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9th grade short stories task cards
Short Story Unit Ruthless by William De Mille
The perfect short story for any class, Ruthless by William de Mille tells a story of revenge gone wrong. If you are looking for a short story that is gripping, with a twist in its tale. Then this short story is for you.Interested in distance learning activities? See my digital unit on Ruthless here.This activity contains a full version of the short story itself, numerous pre-reading activities, comprehension questions for during, a Socratic seminar lesson with 6 discussion prompts, a FREE previ
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Short Story Bundle
Task Cards for Flowers for Algernon - DIGITAL & PRINT
"The Flowers for Algernon task cards are a great resource to implement immediately! Visually appealing, easy to use text box entry, and more than enough information to get the kids thinking and responding." - Kelly H."The varied tasks on these Flowers for Algernon task cards made differentiating for our students a breeze, even in our current distance learning situation! My co-teacher and I were looking for a way to have students work on a collaborative GoogleSlides while we were reading the "Flo
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6th - 9th
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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All Summer in A Day Short Story Unit - Narrative Writing Task - 36 Task Cards
The "All Summer In A Day" short story unit BUNDLE is filled with reading comprehension activities to teach main idea, summary, theme, characterization, and more. This 8 day close reading unit is the PERFECT resource to help your middle school ELA students think critically and dive deeper into Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian tale. Each lesson is scaffolded and contains tools to help meet the diverse needs of all learners. There is also a creative writing project that requires students to write a
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6th - 9th
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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" Mock Trial Bundle - Engaging Activity
Engage your students with Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" by facilitating a mock trial while practicing close reading, citing strong and thorough textual evidence, analyzing evidence, persuasion/argumentation/debate, writing, and speaking/listening. This is truly an authentic learning experience that covers a wide range of essential skills and gets every student involved! This bundle contains the discussion cards I use to activate students' thinking before the mock trial, as well as the comple
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Chaser: A Close Reading Lesson about Unrequited Love (Grades 8-12)
THE CHASER by John Collier (a riveting and thought-provoking short story) Manipulation. Mystery. Magic.If you like story lines filled with mystery, manipulation, and magic, you’ll love The Chaser by John Collier.This disturbing love story stirs up lively discussions with secondary students (recommended for students in grades 8-12).The most interesting part about using this piece as a close reading exercise (It’s only two pages long.) is that after each reading, students often change their minds
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8th - 12th
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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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Types of Conflict "Escape Room" Stations Activity
This activity allows students to actively review the types of conflict in literature while fostering collaboration and teamwork. Two levels of complexity are included. These can be used as stand alone worksheets or as an active station escape room activity.
Students work together to crack the code to the automated Google Forms lock to "escape" the room.
Effectively addresses the six types of conflict: Character vs. Character, Character vs. Self, Character vs. Society, Character vs. Supernatu
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5th - 9th
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A Christmas Carol Escape Room
Escape Room Activity: A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensHave your students demonstrate their knowledge of this popular novel with a highly-engaging interactive escape room! This works great as a culminating activity after your students/class have finished the book.No keys or lock boxes needed!Less Prep for teachers as students will cut out the cards for each task!This escape room contains four activities:1. Plot Elements: Students will correctly order the plot cards. There are 4 extra distract
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6th - 9th
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Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut - Short Story Task Cards - Middle School ELA
The "Harrison Bergeron" short story task cards are the PERFECT reading comprehension activities for middle school and high school students to demonstrate their new learning. These PRINT and DIGITAL reading task cards are designed to break up the monotony of normal short story unit assignments and captivate students’ attention. This short story activity contains 36 rigorous and engaging CCSS aligned tasks that require students to not only think critically when reading this classic Vonnegut short
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6th - 9th
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Task Cards for Literary Analysis of Any Story or Novel - DIGITAL & PRINT
“I teach a lot of short stories in my class. This resource was great because it was adaptable to all stories. It was also great because of the alignment to the Common Core.” - Judith “This is an excellent resource for novel studies! I used these with my enrichment groups in fourth grade ELA on different novels. I put them on a ring and had them complete different assignments each week, some with my guidance and most without. Love it!” - Kelly “It's easy to use these cards with multiple texts, wh
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6th - 10th
Marigolds Cite Textual Evidence Task Cards
Eugenia W. Collier's "Marigolds": Task Cards for Citing Textual Evidence
This resource is a set of 20 task cards designed to help students practice citing evidence to support conclusions from the text, based on Eugenia Collier’s short story “Marigolds.” Skills covered in these task cards for “Marigolds” include: inferencing, characterization, theme, plot and setting. This resource also contains the same questions from the task cards formatted as a traditional worksheet, so that teachers can cho
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7th - 10th
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The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe - Short Story Task Cards - Middle School
The "The Tell-Tale Heart" short story task cards are the PERFECT reading comprehension activities for middle school and high school students to demonstrate their new learning. These PRINT and DIGITAL reading task cards are designed to break up the monotony of normal short story unit assignments and captivate students’ attention. This short story activity contains 36 rigorous and engaging CCSS aligned tasks that require students to not only think critically when reading this classic Edgar Allan P
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6th - 9th
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Characterization Escape Room
Use this escape room to review direct and indirect characterization with your students, as well as provide models of each type of characterization for writing. The room can be used with or without technology and requires only printing and cutting a few task cards as set-up.
