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7th grade balanced literacy handouts for Microsoft Word
Realistic Fiction Writing Unit
This realistic fiction writing unit includes the following lessons:
1) Making a writing goal and generating ideas for a realistic fiction story
2) Generating Ideas: Imagining Stories from Ordinary Moments
3) Selecting a seed idea/story idea
4) Developing believable characters
5) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivations
6) Planning your story: Story Mountains, Story Booklets, and Timelines
7) Show, Don't Tell
8) Grammar: Punctuating Dialogue
9) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of your Story
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4th - 8th
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Pixar Short Film - Lou - Scaffolded Student Workbook
Another fantastic Pixar short film with a strong underlying message about bullying, fairness, kindness and returning things that are not yours.This film allows for the teacher to challenge students with some ethical questions while being engaged in a fun literacy activity which is highly visual to cater for all learning needs. Including cloze passage, first to last order, crossword, lots of coloured pictures, short sentence writing and the ability to add and remove sections that suit the needs o
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1st - 7th
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Mystery Writing Unit Plans
These mystery writing unit plans include the following minilessons:
1) What makes a good Mystery story?
2) Planning Problem/ Solution
3) Planning Clues
4) Planning Characters
5) Planning Setting
6) Planning story: plot beginning, middle, and end
7) Building Suspense
8) Using Mystery Planning Sheet to Help Organize Writing
9) Focusing on Characters
10) Character Personality and dialogue
11) How to Use and Punctuate Dialogue (Conventions)
12) Editing
13) Revising Reminders
This also includes t
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4th - 7th
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Remember the Titans - Scaffolded worksheets
This packet of information is designed to be used with the film 'Remember The Titans'. SOme of the sheets do tie into a unit on Conflict and Conflict resolution that the film was used for. This film highlights many issues faced in Virginia that students can identify as conflict. The worksheets as part of this pack are all related to the movie and include: A Venn diagram, a cut and paste match up of characters, a PowerPoint with links on you tube and a question and answer written worksheet about
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4th - 10th
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"Kit Kittredge" Viewing Guide
Kit Kittredge (HBO Films, 2008) is a great family movie, rated G, that helps to show what life was like during the Great Depression for many typical American families. The movie highlights the story of Kit (played by Abigail Breslin), whose father loses his job, and her efforts to help her friends and family survive during difficult times. This movie goes perfectly with a study of the Great Depression! Attached is a 16 question viewing guide that students can complete as they watch the movie.
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4th - 7th
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Symbolism Literary Traditional Symbols List Common Core
Traditional Literary Symbols List
If you are really interesting in teaching Symbolism in an enthralling and rigorous manner please purchase my Symbolism Unit Resource Bundle and PowerPoint for $savings!
LITERARY SYMBOLISM BUNDLE COMPLETE UNIT RESOURCE & POWERPOINT
Product/Materials Preface:
This is a simple product. I have provided a five (5) page list of Traditional Literary Symbols. They literary symbols are categorized by type. Categories include: Yearly Cycle, Daily Cycle, Direction
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Informational Text Article: Bullying Takes Center Stage: Reading Passages
In this lesson, students will read an article about the causes and effects of bullying in school and throughout the process of growing up. Included in the less is a writing prompt and discussion questions that will help start a meaningful and necessary discussion on the topic of bullying.Check out all other informational articles below!Informational Article: Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics: Reading PassagesInformational Article: Should the Minimum Wage Be Raised? Reading PassagesInformat
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6th - 12th
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Transition Words for Text Organization
A list of transition words for different organizational structures. A visual at the top of each column reminds students about the meaning of each organizational structure.
