS RESOURCE:❤️"These papers are so helpful in getting kids excited about writing final drafts. Lots of design choices. Perfect."❤️"Exactly what I needed...and cute!! Thanks for sharing!"❤️"My students have loved making stories using these formats. Thanks
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Final Draft Publishing Paper Bundle | Poetry | Decorative Pages
Inference Reading Passages {use evidence + schema and infer} COMMUNITY HELPERS
Passages to help students use text clues and background knowledge make inferences
Inference is a hard skill to master. Especially in students with reading comprehension difficulties. I created these short passages to help my students practice this skill. These passages are longer than most I have found available and I believe the extra details help my students better grasp the inference.
This specific set of inference passage is based on COMMUNITY HELPERS.
Use in conjunction with a communi
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1st - 4th
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Cut and Paste Dinosaur Facts Stories and WH Questions
Learn about dinosaurs and work on comprehension skills with these 12 engaging story pages! Each story has 4 comprehension questions with cut and paste answer choices. Pronunciation of each dinosaur name is also included so your students will learn how to say their names correctly! Passages are about the following dinosaurs: AllosaurusAnkylosaurusBrachiosaurus Diplodocus Gallimimus Protoceratops PteranodonSpinosaurusStegosaurusTriceratopsTyrannosaurus RexVelociraptor PLUS a bonus dinosaur colorin
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1st - 5th
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Also included in: Cut and Paste BUNDLE for Comprehension, Inferencing, & Sequencing
Short Stories with Comprehension Questions
Use these 10 short stories with accompanying questions to target comprehension, story structure, vocabulary, idioms, main idea, predicting and inferencing skills.
Read the story and then ask the questions on the next page or preview the questions before reading the story to help with comprehension. The card then asks the student to retell the story in their own words after answering the questions to target expressive language skills.
Includes an image for each story to support understanding
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3rd - 10th
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Spring Non-Fiction Passages Print and Digital
This pack includes 9 non-fiction stories with themes centered around the spring season. High-resolution photos are included for each story. Stories are perfect small group instruction, tiered intervention or as a whole class activity. Each story is common core aligned and targets vocabulary and comprehension. Stories were written for 2-5th grade students. Review the preview story for complexity. This download includes a BOOM CARD™ version of the stories (7 passages)!Each story includes a student
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: Seasonal Non-Fiction Passages Bundle | Reading Comprehension
RL5.3 RL4.3 4-6 Comparing and Contrasting Characters in Fiction Assessment
This is a fiction text (3 pages long) about a girl that is faced with a decision to be honest with her parents, or tell a lie to be able to attend a sleepover. There are two girls, Mandy and Kelly, that have traits that can be inferred using text evidence. Characters have things in common and differences. Students will be assessed on their ability to read and comprehend the text, make inferences about characters, and then compare/contrast the two characters using a graphic organizer and then
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4th - 6th
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Fantasy Elements Power Point and Handout
Fantasy elements Power Point that I use to introduce our fantasy unit in 6th grade.
The Power Point includes 11 slides that students love to look at. First, students try to point out what makes each background considered fantasy. Then we go through the rest of the slides and fill in our notes.
While going through the presentation, students have a handout where they are required to fill in some blanks with information from the slides. There is also a teacher copy included.
This presentation is
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4th - 8th
Graphic Novels lesson and Reading Response Log
Totally revised with a reader's response activity!Students are exposed to graphic novels in this lesson plan and are required to search for text features in graphic novels. This document includes a lesson plan, a handout to introduce text features, a text feature scavenger hunt sheet, a reader response activity, and a create your own comic paper.