Your download includes the following (the Google forms can be edited, the .pdf task cards and answer sheets cannot):
➢ 8 task cards that ask students to choose whether an excerpt is direct or indirect characterization (3 se
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8th - 10th
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Also included in: Custom Escape Room Bundle for Olivia
Activities and Handouts for “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is an American Gothic short story that I've used with both 11th and 12th grade. If your students are advanced it could work with 9th and 10th grade as well. Included in this bundle you will find:
Lesson Plans
Background Information
Vocabulary List with Definitions
Study Guide Questions with Suggested Answers
10 Question Short Story Quiz with Answers (Fill-In)
20 Question Quiz on the Story and the Vocabulary with Answers (Matching and Fill-In)
A copy of the story
Article
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Middle School English Language Arts Bundle
Elements of Fiction Unit & Workbook Setting, Character, Structure, & Narration
Engage your students in the study of the elements of fiction while meeting all the AP English Literature and Composition Essential Knowledge Skills. This workbook is a complete unit to teach students how to analyze the elements of short stories, narratives, and other works of fiction. Breaking down the skills by character, setting, structure, narration, and figurative language, students will master the skills necessary for analyzing literature.This unit aligns to the AP English Literature and Co
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9th - 12th
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All Summer in A Day by Ray Bradbury - Short Story Task Cards - Middle School ELA
The "All Summer in A Day" short story task cards are the PERFECT reading comprehension activities for middle school and high school students to demonstrate their new learning. These PRINT and DIGITAL reading task cards are designed to break up the monotony of normal short story unit assignments and captivate students’ attention. This short story activity contains 36 rigorous and engaging CCSS-aligned tasks that require students to not only think critically when reading this classic Bradbury shor
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6th - 9th
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The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry - Short Story Task Cards - Middle School ELA
Are your middle school or high school students tired of those boring short story worksheets and reading comprehension activities that are usually completed when reading "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry? I have the perfect solution to fix this problem...TASK CARDS! These PRINT and DIGITAL task cards are designed to break up the monotony of normal short story unit assignments and captivate students’ attention. This short story reading comprehension activity contains 36 rigorous and engaging C
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6th - 9th
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Thank You, Ma'am by Langston Hughes - Short Story Task Cards - Middle School ELA
The "Thank You, Ma'am" short story task cards are the PERFECT reading comprehension activities for middle school and high school students to demonstrate their new learning. These PRINT and DIGITAL reading task cards are designed to break up the monotony of normal short story unit assignments and captivate students’ attention. This short story activity contains 36 rigorous and engaging CCSS aligned tasks that require students to not only think critically when reading this classic Langston Hughes
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6th - 9th
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A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury - Short Story Task Cards - Middle School ELA
Are your middle school or high school students tired of those boring short story worksheets and reading comprehension activities that are usually completed when reading "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury? I have the perfect solution to fix this problem...TASK CARDS! These PRINT and DIGITAL task cards are designed to break up the monotony of normal short story unit assignments and captivate students’ attention. This short story reading comprehension activity contains 36 rigorous and engaging CC
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Ray Bradbury Short Story Bundle - Short Story Task Cards - The Veldt
Theme vs. Main Idea vs. Topic Fable Game
Establish the difference between a story's theme (one-sentence life lesson), main idea (one-sentence summary of events), and topic (one-word description) with this unique matching game! This student-directed activity will become one of your classroom favorites. Watch students work as a group to read a short fable and then find that story’s title, main idea, theme, and topic among a mixed-up pile of game cards. You’ll be shocked at the depth of the conversation between your students as they debat
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5th - 9th
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Elements of Fiction/Short Story "Escape Room" Stations Activity
Excellent end of year review of elements of fiction in literature.
This activity allows students to actively review elements of fiction (elements of short stories) in literature while fostering collaboration and teamwork. Two levels of complexity are included. These can be used as stand alone worksheets or as an active station activity.
Students work together to crack the code to the automated Google Forms lock to "escape" the room.
Effectively addresses plot elements (exposition, rising acti
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5th - 9th
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Harrison Bergeron Short Story Unit - Argumentative Writing Task - 36 Task Cards
This 8 day short story unit for "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut contains scaffolded close reading activities and a no-prep argumentative writing task that will engage your middle school students. These reading comprehension resources are designed to support struggling readers, ELL/ESL, and special education students, such as differentiated activities, and chunked text and guided reading questions. This bundle includes a scaffolded reading unit and 36 CCSS-Aligned task cards to accompany thi
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6th - 9th
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The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe - Short Story Unit - Reading Task Cards
The "The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe short story unit BUNDLE is filled with reading comprehension activities to teach main idea, summary, theme, plot elements, tone and mood, and more. This 8-day close reading unit is the PERFECT resource to help your middle school ELA students think critically and dive deeper into Poe's classic suspenseful tale. Each lesson is scaffolded and contains tools to help meet the diverse needs of all learners. There is also a creative writing project that requ
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6th - 9th
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