55 results
Literature Common Core W.7.4 handouts
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
Grades:
7th - 10th
Types:
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
Grades:
7th - 10th
Types:
Short Stories with Comprehension Questions - 11 Short Story Units - Annotations
This giant Short Story with Comprehension Questions Bundle contains 11 of my best selling products bundled together for a heavily discounted price! Perfect for short story reading comprehension, it has a variety of different short story activities, as well elements of literature activities and notes. This package has enough resources to keep kids engaged while learning about literary elements.✅Please check out the thumbnails and individual products in this bundle for detailed descriptions and im
Grades:
6th - 9th
The Lottery Short Story Unit - Shirley Jackson Middle School Short Story Project
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Short Story Unit - Activities and Comprehension Questions! Perfect for your upcoming short story unit or dystopian literature unit, this package contains graphic organizers and activities to go along with The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. The Lottery short story questions, a biography activity, a giant pennant project, and a hexagonal thinking activity are also included.✅Be sure to check out the preview and thumbnails for detailed images and descriptions about everyt
Grades:
5th - 8th
Arthurian Legends Unit - King Arthur Projects - Knights and Chivalry Activities
A fully integrated English, Social Studies, and Art unit on King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. This King Arthur unit or Arthurian Legend unit includes reading passages, questions, and activities on Lancelot, King Arthur, the Sword in the Stone, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the code of chivalry, and more! These make great additions to an Arthurian Legend Interactive Notebook. This unit can be done on its own as an English unit on Legends, but also makes an excellent complement to
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 8th
Types:
Hatchet Novel Study - Hatchet Pre-Reading Activity - Hatchet Final Project
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Novel Study Unit - Wilderness Survival Guides - Hatchet Pre-Reading Activity and Final Project! In this Hatchet activity, students brainstorm survival tips, read about top ways to survive in the wilderness, and create their own illustrated survival guides!For the Hatchet Pre-Reading section of this activity, students read a variety of wilderness survival tips, then brainstorm and write about what tip they think is most important for survival in the wild. Perfect for a p
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
Young Authors: Mystery Story Creative Writing Unit
What is the perfect way for students to practice narrative writing? Mystery stories! This genre instantaneously hooks a reader's attention, poses thought-provoking questions, keeps a reader in suspense, and stimulates discussion. The Young Authors: Mystery Story Unit focuses on the following concepts:
-Reading, understanding, and appreciating classic mystery literature
-Effective story structure: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
-Mystery and narrative vocab
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 9th
Types:
Holes Pre Reading Chapter Activities - Quick Write Journal Prompts
Engage students in meaningful, enriching Holes pre reading activities using these journal prompts. These quick writes will help your students make text-to-self and text-to-world connections as they read Louis Sachar’s novel. These Holes journal prompts are the perfect pre reading routine, occasional end-of-chapter activities, or station activity to complement the novel!✔ Check out the preview for a closer look!These low-prep quick-write journal prompts will save you time and energy while enhanci
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 7th
Types:
Also included in: Holes Novel Study Unit - 6th Grade Novel Units - Holes Novel Activities
Choice Board FREE Worksheet, 12 Activities for ANY Short Story & Novel Unit CCSS
This FREE student choice board works with any short story or novel study. Once students have finished reading an assigned short story or chapter of a novel, use this choice board worksheet to increase student motivation as they meaningfully reflect on the text. The choice board worksheet was designed for English/language arts students in grades 7 through 12.Want more dynamic lesson materials designed to engage our teens?Click here for a discounted 10-pack of worksheet activities that can be use
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 11th
Types:
Edgar Allan Poe Short Story Unit - Halloween Short Stories - Activities Projects
Print and go short story annotations activities and projects for your next Edgar Allan Poe unit, with story story activities for The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Cask of Amontillado - 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
Grades:
7th - 10th
Types:
Flight by Sherman Alexie- Activities and Quizzes
This package has material for EVERY chapter of Flight!
Use the multiple choice questions as quizzes or to make sure students are comprehending what they are reading.
Useful writing prompts for every chapter and an all encompassing essay prompt to be used at the completion of the novel.
Character Web Chart to analyze each flight!
*** Answer keys included.
*** Bonus links to brief history lessons that can be used as background information for certain chapters.
Grades:
6th - 12th, Adult Education
Types:
Echo Novel Study Analyzing Text
Echo, the 2016 Newberry honor book by Pam Munoz Ryan, is a magical work of historical fiction masterfully woven with fantasy.
The story follows the lives of characters from prior to World War II to post World War II. Students will love the story of characters who overcome adversity and achieve greatly. I love this book!