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3rd - 7th
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Understanding How Setting Affects Stories--Distance Learning Ready
This ready-to-use, 30-minute lesson—available in both PRINT and DIGITAL formats—is an effective way to teach students how to analyze a setting’s impact on a story’s plot and characters. Complete with a colorful and instructive PowerPoint presentation, a fillable note sheet, a Q and A with an author who shares how setting impacts her stories, and plenty of different opportunities for students to practice analyzing setting, this lesson is the perfect addition to any short story unit. Contents of
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4th - 8th
Inference Fiction Task Cards, Inferring Reading Group,Guided, Independent,Shared
These 50 cards can be printed off and laminated, or use on a smart board. This is a versatile reading resource. Student's are able to work on these individually or in a group. They provide reading skills necessary to help improve reading and writing for a range of age groups. There are answer keys to every card, so student's can check their working or for the teacher to mark individually. Inferring is a key part of teaching student's to read effectively and these provide an interesting, colourfu
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3rd - 9th
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All Summer in a Day Unit | Ray Bradbury | Short Story | Foldable | Questions
This All Summer in a Day unit is perfect for your upcoming short story unit or Ray Bradbury unit. It includes an All Summer in a Day foldable mini book with All Summer in a Day comprehension questions, plot diagram, and literary element analysis. A teacher friendly answer key is also included. Detailed instructions and templates to create the foldable are also included. Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and teach!While all of the resources included in this package can be succ
Grades:
4th - 9th
Packet of Memoir Texts
Packet of 12 Memoir texts
*mentor texts to serve as models for your students as they write their own memoir
*short texts for enjoyment
*great to use with ELA test prep
~~Packet it ready to print and hand-out!~
Texts included:
Grandmama's Kitchen Table (Cynthia Rylant)
Not Enough Emily's (Jean Little)
When I Was Little (Jamie Lee Curtis)
Laughter (Sandra Cisneros)
Home (Michael J. Rosen)
Hairs (Sandra Cisneros)
Alone (Jacqueline Woodson)
Learning the Hard Way (Eloise Greenfield)
Mattie's Ride (
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2nd - 12th
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Main Idea Fluency TDQs & More Frogs and Toads CLOSE READING 5 LEVELED PASSAGES
LEVELED PASSAGES! CHOOSE EACH STUDENT'S READING LEVEL. ALL STUDENTS WILL HAVE SAME CONTENT, VOCAB, AND QUESTIONS! Nilly Dilly's Story Club: Common Core Quick Sheets,Frogs and Toads, All-on-One page, Close Reading, TDQ's, Fluency Check, ELA Standard Aligned, Strands listed, Answer Key, No Prep, can be used for high achieving/gifted Kindergarteners up to students on the 6th grade reading level. Common Core Quick Sheets are designed for a busy teacher to have ALL the work on one page for whole clas
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1st - 5th
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Writing Realistic Fiction Stories Independent Writing Project Grades 4-6
In this independent writing project, students will: -draft, revise, and edit a realistic fiction story -develop a main character -develop a simple plot -integrate sensory images into the story for setting -use dialogue that moves the story forward -write and illustrate a final copy for an audienceTeacher Notes:Although this is an independent writing project, you will will need to teach and model the elements of a realistic fiction story. Included in this packet: -student instructions -grading ru
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4th - 6th
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Five Senses Writing Sentence Starters to Make Narrative Writing Spectacular!
This packet was completely revised on 9/30/14! Enjoy! :)
This packet contains a worksheet for each of the five senses. There are 10 sentences for each sense. Students can use these sentence starters to help make their narrative writing more descriptive and less repetitive.
I find it extremely helpful to give the students a packet for their writing folder. Before long they start to memorize their sentences to differentiate their narrative writing sentence structure. It definitely takes care o
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2nd - 5th
Literary Elements Using Pixar's Animated Short Film Piper - DISTANCE LEARNING
Want a new and engaging way to teach the literary elements? This packet was designed to help students learn the literary elements of plot, theme, and cause & effect, by applying them to Pixar’s short film ‘Piper’. This Packet Includes★ Finding theme worksheet ★ Plot chart (exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution)★ Cause and effect worksheet★ Writing prompt★ Answer keysIncluded is a ready to print PDF file with answer key and a digital Google Drive file with i
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4th - 10th
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