This could be used as a hand-out, wall poster, or displayed on a smartboard. In addition to the chart, a sorting activity is included to introduce, practice, or assess transition words.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
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5th - 9th
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Reading Pack for Grades 3-8 (Customizable)
This product includes files that every reading teacher should have. This fifty-seven page document includes the following:
1) Friday follow-up assessments: These are quick forms of assessments I use every Friday to make sure students are capturing the main ideas I taught throughout the week in reading. Feel free to use the one’s I provided or modify them to make them your own. There are eleven included which are titled: A Brief Review, Questions to Consider for Assessing Reading Habits, Volume,
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3rd - 8th
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How to Write a Conclusion - ELA Skills
This lesson is designed to help and scaffold students to write a concluding paragraph, which is usually the most difficult part of writing an essay. The lesson takes students through the different steps, so they can understand the process of writing a conclusion, and are not overwhelmed with writing a conclusion completely on their own.Check out all my other ELA products below!Identifying Theme in Fictional Texts - ELA Test Prep Skills, Reading PassagesHow to Write a Conclusion - ELA SkillsSetti
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6th - 12th
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Informational Text Article: Driving While Distracted: Reading Passages Questions
This lesson revolves around an article that discusses the dangers and consequences of driving while distracted (specifically, mobile-devices). The lesson includes a writing response, graphic organizers, comprehension questions and room for written students responses to initiate a discussion.Check out all other informational articles below!Informational Article: Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics: Reading PassagesInformational Article: Should the Minimum Wage Be Raised? Reading PassagesInfor
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6th - 12th
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The Raven Interactive Reader
Explore Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" in a struggling-reader-friendly format. Students are prompted to stop at points throughout the poem in order to delve into vocabulary, prediction-making, internal rhymes, and beginning mood analysis. Skills questions are color-coded to help students see where relevant words and phrases occur in the text. This file is print-ready or digital-ready in MSWord. Recommended for 6th-9th grade.The Raven Interactive Reader by Kimberly Brands is licensed under a Creat
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Interactive Reader Activity Bundle
Grid Iron Gang - Scaffolded Differentiated Activity Booklet
This coming of age film is based on real events that took place in a California juvenile detention centre. Starring The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) this film is engaging and entertaining (i have found it particularly useful in engaging boys in literacy tasks).I have developed this booklet to be used in conjunction with watching the film. It contains a wide variety of tasks that can be modified if you wish to suit the needs fo individual students or a whole class. Including crossword, labelling tasks,
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6th - 10th
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Notice and Note: Aha Moments - "The Scribe" by Kristen Hunter
"The Scribe" by Kristen Hunter is a wonderful fiction piece to read with students when one is introducing the "Aha Moment" to students. Although there are other "Notice and Note" signposts one may focus on with this short story, the "aha moments" help lend themselves to the reader's workshop model and in turn, could lead students to identifying conflict, theme, etc. in their own independent reading novels. Even if just teaching this short story in a closed setting, it is an excellent way to focu
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5th - 9th
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Greek Mythology: The Story of Arachne Interactive Reader
Students will explore the purpose of Greek mythological stories through "The Story of Arachne", focusing on the role that the gods played in everyday ancient Greek life. Throughout the short reading, students will react and predict to the character and plot development to better understand the cause and effect relationship in this type of story. There are further analysis questions at the end of the reading that challenge students to examine the purpose of mythology in society. Easily applicable
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Interactive Reader Activity Bundle
SENSORY IMAGERY: SCAFFOLDING NOTES
This compact review of Sensory Imagery for quick referencing is perfect for teaching Auditory, Visual, Olfactory, Gustatory and Tactile Imagery. These no prep scaffolding notes would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love this information that is well-planned for student engagement.After going through this information students will be able to:Identify the correct definition of imagery types – visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory and tactile.Examine word-pictures used
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6th - 10th
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Also included in: FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE - SCAFFOLDING NOTES - BUNDLE
Final Assessment: Reflection Essay with Scoring Guide
This assignment can be used instead of a traditional final exam. It is a reflective essay assignment (with scoring guide) that allows students to engage in all levels of critical thinking, specifically self-evaluation and reflection.
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7th - 12th
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Weekly Reading Log
Weekly reading log to encourage students to write along with their reading and about their reading. Teacher can declare topic of sentences at beginning of each week.
Contact for Word version to edit.
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1st - 7th
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Informational Article: Who Shrank My Doritos? Reading Passages + Comprehension
This is an informational article that addresses the growing trend of food manufacturing companies providing less food in their packaging while still charging the same Price. And in some instances, providing less food, but charging even more. Accompanying the article is a worksheet with comprehension activities and questions.Check out all other informational articles below!Informational Article: Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics: Reading PassagesInformational Article: Should the Minimum Wag
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6th - 12th
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"Story of My Name" poetry assignment
This download includes lesson plan, poem, and student pre-writing handout. Students are led through multiple readings of the poem to develop an analysis before they write their own poem on the same theme.
Sample poem is rich with figurative language and complex vocabulary -- perfect for a high school English class or an honors-level middle school class. The poem is by an accomplished Puerto Rican poet, and the poem explores themes of colonialism, racial oppression, and identity.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Teaching Visual Literacy
In today's world students are barraged with visual images from childhood on. It is important that they understand the impact that these visual advertisements have on them as consumers and learners. In this lesson, students will learn how to identify the message of a visual advertisement and recognize the visual features that help to support the message. They will work in cooperative learning groups which can be modified to meet individual student needs. They will also show their individual under
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7th - 12th
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The Challenge Reading comprehension trifold by Gary Soto. Book Study
The Challenge book study trifold. The Challenge written by Gary Soto is a story about a boy who is trying to get a girl's attention by not being himself at firt. The trifold encourages comprehension of the story elements and vocabulary.
Because of Winn Dixie Text Messaging Reading Comprehension Activity
Because of Winn Dixie Text Messaging Reading Comprehension Activity. This is a 5-page reading comprehension activity that will work with any novel but is set up for the novel Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. This activity will have your students send "text" messages to the author, a character in the story, a friend about a favorite part, and a teacher about what he/she liked about the story. I have found this to be a very enjoyable activity that encourages comprehension of the story.
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4th - 7th
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DOL Second Grading Period UPDATED WITH KEY
This DOL combines sentence correcting, writing, reading and literature, vocabulary, and grammar daily practice. It includes 8 weeks of double-sided warmups. I use my word wall posted in the back of the classroom (also available) to guide students to the fill in the blank sections of the warm-up.I choose one day of the days and grade it for correctness.
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6th - 8th
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