I have included:
1. Guided comprehension questions.
2. Analyzing specific text.
3. A list of vocabulary from the text along with definitions for easy access.
4. Writing
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 8th
Types:
DEAR LEVI: Common Core Aligned Novel Study
For Elvira Woodruff's well-written novel depicting the hardships and determination of people on a wagon train to Oregon, here are comprehension questions for each chapter in a variety of simple styles: cloze, matching, true/false, sequencing, cause/effect, and short phrase or sentence answers. ANSWER KEYS INCLUDED.Mid-novel essay topics are here as well as suggested topic sentences. A theme essay matrix is included too along with several possible theme topics. This aligns well with 6 + 1 trai
Grades:
4th - 8th
Types:
Land of the Cranes: Literature Unit
This 5-7 week unit for Land of the Cranes by Aida Salazar includes the following items:Pre-reading activities in a station rotation formatThe 4 station rotations include an interview with the author, background on the major themes of the novel, background on the major events related to the novel, and an art activity. These stations are a combination of reading, videos, art, and creativity that fully engage all types of learners. Each station ranges from 20-25 minutes and can be completed over th
Grades:
6th - 9th
ESSAY on the THEME OF A STORY: Two Templates - Basic and Advanced
This file is aimed at teaching students through modeling, to write about the theme of a story or novel. It uses templates that supply ideas for starting sentences, and instructions for each paragraph that give students guidance for organizing their ideas.
There are two templates here: a basic matrix for writing an essay about the theme of a piece of literature, and a more advanced version that extends the essay somewhat.
The basic template is two pages, and produces a four paragraph essay.
T
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Types:
A Thousand Questions Complete Literature Unit
This 5-7 week unit for A Thousand Questions by Saadia Faruqi includes the following items:Pre-reading activities in a station rotation formatThe 4 station rotations include an interview with the author, background on the major themes of the novel, background on the major events related to the novel, and an art activity. These stations are a combination of reading, videos, art, and creativity that fully engage all types of learners. Each station ranges from 20-25 minutes and can be completed over
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 9th
Fun Book Reports - Paper Bag Book Report
This is a fun freebie! Students do the written portion of the book report on the outside of a large grocery bag, and then place five items inside the bag to symbolize main characters, setting or events from the book. Students love these!!
Enjoy,
Shari Bithell
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 9th
Death Coming Up the Hill : A Vietnam War Novel Workbook
This hands-on, engaging workbook acts as a strong supplement to the novel Death Coming Up the Hill by Chris Crowe. It is a fantastic resource for engaging students with historical literature and poetry and focuses on both Bloom's Taxonomy and Common Core Standards. Students will come away from the unit with a strong knowledge base of the Vietnam War, the late 1960s, haiku poetry, research sources, and informative texts.The workbook includes:A cover pagePre-reading research activity regarding t
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 12th
Book Report: Slides Presentation Project (Directions Handout)
After reading a novel, students will create a presentation about the main components of the novel. This assignment requires students to identify a novel's major and minor characters, provide descriptions of the protagonist, identify conflict(s), identify theme(s), explain the conclusion of the novel, and make connections to the text. This is a fun take on the traditional book report! It is a great assessment, project or task for independent reading, whole-class novels, Summer reading assignmen
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education
Types:
The Hunger Games Movie Character and Theme Analysis Worksheet
With this movie guide, students will analyze character development, theme, and elements of dystopia while watching the movie The Hunger Games, based on Suzanne Collins' bestselling book. After watching the film, students will think critically and critique the film. This worksheet will lead to great class discussions about how events can change a character, what lessons we are supposed to learn while watching the movie and how dystopias are closer than we thought possible. Enjoy the film and this
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 10th
Types:
The Masque of the Red Death Close Reading Assessment and Writing Project
This short story resource is designed to help students analyze a complex work of literary fiction. Specific questions presented in an assessment practice worksheet guide students through the process of analyzing the plot, characterization, setting, and theme of The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe.
This lesson plan includes:
1. Teacher preparation instructions
2. During teaching instructions
3. Student assessment practice
4. Theme Notes
5. Analysis prompts
6. Answer key
7. Culminating
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 10th
Types:
The Giver: The Graphic Novel Reading Guide
This file contains a reading guide for The Giver: Graphic Novel.The 4-page reading guide includes short response questions, illustration prompts, and short creative writing exercises. The activities are divided into chunks, aligned to the novel's chapters.The reading guide is designed to be completed as students read through the graphic novel or for homework.
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 8th
Types:
Figurative Language: Everything is an Allegory
"There once was a word named Personification who lived in a house as beautiful as a simile." This short story and accompanying unit illustrates the use of figurative language while teaching about plot, elements of good writing and more. The unit is aligned to common core standards and is recommended for grades 5-8. In this unit: Page 1: Cover page Page 2: Figurative Language Terms Info. SheetPages 3-6: Figurative Language Terms Word Wall Cards Pages 7: Short Story - Everything is an AllegoryPa
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
The Monkey's Paw Creative Writing Story - Halloween Short Story - W.W. Jacobs
Get your students excited about "The Monkey’s Paw" with this engaging pre-reading and post-reading activity! Kick off the unit by having students jot down their wishes, then transform those wishes into creative stories that teach the important lesson: Be careful what you wish for!Here’s what you’ll get:✅ Directions + Rubric✅ Wish Strips✅ Outline (Digital version included too)✅ Example Story + Annotations✅ Writing Paper✅ Link to Editable VersionSee Preview for more!⭐️Bundle & save for a disco
Grades:
6th - 9th
Types:
Showing 1-24 of 55 results
TPT is the largest marketplace for PreK-12 resources, powered by a community of educators.
IXL family of brands